What Savage has alllways wanted is to hang out with people who are thought of as important, and especially for those people to court him --to him, this is the REAL imprimateur of legitimacy. Why else did he court the favor of 60's homo poet Allen Ginsberg, or LSD ghuru Timothy O'Leary...? For a short time also he has gone after Moonbeam Jerry Brown, or Gavin Newsom, even (albeit briefly).
He craves ratings, sure, but what he really wants is an entre into the elite --he'd sell us all for that.
In the end, dear old Mike is not nearllllly one of us as it first appears. But hey, as long as along his path he converts more folks to conservativism, I'm fine with it.
I'M NOT SOME SCHMUCK BLOGGIN IN BASEMENT, THOUGH, MIKE, YOU DIRTY JERK.
I would have thought that if they went out to dinner that someone somewhere would have tweeted about it, you know??
The way you depict him, he sounds a bit "nouveau intellectual," so to speadk, very insecure in himself if he needs to seek admiration from such silly cutural "icons" as Leary & Ginsberg, what a couple of pathetic people, hey?
I've never read any of his books, so I had no idea that he was interested in Jerry Brown???? Moonbeam And Savage - that would be a team, hey?
That's really interesting, though, what you're explaining about his core psychological motivation -- to be honored by the IN-Crowd.
LOLOLOL
It's kind of different, though, when a celebrity in his own right is so needy for whomever is currently high & mighty.
I wonder if he'd roll over and play Dem if Desiree Rogers sent him an invite to attend some function at the WH along with the Salahis? :)