"MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines says Savage was fired immediately after the broadcast.
"In reaction to a hostile caller, Savage made an extremely inappropriate comment," Gaines says. "The decision to cancel the program ('Savage Nation') was not difficult."
Perhaps I should have been clearer. Obviously he was not fired before the show ended, but I'm pretty sure the decision had been made before the show ended.
I agree with you about the double standard.
I'll agree with you that Michael Savage does not put a pretty face on conservativism. He continues to have his radio show so he will continue to be a loud mouth. Cancelling his MS-NBC show will not end that; that's why I say that those on this thread who are extremely against not only this statement but other comments from Michael Savage should push to have him knocked off of radio stations that I assume at least some hear listen to (conservative talk radio stations).
While I agree that he is brutish at times, I don't think that what he said on MS-NBC is worth termination. We'll have to agree to disagree on that point.
G.G. Liddy was knocked off the air in Houston and other cities after OKC because of the press coming down hard on right wing talk radio. Nothing he said was tied to that incident but the public perception was there (that he created a climate of hate).
If FReepers believe that this is the case with Michael Savage then they should stand on principle and get him removed from their radio stations. It doesn't affect me; I am not a Michael Savage listener but I think that he is being hung out to dry.
Could FR come back to haunt any freepers who participated in a ZOT thread?