Michael Savage fired ... Thank God.

[Hieronymus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/michael-savage-irrepressi_b_284651.html

Michael Savage, an independent syndicated radio commentator, has been severed from KNEW, the important San Francisco outlet for his Savage Nation. The station issued a terse statement: "Here's your no-spin direct answer; we have decided to go in a different philosophical and ideological direction, featuring more contemporary content and more local information. The Savage Nation does not fit into that vision."
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This is the third station in San Francisco that has fired Michael Savage.

[AuntPatsy]

1. Good news..but we have many more than need similar retirement.

[iconocrastic]

19. He was getting his butt kicked by Mark Levin in ratings in the time slot

And, hate to tell you, Levin is a more formidable adversary.

[Canuckistanian]

23. Mark Levin? I can't stand that whiny, nasal voice of his

And Levin a "formidable adversary"? Please.

His catch-phrase is "Get off the phone, you stupid dope". Witty.

And he's well known as the voice in Sean Hannity's earpiece, feeding Sean the "correct" responses and talking points of the day.

And we all know how "formidable" Hannity is.

[ChazII]

25. The first step in any journey

or whatever that saying is ... you are right.... this is good news.

[Lerkfish]

2. was there something specific that cause this, besides, you know, the obvious?

just curious, I don't listen to RW radio.

[Ikonoklast]

7. Weiner is notoriously tempermental, and flies into rages at perceived 'slights' by management

I suppose his numbers tanking didn't help him, either.

If any of these right-wing radio hate-spewers stopped making money, their shows would be dropped the very next day.

It's always about the dinero.

[Lerkfish]

12. thanks, I thought I had missed a specific GOP boner or something.

[Cha]

13. Well, isn't San Francisco Lucky that the savage weiner

is in no better control than joe the heckler.

[Buzz Clik]

50. This is a slight by the management that goes beyond perceived.

[scribble]

39. It's the numbers...

Savage fell from #3 to #23 in the Bay Area market over the last year or so. Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann and local hosts on KGO beat him to death. KNEW can't afford that.

There is more to the story, though. This was his flagship station, which means he depends on their uplink to supply his show to other markets. This firing came very fast and with no notice, leaving him with no way to provide his show to other affiliates for a while. This means KNEW is probably in breach of their Contract, unless there is something else in the mix. They replaced him with an ill-considered, no-name fill-in that they can quickly fire when a better show comes along.

No one in the Bay Area is talking about the rest of the story.

One good bet: He won't be going back to KSFO or KGO any time soon.

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[Jade Fox]

3. good

[Solomon]

4. He' still on the air though. Friday night I happened

to catch when I was flipping stations and some censor behind the scenes cut him off in the middle of a sentence and you could hear him asking, "so what? you object to..." then they ran the same commercial for two or three times before he came back on. LOL

[opihimoimoi]

5. The GOP IMPLOSION continues one weiner at a time....LOL

[Moochy]

9. One Savage Weiner at a time!

Maybe Dick Army can offer the Savage Weiner a job.

[lillypaddle]

11. a weiner job?

Oh, that's good!

[opihimoimoi]

20. Weiner is the latest fail in a series of RW Losses....all due to loss of crit creds

They just don get it...look at them...actually arguing against common sense and logic...

Sho nuff...reality catches up in the form of Reason and Truth

Thus the Pubs fall victim of a Social Evolution...from OutDated to Pragmatic UpDated....what works BEST.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. Savage Dick and the Weiner Army.

Sounds like a graphic novel.

:evilgrin:

[Triana]

6. Well now. Some good news for a change. n/t

[eleny]

8. I think he's been off KNUS in Denver, too

As I used to go around the dial I'd hear him on that station since it was right next to the lib station. It was late at night. I just checked their lineup for weekdays and the weekend - he's not listed.

Not that his replacement is way better. Any time I happen to hear it, it's always crazy talk. But Savage is out on his own special limb of madness.

I remember a while back Savage was talking about leaving San Fran. I didn't know he lived there. He talked about going to Hawaii. Maybe there was writing on the wall for some time.

[formercia]

10. Weiner gets the weiner......again.

The hinterlands won't know the difference when the re-runs start. Meth, Savage, cheap beer, smokes and Limpballs. Drugs of choice.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. Good, now he can slide back under that rock from which he came..nt

[Hieronymus]

15. A letter from then Michael Weiner to Allen Ginsberg.....

March 8, 1970

Dear Allen:

After speaking to you on the phone about how nice the black-white thing is in mountain villages in Fiji, I walked downstairs to the school courtyard, where a little–known black brother looks at me, takes my hand gently, we do some old–world Lower East Side finger tricks, and he peacefully kisses the back of my hand – I do the same for his hand. I told him about our brief talk, and he says, "I must have felt the vibes."

Michael Weiner
Botany Dept.
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI

[Czar One]

33. Whoa!

Maybe that's why he changed his name!

Sad thing is: It wouldn't surprise me. All these "paragons" of morality. What a joke!

[jimlup]

16. Good news, now let's dump this guy nation wide!

Voices like this should have to broadcast their own hate from a worn out soap box in an empty corn field not a nationally syndicated radio show.

[NecklyTyler]

34. Let's get a Fairness Doctrine and even the score nation wide

The destructive hate spewed by right wing radio needs to be offset

[depakid]

17. He was on THREE stations? In San Francisco?

Wow.

Didn't realize that.

[Hieronymus]

21. Over the years, three stations, but he was fired from all three.

[Brother Buzz]

24. I don't know if KGO actually fired him....

I thought they transfered him to their sister station, KSFO, across the hall. KSFO, a right leaning station, was a better fit for him and he actually thrived there for a few years.....

