Advertisers drop Michael Savage.
By on Jan 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Advertisers drop Michael Savage.
Less than a week after Brave New Films launched a campaign against hate-radio host Michael Savage, four advertisers have pulled their ads from his radio show. The United Service Organizations (USO), however, is refusing to drop Savage and has demanded that Brave New Films “take the necessary steps to remove USO from [its] website entirely.”
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F*(k Michael “Savage-me-up-the-a$$”.
He’s nothing more than Howard Stern (shock jock) with a political slant.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:37 pmCue trolls whining about “censorship” in 3, 2, 1…
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:39 pmThe United Service Organizations (USO), however, is refusing to drop Savage and has demanded that Brave New Films “take the necessary steps to remove USO from [its] website entirely.
Big whoop.
Brave new Films is probably one of the censored sites servicemembers are prevented from viewing.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pmCue trolls whining about “censorship†in 3, 2, 1…
Comment by ralph the wonder llama
How easily they confuse “free market economics” with censorship.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 pmI pledge NEVER to VOTE for any legislator who votes FOR telecomm immunity? Will you make a pledge?
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:46 pmThe beginning of the end of reich-wing hate talk-radio.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:46 pmBye-bye Savage. Soon to be followed by Rush limpdick, Trannie Coulter, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Laura Ingram, Bill O’Leilly.
Did I leave anyone out?
I pledge NEVER to VOTE for any legislator who votes FOR telecomm immunity? Will you make a pledge?
Comment by Doc Rock
I’m calling right now, Doc…
“Hello, Congressman Don’tdomuch?
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 pmYes, I want to register a protest against your vote to give the telecom companies immun……………
Hello? Hello?
Huh, that’s odd, there no service anymore… I had 5 bars………..
Hello?”
Change the word Muslim with the word Jew and you’ll get a flavor what Nazis used to sound like.
Savage is a sick and closeted sociopath.
P.S. Don’t drink Rockstar Drink, it is Savage’s son’s company.
-GSD
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 pmThe USO belongs to Americans. Perhaps they forgot that simple fact?
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmWho?…ROFLMAO..Blessings
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:58 pmP.S. Don’t drink Rockstar Drink, it is Savage’s son’s company.
-GSD
Comment by GSD
Interesting. Never tried it, never will. But I will inform my friends who drink that sh*t.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:01 pmIs this the same USO that Al Franken toured Iraq and Afghanistan with? Hard to believe they would actually be that partisan. Savage is the textbook definition of a raving lunatic.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 pmIf a liberal talk show host such as Bernie Ward dares to cross the line while doing research on a book the book is thrown at him… he may go to jail. But let another host, Rush, break law, the corporate powers that be look the other way.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 pmIt appears the same goes for savage with his outrageous insane bigotry…the corporate powers that be look the other way.
There have been many that have stood by in support of Bernie: John Elliot, Peter B Collins, Mike Malloy, the staff at KGO, SF newspapers and there is much support online found on google.
If you have never listened to Savage, your ears and your sanity will thank you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 pmSavage is probably the most vile, hateful, voice on the radio; he has no redeeming quality whatsoever. Considering the cretins that inhabit right wing radio, this says a lot about the likes of Michael Savage.
#11 Don’t drink Rockstar Drink, it is Savage’s son’s company.
-GSD
Holy s**t! This guy has procreated? There are more of him?
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmI think I will throw up now.
The campaign against Savage started way before Brave New Films, in fact in started back in Nov. I should know I wrote a diary at DailyKos about it that made the Big Rec. List with over a 140 people commenting. You can read that diary, and learn more here. http://www.dailykos.com/ story/ 2007/ 11/ 27/ 231050/ 82/ 750/ 415221
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pmMichael Savage should shove his face up Mike Huckabee’s fat ass and leave it there.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pmDid I leave anyone out?
