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I have heard Weiner state that there are different avenues to god, but he never speaks of his heritage. All he will say on the subject is that he is the "son of immigrants." When his mother died recently, he referred to her as "mother savage." Why will he not even admit that his real name is "Weiner"? I have heard him- on 3 occasions- read newspaper articles about him on the air, and when the article mentioned that he was Jewish, Weiner deliberately skipped over that part or omitted the "Jewish" reference.

How can you explain that his radio colleague, O'Reilly, referred to his not going to "church" instead of not going to a "synagogue"? How come O'Reilly believes that Savage is Christian? Why didn't Savage correct him?

Want more proof that Weiner conceals his Judaism? Here is part of the transcript when Savage appeared on the "Hannity and Colmes" show last year when he was pitching his latest book:

COLMES: I have a concern about some things I have read about you and have heard tapes of you say-
SAVAGE: Good-
COLMES: referring to Madeleine Albright as "Madame Brisket," talking about Joe Lieberman "throwing his bagel into the ring"-
SAVAGE: yes-
COLMES: referring to ACLU attorney, the mythical, "Mark Nobody-berg." There are some people who might infer anti-Semitism from those comments. Can you put that in a context that makes sense?
SAVAGE: Yes, I'd be very happy to. There's no greater supporter of Israel and the Jewish people than the man you are looking at, number 1. And number 2, I am proud to tell you that both I and my children would have qualified for admission to Auschwitz.
COLMES: Well, I understand what you are saying, but can you understand why some people might be upset by those statements?
SAVAGE: They should be upset- they should be upset that people of Jewish backgrounds don't seem to get it. They still back liberal causes when liberalism threatens their survival-

When Hannity accused Savage of making anti-semitic remarks, Savage could have said publicly that he himself was a Jew which would have been his best defense to that accusation. Instead, he beats around the bush by claiming that he would have been "qualified for Auschwitz." What the hell does that mean? Gypsies, communists, and homosexuals were "qualified for Auschwitz" too. The fact is that Weiner will not directly say that he is a Jew.

Normally, I would not care less if a person admits that he is a Jew. It is none of my damn business. The problem is that Weiner stops at nothing to finger all the Jews among the liberals with his insinuations that this liberal is a "corned-beef eater" or he comes from "Brooklyn" or he has "curly-hair" or has a "hooked-nose." Just imagine the outrage were Weiner to refer to a black liberal's "kinky hair" or "big lips." These are racist stereotypes.

It is for this reason that Weiner is dismissed by serious people.

We will just have to disagree.

You haven't been listening to his show if you haven't heard him make tactless comments about other minorities. He's very into self depracation.

I have heard him mention on more than one occasion that he was Jewish (I am not sure he ever said whether he was still practicing) [by the way, he talks much less about his personal life now that his show is national. I don't remember him mentioning his wife since then. He had her on twice before the show was national and used to have a picture of her on the web site.]