The Savage Nation vs. the Bushbots

www.homestead.com ^ | 7/21/05 | PAUL MULSHINE

[brothers4thID]

Oh- and for you and your fellows, the Congress controls the Federal Budget and the size of the Federal government. I know that pesky separation of powers can be hard to keep track of, but try to stay up. If we're going to be blaming people for the size of the Federal government lets place blame where it belongs.

I guess that makes us.. Congress bots? Warbots? Anti-terrorism bots fighting a two front war without home-front mobilization of price control bots? Oh, damn that's just too wordy. Let's sum it up and use "realpolitik Republicans."

[driftless]

There are a host of uberliberals like Krugman and Dowd with college degrees. Should we respect their analytical ability? I've got a college degree, but I'll bow to Limbaugh on a host of topics especially economics. I'll pick Rush's ability to analyze over just about anybody's.

[Dane]

You throw words around like idiot. Savage has a documented IQ of 175. That my friend is well above the genius level

Whatever, wienerbot.

[CWOJackson]

"You throw words around like idiot. Savage has a documented IQ of 175. That my friend is well above the genius level."

You don't need a genius IQ to sell magic beans to the gullible. savage is obviously an underachiever.

[pollyannaish]

This whole thing is very disturbing to me. I hate the fact that Savage has decided to trash Rush, Levin and Hannity. There is no call for it. I think that all are basically on the same side, and what is happening is kind of like pitting brother against brother, IMHO.

I agree. It's not the disagreeing, it's the trashing that makes me suspicious.

First let me preface this by saying that sometimes I agree with Savage, sometimes I wonder who hid his meds. I understand why people like him, and find him refreshing, although I can only take him in small doses.

That said, I DO NOT trust him, and there have been days when he has been very sly in moving opinion in a way that is fundamentally NOT conservative and very carefully obscured by using conservative phraseology and buzz words.

There is something about him that makes me suspicious that he does not believe in what he says, but is using the success of right leaning talk radio to make money, which he worships. He is able to hide that by the intensity of his language and tone which appeals to our innate frustration with authority.

When the money stops rolling in, I fear that he will turn on the right with such viciousness and intelligence (he is amazingly smart, both book and street smart) that it will be incredibly painful to us. Honestly, the very skeptical part of me believes that he is playing us and will relish it when the time comes to expose that fact, allowing him to make money off a whole new group of people.

I want to repeat that my cynicism is not aimed at his listeners as much as his own motives. I hope I am wrong.

[CWOJackson]

"His listener ratings are rising. You will be hearing more of him."

Just as we did Morton Downey and Jerry Springer.

[HitmanLV]

Yes. I have been listening to Savage faithfully for 4 or so years now. He used to very rarely mention his wife on the show, and I figured he was either divorced or a widower, only because a person's spouse tends to come up in conversation and she never did.

I recall one caller maybe two years ago who point blank asked him if he was married, and that seemed to catch him off guard for a second and he said yes. Even that didn't settle it, since I know more than a few oldschool men who consider themselves married even if divorced or if their spouse passed on A bit odd, but I've seen it before.

The last couple of years, though, he peppers his rap with casual, but infrequent, references to Mrs. Savage. A few weeks ago, for example, she and his son (a successful businessman) accompanied him to a Halloween party in Hollywood. He mentions he takes her out on the boat sometimes, for example. So I am pretty sure he is married.

[cookcounty]

Old news (July!). IIRC, sharia was dropped from the Iraqi constitution, and it is not an "islamic Republic."

[jdm]

"You are Quoting "New Republic".

Ooops. I didn't realize that was a liberal commie rag!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Oh, please. Savage caters to the type of people who think that Rush Limbaugh is a liberal.

[HitmanLV]

I'm an underachiver, too. It's not so bad, really.

I always had difficulty doing well in heirarchical business environments, for example, and blossomed when I quit and started my own business. I think Savage has the same deficiency - he isn't a team player, doesn't play well with others, etc., so he had to cut his own path.

He is remarkably sucessful. Give credit where credit is due.

[CWOJackson]

"He is smarter than both of them put together!"

I don't know, Jerry Springer is kind of bright...but Jerry never made a living selling herbs and vitamins. Well, then again savage didn't do that great at it either.

[CWOJackson]

"He is remarkably sucessful. Give credit where credit is due."

But I do; read my posts. He's tapped into a nitch market that hadn't be developed before...white trash talk radio.

[isthisnickcool]

I can't stand listening to Savage sometimes.

I love listening to Savage sometimes.

[jveritas]

What is anything with to say about a KOOK like Savage. Arguing with this man or about him is an insult for any person with an IQ over 60.

[chris1]

We're supposed to be watchdogs, not lapdogs."


Best quote in the article! I am utterly disgusted with GWB and hopes he just stops the bleeding at this point. He has lost all credibility on border and sepnding issues. Iraq seems to be an issue still playing out.

I think he will go down as a mixed bag at best.