The Savage Nation vs. the Bushbots

[hadrons]

By PAUL MULSHINE

STAR-LEDGER STAFF

Al Franken and the other liberals are probably still wondering why they had such little luck in their efforts to start a talk-radio network to bash George Bush from the left. They didn't consider the obvious explanation. George Bush has his left flank nicely covered. It's on the right that he's weak.

That is the theory of Michael Savage. Savage is the most right-wing of the right-wing talkers on the national airwaves at the moment. He is based in San Francisco, but he can be heard in the New York area on WOR in the evenings. He is a welcome change from those Karl Rove clones Hush Bimbo and Sean Vanity.

"Hush Bimbo" and "Sean Vanity" are the names Savage has pinned on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity of WABC. In doing so, he has sparked a war between the members of his "Savage Nation" (slogan: "Borders, language, culture") and the so-called "Bushbots," that sizable number of gullible Americans who can be convinced that whatever policy Bush adopts is a conservative policy.

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That's why we right-wing commentators believe the Iraq war has been the biggest blunder in America's military history. As for Bimbo and Vanity, if I may employ Savage's labels, they are simply too uneducated to realize that the Iraq war represents a failed liberal exercise in nation-building.

"There is no college in Rush. There is no college in Hannity," said Savage. "He's a high school dropout. It's like listening to an uneducated, unthinking man on the radio."

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http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/mulshine/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/112192270134860.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

The opinion piece points out that Savage has a Ph.D ... in epidemiology ("an extremely challenging field")

[depakid]

1. Bad Link

This is the same lame ass corporate site that hosts the Oregonian.

It's embarrassingly bad (and annoying)- so your link was probably good when you put it in.

[ovidsen]

2. He's so "right". And so wrong.

It's a shame I can't get into the site and read the whole thing. But to quote dear Kurt Vonnegut, so it goes.

I have to agree with much of what the OP lets us see. Thanks hadrons!! "Hush" and "Vannity" are anything but classic conservatives, who would never EVER endorse nation-building Iraq style (see Pat Buchanan), and who probably have heart attacks just looking at the record deficits Bushco has been running up. Both of them are rabble rousers who appeal to an audience whose members probably never read a newspaper. Even a conservative one.

Savage's intelligence makes him scary. I don't know where he got a PhD in epidemiology, or even if he has a degree, but that is a "challenging field". But what REALLY makes him scary is his racism. If he posed for a picture tomorrow in front of a burning cross wearing a Klan hood, I wouldn't be that surprised.

[noahmijo]

3. He is actually Jewish and I'll just come out and say it: He hates himself

for it. He's one of these people that wishes he could be a good White Christian but he can't he's like an evil Uncle Tom. Kills me how I hear so many yahoos refer to him as a truthtelling good Christian man.

The man's real last name is Weiner, and he goes completely apeshit should you dare say ANYTHING that isn't very positive about Israel and he will call you a Nazi sympathizer if you go so far as to say that Israel isn't without fault.

He's been calling Bush too liberal for over a year now, and of course he was on the front lines for supporting the Iraq War, even talked about how the Iraqis outta just leave their country otherwise they deserve to get bombed.

[3waygeek]

6. He has plenty of company

lots of other people hate him, too. Not because he's Jewish, but because he's an asshole.

[MrBenchley]

4. Mulshine might be the dumbest right winger in America

Either he's blowing the publisher to keep his job, or he's been deliberately selected to discredit the conservative movement....

[Caesarmajestic]

5. Savage's IQ = Neanderthal

Uh this guy is a dumbass, and I say that from reading "Savage Nation". I can't remember anything specific because I read it about 3 yrs ago - My roommate had bought it thinking it was something else.

Moran.

[shenmue]

7. It's funny how he calls others uneducated...

which may be true, but the sad thing is, despite his education, he is as virulent and hateful as the day is long. If he relies on his education at all, we haven't seen it.

[madrchsod]

8. savage is slime

in the grand scheme of things he has no redeeming value

[Gormy Cuss]

9. "Ph.D ... in epidemiology"

That sounds so much more intellectual than a doctorate in nutritional ethnomedicine from the seat of liberal California, UC Berkeley.

As for his comment about Hannity sounding like an uneducated, unthinking man, I'll have to agree with him on that one.