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."

[Libertina]

I sent you the code in FReepmail :)

[fishtank]

I prefer a Savage conservative to a Dole/Ford/Rockefeller RINO Republican.

Let's stop being wimps in the conservative movement.

[fishtank]

Look for the HTML BootCamp and HTML Sandbox.

If I try to show you here you'll just see gibberish.

[Nowhere Man]

I think Savage is expressing what many here feel like. The way things are going recently, a lot of us are getting sick and tired of it, so I think Savage is so upset, he is fighting back. I think the Supreme Courts of the US and Canada have opened up the lid here to a lot of backlash and we are seeing it. I know myself, I feel and understand the rage Savage feels.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I'm not going to blame PMSNBC for doing this...I just believe the brass there should do the same for any leftist that says similar stuff.

But, the bottom line is that they're under no obligation to open their airwaves to anything or everything. Let the market decide.

[FourtySeven]

freebilly asked: You mean me telling you to scr#w yourself and calling you an ignorant moron is a sign that I'm wrong and can't properly debate you? Gee, I wonder what it would've meant if I told you to go choke on a sausage instead and that I hoped you'd die of breast cancer, SARS, cervical cancer, or AIDS. [ that last sentence is also a fair representation of Micheal Savage's words ]



Libertina responded: YES

Well, I'm glad to see we all can agree that Savage is nothing more than a shock jock who "can't properly debate" after all. :) Isn't it great when we conservatives can all come together in happy agreement? :)

For the record too: I agree with Savage's politics, but clearly to anyone with an ounce of compassion and or sense, he's nothing but an ass.

[Libertina]

Don't agree with your last bit. Savage does hundreds of hours of articulate, persuavsive, informed dialog. You pick out an offensive sentence and run with it. Savage Nation BUMP from this quarter...

[BeAllYouCanBe]

"I know myself, I feel and understand the rage Savage feels."

There are many good people who would like to speak out and can't.  The Russians in the last days of the Soviet Union were the same way.  At work most of my coworkers are flaming liberals and believe that there can be no criticism of gays -- gays are in fact a protected class -- while white Christians are open to hate and criticism.

Savage speaks for us and maybe sometimes too forcefully but he isn't afraid to say what we are thinking.  How did we ever get to the point that AIDS and the method it is spread can't be mentioned?  Until gays and their identity politics take some responsibility for AIDS I think there will be a lot of animosity!!
 

[visualops]

Well, if they are lurking, how do you know what they think about FR? ;^)
I consider FR primarily a source of news and information first, although I do realize it is many different things to different people. That's the beauty of it :)

[Tauzero]

ROTFL!

Careful. The RNC might offer you a job.

[Calpernia]

>>>although I do realize it is many different things to different people. That's the beauty of it :)

Very true! I agree.

[GSWarrior]

You equate being Jewish to a man sticking his penis in another mans anus?

Not at all. I just proposed a "what if" scenario.

[Pahuanui]

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

Here you go.

21:18
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
21:19
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
21:20
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

[autoresponder]

Over 50,000 needless serial murders a year caused by voluntary unprosecuted PC behavior.

No, not drunken drivers.

The San Franscico 69ers have no sense of humor at all.

Worse still, they have no sense period.

[Lijahsbubbe]

You equate being Jewish to a man sticking his penis in another mans anus?

Not at all. I just proposed a "what if" scenario

You gave an analogy that compared what a person does (homosexual) to what a person is (Jew). The two are not analogous.

[Lijahsbubbe]

P.S. Having sex where poop comes out is filth.

You shouldn't compare Jews, Blacks, kids etc. to filth.

[autoresponder]

Like this:

<I>"THIS"</I>

"THIS"

Got it?

[bootless]

There are many talk show hosts and pundits who represent the conservative viewpoint in a civilized, yet uncompromising manner...

Thank you.

[ICX]

Yet Nina Totenberg says that if there is "any sense of retributive justice in the world," Jesse Helms and/or his grandchildren will get AIDS - and she stays on the air.