Michael Savage, the vociferating, lemonade-into-lemons San Francisco talk host (KTTH m-f, 7-10p) is popping his buttons after his British nemesis, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced Wednesday she's resigning.
Savage is taking the credit, and as always, drinking his own bathwater.
She banned him last month from the British aisles calling him seven kinds of violence-provoking bigot. We admit, that was an odd (but satisfying) act based on a premise that happens to be true, but it gave him more reason than usual to decry bitterly and angrily his persecution cum martyrdom by the left.
As all Constitutional heroes do when they're persecuted, Savage bravely fought back... by hiring a crisis management firm.and filing a lawsuit
But the ban may have been a bit of a Hail Mary pass to save smith's job which was threatened with all manner of political problems in the metastacizing "expenses" scandal encompassing the Gordon Brown government.
The London Telegraph doesn't mention Michael Savage:
- Miss Smith faced humiliation after her husband submitted a receipt to the Commons for watching adult films.
- And she faced criticism for claiming her family home as a second home under the MPs' allowances scheme while lodging with her sister in London.
- She is also said to have bought him a £240 Apple iPhone on her office expenses. He is employed by her as an assistant.
- She also billed taxpayers for her accountancy costs and £1,600 for three digital cameras and a camcorder over three years.
(photo: Jacqui Smith)
Savage despises and is despised by his right-wing talk host peers. Savage complained bitterly when neither Rush nor Sean Hannity, nor O'Reilly spoke up for him. He is persona non grata on Fox News which is hard to be as conservative and obnoxious as he is.
But he got the 2nd tier wingers like the SF Examiner's Arthur Bruzzone to slake of the bath.
Savage told a BBC host Tuesday that his words had been taken out of context, and implied that the Obama government had supplied the Home Office with audio in order to disgrace him and casue him all this trouble.
It's a scheme to discredit him, he says, generated by Barack Obama, Media Matters, and George Soros and directed indirectly by the Saudi oil cartels.
Bruzzone:
That strategy has now backfired miserably. Not only is Savage vindicated, but the FCC and Congress will now have a major battle on their hands if Savage and his colleagues on talk radio are restricted.
Michael Savage is busy drawing another bath. Stay tuned.
Michael Savage orchestrated the termination of the British Home Secretary. That is extremely impressive. Savage is much more influential than I thought.
Posted by: mrogi | June 04, 2009 at 07:35 AM
And you're much less intelligent than I thought.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 07:38 AM
And you are just as in denial and foolish as I thought.
Posted by: KS | June 04, 2009 at 08:05 AM
Yes, many Britons listen to Savage instead of the BBC. It must be true.
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 08:25 AM
Killer of Mike Web Gets 12 Years in Prison:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009300388_webmikewebb04m.html
Posted by: Corporate Suit | June 04, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Suit
He hasn't been sentenced yet. They will seek a sentence of more than 12 years. Reading comprehension counts.
Posted by: meow | June 04, 2009 at 02:34 PM
Not to be macabre but I was looking forward to a dramatic court battle, something we will not get now. Damn you Scott White, whoever you are.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | June 04, 2009 at 03:11 PM
"Michael Savage orchestrated the termination of the British Home Secretary. That is extremely impressive. Savage is much more influential than I thought."
With comments that disconnected from reality, if this guy represents the cons, it's no wonder why we won. We're gonna be in charge for a long while.
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 04:00 PM
Let's see, Savage is more influential than Olberfurher, Maddow, Malloy and Schultz to name some liberal progressive spokesmouths. He can be obnoxious, tenacious and is his own person. How is there any correlation between him and the loony left being in charge. Have you ever listened to him ? Doubtful...
Sure, go ahead and believe that "your" liberal progressive/ fascists will be in charge for a long time and get lulled into a false sense of security. What goes around comes around...
Posted by: KS | June 04, 2009 at 06:38 PM
KS
Get hold of yourself. No need to come unglued this early in the evening.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 06:53 PM
Don't ask any one to 'get a hold of themselves' okay. This is a family blog and the connotation of that phrase conjures up images that are not family-oriented. Now, I won't tell you again and I urge you to stay more focused on the topic at hand (no play on words intended). Try to make yourself useful, put your mind to it and give it your best shot (oops, there we go again); I'm sure you can do better.
Posted by: HoChiMinh | June 04, 2009 at 07:13 PM
Actually, I did have to listen to Weiner a few times. The most vile thing I heard from him was when the problem had surfaced of the insurgents in Iraq seeking refuge from pursuant U.S. soldiers by running into neighborhood mosques, where soldiers cannot follow. Weiner's logic- bomb the mosques into the ground. And while we're at it, when we get done there, bomb the mosques in the U.S. as well. At that point I knew that anyone who looks forward to listening to weiner supports him. If weiner is influential, then we can expect to be at war with everybody for a long time, ironically influenced by someone who steered clear of the military by holeing up in his NYC apartment and growing pot.
