>>> I never listened to the guy. In the Bay Area he can now be found on the Clear Channel affiliate.
>>>The point is, I doubt he really is a conservative
Let me just ask you the question that Savage would likely ask you: Are you a moron?
First you say that you never listened to him... And then you say that you doubt he is a conservative. How dopey can you get?
What is your definition of a conservative?
1. Am I a moron? It’s difficult for me to assess personally. I do not for instance consider myself competent to judge diagnoses of autism. I do however feel competent to judge when someone is making a fool of themselves.
Are you a rude arrogant sycophant?
2. Please allow me to clarify. KSFO is the station my car radio was set to. At the time Dr. Weiner was on that station, when I got off the train at night and started the truck he was usually the first thing I heard. I’d usually leave him on until I got out of the parking lot and hit the first stop light. I had heard his show on KGO before that. He has never been one of the talk show hosts I listen to on a regular basis but I think I’ve developed a pretty good idea of where the guy is coming from.
3. My definition of “a conservative” is someone who supports the rights of individuals over the rights of the collective, believes in free markets, representative government, traditional values and is a nationalist but usually not to the extreme.
I was around UC Berkeley in the early ‘80s and I can tell you that, with the exception of one South African geology prof, I knew of no publicly know conservative professors in the sciences at Cal at that time. I spent most of my time around an island of sanity on the Cal campus called Etcheverry Hall. If I’m not mistaken Dr. Weiner would have been down at Tollman, below the parking lot on the other side of the street. If he had been a publicly avowed conservative at that time I think we would have heard about it.
This doesn’t mean that he wasn’t keeping his views private (if he wanted tenure he had better) or that they haven’t changed over the years. However, given where he came from, given the way he came into talk radio at the time, given his penchant for green rants and given the fact that “Dr. Savage” is just the kind of name a lib who wanted to put on a conservative persona would choose, I have reason to suspect that he is not really a conservative.