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I've loved radio since the early 1940s. IMO Savage has done as much for modern talk radio (radio after the "Fairness Doctrine") as any others -- more than them all when it comes to proving that no longer did conservatives have to kowtow and slink away trying to 'splain that they were not all those evil things that liberals were screaming at them. Conservatives could scream back louder and with overwhelming nastiness.

To be fair to Joe Pyne there was a lot of that good ol' overwhelming nastiness in Pyne -- "Go gargle with razor blades!".. but I have never heard Savage or Levin speak of Pyne.

After the environment of the 1960s, 70s and 80s conservative needed to start fighting back.. and Savage said that that is exactly what he was doing. Now others have caught on. Excellent!

I've had my differences with Savage's ways but he's a talk show host with guts,

Iran gets in on the "Michael Savage" action

What other talk show host can boast that?

The nation ID'd as the number one promoter of Islamist terrorism gets in on the hate "Michael Savage" action.

While other talk show hosts offer tepid on-air remarks from time to time, for all his faults, Savage took it to 'em!

To be fair to Joe Pyne there was a lot of that good ol' overwhelming nastiness in Pyne -- "Go gargle with razor blades!".. but I have never heard Savage or Levin speak of Pyne.

Pyne was a quasi-mentor to teh great Bob Grant. Levin, for one, took Grnat's "get off the phone" phrase and made it his own.

Grant was the one who got me started on talk radio, back when he was at WMCA.