Fifteen Minutes with Michael Savage

It's astonishing to me what media personalities are able to get away with these days. These controversial, conspiracy-spewing, anything-for-higher-ratings-personalities might be taking their search for over the top ratings a little too far.

After thinking the infamous Howard Stern was something to be reckoned with in regards to controversy, I had a chance to listen to Michael Savage. The name "Savage" perfectly describes his radio show. It took me less than fifteen minutes of listening to him squaller and offend to conclude him to be an arrogant, pretentious individual who does not have any qualms about being viewed as pollitically incorrect.

He titles himself as a fortune teller who is able to accurately forecast the future. Constantly boasts about his intellect and intuition and attests that anyone who listens long enough to his radio show will come to realize that he is their bestfriend, saying that he is the only thing between us and reality, that he can save us, and that he can tell the future.

In a past news coverage about the recent bay area hit-and-run tragedy, Savage gives credit to the perpetrator saying that he at least targeted a "rainbow coalition", referring to the perp's different ethnic victims. He also mentions that the perp, Middle Eastern in descent, understandably came to the U.S. because the women from where he originates are so ugly that they need to wear veils to cover their faces. In another infamous incident, Savage tells off a homosexual caller by saying that he hopes he gets AIDS and dies. I doubt any of these words or phrases would ever come out of the mouth of opposite, straight-laced radio personality 810 KGO's Ron Owens.

Savage, although crude and gruff, absolutely knows what he is doing and he is doing it well. He's become so popular through his controversial spews that he's been able to publish and sell four books: The Savage Nation, The Enemy Within, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, and The Political Zoo. Needless to say, although he may not be the perfect role model, Savage is getting what he wants--PAID!