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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The fact he has the audience he does says a lot about the intellectual capacity of our movement.
I've listened a LOT to Savage during this - and he has been MORE pro-Trump throughout this entire thing than MOST Freepers. He has backed EVERY SINGLE statement and EVERY SINGLE position the president has taken. His point about Hannity and Rush has been very simple: By their criticism of the government's response - they have actually been undercutting the President's response - which has actually been my point on many occasions. Either support the President or call him out - but you can't support the President and call out the people he is fully supporting (Fauci and Brix) - which is what Hannity and Rush were doing - and that was the point Savage was making. When you do that - you are actually showing disloyalty to the President. It's actually not a hard concept to understand. Well - perhaps it is.....
True. Trump gave him his hot dogs!
True. Trump gave him his hot dogs!
He called the media coverage of it a hoax, not the disease. Then later it was “nothing you should worry about”
In context it was part of a warning to not act out of panic.
““Ph. D level” but perhaps not actually.”
At first he said he had a Ph.D in epidemiology but I think the next day said he was “a Ph.D level epidemiologist”. My guess is he took an epidemiology course while getting his Ph.D. in something else. He was also talking so fast it sounded like he was on speed.
“At first he said he had a Ph.D in epidemiology but I think the next day said he was “a Ph.D level epidemiologist”.”
His phd was from Berkley in nutritional ethnomedicine
Case in point: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3835963/posts?page=49#49
Savagae may have a point, but we still must start opening up soon, albeit in a gradualistic manner. I would personally peg April 30 or May 1 as a start date - the curve should be doing down in most parts of the country, and even in most parts of heavily infected states (LA, NY, etc.), by that time, IMO.
It's a reference to an earlier part of Hannity's life, in which he worked in housing, hanging drywall and what-not. Did Weiner ever work with his hands like that?
I listened to his ranting about right wing bigots. A minute of that mess was enough. He sounds like Keith Olbermann. He’s a madman.
His incredible ego I could put up with. Wanting to make pornography illegal so that men would chase unreasonable feminist women was his opinion. Reading out of his own books is weird, but tolerable, but yesterday was too much.
I am done with Savage, who the NY Times suddenly loves. He is either a sleeper for the enemy or a lunatic.
I don’t think Weiner lacks merit here. He just needs to be careful about who he runs to in order to get his story out.
“His phd was from Berkley in nutritional ethnomedicine”
I checked on his website and it now says he has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Berkley. That’s very different than what he used to say. In an excerpt from his book “Diseases without borders” shown on Amazon, he says his Ph.D. is in ethnomedicine. It was published in 2016.
Wikipedia defines ethnomedicine as “Ethnomedicine is a study or comparison of the traditional medicine based on bioactive compounds in plants and animals and practiced by various ethnic groups, especially those with little access to western medicines, e.g., indigenous peoples.
I’d like to hear how he explains this discrepancy.
He advocates, in general terms, selective quarantine. Rather light on details.
When he went on about rightwing ‘xenophobia’ I stopped listening. I know Mike fancies himself a provocateur but that wasn’t provocative it was just stupid.
I agree with you about Hannity.
Once in a while, I’d love for him to shut his trap and let a person finish answering a question.
Is his show sponsored by Cheetos?
A few random thoughts, some of which are not scientifically verified, but are just common sense:
1. NYC has the densest population of any US city. SF is second. But most of the others, I believe, have large suburban - aka “less crowded” - areas.
2. There might not be any direct flights from China to NYC, but there are about one million Chinese visitors each year. And a virus does not care if it has to go through L.A. first.
3. NYC and the NJ cities across the water from NYC are one huge metropolis. Many people from NJ work in NYC, as they are connected by bridges, tunnels, and subways. New York State has about twice as many people as NJ. That said, the NJ cities do not have nearly the population density as NYC.
4. People in NYC are packed into huge apartment buildings. They pass each other in the lobbies, and there is a lot of close walking on the streets. Easy way for human-to-human transfer. And who knows how well the air in those buildings is filtered/conditioned?
5. NYC has a huge number of skyscrapers. If someone sneezes or coughs, the trapped virus will float around in the air until people inhale it.
6. Travel in NYC comprises a lot of mass transit (subways and buses) and taxis. Again, people in close proximity, so it would be easy for the virus to get transferred from one person to another.
Bottom line: NYC and cities in NJ are petri dishes for the transmission of a virus.
Seriously - why would anyone listen to Hannity on a regular basis? 1) You listen to one show you've listened to pretty much all of them. He is so freaking repetitive it is insulting. After about 3 shows you have all of the talking points memorized - you are no longer a free-thinker. It's rote. 2) He has never delivered on one "BOOM!" that is worth its weight in salt. He's a dram queen.
The fact that so many people who call themselves conservatives listen to him on a daily basis shows that we have our own fair share of low-IQ voters.
Bottom line: I don’t listen to the radio to be told what to think like I’m some sort of automaton - or to be given some list of talking points to regurgitate to the liberal enemy. Those who need that suffer from intellectual dwarfism.
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