Comments on: Brian Battles The Lamb-asting

by: David

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:26:31 +0000

I am a regular listener of Michael Savage and understand a few things about him:

1. He understands the big picture of what is best for America better than any other talk host I have listened to. Savage is great at predicting the unintended consequences of any action our government takes.

2. He refuses to lock-step with any other media figure or political figure. This is good in that you know he is speaking his mind and bad in that he burns so many bridges he gets no acknowledgement outside of his show.

3. Savage can tell a story like no other, whether it is funny, sad, or just anecdotal, he grips you. This is the strength of his show and the one reason everyone should give him a try.

4. He is not racist, sexist, or a true homophobe, although he does have a dislike for gay life like many men do. He basically wants people to keep their sex lives to themselves and not bother everyone with it.

5. He is a nationalist and does not want rampant illegal or legal immigration from countries that bring disease and uneducated leaches over. This is out of respect for what America has achieved. The third-world immigrants generally do not add value to our society for two to three generations.

6. He is terrible about spewing false data to support his points (ie the tax-funded CSPAN). Generally, his points are valid on their own merits and he makes them appear to be invalid because he backs them up with false facts.

7. He is conspiracy theory minded. Conspiracy theories are prevalent in left-wing talk, but I don’t hear much of this within conservative talk. This is where Savage can somewhat be fairly labeled a kook.

8. Savages infamous yelling tirades don’t bother me much, but I can see why they would turn off most listeners.

All this being said, Lamb should have just played the DVD and be done with it. I feel Lamb is making excuses and is empowered because the media will never stick up for Savage. If this happened to Michael Moore, it would have been all over CNN and MSNBC and perhaps even FoxNews. I also must condemn the Savage listeners that are spewing hate towards Lamb. They make fair-minded conservatives such as myself look like fools. Grow up, people.

by: rrsafety

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:01:01 +0000

As a first tier cable subscriber in Mass., I HAVE to pay over $1.00 a month to New England Sports Network, the channel that carries the Red Sox. I have no choice as it has been added to the basic cable line up.

It is NOT a tax. It is part of my cable bill…. Is Savage and his crew really trying to say that the $1.00 I spend on cable that goes to NESN is a tax??? What weird fellows…

by: katie

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:21:35 +0000

“So you admit it is a confiscated tax taken by blunt force”

Um, NO, it’s part of the fee you pay for cable, you don’t want to support C-Span, cancel your cable. Since when is having cable TV a necessity in life?

by: Zeb Quinn

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:10:00 +0000

“Bert: The nickel comes from what you pay for cable or satellite reception. It’s part of the package. If you don’t use either service, your $0.05 is safe in your pocket.”

So you admit it is a confiscated tax taken by blunt force. Thank you.

Oh, and the $0.05 amount isn’t really relevant. Multiply it by, oh, hrmmm, let’s say 60 million, and it’s a tidy little sum (it’d be $3 million for those of you educated by public school teachers) to be getting gratis, month in and month out, year in and year out.

by: Joshua

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:33:55 +0000

C-SPAN is definitely liberal in its operations. It chooses to hide it by some of the procedures described above (# of lines available, number of callers who they take), but one of the most important ways is to allow the Conservative caller who may be on the line, to stay only a short time if s/he is calm, cool, collected and very reasonable. If the person is a ranting looney (which you do get a few on all of their lines), you are allowed to show that side, then summarily clilcked off by the leftist hosts.

One of the things they do, often, is if a person calls in on the Indpendent line and you sound conservative, you are reprimanded for not calling in on the Conservative line, then dumped. It did happen to me. And if you’re a liberal on the Independent line, you are allowed to stay much longer, and exchange reasoned well-thought out question/answer wit the host.

