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WilliamofCarmichael wrote:

""I got Romney to drop everything and go visit the hurricane victims . . . Romney listened to my show and changed the tone of the convention . . . ." Personally I find Savage's incessant gasconade (talk in a self-admiring way, says my trusty Windows 3.1 American Heritage)"

I just wrote something similar-maybe because I read it in your post earlier.
looks like hearing romney maybe listens to his advice puffed him up to bursting
Savage wants his affections returned and acknowledged or else he can get very very nasty (remember Bachmann? and romney never asking him again to dinner?)
""Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman/savage scorned." Cosgrove

:)

I think that anyone who listens to Savage today will likely get the same impression as we have expressed independently over and over.

Either Savage was so new and refreshing compared to the five decades of radio I was used to back then and he has not changed or.. he's changed and he is not the same Savage that I think I remember from the 1990s. Regardless..

from the very beginning Savage was the first to demonstrate that no longer did conservatives have to kowtow and slink away trying to 'splain that they were not all those evil things that liberals were screaming at them. Conservatives could scream back louder and with overwhelming (from the liberals' view) nastiness -- which is actually in most cases the truth.

Thank goodness other modern talk show hosts copied Savage there -- even if the others had a natural disposition to take 'em on Savage showed that they did not have to constrain themselves any longer.

I was not aware of Joe Pyne's national radio show but I do remember his short-lived TV show and as far as I am concerned both Savage and Levin "copied" Pyne. Actually, the three are very similar.

Pyne too was persecuted.. right here in the U.S.

The liberals accused the emerging modern conservative movement of causing JFK to be assassinated and Pyne was forced off the air.. he had several hundred stations at the time. Some continued for awhile to broadcast recording of old shows in defiance.

I left out an important factor why I doubt that Dr. Savage is solely responsible for some changes that the Romney campaign made.. yes I remember that he credited his listeners in the claim also.

I listen to talk radio, visit FR, search the 'Net for various reasons, and scan Drudge all day and night. No TV. No life. Similar criticisms of Romney's campaign exist elsewhere.

Others also claim sole influence over societal issues.

Acknowledgements & Disclaimer. (Required when addressing criticism to Drs. Savage and Levin): I am a nobody. Virtually no education. No accomplishments of any sort.. not even close. Never will be. And I would not only not last a second as a talk show host.. I would not even be permitted to try. Wot? I can't do that to myself.