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The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture

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Mr. Savage, I found out early in the reading of his book is very well educated, which gives his points more credence than I otherwise would note. I have also, since reading, listened to his radio show. As for the analysis:

His Ideas:
Savage is highly controversial and provides the tone in a very provocative manner. I enjoyed his lucid and amusing commentary although he is more prone to attacking than laying definitive substance to illustrate his points. He has a tendency to attack individuals in addition to their ideas, which in my mind, gives him less credibility. However, the amusing character of the sections and the short, easily read sections, allow for a very entertaining read.

Substance:

Unlike other conservative authors like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin, Mr. Savage does not use citing and a highly fact based presentation but relies on his own words. This is a novel approach in this genre, relative to other recent books, and provides a more entertaining read but i belive this would turn away the more moderate reader or one who is not familiar with Savage's ideas. He discusses EVERYTHING. This is a high point, he leaves nothing out. However, there are times when I would hope that he develop his points more throughly because I like to not only know his ideas but be able to use the noted facts for my own arguments on similar issues.

Who Should Read this Book:

What kind of reader are you? If you are the reader who wants that entertaining read, and wants to know the basis of Savage's understanding of the issues our society faces, then please read this book. On the other hand, if you want the more academic, well documented research that would be used to sway one who is a fence sitter on any of these issues, then it is unlikely that Mr. Savage would sway your point of view.

I tend to not love the in your face style because it tends to make one dismissive of the arguments themselves. But if you want to see how one thinks, and one who is intelligent, Savage has a very nice writing style, and his writing will not displease you. Also, if you happen to be a liberal (or any democrat) then please read the book because you will enjoy yelling at the pages. For the conservatives out there, you will enjoy chiming in with Savage. He is that angry white man that liberals despise.

...If you are looking for a bombastic, colorful commentary on politics and the society at large this is a gem.
Savage is doomed to be assaulted by the left for his views on immigration, though it is exactly his view of America that immigrants are enticed by. Understanding these plain-spoken truths requires the reader to abandon years of PC brainwashing, and political partisanship. Regardless of your political orientation, this book is an excellent reminder of what has been lost in America to politics in the last 30 years, and a common-sense roadmap for rebuilding national unity and culture.

I listen to the Savage Nation every day and love every minute of it. While I don't agree with much of what Mr. Savage says, I respect his edge and the thorough nature of his opinions. He can explain why he wants to racially profile to the break of dawn - it's not just blind obedience to some right-wing objective. He's not racist, he's real.

From the book,"America is hungry for a book that reinforces patriotism, family, and traditional American values. Radio talk show host Michael Savage argues this viewpoint offering an insightful approach to reclaiming and preserving the nation's heritage." This book comes out when America is at its neediest; when Americans are prepared for war at the hilt of economic recession;when Americans need this book the most it's here. I recommend an inspirational book called Dreams by Belcher. It grabs the attention of those of us who are in need of inspiration since 9-11.

The people who have hated this book have 1) NOT read it and 2) Have spent too much time watching The West Wing.

Read the book...analyze what he is saying by watching the main-stream media...then decide if he is ranting or propagating hate-speech.

Michael Savage is one of the few voices of reason in the media today. He is the near perfect antidote for the far too liberal media controlled by America haters with their ACLU agendas. You will obviously disagree with the contents of this book if you are caught up in the political correctness run rampant in this country, if you are anti-family, if you are anti-Judeo/Christian, if you have lost your sense of morality which dominated this country 20-40 years ago, if you are cheering for the terrorists and their beliefs who are threatening America. Disturbing trends are analyzed in this book that CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS will never address as honestly and accurately. Michael Savage is one of the few persons in the media who have the personality, intellect, and passion to get the message out to so many of us (who are actually in the great majority of this country) who cannot hear it anywhere else.

When a liberal or a lefty cant win an argument on the merits of there position, they resort to insults and slander, look no further than the negative reviews for this book. I'll buy any book by a conservative, because if they sell better than liberal authors, eventually publisher's may drop the non-profitable lefty authors.

Syndicated Talk Show host Michael Savage joins Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other formerly rarely heard voices from the common sense mainstream in print, with a book that takes the name of his radio show, "The Savage Nation." There's ample proof that this surge of successful "right wing" books has America's socialists and anti-humans, those Savage routinely calls "Red Diaper Doper Babies" or RDDBs, in an uproar.

Michael Savage (Michael Weiner) holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley and can be heard nightly on his nationally syndicated Talk Radio Show. His primary, common sense theme of "Language, Borders, Culture" seems to resonate with a huge audience. His controversial demeanor and confrontational style have even sparked a number of anti-savage websites!

The Savage Nation basically takes Mike Savage's Talk Show and puts it into print. Now I'm biased in that I like most of Mike Savage's views, so I like the book as well, but be warned, these are views that'll have those who believe in things like open immigration, race/gender preferences and government social programs foaming at the mouth.

Sure, you lose some of the trademark vitriol with which Mike Savage delivers his tirades, but the book is a decent substitute for those times when The Savage Nation is preempted by other radio events.

