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Wednesday, Apr 17, 2002
Sexual Logic
April 16, 2002
Last Thursday, while driving home from Vegas, I did my usual monitoring of the AM air waves. My favorite fake psychologist, Dr. Laura, was in fine form. "I'm not qualified to give psychiatric advice, and I hardly know you, but here's what you must do ..."
As I crossed the Tehachapi Pass, leaving the Mojave Desert for the San Joaquin Valley, I picked up the Savage Nation from a station in Fresno. This is talk radio turned up to eleven. The host, Michael Savage, makes Rush Limbaugh seem like a corpulent teddy bear. While Rush is the smiling face of the right wing, Savage is the pit bull. Mr. Savage puts the extreme in extremism.
Somehow Savage got into a rant about Clinton. Now, I've heard Rush, O'Rielly and others rant about Clinton, but Savage always takes it a little further. "What do you expect from a president who masturbated in the White House? Yes, I said it, he masturbated, masturbated, MASTURBATED!"
Whoa there Michael. You seem a little hung up on the "M" word. Have you been reading Leviticus again?
Later in his show, Savage brought in a conservative Catholic. Together, they defended the Catholic church from the onslaught of criticism over cases of sexual abuse. Savage reasoned that the problem was not with the church hierarchy. The problem was infiltration by a "Lavender Mafia", which is part of some sort of global conspiracy of perverts. And those who criticize the church are leftist wackos intent to destroy all that is good and true.
Okay, let me see if I understand. A man who spanks the monkey in the privacy of his own house is "evil", but men who failed to act against known molesters are "good"? Thanks for clearing that up Mikey.
So here's the scary part. Savage Nation may be extreme, but it's not fringe. It's the longest running show on KSFO. It has the highest Arbitron rating in its time slot among men in the SF Bay Area. And it's one of the fastest growing syndicated radio programs in the country.
Move over Rush,
California Uber Alles!