I had just earned my Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. I had 2 young children to support. My life-long dream to teach was 'put on hold' by the ACLU and their evil socialist scheme for racial gerrymandering called affirmative action.
I wrote to the President because I was suddenly an outcast. Despite my Ph.D. from one of the nation's top universities (at that time). Despite my having written many critically acclaimed books, and having won numerous awards they would not employ me. For one cardinal sin.
I am a White Male. You see, the liberals had
destroyed my future to make a future for less
qualified people.
--- Shane Taylor <s-t-t at juno.com> wrote:
> Wednesday, July 9, 2003
> San Francisco Chronicle
>
> Savage says he's sorry -- but stays fired
> Talk show host insists epithets not aimed at people
> with AIDS
>
> Dan Fost, Chronicle Staff Writer
>
>
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/09/MN158024.
> DTL>
>
> Michael Savage, the outrageous talk show host who
> was fired from MSNBC on
> Monday for telling a caller to "get AIDS and die,"
> fought back Tuesday,
> saying he was reacting to a crank caller.
>
> Savage, the most successful radio host ever to
> emerge from the Bay Area,
> said his controversial comments were aimed only at
> the caller, and that
> he thought he was off the air when he said them. He
> also blasted MSNBC
> for criticizing him.
>
> "I'm sitting in front of the camera. I have no
> control over that," Savage
> said. "In radio, I have total control. . . . He got
> really vile with me .
> . . I meant to insult him personally, not all people
> with AIDS."
>
> On his Web site, www.michaelsavage.com, Savage
> apologized to gays, and
> for causing anyone pain with his comments.
>
> The apology is not enough to save his show. MSNBC
> spokesman Jeremy Gaines
> refused to comment on Savage's response and would
> only reiterate an
> earlier statement that Savage "made an extremely
> inappropriate remark.
> The decision to cancel the program was not a
> difficult one."
>
> [....]
>
> On his radio show Tuesday, Savage showed no sign of
> shelving his
> combative persona, assailing President Bush (for
> comments about slavery),
> Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker (for comments about
> race), fellow
> conservative host Bill O'Reilly (for criticizing
> Savage's televised
> remarks) and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
> Ginsburg (a "radical
> left-wing buck-toothed hag").
>
> "I'm proud of my work on television," Savage told
> one caller. "I was the
> first one in MSNBC history to dig up the photos of
> the gassed Kurds. . .
> . I made America see what Saddam Hussein had really
> done."
>
> At another point, he said: "I slept quite well. I
> slept like a baby. I
> snoozed like a lamb. Because I believe in freedom of
> speech. The American
> people understand what went on. I am the underdog. I
> am Daniel in the
> lions' den. I am a victim. They know very very well
> that the left are
> like jackals in this country. They do not believe in
> freedom of speech,
> they only believe in freedom of their speech."
>
> Savage's firing was precipitated by an active
> prankster calling his show.
> Bob Foster, 39, a Sacramento computer technician,
> says he's been on CNN
> 25 times -- including three times on Larry King's
> show -- and once
> convinced a Fox News host that he was witnessing an
> earthquake, when he
> was really making the whole thing up. Foster usually
> gives a plug to his
> favorite radio show, "Don and Mike," which emanates
> from Washington, D.C.
>
>
> Foster called Savage's show Saturday when Savage was
> doing what he
> described as a "schtick" about airline horror
> stories. Foster started a
> yarn about someone smoking in a plane's bathroom,
> and then, in a non
> sequitur, said,
>
> " 'Don and Mike' should take over your show so you
> can go to a dentist
> appointment, because your teeth are really bad."
>
> Most of that comment was bleeped off the airwaves,
> but what Savage said
> was not. Instead, his rant will likely live in
> infamy.
>
> He asked Foster if he was a "sodomite," and when
> Foster replied yes,
> Savage said -- according to a transcript posted on
> GLAAD's Web site
> (www.glaad.org), along with the video: "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 got nothing to do today?
> Go eat a sausage and
> choke on it. Get trichinosis. OK, got another nice
> caller here who's busy
> because he didn't have a nice night in the bathhouse
> and is angry at me
> today?"
>
> Savage said he immediately asked if that got on the
> air, but didn't
> receive an answer.
>
> He said his show had been gaining traction.
> According to MSNBC, it had a
> viewership of about 347,000 total viewers.
>
> Although that is a small rating -- less than a
> single percentage point --
> Savage said he had dinner with MSNBC President Erik
> Sorenson two weeks
> ago, and Sorenson told him, "We don't care about
> your ratings. We love
> your show."
>
> Sorenson, through spokesman Gaines, declined to
> comment.
>
> "They were too quick to jump the gun," Savage said.
> "It's been a struggle
> from day one. They don't want to switch to anything
> moderate or
> conservative. The bias is very liberal."
>
> Foster, the prankster, said he's already getting a
> lot of "hate mail from
> the Savage nation."
>
> "My intention was not for him to get fired. My
> intention was to drop the
> 'Don and Mike' name,' " Foster said.
>
> In fact, Foster is a fan of Savage's show, and he
> picked him for one
> simple reason: "I look for a reaction."
>
>
>
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