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Savage in his vitamin selling days
After more than 15 years of slime, race-baiting, misogyny and shameless self-promotion, Michael Savage is off the air in his hometown market, San Francisco.
KNEW announced his departure on its Web site, with an unsigned note from a guy who looks like he's in management, or a character from the Sopranos.
"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."
Let's read between the lines. It's not hard. Savage was expensive. Clear Channel, the owner, likes to save money. Savage, despite some popularity, has not helped the station climb out of 29th place in the local ratings.
Bye bye.
Add to this the fact that Savage has been doing the last hour of his show as an infomercial format and misses a lot of shows, and you have the prima donna getting the boot.
Philosophical differences? Please. The station still has Glenn Beck, who is vying for Savage's sleaze leading position; Roger Hedgecock; and some guy named Schnit, who continues the Republican party line.
What really gives you the answer is what he has been replaced with: the syndicated John and Ken show from Los Angeles, which fits the station's pattern of getting more for their cheap channel bucks. The morning affair is a syndicated SF/Sacramento show that is virtually unlistenable.
I wish I could say that this will be the last the Bay sees of Savage, but as a betting man, I predict that he will be signed by Mickey Luckoff and Jack Swanson over at KSFO, the ones who brought him to us in the first place. Those guys announced their new liberal night host John Rothmann today, and I won't be surprised if that was to offset a Savage announcement.
I'd be glad to be proven wrong.
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Of course Savage is off in SF.. God is saving him from when He flushes the toliet.
Good jog Savage and Mr. Beck.
NOBAMA!
Saving grace for me on KSFO has been Rob Black's 10 am - noon financial show. I have no big nest egg myself but he is local and live, and offers honest if sometimes harsh advice. I always felt a little guilty listening, knowing what was coming on later in the day. My conscience is a little clearer now.
A Fool [in this case many in SF] and his gold are soon parted.. Let them, these zealots, rot in their dementia. Michael Savage added to the local, National charm and color of Our Bay area, I am sure that He will find a new venue to roost in.
mikl
Oh my ... not even a "we thank him for the years ..." or any other kind of cushion for a soft landing. Just, we're going in a different direction, and he's the wrong way. Wow. What a dis.
you must be so jealous brad, your a nobody
yeah right Brad! you're so hurt because Savage was telling you the truth about your decaying newspapers, I will be listening to him online right from Roseville CA. Pure cacaish comments. viva Savage!
Pretty harsh Brad Kava, tough guy. "Journalist" for a paper that has to hire illegals to try and give their rag away at the Montgomery St. station. Your just the unread ink on pages that make pillows for vagrants.
Pretty harsh Brad Kava, tough guy. "Journalist" for a paper that has to hire illegals to try and give their rag away at the Montgomery St. station. Your just the unread ink on pages that make pillows for vagrants.
Saving grace for me on KSFO has been Rob Black's 10 am - noon financial show. I have no big nest egg myself but he is local and live, and offers honest if sometimes harsh advice. I always felt a little guilty listening, knowing what was coming on later in the day. My conscience is a little clearer now.
Hey, Brad,
If you're going to accuse someone of "misogyny," at least learn how to spell it. (I won't bother to ask if you even know what the word means.)
Do you not even bother to spell-check your rants before posting them for all the world to see? Do you have even the slightest sense of professional pride?
I'll find save wherever he ends up because I seek the truth!!
I'll find Savage wherever he ends up because I seek the truth!!