Brian Lamb is just another form of the mainstream media, with most of its biases intact.

by: Judith

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:47:19 +0000

One of the things I enjoy about c-span is the breakup of lines for dems, repubs, and independents. Then the dems all call in on the pubbies line and lamb lets them natter on and on. I get quite a laugh out of his comedy routine. Then, when he “gets tough” with a polite conservative, he really struts his macho stuff. During the last 8 months he has been able to show his great intellect (I can’t help it, I just have to guffaw at that one) and the next joke is his evenhandedness with dems and pubbies. I used to watch c-span and lamb, and take them seriously, but lamb has changed and turned his show into a comedy routine that is only slightly amusing.

by: william

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:38:30 +0000

The reason Michael Savage changed his name is because “The Weiner Nation” wouldn’t have much credibility.

by: K P Winterer

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:49:50 +0000

I used to agree that WJ was a place to hear all points of view but not since they becaome overly politically correct with their biased phone lines and seminal callers on all lines. I’ve gone from a daily viewer to a never can stand it! I quit when I could see no difference between the twat they air and that on all the other liberal networks, NPR, PBS etc. I’d much rather turn TV off than be subject to so much propaganda. Liberals on all lines and they do NOTHING to try to monitor it. It’s gone from wonderful (geographic lines) bot most boring TV on the tube!

by: Zoe Brain

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:36:10 +0000

Having been labelled a Freak by Mr Savage, and told that I should be grateful for having the privilege of being left alive to beg for my sustenance, I can’t be objective about the man. Fascist and Racist? I’ve seen no evidence of that. Obnoxious Sociopath? Oh yes.
I’m about to go to Israel, to actually do something against our common enemy. It seems to me that Mt Savage might be happier joining them. He’s a bully, a misogynist, and highly obnoxious, he’d fit in well with Hamas or Hezb’Allah.

by: Dexter

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:10:28 +0000

There’s nothing courageous about this. He got his depends in a wad and decided to use the public forum that we pay for against a group of people that he clearly doesn’t like. Just because he doesn’t read hate mail from the left doesn’t mean they don’t send it, he just makes a conscious decision not to go after them. And so what if it was a recorded speech? A while back c-span aired an event for Mumia abu Jamal, and of course he wasn’t there because he was in prison, but he did send a taped speech which c-span dutifully aired.

by: jeff

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:18:28 +0000

Can you blame Savage for not wanting to make appearances anyplace? Christ, I can’t even have a Republican bumper sticker on my car for fear sticker and car will be vandalized. When the left’s tactics are organized thuggishness against political enemies, what other options does one have but stay home?

I love his show because it is authentic. So what if he’s in a pissing match with c-span? Big f’n deal.

by: Bob

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:52:41 +0000

It was hinted on a few blogs awhile back that Savage was put in place during the Clinton admn. –to portry a typical example of a “conservative hate” radio talk show host. Savage is an actor. A lefty pretending to be conservative so as to discredit and sully the right.

by: jmcnulty

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:22:10 +0000

Whether or not you agree with Michael Savage is beside the point. He is not a conservative. I do not agree with him a significant portion of the time. He believes in autarky and thinks that “a man on a white horse” will solve our problems. But he is right on many things, including our traitorous elite, stuffing their pockets with Arab money and giving Americans “eyewash” on controlling the border. What is more important is that he represents millions of listeners. It is odd to me that the demanted ravings of Keith Olbermann and Rosie O’Donnell can be broadcast daily, while Savage and his audience is ignored, first by the networks, Fox News, MS-NBC, Reuters, AP, and THE NEW YORK TIMES (except when they are viewing that demographic with alarm as yahoos, “racists,” or “nativists” because, for example, they oppose the immigration bill). C-SPAN should and could have found some way to broadcast his speech. This thing about the speech being on a DVD is just an after-the-fact excuse. If Noam Chomsky and other leftists can be broadcast regularly, why not Savage? Despite the way he is mischaracterized by the major media, he is not a racist or fascist, not a “9/11 truther” or a conspiracy theorist. It is easy for C-SPAN to point our the Michael Savage supporters are wrong when they say that out tax dollars support C-SPAN, when you know that you are supported by fees paid by cable systems. So our dollars (from our cable bills) support C-SPAN, which may have “private” money, but has a “public” purpose: to reflect the public conversation, from left to right, without ideological bias. When this large and even majority demographic is systematically ignored by the major media, even Fox News, why should anyone support the First Amendment ideal of freedom-for-the-idea-we-hate? C-SPAN and Brian Lamb could have and should have done better. The thing that I have always liked about C-SPAN is that it will set up a camera and allow public access, “unfiltered” by the major media, to news events. Often what happens is quite different from what later appears in the major media. The idea that C-SPAN is playing favorites like the networks and the cable networks is deeply shocking and demoralizing to me.

by: Brian Maloney

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:01:02 +0000

I was at the convention and covered Savage’s presentation for my site, The Radio Equalizer:

