Posted on 05/28/2009 7:06:18 PM PDT by Mozilla
Out of the 250-plus replies I received regarding my recent article, "The Savage silence of the lambs" and the radio interview Dr. Savage did of me, about half of the respondents took up my challenge to answer the question: "Why have virtually the entire conservative and liberal media so hardened their hearts and closed their bowels of compassion against Michael Savage?"
Here is a summary replies:
* The reason why Fox News, Rush, Hannity, conservative talk radio and the mainstream media daily ignores the work of Michael Savage is because he calls them names all the time.
* Savage has mocking epithets for all the big-named conservative talk show hosts: "Hush Bimbo," "the golfer" (Rush Limbaugh), "the wall-banger" (Sean Hannity), "the leprechaun" (Bill O'Reilly), "the hemorrhoid with ears" (Glenn Beck), etc.
* Because of Savage's ad hominem attacks against the GOP, the liberal mainstream media and conservative talk-show hosts, they are having their revenge by ignoring him during his hour of need. Michael is now reaping what he sowed.
These conservative commentators realize that Savage is head and shoulders above them intellectually, philosophically and spiritually. Because of their lack of intellectual honesty, rather than learning from Dr. Savage or taking his criticisms to heart, they take the intellectually dishonest approach, put on their hypocrite's hat and do the things against Savage that they for 20 years have so bitterly complained that the Democratic Party and the liberal mainstream media did to them ignoring them, slandering them, libeling them, mocking them. It is shameless hypocrisy writ large!
Furthermore, unlike Fox News, Rush, and Others, Savage was never in the tank for the Republican Party or the one-world socialism of Bush 41, Clinton or Bush 43, leading to Obama. Neither did Savage behave as a mouthpiece for the GOP.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
WND’s take on why the big names don’t come out and back Savage.
“he is above them spiritually, economically and...”
Says who? Spiritually, if I were him, I’d be concerned for we are accountable for every word that proceeds out of our mouth. I worry about that myself sometimes - we all should - but those who talk for a living are particularly vulnerable.
lol..yeah well, I find Savage entertaining and occasionally insightful, but let's not get carried away.
Oops - don’t know where I got “economically” from other than that’s all that’s in the news these days.
I don’t know why anyone thinks Savage is spiritually and intellectually superior to the likes of Prager, Medved, Hewitt, and so forth. No way.
Savage is truly on his own IMO and it’s what he deserves. He makes some points and keeps issues alive the others don’t do. So he’s helpful, but he’s not going to be RNC chair anytime soon.
I would be afraid to associate with him, since I would not want to apologize for him, later.
If you want the team to come to your defense, you should be a team player.
Savage is the lone ranger by choice, and he has no right to complain.
I don’t know anyone on the air who can discuss ethics, morals, and politics like Prager. He’s a gentleman. Let’s the caller talk. And makes sure he understands the caller before he responds. Savage is none of this.
I would agree that Savage “savages” his
conservative competition with name calling
and that this could be why he’s dangling
in the wind. However... when Savage has
a guest, he lets them speak until they
have said what they need to say.
THAT’S refreshing.
Savage used to have good ideas. Since he got thrown off TV, he has become too angry to understand, let alone listen to!
He’s smarter than the big names he makes fun of. That much should be obvious to all.
Savage is being blackballed just like orson wells was...and just like orson wells, savage is very smart.
Ditto to that. He let’s the authors and experts have a long interrupted say. I like that about the show.
Face it Folks , We Are All On Our Own in This.
Why wasn't this posted in "Infantile Humor?"
Savage has his moments, but the name calling is mostly counter-productive (except for “the leprechaun”).
What the hell does that mean?!?!?!?
Savage just showing off his "intellectual" and "spiritual" superiority.
Savage mocks his peers and yet expects those same peers to come to his defense? LOL! Savage’s reaping what he sowed. OTOH, his competition do understand that the gov’t are coming after them too and they should circle the wagons a little more.
Savage is a genius in some ways but an idiot at human relations. You do not attract people to support you with childish insults and name calling.
How would any of you Savage sycophants like being called a hemorrhoid with ears?
He’s a Panderer with Bi Polar disease.
Savage sounds good to me when I'm in a bad mood.
I've been in a bad mood since last October.
Something Savage doesn’t know how to do. His only reason for callers, to give him his next rant subject … seldom lets the caller finish talking. I was challenged by a friend of mine to give Savage six months, then evaluate. My evaluation … many good ideas, much substance can be found in his talking points, often wrong in his observations of history, self promoting. Often asks his caller a question, hesitates, and just when the caller begins to respond, he cuts them off and starts his rant. I no longer listen to Savage (and I gave it more than six months). ;-)
I like it when the caller is agreeing with him and he cuts them off and tears them a new one with his rant.
