Michael Savage

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Michael "Weiner" Savage is an American talk radio host. Born Michael Alan Weiner, Savage earned a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine from the University of California, Berkeley. His show is entitled "The Savage Nation."^[1]

Savage has been known to respond to criticism and calls for boycotts with legal threats.^[2] In at least one case, these threats have been responded to successfully, and found to be without merit.^[3]

A staunch American conservative, Savage, along with such others as Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter has been a contributor to the ongoing demonization of liberal people and viewpoints, helping to maintain the current level of mutual fear and loathing in American politics. He is rabidly xenophobic, misogynistic and homophobic.

Under his real name, Savage/Weiner was an herbalist before he was a conservative commentator, putting him in the category of being both wingnut and quack. He is also rumored to be a massive closet case, having had a past history of skinnydipping with certain homosexual 60s poets (he was ejected from said company by virtue of being incredibly insecure and annoying). ^[4]^[5]^[6]

[edit] Great Moments in Michael Savage Broadcasting

Savage said on kids with autism: "They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, you idiot.' " ^[7]
On the April 14, 2008 broadcast of his show, Michael Savage asserted that Sen. Barack Obama is "a Marxist in his heart," adding, "He's an Afro-Leninist, and I know he's dangerous." ^[8]
An ongoing theme of Savage's commentary is his own brilliance and uniqueness. He frequently trades on his PhD, asking to be called "Dr. Savage" while discussing political topics. Of course, his PhD is unrelated to politics.
Savage often compares America to Rome, with varying historical accuracy.
In 2003, Michael Savage said that he had been paying slave reparations to the African-American community for all his life, in the form of "increased crime rates" and welfare. In short, Savage thinks that all crime is committed by African-Americans.
In 2007, Savage blamed the downfall of America on liberal American lawyers, singled out NYU Law as the factory of liberal lawyers, and said that all liberal American lawyers should have been aborted as babies.
On April 3, 2008 Savage said of Barack Obama, "Now we have an unknown stealth candidate who went to a madrassas in Indonesia and, in fact, was a Muslim."^[9]
On the March 31, 2008 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage stated, "Cops are getting knocked off all over the country because of the rules of engagement, written primarily by the scummiest class in America, the vermin of vermin, which are the left-wing lawyers who should be put in Abu Ghraib with hoods over their head, as far as I'm concerned." He then stated: "If I had the power by executive order, I would round up every member of the ACLU and of the National Lawyers Guild, and I'd put them in a prison in Guantánamo and I'd throw the key away.^[10]
On the December 12, 2007 edition of his show, Michael Savage referred to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the five-member panel appointed by the Norwegian parliament to select an annual Nobel Peace Prize recipient, as "socialist perverts." He continued: "Why do I call them socialist perverts? Answer: because they are. By and large, 90 percent of the people on the Nobel Committee are into child pornography and molestation, according to the latest scientific studies."^[11]
On the November 8, 2007 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation, a caller told host Michael Savage that while waiting at a stoplight in Midtown Manhattan, "I'm listening to you with the window open. This mean-faced, clipped-hair, liberal type -- you know, the type you always talk about. ... She comes up to my window and she goes, 'You're listening to hate speech. Why are you listening to that?' " Savage replied to the caller's anecdote by saying, "Well, what does that tell you about the loving, kind lesbian who just assaulted you in your car?" He continued: "She's a -- the type that stuffed ovens in [Adolf] Hitler's concentration camps. Whenever I hear anyone preaching to me about how compassionate they are, I reach for my Glock. That's all I can tell you. They can all drop dead."^[12]
On the June 12, 2007 broadcast of his program, Michael Savage compared the "progressive movement" to the Nazi storm troopers who aided Adolf Hitler's rise to power, saying, "[T]hey are the brownshirts of today."^[13]
On the July 16, 2007 broadcast of program, Michael Savage responded to a recent speech given by Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) to the organization Atheists for Human Rights by saying, "[W]hat would a devout Muslim radical have in common with atheists? Answer: hatred of Christianity and hatred of Jews." ^[14]
On the July 2, 2007 edition of show, discussing the recent terror-related arrests in Britain, radio host Michael Savage said, "[W]hen I see a woman walking around with a burqa, I see a Nazi," adding, "That's what I see -- how do you like that? -- a hateful Nazi who would like to cut your throat and kill your children." ^[15]
On the January 18, 2007 edition of his show, while playing the song "Living on a Thin Line" by the Kinks, Michael Savage claimed that "there's no England now" because "[t]he soccer thug[s]" who defeated Hitler "[are] gone." Savage asserted: "The soccer thug has been beaten down by the lesbian/homosexual mafia in England." ^[16]