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Summary: Disappointing
Review: For a person who claims to be scientifically trained, this book wouldn't stand up to any logical review. I've caught the radio show a few times, and the commentary is exagerated for effect, but I would have thought that the book would have more substance. It seems that audio tapes of old commentaries were transcribed verbatim into print form, without anything new added. (By the way, of the 18 or so mostly "science based books we keep hearing that MS has written, how many of them have been peer reviewed??)
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Summary: A bummer
Review: because I thoroughly enjoy his radio show. His shtick doesn't translate to print. Savage comes off exactly as his archenemies view him:illogical, scatological, vilifying for no clear reason. If you are already a listener, you've heard all this before. To borrow Michael's food anecdote device, this book was a sandwich without anything between the slices. There is something truly dangerous about the American left, but but Savage fails to come up with the grand unifying theory linking all the villains and all the movements together. Calling everyone a commie is merely red-baiting to the unconvinced-more facts, less name calling, and adherence to a point before flying off the next handle, and this would have been a much better book. As it stands here, it's a quickie. The individual, the family, and the free market need a better shield than this screed.
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Summary: Funny, thought provoking, outrageous
Review: This book is a continuous, stream-of-consciousness political rant by Mr.Savage. It's a lot like listening to his radio program. It's sprinkled with name-calling, genuine intellectual insight, and anecdotes of his childhood. I especially enjoy the way Mr. Savage mirrors his experiences in bad San Francisco restaurants to the world condition.I must admit I have been a fan of Mr. Savage since he started on KSFO-560 AM in San Francisco about 6 or 7 years ago. (He previously had a weekend show on KGO-810 AM -- a "sister" Disney-owned station.)I'm glad he's achieving success...I'm helping make HIM rich by buying his book. I suggest others do the same.If dispicable, slovenly, Left-Wing Michael Moore can get rich on a book entitled "Stupid White Men," why shouldn't Mr. Savage also be successful?Buy "The Savage Nation."
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Summary: Lethal Opinion
Review: ...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.
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Summary: MANDATORY READING!
Review: Those who hate this book and the man who wrote this belong to the Rats (As in Rats vs. Eagles) as well as hate this country LEAVE! In our liberal colleges THIS SHOULD BE MANDATORY READING! I tune into Savage when I can (ir if WABC isn't airing some stupid sporting event!
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Summary: I am a leftist and I love this book!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Savage speaks the Truth
Review: We must stop the liberals from destroying America.
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Summary: An irrationalist
Review: I really wish I had the exact quote but I can't find it, so I'll have to paraphrash what Ayn Rand once said: It's not the liberals who are going to destroy this country but the Republicans with their irrationality. Michael Savage would support that opinion.He's full of contradictions, unsubstantiated claims, and bizarre assertionas that he feels no need to support with even a fragment of argument or research. The man with the loudest voice is right, he seems to think. If you listen to his show (which I can no longer stomach), you'll swear he has a bipolar disorder. One day he sounds almost like a semi-rational human being, and the next day he'll be ranting and screaming and completing contradicting what he'd said the day before. The fact that he's so quick to call every liberal a mental case, loudly claim that they need to start taking their medication, really makes me wonder if a little Freudian projection thing isn't going on here. Maybe it's he who needs to remember his medication. (And what's with the dark glasses on the cover of his book...?) I'm not about to waste my time debating the issues he brings up in the book ... I only skimmed through the book and it's nothing but one longwinded, irrational rant, so there's no point in treating it with any seriousness. But what scares me is the growing trend toward fascism under the geise of defending America from terrorism. If America is the land of freedom, which Savage purports to love, then why is his main mission in life to attack those freedoms? He claims it's not from a moral standpoint but from a pragmatic standpoint. Now that's really scary. Because if there has ever been an ultimate Pragmatist it was Hitler. And he was an irrationalist, too. Am I overreaching here? Well, he brings up that he's a pragmatist in terms of his views on people using marijuana or viewing porno. Yet his "pragmatic" rationale is faulty to begin with, not counting selective -- it's a wide open invitation to ban or assualt just about any "vice," like for instance fast food. Strictly from a pragmatic standpoint. Or how about language, one of his favorite subjects. If America is the land of freedom, than can I not speak any language I want? Apparently not, according to Mr. Savage. You're only allowed to come to this country if you speak English. I won't even get to his views on "culture." Bottom line: If you're a conservative, then you might want to check out more, ahem, literary and conherent thinkers. And leave this piece of trash in the gutter, where it belongs.
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Summary: Savage has hit it on the mark
Review: As a conservative from the San Francisco Bay Area I have known the oppression that Liberalism brings. Liberals don't want you to say what you think. They want you to think what they say. Savage has it absolutely right.
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Summary: Dismiss this Man at Your Peril
Review: While the prose reads like dictation that has been edited, the man's essential message is that Leftists who have crept into power have steadily eroded the rule of law and the respect for our language and borders. As a Berkeley Grad from 1985, I know exactly what he is talking about. Savage himself holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Berkeley, so those that would dismiss him a right-wing wacko are forced to take a more considered and reasoned approach when trying to dismiss his observations. Savage is but turns bombastic and hilarious, but underlying it all is a deep concern for the project that our nation set out to achieve. If you think America is worth preserving, then you will like this book. If you think America is as failed experiment, then you will not.
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