# Tell me about Michael Savage **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 6, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526 "2009-05-06T10:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/1 "2009-05-06T10:10:48Z")
As you may be awa ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/2 "2009-05-06T11:49:47Z")
How dare you imply that I am an awa! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/3 "2009-05-06T12:04:26Z")
This thread is totally awa! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/4 "2009-05-06T12:20:20Z")
Michael Savage is an ultra-conservative nut-job. Beyond that, there isn’t much to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/5 "2009-05-06T12:24:15Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Michael Savage is an ultra-conservative nut-job. Beyond that, there isn’t much to tell. Plus, he assassinates people who inquire too closely about him. Look at poor **Angry Lurker** - he didn’t even get off a whole post before it was too late ! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/6 "2009-05-06T12:25:58Z")
The OP may have started this thread because of the news that [Savage has been banned from entering the UK because of his views](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6233105.ece). ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/7 "2009-05-06T12:32:47Z")
[Michael Savage has been banned from entering the UK.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/05/list-of-people-banned-from-britain)This puts him in the company of Fred Phelps - which says it all really. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/8 "2009-05-06T12:35:04Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Plus, he assassinates people who inquire too closely about him. Look at poor **Angry Lurker** - he didn’t even get off a whole post before it was too late ! 😃 > [@Marley23](#): > > The OP may have started this thread because of the news that [Savage has been banned from entering the UK because of his views](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6233105.ece). Well, that’s sad, really. It looks like Britain is returning to the days of Henry VIII, when disagreeing with the king was intolerable. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/9 "2009-05-06T12:57:51Z")
That’s absurd. He’s no more objectionable than, say, Sebastian Horsley. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/10 "2009-05-06T13:02:06Z")
Weiner. Michael Weiner, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/11 "2009-05-06T13:03:46Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > That’s absurd. He’s no more objectionable than, say, Sebastian Horsley. Well, to be fair, Sebastian Horsley was banned from the US not for his views, but instead for his booze (well, actually the cocaine and heroin convictions, but that doesn’t rhyme as well.) ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/12 "2009-05-06T13:10:21Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > 😃 > Well, that’s sad, really. It looks like Britain is returning to the days of Henry VIII, when disagreeing with the king was intolerable. I think the fact that out of the many billions of people in the world we Brits find only 22 objectionable makes us pretty damn tolerant. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/13 "2009-05-06T13:11:21Z")
I’d say Ann Coulter caught a break. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/14 "2009-05-06T13:18:11Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > I think the fact that out of the many billions of people in the world we Brits find only 22 objectionable makes us pretty damn tolerant. Prove it by letting in Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh, and Phelps, then. (To everyone else: After Tagos lets those in, run up behind him and slam the door so they can’t get back out.) ---
**Author:** ![tetranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@tetranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetranz)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/15 "2009-05-06T13:25:28Z")
He says he is going to sue Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary for things she said about him outside of parliament. A British lawyer on BBC Five Live this morning said he has a very good chance of winning and getting about £200,000. The lawyer said, with the legal costs, this could cost her personally about £750,000. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/16 "2009-05-06T13:28:33Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Plus, he assassinates people who inquire too closely about him. Look at poor **Angry Lurker** - he didn’t even get off a whole post before it was too late ! Perhaps he was dictating. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/17 "2009-05-06T13:29:07Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > I think the fact that out of the many billions of people in the world we Brits find only 22 objectionable makes us pretty damn tolerant. It’s more than 22 people. Savage is repugnant, but some of the people on the list appear to have actually _done_ something, but even those who haven’t sound like they are worse than he is. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/18 "2009-05-06T13:51:19Z")
> [@tetranz](#): > > He says he is going to sue Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary for things she said about him outside of parliament. A British lawyer on BBC Five Live this morning said he has a very good chance of winning and getting about £200,000. The lawyer said, with the legal costs, this could cost her personally about £750,000. Is there any chance of getting Jacqui Smith banned from the UK too? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/19 "2009-05-06T14:58:21Z")
> [@glee](#): > > [Michael Savage has been banned from entering the UK.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/05/list-of-people-banned-from-britain)This puts him in the company of Fred Phelps - which says it all really. [And, **ooh!** is he stamping his little feet over it!](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8035114.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526/20 "2009-05-06T15:14:24Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Prove it by letting in Savage, Coulter, Limbaugh, and Phelps, then. > > (To everyone else: After Tagos lets those in, run up behind him and slam the door so they can’t get back out.) **Togos** said ‘tolerant’ not ‘completely stupid’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-michael-savage/495526.md?page=2)