Just as Don Imus finds a new platform on the Fox Business Network, fellow bigot Michael Savage gets kicked off his homebase: Clear Channel’s San Francisco radio station just dropped him. Permanently.
No longer with Savage’s anti-gay attacks be found on KNEW-AM, though it’s not entirely clear why. The station said only: “We have decided to go in a different philosophical and ideological direction, featuring more contemporary content and more local information.” Which could be a vague explanation for, “We didn’t want to keep paying him $1 million a year for a 29th-place show.”
That “more contemporary content” refers to John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou’s conservative talk program, who go by John and Ken, who are taking Savage’s 3-7pm drive time slot. John and Ken, meanwhile, spent a good deal of time in the late 90s lambasting Karel and Andrew, the program that replaced their own, and just happened to be hosted by two gay partners.
Savage’s website says he can now be heard on KSTE 650, so it’s not like he’s been removed from SF’s queer airwaves.
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And bringing everything full circle is news that Savage also lost — sorry, settled — a lawsuit with the makers of the short film Michael Savage Hates Muslims. Which is, frankly, wholly accurate.
bart
Of all the conservatives out there, Savage seems genuinely mentally damaged. Like he’s secretly a serial killer or something. He just doesn’t seem right in the head.
trickytoro
King of the pig people
robert
Savage is the right name for him, a pity that this piece of human detritus was ever born.
Larry
Savage is awesome.
steve
republish books that are over 20 years old with ideas that have been thoroughly discredited and could result in the death of a child. i republish a book on dementia with an idea (the aluminum hypothesis) that has been thoroughly discredited.
i make millions, but still you suckers give me money for my “legal” battles.
i am a tightwad and a penny pincher and love to brag about being a big tipper, and scream at chinese restaurants if i’ve been “cheated” with too little chicken in my dish.
i am a hater, and i am miserable. i walk around continuously as if i had a piece of stinky cheese under my nose.
those of you who hate me can take satisfaction in knowing that no matter how much i have, how much i make, i am miserable iniside.
as you know, no one who spews as much hatred as i do every day could possible be happy inside.
i preach hatred of muslims, autistic children, gay people.
at least please get my name right:
michael SEWAGE
and you are my SEWAGE nation
steve
of course i belong on the banned list, and you,my listeners, know why.
i talk to you at times about cicero, at how the enemy at the gates is less to be feared than traitor within.
this is true of me also.
you see, some of my compatriots on the list wear their savagery openly–they murder, commit mayhem etc.
i work through stealth. i sow discord wherever i can. i teach you to hate other people who are not like you–the white man and woman. i tell you that the brown people want to take over your country , “come here to rape , murder and steal” , gays want to destroy your families. i teach you to hate your government and its leaders. to hate your president, and wish for his failure as a leader.
for me, obama is the the black male who got past me through affirmative action. my entire life hinges on his being a fraud and a failure, and that is why i constantly pray for him to fail as our president, and ask you to join me.
that is why im on list.
i am michael sewage
mike SEWAGE
and now, my words are turned on me.
i am called, appropriately, just a shock jock. and this is true. i spend the currency of distrust .
i am a nothing more than disc jockey spinning records of hatred. round and round they go.
and i have taken you along with me. you needed someone to hate–and i supplied the target.
where your natural instinct was love, i taught you to hate (the immigrant, the gay , the muslim, the other).
where your natural instinct is to hope for a better day and give the other guy a fair break–i taught you to hate your government and your president, and to revel and pray for his policies to fail.
where the government stepped in to salvage failing industries like the banks and the autos, and to spend money to aid a failing economy ( straight out of keynsian economics) i taught you to see it as a communist takeover of your country, with obama the serpent’s head.
mike SEWAGE
where your instinct was to live with and celebrate your fellow man, i taught you to dislike (e.g. see my treatment of gay people.)
like hitler with the jews, i brought you scapegoats to blame them for all your daily frustrations and problems.
i knew you had them, even as i took advantage of you and manipulated you.
where did i learn this?
my father was very hateful.he was cruel. he was ignorant. he was bombastic. he made fun of me. called me a queer and gay. and even though i wrote homoerotic poetry to alan ginsberg, i so hated this urge inside myself that i became a fanatic against homosexuality.