Yes, weiner is a maggot crawling over the rotting garbage pile of the failed policies and philosophies of the ultra-right. In contrast, we are in charge now. Making weiner and his ratings pretty much irrelevant to the rest of the world now.
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 07:14 PM
. I never listen to the guy. Heard him once a few years back and the shrill from the radio was worst than 3 year olds discovering they have a screaming voice. If this guy is anything like the rest of the right wing noise machine I wish him well. And may he have an audience that will speak, write and display their adulation just like him. I’m speaking of KS.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 07:37 PM
HoChiMinn...nicely done.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 07:39 PM
Haha, you've a sense of humor MS, can't be all bad. [smile]
Posted by: HoChiMinh | June 04, 2009 at 07:55 PM
Hey, I’m only here to point out the hypocrisy.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 08:04 PM
Well stated, Ho. I like to play devil's advocate here, being that it is a family blog - no adulation, just feel compelled to balance out the rhetoric. If the left loves to hate him, he believes he is doing his job.
It might surprise you that Savage turned against the Iraq War after we were there for a year and thought that Bush was the worst wartime president ever.
Listening to him is like a roller coaster ride. I get pissed off at him when he degrades certain people. He is intelligent and quick-witted but is just as nasty as the left wing shock types like Rhodes, Malloy and Schultz.
Posted by: KS | June 04, 2009 at 08:16 PM
KS, are you kidding? Schultz is a shock type? What has he said that was shocking?
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 08:23 PM
After all Savage is talking the type of conspiracies that would make Oliver Stone howl
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 08:33 PM
Goes to show how clueless Klueless really is. Schultz is a midwestern corn-fed football fan with a hometown way of talking politics over the fence.
He antagonizes very few people because he gives everyone a chance to have their say. I like him.
Klueless, do you listen to anybody you talk about on this blog?
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 08:47 PM
Is that picture of Rumpole of the Bailey? I say, I'd never attach such a fine example of jurisprudence to a blog about the weiner...
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 08:50 PM
She who must be obeyed! Where is Hilda?
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 08:55 PM
I don't care if Schultz comes from Alberta (actually he is from North Dakota)
Yes, Ms. Knee-jerk - I have listened to Schultz, Malloy and Rhodes several times in the last few months. Schultz is controversial just like all of the others, but to a lesser degree and does allow people to talk. How do you know that he antagonizes very few people - just because he doesn't antagonize you...
Now, do you ever listen to Beck or Savage ?
Posted by: KS | June 04, 2009 at 09:01 PM
actually, Tommy 008 is the real Savage fan on this blog.
haven't seen Tommy here for awhile. maybe he'll come back and favor us with some more of his writings.
Posted by: Puget Sound | June 04, 2009 at 09:03 PM
Hey, I’m only here to point out the hypocrisy.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 08:04 PM
that only works when you're willing to go either way with it.
Posted by: Puget Sound | June 04, 2009 at 09:06 PM
In order to be a talk-jock, controversy sells. You may not think of Ed Schultz as controversial, while I do.
I don't think Brian and the Judge are very controversial, but alot of you probably do. It's in the mind of the beholder.
Posted by: KS | June 04, 2009 at 09:08 PM
You say he’s a shock jock, maybe to a lesser degree, but I’m asking what is so shocking. I understand I may not find “shocking” you may find paralyzing. So, let me know…where as your sensibilities.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 09:12 PM
Finally, is anybody else as proud of our President as I am? His speech today was respectful and given with an outstretch hand. It is so refreshing to hear cooperative words rather than sabers rattling for a change.
He is a grown up.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 09:15 PM
Oh, and he even harkened back to our fifties CIA overthrow of the democratically elected government of Mosedegh (sp?). It is like finally coming home to the truth after a long, long absence.
Malloy is reading the NY Times article. I heard parts of it on Maddow.
Thank god for Obama. He may not please me completely. But we finally have an adult back in charge. He is a decent and literate man.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 09:17 PM
Now, do you ever listen to Beck or Savage ?
Hell no! And I don't hang out with the Hell's Angels either.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 09:19 PM
Steele, deal with this idiot. I haven't the patience. Schultz a shock jock?
Good grief! It is impossible to take klueless seriously. Absolutely impossible.
Malloy just said something interesting and true about Obama: he doesn't come off as arrogant or superior.
That's true isn't it? Maybe that's what I like best about him.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 09:25 PM
He is doing a better job than idiot Bush. He mentioned the 1953 coup in Iran was a mistake.
