Savage, I would have thought he would show more sensitivity!

/

Of course they did...to justify the left's psychosis...

I'm still awaiting the Daily Kos diary about the tumor being a Cheney-Zionist conspiracy.

Tasteless of Savage.

However, the real story is that the dextrosphere was respectful, supportive and polite.

Did they talk about the left's comments?

So, the Soros-funded slime machine goes searching to see if the right is as classless as the mainstream of the left, and all they uncover is a shock jock being shocking?

So, what did Media Matters have to say about OneCitizen's DKos imagery?

/crickets

I stopped listening to Michael Savage a year ago. He rants on about nothing and it just got to be too much.

Dead Kennedys? What a turd.

It's funny that Media Matters ignored the Daily KKKos risible and vile postings. You know, because the media matters and Daily Kos has the ear (and provides a sounding board) for Democrats across the country.

re: #3 Diamond Bullet

I'm sure it's already being written for DU or HuffPo or Kos.

They have to clear the spittle from their screens so they can read it over, first.

Mark Levin calls him Weiner nation.... with good reason.

There is a huge amount of hateful stuff on MSM web sites.

Very sad news about Senator Kennedy. Regardless of what anyone thinks of his political opinions or his personal life, this diagnosis is a shocking tragedy for the Senator and his loved ones.

re: #11 Charles

I'm really glad I haven't delved into the comment sections, then.

By the way, I watched Hillary Clinton's speech last night and thought she showed real class in her tribute to Ted Kennedy. She didn't really have to say much about him at all in her victory speech since this was a guy who very publicly supported Obama.

I can't listen to Savage....too full of bile. He's as bad as the left in some respects.

Actually, I expected Savage to be worse than he was.

I don't listen to him(but then I don't watch TV news or political shows either) but the article says he had something bad to say about Tom Lantos after his death. Not to repeat myself- but I will- the vast majority of people on TV and radio have nothing to do with news/journalism - they are involved in the cult of their own personality- to get fame and make money. Like politicians- lucky if you can find one who is honest and decent.

re: #14 MJ

She's finally listened to someone with an actual ounce of class.

re: #16 tappin52

Actually, I expected Savage to be worse than he was.

ditto

i'll keep my mouth shut for the time being. but it's appalling listening to talk show hosts use terms like "ethical", "beloved" and "lion of the senate".

When I learned of Teddy's hospitalization my immediate reaction was "Oh, I hope he's not suffering."

I'd be very happy if Teddy was out of office. I'd prefer it to be thru retirement. I don't wish ill-health to any of G-d's Children.

He got everyday and went to work --I have to repect than in anyone.

What song was it?

Savage tries to be shocking and succeeds. Otherwise most others on the right are compassionate and wishing the senator well.

Contrast that with every single article that includes a comments section about Tony Snow's cancer.

It's too bad that Savage played into their hands, but maybe this will open the door for that much needed comparison.

I can little stomach Michael Savage on a normal day, but that just moves him into the "ridiculously tacky and classless" category.

If Media Matters (blech) wanted to really report some news they could have mentioned that here in LGF, out of well over 1000 comments, only 20 some odd were considered disrespectful and inappropriate, and they were quickly deleted by Charles. And were also strongly condemned by LGFers.

re: #21 ggt

"He got everyday and went to work --I have to repect thant/i> in anyone."
pimf

re: #11 Charles

MSN is hateful (coverage & bias)... Microsoft is hateful (Windows, Office, Bloatware)... NBC is hateful (coverage & bias)... All three are petty too.

Judge not a book by it's cover, but judge a person by the company that they keep.

Savage's playing of that band was noted here at LGF, with dislike.

When a Republican gets sick, will Media Matters see how the left-wing blogs treat him?

Also, does this mean that all Dead Kennedy's songs are banned from the airwaves for the next few months? Since that'd be 'insensitive' or something.

Hey!

Which one of you Lizards, was supposed to be on watch and make sure Savage got Charle's memo to be polite and respectful?

When I was a little baby they say Tedd Kennedy on TV used to make me cry, so did McGovern, and LBJ.
But for some reason I liked Nixon?

Go figure

re: #26 Conservative in Liberal Hands

MSN is hateful (coverage & bias)... Microsoft is hateful (Windows, Office, Bloatware)... NBC is hateful (coverage & bias)... All three are petty too.

