NY Times: Savage Weiner remains unbowed.

[muntrv]

Boycotted Radio Host Remains Unbowed


By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: December 17, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO — The humbling of Don Imus last spring over his remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team has done nothing to quiet Michael Savage, a radio host with a far bigger following and far more checkered track record.

Mr. Savage, whose program reaches an estimated eight million listeners a week on nearly 400 stations, suggested over the summer that a group of college students on a hunger strike in support of easing immigration restrictions should “fast until they starve to death.” In October the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, the city from which Mr. Savage often broadcasts, took the unusual step of passing a resolution condemning him for the remarks.

Then, a few weeks ago, Mr. Savage uncorked a cascade of invective about Islam. Among his on-air comments: the Koran is “a book of hate”; some Muslims, at least, “need deportation”; and adherents of Islam would do well to “take your religion and shove it up your behind” because “I’m sick of you.”

In response the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose stated mission includes correcting mischaracterizations of Islam, tore a page from the playbook of Mr. Imus’s critics. It made Mr. Savage’s comments widely available on the Internet and called on advertisers to boycott his program, which is behind only Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s in number of listeners, according to Talkers magazine, an industry publication.

At least two of his major sponsors — Citrix, which sells remote access to computers, and Trusted ID, which provides protection against identity theft — have pulled their spots. Thus far, Mr. Savage said in an interview last week, the boycott had cost his program more than a million dollars in advertising revenue committed for next year.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. There is a man...

uniquely suited for a future that involves eating out of the dumpster behind a chinese restaurant and drinking Sterno that has been filtered through a loaf of bread.

If he doesn't already. The jury is still out on that.

[MnFats]

2. He is the Luca Brazzi of right-wing politicos.....

I mean, the Luca Brazzi described by Don Corleon in Puzo's book, not the fairly truncated version in the movie.
.....the jist of it: some men go around their whole lives saying, by their actions and outlook, um, to paraphrase...."please do away with me..."
sooner or later someone takes them up on it....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. For some reason I always think of the Oscar Meyer Weiner Boy

when I think of Savage. I picture him blowing into the Weiner Whistle and driving the Weiner Wagon.

[rasputin1952]

4. On the very few occasions that I have visited hell, and actually

listened to this leather-skinned jughead, I have heard him shout out some of the most vile stuff that comes over the airwaves.

He is an incredibly ugly little man that has invested his life in hatred and paranoia. He does this not just because he is pre-disposed to to self-loathing, but because he can actually make a boatload of cash by being such an insipid little gas-bag.