Agreed. Entirely!
While acolytes of other talk show hosts post negative comments here daily -- and IMO attempt to provoke an inappropriate response hoping to get the Savage fan banned -- I thought that though I have differences with Savage, it is about time to remind ourselves of the very good and unique things that Savage has done.
BTW, I too listen to those other talk show hosts and respect and appreciate them very much -- it's their fanatical fans that puzzle me.
In the interest of total honesty, Savage himself started the row between him and the others. From the early days at his local station KSFO he was an outsider and occasionally denigrated his fellow hosts but he did not call them names as is his wont to do against competitors today. Not a good thing.
More honesty, it could be argued that at least a couple of the talk show hosts at Savage's local station complex pushed him into it (but only one did it mostly on-air). One of them is currently serving a seven-year federal prison sentence. That one.
I've loved radio since the early 1940s. IMO Savage has done as much for modern talk radio (radio after the "Fairness Doctrine") as any others -- more than them all when it comes to proving that no longer did conservatives have to kowtow and slink away trying to 'splain that they were not all those evil things that liberals were screaming at them. Conservatives could scream back louder and with overwhelming nastiness.
I am thinking of one other host who excels at this (good for him!) -- which reminds me, it sure seems lonely in here. Without the hate Savage stuff there ain't many of us here -- come to think of it, the haters bragged about that; i.e., that so many Savage fans had been banned that they were here to finish off the rest of us. :)
Uh-oh, Mikey’s talking about Hitler, now.
You know, if taken out of context....
For this old hillbilly, it's simple. I've had it with THE NAME-CALLING AGAINST FELLOW CONSERVATIVES! Call the enemies anything and everything.. but the all too frequent one-sided personal feuds against conservatives.. enough already!
A level-headed, well thought-out post, WoC. Those GOFreepubbers you speak of believe that if we Savage listeners don’t post here every Monday thru Friday (with at least a dozen or more posts per thread), we’ve finally come to our senses and revile the good doctor. Well I’m still listening, to their obvious chagrin. Even though I can’t always be present, I’ll always be here in spirit. ;-D