Comment by Uncle Ho — January 23, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
john gibson and bob grant
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pmDumb Question: The Iraqis are certainly going around the compound hearing what the american soldiers are listening to. What opinion are they forming of america ?
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 pmWhat opinion are they forming of america ?
Comment by MapleStreet — January 23, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
those IEDs aren’t Chinese, you know.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 pmThat’s the way to get to these sick f_cks — through their advertisers.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pmBoy, if I had a company, I’d sure want to have my products advertised on a hate filled tirade of a show. Unless it was a hemmorhoid prep, than probably not.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 pmwhy won’t the trolls stand up for michael?
January 24th, 2008 at 12:12 amSavage needs to suffer a heart attack. Pity there is no god. one day, he will . .and about 2 people will give a shit.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:22 amFunny how the USO (OWNED AND FUNDED BY AMERICANS) is demanding that Brave New Films remove their link from its site (which ain’t gonna happen). Boycotting is protected speech you nazis.
What government organization can we protest to, perhaps to have their funding dunked or an internal review done?
January 24th, 2008 at 1:13 amSpank that Weiner. Vicious prick deserves a real beating.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:39 amWhen they do it as with the secret advertiser’s boycott against Air America Radio it’s free market economics. When the left does it It’s censorship.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:43 amThe Savage Weiner bite the big one.
he’ll have to go back to swimming naked with the boys
January 24th, 2008 at 9:05 amFunny how the USO (OWNED AND FUNDED BY AMERICANS) is demanding that Brave New Films remove their link from its site (which ain’t gonna happen). Boycotting is protected speech you nazis.
What government organization can we protest to, perhaps to have their funding dunked or an internal review done?
Comment by xtro — January 24, 2008 @ 1:13 am
The USO is not a government agency, it’s a private charity organization funded by individual and corporate donations, though I believe it has a service-level agreement with MWR for producing entertainment tours.
They’re just milking this for the publicity. I think they advertise on Savage because his audience is where their funding comes from.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:35 amI like seeing how this Weiner is in a vice.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:08 amThey’re just milking this for the publicity. I think they advertise on Savage because his audience is where their funding comes from.
Not exactly.
The GAO is a good place to complain to. Since the USO is aiming to be a partisan political organization we should petition to have their government funding “reviewed”. The GAO already acknowledges we need better internal controls. Perhaps this can be the push to see if our government money is funding partisan political activity:
DOD Needs to Strengthen Internal Controls over Funds Used to Support USO Activities
January 24th, 2008 at 10:58 amhttp://www.gao.gov/ docdblite/ details.php?rptno=GAO-04-56
No one has a right to the microphone and the airwaves. Conservatives like to cry free speech in situations like this but it’s a false argument, like so many others. Mr. Savage Weiner does not have the inalienable, god-given right to have people listen to him when they don’t agree. If this were coming from an institution or a government it would surely qualify as some kind of infringement and I would be opposed to that. But this is coming from activists WITHIN SOCIETY, and society has a right to reject that which it does not approve of. And Mr. Weiner Savage does not have the right to demand that society have to accept his radio program’s existence or it’s profitablilty.
This campaign is not silencing anyone. Am I silenced because I don’t have a microphone and a syndicated radio audience of 8 million? Hardly. I am still free to express myself, blog, make a podcast, talk to people I know or don’t know about issues, or write books. No one is taking that away from him and no one should. The campaign is not directed towards petitioning lawmakers to take action against this man and so it is NOT the same as legislating against this kind of speech. And to those who would cite Air America as some form of balance to this kind of garbage, I would remind you that a major reason for their struggles was the blacklisting of the broadcaster by corporations who did not approve of the leftwing content.
Conservatives seem to think that they should be able to force people to have to listen to them. They have lost the arguments and the culture wars. We the people determine what is and is not acceptable socially. And hatemongers such as Mr. Savage Weiner, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and company are NO LONGER SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:30 amSo, stop contributing to USO; and let them know why.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pm