{"id":4100,"date":"2009-06-09T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T20:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2009-06-09T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T20:45:27","slug":"the-narcissism-of-michael-savage-in-projecting-himself-into-british-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/09\/the-narcissism-of-michael-savage-in-projecting-himself-into-british-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"the narcissism of michael savage in projecting himself into British elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Savage has, pretty understandably &#8212; even months after the fact, taken up the issue of his bandishment from Great Britain in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Savage_(commentator)#Banned_from_entering_the_United_Kingdom\">listing on a &#8220;Do Not Enter&#8221;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0List.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not entirely sure the man even has any desire to visit Great Britain, though it&#8217;s quite possible he has more desire to do so now that it&#8217;s been waved\u00c2\u00a0before him as Forbidden Fruit.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0From this comes some amusing lines of Narcissim:<\/p>\n<p>He calls for the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown to take him off the list and protect the free speech.\u00c2\u00a0 This comes off the pointers from Gordon Brown&#8217;s speech at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/toby_harnden\/blog\/2009\/06\/07\/gordon_brown_remembers_dday_heroism_at_obama_beach\">Obama Beach<\/a>&#8221; (heh heh) on the inevitable defeat of Tyranny and the victory of Freedom as the story of Human Civilization.\u00c2\u00a0 It does take some galls to compare the\u00c2\u00a0defeat of Nazi Totalitarianism to the personal pecadilla of an overly-politically-correct government banning an inflamatory\u00c2\u00a0shock jock.<\/p>\n<p>But it became stranger still, as Savage cited the recent Larbor Party losses and predicted the fall of Brown&#8217;s administration due to this great Savage Issue, throwing out an ultamatum of removing him from the Banned List and &#8220;you might just save your political future&#8221; or Face Certain Defeat.\u00c2\u00a0 As though the greatest and biggest issue that the British electorate are thinking about is Michael Savage.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose you would want to know what Savage discussed next?\u00c2\u00a0 He sequed into a faux-interview with a reporter for World Net Daily about Obama&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;Holy Quran&#8221; and repeated Quran quotes which served as coded messages calling on the Muslim World toward Jihad.\u00c2\u00a0 Strangely enough, I was more phased by the conceit of this production &#8212; it was essentially a taped commentary from the World Net Daily man with Savage placing afterward interjections into the recording &#8212; wondering what was the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Savage has, pretty understandably &#8212; even months after the fact, taken up the issue of his bandishment from Great Britain in the form of listing on a &#8220;Do Not Enter&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0List.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not entirely sure the man even has any desire to visit Great Britain, though it&#8217;s quite possible he has more desire to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}