MSNBC fires host for gay remark (The 'Savage' in his Savage Nation)

Boston Globe ^ | 7/8/03 | David Bauder (AP)

[harpu]

NEW YORK - MSNBC yesterday fired Michael Savage for making anti-gay comments on the air.

The popular radio talk-show host, who did a weekend TV show for the cable channel, referred to an unidentified caller to his show Saturday as a ''sodomite'' and said he should ''get AIDS and die.''

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You are mistaken. I disagree that 'powerful Christian' is an oxymoron.

[chief911]

Not to screw the tin-foil hat on too tight, but does anyone else think that PMSNBC knew when they hired Savage that they would eventully get this? If they ever listen to the radio show they know that he is prone to outburts similar to this. Makes for great publicity and bad-mouthing of conservative talk radio when you can fire someone for something you knew would happen in the first place.

[LS]

No, you are mistaken. How many times did the Lord or His apostles INSTRUCT people to do something, to "put on" the whole armor of God, to "add to your faith." So if you don't put it on, or add to your faith, your power does nothing. It is not engaged. If all we had to do to be powerful was walk around "exuding power," then 90% of the commandments in the New Testament would be unnecessary.

Again, I know plenty of totally "unpowerful" Christians.

[Colofornian]

Didn't MSNBC realize that Savage was only speaking his native language (brash New Yorkese) to a fellow brash New Yorker?

What? Diversity is okay except when it's too diverse? Tolerance is fine and dandy for thee but not for MSNBC?

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Again, you are mistaken. Powerful Christian is not an oxymoron.

[Blackwood]

If you watch the clip on the glaad.org site, you've got an east coast straight white male from rival radio show Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara calling up and saying he wants to force Savage to suck his male member, but he'd first have to take a baseball bat to Savage's teeth to allow it to slide down easier.

Yeah, that?s real defensible. Glad Glaad is taking up the caller's side and defending the right of obscene callers to describe sexually assaulting people.

And as usual, glaad which claims to be for "fair accurate reporting" is now mis-reporting that the caller was gay. Suuuure he was. In Glaads' dreams.

Is this how your organization envisions homosexuality, Glaad? Is this the kind of homosexual behavior that Glaad wants to defend? The right to mutilate people, break people's teeth to better force them to provide oral sex to gay rapists?

There's Glaad, off to the charge again. Doesn't matter the caller's behavior is indefensible, or even that he's not gay. ("Yeah, sure." is obviously said with sarcasm) Say AIDS and Glaad jumps all up and down, making no sense as usual.

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I don't get it ...

An oxymoron is a combination of contradictory terms, e.g. Deafening Silence, Mournful Optimist, Powerless Christian.

"...for when I am weak, then I am strong.", i.e. powerful.

[CygnusXI]

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The disclaimer on his show warns of "Psycological Nudity"...
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It is a misconception to think that Christianity makes you strong. You use Christs power; but you aren't strong, you are weak.

We can go round-robin with this but once more, "I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ... for when I am weak, I am strong".

I agree, Christians accept the power of Christ. However, as it may be redudant to put the words 'Powerful' and 'Christian' together, the term 'Powerful Christian' is not contradictory.

[FeliciaCat]

Savage got what he deserved. He made a VERY stupid statement. What a bozo.

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OK. As you stated earlier, sorry, not trying to be picky and annoying.

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LOL, and yet somehow... : )

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ROTFLOL. and I want to be annoy, but not picky! I'M KIDDING!

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