I agree, but how do you account for such rabid negative responses to the original post.
Eh, good question. Savage does engender strong emotions - a lot of people either love him or hate him. I used to listen to him when he first came on the air in San Francisco quite a few years ago, and listened for several years until I just got tired of him and his style. I also was put off when he yelled, screamed, and called a caller an idiot and hung up on him for trying to correct a fact (not a matter of opinion, but a factual matter) that Savage had wrong. The caller was polite and respectful, not abusive or rude. The caller was correct, Savage was wrong.
I was also at one of his Paul Revere Society functions, and he was drinking vodka onstage (not that I object to drinking - I consume adult beverages myself, but not when I'm supposed to be speaking before an audience). He was rambling, saying anything that came into his head. He wasn't interesting or entertaining at that poing, the program was pretty much over, so people were leaving. He started mocking them with stuff like people people getting their Depends in a wad because he was telling the truth. Well, nice. We paid a fair chunk of change to be there, and had a bit of a drive to attend, and were being insulted and mocked for it.
It's stuff like that has caused me to turn the radio dial. I don't hate him, how can I? I don't know him personally, but I don't care for him. I know lots of people love him, and wouldn't insult them for their choice.