Michael Savage - Chickenhawk

A conservative friend of mine said that he listens to AM Radio (yuck !!!!!!) and really likes Michael Savage and agrees with a lot of what he has to say (more yuck !!!).

I NEVER heard of Michael Savage but the first thing I told my friend was "He's ultra-conservative and a 150% American Patriot ? You know what that means? He never served a day in the military !!!"

I was just speaking off the top of my head but just as sure as John Wayne is a Sunshine Patriot Summer Soldier, it seems as if Mr Savage never served a f**king day in the military either. Savage was born in 1942 and therefore was eligible for the draft (19 years of age) in 1961. I know (or at least it says) that he has a shitload of education. Did that keep him kneedeep in deferments from cradle to grave? OR did he have an insurmountable physical disability (you know like Rush Limbaugh or that poor Jack Kemp who still somehow manged to struggle through his limitations and play Pro Football for the Buffalo Bills ???). This is just getting too frigging disgusting for words !!!!!!! All these right-wing loud-mouths that turn yellow chicken shit when they have to put THEIR life on the line !!!
So, basically, I would love to hear ANYTHING about Mr Savage's reasons for NOT going in the military.

He is a pure racist...

i don`t have all the facts but maybe google? he was once a "hippy" and a rumor of being a "homosexual" while living in Hawaii....

who has a locked-in fringe adoring subservient element. They are a part of the dependent group of Americans who "thank" him for being there. Much like O'Reilly fans who "thank" him for standing up for them. They also worship Bush as their savior-in-chief.

If indeed they have to serve they feel entitled to jump ahead of hundreds of little people to get into "champagne units."

They are cowards and will always run when confronted with danger.

They rise to power only because of money and propaganda. They have no more courage or strong character than the effete monarchs of history.

War is good for profits for the multinational corporations.

The neocons pay a lot for constant propaganda in the mass media, but it pays off for them in war profits. Paid propagandists like Savage and Limbaugh represent the character of the neocons - COWARDS!

INFANTRY VET.

the right-wingers all say that only the right-wing has the guts to defend America, but it's the right-wing who ran away the hardest and the most fast when the military was in need. Some live in a dream world.

or Michael Alan Weiner as he is known legally.

Great article in Salon.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/05/savage/index.html


...oh - and yes , he's a gun-nut , who avoided 'Nam.

He always sounds like he didn't quite finish dinner, or like some hairy belch is about to issue forth from his ample gut.

And I'd pin him as a high school dropout if his vocabulary and sentence structure and mindset were my cues to judge.

Savage is just a hate-filled, angry rager. One day, all that hatred will turn around and kick his nasty ass.

playing to the right-wingers and raking in the bucks. He's figured out a way to suck them in and he's doing so.

Yeah. Just entertainment.

always quoting him-she thinks he is a genius.

I don't even speak to her anymore. If she listens to this clown then I have nothing to say to her EVER.

i am tired of these wingnuts. Where did they all come from? I used to be surrounded by people who had progressive values just like me.

Now, I end up arguing with WOMEN who are against a woman having the right to choose. This country is going downhill. People are getting evil. Or maybe they have been replaced by aliens or something.

WE NEED TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!

No less.

Thanks for all the responses.
Once again I have "re-learned" the equation that:

Ultra-Conservative Super Patriot = FULL OF SHIT !!!

and a Happy New Year to all.

but a friend sent me this list of dems versus repugs who did/not serve. Amazing.

Democrats

* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953.
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.

Republicans
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst').
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve (he only shoots at things that don't shoot back.)

Had a bad knee-4f. Although, he remained an avid jogger.

"Newt Gingrich: did not serve." - Now he says he feels like he "missed out".

I say send the twins if you are that gung ho about war.