Michael Savage booted from Los Angeles station.
By on Jul 31st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Michael Savage booted from Los Angeles station.
In the ongoing fallout from his screed against children with autism, right-wing radio host Michael Savage has been kicked off Los Angeles’ KGIL and will be replaced by conservative talker Lars Larson, according to a Larson press release. LA is the second largest radio market in the country. Already, radio stations in Ohio, Mississippi, and Virginia have dropped Savage, and a host of advertisers have done the same.
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Savage Weiner should be booted off the planet ……..
July 31st, 2008 at 8:02 pmUnfortunately, it looks like The Savage Weiner’s downfall is only creating opportunities for the next generation of right-wing rant-jockey vermin.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:04 pmUh-oh Michael… shoulda stuck to calling ‘liberalism’ a mental disorder. Oh well, soon ‘Teddy’ will be the only one subjected to your daily rants… but we’ll always have the bat-sh*t crazy memories!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:06 pmMichael “The Savage Jew” Weiner is one 0f those Zionist hate spewer thugs who should be cruxified.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:07 pmIt’s only second nature to replace one reich-winger with another. Can’t change the pace and expand the progressive market, oh no, can’t have that.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:07 pmMichael Savage loves his voice more than his money, apparently. He’ll still be yapping when his advertisers are completely gone, his carried stations have dwindled, and he’s reduced to minimum wage.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pmThis ass-clown just lost the 2nd largest radio market in the USA.
Keep it up loud mouth…keep talkin’ moron…I love a tragedy like you!!!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:17 pmOne would think that a rational person would apologize and ask his audience to forgive him, but whoever said rightwing talking heads were rational?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:18 pm“…conservative talker Lars Larson,”
Sh!t, I was hoping for John Johnson.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:18 pmHeh.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…
July 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pmI’m sure Savage thinks this is somehow liberals’ fault. I prefer to think of it as the free market of advertisers telling him where to stick his microphone.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pmWHY ISN’T ANYONE PRODUCING A LIST OF ADVERTISERS SO WE CAN EMAIL?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:21 pmLars? Yeesh. Homegrown wingnut from my backyard. Still, he’s a garden variety “conservative” rather than a batsh!t loser like Weiner, so it’s a step up for LA. Be nice if Lars was so happy that he moved down there, though.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:26 pm@13, rastaman Says:
WHY ISN’T ANYONE PRODUCING A LIST OF ADVERTISERS SO WE CAN EMAIL?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
just me? brother it is cuz i would have to listen to the program to discover their identities, and life’s too short to waste on shit like Mikey “Savage”/Weiner…
July 31st, 2008 at 8:28 pmgummitch, I thought that name was familiar. Wasn’t he on one of the teevee news stations?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:28 pmem>#13 rastaman Says:
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WHY ISN’T ANYONE PRODUCING A LIST OF ADVERTISERS SO WE CAN EMAIL?
It takes time, we don’t listen to this sh|thead!!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:29 pmZooey, yes. There’s a pretty thorough bio in Wikipedia. At one point, Randi Rhodes had a commercial mocking him, which may just have run locally.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:31 pmOh yeah, that dipshit. He’s no Weiner/Savage. :D
July 31st, 2008 at 8:40 pmThe ever-shrinking Weiner Nation.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:50 pmgood riddance to bad rubbish
July 31st, 2008 at 8:51 pmSeems the Weiner is suffering from shrinkage.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:51 pmFreedom of speech is one thing- but responsibility must be part of that. Savage’s hatred towards children is disgusting, and he deserves to lose every job he has. The best thing would be if some judge made him volunteer with autistic children. What a moron Savage is.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:52 pmWhat’s going to happen is weinerboy is going to pull some “morton downey jr” stunt in a pathetic attempt to save his sinking “career”. Instead of being “jumped” by neo-nazi’s like downey claimed in his hoax, weiner-boy is going to be attacked by a group of liberal girl scouts and get his ass handed to him.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:54 pmSaint Augustine Says:
One would think that a rational person would apologize and ask his audience to forgive him, but whoever said rightwing talking heads were rational?
Whoever said rightwing audiences were rational?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:55 pmWhoever said reich wingnut radio hosts or their listeners were “people”. I want to see conclusive DNA testing before calling them that.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 pmdasm Says:
The best thing would be if some judge made him volunteer with autistic children.