Did he work for and get fired from a third radio station I don't know about?

[Yavin4]

26. "all three"?

Where have I heard that phrase before?

[Boxerfan]

18. He is obviously manic/depressive... I'm amazed he's still on the air

His schtick is to whine about days of yore,play crappy oldies & talk of his horrible meals he has where he takes his friggin dog with him. I've heard wait staff hate when he "blesses" their establishment with his ass attitude & yappy spoiled rotten dog.

I have a neighbor who listens to him-he asked last year how I liked his show. I said in front of his wife he was obviously manic depressive . He hated when she agreed with me...Ha!

He will fizzle a bit more but play him off piano kitty.

[depakid]

27. How does he present as bipolar?

I don't symptoms of that at all.

[Louisiana1976]

31. Oh, puleeze! I have bipolar and know others with this condition

and Weiner isn't at all like us.

Weiner is merely a jerk and a dweeb.

[femrap]

22. Maybe it's time for Michael

to move to S. Carolina. I can't believe SF withstood him as long as they did.

[defendandprotect]

28. That's a bit of good news . . . Fairness in Broadcasting Doctrine renewal would be better, tho!!

[alp227]

29. Good for the Bay Area, but isn't he still in nationwide syndication?

And on his website (michaelsavage.wnd.com), he says Bay Area listeners can pick up KSTE 650 from Sacramento to listen to The Savage Nation. From personal experience (I live in San Jose) KSTE and other Sac-area AM stations have static-y yet audible reception in the Bay. Besides, KNEW 910 still carries Glenn Beck, decided to replace Savage with another conservative show (John and Ken), and doesn't seem to be wanting to become liberal anytime soon. That's why we've got the liberal KKGN 960 to counter (not really balance though) KSFO and KNEW.

[Skittles]

30. God fired him?

[Confusious]

32. NAZI, which is weird considering he's jewish.

You'd think he'd, well, stop and think about his attitudes.

[jason_o]

35. next rush

pls

[BumRushDaShow]

36. He is now on 650 AM KSTE in San Francisco

And when I checked later after seeing the story Friday afternoon, I heard him on the air as scheduled on WOR Friday evening. Locally here in Philly, WNTP, as scheduled, spewed his mouth-diarrhea during the 1am - 4am graveyard slot.

[Brother Buzz]

44. KSTE is in Rancho Cordova, east of Sacramento

It's also the sister station to KFBK, the station that spawned Rush Limbaugh before he tagged the nationally syndicated gig. Both station feed a hungry red population in the Sacramento valley and Sierra foothills. Tom McClintock (CA-4) and Dan Lungren (CA-3) country.

[Stumbler]

37. Oh no! Woe is me!

Now who will I turn-to to get info on the latest action within the homosexual-mafia?? Cause THAT'S what really matters...

[Jester Messiah]

38. Awesome!

One hate-spewing ranting ideologue down, several left to go.

[saltpoint]

40. If the airwaves were fairly divvied up among many different points of

view, Savage would have been just one of several voices, but public air is overwhelmingly right-wing, so truth be told, I'm gleeful that at least this one dangerous kook has lost support.

[gauguin57]

41. Too bad he's still on in the rest of the country.

He probably said something massively offensive. He often makes the other RW hate-mongers look tame. I used to listen to him and laugh because he was so ridiculous. I laughed at him because he was like a pathetic clown.
But ever since Obama was elected, he has become so dark and sinister in his comments (as have all the RW morons) that I can't even listen.

I hope the rest of the stations he's syndicated to kick him off, and he can sail off into the sunset on his big boat he's always bragging about on the show.

[Bette Noir]

42. Michael Savage is not a good fit for San Francisco.

I don't know why he was on there in the first place.

[gauguin57]

47. Cuz he lives there? Can't figure THAT out, either.

Michael Weiner (aka "Savage") always calls the city "San Fran-sicko" ... so why in the hell does the douchebag live there?

[veganlush]

45. now if we could just see light at the end of the..

...dark tunnel that holds Pawn Man-tities, Race Limbaugh, Man Coulter, Paul W. Shit, Phlegm Speck, Lou Slobs, Mark Latrine, Bill O'Lielly, etc....

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. He was fired here as well. We cheered and then another station picked him up

Sadly this monster still has an audience.

[Major Hogwash]

48. He was just a limp dick anyway.

How anyone could stand to listen to him for more than 2 minutes is beyond me.

[Stand and Fight]

49. Absolutely DE-LIGHTED to be the 100th Recommendation!

Let's hope that sparks off a rage of national failures for Savage.

[Jo March]

51. What did he really do? Eat a live puppy? Screw someone while on air?

Some of these idiots have to do something so extreme that there is simply no way not to fire them.

[svpadgham]

52. I read the article.

It's odd that this Dr. Breggin is defending Savage. He says that this is voluntary suppression by the station and would set a precedent for federal control over the media. Where has this guy been since radio was invented? Besides, I thought this was the "free market reacting to demand." He even uses the "they will come for you and me" line. I'm not a doctor, but damn, I can come up with something a bit less corny than that. He says Savage has 10 million listeners on 250 stations. That's around 3% of the population of the US. That would be only 10% of the 30% of morons that were up in arms over a black guy telling kids to stay in school. You know what that 3% is? A fringe. An idiotic lunatic fringe. Nobody sane will miss Savage. He's a syndicated sitcom that lost viewers and got pulled, not symbol of our freedoms being taken away by the "man".

[ItNerd4life]

53. Why was he even on in S.F.? Doesn't the radio station know it's audience?

The managers at the station sound as stupid as Savage.