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06/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Neal Pollack has Big Ideas."
Neal Pollack has Big Ideas.
That, of course, is why he is America's Greatest Living Author. Pollack deals in concepts larger than most humans are capable of. Here is the latest, which I stand and applaud.
A Savage Lack Of IronyToday I pull back the veil of my "character," which I do in this space periodically to rally you, loyal citizens of the Internet, when one of our own is threatened by the ever-swirling forces of proto-fascist censorship that have overtaken our government and our media. What am I talking about? Let me explain.
Radio-talk-show and weekend MSNBC host Michael Weiner, otherwise known to his half-dozen viewers and listeners as "Michael Savage," has filed a lawsuit against three websites to punish them for making critical comments about him. According to Savage's lawsuit, the sites, Take Back The Media, Michael Savage Sucks, and Savage Stupidity, have appropriated his name without his permission for commercial purposes, among other alleged crimes. This, of course, is nonsense....
....We need to fight back, as a community, in defense of these three websites. That's why I'm proposing an Appropriate Michael Savage's Name For Your Own Purposes day on Thursday, June 26.
That's right. On Thursday, June 26, any of you with a website should appropriate Michael Savage's name for your own purposes. Flood The Zone, as the Republicans like to say. Savage won't be able to sue all of us. If he tries, he'll look like a bigger idiot than he already does.
I tried this tactic once before, on April Fool's Day, in response to Dick and Lynne Cheney's harrassment of our good friends at Whitehouse.org. Hundreds of us made fun of the Cheneys, and that story went away. But this one won't, because Savage, unlike the Cheneys, doesn't have anything better to do. If he somehow manages to win this lawsuit, it would be a stab in the heart of free speech in America. So let's not let him win. Right or left, Republican or Democrat, ideological or not, we all love our freedom of speech. So let's show Michael Savage we have no fear.
Thursday, June 26. Appropriate Michael Savage's Name For Your Own Purposes, whatever those purposes may be. Sharpen your Internet parody blades. Go to it, people.
Thank you, Neal. And pardon the ellipsis, as I'd rather quote you than myself.
Replies: 3 people speak up
"...appropriated his name without his permission for commercial purposes..."? Does that mean Weiner got permission from all the Michael Savages in this country to "appropriate" their name? An Internet search turned up at least one Michael Savage in each state I checked (I stopped at Georgia), so we know it's not a unique name, right? Kinda makes me wish I had a website so I could join in the fun of June 26.
Posted by lonestar @ 06/11/2003 12:16 PM NY
Lonestar, go to Yahoo! and build a website for free. It's easy as hell: http://www.yahoo.com.
Posted by Diogenes @ 06/11/2003 04:11 PM NY
This is gonna be fun! June 26 marked on my calendar...I'm already working in Photoshop on this thing!
Posted by Julie Lewis @ 06/15/2003 12:47 AM NY
