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Michael Savage and Rockstar Energy Drink

Did you know about this connection, and do you care?

  • I knew about it and I don't care

    Votes: 7 20.6%

  • I knew about it and I care

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • I didn't know about it but I don't care

    Votes: 22 64.7%

  • I didn't know about it but now I care

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • Total voters
    34
Khayembii Communique

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The question is, did you know about this connection, and do you care?

Rockstar Energy Drink Doesn't Want Consumers To Know About Connection To Shock Jock Michael Savage

Did you know ultra-conservative talk radio guy Michael Savage has intimate family connections to Rockstar Energy Drink? If lawyers for the company have their way, you wouldn't, because over the past week they've started going after people who have publicized the connection. They managed to get one guy's "Boycott Rockstar" facebook account closed without warning, and threatened him with a business libel lawsuit if he didn't publicly apologize. A gay news website, gaywired.com, has had to publish a partial retraction. None of this changes the fact that Michael Savage's son is listed as the founder and CEO of Rockstar, or that Michael Savage's wife is listed as the director, treasurer, and secretary of both Rockstar and Savage Productions. Or that both companies share the same address.

For those who don't know who he is, Michael Savage—whose real last name is Weiner—is a shock jock who likes to make outrageous statements about, among other things, gays and immigrants. Specifically, he doesn't like either of those groups, and occasionally pops up in the media for (real examples) telling a gay caller to get AIDS and die and calling for the banning of all Muslim immigration to the U.S. He's also a bestselling writer who's written several books on herbalism and homeopathy, which is certainly in the same sphere of expertise as formulating an herb-laden energy drink. Who knows, maybe his son read his dad's books in private.

We're not calling for a boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink—personally, I think Savage is a giant colostomy bag of a man, but I don't buy energy drinks in the first place—but we think companies owe their consumers a fair amount of transparency when it comes to who's behind a product, or where the profits are going. Imagine buying your favorite ketchup and assuming it's politically meaningless, and then finding out Michael Moore rakes in cash from it. Yes, Michael Moore. How's that ketchup taste now?

Anyway, so now you know. Michael Savage officially has nothing to do with Rockstar Energy Drink. His son, his wife, and his address are all participants, however.

Consumerist
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Imagine buying your favorite ketchup and assuming it's politically meaningless, and then finding out Michael Moore rakes in cash from it. Yes, Michael Moore. How's that ketchup taste now?
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Like ketchup.
 
celticlord said:
Like ketchup.
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I like catsup better.

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"family connections" sounds like code for "no actual connection." If he were involved why would he hide it?
 
Khayembii Communique said:
The question is, did you know about this connection, and do you care?
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Yes I know his son owns Rockstar energy drinks. Even though I am fan of Michael Savage I do not have a fridge full of his son's energy drinks. I might try rockstar cola energy drink if I ever see it on the store shelf. I usually by energy drinks from the dollar tree or Big-Lots where I can get energy drinks for a dollar or less.

Rockstar Energy Drink Doesn't Want Consumers To Know About Connection To Shock Jock Michael Savage

Did you know ultra-conservative talk radio guy Michael Savage has intimate family connections to Rockstar Energy Drink?
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I know this because I listen to the Michael Savage show. He talked about how his son runs Rockstar energy drinks.


If lawyers for the company have their way, you wouldn't, because over the past week they've started going after people who have publicized the connection.
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They better shut down the Michael Savage show then. Thats where I heard about Rockstar energy drinks. They shold also probably shut down wikipedia too seeing how it also mentions that Michael Savage's son owns rockstar energy drinks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_(drink)
Rockstar (or ROCKST★R) is an energy drink created in 1986. Rockstar is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is owned by Russell Weiner, son of radio personality Michael Savage[1





We're not calling for a boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink—personally, I think Savage is a giant colostomy bag of a man, but I don't buy energy drinks in the first place—but we think companies owe their consumers a fair amount of transparency when it comes to who's behind a product, or where the profits are going.
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That is a pack of lies. Why bring it up in some conspiracy article trying to hint that Savage has something to do with it all? leftist crack me up. That whole article can be summed up in the following sentence- "Oh no we don't like Michael Savage's views on gays and trannys lets try to ruin his son instead seeing how we can't touch Savage."
 
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I knew, and I didn't care then just as I don't care now.
 
winston53660 said:
I like catsup better.
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Well, if you're going to get technical about it....
Mayonnaise for the burger, salt for the fries.

And if Michael Moore is standing outside the window drooling and hungry, so much the better.
 
celticlord said:
Well, if you're going to get technical about it....
Mayonnaise for the burger, salt for the fries.

