Here's an update on the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation vs. Mike Savage contretemps. Savage, a bombastic and conservative San Francisco-based radio personality, is slated to have a talkshow slot on MSNBC, so GLAAD is targeting both the network and its sponsors (see my March 4 posting). In a Washington Post story by Howard Kurtz, GLAAD (with its ally, NOW) boasts of mobilizing more than 2,000 protest letters against a show that has yet to air, but which they know will contain views and ideas Americans ought not to hear. An enraged Savage labels this "Nazism" and "economic terrorism." Moreover, says the Post:
Savage says some of the inflammatory quotes trumpeted by his critics are "eight years old" or "out of context," and "some are said in jest, and they know it."
"It's actually a gay-friendly show," he says. "I'm quite libertarian when it comes to sexuality."
But if GLAAD and NOW have their way, we may never know.
--Stephen H. Miller