Obviously this writer is huge into spin. Lack of intellectual honesty????? That moniker applies to Savage and in a huge way - during Bush 43's two terms he would one day praise Bush, and then the next tear him down. Savage would go on rants and raves that only further convinced me that he is not conservative, but a wolf in sheeps clothing trying to make conservatives in this country appear as racists and mean to anyone not like them. Most of Savage's show was filled with no evidence but lots of innuendo and ad hominem attacks - mostly aimed at conservatives while giving passes to liberals. Savage is either a stooge for the liberals in this country or he's one of them of his own choosing.
Then you don’t need Savage!
What you may need is to STOP listening to his mean spirited rants and listen to something more positive!
I won’t recommend anyone, I will leave that choice up to you to find your favs.
Pathetic damage control, a paid advertisement.
This guy makes a pretty good case for Savage, if you read the whole article.
But the fact is, you reap what you sow.
For instance, there’s nothing wrong with pointing out when Rush is wrong, or you think he is wrong. But do it rationally and charitably, since he’s on your side most of the time.
As for Savage being more intelligent than Rush, that’s a pretty hard case to make.
Uh...I'm not sure that's a reason for a news organization to not cover something newsworthy.
Other talk show hosts ignoring it is one thing-- but for a News Organization to do that because they were called names sets a bad precedent. CNN, MSNBC are guilty of it as well with regard to the tea parties.
This IS NOT THE STUFF of Democracies! It is an insane capitulation of the British Government; and no matter what else; everyone should be defending Michael Savage.
“This IS NOT THE STUFF of Democracies! It is an insane capitulation of the British Government; and no matter what else; everyone should be defending Michael Savage.”
And I think the idea for the Brits came from the USA government, to make an example of Michael. The others mentioned in the article say nothing because they are afraid they will be targeted next. That kind of thinking worked out real well in Nazi Germany/sarc. As someone else posted above, it appears we are all on our own in this.....
The reason why Rush is so popular and despised by the Left is that he doesn't come off as a barking, wild-eyed, foaming at the mouth extremist. He doesn't fit the Left's template of what conservatives are and that's why he's hated. That's why he's targeted by the Left. It's not Rush's fault that he knows how to deal with the Left better than Savage. But I don't recall Rush ever saying anything about Savage.
I like Savage, and he serves his niche for the right as to who he is. He shouldn't change. But he shouldn't be a hater, either.
he’s no wolf in sheeps clothing, he is just unstable, one day he is a wigwam, the other day he is a teepee
he is two tents!
Anyways, he is fun to lisen to sometimes, but intellectually superior? He is more cynical, and THAT we do need now, I am so sick of the blind support for the GOP that Rush and Hannity played since they went on the air and had to see Bush destroy and only NOW see it as being a waste of time acting like the GOP is some answer
but superior?? NO ONE tops Rush.
It is easy to top hannity on smarts, but he does do good interviewing I think. Beck is different as Savage is different, but I am undecided who is smarter, they are both close in intellect regardless how many books Savage wrote
Well said!
I agree. And when his rants are on topic, he is really concise.
Oh BS. Savage's show has also become BORING as he rambles on in stream of consciousness about meatball recipes, old cars, etc.
He's just not worth listening to anymore.
I tried to listen to him once and it hurt my head and ears. He is too strident for me.
"The reason why Fox News, Rush, Hannity, conservative talk radio and the mainstream media daily ignores the work of Michael Savage is because he calls them names all the time."Savage has mocking epithets for all the big-named conservative talk show hosts: "Hush Bimbo," "the golfer" (Rush Limbaugh), "the wall-banger" (Sean Hannity), "the leprechaun" (Bill O'Reilly), "the hemorrhoid with ears" (Glenn Beck), etc." -- WND
Savage expects that those he attacked, like Rush, Hannity, etc (funny I don't see Mark Levin's name listed there, and Mark rips on Savage big time), come out and defend him? ROTFLOL!
You keep trashing conservatives and then expect them to come to your defense, Weiner? That's just ridiculous. You can't expect the same folks you openly mock with your derisive nicknames to help you out, now. No man is an island, and that snaggletooth Savage is about to learn that lesson the hard way.
Savage is an opto-pessimist..
He hopes for the best but fully expects the worst..
Are his opinions more sound than your own?
sometimes, certainly more than Savages, yes.
Savage is intellectually and spiritually above David Duke, and not much else.
Well, Rod Blagojevich, maybe...
I loved when he had some liberal “educator” on who started talking down to him, like “If you had an education like I do then you’d know...”
Then he reminded her it’s “Dr. Savage.” Her reaction was entertaining.
Actually, isn’t it something like two bachelors, two masters and a Ph.D.?
I know that Savage is caustic and rude, but I have a hard time believing you listen to his show. Stooge for the liberals?????
I know that Savage is caustic and rude, but I have a hard time believing you listen to his show. Stooge for the liberals?????
You're saying a conservative can't be caustic and rude?
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