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!

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 apply the Seinfeld theory everything thing is opposite..apply this to the left and you won't get bogged down in the spin and propaganda

Savage is only person to take on CAIR and rattle the cage of Islam,everyone else is just a dhimmi

so I dont care what he says he is now and always will be an American Patriot.....

I happened to listen his show when this was going on and it was not at all like it was portrayed. Savage did not say one single bad or hateful thing about Kennedy. He wished him well and his family. He said he wouldn't wish a tumor on his worse enemy. He also said that everyone had thought that Kennedy was a raging alcohlic because he fell down, forgot things etc. but probably he had been suffering from this tumor for years. He was talking about the lyrics of the song and how it applies to today regarding the "green bullies"
[Link: www.azlyrics.com...]

He also said several times that the band name wasn't why he was playing the song.

Michael Savage is a no-talent POS who is losing listeners in just about all his markets.

The douchebag claims repeatedly that the upcoming election is fixed, and the only reason Bush was re-elected in 2004 was because him, and claimed that if he went up against Rush that Limbaugh would be unemployed, and claimed 60 million people wantd him to run for President.

His 15 minutes are about up, thankfully.

Michael Savage is a mental disorder.

re: #53 Facts of Life

You're totally clueless. Did you take a few stupid pills this morning?

OK, OK, OK, but did you ever notice that democrats die in office, whereas repbulicans either resign, step down or not seek re-election and move on with their lives? For a democrat, public office is a God given life long sinecure.

Bob actually his 15 minutes has lasted over 10 years..

as for no talent 4 best selling books 2 doctorites highest radio rating over all others for over 5 years yeah Savage is untalented .. and you need to get facts straight it was 35 million listeners wanted him to run for POTUS

God forbid we save out Borders Language and Culture

Savage/Tancredo '08

I always considered Savage as the Archie Bunker of talk radio in that Archie was a stereotype of what liberals of the time thought of conservatives. Savage is, in my opinion, a liberal stereotype of a modern conservative.

re: #74 Charles

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.

Of course he did. He couldn't help himself.

re: #82 hellpig

Bob actually his 15 minutes has lasted over 10 years..

as for no talent 4 best selling books 2 doctorites highest radio rating over all others for over 5 years yeah Savage is untalented .. and you need to get facts straight it was 35 million listeners wanted him to run for POTUS

God forbid we save out Borders Language and Culture

Savage/Tancredo '08

Drinking the Savage kool-aid, huh? 35 million listeners, LOL! Idiot.

Sorry guys...I have to defend Savage here.

I heard a good portion of yesterday's show, and the song in question had nothing to do with wishing ill to Sen. Kennedy. The name of the group is unfortunate for the time, and perhaps there was a little subconscious thing going on, but the song was as #43 describes it.

Many times Savage commented that he wasn't trying to belittle Sen. Kennedy's situation, but rather to point out that his record runs very contrary to most of us (and I like to think that we are at least the silent majority) who read blogs such as LGF aspire to see in our country. And he was also using the song to point out Kennedy's liberal "mental illness" as a stepping stone to show just how broken our government is with the crazy left-wing cow-towing Democrats in charge, and the ineffective Republicans doing no better.

This is a CLASSIC case of the liberal media bias...Savage may be a bit rude, loud, offensive to some, etc., etc., but he really does "get it" when it comes to what this country needs to do to change direction and survive...and he isn't afraid to offer solutions that may be painful, but are often very necessary...

Listen to him and his message...go beyond his abrasiveness...you may find that you agree with him more than you might think :) .

Just my humble 2 cents...

re: #82 hellpig

Glen Greenwald(s) is a multiple "best-selling" author, too. And cited on the Senate floor. ::snork::

Just sayin'...

Yeah, I know, Michael Savage claims everyone else's Arbitron ratings are "faked" - yes, I've heard him say that - and he's the true #1.

_{#1 in "bombast", definitely.}

Bob and Lawrence the Liberal "Enemies Within"

re: #86 Tempestman

He infuriates me far more than I find agreement, sad to say. I listen to him quite often (I wasn't yesterday, fwiw), and it seems whenever I find I'm liking what I hear, out comes something over-the-top that convinces me he's an arrogant ass.

re: #88 hellpig

Bob and Lawrence the Liberal "Enemies Within"

You're a moron.

You mean you are actually taking the word of Media Matters? Anyone who listened to Savage on Tuesday eve knows that he was indeed NOT disrespectful to Kennedy. He played the "Dead Kennedys" in relation to members of the California Supreme Court. The lyrics--which he carefully went over at least twice--make obvious reference to the theft of Cal. voters rights by 4 leftist, activist justices. Conservatives who run from Savage because he is controversial show the spinelessness of republicans who hide under their desks for fear of being charged with breaking a rule of political correctness. If you're that gutless, join the dem party. It will be a better fit.

