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."

[finnman69]

Watch out,Savage may sue you for slander...

[Neanderthal]

Is Savage back on in SF yet? Anybody know what's going on?

[GSWarrior]

Savage can't be gay. He's too ugly.

[toothseaquer]

Michael Savage just happened to come on the radio when I went to my computer. He was complaining about his mother not watching his TV show. She isn't alone, because, I cannot stand watching his TV show nor listen to his radio show. I don't care for his style and he isn't a conservative. A conservative has more patience in the area of ideas or the court of public opinion. He sounds like he has too much hate in him and makes conservatives look bad. What do you suppose his brand of politics is called? Maybe Hard core rightwinger would fit better. He and Hillary are about to shake hands on the political sprectrum.

[dogbyte12]

There is a perfectly logical explanation for this.

There were two people who both knew Ginsburg who worked in the University of Hawaii Botany department in 1970, and both were named Michael Weiner. The "other" Michael Weiner who worked next door, wrote this letter, which is stored in Ginsburg's archives, and this has just made it confusing for us all.

There were 5 Michael Weiner's in the botany department when I was at college too. I think 4 of them were acquaintances of Ginsburg too. It's a plot I tell ya.