Republican Radio Host Declares America Not Ready For “Affirmative Action” Presidency
Michael Savage, a Right-of-center Republican talk radio host stated: “America’s not ready for an affirmative action presidency.”
On his syndicated show (which reaches 10 million listeners on 410 stations throughout the United States including WILM’s 10 listeners), he insisted that “the American people haven’t been heard from yet” regarding Barack Obama.
And that…
“when they (real Americans) are heard from, the affirmative action ticket goes down in flames. You can mark this down, you can mark this down. Mark it in bronze. Mark it in bronze they lose. I don’t really care who’s gonna be on the other side, they win. America’s not ready for an affirmative action presidency. I stand by those words.” – Via Media Matters
That is very unkind.
Untrue to boot.
Yeah I dislike hamhanded polemics. It is not good to just attack like this, it lends to the lack of humor in our national debate and our ability to understand the economic, social and politcal problems we face as a nation; if he meant it is as satire it sucks. If he meant it to be rude, well he does too.
Real Satire usully takes on yourself as an object of humor and looks at positions that are similar between two different candidates and mirrors their positions and makes it kind of funny. This has been the classic way of writing satrie for a long time. Since the 1790’s through to today. This is not satire. It is a polemic. Polemic does not address any substantive issue or policy. It simply launches into an negative discourse about the person as opposed to their issues. This is called a “tangential polemic” something unrelated to the candidates brought up as a key issue for some listeners.
Who is this guy anyway? Sounds rough.
It is not satire. He is a flat out right wing nut. I can’t get over the fatc that freaks like him and Hannity have actual audiences.
Do you know how good it felt to stand down in Rodney Square with all races, ages, and creeds in the same peaceful and powerful crowd. To all be sharing the same vision of America’s future. It was something I’ve been hoping for all my life. Just the phenomenon of that crowd was enough to make you support Obama.
Similar vibe on First Night (New Years Eve) in Wilmington.
The shame is that Rodney Square does not host more events, political or not, with that kind of turnout. After all it is the town square in our biggest city.
Savage, Hewitt, Rush, Malkin – These are the folks who rally the troops. What a fucking disgrace!
What an ass. Savage, Shamnity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Dingram, and so on. PLEASE turn them off so the sponsors go away.
I read your clip and wondered: is he racist, or phobic? My thoughts lean on the latter.
Savage is not a Republican.
Right. Neither is George Bush I guess.
No. I mean he’s not actually a Republican.
I accept he has a right to say what he wants, but I think it is probably not a good idea to bring up tangential ideas about candidates race or gender. That is not a very humorous way to approach satire. There is enough on the positions to do that- all you need to do is watch John Stewart to see how it done.
Also, no more power politics please. They never end well for anybody.
FSP wins on a semantical technicality! Let really parse the language.
McCain’s not “conservative” too, right.
Perhaps Savage is a “libertarian” like those militias in Montana or the Minutemen on the Mexican border.
How about those evangelicals who think Earth was created 6,000 years ago and that SkyDad hates gays. Are they “Republicans”?
What the hell is Ron Paul, by the way?
The point is that if you are a Savage “fan” you are also a W fan. It is a 1 to 1 ratio. Granted the logic doesn’t work the other way round.
Maybe we can just compromise and lump you all into the category “mentally ill” or “delusionally infantile”. The key to having the moniker removed is an apology for casting two votes for Bush. I’ll even accept it in advance, how’s that?
Hi Dorian-
Savage is about as far from libertarian as you can get!
A civil libertarian says you have the right to be you, as you are, I have the right to be me no matter how I am. And I promise I will never say or propose or force you to be like me, but please do not try to force me to be like you. Gandhi and MLK were civil libertarians. RFK was too. A country, any country, should be big enough to include everyone. That is where our dynamic creativity and spirit come from.
We are all in this life together. But we should not think of this life as being controlled by systems thinking or we all lose out, because we never fully examine the nature of our life, ours and others lives, their development and their inter-relations.
Power and a desire for only power blinds us to that issue, so please no more power politics. They come from Europe and have never been helpful to our nation. Issues and policies are good targets, but right now we need to come together as a nation.
If everybody is the same imagine how boring our life would be. Or we are treated as groups and not as individuals think of how terrible life is. I think the tragedy of society is that we do that without thinking about it becuase it serves the interest of those in power, not to secure all of our rights or to encourage our aspirations in life.
Savage would be, as usual, wrong — GWB is our first affirmative action President. Beginning with legacy admissions to Andover, Yale and Harvard on through a Supreme Court ruling that only he could benefit from, GWB has had an entire lifetime of rules being relaxed just to include him.
Any David Foster Wallace fans here? His last collection of essays has one in it called Host (originally published in the Atlantic) where he does the best investigative reporting on the wingnut radio business I’ve seen. He makes the appalling case that these guys and girls are not really motivated by ideology, but by ratings and send huge amounts of time and energy polemicizing for and against the topics and news that will keep their audiences mad and listening.