Rather be a moron then an anti-american pro-terrorist anti-semetic liberal nice ad hominems typical lib u lose again.. keep talking

btw when are u gunna call me a racist?

lemme help u

A vote for Barack Hussien Obama is a vote for Socilaism/Marxism

At the risk of being banned I'll say this:

I hope Kennedy gets better treatment and attention than he gave to Mary Jo.

I hope Kennedy gets more respectful treatment than he has given people like Justice Thomas and Robert Bork when they were undergoing experiences that defined their life's work and met with the full extent of Mr. Kennedy's definition of "integrity" and "compassion".

Savage has always been a manic loose cannon. This of course is standard behavior for his show.
I have only seen nasty comments on one semi-conservative site. Of course those people at that site wish death on a lot of people.

Anyone else want to crap on the carpet and lose their account?

What prof.Ward Churchill said was despicable,but he had every right to say it while exercising his FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
What pastor Jerry Wright said was despicable but then again he is Obama`s pastor and Obama is the msm`s darling...
What Savage said was right: Ted Kennedy was losing it for the last couple of years and everyone was assuming it was the booze...it turns out it may have been something much more sinister such as a brain tumor,unfortunately.
Savage has guts,he has fire in the belly,he has the honesty and courage to say it like it is,regardless of anyone`s sensibilities.
Savage has not been yet bought and sold by any special interest group like the rest of them and that is what gives him the freedom to say whatever he wants...that and ofcourse the First Ammendment.

I am not a fan of Michael Savage, nor of Sen. Kennedy as a US Senator...but I still remember how he stepped in right after his brother, JFK, was assassinated, and became like a Dad to Caroline and John. He did it without a second thought, and was like a father to them. And I have to wonder what Mary Jo Kopechne's parents are feeling now. I have not seen or heard a statement from them.

Saying that, after reading this article, it is frightening to see just how close to death Sen. Kennedy came on Saturday:

[...]Doctors told the Cape Cod Times that Mr Kennedy was in a comatose state when he first arrived at the local Cape Cod Hospital after suffering two seizures.

Patrick Murray, the hospital’s chief of neurosurgery, said staff had resuscitated Mr Kennedy “and possibly saved his life” before he was airlifted to Boston.[...]

A glio at that point? I would sadly say it is probably Stage 4. But I admire the way Sen. Kennedy has conducted himself when confronted with a battle of this magnitude, and how hardly he fought when Ted Jr. was diagnosed with what was in those days, a life-threatening bone tumor. IMHO, Ted Jr. would not have survived without his Dad's intervention.

[...] That history begins in 1976. Just as NCI was exploring ways to better cancer communications, the news was filled with reports of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's son Teddy being diagnosed with sarcoma. Inspired by the Kennedy family's ability to obtain the most up-to-date, lifesaving treatment for a cancer that was, at the time, largely incurable, NCI outlined a new mission in cancer communications.[...]

And even all these years after, father and son encourage other child victims of osteogenic sarcoma:

[...]"Sen. Kennedy & his son took time out of politicking through Indiana in 1980 to bring cheer to my terminally ill 16-year-old nephew who had osteogenic sarcoma (as had Kennedy's son)," a Hoosier remembered.[...]

No, I do not care for what he has done as a US Snator for the large part, but after what he has had to take care of as the youngest son of the Kennedy clan, in retrospect, I have to give him credit for that, and for the manner in which he has confronted devastating news re his health.

Liberals will be apoplectic at anything conservatives say or do. Just consider how they've characterized President Bush as ultra right-wing when nothing could be further from the truth.

Though I don't always agree with Savage, he is one of a dwindling group of commentators who truly don't care about political correctness. When the last such person is cowed into silence, liberals will be able to do whatever they want.

Please resist the urge to play their game. We need more people making un-PC comments, not fewer.

re: #20 varmint

We're already seeing revisionist history playing out and imagine the idolization the media will spew when Jimmy Carter and Teddy are eventually eulogized. The Dem convention already has plans to honor Robert Kennedy on his anniversary. I'm not taking anything away from the real family pain and genuine affection held by some people. Still, I think back on that Senator Paul Wellstone funeral farce in Minnesota.
And can you imagine the vile from the left if Dick Cheney actually had a massive myocardial infarction and expired. Would media matters investigate that? What would Olberdouce have to say?

I happened to be out driving during the show last night and had it on because that's the station to which I usually listen. I don't like Dr. Savage's show and don't usually listen to it. However, I have to ask why everyone is up in the air about something taken out of context... as far as I'm concerned, the Dead Kennedy's are ALWAYS in bad taste, but Savage likes punk and said so, and more often than not has something in bad taste on his show. He outlined the lyrics, and I was stunned at how apropos they were when applied to the California decision and the domination goals of the liberals. He said several times that playing this song by this band had nothing to do with the Senator, and also that he knew someone would say that it did, and where he thought they should go. At that point, I was bored enough with the usual ranting/raving that I turned the station. But, as usual, the Drive-Bys are making a mountain out of a molehill, and plucking at splinters while ignoring their own logs.

