Posted on 01/05/2005 6:11:56 AM PST by nwrep
On his radio show The Savage Nation, long time Bush basher and San Francisco nutcase Michael Savage surpassed his own psychotic behavior last night during a program devoted to discussion of the Kinsey report and the Tsunami disaster.
After declaring that he felt no sympathy, grief or sorrow over the 150000 Tsunami deaths, he intoned "I would rather talk about pornography". He conceded that when he first saw the video reports of the disaster, his first instinct was that he was "worried about the elephants, but then felt better after I learned that they were doing fine."
Later in the program he wondered if his lack of empathy for the victims was a psychological malady, and promised to seek counseling help in earnest. He also fielded a call from a psychotherapist in Arizona who assured Savage that he was indeed normal.
During the show, he reverted to his favorite past-time, bashing President Bush for spending on disaster relief. He also urged his listeners to withhold contributions from the relief agencies, for fear that they would misuse them.
So much for his being a "compassionate conservative", which is a phrase he claims President Bush stole from him.
Hey, there was a thread here a few days ago that was dominated by a freeper with the exact same sentiments...and he (the freeper) claims to be an ordained Christian minister.
I thought the Rush wannabe died.
Isn't this a vanity?
Savage is way too doom and gloom for me. He sees the world through cr@p colored glasses....
Savage was the first to mention the sex trade in Thailand and now its all over the news.
He's already been there. Savage is certifiable to begin with...
I stopped listening to the psycho months ago. I have never heard such hate and Rush envy. Pathetic person!
He needs to go back to drinking on air and talking about roasting hot dogs on his boat.
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I only caught a few minutes of his show last night. The part I heard had Savage saying that he basically is against foreign aid, period. I agree. Even in terrible foreign disasters such as this, the American people will generously respond without the need for Washington to blow more taxpayer money. Of course, when you see the devastation, you are more likely to be moved to agree to hundreds of millions of taxpayer money being spent to help. But when you realize that the government blows billions of our hard-earned money on foreign welfare each year while we are running tremendous budget deficits, at some point you say "enough is enough."
I'm of mind to agree with Savage... getting sick of hearing about the disaster... I do not want my donation going to the governments of those countries that will take a substantial portion of the aid and pocket it for themselves. Nor to organzations like Unicef, Red Cross etc.. that majority of aid money goes to overhead and salaries for the upper crust with thier 6 plus figure salary and benefits. This is not mean that I have not contributed. I give to organzitions that I have dealt with and know how much actually goes to actual relief.
He's not SENSITIVE enough? :^)
In the last few months I only listen to his show when he's not on.
He is so jealous of Rush. But in his book he praises him. He is very negative. Once he started bragging that he was beating Roger Hedgecock in ratings I realized he is a ratings whore
Savage is in it for ratings.
He changes positions to fit the tide--whatever it takes to keep his ratings. And it must work because he supposedly just signed a multi-million dollar contract with Clear Channel Communications (IIRC).
I quit taking Savage seriously a long time ago. Too bad, too. He has some good positions, but he also has some flakey ones. His 'Paul Revere Society' seemed like a potentially interesting activist organization; but, as it turns out, it is not much more than a trinket sales website--issuing a few imprinted trinkets for the membership fee.
Who was it that once said, "Foreign Aid is basically, poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries."...........?
Vanity post?
Michael Savage is a total and complete embarrassment. He's our Michael Moore. I'm just happy he doesn't get more exposure than he does.
Personally, I think he might be a closet Leftist (Either that, or he's got SERIOUS mental problems) and is just trying to discredit conservatives with his off-the-wall rants.
He needs to be put to sleep. He's rabid!!
Davy Crockett, while serving as a Congressman helped fight a fire one night that broke out in a suburb of Washington. The next morning the Congress voted twenty thousand dollars to assist those whose homes were destroyed. Crockett voted for it. However, when he went home he found himself in deep trouble with one of his constituents named Horatio Bunce. Bunce commended him for the anxiety to help the victims of the fire but scolded him for using other people's money as "charity." He challenged Crockett to find where the Constitution allowed Congress to spend one penny of other people's money for charity. Crockett couldn't think of any such provision. Crockett returned to Congress and ran into a similar situation. Congress wanted to give a substantial sum to the widow of a distinguished naval officer who had just died. Crockett took the floor and said: "Mr. Speaker, I have as much sympathy as any man in the House, but Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it....I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks." Mr. Crockett took his seat and the bill was defeated but none of the wealthy Congressman offered to meet his plea to donate one weeks pay to the widow.
Savage is always whining: I thought of 'it' [whatever it is] first and they stole my idea.
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