[Mobile Vulgus]

--- I'm just curious as to how you know for sure that Savage doesn't care about the issue he's discussing.

Well, OBVIOUSLY we are talking opinions on these radio guys.

---Is there any evidence to this effect?

The evidence is that he goes straight for the most controversial issues of the day, ALWAYS. I have listened to many of his shows and found him fun at first. But the more I listened the more it appeared that he is just desperately and forever trying to get noticed as opposed to engaging in serious discourse. In truth, he is NO different than Howard Stern in that all he is about is controversy. (Stern goes for utterly prurient matters whereas Savage goes for political)

--- Savage's recent questioning of Bush on a number of issues could actually hurt is ratings, unless you think he's trying to draw anti-Bush centerists from the Dems

No I don’t think it will hurt him at all. Because his base audience is filled with Buchannanesque, hate mongers who will be against just about ANYONE in office. Sure they are generally conservative, but they are from the I-hate-everyone wing of the Party. His core audience is angry, nut cases. Savage won’t lose them unless he suddenly gets to sounding reasonable. Then his audience will feel he has suddenly "gone soft"!

---When he was warning of the dangers to the economy presented by millions of illegals, Hannity and Rush were busy promoting the 2004 election. Now that the minutemen are making headlines, now all of a sudden the other talk-show hosts are following suit. One could claim they're the ones trying to get noticed and care about ratings.

Um, I have listed to both Rush AND Hannity and NEITHER of them ignored the illegal alien issue. Its just that they didn’t rant and rave like Savage does. They stated their feelings and they are not too different from Savage in how they feel.

The bottom line is, that Savage is a ranting, lunatic, name calling scandalmonger who’s sole purpose is to line his own pockets and get noticed. He has no real ideology. He believes nothing but cash and would jettison his supposedly conservative beliefs if he could become rich taking the left’s side.

[Final Authority]

With respect to #187, the term lunatic is a term of art, please define it as it pertains to Savage with evidence.

I think you could retract that comment or at a minimum offer it as an opinion of how you see him.

With respect to him taking a liberal side if it meant money to line his pockets, well that is just absurd as he has taken positions on every issue way before the mainstream media or the conservative pundits have taken theirs and he even leads the discussion of sensitive issues on a regular basis. If you say he takes positions to gain and hold audience for which to sell advertising to then you have a point but so does every TSH or they would be doing a different line of work.

The late great Gerry Williams, the Dean of talk radio who essentially invented it by developing the delay technique, used to ask the audience at least once a year what business he was in. The answer of course was, advertising.