Judge not a book by it's cover, but judge a person by the company that they keep.

I don't like Microsoft but how is it hateful- do they have a news outlet?

re: #30 madisonsfriend

MSN and MSNBC are both joint ventures between Microsoft and NBC.

Sen. Kennedy left the hospital for his home today, smiling and in good spirits. His doctors are mulling over the treatment options now. I pray they will have wisdom and that the treatments they choose will be effective.

Obama, giving a speech right now in FL, repeated what he said yesterday, that we need to win in Afghanistan, but when it comes to Iraq he just says he never agreed with it, and makes no mention of winning or losing. To me that implies that because he never agreed with it, that the nation as a whole can therefore accept defeat in Iraq. That is some of the most convoluted selfish logic I have ever seen.

re: #16 tappin52

Actually, I expected Savage to be worse than he was.

Read thru it, seemed relatively tame for him

p.s.

every time i try to listen to savage, he's in the middle of a twenty minute rambling story about a restaurant he ate at in 1987. i can never endure long enough for him to get to the ranting.

re: #27 Kosh's Shadow

probably not(definitely not, actually)- but can't we be better than the other side? Of course, Charles and the Lizard monitors can't be everywhere so we can't control those whom others associate with us.

Does the Media still Matter?

I suppose it wouldn't be too much to ask if anybody remembers Mary Jo Kopechne.

You get the respect you deserve.

re: #10 lawhawk

Weiner is his real last name, that is why Levin calls him that.
Weiner Nation, just doesn't sound as harsh.

Michael Savage stepped into a big stinking pile of liberal shit!

Way to go Michael.

I was pretty pissed that Savage would hand the wackos a hammer to beat us with but then I read the comment section and found the bile there so disgusting that my annoyance at Savage was tempered.

In the 70's Buckley pushed Buchanan out of mainstream conservatism and locked him in the ideological nuthouse. Is there any one around today that can do the same for Savage?

Before we toss the good Doctor under the bus.

I heard the show in question - the Dead Kennedy song used was
"California Uber-alles" a song (written in the late 70's) about how hippy-liberals (specifically Jerry Brown) are Nazi-like fascists.

That is how the song was used in the context of the program.

Context is everything - this song was not used to bash Ted Kennedy or to belittle his situation. At least not during what I heard and I heard 2 hours of the show yesterday.

OK, Savage may be the "Howard Stern" of political radio, but frankly -just like Stern - you can love him or hate him all you want - his show is, at times brilliant and at otehr times at least a refreshing change from the "republicans always right, democrats always wrong" prattle you hear from most popular talk show hosts.

I like Savage. He's fighting CAIR. He gets to his points real quick, offers solutions, then moves on to a different subject. He doesn't rant for days on end about the same thing. His personality doesn't bother me. I knew he was going to get a lot of crap for playing Dead Kennedys yesterday but like Kragar said, it was still relatively tame for him.

IMHO Savage needs to go on a 1 month silence retreat.

Screw Savage for giving the media the red meat they wanted. This place was respectful as a church yesterday, and that will now go unnoticed (probably no change there).

He has some good points, but what sane person can listen to him for more than a few minutes without getting turned off by the hate for hate's sake? If I want a sane voice, I'll turn to Glen Beck - at least with him I feel there's a heart attached to his mind.

As far as the Dead Kennedy's not getting any air play now, I can't imagine that they ever got any airplay - I grew up with them, and from what I remember, not much of that stuff was FCC friendly.

Where was Media Matters when Tony Snow's cancer was blogged about on HuffPo and Kos?

A lot of compassion on those sites!

Savage may have been a classless fool, but on the bright side he is still about 15 vodkas and one sidewalk classier than Randi Rhodes.

So did all the good wishes for Kennedy get any air time from the MSM?
Like Bush and the new tone. He sets a new tone, the Dems bash the shit out of him, and he gets criticized for their bashing, and they mockining refer to the "new tone". I suppose you all are right, but I am just not seeing the benefit. If they hadn't found Savage, they would have made up some stuff.

re: #39 tarkus289

Weiner is his real last name, that is why Levin calls him that.
Weiner Nation, just doesn't sound as harsh.

I'm aware of that, but Levin can't stand that his material gets lifted by Savage - and that it's another way of saying dickhead.

re: #50 lawhawk

Agreed.

