Funny things heard on Mike Savage

[Bad Thoughts]

Sorry if this is an inappropriate source to cite, but Mike Savage was the only radio program I could get driving home last night. And it was pure comedy. According to Savage, McCain has been "operationally conditioned" to shy away from conflict, something that he learned as a defense mechanism in Vietnamese captivity. Consequently, he avoids direct confrontation with Obama. Moreover, McCain's candidacy is the result of behind-the-scenes maneuvers of Republicans who saw the financial crisis coming and didn't want the party to deal with it. Instead, they fixed things so that a clear loser (McCain) would become the nominee, easily losing to Obama. Romney, who was the front runner, would be saved for 2012 when Republicans could take advantage of the 'failure' of Democrat programs.

Too funny.

:beer:

[RichGirl]

1. I don't know what is more unbelievable...

...either he is beyond denial and ignorance or he thinks his listeners are!

But if it's true, fine with me. I'll take a win anyway we can get it.

[Bicoastal]

2. It's funny because if I wasn't so sure that McCain and the GOP had everything under control...

...I would think they were a bunch of tone-deaf incompetent jackasses. Thanks, Michael, for reassuring the country!

[NYC_SKP]

3. You know what? Sometimes Michael Savage is right.

He's right about media consolidation, about Bush being the worst president and big spender ever to hit the white house, and he might even be right about the things you mention.

He's dead on about some things and dead wrong about others.

I, too, listen to him for lack of other choices (Hannity is on at the same time, can't take his voice.)

:patriot:

[yardwork]

6. Savage is wrong that there is anything to attack about Obama.

This just falls under the right wing conspiracy theory that Obama is a terrorist and somehow McCain is afraid to point it out. The reason that McCain can't point out that Obama is a terrorist is that Obama is obviously not a terrorist. It's easy to whip up crowds of ignorant racists, but McCain can't exactly say these things in a debate because he'd be slapped down with the simple truth.

Savage and the other racist talking heads don't understand this. They don't understand why McCain doesn't "take it to Obama" because they think the lies are true. So they've come up with all kinds of bizarre theories to explain why McCain is ignoring all the terrible frightening things about Obama, so they can avoid facing the truth that there simply are no terrible scary things about Obama.

None, in fact. Obama is a reasonable, calm, intelligent, thoughtful, even-tempered person. He appears to have no skeletons in his closet whatsoever. The very worst that the Republicans have been able to find on him is that his church's pastor has a big mouth and he sat on a board with a professor in Chicago who was once part of an underground group.

That's it. That's not much to work with. So the Republicans have to make stuff up but the stuff they make up is so ridiculous that even McCain can't say it.

[TTUBatfan2008]

4. Or perhaps...

Romney got fucked over by the same bigotry that McCain's supporters are showing towards Obama? Methinks this is more plausible. Otherwise, Mike Huckabee wouldn't have done so well in the South. Pretty fuckin' clear what's going on in the Republican Party right now.

[yardwork]

5. So Savage acknowledges that McCain will lose?

[The Stranger]

7. What freaked me out was when he said no Christian minister is "worth their salt" unless they preach

End Times theology. Then Michael Weiner started quoting Jesus and various New Testament scriptures. I detest the man, but ran across his show, unfortunately, by happenstance.

"Bizarre" doesn't really quite capture it.

[Chloroplast]

8. There's truth to what he says. *shudder*

I've always believed McCain was a joke that the GOP didn't have the decency let him in on the punchline. They obliterated him in 2000 and somehow he got the nomination. But they seem to have overplayed their hand: by picking Palin, they've created a division within their own Party. The only way I see Romney making a comeback for 2012 is if Palin's career is destroyed between now and then; otherwise, there's a lot of hate simmering beneath the country's surface and it scares me.