Michael Savage (talk radio host) has been advertising Kel Tec recently. Good or bad?

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I don't know why Kel-tec is advertising. Seems to me that they are always months behind on building their most popular products.

Funny, they have been making the lightest AND smallest .32ACP and 9mm handguns for YEARS before any large company even tried to compete. They created their own market! Even their popular P3AT was ahead of the LCP copy by a number of years.

But if you meant they were backlogged then that only happens when demand is high... which is has been since, well, each model of theirs has became available! :neener:

Justin
 
It's certainly good for Kel Tec.

After all, he's got people talking about Kel Tec. Which is presumably what they hired him to do.
 
Why isn't 'freedom' capitalized?
Why is there a period after 'freedom'? Is it a complete sentence?
You couldn't give me that gun.
 
Personally I don't care who advertises what product. I make my decisions based on performance and reliability not emotions.
 
Personally I don't care who advertises what product. I make my decisions based on performance and reliability not emotions.

You say you're NEVER influenced by advertising, I find that hard to believe.

Wyatt, you're an oak!
 
For the most part I like Mike, abrasive? yea... but so am I, so I'm told.

Anyways good for Kel-tec, about time we see some "main-stream" gun ads.
 
I'd rather not have an unhinged, irrational wingnut like Michael Savage being used as the face for RKBA, but no one asked me.

I disagree completely. Michael may be off his rocker on occasion, but I doubt this comment would be made if ANYONE on the wing-nut LEFT were to make such a commercial. I would bet that would be welcomed with open arms, wingnut or not.
 
Wingnut, lunatic, wacko, unhinged such hate for a guy who says whats on his mind and attempts to instill a little passion into some issues that are relavent to freedom in this country.
He is certainly a gun owner and is so for the most basic reason, personal defense, RKBA.
He isn't a hunter, collector or into competition as so many try to define the 2a, only a guy who believes in the individual right to self protection and self determination, WOW pretty lunatic notions for sure.
 
I have listened to him off and on and read some of his books and I must too be a lunatic.
Love of dogs, fine food, automobiles, the water and boats, respect for borders, dislike of freeloaders and bums, fondness of nostalgia.
I'm sure there are others I missed but none have passed the lunatic test.
 
Savage

Long-time listener and to call him a "wingnut" shows ignorance. I enjoy his literary allusions to Melville most. I have one of his twenty books on my shelf, "Plant a Tree." As for the Kel-Tec, I would expect nothing less from a Second Amendment advocate than to advertise pistols.
 
Having Savage endorse your product is like having Al Sharpton endorse it; he's popular in some quarters, hated in others, very little middle ground. And definitely not mainstream. If you're not a conservative (and while it's more likely that the target market for their products trend conservative, one would think it's not exclusively so) I don't see this persuading you to buy a Keltec product or think more favorably about the company.
 
mustang_steve said:
HOWEVER.....that KelTec P3AT is sweet....I want one! If they skipped the CT laser and went with a set of very low profile tritium night sights, I'd like it even better.

Not sure how they'd do that, what with the slide and sights on a Kel-tec being the same thing.
 
Having Michael Savage tout the virtues of gun purchasing is like Michael Moore touting anti gun ownership. You either love or hate both these guys. I hate both of them and I think most people do. Extremism is not for everyone.
 
Now an extremist, just what crazy extremist views does this guy have? To use Sharpton and Moore as counter examples is quite disingenuious.
 
On July 7, Savage was fired from his MSNBC television show after remarks made in response to a caller, later identified as prank caller Bob Foster, who insulted Savage's teeth. Savage then asked if Foster was a "sodomite", to which the caller answered, "Yes." Savage then said to the caller, "Oh, so you're one of those sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig; how's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig? You got nothing better to do than to put me down, you piece of garbage? You got nothing to do today? Go eat a sausage, and choke on it. Get trichinosis. Now do we have another nice caller here who's busy because he didn't have a nice night in the bathhouse who's angry at me today? Put another, put another sodomite on....no more calls?...I don't care about these bums; they mean nothing to me. They're all sausages."
 
Classic Savage. Now, if we can only get KelTec to only advertise on shows we like, er, make that shows I like, because we may like different shows, oh my, this is getting confusing . . . :banghead: . . . Face it, if we only bought products who advertised on shows we fully approved of, and boycotted products who advertised on shows we disapproved of, well, the list of products we could buy would probably be pretty small. Carry on, KelTec, special run guns advertising the Bill of Rights can't be all bad.
 
Yes and if you have watched MSNBC lately you will have seen some very offensive diatribes from their commentators still.
I don't remember if it was teeth that brought on that rant or something else but suffice it to say I was not offended by it and I never thought that TV was savages best medium.
 
Michael Savage appears to be on the right politically, socially, etc.

My question is how best he and others, e.g. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, et al should approach the world from what I believe is a unique location, behind an AM radio microphone.

For my money, and these guys don't always do this, personal attacks are a mistake. I would much prefer that they argue their positions on fact, in a classical debating approach. However, such an approach isn't nearly as entertaining to many people; who I think prefer the loud, boisterous, and at times, name calling style.

Another question is who the advertising is designed to reach; I expect in many cases, Savage is "preaching to the choir"...it is more a question of whether people who support the right to keep and bear arms know about Kel-Tec products, or think they make a good quality product; if they like Michael Savage, they may take a first or second look at the product. If people are liberal in their thinking, and believe guns should be restricted, outlawed, etc. it is unlikely in my thinking that they are going to change their mind listening to someone like Savage.

Just my 2 cents; YMMV
 
Savage may be the last gun owning non-LEO in San Francisco.Good for him.I've been listening to him on AM 790 for about two years.He may be abrasive,but I have yet to hear anything I'd disagree with,factually.
 
Yes he is an extremist.

Extreme right wing fanatic or extreme far right on the political spectrum. Not the classical way someone calls someone or something else an extremeist but it is correct usage. This is not to be confused with radical. He is not a radical.
 
I don't even want to know who this guy is, and why he is pimping that cholohorrific lettered 3rd tier pistol to the masses.

The cream rises to the top .... hopefully this is a sinker.
 
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