“Listened to Savage a few years ago. He would refer to Hannity as the Wallbanger. Personal animus?”
He has personal animus against anybody more successful than him - like Rush, Levin, Hannity. He has a huge inferiority complex, and has to tear down others to make himself feel good.
Listening to him is like walking on a mine field - you never know when he’s going to blow up in your face.
Savage can be quite good when he’s on his meds.
It’s called narcissism. While I would never go as far as Bandy X. Lee and assign someone a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) without personally observing their behavior to determine if they exhibit at least five of the nine behavioral characteristics necessary for the clinical diagnosis, it is quite obvious that Michael Savage has at least a few of them.