[Kip Lange]

It's laziness. It's always easy to take the cheap shots, the easy-one-liners, etc. More than just Savage lapsing into that on the right.

I speak from experience...I made a decision a long time ago to tone down my rhetoric and get the blue out of my writing (don't ask me where I write, cuz I can't answer :p), and it's tough. It's always tempting to rant. But what good does a rant do, except for the choir? It's not going to change anybody's mind, perception, or even make them think. The goal is to get writers out there who are so good you read them even if you disagree with them (same with TV pundits). Anyway, all that being said, it's hard to get yourself out of the "ranthole", as it were, once you put yourself in there, but he should at least be trying to claw up the walls to APPROACH intellectual debate. ;-)

[Babu]

I think you're right, M. Savage has lapsed into the "art of the rant and the cheap shot". He calls just about every public figure names, even conservatives! I wonder if anyone pleases him for more than 5 minutes. Basically he is what he claims he isn't, a "shock jock". And it appears to me that his recent rapid success with his book, TV show and all has swollen his brain to the point where sometimes I wonder if he has to calm himself down just to get his noggin through a doorway. I criticize his behavior because I do feel he has a great mind, but then . . . "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"

[Fraulein]

They are having a fit because of the fact that we now have a choice. That drives the socialists absolutely crazy. They are angry that any view other than their own is allowed. (For example, listen to Tim Robbins.). That's, in part, why they create all sorts of things that serve to limit speech (political correctness, hate speech, etc.).

The conservatives who for years were forced to watch CNN now have moved to Fox. The majority of CNN's viewers were probably always more conservative than it was, and now they are finally realizing that fact.