Great book slamming the illiberal left wing propaganda machine. Exposes the hypocracy and illuminates the modus operandi of the Democrats, ACLU and other radical left-wing front groups. Trashes the "Republicrats" and "Democans" for failing to secure our borders resulting in a flood of undocumented aliens, some who want to kill us, and others who just want free education, welfare, food stamps, SSI and medicare. Very easy reading book with interesting stories and antidotes. Hard book to put down. That other negative review is completely wrong!

Liberals like to insist that wealth be shared so that those on the bottom don't revolt. You'd think that the same reasoning would apply to communication networks. Liberals control the news media, the entertainment industry, academia and all sources of "respectable" public opinion, and this control trumps the occasional conservative political victories and endures through them, rendering them unavailing. If liberals don't quite control Big Business, they've still hijacked it and give it directions.

Yet liberals aren't as eager to share control of communication networks as they are to have others share wealth. Talk radio might be the only thing that liberals DON'T control so they have to try to destroy or belittle what they cannot replicate. You wouldn't expect the only format in which silenced people can express themselves to always be pretty, and conservative talk radio isn't, so liberals like to mock the ugly ducklings that they themselves created.

Michael Weiner (aka "Michael Savage") is one of the ugly ducklings. Anyone familiar with his talk show knows that Savage is a primal scream against liberal dominion elsewhere, and this book, "The Savage Nation" is named after it. You really have to admire this man's courage. It must take a lot of guts for the most conservative talk show radio host in the country to live and work in the most leftist metropolis in the country, the San Francisco Bay Area. When one thinks about how frequently compassionate liberal demonstrators erupt into organized violence, with the Orwellian motive of combatting "hate", and go unpunished for same, it is a wonder that Savage is still alive. Truly.

Virtually everything he says is true. You've got to cheer an angry man who says, "Women are afraid of angry men. Particularly in this homosexualized, feminized America. An angry man frightens a woman. If a boyfriend can't be like a girlfriend (with the exception of a male appendage) she doesn't want him. If a boyfriend can't be like a sister putting on nails with her, she's offended by him." Tell it, brother.

Or how about this one: "We've got to go back to where America was still sane. Ike and Mamie...a cocktail or two...no degeneracy other than in the closet. That kind of thing. You think I'm doing this for effect, don't you? You're wrong. I'd like to see the fifties come back. A giant step in the right direction would be for society to reward, not vilify, the people who take a stand for decency." I too have always felt that on the day after December 31, 1959, the calendar should have reverted back to January 1, 1950 in order to enable that decade to renew endlessly, so that observation definitely struck home with me.

And in this book, Savage also makes war on open borders, multiculturalism, Islamic-sponsored terrorism, holes in American security and intelligence, illegal immigration, and the drug culture, and other evils. Borders, language, and culture are the watchwords of his syndicated talk show and of his organization, the Paul Revere Society, and he maintains the focus here.

But while this man speaks the truth, unless he needed the money that the book should generate, it's not quite clear why he wrote it; there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's "ugly", in the same way that his talk show is "ugly" - a very understandably motivated primal scream against the sins of liberalism of which a liberal establishment stifles honest discussion and prevents from being directly addressed.

Rush Limbaugh, who by comparison is soft-spoken, politically moderate, and not nearly as entertaining, still wrote two solid books which added some meat to the bones of his philosophy.

By contrast, this book says nothing that Savage hasn't already said in a week's worth of talk-show monologues or that he couldn't say in another week's worth. The different themes assigned to each chapter are meaningless, as Savage engages in a book-long harangue against the same set of evils over and over. But while stream-of-consciousness primal scream monologues often "work" on the radio, their effectiveness is limited on the printed page.

And Savage makes a typical populist conservative mistake. He divides the American population into three groups: Rats (liberal vermin), Eagles (patriotic Americans), and "sheeple" (the average uninformed non-committal American). And he reasons that if the "sheeple" could only learn about their uniquely American heritage; if they could only learn the "truth", they would arise as one and join the Eagles in politically exterminating the Rats.

Well, pish-posh. Savage is naïve in his failure to realize that the majority of people in this country had their values molded or at least affected by the sixties. The sixties no longer appear in groovy and garish psychedelic colors; their sponsors have won the day by growing to an age where they have become the establishment and by insidiously making sixties values part of the plain background.

Conservatives should have learned by now that the "sheeple" aren't on their side. They may hang an American flag in their windows in response to tragedy because that's patriotism made EASY and sometimes vote conservative out of "motherhood and apple pie" sentiment, but they would never vote for a conservative who "meant it". The "sheeple" are NOT about to turn on the Rats. They rely upon the Eagles to protect their freedom and a measure of their earnings, but they rely upon the Rats to show them the fun that traditional morality (which is too HARD) would deprive them of. And the "sheeple" have allowed the government to use entitlements as a means of buying off their better judgment.

It would mean changing his tone from a pep rally to a eulogy, but Savage's talk radio show and this follow-up book would make for more poignantly effective commentary if he were to recognize a fourth segment of the population that WOULD be Eagles but no longer regard America with love, realizing that the Rats won the culture war a long time ago and changed America into something hideous.