Does anyone care about Media Matters other than people who already hate conservatives anyway? So who cares what they report?

re: #46 brent

Screw Savage for giving the media the red meat they wanted. This place was respectful as a church yesterday, and that will now go unnoticed (probably no change there).

He has some good points, but what sane person can listen to him for more than a few minutes without getting turned off by the hate for hate's sake? If I want a sane voice, I'll turn to Glen Beck - at least with him I feel there's a heart attached to his mind.

Savage didn't express a death wish directly for Kennedy like you find on the nutroots sites. We can debate if his playing the Dead Kennedy's was in bad taste.

However, what you say about hate for hate's sake is simply not true. I listen to him all the time and have never heard him express hate except for those enemies of ours who are trying to kill us and richly deserve hate directed at them.

Savage is one of the few who really gets our situation in our war on terror. He is also not one of the group of pseudo Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin etc. that will never own up to the failings of President Bush as a conservative. If they had told the truth about Bush the way they are about McCain, we wouldn't be facing the ugly prospect of voting (or not voting) for 1 of 3 liberals.

Glen Beck is also too weak on many of the issues.

We need strong spokesmen in times like ours not the cadre of milquetoasts that we currently have.

re: #29 Dotcoman

When I was a little baby they say Tedd Kennedy on TV used to make me cry, so did McGovern, and LBJ.
But for some reason I liked Nixon?

Tricky, we hardly knew ye.

So, it's OK when a left-wing band like the Dead Kennedys name themselves the Dead Kennedys in the first place, with all the intentional disrespect that implies, yet it's not OK when a right-winger plays one of their songs? I sense a bias here.

Similar to how: It's OK when an imam preaches "Kill the Jews," but it's not OK when someone else points it out.

Savage is classless and controversial - this is the thing that made him so popular, but he stands on his own, and should not be silenced just because the more mainstream people feel he makes them look bad.

Don't like him? Don't listen to him.

Savage is tasteless, but what does this really say? The Dead Kennedy's are a lefty band idolized by the basement bats.

re: #55 zombie

So, it's OK when a left-wing band like the Dead Kennedys name themselves the Dead Kennedys in the first place, with all the intentional disrespect that implies, yet it's not OK when a right-winger plays one of their songs? I sense a bias here.

Similar to how: It's OK when an imam preaches "Kill the Jews," but it's not OK when someone else points it out.

5

I might have picked the song "Too Drunk To F$%&"

I'll repeat what I wrote over and over yesterday:

If you can't be respectful, or stop yourself from posting nasty comments about Ted Kennedy, you would be well advised not to post anything.

I'm very serious about keeping that kind of mean-spirited stuff off LGF. Several people have lost accounts because they just couldn't help spouting off.

Think before posting. You can call it censorship or call me the new Stalin (some have) but you WILL lose your account.

re: #52 bosforus

Does anyone care about Media Matters other than people who already hate conservatives anyway? So who cares what they report?

Media Matters has a direct line into the mainstream media, and they have been able to seriously influence several issues. It does matter what they report.

re: #59 U.S.S. Nixon

I'm from Mass and if anyone deserves to be attacked while there sick its Ted Kennedy.. He has done more to hurt America then most people plus people forget the terrible things hes done in his life.

You have a point, but it is outweighed by the fact that if we gloat or attack him it will be used against him. If you want to do those things, do it in private where the attacks cannot be used to damage the conservative movement and GOP. As for myself, I would not wish a brain tumor on anyone. I've known people who died from them and those deaths wound me still.

re: #63 Dark_Falcon

You have a point, but it is outweighed by the fact that if we gloat or attack him it will be used against him. If you want to do those things, do it in private where the attacks cannot be used to damage the conservative movement and GOP. As for myself, I would not wish a brain tumor on anyone. I've known people who died from them and those deaths wound me still.

I agree and I don't think telling the truth about someone is "Wishing they had a brain tumor". If someone does something horrible you don't forget it when they get sick and pretend there not something they are. But if that's how LGF wants it that's all good.

Go read the Media Matters "report" on the "incident". Even they admit in their own article that the song was not used to bash Teddy

form the media matter site:

After reading from the lyrics of "California Über Alles," Savage said, "No gloating today, no laughter, all serious. You don't joke about a man's cancer. I do it, but I won't do it today; it's something I will not do." At one point in the program, he told a caller, "You know I'm playing the Dead Kennedys not to mock Ted Kennedy. It's just appropriate, that's all."

