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MSNBC Fires Host Savage for Wishing AIDS on Caller
Yahoo! News ^ | July 7, 2003 | Ben Berkowitz

Posted on 07/07/2003 7:47:45 PM PDT by El Conservador

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Is it justified???

Is it persecution???

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1 posted on 07/07/2003 7:47:46 PM PDT by El Conservador
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2 posted on 07/07/2003 7:49:29 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: El Conservador
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.
3 posted on 07/07/2003 7:52:12 PM PDT by annyokie (Admin Moderator has got it in for me.)
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To: El Conservador
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.

4 posted on 07/07/2003 7:54:22 PM PDT by JoeSchem (Okay, now it works: Knight's Quest, at http://www.geocities.com/engineerzero)
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To: annyokie
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.
5 posted on 07/07/2003 7:55:38 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
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To: El Conservador
Remind me to avoid watching PMSNBC. I thought that cable channel was finally coming around.
6 posted on 07/07/2003 7:56:28 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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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.
7 posted on 07/07/2003 7:58:47 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: CobaltBlue
Nah, Michael won't whine and will find a new hire toute de suite.
8 posted on 07/07/2003 7:58:56 PM PDT by annyokie (Admin Moderator has got it in for me.)
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To: Cultural Jihad
You're misunderestimating me. See my post following yours.
9 posted on 07/07/2003 8:00:04 PM PDT by annyokie (Admin Moderator has got it in for me.)
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To: El Conservador
What Savage said was just plain dumb. I think he should have been fired. But it pains me to see the GLADD folks win.
10 posted on 07/07/2003 8:02:01 PM PDT by Oceanus
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Then adios, mooooo-ron. No sympathy, here.
11 posted on 07/07/2003 8:02:23 PM PDT by Hinoki Cypress (At 53, it's the miles, not the years.)
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To: annyokie
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.
12 posted on 07/07/2003 8:02:29 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Oceanus

No one gets away with anything in this life.

13 posted on 07/07/2003 8:03:35 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: CobaltBlue
You got that, 100% right.
14 posted on 07/07/2003 8:03:40 PM PDT by Hinoki Cypress (At 53, it's the miles, not the years.)
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To: El Conservador
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

15 posted on 07/07/2003 8:03:43 PM PDT by eeman
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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?
16 posted on 07/07/2003 8:04:25 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm a mutt-american)
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To: El Conservador
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.
17 posted on 07/07/2003 8:04:55 PM PDT by Jesse (I didn't leave...The GOP...left me)
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To: El Conservador

Betcha Ann Coulter got a real interesting phone call today.


18 posted on 07/07/2003 8:07:45 PM PDT by Nick Danger (The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
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To: annyokie
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.
20 posted on 07/07/2003 8:10:29 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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