I have not posted on Free Republic for many years and of course had forgotten my password. I have lurked from time to time and followed the Savage threads especially with morbid fascination. I read through many posts from July 1 and 2. Now I am finally inspired to come back. Frankly, I don’t know what it will take for sane conservatives to swear off Savage. The unneccesarily nasty rant against Sarah Palin ( he compared her unfavorably to Biden, you’ll remember), the autism embarrassment, the donation to Brown? One of the reasons I am overly concerned about this is, I admit, my ex-boyfriend was a big Savage follower and this perplexed me. For one thing he was a big marijuana user and you know Savage hates it. I asked him about the political contributions—he said “He explained that.” (reminds me of conversations I used to have with Rajshneesh admirers and other cult members)I didn’t ask about the autism business or Palin. Anyway, I have a theory that his staff hates him because he is probably one of those Nanny Diaries type of bosses, and treats them like crap. So they are letting him go on the air with stuff not well fact-checked. For example I think he still believes that Spanish vote-counting machine story, which has been debunked. A couple of months ago he did a big segment on a documentary about a long-lost VietNam POW, though the guy had been outed as a fraud several days before. After the Woolwich machete terrorism episode, he repeated over and over that the assailants were dead. They weren’t. He’s now repeating the story about Russian troops in America. Next day Glenn Beck, of all people, debunked this. Savage is now, I think, getting a lot of his show prep from a Texas conspiracy theorist who is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast. I won’t mention his name because I don’t want this post deleted, but you know who I mean. This is not a sign of a show that has a bright future. Throughout the spring, he has been casting around for topics, ranging from Jody Arias to listeners’ secret confessions(even George Noory could do better than this). Somewhere on Free Republic, someone, I don’t remember who, posted a list of what all is wrong with Savage. This was several years ago. If you can find it, I suggest reading it.