Posted on 01/28/2004 6:28:06 AM PST by VU4G10
They broke the mold with Michael Savage, and a number of records.
The New York Times No. 1 best-selling author is extraordinary in just about every category you can think of.
He’s the holder of two master’s degrees and a doctorate, an accomplished scientist, author times 19, TV personality, talk radio phenom and patriot.
Savage is one of the most controversial hosts in the nation, and his sky-high ratings and national following testify to this.
Savage is also one of the brainiest guys around, but he inevitably bowls you over with his common sense. He has that uncanny ability to squeeze ideas down to their most palatable size. You feast on the mind bites only to find yourself wanting more.
Thankfully, Savage has a new book out to satisfy the cerebral appetite. It’s called “The Enemy Within,” and it has already become another New York Times best seller.
In the book, he packs a persuasive punch against liberalism. He takes a systematic look at our lefty-infected schools, courts, churches and cherished institutions and knocks the stuffing out of them.
But unlike a lot of other voices that merely warn of impending doom, Savage clashes the cymbals of optimism, too. He urges conservatives to unite and resist the negative influences that are dragging the culture down.
Those who already belong to the “Savage Nation” know that his style is not for the faint of heart.
If you favor the ideas of the slate of Democrat candidates, Savage might rub you the wrong way. But you won’t be able to hold that poker face, even if you disagree. The stories will get you.
I recently had a chance to talk with the man and get his take on some selective Savagery.
'Socialist' Kerry, 'Demagogue' Dean
NewsMax: I want to ask you, in the wake of the Iowa caucuses, should we include Kerry, Edwards, Clark, Dean and all as part of the enemy within?
MS: It’s a great question. Let’s focus. Dean obviously is a classic red-diaper doper baby. Everything that he said is parroted by the ACLU. I mean he might as well be a lawyer for the ACLU.
Kerry is another question. He’s a standard socialist Democrat who wants to promise all things to all people, as apparently does Bush, which really worries me. They’re all giving the store away to garner votes from those, you know, who believe the government should give everybody everything without consequence.
I don’t know much about Kerry. I mean I really don’t know the guy’s track record. He seems to be a Kennedy liberal. And in that sense, he’s just a Kennedy liberal. So if we want higher taxes, we want more affirmative action, we want more lectures about race, I guess Kerry is the man for it. I think it’s lucky, though, that Dean is finished because he is a desperado. And a demagogue. You just watch the man perform.
NM: Because of your use of humor, you sometimes remind me of a modern-day kind of a Mark Twain, or a conservative Mort Sahl.
MS: Oh, yeah, there’s a lot of Mort. I remember Mort. I loved him when I was young.
NM: Some of the people don’t seem to get your wit. Do you ever feel frustrated by that?
MS: I don’t know. I think they do get my wit. I don’t think they want to get my wit.
I think I’m the greatest threat to the liberal establishment of all hosts for one reason. In terms of sarcasm, humor, entertainment value, none of them can touch me.
See, they like to believe conservatives are stuck in the mud, boring, stodgy guys. When I get up there, I do a comedy act that’s poignant and cutting. This is a great threat to them because I’m beating them at their own game.
NM: You’ve written 19 books and earned your Ph.D. You’re a nutrition and herbal expert. What made you choose this medium? What made you choose talk radio?
'Immigrants and Epidemics'
MS: In 1994, I wanted to do a new book called "Immigrants and Epidemics." And I was actually going to collaborate with the dean of a very famous medical school. And he said: “Well, you are the author. You’ve gotten books published. I’m sure you can find a publisher in New York.” We put together a proposal, and we hit a stone wall. Not because the thesis of "Immigrants and Epidemics" was incorrect, but because it was politically incorrect. Nobody would touch the book.
This is a hidden a factor in our health care system in America. No one wants to talk about it.
You know, when our grandparents or great grandparents came in, if they were unhealthy, they were either sent back or put into quarantine. But because of the tremendous pressure by the AIDS lobby, the word “quarantine” has been thrown out of the lexicon of medicine. And because of the pressure of the immigrant lobby virtually anyone can waltz in.
So I tried to get the book published, but nobody would publish it. So I got pissed off, and I made a demo radio tape on this called "The Savage Nation.” Sent it out to 200 stations, and it was like a lark. One station in San Francisco hired me to do fill-in work, and the rest is sort of history.
NM: So anger is the mother of invention, so to speak.
MS: (Laugh)
NM: That leads to the theme – the borders, language and culture theme – because you started that way.
MS: What I don’t understand is this. How can Bush’s advisers not understand this issue? I don’t understand them. Every poll, even the ABC polls are showing that Americans have an opposing view on this issue. And they continue to forge ahead as though it’s bull**** and that no one cares.
The Schwarzenegger election was all about illegal aliens, I think. If it was about anything, it was about that. Even 30 percent of Democrats who voted, voted for Schwarzenegger, strictly because he wouldn’t give licenses to illegal aliens. So, I don’t understand the Republicans’ thinking on this.
NM: The question is always asked: “What do you do with the millions, tens of millions of illegals that are here right now? We’ve got to do something. What should we do?” How do you answer that?
MS: Well, I keep hearing from people “you can’t deport them.” Well, theoretically, that is true. It may be foolish to say “get the buses going.” But you can discourage them from being here. There are many, many pressures you can put on them to make them return home.
First of all, why are they collecting welfare when they are not citizens, and they do inordinately use welfare. The Camarata study has shown it, that they inordinately use welfare primarily - and this ties right into the election - primarily medical care, which is why our system is bankrupt. How much free medical care can you provide the population until the system collapses?
Stephen Camarata examined the trends in immigrant welfare. He found that 22 percent of immigrant households used at least one major welfare program, compared to 15 percent of native households. That’s a big difference.
