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RIGHT-WINGER BLASTS O'REILLY - Michael Savage blasts Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh
N.Y. POST ^ | 04-25-2005 | Richard Johnson

Posted on 04/25/2005 5:19:52 AM PDT by StuLongIsland

RIGHT-WINGER BLASTS O'REILLY

RABID radio host Michael Savage is whining that he has been banned from the Fox News Channel after he dissed Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

The controversial conservative — who was fired by MSNBC in 2003 after referring to a caller to his show as "a sodomite" who should "get AIDS and die" — recently burned more bridges by calling O'Reilly a "Leper-Con who poses as a conservative" and Hannity "another Republican bootlicker who began as a Rush [Limbaugh] understudy" on his "Savage Nation" radio show.

Savage claims that he's been bumped off four scheduled appearances on Fox News Channel in the wake of his caustic comments.

"These two are now acting the way the mainstream media has been acting for decades, thinking they are the gatekeepers of who shall be heard in the conservative world," Savage sputtered in a statement.

"Both are jealous of my audience and are trying to silence me because they do not want the competition."

Savage boasted that the supposed "ban" has not affected sales of his new book, "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder," which debuts at No. 6 on the New York Times best-seller list next week.

The gay-bashing broadcaster isn't the only publicity hound taking aim at O'Reilly, the undisputed king of cable news.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue, famed for firing off several press releases a day to media outlets, is ticked that O'Reilly once described him as a "witch-hunter" and Pope John Paul II as an "autocrat."

"My members are a little bit fed up with him," Donohue claims. "I guess he feels like if he is to the left of me, he'll appear more fair and balanced. We're on the same side philosophically on most issues. But I feel like, when someone crosses the line from criticism

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To: bahblahbah
Hannity has a much bigger audience than Savage

Actually, if Arbitron can be believed, in Feb, Savage was #3 behind Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

61 posted on 04/25/2005 6:16:53 AM PDT by montag813
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To: BigSkyFreeper

"Savage is nuts..."
That sums it up. He is whinny, garrulous, irrational, pedantic and, ultimately, irrelevant.
Sadly, he started to 'unravel" last year as the Kerry campaign's wheels started going flat when Savage gradually obsessed on President Bush as some kind of "Monster". His tirades have progressed since then to hysterical rants that have long passed simple measures of sedition and treason. The dreaded specter of Alzhiemers has appeared in clearer focus as each day passes.
His days are definitely numbered.
Many loyal fans will not soon forget his touching tribute and radio vigil as his dear mother slipped this mortal coil last year. His human-ness and his decency as a person overtook his cranky,kooky "Old Guy" persona and left many more than a little sad at the decline of an "Old Lion".


62 posted on 04/25/2005 6:17:37 AM PDT by CBart95
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Books on tape ?


63 posted on 04/25/2005 6:17:44 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: StuLongIsland
Savage is all schtick and actually gives conservatives a bad name, IMO.

I mostly listen to Rush, Hanity, and Michael Medved.

64 posted on 04/25/2005 6:19:01 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: blaquebyrd
A pompous self-righteous talking head who rails against secularism and the decay of morality in the country while secretly having phone sex with his assistant. All the while mind you asking, "Who's looking out for you"?


65 posted on 04/25/2005 6:19:35 AM PDT by montag813
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To: wita
"...and I can't even spell wienie, or is it weenie, or ..."

Mebbe you could have a whiney weenie roast for weiners?

66 posted on 04/25/2005 6:21:39 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: CBart95

PS: Johnson and The NYT never get anything right as usual. Savage is no "right winger" and never has been.


67 posted on 04/25/2005 6:21:48 AM PDT by CBart95
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To: StuLongIsland

The only one of these four folks who purports to be "entertaining" as well as informative is Rush. I think that's why his audience is the largest: He's fun to listen to.

Messrs. Hannity, O'Reilly and Savage all take themselves a mite too seriously. Savage's comments, in the meantime, are way out of line, but he doesn't know it.

He's a strange one, even though, he will say something interesting, at times.


