 Email to MichaelSavageSucks.com from Culligan International CompanyThe email listed below (and Culligan's apparent decision to cease advertising on "The Savage Nation" as a result of it) appear to have been the precipitating factor in the decision of Talk Radio Network, Inc. to file a $500,000 lawsuit against michaelsavagesucks.com, this site, and Take Back The Media. The lawsuit specifically states that "TRN has suffered lost revenue and profits in excess of $100,000."The email below, and the lawsuit referenced above demonstrate that the letters you write as a result of the information you find on this site do make a difference - sometimes, a huge difference. Given that a lawsuit is in progress, I wish to point out that the first time that I heard that Culligan International Company had ceased doing business with TRN was when the lawsuit was served on me and my wife on the 19th of May, 2003. Further, I had no knowledge that Culligan had ever advertised on Savage's show, and in fact, until that point, had never mentioned the company on this site. The email below was forwarded to me by the person who runs michaelsavagesucks.com *AFTER* the lawsuit was filed.
From: "Kaskey, Nancy" <nkaskey@Culligan.com> Thank you for your input regarding the Culligan radio advertising program. In fact, for a variety of reason, we have shifted our priorities and they no longer include the Culligan brand advertising on the Mike Save show. We have no plans to support that programming in the future.
-----Original Message----- We believe that we heard an advertisement for your product/service (Culligan) on the Michael Savage show. Your ad was actually read by Michael Savage, so I'm guessing that you are aware that you are advertising on his program. We want to inform you of a national boycott of all of Michael Savage's national radio advertisers, which began March 31st, 2002. We will soon be urging the members of our coalition to boycott ALL advertisers on the MSNBC network, because this network signed Michael Savage to host a show, on February 12th, 2003. Here are a few examples of what Michael is about, according to these sources; According to news reports, Savage once played tapes of Adolph Hitler's speeches over German military music the day after Yom Kippur. On the afternoon of Herb Caen's funeral, he played sound effects of him pissing on the columnist's grave. He even once suggested that some Marin schoolgirls who passed out sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco were in danger of getting raped but might enjoy it source: http://www.sfbg.com/News/34/51/51disney.html On women "I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional." (As quoted in San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 6, 1998) source: http://www.sfbg.com/News/34/51/51dissb.html These statements were made by Michael Savage on Thursday, June 13th, 2002 in the first hour of his nationally syndicated radio show the Savage Nation:
To hear the audio go to: "Now I'm going to say something now and I won't say it ever again on my program, perhaps. There are a group of people try to drive me out of the radio business. They are working around the clock with lies and hate. They are the true haters, they are the neo nazis of our time. I doubt that they will succeed; they haven't damaged me at all. I haven't lost one iota, not one station or one advertiser. But they're slurring me." "If they should succeed in damaging my career, if they should succeed in driving me away from radio; I'm going to ask you to go on to Michael Savage .com and have your name put on to a master directory for me. I will release their names and addresses at that time. I will release their names and addresses to you and I will disappear from public life. But I can guarantee you that what goes around comes around and that's all I'm going to say right now. If you haven't gotten it yet, get it" "I'm more powerful than you are you little hateful nothings. You call yourself this for that and that for this. You say you represent groups, you represent nobody but the perverts that you hang around with and I'm warning you if you try to damage me any further with lies, be aware of something: that which you stoke shall come to burn you, the ashes of the fireplace will come and burn your own house down. Be very careful, you are living in incendiary times. You can't just throw things at people and walk away thinking that you had a little fun. I warn you; I'm gonna warn you again, if you harm me and I pray that no harm comes to you, but I can't guarantee that it won't. " On 11/02/02, he stated, "I guess they look at you with a certain racism, they think all white people are stupid, you know, this is something that I've come to understand, is the racism that is directed toward Caucasian people in ethnic restaurants in America."
To hear the audio go to: Would you like your ad to preface or follow the above statements. Do you really want your product or service associated with these statements? Our site lists current and recent radio advertisers and sponsors of the Michael Savage radio show. When MSNBC starts to air his show in March, we will be posting the names all the advertisers and sponsors of the MSNBC network.
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