look up “reaction formation” if you want to understand this aspect of my personality.
i cynically used my brain damaged brother to make myself look compassionate after i had been cruel to others with brain damage (see my autism tirades).
i have been named.i have been shamed.
i am michaelsewage.
i will dab your mouth with toilet paper if you will wipe mine.
join me
mike SEWAGE
in my books i wrote of my homosexual urges as so much commotion below the deck of a ship, while i violently sought to control these feelings.
it is because of my intense discomfort at these homosexual urges, because of the echoes of my hateful father against gay people that scream in my head (why wont he stop??) that i rail so against gay people.
i struggle mightily against acting on my urges all the time.
even to this day.
that is when i tell you that having an urge is not the same as acting on it. because i have this homosexual urge all the time.
that is why i curse them and hate them, because the urges i have to love another man are constanly with me, tearing at me.
for proof of this, see my entry at wikipedia. see my letters to alan ginsburg.
so you see, its not my fault that i rail against homosexuality and homosexuals.
they have been tormenting me all my life.
they deserve it back.
i give it back in raw sewage.
i am michael sewage
mike SEWAGE
i walk around as if i had a piece of stinky cheese under my nose at all times.
happiness eludes me. those who hate me can take joy in knowing that a man who speaks the way i do, 24/7, with such venom, cannot have any happiness inside himself.
no matter how much i have, how much i make, i will never be happy.
the world repudiates me, because i am a charicature, ironically like the animals i list in “the political zoo”
my sewage world is a dark world indeed. i constantly talk on my show of “dragging people off in handcuffs” and putting people in jail.
in my world, my opponents are in a zoo. are caged. like animals. and i am their zoo keeper.
my sewage world is a dark world indeed.
the origins of this hate are straight out of my dad, who i have often spoken of as raising me on “cruelty, meanness and neglect.”
i emulate him as i hate him. seek to enact his vision while simultaneously reviling him.
help me.
mike SEWAGE
that is why i wasn’t hired for a teaching job after my phd. i was an inferior scientist and recognized as such. i also had no ability to get along with others. my hatefulness and natural meanness showed through like a bright beacon.
rather than recognizing these deficiencies within myself, and getting help, i looked around for someone to blame for my personal deficiencies and problems.
who did i choose?
i chose the black man.
the black man was the source of my failure.
the black man usurped my position.
the black man was leap frogged over me.
and on and on and on.
that is why i have such an animus for our president. he is the prototype of the black man who got past me. that is why i have everything banked on his failing as our leader, and applaud everytime his poll numbers drop and encourage you to cheer his decline on like i do.
he is the essence of the black man who got over on me.
from whom i never recovered.
and that is why i am michael sewage.
July 21, 6:41 PM
mike SEWAGE
the matter of the banned list has served as a springboard for a more broad based confession of who i am, and what a fraud i am.
i felt you are owed this, at the very least, after i have manipulated you so over the years, and taught you to hate and scapegoat others as i have always done.
as my father always taught me to do.
after i cynically manipulated you, i felt i owed you at least this.
if the catalyst for my confession is the banned list in england , then so be it.
i had a lot pent up, making a “commotion below the deck” (like my homosexual urges) , and i feel better having disgorged it.
vomited it up.
like all my bile.
like all my bitterness.
like all my venom.
like all my hatred.
i seek to be free of it, even as it defines me, makes money for me.
i disgorge upon you.
vomit up my hatred on you.
like so much toxic sewage from my black heart.
July 21, 6:55 PM
bRIAN
Savage is king of talk radio. His show is the thrd most listened to show in the US, not the 29th, like the biased and uninformed author if this article claims.
He will not be silenced.
He is awesome, and unfathomably interesting. He is the King of Radio.
So what if he’s anti-gay? Get over it. There are far many of us gays who do not agree with the fascist gay movement.
robert
@bRIAN:
So Brian, as a supposedly gay man, you’re ok with Savage advocating for the killing of gay people, something he has publicly espoused?. You must really hate yourself so much to support such bigotry and hate.
nikko
He’s right about Islam, though.
robert
Nikko, you really believe that? What about our own right wing religious cultists who if they could get away with it, would have us killed?