68 posted on 04/25/2005 6:21:48 AM PDT by RexBeach ("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
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To: StuLongIsland

Savage is desperate and probably losing listenership so he is trying to reinvent himself to a certain extent and differentiate himself from the the other conservative talk shows.

In my personal opinion his act gets old and I don't think he will be around very long on the national stage.


69 posted on 04/25/2005 6:24:51 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: dennisw
He's not always good

Neither are the rest of them.

Hannity gets old with his hannitization stuff, and copying Rushs "just 3 hours a day". He lost me when he got so star struck with Arnold.

I don't have enough room to write about that sickning Oreily. He does his own competitive bashing, but is hardly ever good.

Rush is good alot, but went through a boring time.

When Savage is good , he is really funny, and right on.

Fox is stupid to ban him.
70 posted on 04/25/2005 6:26:53 AM PDT by Delphinium
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Rush is hanging on right now. He doesn't need the money and he's lost a lot of his fire. His show has turned into something that he uses to pass the time until his next celebrity golf outing. I still try to listen when I can but after 10 minutes of "what I did on my weekend vacation", it's back to the oldies station for me.


71 posted on 04/25/2005 6:30:08 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: montag813

Rush talked about 24 for one day. Savage is NOT the future of talk radio. All Savage does is read off the Drudge report. Yeah thats inovative radio. His ratings aren't as good as he says they are. Ingraham, Levin, Hewitt and every other conservative commentator dwarfs him. He acts like a big shot because he beats Roger Hedgecock head to head. Big deal. He is a loser


72 posted on 04/25/2005 6:30:48 AM PDT by slowhand520
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To: montag813

If Savage is the "future of talk radio", talk radio is doomed.


73 posted on 04/25/2005 6:31:39 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: mwyounce
I don't like O'Reilly's splitting the difference tactics for self preservation in the spotlight of the Media. However, when I heard that Savage was calling him the Leprechaun, I was pissed off. My direct background is Irish and I felt that Savage was making an Irish hit in a way that had nothing to do with O'Reilly's arrogance or cowardice with repsect to positions.

It sounds like Savage is thinking: O'Reilly's Irish, I [Savage] don't like him, so I'll call him a Leprechaun. It makes no sense and misses the mark as to why O'Reilly is so objectionable.

I find Savage refreshing --up to a point. He's so topsy turvey on Bush. One week he's savaging Bush, the next he's admiring him to the sky. Take Schiavo case as an example. Because Bush [W] did not send in the Marines, that supposedly proved to Savage that Bush's efforts were all a con game. Absurd fits, yes. It is tied to his varying moods.

Result, he can't be taken too seriously when you listen to any particular show.

74 posted on 04/25/2005 6:32:33 AM PDT by ontos-on
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To: MplsSteve

Hugh Hewitt's show is great. Especially when Lileks is on.


75 posted on 04/25/2005 6:33:09 AM PDT by JennysCool (Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.)
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To: Delphinium

Earth to Del:
Thank you for your carefully worded,if brief, "round-up" on who you like and approve of.
This thread isn't about any of those things.
But we all admire your "Damn the Torpedos! Straight Ahead" style.


76 posted on 04/25/2005 6:33:31 AM PDT by CBart95
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To: Delphinium
Fox is stupid to ban him.

FOX didn't ban him, MSNBC canned him.

77 posted on 04/25/2005 6:33:57 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: slowhand520

Between Savage and Hedgecock, I'll listen to Hedgecock every time. Hedgecock will at least give every caller a chance to speak their mind. Savage is so unstable, he'll cut into a caller right after they say hello.


78 posted on 04/25/2005 6:36:23 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I read that in the first line of the article, is the article wrong?


79 posted on 04/25/2005 6:36:23 AM PDT by Delphinium
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To: StuLongIsland

I don't like O'Reilly or Savage. Both are egotistical blowhards who think way too much of themselves, although Savage is the worst of the lot


80 posted on 04/25/2005 6:37:41 AM PDT by gramho12 (Orange, Purple, Cedar: What's the next Freedom Flavor?)
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