I am a flaming liberal and I love Dr. Michael Savage. I do not agree with him on most issues, but he engages me in his brilliant discussions about life and politics. If you want to hear hypocrisy, why do the hypocritical progressives support Obama's Vietnam in Afghanistan? More importantly, true liberals would never tolerate government intrusion into our lives, yet, the hypocritical progressives slipped through the cracks. Talking to the mental midgets, take a deep breath of fresh air and take a trip along Highway 101 to Eureka without the crack or pot fetishes, and sip wine from the beautiful Napa Valley. Brad - can you afford spell-checker? It's free on the Internet...DOH
I'm another liberal and a fan of Dr. Savage. As a story-teller, he can talk rings around Garrison Keillor, and while I agree with him roughly 5% of the time, he is never just burping up the latest Right Wing talking point. To me, Savage has been a kind of modern day Emperor Norton, the kind of eccentric that could only thrive in San Francisco. Every once in awhile I mention my enjoyment of the Savage Nation at dinner parties, (mostly liberal), and I am always surprised to find three or four other Savage fans. I doubt the same can be said of O'Reilly, Beck, or the other right wing goons. It's a shame that Savage always gets lumped in with those bozos. I mean, the good Dr. always refers to Glenn Beck as the "Hemorrhoid With Ears." If that joke came from Patton Oswalt or the Daily show, Examiner readers would be laughing, right? Right?
"KNEW announced his departure on its Web site, with an unsigned note from a guy who looks like he's in management, or a character from the Sopranos."
That's John Scott, PD for KNEW and KKGN. I don't even cover Bay Area radio as my primary job and I knew that. What's your excuse?
Savage burned too many bridges to go back to KSFO. I think one of the reasons Savage was taken off KNEW is that Mark "The Great One" Levin on KSFO was beating him out.
People in San Fran-sicko aren't intelligent to get his humor. They're too busy navel-gazing and thinking new ways to insult Americans and practice degenerate hedonism.
My, My...Just read all of the comments extolling the virtues of Michael Savage. It seems that you've touched a troglodytic nerve here, Bradley.
Ah, if they only had Torte Laws against dumb-ass demagoguery...like the laws against miscreants who would yell "Fire!" into a non-burning cinema.
Meanwhile, Bush regime WAR CRIMINALS/TRAITORS still continue to collect their pensions whilst guarded by the Secret Service on the Taxpayers Dime, courtesy of the Corporate Democrats.
The United States has borrowed so much from the Chinese already...How about their mode of execution? ...A bullet to the back of the head with the bill for the execution to the family would be real cost-effective!
i 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
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,
but what is the worst thing ive ever done?
ill tell you.
it was what i did to you.
i preyed upon you. i knew that,like most people, you lead lives of quiet desperation.
i knew you were unsure, worried , uncertain.
but you are also kind, want to give the other fellow a chance, want to believe that there is good inside of people, that there is hope for a better day.
i took of these basic good traits inside you and poisoned you so that the black bile that courses through my veins, my spirit, now courses through you.
i taught you to hate.
to hate the non white.
to hate the immigrant.
to hate the muslim.
to hate the gay.
i taught you to fear, hate and blame them all, to replace your basic trust in your fellow human with a rage that bursts out of you like a tumor. and bleeds bile and hatred like an aneurysm all over those around you.
i taught you to scapegoat others for your problems.
i taught you to blame others for your frustrations.
i taught you . .
i taught you to hate your government.
to rejoice in its consternation.
to revel in your president's falling poll numbers.
and where you wanted to trust and hope and pray that our leaders could get us out of the mess we are in , i stripped that out of you and replaced it with a demonic hatred.
and a prayer for their undoing.
i took shamelss advantage of my dead brain damaged brother and paraded him in front of you so that you'd think i was kind and concerned, even while attacking other people with illness--physical and mental (e.g. autism).
i became my father for you. filled with all his bombast. his lack of education. is biases. his hatred of other. i sought to father you as he fathered me. and hoped that out of the other end would emerge more and more people just like me.
in the end there is no way to make up to you for what i did to you.
but it must begin my acknowledging that i not only belong on the list, i belong at the head of it.
I AM Michael SEWAGE.
the reason i don't go on shows where my ideas would be debated is because i do not have the "kill" button that i have when you call my show. i cannot push a button and terminate my debater, the way i can with you.
my call screener only lets sycophants and yes men through. the rest of you are summarily disconnected.
if you best me in argument i just scream over you , insult you , and push the kill button.
later , i claim to have best you using "aristotelian" logic skills.
this is a farce. my logic skills are right up there with my skills as a scientist.
i am a fraud and a failure as a scientist. that is why i was not hired. my work was meaningless, and never amounted to anything, and i know that.
i needed a scapegoat. i found that in the black man.
just as i provide scapegoats to all of you to blame for your daily frustrations and failure to progress in your lives.
i control you.
i manipulate you.
i am michael sewage
i bathe you in my toxic effluent
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
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
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.
