It is entirely possible for a talented left-winger to act like a conservative and talk like a conservative even though he's only performing a part.
If you don't believe me, just ask Michael J. Fox.
Posted on 10/28/2006 11:50:34 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
I've always known there was something wrong with Michael Savage's schtick. It's intolerable. He talks like an absolute madman. He is just about as intemperate as you can get and still be on the radio.
Now I know what was wrong. The whole thing is a put-on:
Supporting a candidate out of your own wallet may be the most accurate gauge of what a donor believes in his heart. So it should come as a shock to fans to learn where their hero distributes his own political gifts. Which are not ungenerous. Just ask Jerry Brown, the decidedly liberal candidate (pro-abortion, pro-gun control, etc.) for California attorney general.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Savage is a top contributor to Brown's campaign against conservative state senator Chuck Poochigian. His gift of $5,600, the maximum allowable under state law, was merited, Savage told the Chronicle after being outed. Why? Because "You have to make choices in an imperfect world."
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Jerry Brown? That's some choice.
Savage is a trojan horse...
getting the popcorn - there sure are a lot of savage supporters here - how they justify any support on any level for Jerry Brown is beyond me.
Don't you mean Michael Wiener? The food doctor?
Savage is an unhinged lunatic.
Michael Savage has always struck me as disingenuous anyway.
He is too bombastic to be a believer.
Yeah,mike and that choice makes it perfect! Wonder what he gives you if he wins?
But see, his contributing to Brown's campaign is OK. He explained it. :-D
I figure him to be as conservative as any other Ph.D. from New York City living in San Francisco.
My sister in law, who is totally apolitical, went with a friend to see a Micheal Savage show. She came away not liking conservatives.
I've considered the idea that the 'Savage persona' was and is nothing but a ruse. He's far too shrill to sound reasonable to the average radio listener.
But, I don't know why someone would go out of their way to cultivate such a false personality. It seems like way too much work.
There's been a weird phenomenon where conservatives have seen the left filled with ranting, unhinged lunatics and failing politically, and deciding it would be just swell to imitate them with ranting, unhinged lunatics of our own.
Well, that explains some things. I tried to listen to his radio show a few times, and came away feeling battered. He was just so shrill and - dare I say it? - savage, and often about Republicans and Republican issues, so I gave up trying to listen to him.
Savage is an unmedicated bipolar. He is loud, bizarre,.... and TOTALLY OVER!
I have stopped listening, as I am sure many more will in the near future.
The band is "mostly fictional" in the sense that its primary members have always been actors parodying heavy metal stereotypes, yet by playing concerts and releasing albums, they've blurred the line between fact and fiction. The film was accompanied by an album of the same name. The songs on the album include "Big Bottom", "Hell Hole" and "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight".
this is what Savage is, a Parody of an extremist conservative
I demonstrate the foundation of Michael Savage's radio presentation.
Yawn! Another moron comes to the wrong conclusions about Savage based on a single contribution. Anyone who actually LISTENS to Savage knows he is a far right-winger, a patriot, and a great American. First on the SwiftVets and Sinclair, first on Dubai ports, second-to-none on Islamofascism and immigration. Is he a BushBot? Hell no. And thank God for that.
False personalities are done all the time in politics, religion, and entertainment.
1. Democrats who pretend to be conservative to fool yokels in their districts.
2. Televangelist sleazeballs (Tilton, Swaggart, Baker, etc.)
3. Hollywood "stars" who spout liberal garbage in public but are pro-capitalist, keep guns, and are anti-abortion...things that would lead to expulsion from the social circuit if made public.
Disingenuous about what?
His main theme is the preservation of our Borders, Language and Culture.
I think he perfectly sincere in his belief that our BLC must be defended.
So an online reader comment at the American Spectator website is supposed to hold the same weight as a legitimate article or staff writer opinion piece? This anti-Savage campaign going on the last week or so is straight out of the Soviet Union commie playbook. The regular disruptors on the daily Savage thread have admitted that it isn't Brown they really care about, but the possibility that Savage with his millions of listeners may adversly affect the election. When the party is everything and dissenting views must be crushed at all costs, you'd might as well swill beer to an oom-pah-pah band and adopt the swastika as your emblem.
Can one of you ping the Savage list?
Two shrill, stone-stupid phonies.
What exactly does Savage advocate that isn't conservative?
I thought he was nuts before he supported Jerry Brown, this just confirms it.
Over time, after listening to Savage and his pessimism, I had the sneaking suspicion that he was not conservative. When I think of conservatism, I think of Reagan and Rush, who are extremely optimistic people. Savage prefers to express no optimism on anything.
MS can be entertaining at times, but he repeats himself over and over. How many times can you listen to his stories about what he ate and what his dog did today? Anyone can get on the radio and read the Drudge Report headlines.
Michael Weiner. A wife, Janet I believe, with an adult daughter and adult son.
I listen to Savage pretty much every evening..just to get a good chuckle...a good laugh...because..
Oh I don't feel ike talking about that any more. I feel like talking about my cats. I love my cats I really do. They are warm and furry. They curl up by my feet at night. They seem so intelligent to me. They make me laugh. Much like Savage makes me laugh. He make me laugh because he pretends be be a serious man discussing serious issues, when in fact he can be described scientifically a Clownus Insaneus.
But enough of that....let's talk about making Jambalya. Making Jambalya seems to be an easy afair, but you have to get the best ingredients....especially with the shrimp, sausage, and cheynne pepper.
What was I talking about? Oh...New Orleans and the sick twisted whores and pornogophers that eat chocolate there. They are the worst of the vermin....they are verminous verminsh vermin. They are the twisted, mutant vermin that are seeping through New Orleans like sewage...like bad jambalya.
