Media Coverage

This is what I wrote over a year ago, when this site, and michaelsavagesucks.com were the only sites focused on documenting just how much of a complete and utter psychotic fuck Michael Savage is:

Despite Savage's incendiary rhetoric and his long track record of utterly outrageous statements, he has received surprisingly little coverage from either local or national media. Outside of Oregon, where the Coalition Against Hate Radio managed to stir up a small amount of controversy back in April when it launched it's boycott effort, the silence has been deafening. This may be partially due to Savage's relatively recent emergence on the national scene - at a guess, the national press and activist media critics are simply unaware of his existence. Hopefully this site will help change that.

What changed? Nothing: except that MSNBC decided to give Savage his own show. I guess television is still king in this culture (even if all you can manage to get is a Saturday afternoon show on a money losing also ran cable network)... reach 4 million people daily via radio, and you're invisible. Write a best selling book, and you still get off basically scot free. Reach a few hundred thousand folks once a week via television, and suddenly, everyone and their sister is riding your ass: GLAAD (where were they for the last decade, while journalists like Brad Kava were getting depressed over the lack of reaction to their repeated attempts to expose his pyschotic rants against queer folk and others?!?), NOW (ditto, re: women), and FAIR (which, admirably, had already taken steps to expose him by helping precipitatr the Daniel Zoll articles in 2000), among many others.

This makes me wonder what other crazed lunatics lurk on the nations airwaves, spewing hatred and bile to untold thousands without challenge? Is there a psycho on the airwaves in your town that needs exposing? Let me know: send email to localpsychos@savagestupidity.com and I'll see if I can do something about it.

Here's a "media" related item of interest: Neal Pollack created "Appropriate Michael Savage's Name For Your Own Purposes" day (June 26th)! Check the link out - at least 65 separate bloggers/websites participated!

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Index of Articles and Excerpts

Note: These links are listed in the order I found them, they're not otherwise arranged in any particular way or level of significance, etc. You'll just have to scan the whole list to find the best ones. Maybe someday I'll fix this. :) ... in the meantime, I try and excerpt enough of the article to give you a sense of what you'll be reading, or the particularly Savage relevant parts.

Index of Brad Kava Articles referencing Michael Savage - Brad Kava is the San Jose Mercury News' radio/television columnist, and has been following Michael Savage's antics since 1995.

Newer media coverage (there's a ton of this, more later):

Ignoble Savage (Michelangelo Signorile column in New York Press on cluelessness at MSNBC re: decision to broadcast Savage)
Savage is off the air at KSFO
What They Really Said: NOT QUITE A SAVAGE NATION
Salon.com - Michael Savage's long, strange trip
Savage days, Savage nights
A less than Savage debut
Savage with the truth
ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York

Older media coverage (pre-MSNBC and mostly pre-bestselling book):

Radio Ink Article on Savage (detailed profile)
What's Left Of Right Radio (appearance by Savage at a conference)
Radio Rat Poison (SFBG article on Savage putting his foot in it)
Savage family values (quotes from Savage)
Show responds to 'hate radio' accusations (Oregon boycott article)
Hate stinks (hate crimes and hate radio in NV)
Savage Attack at KXL (Oregon boycott article)
Radio free kooks (radio in Vegas)
Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News (famous quote)
HATING HATE RADIO (Oregon boycott article)
Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio' (Oregon boycott article)
Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show (Oregon boycott article
(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.
(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage's Ratings Roar
(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar
Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling' (topic of seminar speech)
Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity' (personal reflection referencing Savage)
WND launches new book imprint (press release, Savage is first author signed)
Savage talk radio (WorldNetDaily profile)
No Ivory Tower (David Horowitz article on Savage lawsuit against UC Berkeley)
Too Many Choices? (mentions electoral campaign by his son)
INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS (SJ Merc. article)
Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio" (Richard Poe column on Oregon boycott efforts), see also "Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?" below, for a reaction...
Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex (Speech before Commonwealth Club of CA)
Bad Reception: How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland (detailed info about KSFO-FM's unbalanced programming as of 1998 - same thing prevails today, four years later)
Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks (first item is audio interview by Michael Savage)
Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage (snippet with reaction by station manager to email from michaelsavagesucks.com/Coalition for Human Decency)
KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless (detailed background on infamous incident)
Silent Once Again: Muslims in America (Michael Savage twists issuance of new stamp honoring Muslim)
Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIMS "SLUTS"
Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
Patriotism & Censorship
Nüz: Uncivil Liberty
Rabid Radio
Radio Free Fascism
KUGN talk show content angers students - controversy over the University of Oregon's association with KUGN, which broadcast Savage (and others)

Newer Articles and Excerpts

The Gist: Ignoble Savage
MSNBC’s latest bid for ratings may backfire.
Michelangelo Signorile, 3/5/2003

One Wonders what Tom Brokaw and NBC News—not to mention some of the suits up at parent company GE—think about getting in bed with a guy who rails against "the degenerates on the left who want to sell Americans on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, even sex with animals is normal" and thinks that America "is being taken over by the freaks, the cripples, the perverts and the mental defectives."
[...]

Savage is off the air at KSFO
Brad Kava, 6/4/2003
Afternoon talk radio host Michael Savage is off KSFO-AM (560) airwaves after declining the station's offer for a new contract, station executives said.
``We offered a huge increase in salary after months of negotiations, and his lawyer rejected it,'' said Jack Swanson, KSFO manager.
[...]

What They Really Said: NOT QUITE A SAVAGE NATION
Dale Reynolds, May 30th, 2003
Savage, on the commercial corporate airways, attacks racial minorities, homosexuals, liberals, progressives, Democrats, and other un-Americans -- not quite the same way as deranged, homicidal anti-social fascists might, that is -- very clearly; but his message is clear enough to those who applaud him from their own degree of hatred of others; and it’s clear to those whom Savage awakes as a nightmare wakes, as if to say: “Here I am; this is it; what you knew could happen.”
“Savage Nation” can be taken not just as an eerie pun on Savage’s name, but as a suggestion that the USA by definition is Savage’s country, the place where most other people think just as he thinks. Calling our nation his and hitching it to his namesake might also indicate a certain ambition as to leadership. If you are not familiar with Savage and his Savage Nation, go now, please, to http://www.savagenation.com. There you will see glib, extravagant claims against Savage’s (and “America’s”) many natural enemies, such as Democrats. You will also see “Savage Nation” baseball caps for sale, and the sort of promotional paraphernalia you also see on Rush Limbaugh’s site. When I logged onto the Savage site I saw photos of Mike’s last birthday party. There was a list of Mike’s favorite restaurants, too.
[...]

Salon.com - Michael Savage's long, strange trip
How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
David Gilson, March 5, 2003
[Editorial comment: this is the definitive article on the Savagemeister at this point.]
At first glance, Michael Alan Weiner seems like an improbable candidate to be America's angriest, most vicious conservative radio host. Born 60 years ago in the Bronx, Weiner has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, making a living as an herbalist and nutritionist. He communed with Fijian traditional healers, got married in a rain forest and studied ethno-medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He swam naked with Allen Ginsberg, dreamed of being the next Lenny Bruce and wrote a rambling novel about a half-mad alter ego. His son's middle name is Goldencloud. For years, he made a name cranking out a pile of books on alternative medicine, recommending bizarre remedies such as using vitamin C to stop AIDS and kicking cocaine with coffee enemas.
These days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad, which on any given day includes liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities. Broadcasting three hours a day, five afternoons a week, from a rented studio in downtown San Francisco, he gives voice to the right wing's darkest fantasies. He muses about launching preemptive nuclear strikes on the Middle East ("I wish to God the hatches were open and the missiles were flying!"), suggests gunning down illegal immigrants ("If we had a government, we'd blow them out of the desert with airplanes!"), dreams of dispatching with "commies, pinkos and perverts" and other undesirables ("I say round them up and hang 'em high!") and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering ("When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!")
[...] (note: link takes you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass")

Savage days, Savage nights
MSNBC hires "brash" and "smart" shock jock Michael Savage. Here's a sneak peek at what you're in for.
By Kerry Lauerman, Feb. 13, 2003
On Tuesday, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson announced a new addition to his cable news network's lineup, which includes Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue and the recently hired Jesse Ventura. "Michael Savage," Sorenson announced, "is brash, passionate and smart. His conservative point of view adds to the kaleidoscope of perspectives already heard on MSNBC."
[...] (note: link may take you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass", at least if you currently follow the URL above - there's a link to an excerpt from Savage's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Combs" TV show, which may be of interest.)

