Posted on 12/07/2004 12:51:20 PM PST by rdmartinjd
I AM a Jew, you idiot. I am relieved that some of you conservatives- more and more it seems with every passing day- see through this "Savage" charlatan. It is sad that there are still too many conservatives who will cannot see Weiner for who he really is- an opportunist. As I have said, it matters not that he is a Jew. What matters is that he baits Jews with ethnic derision in order to scapegoat them while at the same time pretending he is a Christian. It is rank hypocrisy. There are conservative Jewish talk show hosts, e.g., Levin, Prager, Medved, etc., who do not hide their ethnicity and more to point, they do not engage in anti-semitic rhetoric.
I am not going to argue with you EM2VN. You are dead wrong on this one.
You haven't been listening to his show if you haven't heard him make tactless comments about other minorities. He's very into self depracation.
Am I to assume that you are tiffed because Savage appears to you to be a Jew who has embraced Christianity. Or is it because Savage challenges liberal Jews to defend their positions. I don't understand your position, and I don't accept your claim to being Jewish.
I have heard him mention on more than one occasion that he was Jewish (I am not sure he ever said whether he was still practicing) [by the way, he talks much less about his personal life now that his show is national. I don't remember him mentioning his wife since then. He had her on twice before the show was national and used to have a picture of her on the web site.]
I have listened to Savage DAILY for over 2 years, and not once has he admitted that he is Jewish. Neither of you has attempted to explain why a man who is NOT concealing his religion would not correct O'Reilly's mistaken belief that he is Christian. And neither of you has explained why Savage would not defend charges of anti-semitism by informing Alan Colmes on national TV that he is Jewish rather than "being qualified for Aushwitz." These two documented examples prove that Weiner will not say "the "J-word" for fear that he would lose some of his Christian audience who have been led to believe that he is one of them.
It does not matter whether he practices Judaism. If Weiner is going to single out liberals on account of their Jewishness, then he should openly admit his own ethnicity. He refers to CNN's Wolf Blitzer as "Wolf Blitzberg" and NPR's Terry Gross as "Terry Grossberg" in order to underscore to his listeners that these two liberal broadcasters are Jews as if that mattered. Savage must conceal his own Jewishness in order to sell his Jew-baiting rhetoric. It's as simple as that.
I am "tiffed" because Savage baits Jews with ethnic and racist derision. I realize that he does so about Moslems as well. Let them defend themselves. I am simply pointing out what bothers me and why Weiner is dismissed by reputable conservative media as a bigot and buffoon. Weiner can rant and rave about liberalism all he wants. I resent that he puts a Jewish face on liberalism by calling liberals "Brooklynites" and "corned-beef eaters."
Why are so dense?
Some kid calls and starts ranting that Kerik was never fit to be head of HS because he's "basically a high school dropout" and a "3rd grade detective."
Savage responds that the "high school dropout thing bothered me, too, as highly educated man who worked very hard for all I have..." blah de blah de blah. Then someone must have kicked him because backpedalled like a dog on ice.
I'm livid. I'm a high school dropout, in a college educated world (Read some of my posts - the serious ones - and tell me if you would ever have guessed). You have no clue how tired I am of being thought unworthy of this, that, or the other thing. I don't think you can really know hard work until you've had to make your way without a formal education in today's world.
F***K you, Michael Savage. And incidentally, I was accepted to MIT, were you?
I think you'll find out, if you haven't already, that very few truly educated and intelligent people feel the need to draw attention to it at every opportunity.
Savage, on the other hand, needs to make his claim three to four times per hour.
As someone else said, Savage is educated far beyond his intelligence.
Weiner is a fraud. His Ph.D was one of his own making. Apparently, it was the first of its kind in some cockamamie "nutritional botany." Having spoken to someone who read the handwritten thesis, it is very soft, that is, not based on hard science. Weiner claims that he is an "epidemiologist," but his doctorate was not in that field. Remember, Weiner was a "herbalist" selling snake oil cure-alls after his Berkeley degree- talk about a hippy dippy touchy feely university. His Master degrees were earned at the University of Hawaii- hardly an Ivy League school.
No doubt, Weiner is an overacheiver, but his achievements are a lot less impressive than he would have his listeners believe.
Not only the first, but as far as I know, it was the only one in the "field". And he did it in through the Anthropology department.
I'd sure like to get a copy of the dissertation. I would think he'd make it available on his web site, since he brags about it so much.
Weiner will not post it on his website because it would expose the fact that he interviewed witchdoctors and reported their "brews."
Weiner also makes a lot of the fact that he lost his bid to be the Dean of Journalism at Berkeley on account of affirmative action. Needless to say, nothing could be further from the truth. He was never considered a serious candidate because he had no qualifications in the field. He claimed his talk radio experience qualified him. He lost out to a white man who had many journalistic accomplishments. He sued the Regents of the University of California but soon dropped the suit because it was utterly frivolous.
If his listeners only knew the real truth about this conman, they would be aghast.
Explain exactly which point you disagree with Savage on. Nobody does this because they cannot win. You only hate the man because he is passionate or angry? Since when was that wrong? I'll answer. Since the liberalism that infected the nation around 1970 has raised a bunch of girly men. Find a point and state it or else be silent.
Just wondering - what prompted you to resurrect this long-dead thread?
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