Posted on 10/23/2014 3:36:35 AM PDT by servo1969
The areas to which President Barack Obama is open to legitimate and scathing criticism are almost endless, but the host of the 4th most-listened to radio show in the country bypasses the obvious for the unbelievable.
“What worries me, Jamie, in regards to what you just said, is that one of President Obama’s mentors was Abraham Lincoln,” Savage told The Daily Caller earlier this month in an interview about his new book, calmly named, “Stop The Coming Civil War.”
“He imprisoned 20,000 political opponents, including journalists, who opposed the Civil War. People don’t know that about Lincoln. And 20,000 people in the 1860s would be what today? Two million or more? And if he is one Obama’s mentors is it hard to comprehend that the same might happen here under Obama?”
It is, in fact, pretty hard to comprehend, even if there are real and serious criticisms of the way the Obama administration had dealt with the press. But this is Savage’s MO. He is quick to paint Obama not just as a failed president who has too often subverted Congress and abused his power in order to implement his agenda, but as an out-and-out tyrant in the mold of Joseph Stalin.
“Just as Stalin purged his generals, albeit in a more bloody manner, Obama has been purging the military,” Savage said, comparing Obama to one of history most evil monsters, while suggesting – falsely – that he has forced 8,000 officers from the military for political reasons.
Given his alarmist view of Obama, it is not so surprising that Savage believes the president might try to instigate some type of insurrection in order to grab even more power.
“My worst fear is that they are going to provoke an insurrection in this country as a pretext to aggrandize more power and possibly start taking more liberties with the Second Amendment,” he said
But have no fear. Savage’s book presents a solution to the Obama problem: vote Republican in November.
“I focus in ‘Stop The Coming Civil War’ on these attacks on our schools, on our borders, our language, our culture, our military,” he said. “And I focus on it for one reason: We have 30 days to save America. Why do I say that? It is as simple as this: We have to throw every Democrat out and we have to put in the opposition party.”
If you’re scratching your head at this solution given the problem he diagnosed, you’re not alone. If Obama is Stalin-lite, why would he care if the Republicans controlled the Senate?
“Well, you make a very valid point,” Savage said. “But let’s see what happens if the so-called Republicans win and they pass laws that he and his merry band of pranksters don’t like, let’s see what happens then.”
When pressed to follow his wild theories to their logical conclusion, Savage backs off a bit, seemingly unwilling to go too far into Alex Jones-land, at least when not actually speaking to Alex Jones.
“Well, I wouldn’t go that far because we don’t know what he is going to do in two years. I know what he is doing right now,” Savage says when asked whether he believes the president is angling to hold onto power indefinitely, as Stalin-esque leaders tend to do.
“I don’t know. I can’t even think that far ahead,” he said, when pressed on the same question later in the interview. “I don’t know what he can or cannot do. I do know that anything is possible because if someone would have said that he wouldn’t limit flights from an Ebola area and he wouldn’t get away with it, I‘d say your crazy.”
A 2009 profile in the New Yorker paints Savage, who was born Michael Weiner, as a man with a deeply pessimistic outlook. So it is possible he believes the over-the-top theories he spouts.
And it is not like Savage gets everything wrong. As Obama approaches year seven of his presidency, polling suggests most Americans agree with Savage that the Obama experience has been something less than an outstanding success. Beyond all its evident failures, it’s even possible that a smoking gun will emerge that will tie the administration more closely — even criminally — to something like the IRS’s targeting of tea party groups.
But like deranged liberals during the George W. Bush years, Savage isn’t content to paint Obama merely as a failure with a discredited worldview whose policies have made America weaker. He must be something more nefarious, more apocalyptic. In Savage’s telling, Obama is working with his elite friends to create a “New World Order,” one “without any borders, without any single language, without a single cultural identity.”
“This is part of the New World Order in the sense of the new Soviet world. It’s sort of emerging like a new Soviet world ruled by a power elite,” he says.
If so, the emerging New World Order has been pretty good for the Savage family. If Obama is Stalin-lite, the “lite” must stand for a willingness by Obama to allow his critics and their kin to prosper wildly instead of being sent to the gulags. Savage has earned millions during the age of Obama, and his son, Russell Weiner, has earned billions.
“I have no comment on anyone in my family. Any other questions,” Savage says when asked about his boy’s phenomenal feat.
Forbes magazine estimates that Russ, the founder of Rockstar Energy Drink, is worth $2.5 billion. Savage celebrated the coming release of his book in August on his son’s 165-foot yacht.
So does Savage at least admit that some of his rhetoric is for show? That he sometimes says things — like, say, we will face a civil war in 30 days if Republicans don’t win the Senate — to shock his audience?
“I don’t know. You would have to ask the audience what they think,” Savage said. “People interpret things in different ways. One man’s shock is another man’s awe.”
You nailed it.
And Ronald Reagan is credited with saying (paraphrased from memory), "80% of conservative political views is good enough for me".
