Savage Lies: The Half-Truths, Distortions and Outright Lies of a Right-Wing Blowhard

It's not surprising that Savage distorts facts and events constantly. On his radio program if he is the least bit challenged he gets angry (just like Mark Levin) he mutes his caller (sometimes 6 times a call) and screams over them. He hangs up and continues to call the caller (no matter how polite the caller might have been) names. The very idea that someone would really disagree with Savage angers people like Savage and others on the far right. They and their followers can't take dissent. Just check out any rightwing chatroom for example and how mad they get if someone disagrees with their far right positions. Savage for example in his spat with the pro-Islamic group CAIR (who I am not fan of either) has stated that CAIR violates Savage's free speech. The merit of this claim? Simply that CAIR used some quotes by Savage condemning CAIR! Mind you, Savage is a man who regularly and quite often quotes other groups and people, including CAIR! At best he would have a copyright violation complaint (and that is a reach in itself) but he states CAIR is violating his free speech, by quoting him! So, when a group quotes him his free speech is somehow hampered! The lemmings who listen to his show never question this "logic" nor do any of his sheep guest hosts who are often (I don't know where he finds them) are to the right of him! Even among conservatives and regular convervative hosts Savage is an embarrasment. His screamings about a "pink mafia" are like a SNL parody. Savage is an authoritan, he makes himself out as a defender of free speech but by his very actions he wishes to silence those who criticism him. He has called for arresting Supreme Court justices on decisions he didn't agree with. But, to be fair, he tells good stories about eating foods at various restaurants. So, he could be a good food critic until he starts accusing the tomatos of being gay pinkos.

I apreciate the examiniation of some of the "facts" that Savage tends to throw about. On the whole, the book does what it promises and raises some solid issues. I think another facet to explore would be how Savage cites his "facts" to suit his arguments. This book is a good read and disturbingly interesting.

Hey one star reviewers did you read the book? Why is Mike Weiner's opinion more important that the author's opinion? That again is your opinion. Anybody who gives this book one star, and condemns bias, is either the kettle or the teapot.

Right-wing talk radio hate monger Michael Savage is exposed in this excellently written book by Bill Bowman. Mr. Bowman tells how Savage changes the truth around and spews his hateful diatribe against Liberal Democrats, women and gays just to get his point across. It's a good thing to know that there are other talk radio programmes that does not have to lie to inform listeners. Savage Lies may just be the first book to combat Michael Savage's conservative garbage. I tip my hat to Mr. Bowman.

Mr. Bowman has done the country a great service by deconstructing the deceitful arguments of Michael Savage. On top of all the misinformation, Savage is also training his emotionally vulnerable audience in how to carry a consistently combative, denegrating attitude towards various enemies of America's military industrial state. A nation as psychotically violent as ours (having exterminated the indigenous population and murdered millions in Indochina, Central America, the Middle East, East Timor, Angola and beyond) needs figures like Savage to advance its crusade to expand markets, exploit labor and steal the resources of defenseless people of the Global South. The military and corporate functionaries (little Eichmanns) who help to make this injustice happen, generation after generation, need to hear comforting illusions from various "perception managers" who will make them feel good about their savagery Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. Edward Bernays, a pioneer in the field of public relations (whose work Joseph Goebbels utilized during the Nazi's period of savagery), was quite honest about his profession's efforts to colonize minds. Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud's, said, "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it." PR! Fortunately, as with every effort to oppress people, physically or mentally, there is resistance. The U.S. does have some good media offerings among public radio (particularly their program "The World" which respects the people and cultures that Savage attacks), and also community and college radio stations that air informative programs like "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and "Alternative Radio" with David Barsamian. STATIC: GOVERNMENT LIARS, MEDIA CHEERLEADERS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO FIGHT BACK Propaganda and the Public Mind On top of that, there is the more recent development of progressive talk radio, such as "The Thom Hartmann Show" and "Ring of Fire" with Robert Kennedy, Jr.; and internet efforts like "Head On Radio" with Bob Kincaid. What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy Lastly, there are countless people creating, buying, sharing and selling progressive magazines, DVDs and books to counter the "Savage Lies" of Michael and so many other right-wing media personalities. Yes! I'd like to see Bowman network with various media efforts. The people who publish "Extra!" would appreciate his work. Extra! - the Newsletter of Fair He could even call into programs like Bob Kincaid's and further expose the sort of deceptions that Savage cranks out on the public's airwaves. I don't know how Michael can look himself in the mirror. "The modern advances in the art of propaganda have been met with no corresponding advances in training to resist propaganda. And so the populations of the world, one by one as 'civilization' reaches them, go down in a dark pit of madness whi