So...what's the point - to drag a conservative's name thru the mud.

Get used to this kids - they'll be plenty of this type of stuff to come once the media starts in full force to force Obama down our throats.

I haven't listened to Savage since he mocked the dad of Elizabeth Smart for crying on the air after she was found. Said that he was a wuss and sissy for crying and that he should be a 'real man'. Oh, please.

Media Matters. The equivalent of a seven year old sister...after observing milk was spilled on the floor runs away screaming "I'm telling momma".
Obvious difference is.... seven year old sisters eventually grow up.

re: #64 U.S.S. Nixon
I agree with your second statement. I did not mean to imply that you wished harm on TK, it is clear you do not. I was only expressing my sympathy with him in terms of his illness. I do not like many of the things he has done, but I hope he beats this tumor and makes a full recovery.

re: #43 NYC_MIke

Before we toss the good Doctor under the bus.

I heard the show in question - the Dead Kennedy song used was
"California Uber-alles" a song (written in the late 70's) about how hippy-liberals (specifically Jerry Brown) are Nazi-like fascists.

That is how the song was used in the context of the program.

Context is everything - this song was not used to bash Ted Kennedy or to belittle his situation. At least not during what I heard and I heard 2 hours of the show yesterday.

OK, Savage may be the "Howard Stern" of political radio, but frankly -just like Stern - you can love him or hate him all you want - his show is, at times brilliant and at otehr times at least a refreshing change from the "republicans always right, democrats always wrong" prattle you hear from most popular talk show hosts.

I read quite a bit of it from the link. I think people should read more of what he said:

"SAVAGE: You know I'm playing the Dead Kennedys not to mock Ted Kennedy. It's just appropriate, that's all.

CALLER: It was perfect, it was perfect. You're the man.

SAVAGE: All right. You understand it. You see, the straight people can't get it. People who are too straight don't understand anything. They don't understand sarcasm, they don't understand satire, they don't understand humor. They have no idea what's going on around them. But I do. So my job is to do what I do.

There are other stories out there. McCain courts left-wing bloggers."

Considering Jello Biafra is a former Presidential candidate of the Green Party, the choice of song may not be as insulting as it initially seems. It is a flat out rant against California Gov. Jerry Brown and forceful indoctination of hippie theologies, not against Ted or any of his relatives. The name of the band was intended to be offensive, but is not nearly as offensive as the far far far left politics of the band's lead singer turned political activist.

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...

Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!

[Chorus:]
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!

[Chorus]

Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

[Chorus]

re: #6 imtoast

I stopped listening to Michael Savage a year ago. He rants on about nothing and it just got to be too much.

He spends entirely too much time mocking his fellow talk radio hosts as phonies and puffing himself up as the only "true conservative", and then he can't keep himself from doing stunts that are juvenile and provocative for its own sake.

In this case, however, I agree with zombie and NYC_Mike: George Soros' lickspittle at Media Matters are trying to manufacture outrage over next to nothing. I wonder if they even would have caught on if Savage hadn't mentioned the name of the band.

Hee, hee. The Soros lackeys who run Media Matters have obviously never bothered to check out the garbage that passes for reader opinions in HuffPo or Daily Kos. Michael Savage is a saint next to those miscreants.

"Wonkette" posters had some pretty disgusting things to say about Kennedy, and that web site's posters seem overwhelmingly to support Obama.

As for Savage, to me he was just perpetuating his bank account as the "bad boy" of "conservative" radio. He has had to position himself as the Howard Stern of the right in order to distinguish himself from the many radio commentators out there. It's hard to be unique when everyone covers the same issues to death. I find him to be occasionally insightful and entertaining but the shtick is getting a bit old.

Of course Media Matters is exaggerating and misrepresenting, it's what they do. But come on ... you can't really believe Savage didn't mean this to be about Ted Kennedy.

Though I didn't hear the show, it was explained to me that Savage was using the song in regards to the California Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage. But, I'll take that with a warning, given that I didn't personally hear the show.

the sinner,

Charles

First off Savage isnt a conservative. He is a Independant who doenst play the bullsh*t PC game

Second look at the Soro's source Media Matters..I rank them right up there with CAIR and the NY Times all lies all the time...it all makes sense when you ap