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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 04:54 PM

    Brightstar 2 - The Resurrection

    Okay you who fancy yourself to be liberals - - you with your closed minds and closed eyes and closed ears - - you've been challenged.

    "Brightstar 2 - The Resurrection" wrote:

    There is NEVER anything wrong with hearing all sides of an argument

    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)

    - - Brightstar 2 - The Resurrection
    - - 07:48 AM

    * * * * *

    Okay you fancy liberals, open your eyes and ears to the BIG MIND of the radio star who inspires Brightstar.

    Let's pick a date at random.

    How about yesterday?

    Here's a partial transcript from yesterday's broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:

    SAVAGE: New Hampshire, Dennis, you're on The Savage Nation.

    CALLER: Thank you, sir. Just -- my question was -- it's not a question. It's just -- I'm 62 years old, and when I went to school, if you didn't cut the mustard, you stayed back. Now, I guess we have this thing called social promotions, which means that --

    SAVAGE: Yes, and you have self-esteem -- if -- in fact, now, if you do cut the mustard a little too sharply, they single you out for being a racist.

    CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. And my -- I would like to hear, you know, your comments on this whole aspect of social promotion, because usually the people that are socially promoted end up, unfortunately, like Columbine, bringing guns to school or whatever.

    SAVAGE: No, no, when you're socially promoted, you wind up as president of the United States. If you're socially promoted your whole life and nobody challenges you because you're of the proper constitution and composition and you look exactly right and no one's -- everyone's afraid to say a word to you, why, you then go to Harvard, you then go to the law review, you then get elected, you then get elected to the next level. This is what happens in a country that's intimidated by its own policies and its own fears.

    CALLER: You've put it in perspective for me, and I appreciate that. And it's --

    SAVAGE: But this is just the beginning of it, my friend. You haven't seen any of what's coming in this country. You are going to see the wholesale replacement of competent white men, and I'm targeting exactly the group that's gonna be thrown out of jobs in the government. And I'll say it, and I'll be the first to say it, and I may be not the only -- the last to say it. I am telling you that there's gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government up and down the line, in police departments, in fire departments. Everywhere in America, you're going to see an exchange that you've never seen in history, and it's not gonna be necessarily for the betterment of this country.

    CALLER: I agree with you 100 percent, and --

    SAVAGE: Why am I the only one who has the nerve to say what's actually going on and what is going to happen under this guy unless he's stopped?

    - - From the November 18 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation.

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    Okay you fancypants liberals, now don't you see how empty your lives have been and will continue to be unless you join brighstar and tune in and listen and keep your eyes and ears open so you can be filled up with all that "iconoclastic" "thinking" that's filling up brightstar?

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