The primary usage is in Medicaid to immigrant households. So they are all coming here for this huge medical system that we have, and we’re providing it like idiots, and we’re going bankrupt because 15 percent of our budget is now spent on health care. Fifteen percent of the entire budget is now spent on medical care, and that’s before the boomers hit the market. So look at the candidates, James. What are they promising?
NM: They are all promising a variation of Hillary-care.
'Castro-Like Health Care'
MS: They are promising Castro-like health care. Well, that’s what we are going to wind up getting. You know, we are going to wind up with a Cuban-style socialized medicine, a third- or fourth-rate system for all, and that’s going to be what we are going to get. I mean, how can you give everybody the gold-plated medical care system? It’s impossible.
And we are getting poorer doctors, by the way, you know that. Because the best and the brightest are no longer going into medicine. The incentive isn’t there. So I don’t know where this ends, other than a kind of creeping socialism.
NM: What can Americans do?
MS: I wonder what we can do at this point. I mean, I almost wished that we had sort of a benign barbarian running the country.
NM: A benign barbarian. (Laugh)
MS: A benign barbarian. If we could only find such an individual, a benign barbarian to save us. Because the giveaway mentality has now permeated both parties.
Demicans and Republocrats
I opened by saying, “Who is the enemy within?” I said there’s enough blame to go around on both sides of the aisle. The concept of this gargantuan welfare state permeates the Republican Party as well. They don’t stand for very much anymore.
Yet I’d like to just say this. Look, let me be clear. From a compass point of view, even though there’s only a differential of about a degree or two or three on most issues between the parties.
As a boater, I can tell you if you boat, if you start from a center point and you go out two degrees different on a course, in the beginning the differential is insignificant. But the further out you go, the bigger the differential becomes.
And that’s my analogy here, of the difference between the remnants of the Republican conservatism and the super-socialist liberalism of the Democrats. It’s an insignificant difference in the beginning. But two points out on the compass down the line could be the difference between us surviving and us, you know, going under.
What a load of crap.
So if I comment on how much Senator Dasshole sucks, then I should get my own Senate job or sit down and shut up?
Why the hell is he so pessimistic and angry all the time? Last night he comments on how it sucks to get old. I'm not the sadist to enjoy listening to this depressing crap all the time.
Well, gotta go prepare to start my talk radio career.
This is EXACTLY what Savage says everyday.
Being that I listen to all three, I have to say that this is a bald face lie.
Savage and all of America have good reason to be angry and pessimistic. Bush and the feds are selling America down the river with their policies! They are mortgaging our future with their horrific spending (George Delano Bush?), and Bush's immigration proposal is nothing short of INSANITY!
Meanwhile, all pretense at any sort of morality in this country is being shoved aside: An insitution that has been in force since the beginning of recorded history (Marriage) is being destroyed before our eyes (Not even depraved Rome did allowed gay marriage), and 43 million unborn persons have been slaughtered. There is GOOD REASON FOR ANGER AND PESSIMISM.
In the midst of the assualt on marriage and on life, the do-nothings in Congress and the White House fiddle like Nero as Rome Burns!
I'm angry and if you aren't, you need a wake up call.
Who the hell is not concerned, angry and pissed on the issues you just described?
Is the purpose to show who is the MOST pissed and angry? It sure seems that this is what Savage is doing.
I'm not going to fight for change as a depressed and angry piss ant the rest of my life. I will give my children hope for the future and a reason to live.
First, seal the borders. Create a minefield and a military presence directly along the US/Mexican border. Will it cost money? Certainly it will. But we have already paid the price of having unsecured borders with blood. So money is not an issue.
Next, vigorously enforce immigration laws on the books, and adopt English as the national language. People should be encouraged to learn English, as they will need it to get along in life if they wish to live in the USA. Those who do not wish to assimilate should be immediately deported. Those who discourage learning English should get prosecuted on a federal level, on par with the penalties for mail theft ($50,000 fine and/or 5 years in jail).
Questions?
You know, you have some real balls comparing Michael Savage to Peter Singer. I think you owe swampfox98 and Dr. Savage an apology.
BTW, Singer favors the killing of children up to a month after birth, not a year. That's why he created the term, "neonate", to dehumanize a newborn and rationalize killing it.
Yeah. Both parties are sending the country to hell in a hand basket, but at least we can chat about it on a useless message board...
As for as Savage as a radio host goes, he reminds me of Imus, who strikes me as a grumpy old fart.
Being constantly angry is a turn off.
For one thing, Boortz is an admitted libertariloon.
As for Savage, you need to sit down and shut the hell up. You don't know what you are talking about.
Absolutely right. Dane's m.o. is to trash anyone who criticizes Bush or his policies, but his fallacious ad hominem method has been exposed for what it is. And his credibility has been reduced to nothing on this thread.
I think maybe you should put down your pom-poms and come back to reality.
The GOP, like the RATS, is courting the hispanic vote, if for no other reason than because their numbers are expanding every year (Can anyone guess why?). That is the main reason why the borders were not sealed in the wake of 9-11 (or since) despite a tremendous hue and cry to do so.
Have you seen anything coming from Tom Delay that says he will indeed kill such legislation as Bush has asked for instead of just towing the party line?
Because otherwise it is just pure conjecture, which in this case only amounts to buying a bucket without a bottom to fetch some water.
Guess its too late to shoot, shovel, and say nothing, too.
False. The guy was a troll caller who insulted Savage on the air. We did not get to hear everything the guy said because his audio was cut shortly before Savage made that comment. Whatever it was, it pissed off Savage enough for him to make that statement.
Because from where I sit, the only reason you got into this thread is to troll.
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