Posted on 06/19/2004 10:42:54 AM PDT by attiladhun2
Have you ever been greatly impressed after moving to some new town only later to become disappointed? After driving around this new town for a time, you began to notice its seemy side. By the time you left this town for good, the good impression you first received was replaced by the impression of its seemy side, such that it is this impression that becomes your permanent view of the place. The Savage Nation is just such a place.
My wife and I were driving across country about one month after 9-11. We were on our way to Florida on a vacation to visit relatives in St. Pete. It was late afternoon somewhere in the desert between Tucson and El Paso. My wife was dozing in the seat next to mine while I was checking the radio for a station with decent reception. I began to hear a man I thought made good sense. "Listen to this fellah," I said to her, "he has spoken more truth in two minutes than a lot of folks spout in a lifetime." I even had my wife write down his name so I could look him up on the Internet at the first opportunity. Such was my first impression of the Savage Nation.
I became a devoted drivetime listener. I even began to think his radio presence was superior to that of Rush. However, I have now concluded that not only is Savage little more that a self-serving empty suit, but his constant Bush-bashing rhetoric could actually help put Lurch over the top in November. I don't know how you all feel about that, but I believe four years of Stoneface might even cause some of us to look with some small degree of fondness for der Schlickmeister years.
Savage has a way of pontificating on subjects of which he knows next to nothing. When he is proven to be wrong by fact or circumstance, he never cops to it, you can be assured of that. You never hear his callers mention his gaffs because his screeners won't let those callers through. Case in point, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was advocating a carpet-bombing of the Iraqi capital as the only way to take the place. Imagine the thousands of unnecessary civilian causalties that would been been created by such a policy. The military had a better way, which caused few U.S. and moderate civilian deaths. I never heard Savage admit that an aerial bombardment of Baghdad a la Dresden would have been stupid and wasteful.
Only days ago I heard him wax eloquently on the virtues of the minimum wage. He knocks Bush for signing into law a prescription drug benefit and excoriates Kerry for advocating Socialized medicine. Yet, he sees no inconsistency in this glaring bit of Socialism! He claims it is needed because employers are so wicked and greedy that without the paternal oversight of government, businesses would pay their workers "starvation wages." Does he think we've hardly progressed since the days of Dicken's England? Would a modern business person deliberately jeopardize his enterprise by employing malnourished, hence, inefficient and accident-prone employees? Savage went further and made an assinine remark to the effect that most Republicans don't know what it is like to work for low wages, as if being Republican means you were likely born into a family of filthy-rich robber-baron fat cats!
Of late Savage has even begun to morph into something akin to a Jesse Jackass. According to him, Kobe won't get a fair trial from all those "White Crackers" there in Colorado. Yessireebob! I'll just bet all them Cooterfied mountain folk in that state are just salivatin' all over their bib overalls at the prospect of giggin' one of them there uppity Nee-groes!
Consider also Savage's "Paul Revere Society." A female caller wanted to know how it was being used to advance "borders, language, and culture." Savage's answer--the cheap cap and t-shirt you receive after plunking down your $25 membership fee constitutes the entire agenda of this organizaion. Paul Revere was a famous Boston silversmith. Silver is about the only thing Savage's "organization" and this great American have in common--silver that will feather Mr. Savage's nest.
So Savage Nation, I bid thee adieu. Your vistas looked so promising from afar. I may pass through from time to time on my way to another place, but I will no longer be dropping in to stay.
I take it you don't like Mike Savage *LOL* Dunno I listened to him Friday and he was going off the deep end that we should nuke the terrorists.
I know some folks like him, but as far as I'm concerned, Savage bugs.
To repeat myself, the only thing worse that Savage on the radio is (was?) Savage on television.
I think he helps our side very little, may even harm us.
Hannity and Rush, however, draw the left and moderates into the right... whether a conservatived is fond of either of them or not, they help us a great deal by just being out there.
I used to think he was magnificent. He has been going off into a "screwball" mode with increasing regularity. I think he is really going to lose it sometime and the plug will be pulled on him.
How long did it take you to figger that out ?
You should have got that on the first program.
Savage is like a bad preacher. He takes an element of truth and twists it into an entire doctrine.
It is pretty funny sometimes, especially when he goes rabid foaming at the mouth
He's nuts - not crazy like a fox - just nuts!
Savage has a great voice for radio.
I agree... he's getting way too 'out there'
I listen to Savage often here in Sacramento. On a couple of occasions, I have found him to be outrageously wrong. But remember, he's an entertainer. He knows it. He's weird and crazy on purpose. And, he's often right on the money. I like him. And when I don't, I turn him off.
I think a lot of fence sitters listen to Savage--the kind of people who would stay home and not vote, or vote for some goofy Libertarian or Independence Party candidate. Could definitely throw the election to Kerry in a close race.
-Eric
I really don't care for Savage. When he agrees with me I am embarrassed about it.
Yeah, a great voice for Michael Savage. The man is a self-serving ego-maniac who should be on prozac.
Been saying that for years.
Mike was good about 50% of the time, he has slowly moved that percentage down over the time frame of about two years to about 10% .
I now listen purely to hear him embarrass himself.
Nothing like a blowhard pontificating thinking he's a genius, but really is a moron
O'Reilly is quickly following suite
Savage has been completely loony for a couple of months. He contradicts himself on a daily basis, and his logic does not follow through. In past years I listened because I often agreed with him, but now his logic is so skewed that I can't tolerate him.
I also am sick of hearing about "him." His self-promotion is way over the top. It's constant.
His fill-in host the other day was so wonderful. When Savage came back the next day, I decided it was time to stop listening.
Well then, what is his "Paul Revere Society" about. $25 membership fee advances what about defending borders, language and culture? It does nothing except put another $25 (minus a couple bucks for the cheap cap and t-shirt) into Savage's bank account.
I quit listening to Savage about 6 months ago. I couldn't take it anymore. I used to listen everyday.
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