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 09:30 PM
Yah Puget Sound, I cringed when I posted that. The word hypocrisy seems so rigid or right leaning. I should have said I’m here to support the liberal way of thinking and rebuff the extreme right. Which I’m finding only exist here in a very small way. I may be wrong; some righties may pop out of their hidey holes. You know the KS the street fighter brigade.
Oh, also make fun of the stupider things written.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 09:35 PM
He has a sense of history. He may become one of our greatest presidents of all time. Do you think, coiler? He has a sense of greatness and timelessness about him.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 09:35 PM
Obama is doing more in the first few weeks of his first term to promote peace than bush ever wanted to in eight horrific years. As we continue to push for investigations of the last administration, we likely will find that cheney/bush was the worst administration we've ever had.
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 09:40 PM
Joanie, I was wondering when someone would get to that. His forward leaning vision tempered with the realities of the times. He’s what this country needs. You know Churchill was a writer also.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 09:43 PM
Yes.
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 09:43 PM
Yes, they could of fired Rove but instead they have become worse than Nixon's CREEP. Funny how Bush is not on tv or doing some cheesy charity. Cheney is practically begging for air time these days after 8 years in the bunker.
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 09:50 PM
And with or without a teleprompter, Obama knows how to get a message across, mainly because he thinks first. I was just looking at website of bushisms (it's a few pages long), about half of which were done while bush was supposed to be reading from prepared text. What a total embarassment he was.
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 09:53 PM
Cheney is trying very hard to poison the jury pool. People guilty of crimes do that.
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 09:55 PM
Oh indeed, plus he had the goofy pack under his jacket during the 2004 debates. What was that about?
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 09:56 PM
Why were you waiting for someone else to get to that? Why didn't you, Steele?
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 09:58 PM
Oh I thought it was going to come from the other side.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Coiler- "...in our electronic age, we use transmidders, remote receevers, lil" tiny ear things, so my helpers can help me when i get in a bind on something, like an issue or something. I can't be expeckted ta know everthing, ya know? Besides, it beets the ol' way of havin Karl's hand up the back o' my jacket like the Charlie McCarthy dummie."
King George the W, from his home in Crawford, TX. Sep. 2004
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 10:04 PM
"Finally, is anybody else as proud of our President as I am? His speech today was respectful and given with an outstretch hand. It is so refreshing to hear cooperative words rather than sabers rattling for a change.
He is a grown up."
I heard Malloy gushing over him - He speaks like an eloquent adult but acts like a narcissistic juvenile when it comes to his policies - he's a real dolt when it comes to the economy and spending us into prosperity - a bad joke ! He doesn't even seem curious about alternative plans - like another former President who just retired (grin). Apparently, unlike a number of you, I place value in walking your talk. Hopefully, he will learn to wise up and listen to more fiscally saavy people, other than Geithner.
"Now, do you ever listen to Beck or Savage ?
Hell no! And I don't hang out with the Hell's Angels either."
Lame...Good God, before you run off on the blog about them, don't show your ignorance and know what they really say, not what the corrupt drive-by media wants you to believe they say - you are not even curious about alternative views ? Sorry to say, that's not uncommon -no wonder this country is looking more and more like a paper tiger.
Posted by: KS | June 04, 2009 at 10:05 PM
As Keith would say, WTF?
Posted by: Coiler | June 04, 2009 at 10:13 PM
KS, you've already forgotten, the website is BlatherWatch- listening to talk radio so you don't have to.
Beck, Weiner, and all of your other favorites who claim patriotism but have no problem tearing down a democracy to serve their own needs get all the exposure we need right here. Their lies exposed, even for you to see. We don't have to change the dial. Michael's doing the dirty work for us.
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 10:18 PM
“He speaks like an eloquent adult but acts like a narcissistic juvenile when it comes to his policies”
And what polices are those? Do you have a better one?
“he's a real dolt when it comes to the economy”
Again you have a better way of coming out of this slump without driving us into a deeper ditch?
“He doesn't even seem curious about alternative plans”
Now how do you know that? Let us all know about his lack of intellectual curiosity.
“I place value in walking your talk.”
Oh really, he believes in bipartisan problem solving. What do you believe in “street fighter”?
“Hopefully, he will learn to wise up and listen to more fiscally saavy people,”
And who are these savvy people?
I’m not going to address the Savage thing because I want you to go door to door 2012 and spew this drivel. I sure you’ll get the support you want from the extreme right.
Posted by: M.Steele | June 04, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Alternative views? Hate? Am I curious about that?
Get a life, KS.
Posted by: joanie | June 04, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Hmmm, let's measure this sucker...
“Hopefully, he will learn to wise up and listen to more fiscally saavy people,” You mean like the GOP Minority in congress who can't (or won't) write a counter-proposal on the budget?
Posted by: Drew | June 04, 2009 at 10:29 PM