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Bestselling political
propaganda
Bestseller drops Savage suicide bomb on
leftists
By Jacob Harrison
Collegian Senior Reporter
Michael Savage, like a sort of comic ideological
terrorist, has written another book that feels like a blue-collar
Christian suicide bombing of American liberals in their strongholds
and spider holes.
Savage, who is the most bombastic and perhaps
most entertaining voice on talk radio, has just released his
second political and cultural diatribe titled The Enemy Within,
in which he continues his one-man frontal assault on the Left.
His first book, The Savage Nation, was on the New York Times
Bestseller list for months, and Enemy has climbed to No. 7 this
week.
In 233 pages, Savage slaps around big political
issues and arguments like an impatient cowboy at a bar, swinging
from education to media to religious intolerance in a flowing
conversational free form, as if Jack Kerouac and John the Baptist
had a bastard child, and called it Savage.
In short, the shtick is heavy, but this guy
can sling it with the best of them.
His chapter on the judiciary, titled "Stench
from the Bench," is an example requiring little explanation
beyond its opening sentence that reads, "Federal courts
and judges in America today are to be more feared than al-Qaida."
Later in the book, Savage calls for the impeachment
of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former chief counsel for the ACLU and
Clinton-appointed Supreme Court justice whom he considers "possibly
the most radical lawyer in the history of the United States
of America."
Attacking Leftist anti-Americanism on all
fronts, Savage derides the "illiberal" professors
of American universities. At one point he mentions his old alma
mater Berkeley, saying that he is not surprised both "The
Star Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America"
were considered inappropriate and omitted from that school's
Sept. 11 memorial service in 2002. He quotes the president of
their graduate assembly, Jessica Quindel, who explained that
"patriotic songs may exclude and offend people because
there are so many people who don't agree with the songs."
Savage interprets: "Such people [as Quindel] are a clear
and present danger to the survival of the United States…they're
living in a fantasy world.
The offense of this line-in-the-sand rhetoric,
which the cringing elites of academia can quickly label as absurd
dogmatism, is precisely the key to the popular appeal of books
like Enemy and men like Savage. They are not politically effeminate
or intellectually apologetic, but come across as impassioned
by a real and honest belief in something. Savage is not a politician
or a fundamentalist, he claims to be neither a Republican nor
a Democrat, but touts himself simply as a Christian and a patriot,
with an oft repeated disclaimer, as he says straight up with
a Bronx accent, "Look, its just one man's opinion. That's
all."
As a member of the dominant conservative coterie
on talk radio today, Savage explains in his new book why liberals
always fail in talk radio. Essentially, he says it is because
radio stands as an alternative to lib-dominated T.V. and newspaper
media, and that in the radio format, liberal hosts have a hard
time concealing the ideological basis of their true beliefs,
which are opposed to the beliefs and worldview of most Americans.
Savage writes that liberals like Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo, Jim
Hightower, Alan Dershowitz and Ed Koch all had their shows cancelled
because "they were too strident and sounded like junior
Lenins." He later said, "Profits require an audience.
But the listeners were never there. No wonder these losers bash
the country. Or play the victim card."
He distinguishes conservative from liberal
thinkers, saying, "I and other conservative talk show hosts
are passionate about saving America. We are passionate about
protecting our borders, preserving the English language, and
preserving the common cultural values that built America. Liberals,
by contrast, support the Tower of Babel called multiculturalism,
ultra-tolerance, and multilingualism. Liberals attack every
significant aspect of our culture that has made America great,
while conservatives continue to support the values inherent
in the common culture."
With chapter titles such as "Schools:
Condoms on Cucumbers," "Media: The Hollywood Idiots,"
and "Colleges: Houses of Porn and Scorn," and adding
section titles such as "Islama-Rama-Ding-Dong," "Homo
High," and "The Reprobate Ingrates," the book
is a clear extension of Savage's engaging radio style. Everything
is said with a roar in the throat and a twinkle in the eye.
With humor and pomp, he is able to present the most serious
and inflammatory subjects in a disarmingly irreverent way, so
that even in a liberal bastion such as San Francisco, Savage
has become the No. 1 afternoon drive-time host, and The Michael
Savage Show is breaking records on over 300 stations from the
Bay Area to New York City.
Savage earned one master's degree in medical
botany, another in medical anthropology, and a doctorate from
the University of California at Berkeley in epidemiology and
nutrition science. He is the author of more than 18 books, and
the founder of the Paul Revere Society.
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