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CNSNews.com) - Broadcaster Michael Savage was fired from his job as an MSNBC talk show host Monday for making what the cable channel called "inappropriate" comments to a homosexual caller.
The comments were made during Savage's July 5 broadcast when the broadcaster told a homosexual caller to the show that he should "get AIDS and die," and suggesting the caller "eat a sausage and choke on it - get trichinosis."
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"MSNBC has now found itself broadcasting exactly the kind of verbal assaults GLAAD's been warning them about for the past five months," said GLAAD News Media Director Cathy Renna. "To their credit, MSNBC and NBC News have backed up their promises to hold Savage accountable for his behavior."
Savage had been the subject of a GLAAD campaign targeting commercial advertisers, seeking to have those corporations withdraw their advertising from the show, which made its debut this past spring.
GLAAD launched a similar campaign in 2000 against broadcaster Dr. Laura Schlessinger when she launched a television talk show to complement her radio program. Like the Savage effort, GLAAD's targeting of Schlessinger's show was predicated on her opposition to homosexuality.