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Michael Savage Has Doubts About Trump. His Conservative Radio Audience Does Not.
The New York Times ^ | June 18, 2019 | Jeremy W. Peters

Posted on 06/19/2019 12:56:09 PM PDT by TBP

Now Mr. Savage is an outlier once again, dismayed more each day as the budget deficit continues to swell, thousands of new migrants are apprehended at the border, and the wall Mr. Trump promised to erect and make Mexico pay for remains unbuilt.

“Read my lips: no new immigrants,” Mr. Savage said one recent day, taking a swipe at what he says is just one of the president’s major unfulfilled promises.

But his skeptical take is not something many of his 7.5 million weekly listeners seem to want to hear as the president prepares to kick off his re-election campaign Tuesday with a rally in Florida.

“To too many people he’s not a human being, he’s a demigod,” Mr. Savage said one afternoon after wrapping up a broadcast from his home studio, which sits on a hilltop overlooking San Francisco Bay. This especially includes his colleagues in the conservative media, he said. “It’s embarrassing to listen to some of these people.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; savage; savagenation; trump
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You know I'm a Savage fan, and some of his points are valid. He says he plans to vote for Trump, but he's apparently not a Trumpbot.
1 posted on 06/19/2019 12:56:09 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

There simply is no other alternative to Trump.


2 posted on 06/19/2019 12:57:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TBP

MS is a jealous little twerp who, instead of going after all the commies on the left, singles out Trump. He’s nuts. And, yes, Trump is our only chance.


3 posted on 06/19/2019 12:59:00 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: TBP

I always though Weiner’s act was just a big schtick.


4 posted on 06/19/2019 12:59:05 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Who cares about Savage? He’s not even on in NY anymore.


5 posted on 06/19/2019 1:00:13 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: TBP

I can’t stand Weiner. I have doubts about all these politicians including Trump. I don’t see an alternative right now. Trump is the only game in town.


6 posted on 06/19/2019 1:00:47 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Just to note, some may not know, Weiner is his legal name.

Michael Savage is a stage name he adopted for his public persona.


7 posted on 06/19/2019 1:02:25 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: TBP

Some of his points are valid, of course ... but the good doctor is not real happy with President Trump since Trump has become quite close with Sean Hannity (and will appear on his program tonight). Savage really doesn’t like Hannity ..........


8 posted on 06/19/2019 1:02:54 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: TBP

Savage is a nutcase and always has been.


9 posted on 06/19/2019 1:03:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: TBP

Wonder if he’ll now join up with Glenn Beck.


10 posted on 06/19/2019 1:03:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Like Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).


11 posted on 06/19/2019 1:04:14 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Fido969

I had this guy pegged as a fraud years ago. He’s in good company, though. I know the talk radio business pretty well, and most of the big personalities in that industry are frauds.


12 posted on 06/19/2019 1:05:59 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: dfwgator

“There simply is no other alternative to Trump.”

It’s Trump and the season is simple. It’s trump because there is no alternative.

Thanks for your support.


13 posted on 06/19/2019 1:09:01 PM PDT by coaster123 (Trump fights for you. Fight for him.)
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To: TBP

I’m generally a Savage fan also, but the AM radio format drives me crazy. the shortened periods and numerous ads means arguments are mostly just catch phrases and very general.


14 posted on 06/19/2019 1:09:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: TBP

I’m generally a Savage fan also, but the AM radio format drives me crazy. the shortened periods and numerous ads means arguments are mostly just catch phrases and very general.


15 posted on 06/19/2019 1:10:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Alberta's Child

I agree that most of them are doing schtick. “I am a great American!” Do you consider Limbaugh to be a fraud?


16 posted on 06/19/2019 1:10:16 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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“Read my lips: no new immigrants,” Mr. Savage said one recent day, taking a swipe at what he says is just one of the president’s major unfulfilled promises.

He's not the only 1 who questions POTUS #45 campaign promise. Here is Chris Muir's 6/09/2019 "Day by Day" web comic.


17 posted on 06/19/2019 1:10:25 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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You know I’m a Savage fan, and some of his points are valid.
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Savage is his own man. He does blow warm and cold at different times, but he is solidly conservative. The New York Slime scours the terrain everyday in search of anything negative on Trump. They caught Savage on one of his days when he was down on Trump and, of course, that’s news for the Slimes. I respect Savage because he is unvarnished and lets his audience know what he thinks. He was perhaps the only conservative talk show radio host who pegged Obozo as a fraud from the oughtset and wasn’t afraid to call him a usurper.


18 posted on 06/19/2019 1:13:05 PM PDT by iontheball
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New York Times! Okay better check with Mike S. first.


19 posted on 06/19/2019 1:14:08 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: TakebackGOP; Psalm 144

He joined up with Stabby the Clown Glenn Beck (who admits he “might have voted for Hillary Clinton”).

That’s pretty much all I needed to know to make me wary again.


20 posted on 06/19/2019 1:14:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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