And if Michael Moore is standing outside the window drooling and hungry, so much the better.
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Michael Moore might break that glass window if you are sitting there teasing him a burger.
 
Having heard him a time or three, I think the more likely scenario is that he chugs a couple cases of the stuff before he goes on air.
 
celticlord said:
Well, if you're going to get technical about it....
Mayonnaise for the burger, salt for the fries.

And if Michael Moore is standing outside the window drooling and hungry, so much the better.
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*slurp* ahhh Rock Star Energy drink

Hey look Savage's just exploded because a liberal likes his drink:rofl
 
When I think of "RockStar", I think of cocaine. The word is slang for crackhead. Michael Savage's whole family are drug dealers. LOL.
 
The way I see it, this is all the more reason to buy and drink as much Rockstar as possible.

If his wife makes enough money, perhaps it will convince him to retire.

Otherwise, I don't care. I hate Communism worse than I've ever hated Savage, and I consider weapons a far more intimate and personal product than beverages, and my favorite small arms still came out of Soviet Russia.
 
I knew, don't really care to much. I always did find it Ironic with Savage talking about the moral decay of this country while his son's business is the sponser of Girls Gone Wild.
 
Zyphlin said:
I knew, don't really care to much. I always did find it Ironic with Savage talking about the moral decay of this country while his son's business is the sponser of Girls Gone Wild.
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That was research and fact finding. Can't have evidence of moral decay without some girls gone wild, ya know!;)
 
I don't care. I've never heard of this drink...but even if I consumed it regularly, I still wouldn't care. I'm a Dr Pepper man myself. The political views of the people who manufacture my beverages are about the last thing on my mind. This seems especially overblown since the owner is not Michael Savage himself, but his son. I don't see any reason to punish him just for being a Weiner. ;)

Besides, I think Michael Savage is just a shock jock who says the things he says to make money from his less-than-intelligent listeners. I doubt he actually believes some of the things he says. Maybe if I consumed this product and it was owned by someone who I actually thought was being serious like David Duke, I'd consider boycotting it.
 
My faith in the energy drink industry is forever shaken. :lol:
 
Khayembii Communique said:
The question is, did you know about this connection, and do you care?

Rockstar Energy Drink Doesn't Want Consumers To Know About Connection To Shock Jock Michael Savage

Did you know ultra-conservative talk radio guy Michael Savage has intimate family connections to Rockstar Energy Drink? If lawyers for the company have their way, you wouldn't, because over the past week they've started going after people who have publicized the connection. They managed to get one guy's "Boycott Rockstar" facebook account closed without warning, and threatened him with a business libel lawsuit if he didn't publicly apologize. A gay news website, gaywired.com, has had to publish a partial retraction. None of this changes the fact that Michael Savage's son is listed as the founder and CEO of Rockstar, or that Michael Savage's wife is listed as the director, treasurer, and secretary of both Rockstar and Savage Productions. Or that both companies share the same address.

For those who don't know who he is, Michael Savage—whose real last name is Weiner—is a shock jock who likes to make outrageous statements about, among other things, gays and immigrants. Specifically, he doesn't like either of those groups, and occasionally pops up in the media for (real examples) telling a gay caller to get AIDS and die and calling for the banning of all Muslim immigration to the U.S. He's also a bestselling writer who's written several books on herbalism and homeopathy, which is certainly in the same sphere of expertise as formulating an herb-laden energy drink. Who knows, maybe his son read his dad's books in private.

We're not calling for a boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink—personally, I think Savage is a giant colostomy bag of a man, but I don't buy energy drinks in the first place—but we think companies owe their consumers a fair amount of transparency when it comes to who's behind a product, or where the profits are going. Imagine buying your favorite ketchup and assuming it's politically meaningless, and then finding out Michael Moore rakes in cash from it. Yes, Michael Moore. How's that ketchup taste now?

Anyway, so now you know. Michael Savage officially has nothing to do with Rockstar Energy Drink. His son, his wife, and his address are all participants, however.

Consumerist
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It makes sense that someone selling a product doesn't want to be connected with controversy because that cuts off a customer pool.

I don't wear my Club Git'mo shirt to work for that reason ;)
 
Red Bull is so much better.

The hot chicks agree...

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Honestly, it's Michael Savage...who cares?

Even more, it's Savage and a crappy energy drink...
 
Are celebrities not allowed to own shares of a company now, or something?
 
*yawn* ok. Now that I know this, I'm going to buy Rockstar Energy. Who wants to join a group supporting them? lol. Nah, too much trouble, I'm just going to look at porn. see you guys in a min....
 
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