Radio talk show host and author Michael Savage has for years been given free rein to distort facts, cherrypick information and just plain lie in supporting his radical conservative opinions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the three books Savage considers his "legacy." But now, award-winning journalist Bill Bowman puts the truth to Savage's lies, revealing Savage's rampant egotism, sloppy research and willingness to spin "facts"out of whole cloth. This is not an attack on Savage's opinions. It is, however, a long-overdue fact checking of some of the bedrock arguments Savage uses to substantiate those opinions.
I'm a journalist working at the New Jersey Shore but based in Central New Jersey, where I live with my wife and our dog and cat.
During my career, I've been responsible for two pieces of legislation enacted in New Jersey: one that allowed every fire department and fire academy in New Jersey to receive, free, a thermal imaging camera, and the second, which created a searchable Web database through which consumers could research nursing homes and their owners, and have access to reports of violations and other information.
My reporting also led to the requirement that Supreme, Superior and Tax Court justices and judges file the same kind of financial disclosure forms as every other elected and appointed official in New Jersey.
I was also part of a two-reporter team that exposed massive increases in the cost to close the U.S. Army's Fort Monmouth.
My second published book, "Murderer of the Year," will be released early in 2010. It's a true, behind-the-scenes look at a murder investigation and trial involving the then-captain of a Central Jersey rescue squad and the nurse he was convicted of murdering. Along the way, the investigation exposed a behind-closed-doors life of lust and greed that shocked neighbors and friends of the victim and her murderer.
My first published book, "Savage Lies: The Half-Truths, Distortions and Outright Lies of a Right-Wing Blowhard," deconstructs the first three books written by right-wing talk radio host Michael Savage. The book is available at Amazon.com, and can be ordered wherever books are sold.