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
reaction formation: when any of us have a feeling inside ourselves that we are extremely uncomfortable with, we deal with the anxiety it causes by becoming a crusader against it.
thus, an elliot spitzer breaks up prostitution rings while visiting them on the side.
a preacher rails against homosexuality while having a gay lover on the side.
a politician preaches family values, and states he is walking the appalachian trail, while pursuing argentinian tail.
and on and on.
and so it is with me and homosexuality. my hateful father hated gays
he accused me of being one when my dress was too colorful, or when i took up to learn the flute as a musical instrument.
i fought homosexual urges my entire adult life.
i wrote homoerotic letters to alan ginsburg, said that i'd like to put a camera into his rectum and take pictures, and that i enjoyed doing "the hand jive" with young brown boys i met and felt attracted to in the islands . . .
MAN. 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.
HELP THE SEWAGE MAN
Whether you agree with him or not. He is a great talk show host. Too bad this Examiner newswriter can't appreciate that. I would not even us the Examiner to wipe my PATUUTY.
Kava,
damn, your not smart. It was wrong for that Nazi Bush to lean on whomever to get Bill Maher canned...and its wrong now that Marxist Obama has done the same with Savage.
You're next bozo... when it's Romney and the real right-wing revolution takes over, you lefties are next. Seriously. You better wake up you mindless rocker who seriously needs to write his own song. Get a friggen clue man.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
This is great news! Now how do we get this clown off our station in Spokane?
"The morning affair", as you so lazily describe it, is the Armstrong & Getty Show and is simultaneously funny, insightful, informative and irreverent and is my indispensable daily dose of moderate independent opinion in a sea of far-left-leaning Bay Area nonsense.
I've never particularly liked Michael Savage and find some of his extreme views distasteful, particularly his childish dismissal of the global warming debate but America -- and San Francisco in particular -- needs his brand of blunt honesty to keep the other extreme in check.
When Mr. Savage called the American people to turn on their car lights for murdered SF police men, MILLIONS OF LIGHTS ARE ON! So it is not about Mr. Savage, he just says something many Americans want to say or listen. I am not an American but I believe America is the greatest country and should not be slummed and killed; law and fact must prevail in this land. Mr. Savage is a great pioneer, I like many other people wish him bigger success in the future.
yo Kava Kava kook-
the only reason I slipped upon your unfunny and uninspired pixel waste, is that I Googled to see what happened to Savage and his former flagship. The morning show that you malign is really excellent. Relevant to your screed, in the marketplace of ideas, we have the popular and engaging Armstrong & Getty, your controversial but relevant Savage, and then there's...Brad.
With no talent and no following aside from Liberal Fascists who keep screaming for more laws to ban free speech– a non-commercially viable Brad can be glad that socialism is on its way to the rescue.
Aren't you alwasy surprised when people tout the market place of ideas when they're in, then blame the government when the market place goes shopping for a better, more profitable product? Yeah, me neither...
As for KSFO, looks like KSTE beat them to it. Like winning cancer....
F__k the p_ssy that wrote this article. Liberals are cok suckers and Hate America
And there you have it... I couldn't have articulated the analytic opinions of the regressive right any better than Vince has!
Admit it, Brad...There's something primordial about monosyllabic Dubya Bushian pidgin English...It's grunting cadence rather reminds me of a Cro magnon wallowing in a cess pit of its own pathetic waste. Ah, the earthiness!
Here's a FACT for You L.K. Taber, Jr.:
Remember Nine Eleven
With al Qaeda at America's throat?
Dubya Bush sat on his tush...
While reading "My Pet Goat"!
The duo from Southern California bring an L Alien focus and perspective that is unbearable.
They won't last long.
Sewage, you better get back on your meds.
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