A less than Savage debut
Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.
By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003
The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)

Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: MSNBC’s latest bid for ratings may backfire.; Michelangelo Signorile, 3/5/2003; One Wonders what Tom Brokaw and NBC News—not to mention some of the suits up at parent company GE—think about getting in bed with a guy who rails against "the degenerates on the left who want to sell Americans on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, even sex with animals is normal" and thinks that America "is being taken over by the freaks, the cripples, the perverts and the mental defectives."
[...]
Savage is off the air at KSFO
Brad Kava, 6/4/2003
Afternoon talk radio host Michael Savage is off KSFO-AM (560) airwaves after declining the station's offer for a new contract, station executives said.
``We offered a huge increase in salary after months of negotiations, and his lawyer rejected it,'' said Jack Swanson, KSFO manager.
[...]

What They Really Said: NOT QUITE A SAVAGE NATION
Dale Reynolds, May 30th, 2003
Savage, on the commercial corporate airways, attacks racial minorities, homosexuals, liberals, progressives, Democrats, and other un-Americans -- not quite the same way as deranged, homicidal anti-social fascists might, that is -- very clearly; but his message is clear enough to those who applaud him from their own degree of hatred of others; and it’s clear to those whom Savage awakes as a nightmare wakes, as if to say: “Here I am; this is it; what you knew could happen.”
“Savage Nation” can be taken not just as an eerie pun on Savage’s name, but as a suggestion that the USA by definition is Savage’s country, the place where most other people think just as he thinks. Calling our nation his and hitching it to his namesake might also indicate a certain ambition as to leadership. If you are not familiar with Savage and his Savage Nation, go now, please, to http://www.savagenation.com. There you will see glib, extravagant claims against Savage’s (and “America’s”) many natural enemies, such as Democrats. You will also see “Savage Nation” baseball caps for sale, and the sort of promotional paraphernalia you also see on Rush Limbaugh’s site. When I logged onto the Savage site I saw photos of Mike’s last birthday party. There was a list of Mike’s favorite restaurants, too.
[...]

Salon.com - Michael Savage's long, strange trip
How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
David Gilson, March 5, 2003
[Editorial comment: this is the definitive article on the Savagemeister at this point.]
At first glance, Michael Alan Weiner seems like an improbable candidate to be America's angriest, most vicious conservative radio host. Born 60 years ago in the Bronx, Weiner has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, making a living as an herbalist and nutritionist. He communed with Fijian traditional healers, got married in a rain forest and studied ethno-medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He swam naked with Allen Ginsberg, dreamed of being the next Lenny Bruce and wrote a rambling novel about a half-mad alter ego. His son's middle name is Goldencloud. For years, he made a name cranking out a pile of books on alternative medicine, recommending bizarre remedies such as using vitamin C to stop AIDS and kicking cocaine with coffee enemas.
These days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad, which on any given day includes liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities. Broadcasting three hours a day, five afternoons a week, from a rented studio in downtown San Francisco, he gives voice to the right wing's darkest fantasies. He muses about launching preemptive nuclear strikes on the Middle East ("I wish to God the hatches were open and the missiles were flying!"), suggests gunning down illegal immigrants ("If we had a government, we'd blow them out of the desert with airplanes!"), dreams of dispatching with "commies, pinkos and perverts" and other undesirables ("I say round them up and hang 'em high!") and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering ("When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!")
[...] (note: link takes you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass")

Savage days, Savage nights
MSNBC hires "brash" and "smart" shock jock Michael Savage. Here's a sneak peek at what you're in for.
By Kerry Lauerman, Feb. 13, 2003
On Tuesday, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson announced a new addition to his cable news network's lineup, which includes Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue and the recently hired Jesse Ventura. "Michael Savage," Sorenson announced, "is brash, passionate and smart. His conservative point of view adds to the kaleidoscope of perspectives already heard on MSNBC."
[...] (note: link may take you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass", at least if you currently follow the URL above - there's a link to an excerpt from Savage's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Combs" TV show, which may be of interest.)

A less than Savage debut
Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.
By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003
The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)

Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: Brad Kava, 6/4/2003; Afternoon talk radio host Michael Savage is off KSFO-AM (560) airwaves after declining the station's offer for a new contract, station executives said.
``We offered a huge increase in salary after months of negotiations, and his lawyer rejected it,'' said Jack Swanson, KSFO manager.
[...]
What They Really Said: NOT QUITE A SAVAGE NATION
Dale Reynolds, May 30th, 2003
Savage, on the commercial corporate airways, attacks racial minorities, homosexuals, liberals, progressives, Democrats, and other un-Americans -- not quite the same way as deranged, homicidal anti-social fascists might, that is -- very clearly; but his message is clear enough to those who applaud him from their own degree of hatred of others; and it’s clear to those whom Savage awakes as a nightmare wakes, as if to say: “Here I am; this is it; what you knew could happen.”
“Savage Nation” can be taken not just as an eerie pun on Savage’s name, but as a suggestion that the USA by definition is Savage’s country, the place where most other people think just as he thinks. Calling our nation his and hitching it to his namesake might also indicate a certain ambition as to leadership. If you are not familiar with Savage and his Savage Nation, go now, please, to http://www.savagenation.com. There you will see glib, extravagant claims against Savage’s (and “America’s”) many natural enemies, such as Democrats. You will also see “Savage Nation” baseball caps for sale, and the sort of promotional paraphernalia you also see on Rush Limbaugh’s site. When I logged onto the Savage site I saw photos of Mike’s last birthday party. There was a list of Mike’s favorite restaurants, too.
[...]

Salon.com - Michael Savage's long, strange trip
How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
David Gilson, March 5, 2003
[Editorial comment: this is the definitive article on the Savagemeister at this point.]
At first glance, Michael Alan Weiner seems like an improbable candidate to be America's angriest, most vicious conservative radio host. Born 60 years ago in the Bronx, Weiner has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, making a living as an herbalist and nutritionist. He communed with Fijian traditional healers, got married in a rain forest and studied ethno-medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He swam naked with Allen Ginsberg, dreamed of being the next Lenny Bruce and wrote a rambling novel about a half-mad alter ego. His son's middle name is Goldencloud. For years, he made a name cranking out a pile of books on alternative medicine, recommending bizarre remedies such as using vitamin C to stop AIDS and kicking cocaine with coffee enemas.
These days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad, which on any given day includes liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities. Broadcasting three hours a day, five afternoons a week, from a rented studio in downtown San Francisco, he gives voice to the right wing's darkest fantasies. He muses about launching preemptive nuclear strikes on the Middle East ("I wish to God the hatches were open and the missiles were flying!"), suggests gunning down illegal immigrants ("If we had a government, we'd blow them out of the desert with airplanes!"), dreams of dispatching with "commies, pinkos and perverts" and other undesirables ("I say round them up and hang 'em high!") and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering ("When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!")
[...] (note: link takes you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass")

Savage days, Savage nights
MSNBC hires "brash" and "smart" shock jock Michael Savage. Here's a sneak peek at what you're in for.
By Kerry Lauerman, Feb. 13, 2003
On Tuesday, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson announced a new addition to his cable news network's lineup, which includes Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue and the recently hired Jesse Ventura. "Michael Savage," Sorenson announced, "is brash, passionate and smart. His conservative point of view adds to the kaleidoscope of perspectives already heard on MSNBC."
[...] (note: link may take you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass", at least if you currently follow the URL above - there's a link to an excerpt from Savage's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Combs" TV show, which may be of interest.)

