Michael Savage fired from MSNBC

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-07 11:32pm

After telling a "sodomite" to essentially get AIDS and die. I'd post it but the cutting and pasting is a bit off.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/935825.asp?0cv=BB10

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-07 11:33pm

What a shame

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-07-07 11:39pm

Looks like Dell has some ads for that timeslot again.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-07-08 12:04am

Good news. That fuck needs to go.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-07-08 12:18am

Hhahaha suck shit. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting was calling for his head the moment MSNBC announced their intention to hire him. Looks like he got his.

Savage Homophobia on MSNBC
Michael Savage tells caller: "Get AIDS and die"
July 7, 2003 (NOTE: Please read the update to this alert.)

When radio talkshow host Michael Savage was given his own show by the cable TV channel MSNBC, network executives said that the new show should not be judged by Savage's previous hate-filled remarks, but by what he said on the TV show itself. A recent outburst by Savage, however, suggests that the host's prejudice and hatefulness have not been constrained by his new venue.

The incident started when a caller to Michael Savage's July 5 MSNBC show, Savage Nation, apparently tried to get some kind of prank on the show. Savage responded with a homophobic tirade. Here's the transcript from the Nexis news media database:

SAVAGE: So you're one of those sodomists. Are you a sodomite?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I am.

SAVAGE: Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis.

OK, do we have another nice caller here who's busy because he didn't have a nice night in the bathhouse who's angry at me today? Get me another one, put another sodomite on. No more calls out of-- let's go to the next scene. I don't care about these bums. They mean nothing to me. They're all sausages. Next scene; onto the next scene on the Savage Nation.

This does not seem to be the first time Savage has made such comments; the San Jose Mercury News reported (2/27/99) that "Savage has apologized to gay activists after saying he wished they would get AIDS." Such homophobia has long been an integral part of Savage's routine; when he wanted to insult the pro-gun control Million Mom March, for example, he dubbed it "the Million Dyke March" (5/15/00).

He has spoken of "the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut down on the white race" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00). In his book Savage Nation, he complained that Sen. Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor have "feminized and homosexualized much of America, to the point where the nation has become passive, receptive and masochistic."

When critics pointed out these earlier remarks to MSNBC-- a cable channel co-owned by General Electric and Microsoft-- they were dismissed by MSNBC president Erik Sorenson, along with similar attacks on women and people of color. "He hasn't said anything bigoted or hateful on MSNBC," Sorenson told the St. Petersburg Times (3/7/03). "His main thrust for us is going to be national security. I'm going to watch his show...and I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt."

Asked about specific slurs made by Savage, like references to "homosexual perversion," Sorenson said: "Those statements as quoted by GLAAD and FAIR are not appropriate for MSNBC.... Those kinds of statements will not be permitted. And if they do happen, they won't happen more than once."

Now that Savage has denounced a caller as "one of the sodomites" who "should only get AIDS and die," will Sorenson admit that Savage says things that are bigoted on his network? Or does he still describe Savage as someone "brash, passionate and smart" who's providing "compelling opinion and analysis with an edge"?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-07-08 08:34am

Splash One Bandit...

Good Call, MSNBC.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-08 09:00am

Better to keep him on MSNBC, no one watches cable MSNBC. Now he might end up on a show with double-digit viewer ship.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-07-08 09:13am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Better to keep him on MSNBC, no one watches cable MSNBC. Now he might end up on a show with double-digit viewer ship.

ROFLMAO!!!

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-07-08 10:55am

Well, good riddens to bad rubbish. Unfortunately, now he will make millions on a book deal about the experience and be a popular guest on Christian Right talk radio for "telling it like it is".

h0rus · Post by **h0rus** » 2003-07-08 02:14pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:Well, good riddens to bad rubbish. Unfortunately, now he will make millions on a book deal about the experience and be a popular guest on Christian Right talk radio for "telling it like it is".

Sounds like an excerpt from a Bill O'Reilly review. He just 'tells it like it is'.