Why do you hate autistic children?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 pmThe important thing is to continue hanging the Savage, and his ilk, around the neck of every idiot Repubicriminal who dares open their yap. If they refuse to take responsibility for their own failings? Make them defend their raving mouthpieces. Force them to defend the utter corruption that breeds their kind.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:09 pmThree more advertisers withdrew their support from the fiery hatemonger’s program, Direct Buy, Cisco and Radio Shack, according to Autism United.
That makes seven major advertisers in two weeks that Savage has lost. That is what the power of emails and phone calls can do.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:24 pmZooey Says:
Heh.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…
July 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Literally true, as a “nicer guy” would never offend so many listeners and advertisers, so it couldn’t happen to one. :)
July 31st, 2008 at 10:54 pmBecause of all the cities Mike Savage show is aired, this is the most comprehensive list I could find. These are advertisers that are heard on Mike’s show in various markets. I have deleted the ones that have pulled their advertising already.
Alka-Seltzer
July 31st, 2008 at 10:59 pmAllstate
American Academy of Dermatology
American Diabetes Association
American Express: 212.640.5130
Ancestry.com (Generations Network): 801.705.7000
Barracuda Networks
BNI Foreclosures
Boca Java Responds
Bosch: 248.876.1000
Breakpoint (Prison Fellowship Ministries) Responds
Bullfrog Sunblock
Business Software Alliance
Camp Caglewood
Campbells: 800.257.8443 (ask for corporate)
Care One Credit Counseling
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Chattem (Gold Bond) Responds
CheapTickets.com
Christianity.com
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Citrix: 954.267.3000
Comcast
Consolidated Resources: 410.349.8158
Coolray
Debt Consultants of America
Digital Media Inc., USA
Dinovite
Dish Network: 303.723.1000
Donate Life
eBay (eBayMotors)
eFax: 800.817.2348
Effectur
Eye-Q
Feed The Children
Financial Future Network
Food From the Hood
For Your Marriage
FreshStart America
Gallo Wines: 877-687-9463
Geico Responds
General Motors: 313.556.5000
Genesis Financial Management Inc
GoHuntingGeorgia.com
HD Radio
Honda
Hoover: 330.499.9200
Iams Dog Food
Legal Zoom: 800.773.0888
Lumber Liquidators
Marshalls
Max Motors
McGruff the crime dog
MD Anderson
National Guard (your tax dollars at work!!)
Nautilus
Nevada State Corporate Network
Nivea
No More Mortgage
Outback Steakhouse (OSI Restaurant Partners): 813.282.1225
Patriot Outreach
Pittsburgh Panthers Football
Priceline
Prudential: 732.297.7007
Purina One: 314.982.1000
Roger Schlesinger (Mortgage Minute Guy) responds
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
Safelite Auto Glass
Salon Pas
Samuel Adams Beer
Select Quote
Sherwin Williams
Shults Ford
Simon & Schuster: 212.698.2344
Solomon Brothers
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Staples: 508.253.5000
Subway
Swiss America Trading Corporation
Termco.com
Texaco Chevron
The Heritage Foundation
The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company
The Total Transformation
Townhall.com
United First Financial
United States Census Bureau
Volkswagen
Wachovia
Washington Ford
WebEx
To the tune of Oscar Mayer:
¶¶ Oh they wish they never had a Michael Savage Weiner!! ¶¶
July 31st, 2008 at 11:18 pmdasm Says:
The best thing would be if some judge made him volunteer with autistic children. What a moron Savage is.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Dude, what did kids with autism ever do to you? My son would happily stomp the shit out of the weenie boy.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:22 pmHow’s that view from the bowl with the water spiraling down counter clockwise, Mr. Weenie?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:28 pmi thought savage was booted out of his “live” timeslot but he may still be on the station late at night, just not allowed on the station “live” for obvious reasons.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:25 amThis is good. This is the way it’s supposed to work according to the Capitalist Pigs. The “Free Market” (no such thing in the US, in truth) will weed out the “bad products”. So if Savage ends up losing all of his air time, the right wing can blame themselves, for this is how they say it should happen.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:42 amSaint Augustine Says:
One would think that a rational person would apologize and ask his audience to forgive him, but whoever said rightwing talking heads were rational?
