Sean Hannity on Michael Savage and Cumulus

Hannity was asked to comment by Politico on a piece they were doing about Michael Savage, given that Savage now runs as Hannity’s replacement on the Cumulus radio stations since Hannity fired Cumulus last year. But, according to Breitbart, Politico refused to run Hannity’s full comment in their ‘puff piece’ and wanted to cut it up in smaller pieces. Hannity refused.

Breitbart managed to get Hannity’s comment on Savage and Cumulus and you can read it below:

The poor guy is just an angry, depressed, and jealous human being who has been hanging around the backwaters of broadcasting for too many years.

Now in his 70’s, it’s sad to see that he is so angry, envious, and obsessed with fellow broadcasters. Perhaps his anger and conflict comes from his skinny dipping days in Fiji with his liberal poet friend Alan Ginsburg, or from having to admit his support of Jerry Brown.

I have never been happier in my broadcast career. I am extremely grateful for my friendship with many prominent local and national hosts all over the country. as well as my over 500 station partners.

Cumulus airs Savage, not on all of their stations, only 2 hours on heritage stations; or on delay. They clearly do not have confidence in him, and his ability to generate revenue.

His show will not grow beyond Cumulus. Revenue will suffer, as he has shown he is incapable of any self control, i.e. when he intentionally made comments about kids’ autism, or comments on MSNBC; and Cumulus has a horrific record when it comes to launching new syndicated shows.

Despite all the spin and propaganda it was my decision to fire Cumulus at the end of my contract and partner with Premiere and other great radio stations around the country. It was extremely difficult working with Cumulus… and to watch them literally destroy many heritage talk stations…such as KGO, WLS, KABC, and many others…and fire some of the best and brightest managers and PD’s in the industry. My show will be growing in terms of audience and revenue as we build new stations, and move to live clears on many great established stations.

For more on the background of this story check out Breitbart’s writeup.


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