A Savage letter?(Mike Savage gay rumor/smear)

New York Daily News ^ | 6/7/2003 | Rush & Molloy

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Right-wing talkmeister Michael Savage is raging against a report suggesting he was once a good deal freindlier toward gays.

Radar magazine reports that, back when he was a botanist known as Michael Weiner, the syndicated radio host was freindly with poet Allen Ginsberg. According to the mag, on March 8, 1970, Savage wrote to Ginsberg, who visited him in Fiji:

"After speaking to you on the phone...I walked downstairs to the school courtyard, where a little-known black brother looks at me, takes my hand gently, we do some old-world lower east side finger tricks, and he peacefully kisses the back of my hand - I do the same for his hand. I told him about our brief talk and he says, 'I must have felt the vibes."

Radar says the letter can be found among Ginsberg's collected papers at Stanford University. Ginsberg, who belonged to the North American Man/Boy Love Association, wouldn't seem to be on the "buddy list" of Savage, who once said, "The gay and lesbian mafia wants our children!"

But then, Radar reports, Savage's "thinly disguised confessional" novel, "Vital Signs,"did have a protagonist who admitted he was drawn to "masculine beauty," saying, "I choose to override my desires for men when they swell in me."

Savage, who is married, calls the Radar story a "smear campaign" launched by "gay fascist."

"Maybe I have amnesia," Savage tells us. But "I never wrote such a letter."

[Clint N. Suhks]

However, if he did supress these drives, then doesn't that put the lie to the gay claim of homosexuality and bisexuality being inate?

My thoughts exactly.

[gcruse]

There isn't a queer thread that comes along without you being on it. Why is that? And that tagline, too. In your case, picking your nose may be sodomy...

[Clint N. Suhks]

What is your problem?

He’s a liar and a fool who hates conservatives, what do you expect?

[Clint N. Suhks]

Fighting reprobates like you is a full time job.

[gcruse]

What is your problem?
Can't stand Savage.  Or humorless pr!cks.
And it shouldn't be difficult to disprove a letter. Amnesia? Oh, yeah.

[vikingcelt]

As a woman I admire feminine beauty. That doesn't make me a lesbian.

[nothingnew]

He’s a liar and a fool who hates conservatives, what do you expect?

No. gcruse posts many good things here...but once in awhile goes on a tangent. Why?...I don't know.

FMCDH

[ActionNewsBill]

More drive-by slanders on conservatives eh? What are you overcompensating for?

Savage is a conservative? When did that happen?

I find him to be a self-righteous blowhard.

But that's just my opinion. I don't see Rush, Hannity or O'reilly as conservatives either.

[Clint N. Suhks]

gcruse lies constantly about conservatives. He accused conservatives of “praying” for people who have abortions to get cancer just last Friday.

[nothingnew]

I don't see Rush, Hannity or O'reilly as conservatives either.

Who do you see as a consewrvative? Anyone? I'm interested.

FMCDH

[Clint N. Suhks]

Savage is a conservative?

Close enough for gcruse to lie about.

[nothingnew]

He accused conservatives of “praying” for people who have abortions to get cancer just last Friday.

Source please?

FMCDH

[Clint N. Suhks]

here, here and here.

[nothingnew]

Those links prove nothing to me. Perhaps you don't recognize sarcasm/satire when you see it?

FMCDH

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Interesting read. I'm a member of the "Tom Marr" Nation myself.

[HostileTerritory]

Ten to one Savage leaked the story himself to keep his name in the papers.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Could be. The excerpt from the letter was pretty disturbing to me though, I don't know if he would want that out.

[HostileTerritory]

Excellent point.

I have an instinctive dislike of self-promoters. I don't always keep it under control. Savage always takes things too far, IMO.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Those links prove nothing to me. Perhaps you don't recognize sarcasm/satire when you see it?

BS!

[666beast]

Sweet theory on post #36.

Very slick.

You may be right.