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1. Am I a moron? It’s difficult for me to assess personally. I do not for instance consider myself competent to judge diagnoses of autism. I do however feel competent to judge when someone is making a fool of themselves.

Are you a rude arrogant sycophant?

2. Please allow me to clarify. KSFO is the station my car radio was set to. At the time Dr. Weiner was on that station, when I got off the train at night and started the truck he was usually the first thing I heard. I’d usually leave him on until I got out of the parking lot and hit the first stop light. I had heard his show on KGO before that. He has never been one of the talk show hosts I listen to on a regular basis but I think I’ve developed a pretty good idea of where the guy is coming from.

3. My definition of “a conservative” is someone who supports the rights of individuals over the rights of the collective, believes in free markets, representative government, traditional values and is a nationalist but usually not to the extreme.

I was around UC Berkeley in the early ‘80s and I can tell you that, with the exception of one South African geology prof, I knew of no publicly know conservative professors in the sciences at Cal at that time. I spent most of my time around an island of sanity on the Cal campus called Etcheverry Hall. If I’m not mistaken Dr. Weiner would have been down at Tollman, below the parking lot on the other side of the street. If he had been a publicly avowed conservative at that time I think we would have heard about it.

This doesn’t mean that he wasn’t keeping his views private (if he wanted tenure he had better) or that they haven’t changed over the years. However, given where he came from, given the way he came into talk radio at the time, given his penchant for green rants and given the fact that “Dr. Savage” is just the kind of name a lib who wanted to put on a conservative persona would choose, I have reason to suspect that he is not really a conservative.

>>>My definition of “a conservative” is someone who supports the rights of individuals over the rights of the collective, believes in free markets, representative government, traditional values and is a nationalist but usually not to the extreme.

So, how does this definition pertain in any way to Savage NOT being a conservative. He’s violating no one’s rights by expressing his opinion. Perhaps you don’t believe fully in the 1st amendment (which wouldn’t be terribly conservative of you), or perhaps you believe that people should be prohibited from speaking anything that might “hurt” someone’s feelings. (again, not terribly conservative of you)

Further: YOU are the one who first said that you never listened to him, and then jumped to the conclusion that he wasn’t conservative. Don’t blame me for your inarticularity.

>>>UC Berkeley in the early ‘80s

Well, I guess you’ve just blown your own conservative bona fides. If you were there, you aren’t conservative....

(or are you....)

Do you think that Dennis Prager is conservative? I don’t think you could rationally dispute that he is very conservative, all around. But he’ll tell you that in his younger days, he wasn’t. Gee, maybe around the early-’80s.

People and their ideologies change. If you are going by his having been at the mecca of Left-Coast communism in the early ‘80s to base your conslusions, you need to think a little bit harder, and actually LISTEN to Savage. (Now, not in the deep recesses of your UC Berkeley-hazed memory)