I’m taking a brief break from caucus coverage for a word about radio talk show host Michael Savage.
I turned the radio to WRKO for an update on the caucuses to find Savage declaring he wasn’t going to “do caucus talk.” He said caucus talk was for “leprechauns” and named other fanciful creatures. He then directed his attention at Texas senator Kay Baylie Hutchison whom, he said, had voided plans for a border fence along the border of her home state “in the middle of the night.”
In the midst of his rant, Savage invoked Cicero. The direct quote involved a warning about the corruption of power in what Savage described as Cicero’s home of “Ancient Greece.” A problem with Savage’s try at erudition exists. Cicero was a contemporary of Julius Caesar in Ancient Rome, not Greece. There’s nothing worse than a self-important blowhard who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Dispatches from Seth Gitell 
January 4, 2008 at 2:30 am |
Hi. I was listening too. Savage did say “Rome”, and he obviously knows where Cicero was from,,, well, he would indeed be a Moron [i]if[/i] he thought Cicero was speaking of Greece when he (Savage) was reading from his own best-selling book ‘The Enemy Within’, which I have here in front of me, turned to pg vii, which states:
[quote] – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman orator, statesman 42 B.C.[/quote]
Thanks for listening and greetings to you Seth from THE SAVAGE NATION.
P.S. GO BUSHCLINTON!
January 4, 2008 at 4:39 pm |
“I’m taking a brief break from caucus coverage”
How did you take yourself away from such exciting fare? The guy who invents a filter for the TV that excludes any political ad or mention of Iowa will be be very rich indeed.
July 22, 2008 at 12:58 pm |
i can’t even read or hear what else this jerk has got to say
it’s taken my brother over 20 years to speak so i know