A less than Savage debut
Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.
By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003
The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)

Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: Dale Reynolds, May 30th, 2003; Savage, on the commercial corporate airways, attacks racial minorities, homosexuals, liberals, progressives, Democrats, and other un-Americans -- not quite the same way as deranged, homicidal anti-social fascists might, that is -- very clearly; but his message is clear enough to those who applaud him from their own degree of hatred of others; and it’s clear to those whom Savage awakes as a nightmare wakes, as if to say: “Here I am; this is it; what you knew could happen.”
“Savage Nation” can be taken not just as an eerie pun on Savage’s name, but as a suggestion that the USA by definition is Savage’s country, the place where most other people think just as he thinks. Calling our nation his and hitching it to his namesake might also indicate a certain ambition as to leadership. If you are not familiar with Savage and his Savage Nation, go now, please, to http://www.savagenation.com. There you will see glib, extravagant claims against Savage’s (and “America’s”) many natural enemies, such as Democrats. You will also see “Savage Nation” baseball caps for sale, and the sort of promotional paraphernalia you also see on Rush Limbaugh’s site. When I logged onto the Savage site I saw photos of Mike’s last birthday party. There was a list of Mike’s favorite restaurants, too.
[...]
Salon.com - Michael Savage's long, strange trip
How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
David Gilson, March 5, 2003
[Editorial comment: this is the definitive article on the Savagemeister at this point.]
At first glance, Michael Alan Weiner seems like an improbable candidate to be America's angriest, most vicious conservative radio host. Born 60 years ago in the Bronx, Weiner has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, making a living as an herbalist and nutritionist. He communed with Fijian traditional healers, got married in a rain forest and studied ethno-medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He swam naked with Allen Ginsberg, dreamed of being the next Lenny Bruce and wrote a rambling novel about a half-mad alter ego. His son's middle name is Goldencloud. For years, he made a name cranking out a pile of books on alternative medicine, recommending bizarre remedies such as using vitamin C to stop AIDS and kicking cocaine with coffee enemas.
These days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad, which on any given day includes liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities. Broadcasting three hours a day, five afternoons a week, from a rented studio in downtown San Francisco, he gives voice to the right wing's darkest fantasies. He muses about launching preemptive nuclear strikes on the Middle East ("I wish to God the hatches were open and the missiles were flying!"), suggests gunning down illegal immigrants ("If we had a government, we'd blow them out of the desert with airplanes!"), dreams of dispatching with "commies, pinkos and perverts" and other undesirables ("I say round them up and hang 'em high!") and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering ("When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!")
[...] (note: link takes you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass")

Savage days, Savage nights
MSNBC hires "brash" and "smart" shock jock Michael Savage. Here's a sneak peek at what you're in for.
By Kerry Lauerman, Feb. 13, 2003
On Tuesday, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson announced a new addition to his cable news network's lineup, which includes Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue and the recently hired Jesse Ventura. "Michael Savage," Sorenson announced, "is brash, passionate and smart. His conservative point of view adds to the kaleidoscope of perspectives already heard on MSNBC."
[...] (note: link may take you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass", at least if you currently follow the URL above - there's a link to an excerpt from Savage's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Combs" TV show, which may be of interest.)

A less than Savage debut
Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.
By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003
The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)

Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.; David Gilson, March 5, 2003; [Editorial comment: this is the definitive article on the Savagemeister at this point.]; At first glance, Michael Alan Weiner seems like an improbable candidate to be America's angriest, most vicious conservative radio host. Born 60 years ago in the Bronx, Weiner has lived in Northern California for most of his adult life, making a living as an herbalist and nutritionist. He communed with Fijian traditional healers, got married in a rain forest and studied ethno-medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He swam naked with Allen Ginsberg, dreamed of being the next Lenny Bruce and wrote a rambling novel about a half-mad alter ego. His son's middle name is Goldencloud. For years, he made a name cranking out a pile of books on alternative medicine, recommending bizarre remedies such as using vitamin C to stop AIDS and kicking cocaine with coffee enemas.
These days, Weiner's more interested in purging the body politic. Using the pseudonym Michael Savage, he's launched a one-man mission to save America from its enemies at home and abroad, which on any given day includes liberals, gays, academics, the homeless, the Clintons, immigrants, feminists, CNN, the American Civil Liberties Union, Muslims and other minorities. Broadcasting three hours a day, five afternoons a week, from a rented studio in downtown San Francisco, he gives voice to the right wing's darkest fantasies. He muses about launching preemptive nuclear strikes on the Middle East ("I wish to God the hatches were open and the missiles were flying!"), suggests gunning down illegal immigrants ("If we had a government, we'd blow them out of the desert with airplanes!"), dreams of dispatching with "commies, pinkos and perverts" and other undesirables ("I say round them up and hang 'em high!") and even paraphrases a remark attributed to Nazi leader Hermann Goering ("When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-15!")
[...] (note: link takes you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass")
Savage days, Savage nights
MSNBC hires "brash" and "smart" shock jock Michael Savage. Here's a sneak peek at what you're in for.
By Kerry Lauerman, Feb. 13, 2003
On Tuesday, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson announced a new addition to his cable news network's lineup, which includes Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue and the recently hired Jesse Ventura. "Michael Savage," Sorenson announced, "is brash, passionate and smart. His conservative point of view adds to the kaleidoscope of perspectives already heard on MSNBC."
[...] (note: link may take you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass", at least if you currently follow the URL above - there's a link to an excerpt from Savage's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Combs" TV show, which may be of interest.)

A less than Savage debut
Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.
By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003
The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)

Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: MSNBC hires "brash" and "smart" shock jock Michael Savage. Here's a sneak peek at what you're in for.; By Kerry Lauerman, Feb. 13, 2003; On Tuesday, MSNBC president Eric Sorenson announced a new addition to his cable news network's lineup, which includes Chris Matthews, Phil Donahue and the recently hired Jesse Ventura. "Michael Savage," Sorenson announced, "is brash, passionate and smart. His conservative point of view adds to the kaleidoscope of perspectives already heard on MSNBC."
[...] (note: link may take you to premium content - but you can watch a 15 second Internet commercial from Microsoft touting XP and get a "Day Pass", at least if you currently follow the URL above - there's a link to an excerpt from Savage's appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Combs" TV show, which may be of interest.)
A less than Savage debut
Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.
By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003
The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)

Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: Shock jock Michael Savage's MSNBC debut was the freak show we were promised, with one big surprise: It's incredibly boring.; By Kerry Lauerman, March 10, 2003; The single moment of inspired television during the Saturday debut of MSNBC's controversial "Savage Nation" came early, during an exchange between the fidgety, leatherclad star, Michael Savage, and a caller identified only as "Steven from New York":
[...]
On Saturday's show, the only callers allowed to talk to Savage were his most exuberant fans. According to Pellegrino, "I told the screener that I was upset about these bozo liberals like Martin Sheen, these movie stars, and who do they think they are to talk, blah blah blah, and I said, 'I love Michael Savage, I think he's so great.' And she said, 'Oh, great!'" No other caller challenged him on anything.
That makes MSNBC's statement last week, defending the show as a "a legitimate attempt to expand the marketplace of ideas," particularly dishonest. But it also creates a show without an ounce of spontaneity or conflict. As a result, the most obvious problem with "Savage Nation," based on its debut, is one not even the strongest critics of "The O'Reilly Factor" or "Hannity & Colmes" could hurl at those Fox shows: It's excruciatingly dull.
[...]
Savage seems either incredibly dim or just plain nuts. Or just really, really terrible on television. Without any opposition, he still had a hard time scoring simple political points.
[...] (other amusing notes - the author comments on how dumb the typical Savage fans are; Savage Stupidity is no longer confined to the radio or Internet)
Savage with the truth
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003
Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]

ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York
NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT
Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]: Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!; By Ben Fritz, Feb. 19, 2003; Conservative radio hosts have come to dominate the airwaves with ferocious rhetoric that's often filled with ad hominem attacks and blatant untruths, but Michael Savage is easily the worst of the bunch. Savage, who makes Rush Limbaugh look reasonable, isn't just a radio personality anymore. His book "The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture" has reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and Savage has been rewarded with his own weekly MSNBC show as part of that struggling cable network's efforts to improve its ratings.
[...]
ABC Yanks Michael Savage in New York NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network. "'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\ [...]: NewsMax, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:50 p.m. EDT; Rising radio star and best-selling author Michael Savage has been yanked off the air by his New York City affiliate, WABC Radio, due to a contract dispute with his San Francisco flagship station, KSFO, which syndicates Savage nationally through the Talk Radio Network.
"'The Mouse' is trying to intimidate me," Savage told the New York Post on Wednesday - referring to WABC's parent company, Disney. "It's bullying of the worst kind."\
[...]