Can you imagine the comments on lefty sites if they found out bush/rumsfeld/cheney/rove etc.. had a malignant tumor of some kind.

re: #97 NY Nana

We all have our time. I believe that people who have experienced the largess of life either through their own actions or through being the beneficiaries of "lucky" sperm have a greater obligation to the public good and the less fortunate.

Ted, in short, has done things which he should do. It is neither a credit or debit. It is simply doing what is right.

On the flip side, what he has proposed and done in his political career has impacted striving people who do not have his vast resources or family money. He must be viewed in the total context of what his actions have wrought.

re: #102 offendi

And don't you just love it how these limousine liberals call for US to sacrifice while their own pockets get deeper? Run down the list of some of the "leaders" who line their relatives pockets from the public teat, including Pelosi and Reid. I'm still clueless as to why the goracle accrues money from the carbon credits scam and has people worshiping the AGW religion while he gallivants around the globe in private jets and has homes like the one in Tenn. that consumes the energy of 21 average homes. Our next POTUS Obama wants us to eat less, heat/cool less, drive smaller cars, pay a UN tax, concern ourselves with what the Eurotrash thinks about us and he and his harridan spouse get fat, live in a big mansion, etc. Teddy himself fits that same mold. At least the Clintons took some time to own their first home in Chautauqua and didn't get filthy rich until after Bubba left office. That's free enterprise. I just don't like how all of them, the elite media shithead and hollywood glitterati scum want to foist marxism on the rest of us.

Savage can be entertaining and sometimes insightful but very often he can be a pompus, blathering A-hole. He is a conservative talk show host the same way that Cheese-Wiz is a dairy product.

re: #102 offendi

Yes, in the end, just as all of us, he shall be judged, and the ultimate judgement is not with us to make.

That said, his actions during his life, I think, will possibly make a negative judgement, after all, more likely. But in his favor, as with the rest of the Kennedys, from his generation down, bear none of the vile Jew hate of the father of JFK, Bobby and Ted and their siblings, except for Joe Kennedy, Jr, the oldest son

#80 Bob in Breckenridge,

"You're totally clueless. Did you take a few stupid pills this morning?"

Gee, that was really insightful. If you have nothing useful to say, it's better if you keep quiet.

Ted Kennedy has often made me wish for term limits but I can't bring myself to wish death or disease on him. What he has done to himself over the years with hard drinking is sad and pathetic.

re: #28 RedFox84

It's amazing to me that some people are defending the idea of playing a Dead Kennedy's song on the day after a Kennedy is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. I guess it's the circular situation whereby those who have no class or no taste, don't understand that they are classless and tasteless, because they don't have any class or taste. Like: too stupid to recognize when you are being stupid.

re: #22 RedFox84

What song was it?

Savage played "California Über Alles". I know a lot of the band's material and Savage could have been much more ironic in his song selection. I think he was simply going for anything by the Dead Kennedys.

re: #27 Kosh's Shadow

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?

No - witness the response (or lack thereof) by Kos / DU / Puffington Host to Charlton Heston's death.

re: #62 Charles

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.

Gotcha, guess I just don't know enough about Media Matters. All I've ever heard about it is that it's a left wing media outlet but I thought that was as far as it went.

re: #15 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

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

He's the polar opposite of the foaming at the mouth moonbats, IMO.

re: #106 Facts of Life

#80 Bob in Breckenridge,

"You're totally clueless. Did you take a few stupid pills this morning?"

Gee, that was really insightful. If you have nothing useful to say, it's better if you keep quiet.

Crawl back under the rock you came out from, dumbass.

re: #103 madmax517

The Clintoons moved from the White House straight to Chappaqua, where our tax $$$$ were spent to put up guard posts, etc., and with them they brought a phalanx of moving vans carrying purloined Government property that was not theirs to take..it belonged to the White House. Shrillary had to practically have her hands pried off the White House fence before she would leave.

BTW, Shrill went there before they were evicted from the White House, to look everything over.

We live in the same county, and Shrill shows up only for photo ops. The neighbors hate them...and this is one of the bluest states in this country.

If they get back into the White House? G-d help us all.

President Bush was far too kind. He did not demand the return of all the things they stole..for that alone they should be in prison. Here is but a part of this..

Savage is a big gift to every liberal that needs to balance the venom flowing from Kos and Hufpo so they can claim "both sides do" and not have to answer for their side's hatred. He's Alan Colmes' go-to moral equivalency guy. If he didn't exist the lefties would have to invent him. Which the conspiracy theorist in me often suspects was the case.

re: #106 Facts of Life

" #80 Bob in Breckenridge,

"You're totally clueless. Did you take a few stupid pills this morning?"

Gee, that was really insightful. If you have nothing useful to say, it's better if you keep quiet.

Crawl back under the rock you came out from"

Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of a fool with no arguments to muster. Why don't you go somewhere else and waste other people's time rather than flaunting your ignorance here.

There is only one blah, blah, blah...

After reading this thread, I am thoroughly convinced that the "Savage Nation" is a cult of personality very much like the Paulians and the Obamaniacs.

Sheesh.