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Saturday, July 22, 2006
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"He's the kind of guy who never lets anyone forget he has a Ph.D." "Such vitriolic ranting is over the top, even by the ever-declining standards of talk-radio decorum. Yet, in this time of war fever and hyperpatriotism, inflammatory rhetoric draws conservative ditto-heads and liberal rubberneckers alike," wrote a Salon reporter a couple of years back about Michael Savage, and, whatever the politics of UD, she is indeed, from her Rehoboth Beach apartment, rubbernecking. More broadly, when she's on vacation in the US, or when she's at her house in upstate New York (where she'll be soon), UD watches a little tv (longtime readers know UD has no tv in her 'thesdan house) and listens to a little talk radio (but only when making meals, and only when she can't get NPR to come in clearly). It's true that UD has gasped and laughed a lot, listening to Savage, who sounds like every neurotic Jewish blowhard UD ever dated or had in her family....Neurotic? There's a psycho-something in Savage that distinguishes him from this group... With her interest in universities, UD has taken note of Savage's quest for intellectual respectability: 'He currently gripes that no institute of higher education would hire him, despite his qualifications. "I discovered I could not gain a professorship even after applying many times," he writes in The Savage Nation. "My crime? I was a white male."' UD's stumbled over a lot of white males at universities. Savage's problem is he's one dumb fuck. |