Older Articles and Excerpts

Attila the Toungue
Radio Ink, May 14, 2001
Scanned version of print article, link points to Savage's web site.

What's Left Of Right Radio
Post-Limbaugh pundits struggle for identity
Patrick Hughes, 7/29/1999

An enormous American flag billows from the rafters. Pot-bellied veterans with Jerry Reed sideburns and blue-haired old betties glance around anxiously as a phalanx of poorly-dressed security guards in cheap sunglasses take up strategic positions around a small stage. Suddenly, an annoyingly loud burst of rock music blares through the speakers, startling the assembled.
A diminutive Jewish guy dressed in black and wearing a floor-length leather duster bounds onstage and seizes the microphone. "Savage Nation rules!" he shouts to wild applause. He goosesteps around the stage and pumps his fist in the air.
"How many of you are on welfare?" he asks, to knowing laughter. "The Savage Nation stands for three things: borders, language, and culture!" Huge cheers. "The Clinton machine stands for three other things: no borders, the tower of Babel, and the culture of chaos!" The crowd erupts in a pandemonium of adulation. Turning serious, he cautions, "An alternative viewpoint is the only thing standing between you and absolute tyranny, and that is why I love KSFO radio!"
[...]

Radio Rat Poison
The dark side of Disney: nasty, vicious hate radio in one of the nation's most tolerant, progressive markets.
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

THE MAGIC WORD for the Walt Disney Company is synergy: The Lion King, produced by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, gets promoted on Radio Disney, airs on Disney's ABC-TV, and gets spun off as a Broadway show (produced by Disney), a theme park attraction (at Disney World), and a line of Disney toys.
So as long as Mickey Mouse and Co. are cross-promoting, why not give San Francisco's own Michael Savage – a host on Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO-AM – his own Disneyland ride? They could call the ride "It's a White World After All." Or kids could take aim at immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the "Savage Nation Shooting Gallery." The Disney Store chain might sell Savage's commentaries on "turd-world" immigration, or why women shouldn't vote, or the gay rights movement, which he calls the "Pink Swastika."
[...]

Savage family values
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

DARTANYAN BROWN, director of instructional technology at the Branson School in Marin, used to make a practice of monitoring hate radio. But nothing prepared Brown for what he heard driving home from school while listening to KSFO-AM's Michael Savage one day last September.
Savage was discussing his proposal to round up and incarcerate the Bay Area's homeless when he made reference to a program at Branson through which students volunteer to distribute sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco.
"You can get the kids from Marin to go in there with them at night," Savage said during the Sept. 21 broadcast. "The girls from Branson can go in and maybe get raped ... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a Dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich."
[...]

Show responds to 'hate radio' accusations
Associated Press, 4/25/2002

PORTLAND - Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated host of the radio talk show "Savage Nation," has reacted angrily to critics of his show - including protesters in Portland. [...] This is a reversal of reality, this is double speak. This is right out of 1984," Savage responded. He said the critics are "radical leftists" trying to interfere with his right to earn a living. He threatened to sue. [...] "I wonder how many of those people outside the radio station are American citizens? I wonder how many of them are front groups for the very terrorists that John Ashcroft is looking for," Savage said. [...]

Hate stinks
Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?
Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
[...]
Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
[...]

Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
[...]

Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
[...]

Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
[...]

HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
[...]

Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
[...]

Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]

(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Radio Ink, May 14, 2001; Scanned version of print article, link points to Savage's web site.
What's Left Of Right Radio
Post-Limbaugh pundits struggle for identity
Patrick Hughes, 7/29/1999

An enormous American flag billows from the rafters. Pot-bellied veterans with Jerry Reed sideburns and blue-haired old betties glance around anxiously as a phalanx of poorly-dressed security guards in cheap sunglasses take up strategic positions around a small stage. Suddenly, an annoyingly loud burst of rock music blares through the speakers, startling the assembled.
A diminutive Jewish guy dressed in black and wearing a floor-length leather duster bounds onstage and seizes the microphone. "Savage Nation rules!" he shouts to wild applause. He goosesteps around the stage and pumps his fist in the air.
"How many of you are on welfare?" he asks, to knowing laughter. "The Savage Nation stands for three things: borders, language, and culture!" Huge cheers. "The Clinton machine stands for three other things: no borders, the tower of Babel, and the culture of chaos!" The crowd erupts in a pandemonium of adulation. Turning serious, he cautions, "An alternative viewpoint is the only thing standing between you and absolute tyranny, and that is why I love KSFO radio!"
[...]

Radio Rat Poison
The dark side of Disney: nasty, vicious hate radio in one of the nation's most tolerant, progressive markets.
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

THE MAGIC WORD for the Walt Disney Company is synergy: The Lion King, produced by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, gets promoted on Radio Disney, airs on Disney's ABC-TV, and gets spun off as a Broadway show (produced by Disney), a theme park attraction (at Disney World), and a line of Disney toys.
So as long as Mickey Mouse and Co. are cross-promoting, why not give San Francisco's own Michael Savage – a host on Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO-AM – his own Disneyland ride? They could call the ride "It's a White World After All." Or kids could take aim at immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the "Savage Nation Shooting Gallery." The Disney Store chain might sell Savage's commentaries on "turd-world" immigration, or why women shouldn't vote, or the gay rights movement, which he calls the "Pink Swastika."
[...]

Savage family values
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

DARTANYAN BROWN, director of instructional technology at the Branson School in Marin, used to make a practice of monitoring hate radio. But nothing prepared Brown for what he heard driving home from school while listening to KSFO-AM's Michael Savage one day last September.
Savage was discussing his proposal to round up and incarcerate the Bay Area's homeless when he made reference to a program at Branson through which students volunteer to distribute sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco.
"You can get the kids from Marin to go in there with them at night," Savage said during the Sept. 21 broadcast. "The girls from Branson can go in and maybe get raped ... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a Dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich."
[...]

Show responds to 'hate radio' accusations
Associated Press, 4/25/2002

PORTLAND - Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated host of the radio talk show "Savage Nation," has reacted angrily to critics of his show - including protesters in Portland. [...] This is a reversal of reality, this is double speak. This is right out of 1984," Savage responded. He said the critics are "radical leftists" trying to interfere with his right to earn a living. He threatened to sue. [...] "I wonder how many of those people outside the radio station are American citizens? I wonder how many of them are front groups for the very terrorists that John Ashcroft is looking for," Savage said. [...]

Hate stinks
Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?
Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
[...]
Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
[...]

Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
[...]

Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
[...]

Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
[...]

HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
[...]

Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
[...]

Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]

(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
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KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
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Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

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Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
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DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

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Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
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Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
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Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

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Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
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Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
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Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
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How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
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Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
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KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Post-Limbaugh pundits struggle for identity; Patrick Hughes, 7/29/1999; An enormous American flag billows from the rafters. Pot-bellied veterans with Jerry Reed sideburns and blue-haired old betties glance around anxiously as a phalanx of poorly-dressed security guards in cheap sunglasses take up strategic positions around a small stage. Suddenly, an annoyingly loud burst of rock music blares through the speakers, startling the assembled.
A diminutive Jewish guy dressed in black and wearing a floor-length leather duster bounds onstage and seizes the microphone. "Savage Nation rules!" he shouts to wild applause. He goosesteps around the stage and pumps his fist in the air.
"How many of you are on welfare?" he asks, to knowing laughter. "The Savage Nation stands for three things: borders, language, and culture!" Huge cheers. "The Clinton machine stands for three other things: no borders, the tower of Babel, and the culture of chaos!" The crowd erupts in a pandemonium of adulation. Turning serious, he cautions, "An alternative viewpoint is the only thing standing between you and absolute tyranny, and that is why I love KSFO radio!"
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Radio Rat Poison
The dark side of Disney: nasty, vicious hate radio in one of the nation's most tolerant, progressive markets.
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

