[relictele]

I too got a disingenuous vibe from the constant fatalism.

Ironically, if he was putting on an act some of what he proposed made sense so it resonated.

But it was always very difficult to believe that someone raised in NY and living in the Bay Area was nevertheless a hard-core conservative or libertarian.

The books were/are paint-by-numbers affairs as most of them are.

Production-wise, the show always seemed a mess. Oddly-timed ad breaks. Ad breaks that lasted ages. You could never tell what was live and what wasn’t. Allowing affiliate stations to choose their own airtime (ie many used tape delay) may have been a concession to carriage but such an arrangement waters down the product. Laura Ingraham limped along for years with a crazy quilt of affiliates and time windows on each.

[Alberta's Child]

Savage’s reputation in the radio business diminished considerably once it was revealed that he uses voice-alteration technology on the air. Basically, his broadcast gets run through a computer program that eliminates natural gaps and pauses in the host’s speech pattern and compresses the dialogue so the radio network can squeeze more ad time into the broadcast.

If you ever listen to Savage’s show on the air and you hear a tiny click of static every now and then, that’s what you’re hearing.

No respectable radio host uses sh!t like that. It’s the equivalent of lip-synching the national anthem on live TV.