Posted on 04/16/2020 10:08:24 PM PDT by rintintin
There are a lot of people who are ruining the country right now, according to Michael Savage. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Liberal mayors in big cities like San Francisco. Undocumented immigrants. Homeless people.
But for the past two months, listeners to Mr. Savage’s conservative radio show have heard him howl with unabated contempt about another menace: “The pimps” in the right-wing media “who tell you what you want to hear.” They are “intellectual dwarfs” and “science illiterates,” he says, who spent weeks downplaying the threat from the coronavirus epidemic and accusing President Trump’s opponents of exaggerating it to hurt him politically.
On Mr. Savage’s broadcast, which has one of the largest audiences in talk radio with 7.5 million listeners each week, the virus has never been a hoax or a bad case of the sniffles. He has lectured his fans on the research in detail: How it is transmitted; which treatments are proving effective; and the difference between morbidity and mortality rates.
With no small amount of self-satisfaction, Mr. Savage reminds people of his credentials — a Ph.D. and training in epidemiology — and of the fact that he was one of the few voices in conservative media who had warned them all along.
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Way to make new fans.
That’s not what I inferred at all.
I listen to a little of his show, 15 minutes is about all I can take and I find him just big a HYpocrite as some of those hates he berates.
I agree, FR is a shadow of it’s former, sharpest knife in the drawer leading conservative self.
I come here and participate a very small fraction of what I use to.
Glad you heard it. It was a defense of China and an attack on his own people and side. I can listen to the PC’s saying garbage like that. He’s haughty and arrogant enough, but this was the end for me.
He’s the scummiest sort of scum. The part of Virginia that is still sane needs to secede.
Doggonit, wrong reply. Wrong thread. Savage can’t compare to Northam.
Thank you, all good points!
I listened to him for a few weeks a few years ago, and he was railing against gun owners and making caveman-like statements that AR-15s should be banned and confiscated. Anyone who wanted to discuss the matter from the gun owner perspective was insulted and hung up upon.
He's good at one thing. Occasionally, sounding as if he's more intelligent than he is.
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