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/06/michael-savage-freedom-of-speech-award.html

Or click the URL above.

by: roger sutton

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:49:22 +0000

It’s all very true that Michael Savage, here, appears to out of line, and that, on balance, C-SPAN has been a great benefit to conservatives in providing them a platform to disseminate their ideas. I do, however, have a gripe that, I believe, is valid, and that, I believe, does show a favoritism, on C-SPAN’s part, toward liberals. Several years ago, during their call in shows there used to be just one line. Well, as it turned out, there seemed to be about five conservatives calling in for every liberal. Brian Lamb and C-SPAN decided this wasn’t right. So, they created an affirmative action plan for callers; three call in lines: conservative, liberal, independent. The independent line, however, always seemed to sound more liberal than independent. The result, then, was that the call in shows just seemed to get reversed and falsely manufactured into liberal call in shows. Since then I stopped watching the call in shows. Only a liberal, I believe, could consider his conduct in this case to be a profile in courage.

by: Aunt Rant

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:35:02 +0000

I like Savage, but he is one lazy bastard, and clueless about the Internet. His site looks like a hucksters’ mail-order ad - just released on probation. Don’t even look for an email address, everything there is done on P.T. Barnum faith and by remote.

Still, he tells a good story, and is semi-adept at fighting the windmills spinning conspiratorially in his own linguini-addled mind. That’s why I like him, he’s nuts, and even us nuts need a place to go.

But this send-in-a-DVD business is news to me. I’ve heard him railing against C-Span, but I don’t think he mentioned that his big “freedom” speech was delivered pre-recorded. But again, the man is lazy, I mean… really, really lazy. In fact, we’re lucky if he shows up at his own radio program four out of five days per week. And he often leaves early, I’m tellin’ you, the man is lazy.

Yet, I remain an independent fan, and as such challenge Brian Lamb to invite Michael Savage to appear on C-Span. This is a risk-free offer… because there isn’t a chance in hell Savage will ever show up. I can also suggest the reason; “That freedom-hating commie Brian Lamb demanded pre-conditions, and that’s “CENSORSHIP!”

by: michael

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:26:11 +0000

I might occasioanlly listen to Savage, ambivalently enjoy a bit of the current conservative snarl. He once talked about Jack Kerouac ‘who in his old age remounced liberalism. He was under the guardianship of his mother.’ A caller told of being in his uncle’s bar before opening and ‘Jack Kerouac was there throwing his knife at the dart board;’ then attempt at beginning another sentence, an attempt repeated nicely. Savage kept ranting, interrupting, repeating the point initially quoted above. The caller never got a chance to tell any more of the story. I never got a chance to hear it. Talk about a tax.

by: Kevin Baker

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:16:29 +0000

To Mr. Kevin Black:

It’s a TAX if the money is filtered through the GOVERNMENT. If it flows from consumer to business, it’s a PAYMENT for a SERVICE RENDERED.

If the nickel per cable/satellite bill goes through a Government Accounting Office prior to hitting the coffers of C-SPAN, then yes, it’s a tax. But if not, it isn’t. Because, you see, the cable/satellite providers aren’t able to come take that money from you at gunpoint.

See the difference?

And bravo, Mr. Lamb!

I’m about half convinced that “Michael Savage” is a leftist out to play the stereotypical right-wing hatemonger to the hilt.

by: betsybounds

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:23:08 +0000

Mumblix Grumph,

I’ve called C-SPAN a few times. The “screener” who answers my call asks only what subject I wish to address and what location I’m calling from. That’s it. There is no attempt to filter the caller’s content, and whatever bias you detect in viewing is purely a result of self-selection.

Brian Lamb provides a valuable source of information and debate, and the nickel a month C-SPAN takes out of my monthly cable gives me a far greater bargain than those awful blowhards in Congress whose bellowings Mr. Lamb broadcasts. It’s nothing like a tax.

by: Tennwriter

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:20:39 +0000

If he went in public to do a speech for C-Span, there’s the likelihood that he’d have infiltrators from some far-left group come specifically to try to hoot him down and drown out his voice. Kind of hard to make a reasoned arguement while you’re competing with shouts of “Fascist” by some brownshirts, dodging pies thrown, and sidestepping maniacs rushing the stage.