THE MAGIC WORD for the Walt Disney Company is synergy: The Lion King, produced by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, gets promoted on Radio Disney, airs on Disney's ABC-TV, and gets spun off as a Broadway show (produced by Disney), a theme park attraction (at Disney World), and a line of Disney toys.
So as long as Mickey Mouse and Co. are cross-promoting, why not give San Francisco's own Michael Savage – a host on Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO-AM – his own Disneyland ride? They could call the ride "It's a White World After All." Or kids could take aim at immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the "Savage Nation Shooting Gallery." The Disney Store chain might sell Savage's commentaries on "turd-world" immigration, or why women shouldn't vote, or the gay rights movement, which he calls the "Pink Swastika."
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Savage family values
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

DARTANYAN BROWN, director of instructional technology at the Branson School in Marin, used to make a practice of monitoring hate radio. But nothing prepared Brown for what he heard driving home from school while listening to KSFO-AM's Michael Savage one day last September.
Savage was discussing his proposal to round up and incarcerate the Bay Area's homeless when he made reference to a program at Branson through which students volunteer to distribute sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco.
"You can get the kids from Marin to go in there with them at night," Savage said during the Sept. 21 broadcast. "The girls from Branson can go in and maybe get raped ... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a Dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich."
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Show responds to 'hate radio' accusations
Associated Press, 4/25/2002

PORTLAND - Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated host of the radio talk show "Savage Nation," has reacted angrily to critics of his show - including protesters in Portland. [...] This is a reversal of reality, this is double speak. This is right out of 1984," Savage responded. He said the critics are "radical leftists" trying to interfere with his right to earn a living. He threatened to sue. [...] "I wonder how many of those people outside the radio station are American citizens? I wonder how many of them are front groups for the very terrorists that John Ashcroft is looking for," Savage said. [...]

Hate stinks
Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?
Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
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Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
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Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
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Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
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Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
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Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
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HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
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Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
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Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
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Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
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(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
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Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
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(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
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Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
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(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
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Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
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WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
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One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
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Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
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No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

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This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
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Too Many Choices?

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One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
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INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
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Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
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Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
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See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
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Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

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Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
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Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
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KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

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Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
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Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
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Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
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KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: The dark side of Disney: nasty, vicious hate radio in one of the nation's most tolerant, progressive markets.; By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000; THE MAGIC WORD for the Walt Disney Company is synergy: The Lion King, produced by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, gets promoted on Radio Disney, airs on Disney's ABC-TV, and gets spun off as a Broadway show (produced by Disney), a theme park attraction (at Disney World), and a line of Disney toys.
So as long as Mickey Mouse and Co. are cross-promoting, why not give San Francisco's own Michael Savage – a host on Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO-AM – his own Disneyland ride? They could call the ride "It's a White World After All." Or kids could take aim at immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the "Savage Nation Shooting Gallery." The Disney Store chain might sell Savage's commentaries on "turd-world" immigration, or why women shouldn't vote, or the gay rights movement, which he calls the "Pink Swastika."
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Savage family values
By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000

DARTANYAN BROWN, director of instructional technology at the Branson School in Marin, used to make a practice of monitoring hate radio. But nothing prepared Brown for what he heard driving home from school while listening to KSFO-AM's Michael Savage one day last September.
Savage was discussing his proposal to round up and incarcerate the Bay Area's homeless when he made reference to a program at Branson through which students volunteer to distribute sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco.
"You can get the kids from Marin to go in there with them at night," Savage said during the Sept. 21 broadcast. "The girls from Branson can go in and maybe get raped ... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a Dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich."
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Show responds to 'hate radio' accusations
Associated Press, 4/25/2002

PORTLAND - Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated host of the radio talk show "Savage Nation," has reacted angrily to critics of his show - including protesters in Portland. [...] This is a reversal of reality, this is double speak. This is right out of 1984," Savage responded. He said the critics are "radical leftists" trying to interfere with his right to earn a living. He threatened to sue. [...] "I wonder how many of those people outside the radio station are American citizens? I wonder how many of them are front groups for the very terrorists that John Ashcroft is looking for," Savage said. [...]

Hate stinks
Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?
Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
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Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
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Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
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Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
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Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
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Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
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HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
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Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
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Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
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Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
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(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
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Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
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(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
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Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
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(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
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Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
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WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
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One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
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Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
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No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

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This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
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Too Many Choices?

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One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
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INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
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Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
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Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
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See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
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Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

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Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
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Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
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KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
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Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

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Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
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DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

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Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
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Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
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Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

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Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
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Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
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Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
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Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
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How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
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Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
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KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: By Daniel Zoll, September 20, 2000; DARTANYAN BROWN, director of instructional technology at the Branson School in Marin, used to make a practice of monitoring hate radio. But nothing prepared Brown for what he heard driving home from school while listening to KSFO-AM's Michael Savage one day last September.
Savage was discussing his proposal to round up and incarcerate the Bay Area's homeless when he made reference to a program at Branson through which students volunteer to distribute sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco.
"You can get the kids from Marin to go in there with them at night," Savage said during the Sept. 21 broadcast. "The girls from Branson can go in and maybe get raped ... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a Dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich."
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Show responds to 'hate radio' accusations
Associated Press, 4/25/2002

PORTLAND - Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated host of the radio talk show "Savage Nation," has reacted angrily to critics of his show - including protesters in Portland. [...] This is a reversal of reality, this is double speak. This is right out of 1984," Savage responded. He said the critics are "radical leftists" trying to interfere with his right to earn a living. He threatened to sue. [...] "I wonder how many of those people outside the radio station are American citizens? I wonder how many of them are front groups for the very terrorists that John Ashcroft is looking for," Savage said. [...]

Hate stinks
Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?
Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
[...]
Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
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Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
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Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
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Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
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HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
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Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
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Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
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Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
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(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
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Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

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This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
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KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

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Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
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DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

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Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Associated Press, 4/25/2002; PORTLAND - Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated host of the radio talk show "Savage Nation," has reacted angrily to critics of his show - including protesters in Portland. [...] This is a reversal of reality, this is double speak. This is right out of 1984," Savage responded. He said the critics are "radical leftists" trying to interfere with his right to earn a living. He threatened to sue. [...] "I wonder how many of those people outside the radio station are American citizens? I wonder how many of them are front groups for the very terrorists that John Ashcroft is looking for," Savage said. [...]
Hate stinks
Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?
Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
[...]
Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
[...]

Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
[...]

Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
[...]

Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
[...]

HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
[...]

Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
[...]

Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
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(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

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This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Pride and prejudice lead to blood and firebombs in Northern Nevada, across the nation and around the world. But how is the area responding to this hate?; Guy Richardson, 4/12/2001
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Hate speech sells.
Often, the innocent pay.
A week before Mirghani and Sanad were beaten with a baseball bat in Sparks, syndicated talk show host Michael Savage of "The Savage Nation" railed about Muslims. "Show me one Muslim country that has the freedom we have in the U.S.," he sneered as part of his diatribe on Reno's KKOH-AM, one of the stations that airs his show.
Of course, it would be hard to draw a direct causal connection here. But it does illustrate a mindset. Savage calls Third World countries "Turd World countries." Does this remind you of white extremists who call people of African descent "mud people"?
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Savage Attack at KXL
Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002

Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
[...]

Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
[...]

Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
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HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
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Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
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Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
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Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
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(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
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(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
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Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
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(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
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Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
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WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
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One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
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Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
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No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

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This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
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Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
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Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
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Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
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Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Chris Lydgate, 4/24/2002; Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killing us and spreading a toxin throughout the nation.
If you tune into "Savage Nation," on KXL (750AM) weekday afternoons, you've probably heard these sentiments from the mouth of Michael Savage, a San Francisco shock jock who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like a thoughtful pinko.
[...]
Radio free kooks
KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks
Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001

Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
[...]

Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
[...]

HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
[...]

Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
[...]

Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]

(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: KDWN delivers comfort food for cranks; Geoff Schumacher, 3/23/2001; Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote if they don't own property, according to one caller. Another says George Washington never would have allowed the press to exist. A host says "mad liberal disease" is the cause of power shortages in California.
[...]
Michael Savage's show, "Savage Nation," airs on KDWN from 5-7 p.m. weekdays. Savage fancies himself an edgy humorist and a wordsmith. He plays with words in a way that degrades his political opponents.
"Liberalism is a virus," Savage says. "It's like leukemia." Liberals are "degenerate slimebags." The ADA is the "Lawyers' Improvement Act." When notorious trash TV legend Morton Downey Jr. died earlier this month, Savage commented, "I loved him. He was a pioneer in the field."
[...]
Comments re: Michael Weiner in San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava, 8/6/1999

On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
[...]

HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
[...]

Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
[...]

Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]

(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
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KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

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Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
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DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

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Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
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Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

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Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
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Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
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Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Brad Kava, 8/6/1999; On Disney-owned KSFO-AM, afternoon host Michael Savage was making fun of the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. only two days after his tragic accident. This mentally challenged talker is among the slimiest people ever to sit behind a microphone (right up there with the old-time quack years back who promised rejuvenation from goat-testicle transplants and Bob Grant, whom Disney fired after he celebrated Ron Brown's death).
Savage ghoulishly laughed as he kept playing Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" while knocking the Kennedys. Station manager Jack Swanson hadn't heard that particular installment (at least he's got better things to do), but even he said it appeared to be "in bad taste."
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HATING HATE RADIO
Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves
Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002

The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
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Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
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Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
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Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
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(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
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(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
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Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
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(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
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Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
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WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
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One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
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Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
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No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

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This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
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Too Many Choices?

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One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
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INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
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Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
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Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
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Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

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Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
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KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

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Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

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Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
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KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Local Groups Try To Oust Loudmouth From Airwaves; Katia Dunn, 6/19/2002; The Coalition Against Hate Radio, a local organization of community anti-hate groups and churches, don't like what Michael Savage has to say. A talk-radio show host broadcast locally on KXL, Savage has content and format similar to that of Rush Limbaugh, pointedly ranting against every ethnic group under the sun and bashing everything liberal.
[...]
Oregon-Washington groups calls for end to 'hate radio'
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
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Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]

(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM; PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Church, community and political groups in Oregon and Washington are demanding an end to what they call 'hate radio' and have called on a station owned by billionaire Paul Allen to drop talk show host Michael Savage.
[...]
Coalition wants station to drop talk radio show
JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM

PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]

(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: JOHN ENDERS, The Associated Press, 4/24/02 3:23 AM; PORTLAND - Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show is so filled with hate and bigotry that it could incite violence against immigrants and minorities, a coalition of area church and civic leaders contended Wednesday.
[...]
Savage said the coalition's descriptions of him as a racist and a bigot are nothing but an attempt to shut him up.
``If they are calling me these names ... they are interfering with my ability to earn a living, and I may sue them,'' he said in a telephone interview from his home in northern California.
``I don't cave in,'' Savage said.
[...]
(1/22/2001) Michael Savage Celebrates One Full Year in Syndication With 150 stations.

Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]

(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Savage, who rose to prominence as San Francisco’s top-rated afternoon drive-time talk show host has skyrocketed this last year into the national spotlight with ratings breakthroughs coast to coast. "Michael’s ratings are no San Francisco fluke!" says ABC’s legendary program director Jack Swanson. "This is the biggest breakthough show in years." Fall Arbitron ratings on San Francisco’s KSFO show Savage with an astounding 5.5 share for all persons 12+ and an amazing 4.3 share for the key 25-54 demographic, making Savage — an edgy conservative talker — the No. 1-rated afternoon show in liberal San Francisco, a market of over 75 stations.
Says Swanson to other PDs, "If you don’t take this show, your competitor will." And they have. In the last month alone, The Savage Nation has racked up Portland’s KXL, Orlando’s WDBO, Nashville’s WLAC, Reno’s KKOH, Spokane’s KGA, Birmingham’s WAPI, Boise’s KBOI, Fresno’s KMJ, Louisville’s WGTK, Sacramento’s KSTE, Grand Rapid’s WKBZ, and Las Vegas’ KDWN, to name a few. "Critical mass has been achieved," says Mark Masters, Talk Radio Network’s CEO. "We have added 50 strong stations in the last 10 weeks alone. He gets on one station in a group, and the word of mouth spreads within that group like wild fire about how really good this show is."
[...]
Savage’s personal appeal surprised even his syndicators when Savage rented an auditorium last November in Marin County, CA, and filled it with a standing room crowd of 2000+ Savage fans who were only too happy to shell out $50-$75 each to see Savage in the flesh. "It was amazing to see the power this guy has over an audience and the way his fans can’t get enough," said Toni Howell, program director for Talk Radio Network. "Most hosts wouldn’t be able to get 200 fans to show up for free, but Savage charged and sold out the entire auditorium of 2,000. It was like a rock concert for conservatives."
[...]
(3/1/2001) Michael Savage Now up to 175 Stations in Syndication.
Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
[...]

Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Savage Nation host Michael Savage has once again hit another station growth milestone — 175 stations.
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Savage's Ratings Roar
The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]

(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: The latest ratings for Michael Savage's radio show are coming in, and coming in big.
In San Francisco, where he was already No. 1 with a previous all-time high of 5.3 for ages 12 and up, fall 2001 shows him at a 6.9 share, up 30 percent. In the prized 25-54 age group he has rocketed to 54 percent from a 3.9 to 6 share. For ages 35+ he has an 8.5 share, up from 7.5, says Talk Radio Network, citing Arbitron.
In San Francisco, Savage and Rush Limbaugh had each hovered around a 4 share in the 25-54 demo. This past fall, Savage's 6 share showed him outperforming Rush by 50 percent. "Neither Rush nor Dr. Laura's numbers got a bump from September 11, but Savage blew through the roof," the network said.
[...]
(2/7/2001) Michael Savage to Speak to R&R Seminar

According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]

Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: According to www.rronline.com the Savage address is titled "From Married in a Rainforest, to Married to a Microphone," and will offer a personal reflection on his colorful and unusual career that has seen him go from being a politically left liberal to a passionate conservative who rose to the top of the radio ratings in San Francisco — arguably America's most liberal city.
The R&R TRS 2001 convention will be held March 8-10 at the Marina Beach Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles.
[...]
Savage: 'Talk Radio Not A Career, But A Calling'
Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]

Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Michael Savage, Talk Radio Network's San Francisco-based afternoon drive host, told Talk Radio Seminar attendees on Friday that talk hosts should take advantage of America's "dissatisfaction with Republicrats, Demolicans and knee-jerk conservatives." He figures that the Talk format reaches a larger percent of the country's 30% of voters registered as independents than those registered as Republicans or Democrats. Savage says his show is successful because he's "pulling in people in the middle."
[...]
Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET

I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]

WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Steven Zak, 01/22/2002 - Updated 10:49 PM ET; I've removed all of my flags. The one in my house window. The three magnetic ones on my car. (I had wanted them visible from any angle.) The antenna ball, too. And my array of patriotic lapel pins, even the Mickey Mouse one from the Disney Store — I've put them all away.
[..]
The first big sign, for me, came following the revelation of an American Taliban sympathizer, John Walker Lindh. Conservative pundits seized on him as a convenient opportunity to lash out at the left, for whom, wrote columnist Don Feder, "treason has been chic." Syndicated radio host Michael Savage described Walker's high school as a "rotting, stinking, left-wing" place.
I've had progressive sympathies; what does that say about me?
Activist equals terrorist?
[...]
WND launches new book imprint
Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author
WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002

WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]

Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Radio sensation Michael Savage signed as first author; WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, 2002; WorldNetDaily, the Internet's leading independent newssite, and Thomas Nelson Publishers, a top-10 company worldwide in its field, have created a new book-publishing joint venture, WND Books, with the first titles planned for release later this year.
[...]
One of the first products to be offered by the new imprint will be a political and cultural bombshell by Savage, an explosive new national talk-radio sensation, heard on more than 300 stations and dominating many of the major markets in which his program is heard.
[...]
Savage talk radio
Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host
Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001

"Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]

No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Liberal San Francisco spawns in-your-face conservative host; Julie Foster, January 21st, 2001; "Gay political tactics come down to simple intimidation on every level possible, whether it's Act-Up throwing stink bombs at prayer breakfasts or Americans losing their jobs because they happen to object to the lifestyle," says Michael Savage, one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in -- believe it or not -- San Francisco.
This week, the popular KSFO media personality has gone national, having been launched on Talk Radio Network, the nation's third largest syndicator of talk radio. Network executives figure that if Savage, with his aggressive criticism of all things leftist, can come out on top in one of the nation's most liberal metropolitan markets, he can't lose anywhere else.
[...]
No Ivory Tower
HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998

[...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]

Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: HOW A CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST IS BATTLING THE LEFTIST LOCK ON THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.; David Horowitz, SALON | June 15, 1998; [...]
This situation is now being challenged in a suit brought against the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism by Michael Savage, a top-rated—and outspokenly conservative—radio talk-show host in the Bay Area. Savage also has a Ph.D., two master's degrees, and 18 published works to his credit. Last year, Savage applied for the dean's job at the journalism school, which was advertised in the New York Times. Despite his qualifications, Savage says he was quickly informed by the chairman of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, that he would not even be interviewed for the job. Duster happens to be an old acquaintance of mine, a Berkeley radical who, clearly, has not had significant second thoughts.
[...]
Too Many Choices?

