When the news broke that Senator Kennedy had a malignant brain tumor, Jewish talk show host and America’s favorite bigot, racist and dirtbag Michael Savage responded to the news in standard hate fueled savagery. He constantly played a clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger from "Kindergarten Kids" saying "It’s not a tumor!", played songs by the Dead Kennedy’s so he could keep saying "Dead Kennedy’s", and other forms of popular Republican fun.
Michael Wiener is the the third most listened to talk show host in America after Limbaugh and Hannity. He is on live early evenings from San Francisco. So few listen to him there that they just assumed he was broadcasting from Selma, Alabama.
This of course reminds one of Rush Limbaugh’s eulogies of Kurt Kobain and Jerry Garcia who he called worthless drug addicts and good riddance to bad rubbish, and even more reminiscent of the 2006 election where he made fun of Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s disease. Or going back to Limbaugh’s beginnings in Sacremento where he gained his fame by reading off the names of men who had died from AIDS and hitting the laugh or applause button each time. Character matters!
One might hope Savage has gone too far and this will finally do him in after so many years of his filthy racist blather. Especially when it was carried on two stations in Massachusetts. After all, he did get tossed off MSNBC for telling a gay caller "I hope you get AIDS and die!" Which is pretty much what he is saying to Senator Kennedy. But that was television not radio, and unlike television, the more bigoted, racist, stupid, and disgusting it is on the radio, the larger the share.
There is some cause to wonder why that may be. Like most things there is no single answer but being from Dumbutt, I can take a few good guesses. Of the millions of listeners a week Savage enjoys I would guess the vast majority are very likely listening from those old 13 confederate states where they live so down deep in those hollars they can’t get FM radio or even television for that matter. They are stuck with AM talk shows all day and all night. Well, that and trillions of Christian AM stations which pretty much push the same intolerance and bigotry. But what about the millions of other listeners spread out all over this fine nation of ours?
Well if you listen these days to Savage you can see that those he says need to be eliminated changes with the times. He began with dirty lazy smelly African Americans, then with 911 it switched to dirty lazy smelly Moslem’s, and over the past two years its been almost wholly dirty lazy smelly Mexicans! So Savage is riding high on the anti-immigration fervor, mostly in the border states, and most mostly here in Dumbutt, Texas.
There is something to all those old racist groups we remember seeming to have vanished off the radar, but the people in them still count in the tens of millions. The change is in the names, no big populations of the KKK or Skinheads anymore, the same kind of people have just regrouped, with the help of the Republican PR machine, semantically changed the definition of what they are from "racists" to "nativists". They also changed the names of their organizations to The Minutemen, or the American Border Patrol, or what have you. Oh, and they all vote! Like 100% turn out.