Listen To Michael Savage, Then Grow Up

A Bumper Sticker Blog ^ | 11/04/04 | Red Fox

[conservativeimage]

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[Darkwolf377]

Extraordinary post. Your points about Savage and especially how Bush doesn't answer the unfair attacks on him by stooping to their level.

Savage may have a MORAL point of view but to me doesn't seem to have an ETHICAL point of view to go along with it.

[BlacKnight]

You have to understand Savage's history. His whole focus is that he fears "the Death of the White Male"!!

[SpaceBar]

It's pretty obvious that the author of this rant, despite their claims, doesn't listen to Savage, or it just goes in one ear and out the other. He championed the Swiftvets when no one would touch them, said that despite his foibles GW was head and shoulders above his opponent, and talks about the real issues like rampant illegal immigration and security. Just a hit piece in my opinion.

[ConservChristian]

Savage makes me cringe. Even when he's right his anger and hostility just poison his opinions. How are we supposed to win converts in the arena of ideas with this kind of "talker." He seems like a parody of an angry talk show host to me.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

I think Mike's problem is he gets filled often with the spirit, but its liquid in nature.

[Flyer]

I find Savage very depressing to listen to.

And I don't care if he has a headache.

[cmurphy]

For a few weeks there he did get more negative than usual towards Bush. In fact, he was getting so bad, that my wife was making me turn him off. Savage makes great points, and is incredibly entertaining. However, he sometimes can be a little too doom and gloom. After getting depressed from listening to him, you have to listen to Sean Hannity to get your spirits back up.

[Rocketman]

I agree with many of your observations I have had the displeasure to listen to him for hours almost every day of the week at my current job. Michael Savage has greatly changed over the last 5-6 years. When Clinton was in office Savage would melt the paint off the walls letting him and other liberals have it with both barrels. These days he has made a cult of himself and spends a lot of time these days boasting how smart he is, and his personal pet peaves.

I am very disappointed in his behavior -- he is acting like a roman senator and his sevile audiance is their for his personal entertainment.

I suspect that he has been so vain and bombastic in times past that he has few friends left -- and so he is clinging to all he has left -- his radio audiance

[beaversmom]

but it is strategically unintelligent during an election to continually attack one candidate who you have a problem with who would keep the worse candidate out of office

You are right about this and I made that same point not so long ago to a friend. The closer it got to the election, the more I turned him off. I'll still listen to his show, but the attacks on the President even with all the President's flaws was over the top.

[APFel]

I know Savage has a lot of loyal listeners here on FR, but as far as I'm concerned, he is the bottom of the conservative talk radio barrel (followed by that blustering fool Gallagher). These guys hand the ammo to the enemy and show them how to shoot. I wish they both would get off our side.

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[coconutt2000]

I like Savage, even though I tend to disagree with his tendency toward vehemence and bomb-first-ask-questions-later mentality. He runs with issues other people ignore, and sure he criticized the President, but I think he did so quite fairly most of the time.

The President is a cultural conservative, but politically, he is a mix between a conservative and classic FDR liberal. To be any more conservative than that is asking to sacrifice the White House, just as the Democrats have moved so far left that they've abandoned their moderate and conservative constituents... Which, based on the map from Hannity.com that shows the county breakdown of the election, is why the Democrats are losing power all over the country.

I do expect to see more conservative politics this next term. Bush, and the Republican Congress, will seek to make deeper cuts in government spending. Based on an analysis of what they've managed to do so far, in keeping discretionary spending growth down (non-defense/security related discretionary spending), I expect we'll see a demand for more fiscal responsibility in all departments starting now. Bush is a CEO with an MBA, and I bet the deficit is irking him more than he is letting on.

[Daner313]

I think Mr. Savage's problem is that in his never-ending quest to portray himself as an independent conservative, he bashes Bush hard when he disagrees with him. Many conservatives disagree with some Bush policies, but they don't do what he does. As the piece stated, one day he likes him and one day he does not. His maniacal rants are funny and entertaining which is why he's so successful. While I admire his honesty, he's too inconsistent on his support for W and he rips people when he shouldn't and comes off too extreme.

[beaversmom]

Medved is another good one that takes a practical but positive view of things. Plus his brain is huge.

I don't listen to him much these days, but Rush ain't no slouch when it comes to practical but positive talk either.

Savage has his moments--like when you are feeling rage over the latest beheading video he's the guy to go to but for uplifting talk about GWB, you won't find it there. Maybe once in a blue moon.

[diss-a-lib]

My bug-a-boo with Savage is when he says "am i the only one in America who sees this" I love to listen to Savage, but his ego is getting to be as big as O'Reilly's. He is correct in pointing out many things and I agree with him on most of them, but when he makes that statement it drives me up a wall, and I have e-mailed him to let him know about it, I want to tell him Michael, 59 million voted for Bush, I believe most of them are capable of making an astute observation of what is happening in the Country.

[beaversmom]

I'm listening to a replay of Gallagher right now. He's not my favorite but he's all that is on now. He used to drive me nuts with his Sea Silver promotion--they played it every two minutes. Thank goodness I'm not hearing that anymore.

[itsinthebag]

Mike can be depressing at times, and his Bush-bashing is at most times rather rough. But I really like his positions on terrorism and what should be done with the Islmafacists.

[beaversmom]

"am i the only one in America who sees this"

I agree with you there. He talks down to his audience at times. Conservatives aren't stupid--that's why we are conservatives. Another thing that he does is that he cuts people off rather rudely even when they agree with him and are in the middle of making a point--"thanks for the call" but he says it with no thanks in his voice.

[The Duke]

I stopped listening to Savage when I heard him describe the need for a movement that was quite obviously a perfect description of Free Republic, and then go on to start his "Paul Revere Society".

Of course the difference was that he was in charge of the Paul Revere Scoiety. So, it was pretty obvious to me that the man was more interested in promoting himself than anything ideological.

[weegee]

I like Michael Savage. I understand he has frustrations.

Sometimes he gets so frustrated that he will even stop talking about politics altogether.

It gives a hint at the other kinds of programming that he could excel at. He will discuss food (both cooking and health). He will discuss lessons and conversations in his old neighborhood growing up. And occasionally he will fall back upon the radio DJ concept playing early hits of rock and roll/doo wop (or even opera).

Much like the quandary he was in admitting that he hates the New York Times but thinks that they do a fabulous job with obituaries of figures from New York (case in point the recent opera singer).

It would not be that unusual for him to drop 90% of the political content and continue to have a show. There was a local host in Houston who preceded Rush's days (Alvin Van Black) who would be obnoxious and hang up on callers while talking politics and ranting about the days events (I couldn't even tell you which side of the aisle he was on today). He eventually went into tv hosting the nightly entertainment segment on the 6pm and 10pm news. And people LOVED him. Prior to that many thought he was a big jerk. He's dead now but he went out on a high note.

I like to hear Mike's opinions. I certainly enjoy the broadcasts more than some of the other hosts on the dial.

I would prefer Michael Medved over all but Rush and Laura Ingrahm (who took awhile to grow on my too) but Savage would be in the top 5 I hear/know. I also liked GG Liddy's commentary on news articles (used to be an hour long segment of his show). Now I use FR and get the same exposure (he would read an article/editorial and comment on it; this was an hour of his broadcast).