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MELISSA ETHERIDGE - CAA CAUGHT IN SAVAGE FEUD
The giant Creative Artists Agency apparently got more than it bargained for after it announced that it had signed conservative talk-show host Michael Savage as a client this week. No sooner had his name been added to its roster than Savage ranted on the air against another CAA client, singer Melissa Etheridge, who thanked her wife, Tammy Lyn Michaels, when she accepted an Oscar during Sunday's televised Academy Awards presentations. "I don't like a woman married to a woman," Savage railed. "It makes me want to puke." As for children raised by two women, Savage stormed, "I think it's child abuse." CAA quickly found itself in the center of the conflict. Late on Thursday, E! Entertainment's website said that it had received a terse email from a CAA representative that read only: "No longer rep him."
02/03/2007
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Annika 
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posted on 04/03/2007 00:16
Good point, Cliff. It's not like he isn't known for making obnoxious remarks,
though, I guess I just thought they would have been prepared for that. But
you're absolutely right, they are under no obligation to keep him on board.
Especially as he is just one client and he probably just offended the rest of
their client roster who would then protest and threaten to leave the company.
Smart move on CAA's part, actually.
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Cliff 
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posted on 04/03/2007 02:12
Plus there is, or should be, a distinction between liberal opinions,
conservative opinions and bigoted hate-mongering opinions. I wouldn't want
someone dropped for supporting Bush - regardless of how I feel about such an
inexplicable point of view - but expressing that kind of hate for any group
isn't conservative.
And if it is - see Anne Coulter's recent shriek-gibber at CPAC - then that's
good to know too.
