Comments on: Rather Than Sue a Few Blogs, Rockstar Will Donate Cash to Gays

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:49:06 +0000

@ No. 19 – sweetie, go back to being what your tag so clearly spells out about you…

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:32:05 +0000

so you all are proud to be an ass pounder…. or a cock sucker, or a muff diver…. or whatever you do that you think you have to be up in peoples faces with, you people are the most self serving narcissistic group on the planet.

you all are by definition ‘abnormal’.

you are liars and deceivers, there is nothing ‘gay’ about what you do to get your jollies.

you people are the bigots.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:19:57 +0000

Has anyone thought about getting a response from Michael? I would just love to hear him going off about his son and his wife disavowing him.

By: mb00

mb00 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:32:47 +0000

@John: @unclemike:
I agree with the both of you. I wouldn’t drop a dime on them. And that $100K, totally tax deductible. It’s just another strategy on their part to take our money and still get a tax brake for their “donation”.
You want energy? Drink coffee like the rest of us.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:41:20 +0000

Just don’t drink it for health reasons. That stuff is killer on your body. Have a natural fruit juice or something.

By: KyleR

KyleR — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:54:38 +0000

Why anyone drinks Rock Star is beyond me. That stuff is VILE!!!

By: Fitz

Fitz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:47:23 +0000

And a total aside to all this: these drinks are just awful for you.

By: unclemike

unclemike — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:40:28 +0000

@John: John, I totally agree with you. I spent many years in SF, listening to that big bag of wind. And his son was right there, introducing him at functions, and parroting his garbage.

Rockstar will never get one penny from me.

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:12:45 +0000

I’ll stick with MONSTER energy drink thanks. I would rather see Michael Savage, the wife of Michael Savage AND his entire family including his son who owns the company, go bankrupt and disappear. $100,000? thats SHIT compared to the amount of people who have been negatively affected by Savage and his hate speech. I have a feeling that family has pasted on an insincere smile and offered up the money as a way to get tons of publicity and sell more product.

By: drew brown

drew brown — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:01:46 +0000

Just to confirm, the CFO is still married to Michael Savage, right? So how does a check for $100,000, presumably a fraction of the annual salary she brings to their joint tax returns, change that? I’m lost.

By: sal(the original)

sal(the original) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:10:18 +0000

hope they give the money to organizations that help people who are attacked by jerks who listen and feed off of their idiot relative words

By: Jake the libertarian

Jake the libertarian — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:24:58 +0000

@me:

Frankly there is a lot about Michael Savage that I don’t understand. And I don’t mean that in the sense that he is a racist, crazy, homophobic, nutter butter. I understand that fine…

I don’t understand his relationship with Alan Ginsburg in the ’60s. I don’t understand the weird food stuff he’s into. I don’t understand his family dynamic. Frankly it all just makes no sense at all. I mean why would a guy flee the liberal gay lifestyle of the East Village and move to San Francisco? I really can’t wrap my head around this guy and if it’s all some very strange piece of performance art, that makes as much sense as anything.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:12:17 +0000

Good to hear, and though the fact that two of the orgs advocate for kids smacks of marketing. They’re both great groups, and the fact that they’re getting 30 grand plus is great. On one hand I would love to see companies marketing to gay kids. On the other hand, all of these energy drinks are seriously not good for you, and can have some pretty serious side effects.

By: Joanaroo

Joanaroo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:09:18 +0000

Thanks to the blogs for the info. Knowing a product’s background, company people and any cause is helpful. Am a teetotaler now but had stopped drinking Coors Light when I found out Coors Brewery backed GOP causes and members.

By: me

me — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:56:42 +0000

i heard michael savage is a secret (closet?) liberal who profits from entertaining the far far right with his conservative act

By: HayYall

HayYall — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:50:12 +0000

Didn’t drink it before, won’t drink it now, and if his wife is CFO you can bet your ass he’s getting part of it. Nice olive branch, but you can just hang onto it.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:29:59 +0000

I am impressed. The cynical side of me really thought that they were going to embrace this whole thing, in a Mike Savage kind of way, and make their product “the drink for straight men”.

Hey Barak, did you hear about this? Someone DID something to appease the faggots, and they responded.

By: Richard in DC

Richard in DC — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:27:08 +0000

Just because Ms. Weiner’s husband is a bigot, doesn’t mean that she is one herself. Spouses of bigots have the right to a livelihood.

By: echelon

echelon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:23:53 +0000

Great turnaround by Rockstar. It’s always tempting to go the negative route. See their release here: http://www.echelonmagazine.com/index.php?id=1012

By: Bil Browning

Bil Browning — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:18:56 +0000

Thanks for covering this. My post on it for Bilerico Project is at: http://www.bilerico.com/2009/0.....iendly.php

To answer your question: Yes, Savage’s wife, Janet Weiner, is the CFO of Rockstar. In the release she – along with his son, Russ Weiner – disavow his statements and say that don’t condone hateful, violent speech like Savage has been spewing.

Not very often you see that happen…