Posted on 10/23/2018 9:35:12 PM PDT by jmclemore
Have listened to both Rush and Savage since their early days, off and on. Savage has been advocating the borders / language / culture since...what...the late 90’s? Used to listen to Hannity and Colmbes, then Mark Levin, and others. They all get tiresome and repetitive, but I still find Rush and Savage very prescient.
George Putnam was talking about illegal immigration on SoCal radio and television, long before anyone ever heard of Michael Savage.
Savage was one of the first big Trump supporters in talk radio because Trump was perfect on Savage’s “Borders, Language, Culture.” I listen whenever I can.
You, Ragnar, have a very interesting name.
I’m guessing it to be Norwegian or Swedish.
I think of Skiing and the film director Ingmar Bergman.
If I may ask, have you traveled in that part of the world before?
Many years ago, when I read BOOK-books, not just e-articles, I read a VERY long novel called Kristin Lavransdatter, written by Sigrid Undset. Historical fiction about a family in Norway during the Middle Ages. Not for everyone, but captivating enough.
That screen name is from Atlas Shrugged. Ragnar was a sub-protagonist.
Talk about a long novel, took me 4 days to read skipping the mushy parts....
I find Michael to be a story teller and Rush, a commentator. I appreciate both styles and performances.
But If I had to find a similarity they share, Raw/Brutal Honesty.
Neither of them tip-toe around an issue. You know exactly where they stand. Yes, they may have very different delivery methods, But the landing is always on target.
Oh, I see.
Great storyteller. I love him
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I kind of go hot & cold on Savage. Sometimes he’s quite entertaining, other times he’s a truly irritating incessant complainer. He comes on at noon, CA time (or he did, I am not up on the scheduling change he just went through) because at that time I am usually deeply engaged in the stock market and I need to focus like a crazy man on what I am doing. And if he is on some rant about something or other....in that particular time it’s destructively distracting to me.
In general, I think he has largely run out of most of the very entertaining stories he has told over the years, and goodness knows there have been many of them. But that means he is now oriented much more to commenting, more like reacting, to current items in the news. Well; “current items in the news” are after all sourced from “the news” which is, as we all know, generally total BS and propaganda. So: I not only don’t want the crap generally reported in “the news” to enter my awareness; even less do I wish to hear commentary about crap I don’t care to hear about and which will prove to be utter nonsense in 2 days. The bottom line, to me, is that he infuses chaotic noise if I am wanting to be focused on something of far greater importance.
Listen whenever I can. Love Dr. Savage.
I only have so many hours to listen on YouTube replays:
I dropped Levin early during the ‘16 campaign
Savage was always 50-50 for me
Bongino now is my go-to guy for his one hour and
There’s always the first hour of Rush
Loved Quinn & Rose til they split & Quinn got behind a paywall
I love how he bashes all the other conservative media over the head...and then complains about how they don't even talk about him (or his books). haha. gee, I wonder why Mike!
Based in California, Michael Savage warned about the growing problem of illegal immigration years and years before it was on anyone else's radar."
And for those reasons, I used to tune in.
But his anger and jealously of not being recognized by the others gets the best of him and when he goes off and rails non-sensically against the Constitoooootion and the founding faaaaaathers and conservatism in general (saying things like all big game hunters are conservatives who love killing animals) is a bridge way to far.
Michael was going on about it before 1986? The year of the Big Amnesty?
I think he is touched and not in a good way. However, he has moments in which he is lucid and brilliant. Unfortunately, those moments are occasional. The screaming followed by meandering thoughts made me at most a spotty listener. He is no longer on in this area. When he took over Hannity’s time slot, ratings fell by more than half and the time slot is now filled by a local host.
Put me down for lunatic.
i cannot bear to listen to him. He’s rude to his callers. Without them, he’s got no show.
Rush, on the other hand, is always gracious, even if the caller cannot get to the point.
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