When did MSNBC become "national" TV? It's cable. Cable is not broadcast TV. They could have had Savage doing the show buck naked if they liked. Sorry the mental image that comment might offer:)
The reason Savage is off is because we must all agree that being queer is normal. That's the rule.
I normally don't listen to his radio show (and I don't have cable, so I didn't watch his MS-NBC series) but I have been listening since he got fired. No other media outlet is giving his side of the issue (they don't bother to ask him (questions). There is nothing to prevent a journalist from just asking him to explain what happened (as a concerned caller to his show). Not interjecting their spin, just asking.
Mike said that one of the things he was proud of was showing shots of the gassed Kurds in Iraq on MS-NBC to show some of the horrors of the Saddam regime.
I don't know what else he accomplished or what negative image he put forth. That is irrelevant.
His foes wanted him off the air and siezed this opportunity to reach that end. It is a double standard that has not been applied to liberals though and certainly seems to be an overreaction.
MS-NBC is under no obligation to keep them. If I were to boycott NBC it would mean giving up my occassional watching of Conan O'Brien's show (which was a program that aired Alec Baldwin's comment that Henry Hyde and his family should be stoned to death). That one program is the only NBC show that I even marginally watch.
NBC cheifs are hypocrites though and that bears noting.