Friday, May 30, 2003

Media's Pro War Campaign
'"We Must Arrest the Leaders of the Anti-War Movement," declares the Web site of syndicated radio personality and newly minted MSNBC host Michael Savage... Savage is a political thug, one of the new breed of media demagogues who has discovered that politics -- as noise, insult, and rhetorical aggressiveness -- is the way to get noticed... Savage Nation [Savage's book] reads like his show sounds, all in your face bombast and bloated sound bites piled endlessly one upon the other. It's all aggrieved White Male Noise, the worldview of a man of a thousand petty rages against the "freaks" and "perverts" who he believes have taken over his country. These include immigrants, gays, liberal journalists, "subversive" socialists and anyone who dares question the virtues of our capitalist way of life. Or disagree with Michael Savage.'

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