Posted on 07/26/2007 5:07:53 PM PDT by dynachrome
I’m just curious what “choir” you’re talking about? In fact, he doesn’t preach to any particular choir per se. He speaks independently on each subject. In fact I like it that he is primarily just conservative and not a Party Line-towing, Kool-aid drinking Republicrat. By all means his arrogance gets old but I would much rather listen to someone that can quote more than Reagan and tell someone that they’re a “Great American” or a “Schmuck”.
Durham must have got ahold of some good mushrooms.
Oh Yeah, I’m glad he’s laughing all the way to the bank....we’re a capitalist society. I’m more inclined to believe that you’re jealous that he’s “laughing all the way to the bank”. You don’t think that Rush or Hannity or O’Reilly aren’t laughing all the way to the bank as well? Come on......I also forgot to add that in as much as I get tired of Savages’ arrogance you can’t tell me that Rush or O’Reilly aren’t just as arrogant because they are.
I totally agree, even the Times had to recognize him.
I don’t hear Rush all the time...guess I missed the part where he claimed to be the only one on talk radio defending the Duke players.
When did I claim that? I simply said Rush is just as arrogant as the next radio talk show host.
IMHO arrogance is telling someone whom you don’t know from Adam that they are “A GREAT AMERICAN” then accepting the compliment in return. It would be the same as if I just walked up to random people in the mall and told them that they are “Great Americans”. How in the frick do I know if they are “Great Americans”? THAT is one example of arrogance demonstrated by more than just Savage.
Anyway, the only voice on talk radio that is not a drone is Michael Savage. And he alone championed the case of the Duke Lacrosse players from the very beginning.
I don't like Savage so I turn him off when I hear him. My comment was based on these two sentences, and the statement that Rush is as arrogant as Savage.
From SFweekly.com
“It’s a neat trick for a once mild-mannered botanist and North Beach hipster who counted none other than Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the late Allen Ginsberg among his pals when he was still using his real name: Michael Weiner.
Few things about Savage’s pre-radio past could have presaged his rise as perhaps the far right’s most vocal on-air ambassador. Not his adulation of Ginsberg. Not the fact that he once trolled the streets of Greenwich Village and, later, North Beach, in a beret. Or that the staunch anti-abortionist’s first wife had two abortions during their marriage. And certainly not the fact that he was once Timothy Leary’s gatekeeper at the LSD experimenter’s farm.”
Nice. I just retched a little bit.
By all means Hannity has his moments but, for me, they are too far and few in between.
That must be why he gives so many thousands to liberal Democrats.
Because he’s not one of them!
Seriously, though, you need to remember the difference between the performer and the role.
Not a time, IIRC. The talk radio host who was most outspoken was Sean Hannity. It's all documented here on the threads
I don’t remember this guys name ever coming up in the LAX threads. Did it?
Isn't it funny how so many of us did so much work behind the scenes, never seeking credit. Then Nifong goes down, and all these cockroaches come out of the woodwork, trying to take the credit.
I don’t usually listen to him, he’s on at night, but I do remember him talking about the depravity of homosexuality. Something Rush or Hannity avoid like the plague.
He wasn’t always Michael Savage. A native New Yorker, he was born in the Bronx and grew up in Queens as Michael Alan Weiner, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father, Ben, whom those who knew him describe as gruff and profane — and who died of a heart attack in his 50s — was a street vendor who worked his way up to owning a small antiques store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and was socially conservative.
Benny Weiner verbally abused his son and didn’t hesitate to embarrass him in front of his teenage friends, Zaitz says. “Michael would have on tight black jeans and a boat-necked sweater and his dad would say, ‘I don’t like the way you’re dressed. You look like a fag,’ stuff like that,” he recalls.
The father would have surely disapproved of Weiner’s interest in beatnik culture once he enrolled at Queens College. Zaitz recalls weekends when he and Weiner slipped away to Greenwich Village to hang out in coffee houses, smoke pot, and troll for women. In those days, he says, the future Michael Savage kept a paperback copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in his pants pocket.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2006-07-19/news/inside-the-savage-nation/full
What cockroaches?
There were dozens of active investigator/Freepers who were doing undercover work, behind the scenes, keeping this story alive. Even Dan Abrams at MSNBC did more that Savage. He took it personally as a Duke alumnus and continued to cover it and investigate, when all the other networks ignored it.
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