MSNBC fires Savage after anti-gay remarks

Associated Press ^ | Jul. 7, 2003 01:00 PM

[sakic]

NEW YORK - MSNBC on Monday fired Michael Savage for anti-gay comments.

The popular radio talk show host who did a weekend TV show for the cable channel referred to an unidentified caller to his show Saturday as a "sodomite" and said he should "get AIDS and die."

[Im Your Huckleberry]

No, I liked the points he was making about how silencing Savage and being glad he was silenced, indirectly aide and abet the goals of the leftist vermin.

Any other questions?

[weegee]

Looks like this has turned into nothing but a pecking party.

The thread seems to have wained.

I'm catching Mike's radio show now (and I never listen to him at home).

Few posters here seemed to listen to the apology or chose to comment on it (other that to point a finger of blame and say "ah ha! ah ha!")

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Bet you'd like that.

I detect quite a venemous little fascist streak running through your delight in Savage being silenced, the "newbie disruptor" being silenced, and how you'd like me "silenced".

Anybody else you'd like "silenced"?...Just curious.

[Cultural Jihad]

The only person here aiding and abetting the leftist vermin is ... you.

Any other questions?

[weegee]

Is this Nobel Prize winner's comment any less horrific?

Abortion justified for 'better babies' (Nobel Prize Winner Says)

[Cultural Jihad]

Sure the comment he made on the air was rude. Did it warrant his termination?

You would have to ask the owner of the microphone, not me. Are you suggesting that Dr. Savage has a right to be seen on television? Appear on someone else's newspaper? Be heard on someone else's radio station? If so, you should move to a communist country where your beliefs would be better received.

[Cultural Jihad]

Do two wrongs make a right?

[Mark Felton]

FreeRepublic is being hijacked by dishonest liberals.

FR is dominated by people with conservative social values but conservative socialist politics.

[sakic]

So it's okay to root for slow painful death sometimes and not others? Why do you want anyone to die a torturous death?

[weegee]

Where's the outrage? I find the Prizewinner's comments much more offensive because he says that he would have killed his unborn son rather than brought him into this world.

I believe him too. I don't believe that Michael Savage wanted that caller to die of AIDS or choking. He did want to respond to that caller's personal insult which Michael was able to hear on his earpiece with like sentiments.

What did the Nobel Prizewinner's son ever do to have his dad say that had he known about his birth defect he would have killed him?

[Denver Ditdat]

Laughing all the way to the bank.

Standing right next to him in the line for the teller is Michael Moore.

Profitable doesn't always make it palatable.

[rockfish59]

You can always apply! (If you are a decent sodomite, that is!)

[shhrubbery!]

What if Savage had said: "You dumb Pollack. You should eat too much kielbasa and die of a heart attack."

Would he have been fired for that? No, of course not. Julianne Malveaux said much the same thing in her death wish for Clarence Thomas ("I hope his wife feeds him lots of butter and eggs for breakfast and he dies young of a heart attack.") She didn't get fired from NPR.

So what's the difference between Savage's remarks and the Pollack remarks?

Nothing, except that the AIDS is a protected disease; heart attacks aren't. And of course Pollacks aren't in a protected class, either.

[oldtimer]

Point: Leviticus 11-9 shrimp have both scales and fins (of a sort), and maybe there is a reason why people get hepatitus from eating oysters.

However, you got me with the statement about crippled people approaching the altar of God.

God's son, Jesus healed many crippled people, and loved them, and who knows, I will not cast the rock about homosexuals when it comes to his divine judgement.

[weegee]

I'm saying that in contrast to the other things that NBC and other broadcasters have aired, this is an overreaction.

I do not have say whether NBC keeps him on the air or not but I do have the ABILITY to say that it did not warrant this response.

If it did warrant the response, why was he permitted to finish out the show? Why not pull him from the air and pad out with filler news or a rerun?

Do you agree that there are things that could be said (crossing the line) that should result in pulling a person off the air IMMEDIATELY? Not just cancelling the next show?

[Ciexyz]

Michael Savage is no help to the conservative image.

[sakic]

You really believe he meant what he said?

How the hell do I know what he meant? The point is whether his employer has the right to fire him if they feel he is harming their business. If you don't feel the business has that right your view would be no different than a communist view of business.

If I tell you right now to drop dead would you think for a second I would really wish you would DIE?

I have enough trouble figuring out what my wife is thinking some of the time. Expecting me to know the motives of a stranger typing to me would seem damn near impossible.

Are you that shallow? Or is this the best you can do in this thread?

I guess it's the best I can do. On the other hand your words seem to be almost randomly spliced together into random sentences so it's hard to know what to say to you.

[shootist]

Give Him A RAISE!!

[weegee]

Just saw this new FR thread for an article from Time Magazine:

The Lost Art of the Insult

[Fred Mertz]

GLAAD spokeswoman Cathy Renna said of Savage's firing: "It's about time.

It's about time that people can't speak what they think. Great victory for the thought police and the PC crowd.

Hooray, you bunch of pipe smokers.

This will be pulled too.