Savage Exposes 'The Enemy Within'

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.

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?

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: 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

My choice is easy. There is no other choice available to you, staying at home helps the other side. It's as black and white as it gets.

Your choice ignores reality. There isn't a dime's worth of difference between dems and R's. Both are liberal, both are profligate, both love illegal immigration, both are globalist.

You go ahead and vote party line, thereby promoting the continuing erosion of liberty and national sovereignty, and I will vote for a party that GIVES A CRAP ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA.

Too many of you republicans are trapped in a 2-party system. No law says you have to vote R or D. If republicans would wake up en masse and vote 3rd party, what wonderful world it would be! Instead, they buy into the line of crap that a vote for a 3rd party is a vote for a democrat. Hint: A democrat can only get elected if 40-45% of America votes for him, which means that half of America is BRAIN DEAD! Unless republicans get their head out of the sand and vote for TRUE CHANGE, this country is finished!

Yes, but Savage uses his intelligence to tell America what other conservative talk shows won't. America is being systematically destroyed by people who promote open borders, and by the massive influx of illegals.

Every human chooses his own path. You can do either evil or good with the knowledge God has given you. Michael, once he calmed down, uses his for good.

Too many of you republicans are trapped in a 2-party system. No law says you have to vote R or D. If republicans would wake up en masse and vote 3rd party, what wonderful world it would be!

To each his own, but a a US with John Kerry as President, IMO, would not be wonderful.

There isn't a dime's worth of difference between dems and R's.

You've just lost all credibility in my book. You really are a looney fringe conservative (or more likely, libertarian), and Savage is perfect for you. Luckily, with every loon Bush loses to the likes of you, he probably gets 5 from the middle to leaning conservative.

Actually it is the demos who would do that. Interesting that you single out the Pubs, with nary a peep about the demos.

Hahaha. Yeah right...Bush's back door amnesty plan isn't a giveaway? Keep pretending.

"That's why when they pop up here (as they will), just play whack-a-mole and tell them if they can do better than Savage then they should get their own radio show, otherwise they should sit down and shut up."

I see, so we have to be able to do better than somebody to criticize them? So if I can't be a better president than Bush I can't voice any disagreement with him? What about liberals? There are many liberal commentators and writers who I completely disagree with but I am also certain I couldn't write better than them. Do I have to shut up about them, too, because I can't do better?

Pretty weird world you live in.

You really are a looney fringe conservative (or more likely, libertarian), and Savage is perfect for you. Luckily, with every loon Bush loses to the likes of you, he probably gets 5 from the middle to leaning conservative.

Yeah, typical of a blind Bush sycophant. You can't argue issues, so you resort to namecalling...Nut, Looney, etc. Tell you waht, I won't confuse you with any more facts - you just go back to your little pretend world and I'll leave you alone.

You sound more like a NYC elitist

Why, because I hate Savage? Where's your opinions? Easy to criticize someone else, why not offer your own opinions... No substance? You don't know what you're talking about. Try this, challenging what I said, instead of writing the whole thing off to "no substance".

For the rest of us we have the priviledge of struggling in an economy being strip mined of semi-skilled and now skilled white and blue collar jobs while helping to pay the tab for both the ethnic racketeering initiatives and the maintenance of a global politico-military presence

If the economy is struggling so much, how come the standard of living has never been higher. Fifty years ago(the good old days) we wouldn't be having this converstaion via cyberspace.

There have always been negative people like you, but look we are going stronger than ever.

That must eat you up inside.

Yeah, typical of a blind Bush sycophant.

Anyone that thinks there's not a dime's difference between the GOP and the Dems, as you clearly posted, is either being disingenuous, unneccesarily shrill, or off his nut IMO.

To each his own, but a a US with John Kerry as President, IMO, would not be wonderful.

[whisper] - it's not wonderful now under Bush. And Bush is losing alot of support with his liberal policies. 58% of Republicans (his own party) oppose his INSANE amnesty plan! He will lose votes, so if he does lose to Kerry - blame Bush for his liberalism.

Yes, but Savage uses his intelligence to tell America what other conservative talk shows won't

JMO, I don't think he is that intelligent(especially when he said that Bush should be impeached for proposing a policy). He is more pompous, reactionary, and uses an overbearing personality.

You will notice that I haven't stated that he should be off the air, but that doesn't squelch my right to criticize him and IMO, he may turn on a small part of the American population, but he turns off a lot more with his style.

Huh, but 91% of Republicans support him(and that poll was taken a week after the immigration policy speech).

Looks like your buddy Kerry isn't going to have a cakewalk.

Anyone that thinks there's not a dime's difference between the GOP and the Dems, as you clearly posted, is either being disingenuous, unneccesarily shrill, or off his nut IMO.

Want me to list the litany of liberal policies and statements by Bush? He supported USSC Mich. Affirmative action decision (racial quotas), he praised a gay church in a letter, he has never met a spending bill he doesn't like, he has not come out in explicit support of Constitutional amendment for heterosexual marriage, he has said nothing while the Supreme Court has made horrific ruling after horrific ruling on Sodomy, 10 commandments, injunction against partial birth abortion ban, he doesn't do anything to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants (in fact, he wants to aid and abet the invasion through his insane immigration proposal). Tell me, what is conservative about Mr. Bush? What conservatives issues has he really taken a powerful stand on and stood up and fought for?

Finally, I suggest you read the rules of this forum as they relate to name-calling. Control yourself or be restrained. Your choice.

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