Uh, DaveW, I think you meant _Michael_ Savage, right?

Dan Savage is a writer and columnist, author of the "Savage Love" advice column (http://www.thestranger.com/current/savage.html) in many independent newspapers. I could imagine Dan S. complaining about people "breeding out of control", maybe, but not the rest of it. In fact, he's also the author of "Skipping Towards Gomorrah" (http://www.skippingtowardsgomorrah.com/) in which he champions sinning against "moral, conservative scolds".

There you go again, chico. Dan provided extensive quotes to back his take on Dan Savage. Let's see your evidence for KPFA's equivalent drool. Or just say "ditto" and we'll understand.

By broadcasting from SF, Savage doesn't have to travel far to get fodder for his shows. He just spends a day listening to invective on KPFA and he's got a week's worth of his own. One extreme feeds the other. I'm surprised there aren't more like him setting up shop here.

Edited by author 03-22-2003 01:34 PM
Here's a few quotes (via FAIR) from Michael Savage, a good representative of the new breed of talk radio:

Savage routinely refers to non-white countries as "turd world nations" and charges that the U.S. "is being taken over by the freaks, the cripples, the perverts and the mental defectives" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00). In a recent broadcast he justified ethnic slurs as a national security tool: "We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy," he explained (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/6/03).

"Turd world" immigrants are a frequent target of Savage's anger: "You open the door to them, and the next thing you know, they are defecating on your country and breeding out of control" (Oregonian, 4/24/02).

At times Savage's arguments echo the conspiratorial scapegoating of the white supremacist movement: "With the [Latino] population that has emerged, since they breed like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in their own nation... The white people don't breed as often for whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved. That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut down on the white race" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00).

Old Adolf himself wasn't this crude.

Ian I guess you mean what would happen if these pig headed radio announcers were actually forced to listen to oppposing points of view.Scary we have buttons to prevent that.

Oh no! People who disagree with us! With a forum!

Surely, this is the thin end of the wedge. If we don't stop this now, everyone will be able to spout whatever idiocy they want, at any time! They must be stopped.

Edited by author 03-22-2003 11:23 AM
Ok talk radio is for idiots,then why do I listen to it?I really wonder why I do.

It's hard to listen to the AM band and not feel like a witness to the rise of American fascism.

Yeah, that talk radio really sucks. You'd never see a respectable newspaper like the Boston Globe keep on a somebody who simply made shit up or plagiarized. No sirree, none of that stuff at an impeccable newspaper like the Boston Globe.

Talk radio guys lay out topics and opinions and then take callers. It's just like this, except we know how to type. And we're lots smarter mostly.

"In many ways, talk radio seems to have taken up where yellow journalism left off."

Bull's eye.

Bringing Bill O'Reilly into the Bay Area was a horrible, sick decision. I cannot listen to that guy. Not after he pushed Romey back two hours.