It is entirely possible for a talented left-winger to act like a conservative and talk like a conservative even though he's only performing a part.
If you don't believe me, just ask Michael J. Fox.
Posted on 10/28/2006 11:50:34 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
I've always known there was something wrong with Michael Savage's schtick. It's intolerable. He talks like an absolute madman. He is just about as intemperate as you can get and still be on the radio.
Now I know what was wrong. The whole thing is a put-on:
Supporting a candidate out of your own wallet may be the most accurate gauge of what a donor believes in his heart. So it should come as a shock to fans to learn where their hero distributes his own political gifts. Which are not ungenerous. Just ask Jerry Brown, the decidedly liberal candidate (pro-abortion, pro-gun control, etc.) for California attorney general.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Savage is a top contributor to Brown's campaign against conservative state senator Chuck Poochigian. His gift of $5,600, the maximum allowable under state law, was merited, Savage told the Chronicle after being outed. Why? Because "You have to make choices in an imperfect world."
RIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHTTTTT.
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Disingenuous about what?
His main theme is the preservation of our Borders, Language and Culture.
I think he perfectly sincere in his belief that our BLC must be defended.
So an online reader comment at the American Spectator website is supposed to hold the same weight as a legitimate article or staff writer opinion piece? This anti-Savage campaign going on the last week or so is straight out of the Soviet Union commie playbook. The regular disruptors on the daily Savage thread have admitted that it isn't Brown they really care about, but the possibility that Savage with his millions of listeners may adversly affect the election. When the party is everything and dissenting views must be crushed at all costs, you'd might as well swill beer to an oom-pah-pah band and adopt the swastika as your emblem.
Can one of you ping the Savage list?
Two shrill, stone-stupid phonies.
What exactly does Savage advocate that isn't conservative?
I thought he was nuts before he supported Jerry Brown, this just confirms it.
Over time, after listening to Savage and his pessimism, I had the sneaking suspicion that he was not conservative. When I think of conservatism, I think of Reagan and Rush, who are extremely optimistic people. Savage prefers to express no optimism on anything.
MS can be entertaining at times, but he repeats himself over and over. How many times can you listen to his stories about what he ate and what his dog did today? Anyone can get on the radio and read the Drudge Report headlines.
Michael Weiner. A wife, Janet I believe, with an adult daughter and adult son.
I listen to Savage pretty much every evening..just to get a good chuckle...a good laugh...because..
Oh I don't feel ike talking about that any more. I feel like talking about my cats. I love my cats I really do. They are warm and furry. They curl up by my feet at night. They seem so intelligent to me. They make me laugh. Much like Savage makes me laugh. He make me laugh because he pretends be be a serious man discussing serious issues, when in fact he can be described scientifically a Clownus Insaneus.
But enough of that....let's talk about making Jambalya. Making Jambalya seems to be an easy afair, but you have to get the best ingredients....especially with the shrimp, sausage, and cheynne pepper.
What was I talking about? Oh...New Orleans and the sick twisted whores and pornogophers that eat chocolate there. They are the worst of the vermin....they are verminous verminsh vermin. They are the twisted, mutant vermin that are seeping through New Orleans like sewage...like bad jambalya.
I don't want to talk about that any more....let's talk about the Dixie Chicks.....
those of you that listen to Savage, or have....know what the above sounds like....those that havn't...you gotta listen to this kook to get the full flavor...and why I totally agree that he is nothing but a very talented performer....certainly not a true conservative...
So basically if you don't like Michael Savage you are a communist and a nazi?
Jerry Brown has been an unabashed and stalwart devotee of left-wing politics throughout his career, but in recent years he has led many to believe that he has joined the political mainstream. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and as mayor of Oakland, Brown has once again reaffirmed his longtime sympathies for leftist causes, while consistently working to undermine U.S. foreign policy with regard to Cuba's communist regime.
In the February 28, 2002 issue of the Nation, reporter Marc Cooper wrote of his encounter with the mayor and of an item in his possession; a memento of Brown's apparent affinity for the Latin American communist movement:
As I get into Mayor Jerry Brown's city-owned black Town Car, he scrambles to move a folded red and black flag on the front seat out of my way. "You know what this is?" he asks as he puts it in the back seat. "It looks like an original flag from Castro's July 26 movement," I answer. "You got it," says the Mayor. "It was given to me by Ché Guevara's widow one night after I spent eight hours talking to Castro. I'm taking it home from my office to keep it in a safe place."
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Under Jerry Brown's leadership, Oakland has adopted as one of its sister cities, the town of Santiago de Cuba, from where Castro launched his original July 26 movement, which ultimately led to his dictatorship.
In July of 2000, Mayor Brown led a delegation from Oakland to Cuba. The avowed purpose of the visit was the formal recognition of the sister cities relationship, but as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "these trips are political junkets designed to recast Cuba in the eyes of the American people and pressure federal legislators to remove the barriers thrown up when Cuba became a communist state in 1959."
But perhaps the most underappreciated angle of this trip was Brown's choice of travel agency. After having his initial application for travel to the Treasury Department rejected, Brown sought out the help of a travel company called Cubalinda.com. A firm specializing in finding ways for travelers to get around government travel restrictions, Cubalinda.com is owned by Philip Agee.
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(Kevan Blanche in The Weekly Standard, October 27, 2006))
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/858gbeyz.asp
It's called MONEY and FAME.
Not liking Savage for whatever reason, and participating in an orchestrated smear campaign are two quite different things.
I mean, the screaming, over-emotional "I can't take this anymore" thing is just way too Dean for my tastes. I don't care what the guy actually thinks, I simply have no desire to listen to him.
It is entirely possible for a talented left-winger to act like a conservative and talk like a conservative even though he's only performing a part.
If you don't believe me, just ask Michael J. Fox.
I have to agree with the author. I find it very difficult to listen to Michael Savage for more than a very few minutes. To me, he is living proof that sufferers of manic depression can obtain gainful employment.
If Savage is genuinely a conservative, he strikes me as a variety of "pyrrhic conservative"; willing to set himself on fire and take his cult up in flames just to make a point. In my opinion, his style really doesn't persuade the undecided or create new conservatives from the ranks of moderates. Therefore, politically speaking, Savage is of little value to the conservative movement.
or... the Howard Stern of political talk radio. There to shock and entertain, nothing more
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