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Of course you are right. Savage, as well as Rush and Hannity, etal,..are in the categorey of infotainment. Thats all it is...most of it is a load of meat loaf ...entertaining at times, sometimes there's information, but really....If I have to surrender my mind to the rantings of a talk show host, and that includes, the almighty Rushbo, That Rush clone Hannity and of course Savage--well then I wwould not be a Bush Bot, but a mere Mush Bot... Mrs Big Kahuna, a registered Democrat since birth, loves to tune to the Savage Nation...Something about meatball recipes.... :)

Savage's 3 hour show is refreshing and hilariously funny. He goes the extra bit from time to time, but it's part of the show. If you listen closely, at the end of some of his trademarked rants you can hear him cracking up at his own tirade. He is in on the joke, I wish more folks could just appreciate the joke, too.

Talk radio has its strengths. Even by casually listening from time to time, the average person will be better informed about votes coming up in congress, presidential antics, and other news stories. It's up to everyone to research them a bit and come up with an informed opinion on them, though.

Just by knowing that stuff, a person is more substantively informed than 96% of the general population, and 98% of the crowd in colleges and graduate schools :-)

I live Savage's stories and tangents. He has a remarkable ability to go off on an anecdote, illustrate it with examples or a personal story, and then distill it to the moral and apply it to the story of the day. Sometimes it's remarkable and does indeed cross over into brilliance.

The stories are mesmerizing, to be sure. One armed Frank, wealthy midgets who have sex with busty models in the back of limos, hairy-armed old timers mixing tuna salad, etc. Classic stuff. You won't hear that kind of Americana (or at least, Americana as filtered through The Savage Mind) anywhere else. It's raw. It's powerful. It's hilariously funny. And it's never boring.

On top of that, I like how he is genuinely open minded and is never a cheerleader for the GOP. The only thing as nauseating as the legion of Clintonistas who kept repeating how brilliant their boy was between 1992 and 200, is a legion of Bushbots repeating how brilliant their boy is between 2000 and today. Savage is no $hill (well, except for himself).

And that's no jive.