On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:53:12PM -0700, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >From his website: I like the idea that he is qualified
> because he is a white male, and therefore entitled to
> teach at Berkeley, where he says he got a PhD. Would
> he think that I, a white male, am qualified to teach
> at Michigan (where I got mine), despite the fact that
> I am a commie pinko fag-loving unpatriotic ACLUnik?
> jks
> * * *
>
> 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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