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Frankly, I find Savage to be highly interesting as an ICONOCLASTIC thinker. The man is very intelligent. He is not just someone who regurgitates Republican talking points lockstep. And while he does lean right, that alone is not a crime. He is nearly as quick to condemn the right when it is being stupid as well.
Once you get past his bombast and your own virgin ears, you might too find him to be someone who makes you think and see past your ideological blinders.
Since I am a socially liberal, fiscally conservative centrist, I pick and choose my informers in the media and elsewhere merely by how much discussion and thought they generate in me. So O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter to me are basically useless. Limbaugh is very smart and makes me think, but his adoration of the Republicans sickens me.
Really, if you fancy yourself to be a liberal, it would serve you and others like you well to open your eyes to other thoughts. I thought that was the DEFINITION of liberal, being open to other philosophies (and obviously, I am always startled at how closed-minded, SMALL-MINDED, blindered, and hypocritical the left really is)
