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Michael Savage is not someone I'd like to spend much time with. In fact, I'd be pleased to see him dipped into some giant vat of pudding and covered with fire ants. In any case, he's been sitting behind the nice folks at Air America during the convention, and I feel for them. (By the way, his original name is Michael Weiner. Nothing wrong with that, just interesting to note.)
It turns out Mr. Savage has been saying some dirty, nasty things about some genuinely cool people. For example, take his remarks about Maya Angelou speaking at the DNC: SAVAGE: Who does she think she's talking to, a college group of junkies? Boo, hiss -- get the cane for this liar. Get her off the stand, this moron. You fraud. Fifty-thousand dollars a pop for this crap at colleges. Ouch! I'm not sure I'd characterize Ms. Angelou as a moron. I mean, she's really smart. Anyway, he continued: SAVAGE: Aw, shut up! We all have freedom! Or else a dirtbag like you wouldn't be up there! ... They make $50,000 a speech to a bunch of junkie college students, they scream about no freedom and oppression in America! Fifty-thousand dollars, running around to all the potheads around America. Oh oppression, oh oppression -- oooohhh Klu Klux Klannnnn, oh bring me home ... oh Ku Klux Klan that man from Texas ... oooh the white sheets are rustling ... oh gimme the freedom ... ooooh Ku Klux Klan ... $50,000, please.I find this passage particularly fascinating as he manages to ridicule not only our speaker, but also college students and civil rights -- two things that are really some of the more positive aspects of America. They granted her a fake degree, an honorary deg -- an honorary degree you buy. They give you one, I earned a real one from a great university, so I know what it is to earn a real doctorate, and I respect 'em. But I spit on people with honorary degrees. They're worthless. They're like mail-order degrees but cheaper. He spits on people with honorary degrees. Like GW. |
 
  
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