But on the air, he comes across as a 
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Posted on 10/16/2006 12:52:56 PM PDT by arual
Strange bedfellows: It turns out that ultra-hot conservative talk show host Michael Savage is backing Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown for state attorney general. "What can I say? I think he'd make a great attorney general compared to the other guy. By the way, who is the other guy?'' Savage said, when asked why he chose Democrat Brown over conservative Republican Chuck Poochigian. Savage, whose rants can be heard locally on KNEW-AM, is backing up his hot talk with some hot money as well. Savage Productions, which lists Savage as president and his wife, Janet Weiner, as director, has donated $5,600 to Brown's campaign. "You have to make choices in an imperfect world,'' Savage said. "And this, this Machugian guy. (Like we said, it's Poochigian.) I never heard of him. I don't even know who he is." Poochigian has spent the past 12 years in Sacramento, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate. Doesn't impress the president of the Savage Nation. "Why bet on a horse that isn't going to win? Why throw your money into the garbage?'' So how did the best-selling author of "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder'' wind up backing a liberal once nicknamed "Governor Moonbeam"? "People change. He changed. He has experience,'' Savage said of Brown. "He started the Oakland military academy -- that was a good thing." And Brown's politics? "He's moved to the center, which is what this socialist state needs," Savage said.
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IF that's true -- and Ibelieve he has talked on the air about his wife and his son (now an adult) -- so what? It's not my concern or my business. WWhy should this upset anyone, even if it is true?
And I suppose "talent -- so much talent -- on loan from Gawd-a" is just humorous, right? Both are schtick, both can be funny or annoying depending on where you sit. I know enough about talk radio to take schtick for what it is.
Uh..........Isn't that EXACTLY what I said in my post??
Yes, tehy'r better than Dimmycraps, but that is somewhat like being better than cancer. You can have a condition better than cancer and still be pretty sick.
Uh.........okay. So, what are you saying? Vote Deathocrat? Vote Republican??
It was like as if they were ashamed of their nation/state and the miraculous creation of infrastructure Jerry's father presided over in the four most important areas of good government... 1. Public Safety, 2.Water, 3.Roads and 4.Schools!!!
That was the "Golden State" that I admired from my little one room elementary school outside Chicago while taking my California Standard Acheivement test in 1955! CA set the standard for the world in that time. Now it's full of pukin Liberal idiots!!! (Like Jerry Brown!)
I know you know all this, tubebender. I'm reiterating it for the uninitiated, of course.
I suppose his excuse is "liberalism is a disease" and he caught it from Jerry Brown. Doing what???
Like TV's Dr. Phil?
Or Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold?
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You mean he's a young earth creationist? ;-) (see any crevo thread for more on this claim...)
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"To achieve victory, first you must seek it. Are we seekign victory or are we usign the LBJ-McNamara strategy?"
It is not the LBJ scenario where everything is being run from the top down. Not at all the same. However, it needs to be fought on our terms with strategic goals and not just a series of tactical responses alone. If there is a strategic plan, it is not obvious. From the outside it looks like the conflict has not appreciably changed in the last 12 months. Nor should the political climate in Iraq solely determine our response. There is too much emphasis on trying to contain the situation and keep the Iraqi leadership happy and not enough on simply killing insurgents in huge numbers and plugging the border leaks. Our military should be a killing machine and not a military police force.
Right right, though I can allow for people who are just fans because there is nothing else to listen to and at time he can be entertaining - though I feel a little ashamed for listening, the same way I did in elementary school for watching short bus kids be escorted into the cafateria for lunch with their head gear on.
But on the air, he comes across as a
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Savage is unbalanced.
Jerry Brown is a nut.
I can see why one likes the other.
"And you believe Hush Bimbo and Sean Vannity are real conservatives?"
Yes, they are real conservatives, and dont feel the need to bash other talk show hosts like Savage does.
I've wondered if Weiner/Savage was just doing it for kicks.
He rambles sometimes and gets over emotional like he needs meds to stay on track.
Conservative? Because he has some reactionary views!?!?
The most effective real conservative is Rush.
JMHO.
SO what. I heard Savage say we were in Iraq for oil.
One week.
Then he screamed that we had to nuke Fallujah.
Then he's saying we cant win.
Then he's after Bush for not letting Israel win in Lebanon.
Then's he's bashing Rumsfeld because of the Pendleton 8.
Throwing out nutcase-conspiracy theories one after another.
This is not someone who is giving stable, informed commentary. It's near random ranting.
The constant theme *I* hear is someone who is creating divisions in the Republican ranks, not a coherent unified message. Doing what he cant to make the GOP base rattled, upset, emotional and extreme. Is that helpful? informed? logical? Hardly!
Sure, he understands the muslim threat. But a coherent plan to defeat it? Hardly, when some days he is imitating Michael Moore and bashing Bush.
Of course, Chuck Schumer, who has a congenital hatred of both Arabs and common sense, used this issue to bash the Bush administration and the Cletus Yokel wing ate it up. Yep, we shurrrrreeee showed dem A-rabs, didn't we?
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The fact that a person sticks his neck out and tells it the way he sees it doesn't make him a ranter, a wild man or a moron. "
Er, he does when he says one thing one day and contradicts himself the next day. I heard him do it.
I also heard him completely misunderstand a caller and start ranting on him and hang up on him with a stream of insults (the caller was an Arab trying to explain the culture). Pity.
I hear him daily. He has good points but his show is hardly unique ..."This world needs more people who see it as it is and speak out as they see it, and aren't poured into the same mold as everybody else."
Well, Rush fits that description. And alas I cant hear him at that time slot, and Marc Levin's station is too staticy.
But I'd pick both as more informed commentators over Savage if I could.
#44--thanks for bringing some perspective to this thread which seems to have descended into aSavage-bashing hate-fest.There are times when Savage is my favorite thing on the radio, and there are times when I can barely listen to him; entire days when he's taken over with apoplectic rage, and screams for half the show, then whole shows when he stays off some of the more aggravating political topics of the day, and just free-form reminisces about his boyhood, his family,etc. He is EASILY the most emotional person with a regular show on the radio. He puts me in mind of my favorite quote, from I don't know who: "No two people are as different from one another as the same person can be from himself at different times". And I DON't blame him for his independent support of Jerry Brown, who at least had a good and practical agenda for Oakland. Let's not forget that this dump on Savage thread ostensibly was about nothing more or less than Savage's own stated support of Jerry Brown.
Savage donation is not surprising.
He is a empty blowhard and his style of relentless bantering and shouting is more suited to Lou Dobbs rather than Rush.
Savage is a Peroite who tries to create disenchantment among Conservatives . This strategy you know helps Democrats, Savage is a threat to the Republic with his indirect support for the liberal Democrats and relentless attempt to create conservative disunity.
"And this, this Machugian guy. (Like we said, it's Poochigian.) I never heard of him. I don't even know who he is."
I listen on the drive home, as long as I can handle. No more...he lost me. I rather listen to John and Ken...or to maggot-infested FM music.
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