Who said rightwingers ever apologize?
August 1st, 2008 at 12:43 amSaint Augustine Says:
One would think that a rational person would apologize and ask his audience to forgive him, but whoever said rightwing talking heads were rational?
bob hussein lablah Says:
Who said rightwingers ever apologize?
And I bet the rightwingers would answer that with, “Whoever said apologizing was rational?” ;)
August 1st, 2008 at 12:56 amWhat’s the problem for these stations. They had to wait for the most ignorant, of the most ignorant, of the most ignorant,of the most ignorant comments to get rid of this POS who represents the worst prejudices of the world, forget just America.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:57 amAdios MFer.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:27 amTo Freedom Rebel/All:
August 1st, 2008 at 1:49 amChattem, Geico, and Gallo should be deleted from the list. If there were a website somewhere, I could forward their email replies.
Excerpts:
Chattem buys local airtime and the stations decide when to run the ads. “We have requested that the local stations not air our advertising during his show.”
Geico: “GEICO terminated all of its advertising on the show several years ago. Our media buying agency has been instructed that no GEICO advertisements may appear on this program.”
Gallo: “The E. & J. Gallo Winery is not actively advertising on “Talk Radio Network” and has not since November, 2007. We have no further advertising planned for this network.”
His real name can’t be Lars Larson can it?
From Wiki…
In 2008, Talkers Magazine rated Larson as the 27th most important radio talk show host in America.[6]
That should be good for a free frosty at Wendy’s.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:05 amWhat took ‘em so long?
August 1st, 2008 at 8:14 amLets not stop there……
Hopefully some of those other ass-clowns like Hannity, Orielly and the rest of the ilk of Fox will self-implode.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:26 amI guess Republican listeners have children with autism too. But what a shame it took this to get him off the air.
Now explain to me why Limbaugh gets a free pass. He failed the (poor) taste test years ago but still commands a large audience of people who like to listen to his lies and distortions. I guess he hasn’t been caught on air attacking childen yet.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:48 amIt’s good to see that things are finally going wrong for Savage, but it’s sad that he could away with saying that gay people were raping the minds of children, and that it’s only when he insults children with autism that he’s gone too far. Pretty soon, that kind of thing will be as admissible as the “homosexual mind rape” comments, especially if no one stands up to these disgusting, brain dead right wing idiots EVERY time they attack vulnerable groups, and not just children with autism.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:18 amThis is a train wreck worth watching.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:41 amDoes Lars Larson come from Wisconsin?
August 1st, 2008 at 12:34 pmLars Live In L.A.
By Mike Stern
Westwood One syndicated host Lars Larson goes live in Los Angeles, grabbing the 3-6 p.m. PT slot on Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters talk KGIL, starting Monday, Aug. 4. Larson replaces Talk Radio Network host Michael Savage, who moves to 10 p.m.-midnight.
Following Larson, from 6-7 p.m., will be fellow Westwood One host Larry King. Fox News Radio’s Alan Colmes stays in the 7-10 p.m. slot.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pmMichael Savage bluntly speaks the truth and thats what scares you people so much. And he won’t back down which is what frustrates you so much. You can’t shoo him away. Too many people identify with everything he says. He is the voice of many. I’m buying my Michael Savage hat as a token of my support.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:07 pm“I’m buying my Michael Savage hat as a token of my support…”
Please consider that wearing one typically requires a head.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pmWow, this board really does keep th truth from you. I posted a number of comments last night and it appears that the moderator erased them all.
What are you liberals afraid of? Does a different opinion really cause that much angst in you?
By the way. Here are your democrats at work. Seems to me that the Republicans are the only ones who really care about the gas prices. http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0808/House_Dems_turn_out_out_the_light_but_GOP_keep_talking.html
August 1st, 2008 at 8:38 pmTripleKick 6 Says:
“Its funny how suddenly liberals here are all outraged over Savage’s autism comments given that they don’t even listen to his show.” …
Its syntactically challenged comment notwithstanding, it’s interesting to note that its argument proceeds thus:
You disagree with me, therefore you have never listened to the show.
All the rest appears to be plugs for Savage’s books, if the targets of the links it has provided are any indication.
And for the record, I would not in a million years suggest that Savage’s brother was merely in need of a good slap to the head.
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm