RIGHT-WINGER BLASTS O'REILLY - Michael Savage blasts Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh

N.Y. POST ^ | 04-25-2005 | Richard Johnson

[StuLongIsland]

RIGHT-WINGER BLASTS O'REILLY

RABID radio host Michael Savage is whining that he has been banned from the Fox News Channel after he dissed Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

The controversial conservative — who was fired by MSNBC in 2003 after referring to a caller to his show as "a sodomite" who should "get AIDS and die" — recently burned more bridges by calling O'Reilly a "Leper-Con who poses as a conservative" and Hannity "another Republican bootlicker who began as a Rush [Limbaugh] understudy" on his "Savage Nation" radio show.

Savage claims that he's been bumped off four scheduled appearances on Fox News Channel in the wake of his caustic comments.

"These two are now acting the way the mainstream media has been acting for decades, thinking they are the gatekeepers of who shall be heard in the conservative world," Savage sputtered in a statement.

"Both are jealous of my audience and are trying to silence me because they do not want the competition."

Savage boasted that the supposed "ban" has not affected sales of his new book, "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder," which debuts at No. 6 on the New York Times best-seller list next week.

The gay-bashing broadcaster isn't the only publicity hound taking aim at O'Reilly, the undisputed king of cable news.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue, famed for firing off several press releases a day to media outlets, is ticked that O'Reilly once described him as a "witch-hunter" and Pope John Paul II as an "autocrat."

"My members are a little bit fed up with him," Donohue claims. "I guess he feels like if he is to the left of me, he'll appear more fair and balanced. We're on the same side philosophically on most issues. But I feel like, when someone crosses the line from criticism

[dennisw]

I'm kind of tickled that you like him

[dennisw]

I wish I could hear Mark Levine's Show.....

You can get him over the internet, He very funny. http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp

[harpo11]

Thank you very much.
I can't wait to hear him.

[That Alan Guy]

Now that President Bush is in to his second term in office, I am amazed that people still think that someway, somehow people badmouthing those in power is somewhat bad. In particular people with ideas to the effect of don't speak bad of fellow Republicans or talk show hosts because liberals and the Left will eat them alive. GOOD! Eat them!

I say that since I have observed that no one has figured out yet. If you did that, then maybe you would not end up with so many RepubliCANTS in office. You would have actual work done in the RNC that actually advances the national interest (War on Terrorism, Illegal Immigration, Outsourcing entire country, etc.). There is a difference between constructive criticism and outright badmouthing. When people have gotten power and have gotten fat, lazy, and have sold out, then there is a problem. If you can't perform, go away. Sell Viagra, it will make you feel better.

As for talk show hosts, I have stopped listening to national talk show hosts. Rush has been too much of an RNC cheerleader, only now calling them on things they do wrong. Hannity is a nice guy, but again the same problem. Too much touting that Republicans are all good and Democrats are all bad. Republicans are only good when they are not RepubliCANTS.

O'Reilly, what a joke. He doesn't tell people his political affiliation since he has none. He is too star struck with himself and obsessed with getting into "The In-Crowd." He's only considered a conservative since he will insist on a "No Spin Zone," attitude, which is a facade anyway. The man would probably circle his TV and Radio set with mirrors and have pop-up bubbles showing his words as gospel truth. Ever since he - or had FOX News - sued Al Fraken for aping his trademark and standing down showed a crack in the mirror. Then paying out the accusation against him smacks of what Michael Jackson did the first time around when accused of molesting children.

Now I save the best for Michael "Savage" Weiner. Ray Charles can see him for what he really is, an egomaniac on too much coffee. The "Weiner" has peaked, thus he attacks Rush, Sean, and Bill for not being conservative enough. Aside from pitching his new book, it's the same old act. Here is a man who does line his four (he actually says he has four radio studios to use throughout the Bay Area) radio studios with mirrors. The only difference between Weiner and O'Reilly is that Weiner doesn't take his meds. Weiner, however, does have the pop-up bubbles show up on his mirrors telling him how smart he is, how many books he wrote (co-worte), how he is on the NYT best seller list, how the other talk show hosts are not as good as he is, etc.

At this point, Mikey has shown that he has peaked. Bill Clinton would even admonish Mikey on excessive narcissism. If Mikey was real smart, he would put it in a lotion bottle and sell it. His ideas come from another has been, Pat Buchanan. What has he done? Michael Reagan said the man is looking for another television show to host. That is all Mikey has. This is Mikey's downfall and why I no longer take him seriously. His ideas come from others (he will steal with impunity), his vanity is all consuming, and he probably knows it.

Why does he attack other successful radio hosts? Because in the end, he wants to be king, the only king. Only problem is that he wants to stomp on everyone else and have them bow down to him. He also would sell out faster than any RINO are star stuck (re: Californians who voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger) Republican to become a RepubliCANT. He is nothing more than a naked, power mad, apolitical type. And if you question him on it (when he isn't cutting you off on his radio show to hear himself talk, because you are just a peasant meant to entertain him), you are branded heretic and must be sent to a reeducation camp. Al Franken should take a lesson in that so he can get more than 3.5 listeners to his show.

In the end, Mikey will burn out and will be seen as nothing more than a Howard Stern-type personality. No one else will touch him due to such volatility. That's why he gets no time with other hosts. And when he take potshots at them for it, he digs his grave even deeper. I'll say it right now that he's peaked, ran out of ideas, and now begins the slow slide downhill here. Rush is going down this road, but he's got legend status now, so he's safe until he retires or has more medical problems (not drugs but hearing). Mikey will burn in flames, and then consume his audience saying that they weren't loyal enough to him. Classic egomania run amok. I'd like to see him look into the mirrors and point the finger and yell, "You're at fault for my downfall!" That's worth a lifetime subscription to the Dittocam.

[Final Authority]

What do you think about his latest ratings book? He is a star and GOP phonies hate him. He doesn't kiss rump like Rush and he is for traditional America, borders, language, and culture. He is not for the globalism GWB endorses, or giving away our sovereignty or speaking a language other than English. He is a Constitutional constructionist who quotes the old Testament. Now, isn't it easy to hate him?

[Hot Tabasco]

What do you think about his latest ratings book?

He's giving most of them away......

FWIW, As its not kosher for an ex-president to bad mouth a seated president, it is also not kosher for one conservative talk show host to badmouth all the others who do not have the demented ferver that he has........He is DESPERATE to have his book mentioned on Rush and Hannity and all the others to the extent he has even publicly offered a reward to anyone who can get on the air under false premises and ask why they don't discuss his book.

While he does occasionally get into serious topics, he now seems obsessed with bashing the Bush family, O'Reilly, Hannity and Rush. There is no need for it, it is obvious he is craving the audience they have and in his own mind the only way he is going to get that audience is by bashing his own comrades-in-arms.

The guy is sick........

[Hot Tabasco]

FWIW, here in Detroit at 8:41 p.m. I just stepped back into the kitchen in time to hear the Savage absolutely go ballistic on a caller. Sorry, there is no way in heck I can ever support this guy as a conservative talk show host.......

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I listened to Savage on the radio after MSNBC fired him, and he was really scared that he'd lose his radio job.

[Final Authority]

His ratings book is not his book ratings as in how many he sold. I thought by prior screed that you were more knowledgeable than that.

His ratings book is radio speak for ratings. The higher his ratings means at least two things. He has more listeners and/or his listeners are in a preferential demographic, and the most important, he gets to charge more for commercials.

Do a search on Google using Savage, ratings, WOR, NY Post, as search terms, and you will find how well he is doing not only in NYNY but nationwide compared to other TSH (talk show hosts). Since the election cycle his ratings have increased and most TSH and print media have decreased. His regional demographics show he has broad appeal. He does well in CA as he does in NY as he does in Atlanta and Boston. He has about 300 odd radio outlets and he will be with us and you for the duration.

As I say to other folks, just don't dial him in and get over it.

BTW, if his first, second, and third printing is over 200,000 copies, tell me how can he give them all away at the rate of about five books a day? That would be over 100 years at seven days a week.

[Final Authority]

As you read my last reply to you, please disregard my comment about your last screed as I did not read your name prior to my reply. I assumed that it was the guy I replied to originally. Sorry.

Remember, reference to a "ratings book" is a reference to radio ratings because the contract that radio stations and TSH sign prohibit, usually, the dissemination of the information without permission of the rating company like Arbitron. Only the advertisers and sales folks get that info, usually. There is a lot more to ratings than just general numbers but the real data is in the demographics where family income and education are factored in.

[sport]

Bump

[That Alan Guy]

Michael "Savage" Weiner is someone who is against the New World Order and RepubliCANTS. So? What has he done other than try to boost his own ratings. Take potshots at other radio talk show hosts because he's peaked? Continue on a love one day, hate the next for George W. Bush? Spare me. This is all nothing but theater.

Does anyone seriously think about what he has done? So let me see, I can hear him 3 hours a day here in the Bay Area, rant and rave, and someway, somehow the tide will turn. Also if I buy his books, contribute to his private society, and walk around with his hat on, and "BAM!" the world is safe by bedtime! He is all talk, no action.

He has people in the news on, but what else? He talked about going down to Florida to protest the state-santioned murder of Terri Schiavo. But did he lift a finger to do it? Did he really want to throw his body on top of Terri's body to protect her? Why not? That's great radio and his reputation would be enhanced by coming to her aid. I guess the first class ticket would be too expensive. Or maybe they were serving a good pasta meal at one of his favorite restaurants in North Beach?

As for his topics, I see totally through them nowadays. Three examples are when he was badmouthing the television show Dog The Bounty Hunter. He's railing against it when his producer (or other studio assistant) probably told him in his headphones that they are a sponsor of the show (I heard the commercials on his show). Then he could do nothing but sing praises to the show. This is one bird that knows when to carry a tune (when he's paid to sing).

Another example with the Bounty Hunter is when he was complaining against nonviolent drug offenders and taking potshots against Dog again. Then Dog calls his show up and gets talking with Weiner. Now Weiner reverses his position totally just after talking with Dog. This surprises me since the type of talk that Weiner has used over the years is that of someone who does not tolerate criminals in any capacity. Now he's going soft? I guess he doesn't mind having the streets with drug addicts in them. Then again, he can fill air time with how drug addicted bums are filling up the streets of San Francisco. Flake.

The third is great. In years past he has take advertising from Jaguar ("Tell them that Savage 'Jaged' you!"). Nowadays he complains about how GM is getting the stuffing beaten out of it by competition. The man says he drives a Lincoln Navigator, not a GM product. What is his beef? He suddenly realized that American auto makers are in deep trouble? It's suddenly dawned upon him? Where did he get his PhD again from? This gets funnier and funnier by the minute.

One unconfirmed case was when he was talking about a new car he got for his wife. He whined as usual about how he couldn't get the control to work. I believe he was talking about the new BMW 7 series at the time. He complains about American car makers but buys and has advertising foreign? Spare me. This scam is coming to an end.

Weiner is no more different from Pat Buchanan. He may believe what he says (probably not). They sell books, and are blow hards. So you sell a lot of books, you want a medal now? Pat used to beat the drum against the NWO, but he seems to be on nothing but the liberal cable channels (CNN, MSNBC). Strange for a man who takes a paycheck from stations that promote the agenda he's against? Not really. Weiner and Buchanan are only interested in the dollars. If they could make big bucks they would narrate Sesame Street. This is not jealousy, this is a mockery.

[Final Authority]

Such vitriol from a person who knows everything there is to know, especially about Savage, but hates him so to never listen? Come on, you know who you are. You are a GOP good, Dems bad, bobble head.

BTW, his ratings have not yet peaked, and he is doing better day by day, ratings book by ratings book, contrary to idiots like Hannity and the Leper-Con. He hasn't peaked and you and the others are scared that he will be the catalyst for the next third party of nationalists that will essentially moot the GOP. It is too bad but the GOP has still time to right the ship of public opinion by taking corrective action, not by employing shills like yourself.

