It's what he does from time to time. He just said that he's trying to "goad them into battle"
Sometimes he does stuff similar to this and attacks conservatives to "prove" he's independent..
the worst was the time he had an editor from a popular conservative magazine as a guest and just attacked him unmercifully for the magazine's accusation that Larry Lawrence, a major donor to President Clinton, did not qualify to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
The magazine was the first to expose the travesty and was catching hell in the MSM and Savage sided with the MSM -- the magazine was absolutely correct and within a couple of weeks the Clinton Administration and the MSM could no long contain the scandal.
The man's body was removed from Arlington National Cemetery.
The Demobrat Party kidnapped the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party!
I like to quote something from Lincoln.. updated to address these aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus psycho spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue.
We initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. We now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
(Spoiled brats do not have to be rich kids.. if not spawned by psychological factors or upbringing they're trained spoiled brats of the "Rules For Spoiled Brats" variety.)