Take a closer look at the evil committed in the name of the so called “christian” cult, the roman cult in particular which funded and supported the Spanish Inquisition wherein it systematically tortured Latin American natives to believe and if they didn’t, executed them. The same was the fate of Jews in Spain at the time who were no better than what Islam is doing today.
Savage once told a gay caller that he should die of AIDS. If that’s not pure hatred, I don’t know what is. Savage is a SAVAGE, a piece of human detritus that deserves his comeuppance, and none too soon. He’s a disgrace to anything that is decent and good in this world.
James
Michael Savage tells it like it is. If you have a problem with that, shove it.
robert
So if he called for the execution of Irish Americans, Italian-Americans, German-Americans, or any ethnic group you’d be ok with that then?
mike SEWAGE
any list of the worst pepole on the planet will always have me at its head.
i know that, understand and accept that, and you should to.
i can never make up to the world the damage i have caused.
no words begging forgiveness will ever suffice.
i apologize to you. for leading you on a charade, for being a faker and a fraud, for bastardizing the meaning of a phd degree–since all my work cutting down plants never amounted to a hill of beans and never will.
join me, now.
bow our collected heads.
pray with me.
pray that there is no after life in which i will be judged for the evil i committed on this earth.
it is warm down here in the bowels and the sewage.
you have laid with me in the warm sewage long enough.
you should now take your leave of me.
reclaim your life
your hope
your kindness
your good will toward others not like you.
reclaim it.
while you still can.
leave me here,
in sewage,
Joanaroo
Oh-h-h, we conservatives love our Jesus! But to the poor and needy we say “Fuck you!” Although most of us in DC last week are poor as churchmice too! But we love our wealthy hate media and our adulterous politicians it’s true! We know that God is with them as he loves the GOP! And he hates the Democrats just like you and me!
Joanaroo
Yes, we conservatives are a hateful bunch! That’s why Rush pukes up his bile as you eat your lunch! Democrat? No insurance? Terminal cancer? Hey-FUCK YOU! Yes, I hate them all-black, red, brown, gay, even the occasional liberal Jew! Yes we haters love our Rush, Bill, Glen and all those guys it’s true! And when we listen we get a boner too! But we have no love for anyone who is a Democrat and do-er! When we die put us in an urn and flush it into the sewer!
veggiedude
Savage claims never to have seen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911, and verbally assaulted it as trash, and yet the last 3 years all the criticism he threw at Bush could have been taken from that movie word for word. How’s that for honesty?
LJP
I think all these Savage apologists are disgusting neanderthals!
terrwill
Savage is also a self hating jew. Real name: Michael Weiner
robert
@terrwill:
Like some of the deeply closeted, deeply conflicted fucked up right wing shills who deliberately seek out gay blog sites to spew their venom. Sick psycho talkers for sure!
nikko
ROBERT, of course I also agree with what you wrote about fundamentalist right wing christianity.
bRIAN
He has NEVER advocated killing gays or any other people. That soundbite that has been circulated about killing muslims, was taken out of context. He was saying “if they (the Muslim terrorists) come to destroy America, kill them all before they kill US all”. I know because I have heard the complete audio. It’s there for all to listen to.
So, next time you put words in his mouth, get your head out of your ass… or your leather daddie’s fist out of your shitter.
ronmossad
Terrorists, dictators, gangsters and murderers allowed in Great Britain…but not Michael Savage??
How can this be? How can such a perversion of justice take place? And how can we all sit silently as one democracy’s government cracks down on the right to free speech of one of our own?
http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/09/freedom-of-speech-and-savage-nation.html
Whether or not you like what Michael Savage has to say, restricting his ability to travel based on his words while Gadhafi, King Abdullah, Assad and other members of the “World’s Worst Dictators” club are treated as if they are legitimate representatives of the people instead of the mass murderers and repression artists that they are is just plain WRONG.
Actions speak much louder than words. This travesty is nothing more than hypocrisy at its finest.
mark
@bart: I am a big fan of Michael Savage.