I stopped listening to Michael Savage when it was revealed that he made the maximum allowable contribution to Jerry Brown, aka Governor Moonbeam.
Wondering if Savage will go the way of Glenn Beck ....
Hunterdon County New Jersey in 2012....She pressed ‘R’ but the thing changed to ‘D’......Hello 4 million ‘no shows?’
I’ve often thought the same thing.
I tried listening to him a couple of times last week while on a long trip. It was nothing more than a 4 hour commercial for his new book. Even the call in’s were either staged or prepped to ask questions that related completely to his book. I am not going to waste my time listening to a 4 hour infomercial. Turned XM/Sirius back on.
Michael Savage brought up weeks ago that the enterovirus outbreak sickening hundreds, killed four kids and paralyzed several more in Colorado was endemic to Central America and spread by the “unaccompanied minor children” in this summer’s immigration surge, distributed around the nation and then put in school as “homeless” so they don’t have to have vaccination records.
Now the CDC admits there’s a link
CDC admitted disease imported as states data reveals illegal immigrant link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3218510/posts
Except for illegal amnesty(he is not the first to do it), Obama’s damage to the country in his remaining term is likely to be limited. He is disenchanted. His domestic policy has failed. Blacks standard of living is lower than when he started in spite of spending zillions of our dollars. His socialist health care ideas have been a failure already. His international policy has failed. Millions of homeless are in Syria. 200,000 murdered. Ukraine invaded. Russia humiliating him regularly.
He got to do much of what he wanted to do politically and it all failed. Now he just wants to play golf and be left alone.
Really? I have listened to him for years and have never heard him bash Israel or the Founding Fathers.
I’m not the biggest Savage fan but he’s right about Obama. Of course the guy would take over if he could and I’m not sure he won’t try in the next two years.
Mark Levin seemed visibly shaken to me on Hannity the other night. He’s very concerned about what Obama is going to start doing after the Midterm elections. So am I.
He can pick a topic and waste a whole day on it.
Not all, but many, possibly a majority of veterans are crybabies, who are milking the free-government money train. I work with see them at my reunions and see them at my reunions all the time.
"I saw (or claimed I saw) bad things - now where do I pick up my check... FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE."
I should amend that to make it clear that the majority of veterans getting disability payments for PTSD are milking the system - not veterans in general.
Though very many who have been in the sandbox will claim PTSD. Word gets around, and it's hard to turn down free money.
Seems like whenever I have listened to him, he’s done that.
To me the top conservative talkers all have their own qualities. They would be:
1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Glenn Beck
3. Mark Levin
4. Sean Hannity
5. Michael Savage
6. Hugh Hewitt
7. Laura Ingraham
8. Dana Loesch
9. Doc Thompson
10. Steve Deace
You could also add a few other National shows on that list But I did the ones that came off the top of my head. I would recommend Laurie Roth or Roger Hedgecock as well. Still my point is all the radio personalities have good things about them and also bad things too. The big thing is Savage is up against Hannity and also part of Dana Loesch’s show. So if one cared youtube has his archives since he has no podcast page. Hannity, which most here don’t like, moved his podcast page to a Iheart area and closed the section on his website.
25% of the general population is predisposed to PTS. Children who are sexually abused or mentally abused are around 30%. Rape, abortion, abused women, 25%.
PTS is separate from depression. Can co-habitate, but can be experienced separately.
There will always be scammers. My main concern is those with depression and PTS who are fighting the fight and may someday give up. TBI is a big factor, too. We have so many wounded who would not have survived in other wars.
http://www.goheroes.us/military/cpl-casey-owens-usmc-ret
Don’t be afraid to find out how many veterans have killed themselves. Many of the guys in the trenches of WW1 killed themselves in the trenches.
Whenever I caught the show he was talking about restaurants, or his dog, or herbal remedies ...
Oh, Savage also believes the SEALs were traded for Ben Laden. After the trade, or Extortion 17, the suicide rate went up among our cry-baby SEALs. Then there was Benghazi, another stab in the back and actually what I consider BETRAYAL so, for all those who believe that the rising suicide rate is crying...I say Benghazi: What difference did it make in the lives of our Special Forces???
I also know that there are those without the predisposition to PTS who actually use the trauma to do good. If you know what the statistical bell curve looks like, I would bet that the one end 25% are those who suffer PTS and the other end of the bell curve are the 25% whose brains can handle the trauma and use the memory which is not debilitating to create a better environment or do something with it.
I want the neurologists to do a comparative study of those brains. There was an article about those who survived 9-11 and were the non-sufferers who acted creatively with it. I want to know how we heal or strengthen those brains that are predisposed to PTS (if possible). I know those with PTS can recover. I read their testimonies.
hmmm. I wonder if there is a way to find out if people are predisposed to depression. I’ll have to do some more searching. Have a great weekend and pray Satan doesn’t get anyone to give up. Thank God (I do) that you don’t have either one.
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