[That Alan Guy]

AH HA HA! If I was paid by the GOP, I wouldn't be writing here! I would be on FOX News! AH HA HA! I would be making real money for my opinions! Maybe even a blog! AH HA HA! But if you want to pay me then be my guest. Oh, I'm sorry, the money went to buying "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder." AH HA HA!

This is not vitriol. This is showing someone for who they really are. I left the GOP once Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of my state. The GOP has sold out by being a king maker to a RepubliCANT. A third party is a bigger joke. A third party has never worked since Teddy Roosevelt. Even Pat Buchanan admitted that it doesn't work when he tried to twist the arms of the GOP back in '92. I'll eat my words when it happens. But I won't hold my breath.

Actually I have given up on talk radio as a whole. The same old, "Liberals are on the warpath! Buy my book! The Leper-Con, Hush Bimbo, and Sean Vanity is a fake! Buy my book! I can't take it anymore! BUY MY BOOK!" never ends. It's a racket. It's intended for TRUE BELIEVRS (like some people out there) who insert one $5 word into a paragraph. If anything, go listen to Joesph Farah if you want a real change of pace and real solutions.

When it comes down to Weiner's ratings or book sales, I'll believe Drudge since he gets the dirt on everyone. Or better yet, show me the raw data here. Show me the ratings. Prove me wrong. When I see raw data that says otherwise, I'll admit I'm wrong. But if you just take people at their word, then you might as well as believe every politician (GOP or DNC) who says they are doing the people's business.

[Final Authority]

You make a lot of sense in your first sentence and you tell me enough to show that you are discouraged with so-called Republicans, the GOP, and the political scene presently.

I feel the same about many of your thoughts but I have a long commute three to four days a week when I work in my office outside of Boston. I get to leave late to avoid gridlock and that is when Savage comes on. At first I thought, who is this nut? But because the alternative is Laura Ingraham, or the Late David Brudnoy I tuned into Savage to check him out. I loved David over the years but as he got more notoriety for being the gay man that he was he lost some of his edge. He was the Bill Buckley of radio, had a star quality way before Rush, and in a city of socialists, was the voice of conservative/libertarian reason. I can't listen to Laura's voice, period, but she might say some good things but I will never know. WRT Savage, as I said, I thought him nuts but I listened off and on over a couple of weeks and he was doing a segment about his childhood. He told stories of working for his father, hanging out with the men, his mother cooking for him, going on dates as a teenager, and standing up for himself after school. It was a home run, for me and for his audience. He was funny, his stories were like a film projector, illuminating the mind with the images he was conveying. He does it often as I have come to learn and not just with personal stories but with the issues of the day. He may relate to callers with emotion but that emotion works both ways. He will never be our leader for anything especially politically but he is the pebble in the shoe that we all seek and need to go on with life successfully. If he doesn't make you think, he loses, but he wins because he does.

It is too bad you left the GOP as it were because of Arnold. If he is not better than the former governor then you have a point but he is not the GOP, as no man is. But if the GOP continues to disregard the issues of importance, borders, language, and our traditional culture, then you and I should leave the GOP but stand with those with whom we agree.

[That Alan Guy]

After reading the response, I either have converted someone to my thinking, or there are other people out there who think along the same lines that I do. My disillusion has come to pass in the past year with the GOP when here they have the administrative branch, the legislative branch, and do nothing with it. They might as well be the British Royal Family. Just a show for the masses.

The problem is that now George W. Bush has his second term (after going up against empty suit Kerry and suit filing Edwards) it's back to the business of playing it safe. And I don't mean bring up Social Security Reform by flying around the country to convince people it's a needed idea. Personally I am amazed that he defeated Kerry by such large margins back in November. He and other GOP members (except for a small minority) have been doing the same old play it safe, get along, be nice, we're winning, country club Rockefeller Republican mindset. Meanwhile the earth they walk on is continuously eroded around them as their more aggressive and determined DNC opponents are able to checkmate them with ease. Look at Tom DeLay, for example. How long did it take GWB to come to assist him? I hope his assistance is not of the type that he provided for Terri Schiavo.

