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08/01/2003 Archived Entry: "I've got the coolest readers."
I've got the coolest readers.
B3 reader ScarletPimpernel sent this to me today, and I had to share it with y'all. SP decided to give a call to America's Favorite Hatemonger Who Recently Lost a TV Show On MSNBC:
Inspired by the loss of his TV show to an angry outburst at a caller, here's
my attempt last night to provoke Michael Savage off the radio.
(Rough Transcript)
MS: Okay, I wanna hear from you callers out there, the ones who were raised
by leftist parents... all you red-diaper doper babies out there. I wanna
hear if you liked them, if they screwed you up, whatever. Our first call's
from Justin in Los Angeles. Justin, welcome to the Savage Nation.
Justin (S.P.): Hi Michael. I'm definitely one of those kids-of-leftists
you're talking about. My father was very big into civil rights and poverty
issues back in the sixties. I hate to disappoint you though: he wasn't
really a hippie or anything like that, he was more a nerdy kind of activist,
you know, the kind with short hair...
MS: Uh-huh.
Justin: And I guess, 'cuz he spent a lot of time trying to help out other
people and causes and the like, he wasn't really home all that much, or
not as much as he could've been, and I know it must've had some impact on
the family, but y'know what?
MS: What?
Justin: You aren't fit to lick his boots.
MS: (enraged) What?! What the hell do you know about me? What the hell do
you know about anything? You don't know anything about me, about what I've
done... about my work in nutrition, in conservation... anything! How would
you know anything about me?
Justin: Well, I hear what you say on the radio...
MS: You don't know anything! You're just stupid, like the rest of them,
what do you know?
Justin: I've heard your mother still cries when you try to seduce her...
MS: WHAT! YOU BASTARD! You FILTHY FILTHY BASTARD! You just come here and
say that! You just come down to the studio... any time any place, I swear
to god you filthy, filthy miserable leftist commie son of a bitch... (etc.
etc. for another minute or two...)
--- Since the show's on a seven second delay I'm sure they cut my last line off
the air, but there was no question he heard it. Damn near had an aneurysm.
Maybe next time.
I highly suggest you try this sometime: call into the
Michael Savage show, talk your way past the screener and just say something
intensely cruel to him. You wouldn't believe how satisfying it is. -SP
Bravo. Bravo. Does anyone have audio of this? Email me if you do.
Replies: 6 people speak up
Folks, always run a cassette or SOMETHING when you make these calls! Blah3 will gladly post the file. Great call! MS is such a sitting duck and a ticking time bomb. I gotta hear this.
Posted by Hoffmania! @ 08/02/2003 05:31 AM NY
Long John Nebel was a NY legend in the early days of talkradio. But he had a hair trigger, not unlike MS. A handful of folks loved to yank his chain.
Sound files of this phenom are actually online at:
http://www.hankhayes.com/page2.html
I'm sure Blah3 would make a section of crank calls here. Hope this site inspires all of you!
Posted by Hoffmania! @ 08/02/2003 05:39 AM NY
Hoff,
I remember Nebel! He was the inspiration for an awful lot of talkers, including poor Alan Colmes (who was better on his worst day on the radio than on his best day as Hannity's punching bag).
Posted by editor @ 08/02/2003 11:48 AM NY
Then you must've also grown up listening to Brad Crandall and Jean Shepherd. Those guys were giants. Shep never took calls of course, but no one today has his talent as a monologist.
Nebel in his later years just became cranky, but he did make his mark as a pitchman.
Savage is none of these. You gotta start your own version of Bababooey here...and for TBTM Radio. The MS crank calls of the week.
READERS: Get to work.
Posted by Hoffmania! @ 08/02/2003 01:40 PM NY
Bravo, indeed. I love that his so proud of his "work on nutrition."
Posted by Tom Dissento @ 08/02/2003 11:54 PM NY
you need to give out his phone number, and what time he is on. i get enough right wing garbage on tv, so ive never bothered with repugnant radio. i dont even know what station savage is on here in chicago, but id love to yank his chain (especially if he was wearing a choaker collar
Posted by justin @ 08/05/2003 03:44 PM NY
