MSNBC Fires Host Savage for Wishing AIDS on Caller

Yahoo! News ^ | July 7, 2003 | Ben Berkowitz

[El Conservador]

Is it justified???

Is it persecution???

All comments are welcome.

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[annyokie]

Well, distasteful, but warrenting firing? I think not. I'veheard worse on liberal talkshow/tv. eg: (re: Newt Gingrich: "We should stone his house and kill his children." (paraphrasing) Alec Baldwin.

[JoeSchem]

Wishing any caller to be dead is wrong. Savage should have been cancelled.

But the real tragedy here is that the caller, if he is indeed a promiscuous homosexual, probably already has AIDS.

[CobaltBlue]

Hey, this is America. Savage has the right to free speech but no right to a forum. MSNBC has the right to can him. He's just an employee.

I am sure Savage agrees, and isn't whining about being fired. He's got too much integrity to whine.

[Fred Mertz]

Remind me to avoid watching PMSNBC. I thought that cable channel was finally coming around.

[Cultural Jihad]

Are you advocating for a Constimatushional Amendment for the equality of consequences to all outrages? If so, then may the chains of your ideology rest lightly upon you.

[annyokie]

Nah, Michael won't whine and will find a new hire toute de suite.

[annyokie]

You're misunderestimating me. See my post following yours.

[Oceanus]

What Savage said was just plain dumb. I think he should have been fired. But it pains me to see the GLADD folks win.

[Hinoki Cypress]

Then adios, mooooo-ron. No sympathy, here.

[Cultural Jihad]

Good for him. He'll do fine. He apologized for his remarks, even though some who blindly support him do not take him at his word that he is really sorry somehow.

[Cultural Jihad]

But it pains me to see the GLAAD folks win.

No one gets away with anything in this life.

[Hinoki Cypress]

You got that, 100% right.

[eeman]

MSNBC is private company that can hire and fire any commentator they want.

I am sure that other posters will disagree with me but I find Savage to be abrasive & obnoxious. I have listened to him totally insult people on his radio show whom I think have legitimate points or questions. Listening to him is like listening to sandpaper. I hope they can find another Joe Scarborough. I like hime because not only is he conservative, but also informative and articulate. Joe Scarborough delivers his message without being distracting because of his underlying personality, unlike Savage

[cyborg]

It painds me to see our side play right into their tricks. I would NEVER wish AIDS on anyone. One wonders if Savage has seen anyone with full blown AIDS suffer. Even if that person did it to themselves, needles, homosexuality,etc. how can someone say that?

[Jesse]

Savage is a blowhard. He and O'Reilly ought to get together. Would be sort of like two loudmouth Jerry Springers getting it on.

MSNBC can do as it likes. It is still, more or less, a free country. If he wants to make idiotic rants, he can buy his own television station.

[Nick Danger]

Betcha Ann Coulter got a real interesting phone call today.

[ladyinred]

You are so right. I wonder why there was no outrage from the media over Baldwin's comments which were clearly worse by far than Savages? I must admit, Michael is a bit much for me, but MSNBC should have known he would do and say things like that.