As for Michael "Savage" Weiner, the childhood stories are somewhat interesting, but it goes to my premise is that it's a show for him at the end of they day. When I first began listening to him back in October of 1998 (locally here in the Bay Area), I thought that I was first listening to Charles Schumer. But this guy was the anti-Charles Schumer. Everything he said was directly opposite of what the Democratic Senator would say and think.

But as time has gone on and he is now national, the vanity has only been able to fuel itself to consume everything in it's path. The beginning of the end came when he was kicked off MSNBC for his comments. It's not so much how he insulted the caller that got me, it's not owing up to it and pretending to be a, "Only a more Savage Nation can survive," person.

Even Howard Stern complains when he says the same thing that Oprah says he gets nailed for it and she does not, that's owing up to what you say. And if Stern can do even that much, then someone like Mikey could do the same. But because, "It's just one man's opinion," one cannot deviate from that world view. If he was a little smarter, he could have played the Howard Stern Martyr part and came out even better, instead of a limp-wristed sissy excuse.

As for the Governor Schwarzenegger situation, it was the final straw. The GOP decided to play it safe (again) rather than send real people to the job. It's not that one person makes the GOP. The GOP has so compromised itself with capitulation that, at this rate, I might as well vote Democrat. When you pump the GOP with Rockefeller types (RepubliCANTS to me), you get where we are now. What did GWB do during the election? Did he put his energy behind the sunsetting of the Assault Weapons Ban? Nope. Did he say that he was going to bomb all of Iraq to stop the insurgency? Nope. Is he calling the Minuteman a grassroots activist group calling attention to a large problem? What's that spell? No! Three times the charm!

I may have left the GOP but at least I know where I stand now. But I look on the bright side in that with all the illegal aliens that have entered this nation (from Mexico and everywhere else) is that they will now be able to vote Republican! They can replace people such as myself who have left! AH HA HA! I might as well as get a good laugh at the thinking of the RepubliCANT party has done to itself, as it figures out how to dig the hole it's in deeper. AH HA HA!

[Final Authority]

Keep writing. The more you write the more I know that Savage gets to you because he is right and he is conservative. You are not and it is unlikely that you ever were. I was wrong in my last reply. You are indeed misguided and not worthy of anymore of my time.

As others would say on these threads, you are a troll. You are all pretense as you make little sense and by your own responses, you stand for nothing, just like the mentally disordered liberals.

Just one man's opinion, you know.

[That Alan Guy]

HA HA HA! Two can play that game. The only reason he is the way he is is that he got denied a professorship at UC Berkeley. And now, empowered with the ability to reason for myself and make judgments (just as covervative talk radio has empowered millions of other people to do), I can. The only problem is that I now do it with everything. Liberals and Conservatives get it in equal doses.

The reason I write very long posts is that I can recall exact incidents that I heard him talk about on his show or what I have seen in the Covervative Talk Radio world. All you can tell me is that you like his childhood stories. Fine. Enjoy him retelling his childhood for the benefit of the listening audience. If I want that, I would watch Sesame Street for that. But I want to be informed on things and would like to know how to change things before they all go to Hell.

If people out there cannot take the fact that I call people such as Weiner on what they do, then they have turned into the very sheeple Mikey used to play with regularity on his show when he was only local here in the Bay Area. The only difference is that they are not following a Democrat or a RepubliCANT. I still challenge people out there to tell me that I am wrong, aside from calling me a troll since they can't argue against the mountain of information that I provide. But keep coming, Savage Bots! Be TRUE BELIEVERS like Nader's Raiders or the Buchanan Brigade! ALLELUIAH!

Now THAT'S one man's opinion, backed up by FACTS, you know.

[Final Authority]

Nader's Raiders were great, weren't they? They made sure Gore lost the election. I get goosebumps every time I think of it.

[johnb838]

He told somebody the other day to gargle with rogaine and grow hair on her throat. I think he is going to explode one day soon.