[...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]

INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: [...]
One of Mazzoni's challengers is Russ Weiner. This buttoned-down 28-year-old travel consultant/events producer is a Sausalito resident and a staunch Republican. He is co-founder of the 4,000-member Paul Revere Society--a conservative educational and fraternal organization "to preserve the borders, language, and culture of America," which he created two years ago with his father, conservative KSFO talk- show host Michael Savage. Weiner is against bilingual education and supports the idea of "one nation, one language." He opposes reducing the simple minority vote needed to approve school bonds. Weiner is also against recent legislative efforts to ban assault weapons.
[...]
INTERNET, TALK RADIO PROVIDE NEW PLATFORM FOR ACTIVISTS
GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999

The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]

Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: GEORGE AVALOS, Contra Costa Times, published in San Jose Mercury News - June 26, 1999; The bumper sticker is to the point: ``I don't trust the liberal news media.''
There's more. The vehicle, seen on a Bay Area street, also sports a red-white-and-blue sticker that touts KSFO radio.
[...]
Michael Savage, the afternoon drive host on the station, used his radio pulpit to organized a rally in 1997 supporting the anti-racial-quotas initiative, Proposition 209. About 3,000 people turned out, which Savage believes helped the initiative, which had been overturned by federal court judge.
[...]
Jew-Baiting Leftists Denounce "Hate Radio"
Richard Poe, June 7, 2002

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?

Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Richard Poe, June 7, 2002; AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE of leftists, Democrats and Muslims has joined forces to muzzle talk radio. Its weapons are advertiser boycotts, smear campaigns, calls for repressive legislation… and Jew-baiting. Talk radio has always antagonized leftists. It allows grassroots Americans to speak out -- and grassroots America despises the Left.
For many years, the "Fairness Doctrine" silenced talk radio. It required stations to provide "equal time" for opposing views. If honestly observed, the rule would have required stations to fill every minute of available airtime with a parade of dissenters, from Save the Whale activists to Holocaust revisionists. Most stations found it easier to avoid political controversy altogether.
[...]
See also Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
Government Media Control: Beware the Government-Media Complex
Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000

Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]

Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Michael Savage, Monday, May 15, 2000; Michael Savage addressing the Commonwealth Club of California
[...]
Bad Reception
How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.
Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998

[...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]

Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: How a Wave of Corporate Consolidations has Turned Bay Area Radio into a Bland Wasteland.; Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 25, 1998; [...]
Disney/ABC owns three radio stations in the Bay Area -- less than half the holdings of CBS and Chancellor. But for industry observers, the company has come to symbolize the worst elements of deregulation and consolidation. The corporation, which also owns the ABC network and San Francisco's KGO-TV, lends its family-values image to KDIA's Radio Disney, promoting features like its "town hall meeting on racism" with Hillary Clinton. But across the bay, at the Disney-owned "Hot Talk" KSFO station, the format is all hate, all the time.
KSFO's hot-talk format was in place before Disney acquired ABC in 1996. But the parent company has made little effort to bring any balance to the station. In just the past few weeks, KSFO star Michael Savage has insulted "the lesbians and feminists from Berkeley," described the incoming Sacramento administration as "Gov. Red Davis and his Marxist Totalitarian Gang," and somehow managed to spin the recent spate of pies tossed at local politicians as a conspiracy by gay rights groups. "Send 'em to Santa Rita for five years with a tube of K-Y jelly," he urged authorities. After the election, Savage treated listeners to this little gem of insight: "The Bay Area is hopeless, especially San Francisco, and will not be turned around except perhaps by plague."
[...]
Complete Listing of Islamic Supreme Council of America Appearances after the terrorist attacks
The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.

Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: The first item on the list is an interview with Michael Savage, on April 3rd, 2002, with a pointer to an MP3 sound recording. ... as I recall, Savage was pretty sane in this interview.
Activists Seek Atlanta Boycott Of Michael Savage
Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]

KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Dickey Broadcasting's Talk WALR-AM is the latest to be targeted by The Coalition For Human Decency
[...]
KSFO's Michael Savage Refuses to Apologize for Suggesting Sex between Students, Homeless
Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.

Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Dartanyan Brown, Ross, CA
An apology from Bay Area talk show host Michael Savage, scheduled to be given to the students of a Marin County high school, was derailed Friday December 10 when an alleged misunderstanding about the age and number of the meetings attendees caused the talk show host to duck out on the meeting at the last minute.
Savage intimated in a broadcast on Disney-owned KSFO-FM, that the possibility of forcible rape was a reason why female high school students might find it exciting to feed homeless people in San Francisco's inner city.
Silent Once Again: Muslims in America
Abdul Malik Mujahid

This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]

Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Abdul Malik Mujahid; This September began with the release of the Eid Stamp by the US Post Office at the ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference in Chicago. The stamp carries beautiful calligraphy of the Eid greeting "Eid Mubarak". But now, as popular radio talkshow host Michael Savage twisted it, the stamp is being read backward to spell "die" instead of "eid." The vocabulary of hate is becoming creative as a congressman who later apologized coined a new term, "diaper head", for Muslims.
[...]
Is Intimidation A Traditional Value?
A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.
By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002

[...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]

DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: A conservative group with a ConWeb mouthpiece wants to boycott Nickelodeon for a show that hasn't appeared on TV yet.; By Terry Krepel, 6/10/2002; [...]
Apparently, boycotts and smear campaigns are bad only when they're used against conservatives. Unlike Lafferty [Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition], at least the people unhappy with Michael Savage have specific statements to attack.
[...]
DISNEY RADIO TALK SHOW HOST-CALLS LANCASTER KIDNAP/RAPE VICTIM'S "SLUTS"
.... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"

[...]

Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: .... Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"; [...]
Talkers Magazine - HEAVY HUNDRED - CLASS OF 2002
It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]

Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: It's that time of the year when the editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America - a popular feature that has also come to be known as the "Heavy Hundred."
[Michael Savage is listed. Some are Ronn Owens and Bernie Ward, two "liberal" talk show hosts. -Ed]
Patriotism & Censorship
Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]

Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Some journalists are silenced, while others seem happy to silence themselves; Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman, November/December 2001 in Extra!
War fever in the wake of the September 11 attacks has led to a wave of self-censorship as well as government pressure on the media. With American flags adorning networks' on-screen logos, journalists are feeling rising pressure to exercise "patriotic" news judgment, while even mild criticism of the military, George W. Bush and U.S. foreign policy are coming to seem taboo.
[...]
Veteran progressive radio host Peter Werbe found that in the wake of the terrorist attacks, his syndicated show was no longer wanted at KSCO-KOMY-AM in Santa Cruz, Calif. On October 6, station co-owner Michael Zwerling came on the air to criticize Werbe’s program. Days later, Kay Zwerling, Michael’s mother, denounced the show’s political content and criticism of the Bush administration in an on-air editorial, saying "partisanship is out; we are all Americans now." She added that "we cannot afford the luxury of political divisiveness." Apparently accusations that peace marchers are committing "treason" and calls for "nuking Afghanistan" made by right-wing syndicated host Michael Savage, who is aired on the station for six hours daily, do not qualify as divisive (Metro Santa Cruz, 10/24/01).
[...]
Nüz: Uncivil Liberty

[...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]

Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: [...]
Meanwhile, over at Santa Cruz-based KSCO-KOMY (1080-AM), civil liberties seemed to have already taken a hit. On Oct. 6, leftist talk-show host Peter Werbe had his program terminated, and though KSCO co-owner Michael Zwerling insisted Werbe was a casualty of no sponsors and few listeners, Werbe, who'd been broadcasting on KOMY-AM for a year, says KSCO had never sought sponsors for his program, which was provided free of charge. As for "few listeners," so many called to complain about the post-Werbeian lack of political balance, that Zwerling's mother, Kay, whom insiders describe as "the power behind the throne," took to the airwaves Oct. 16 and publicly denounced Werbe and his show.
[...]
Rabid Radio - NEW 10/12/2002
By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002
Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]

Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: By George H. Beres, July 16, 2002; Radio, Illinois style, was my constant companion during a mid-June visit I made to my native state.
[...]
Listeners have begun to react with anger in Oregon. The target is a San Francisco-based "shock jock," Michael Savage, whose hate-based broadcasts are heard in much of the nation. His monologues are filled with hate toward women, people of color, liberals and immigrants, especially those of the Muslim faith. A coalition of Portland civic and religious groups hopes to embarrass sponsors of the local network feed into leaving the program.
Here, too, money is the bottom line. Manager of the Portland outlet, KXL, owned by millionaire, Paul Allen, says listener support of Savage's savagery is 100 to 1 over critics.
[...]
Radio Free Fascism - NEW 10/12/2002
By Bassman, March 21, 2002
Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.

Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: By Bassman, March 21, 2002; Listening to freep mouth Michael Savage yesterday, was nothing more than listening to the diatribes of a rabid, fascist propagandist. Between Savage, Limbleah (PigBoy), Dr. Laura, Mike Reagan, and all the rest, it is apparent our AM radio waves have been completely commandeered by the “Blind from the Right”.
[...]
How is it these people can get away, unchallenged, with their lies, libel, and hate-filled rhetoric? [Good question. I've asked it myself. -Ed]
[...]
Note: the following two articles represent a fraction of the total coverage of the Oregon Daily Emerald's coverage of this topic in November and December of 2002, which also included an extensive series of editorials and letters to the editor.
Eugene groups respond to KUGN
Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland
Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002
Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]

KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Local groups offer solutions in the KUGN debate, and one of the controversial shows also raises concerns in Portland; Jennifer Bear, November 21, 2002; Several campus and community groups have been gaining momentum in response to perceived racist comments made by nationally-syndicated radio hosts on KUGN-AM. Although the groups agree that radio personality Michael Savage's show is offensive, opinion differs on what to do about it.
[...]
KUGN talk show content angers students
Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content
Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002
Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]: Concerned students discuss the University's affiliation with a radio station after being offended by content; Jennifer Bear, November 11, 2002; Members of the University community voiced their displeasure at a forum Thursday about ongoing discriminatory remarks heard on KUGN, known as "the voice of the Ducks." The University has a contract with KUGN-AM that grants the station exclusive rights to carry Duck athletic programming in the Eugene-Springfield market.
[...]

Media Coverage of SavageStupidity.Com

Savage sues ‘rats’
Southern Voice covers lawsuit with Action Alert

Shock Radio/TV Host Michael Savage Sues Online Critics
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 11th, 2003
Featuring Thomas Leavitt, co-founder of SavageStupidity.com, and Public Citizen's Paul Levy (attorney representing SavageStupidity.com), as well as a representative from GLAAD.

Take Back The Media Editorial on Lawsuit
Editorial, June 6th, 2003

Editor Thomas Leavitt has been interviewed by on Atlanta radio station Talk Radio 1340 (WALR-AM) by Mike Rose at 3 p.m. EST (noon, PST), a station previously targeted by activists for a boycott, and by Peter Werbe (three times, twice primarily about SavageStupidity.com).

SavageStupidity.Com Co-Founders Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt featured in Fall 2002 edition of The Student Guide, a publication aimed at college and university students in Santa Cruz.

Ousting a Rightwing Savage
SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003

Final Solution
Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :)

Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host
SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.: Southern Voice covers lawsuit with Action Alert
Shock Radio/TV Host Michael Savage Sues Online Critics
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 11th, 2003
Featuring Thomas Leavitt, co-founder of SavageStupidity.com, and Public Citizen's Paul Levy (attorney representing SavageStupidity.com), as well as a representative from GLAAD.

Take Back The Media Editorial on Lawsuit
Editorial, June 6th, 2003

Editor Thomas Leavitt has been interviewed by on Atlanta radio station Talk Radio 1340 (WALR-AM) by Mike Rose at 3 p.m. EST (noon, PST), a station previously targeted by activists for a boycott, and by Peter Werbe (three times, twice primarily about SavageStupidity.com).

SavageStupidity.Com Co-Founders Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt featured in Fall 2002 edition of The Student Guide, a publication aimed at college and university students in Santa Cruz.

Ousting a Rightwing Savage
SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003

Final Solution
Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :)

Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host
SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 11th, 2003; Featuring Thomas Leavitt, co-founder of SavageStupidity.com, and Public Citizen's Paul Levy (attorney representing SavageStupidity.com), as well as a representative from GLAAD.
Take Back The Media Editorial on Lawsuit
Editorial, June 6th, 2003

Editor Thomas Leavitt has been interviewed by on Atlanta radio station Talk Radio 1340 (WALR-AM) by Mike Rose at 3 p.m. EST (noon, PST), a station previously targeted by activists for a boycott, and by Peter Werbe (three times, twice primarily about SavageStupidity.com).

SavageStupidity.Com Co-Founders Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt featured in Fall 2002 edition of The Student Guide, a publication aimed at college and university students in Santa Cruz.

Ousting a Rightwing Savage
SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003

Final Solution
Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :)

Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host
SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.: Editorial, June 6th, 2003
Editor Thomas Leavitt has been interviewed by on Atlanta radio station Talk Radio 1340 (WALR-AM) by Mike Rose at 3 p.m. EST (noon, PST), a station previously targeted by activists for a boycott, and by Peter Werbe (three times, twice primarily about SavageStupidity.com).

SavageStupidity.Com Co-Founders Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt featured in Fall 2002 edition of The Student Guide, a publication aimed at college and university students in Santa Cruz.

Ousting a Rightwing Savage
SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003

Final Solution
Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :)

Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host
SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.
SavageStupidity.Com Co-Founders Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt featured in Fall 2002 edition of The Student Guide, a publication aimed at college and university students in Santa Cruz.

Ousting a Rightwing Savage
SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003

Final Solution
Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :)

Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host
SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.
Ousting a Rightwing Savage SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003 Final Solution Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :) Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.: SavageStupidity.com and Thomas Leavitt are referenced in this article on Savage and MSNBC by Bill Berkowitz of WorkingForChange.com, March 7th, 2003
Final Solution Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :) Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.: Commenting on an article I wrote about the situation in the Middle East, the guy who runs Triopticon.Com wrote "Boy, I sure wish I would've thought of this myself." :)
Savage Attack: Santa Cruz activist takes on right-wing radio host SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.: SavageStupidity.Com and Editor Thomas Leavitt were the lead feature in the July 4th edition of the Santa Cruz Good Times, a local Arts and Entertainment weekly. Letters to the editor in the following two editions also mentioned this site.

"Loose Scruz", weekly column in Good Times, June 27th, 2002:

BALANCING ACT: Santa Cruz activist Thomas Leavitt isn't gonna take it anymore. In response to loud-mouthed, right-wing talk radio show host Michael Savage--whose show, "Savage Nation", airs on KSFO in San Franciso and now reaches 350 markets nationwide--Leavitt has launched a Web site to counter Savage's outrageous comments made over the airwaves. Savage, who claims to have coined the term "compassionate conservative" before Bush ever uttered the words, has unabashedly attacked women, gays and ethnic minorities over the airwaves. According to Leavitt, "This guy makes Dr. Laura and Rush look like wimpy moderates."

Leavitt's Web site, SavageStupidity.com, calls for a boycott of Savage's advertisers and offers a petition calling for the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, which once required radio stations to give equal time to opposing views--the rule was scrapped during the Reagan Administration. The site also hawks anti-Savage paphernaliak, including T-shirts, book bags and coffee mugs, as well as a collection of Nader, Chomsky and Michael Moore prose to balance Savage's rantings. If all else fails, the site offers "Honk If You're Sick Of Hate Radio" license plate frames.

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