I've grown tired of the way Savage badmouths Rush. Savage has no respect for the trail Rush blazed for talk radio and what he has done for the Conservative movement. I think we all have great respect for Rush and what he ahs done for the movement, but he seems in some ways, on some issues, to have lost his edge. The charge that Savage makes that Rush is just a promoter for the Republican Party is not as far from the truth as Rush's friends and fans would like to believe. He seems to be developing a bit of a star complex.
I dislike the way savage treats many of his callers depending on his mood.
He can be rough sometimes, but he does tend to get more than his share of RDDBs and other troublemakers, and I can understand having only a limited amount of patience with people who babble. And Savage takes on issues that Rush and Sean, much as we love both of them, won't take on. All their voices are needed.
Sean, however, did a great job on the Terri Schiavo case.
Savage has only been on in my market for about one maybe two years. His screener seems to have done a great job as I so rarely hear or have heard the hard Left and so forth get through to the airwaves. Maybe earlier he had many people getting through and harrassing him?
My example of the woman should have explained better that she was simply happy to speak to him and hadn't taken more than 30 seconds before he started loosing it. I imagined the woman had tried to call his show, finally got through and was thrilled to speak to someone she so admired. To be treated so rudely must have been a shock.
I've heard callers say " Hello Dr. Savage! How are you today! " and Savage looses it. " Look....dont call this program asking how my day is - just get to your point!". On other occasions someone politely states about the same greeting and its not an issue at all.
I've also heard the guy ripping his programmer or producer or whomever it is working for him over a piece of music. " Ok - play some rock and roll " ( 15 seconds of music ) " What is that? What are you doing - I said Rock and Roll! Do you have any idea what your doing??". Its not like the programmer opened up with a piece of Opera. he played some 1950's rock as requested.
Savage often speaks about a more civil and polite society which has vanished. He misses that time period and I wish I might have personally known it. But to hear him be quite impolite and uncivil to people who work for or call him is something I can not understand.