I don't want to talk about that any more....let's talk about the Dixie Chicks.....
those of you that listen to Savage, or have....know what the above sounds like....those that havn't...you gotta listen to this kook to get the full flavor...and why I totally agree that he is nothing but a very talented performer....certainly not a true conservative...
So basically if you don't like Michael Savage you are a communist and a nazi?
Jerry Brown has been an unabashed and stalwart devotee of left-wing politics throughout his career, but in recent years he has led many to believe that he has joined the political mainstream. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and as mayor of Oakland, Brown has once again reaffirmed his longtime sympathies for leftist causes, while consistently working to undermine U.S. foreign policy with regard to Cuba's communist regime.
In the February 28, 2002 issue of the Nation, reporter Marc Cooper wrote of his encounter with the mayor and of an item in his possession; a memento of Brown's apparent affinity for the Latin American communist movement:
As I get into Mayor Jerry Brown's city-owned black Town Car, he scrambles to move a folded red and black flag on the front seat out of my way. "You know what this is?" he asks as he puts it in the back seat. "It looks like an original flag from Castro's July 26 movement," I answer. "You got it," says the Mayor. "It was given to me by Ché Guevara's widow one night after I spent eight hours talking to Castro. I'm taking it home from my office to keep it in a safe place."
-snip-
Under Jerry Brown's leadership, Oakland has adopted as one of its sister cities, the town of Santiago de Cuba, from where Castro launched his original July 26 movement, which ultimately led to his dictatorship.
In July of 2000, Mayor Brown led a delegation from Oakland to Cuba. The avowed purpose of the visit was the formal recognition of the sister cities relationship, but as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "these trips are political junkets designed to recast Cuba in the eyes of the American people and pressure federal legislators to remove the barriers thrown up when Cuba became a communist state in 1959."
But perhaps the most underappreciated angle of this trip was Brown's choice of travel agency. After having his initial application for travel to the Treasury Department rejected, Brown sought out the help of a travel company called Cubalinda.com. A firm specializing in finding ways for travelers to get around government travel restrictions, Cubalinda.com is owned by Philip Agee.
-snip-
(Kevan Blanche in The Weekly Standard, October 27, 2006))
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/858gbeyz.asp
It's called MONEY and FAME.
Not liking Savage for whatever reason, and participating in an orchestrated smear campaign are two quite different things.
I mean, the screaming, over-emotional "I can't take this anymore" thing is just way too Dean for my tastes. I don't care what the guy actually thinks, I simply have no desire to listen to him.
It is entirely possible for a talented left-winger to act like a conservative and talk like a conservative even though he's only performing a part.
If you don't believe me, just ask Michael J. Fox.
I have to agree with the author. I find it very difficult to listen to Michael Savage for more than a very few minutes. To me, he is living proof that sufferers of manic depression can obtain gainful employment.
If Savage is genuinely a conservative, he strikes me as a variety of "pyrrhic conservative"; willing to set himself on fire and take his cult up in flames just to make a point. In my opinion, his style really doesn't persuade the undecided or create new conservatives from the ranks of moderates. Therefore, politically speaking, Savage is of little value to the conservative movement.
or... the Howard Stern of political talk radio. There to shock and entertain, nothing more
Personally his stories are one of the reasons why I listen. He's a great story teller IMO. As far as his political beliefs--they are definitely not perfect but when I want a more reasonable, optimistic take on the current issues I go to a different source. He's right on some things and he's wrong on some things but he's not boring. His show yesterday was very entertaining.
And Jerry Brown will do what to preserve those ideals? I will answer for you, NOTHING!
You have been had.
He is taking you for a ride!
Yes.
Is he wrong?
Yes.
Is he dishonest?
I don't think so. People who live in one party states sometimes do find themselves voting for candidates from the other side. I doubt things are like that in California as a whole, but it's probably something San Francisco Republicans or conservatives are used to. It's not a wise or rational decision. It's emotive, and Michael Savage is an emotional guy, more than he's a cool-headed analyst.
There's more here, but the big news you'll find there is that San Francisco's mayor has a 20-year-old girlfriend, the intriguingly named Brittanie Mountz.
How about price controls on oil, for starters... supports increasing the minimum wage... says Iraq was better off under Saddam... Supports tons of other govt regulations... I could go on and on.
Not surprising; that's his aim.
I saw through his act soon after I started listening in 2001 during China / U.S. spy plane incident. Savage called - screamed, actually - for the U.S. to nuke China ASAP. ....total annihilation. And then he repeated this lunacy innumerable times in the following days. I guess it didn't occur to him that China also has ICBMs, and that Savage's current residence would probably be among the cities on the target list. No matter, it was the emotion behind his message that mattered. Savage, like leftists in general, elevate emotion above reason.
Oh man, that picture just gave me an "80s hell" flashback.
I just read a bit of this thread--I listen to Savage most nights--I like him but find many contradictions in things that he says from day to day/week to week.
I don't understand your post. I am very curious--could you explain a bit further please?
I will be gone from the computer for a good while but will check back later.
Thank you. Nancy
I'm beginning to doubt reality! I think they're all gamin' us. When Mary Matalin can be married to James Carville????? High stakes chess game, and I'm not playin'!
"Oh hey, I almost forgot..! I just flew down here to totally FAB L.A. in a glitzy Cessna CITATION to attend a raunchy, FAB Halloween party in the hills for Rockstar energy drink..! There's going to be big boob, drunk chicks dressed up as devilish nurses, and there's going to be POT..!"
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