We sholud all be outraged by this story.
July 15, 2010
The Scapegoating of Michael Savage
By Robin of Berkeley
Radio host Michael Savage was my first conservative friend -- although I've never met the man.
When I woke up from liberalism two and a half years ago, I had nowhere to turn. My friends thought I had lost my marbles.
Having vaguely heard something about talk radio, I scanned my AM dial. I happened upon a cantankerous man with a Bronx accent bellowing that liberalism is a mental disorder. To my relief, I had found my first living, breathing conservative.
Everything that came out of Savage's mouth offended me. He blared on about feminized men; borders, language and culture; and other alien concepts.
One minute, Savage would scat in exquisite word jazz; then he'd offer a recipe for his favorite spaghetti sauce. And when the topic turned to liberals, he'd erupt like Mt. Vesuvius.
To my tender, politically correct ears, Savage seemed like a mad man. But in time, I realized that he was crazy like a fox.
At first, I agreed with nothing Savage said -- except about Obama. There, he was spot on.
Savage was one of the first to peg Obama as a socialist. He dubbed Obama "The Little Professor," à la Pol Pot. Savage predicted, quite presciently, that Obama, like his Cambodian brethren, would turn on his own people.
After listening daily for a few months, something shocking happened. Savage started to make sense. I am reminded of that Mark Twain quip about his dad.
Twain wrote that when he was a teenager, his father didn't know what he was talking about. When Twain became a young adult, suddenly his old man made sense. Twain quipped that he couldn't believe how much his dad had learned in a few short years. Like Twain, I was finally growing up.
Savage taught me about the perils of communism. He also opened my eyes to the gifts of the United States. All this was new and different. Living in the left-wing Berkeley bubble for almost three decades, I breathed in Marxism as seamlessly as air.
I have an image of myself, frozen in time. I'm standing in my office a couple of years ago, stopped dead in my tracks, as Savage described the atrocities of the old Soviet Union. Quite honestly, I had no idea. Deprogramming from my leftist coma had begun.
So it was extremely alarming to hear last year that Savage was being targeted for a public shunning by the British. The Home Secretary at the time, Jacqui Smith, had placed Savage on a no-fly list along with hardcore criminals.
Kowtowing to political correctness, the Brits were using Savage as their sacrificial lamb, apparently to placate the Muslims. And the new British Conservative government plans to continue his scapegoating.
Savage has concluded that the Brits were not the masterminds. His show wasn't even carried by British radio. The plot to make him persona non grata clearly began closer to home.
If you've ever been scapegoated at work or at home, you know what it's like; it's psychologically eviscerating. Scapegoating is designed to wipe out another person's humanity.
It also sends out a stern warning to others. Should they not toe the party line, they'll be cast out as surely as were those sacrificial goats in Biblical times.
Scapegoating is so malevolent that M. Scott Peck made it the very definition of evil in his seminal book, People of the Lie. The evil person transfers his own sins onto another in order to maintain moral purity. "We become evil by attempting to hide from ourselves," says Peck.
Along with Savage, there have been many others subjected to the Left's witch hunts. Sweet little Carrie Prejean was robbed of her Miss California crown and publicly humiliated for supporting traditional marriage. Sarah Palin has been the object of endless taunts and vilification.
Average Americans attending tea parties are cavalierly smeared as "racists" and "Nazis." And it's not just the minions who are doing the tarnishing.
The Powers that Be are inciting the masses through their own hate speech. When the leaders use the full weight of the government to crack down on dissidents, we're no longer in the United States of old; we've been catapulted into a netherworld, presided over by men and women who long ago lost their souls.
Prophetically, Michael Savage knew this would happen. That's why he has raised his voice from the moment Obama entered the scene, imploring people to heed his warnings. His steady drumbeat has been, "You have no idea of the danger that you're in."
The scapegoating of Michael Savage should serve as a cautionary tale to liberals. It should be the proverbial slap in the face to those still punch-drunk on all that hope and change.
Today, it's conservatives. But tomorrow, it will be liberals. For instance, those lefties at Whole Foods discovered, to their utter shock, what it's like to incur the Left's wrath.
This is because the progressives are a bloodthirsty bunch with an insatiable appetite for power, just like their forefather, Pol Pot. Given enough time and opportunity, the Left has no qualms about eating its own.
A frequent contributor to American Thinker, Robin is a licensed psychotherapist and a recovering liberal in Berkeley. You can e-mail her at robinofberkeley@hotmail.com,
Rules for Relationships
We must just face the facts men and women are just different. There was a book that was titled Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. I like to say that women are like Alexander the Great and men are like snakes.
What I mean by that is women will try and conquer as much Real Estate as they can. Whether it be the closet or the bedroom, or just the way you dress.
When you get married you have a full side of the closet and she has a full side of the closet. But after a couple of months your side of the closet gets smaller and smaller. Before you know it you just have a small space in the closet if you are lucky.
Sometimes she moves a lot of your things to a hall closet or maybe even the garage. Then she spreads all of her stuff all over the room, and if you place one book or a sheet of paper on the dresser she reprimands you like a child.
If you tell her that she has things stretched all around the room she will remind you that she is using all of those things. And sometimes she will use her trump card and say I am using those things for the kids.
Your one item is making the room a messy. But she pays no attention to the complete chaos that she as going on in the room. She asks you questions like “are you going to wear that”.
Then you say what do you mean, is something wrong with my outfit. Then she gets all passive aggressive and says “I’m just saying I would not wear that if I were you”. But here is the kicker “but I’m not going to tell you what to wear”.
Well you just did in your own passive aggressive way. Just say she was wearing an outfit that you did not like, and you said “Why don’t you wear another outfit that I like better”.
She would respond with “I wish you would learn to be more supportive and more sensitive to me”. She goes on to say that “you should know that a woman does not want to hear those types of comments”.
What! Did you not just do the same thing to me? And before you know it you are apologizing for being insensitive, and when she insults you. You apologize for not listening to her opinions.
Before you know it about 10 years into the marriage your friends and family don’t even recognize you. If the truth be told you don’t even recognize yourself. She as become mama and you have become the kid.
Some men even refer to there wives as mama. They say things like I’m going to need to ask mama, or “if mama isn’t happy, ain’t nobody happy”.
She wants you to act like a man but she is treating you like a child. The men are more like snakes because sometimes they will just bite you because; well they are just being a snake. Men can be getting everything at home sometimes, and still they will just slither into someone else’s back yard.
A snake does not even need to be hungry in order to bite you. You can have a pet snake that you are treating well and the snake will still bite you. A snake does not care if is neighbor’s backyard looks better than his he just wants to get into his neighbors yard to be greedy.
Men will do everything in order to win a woman but are just too stupid to work to keep her. When she got a new outfit and you were dating you would let her know how much you liked that outfit.
Now she can go from a brunette to a redhead and you will not even notice the change. Snakes never stop to spell the flowers because; well they are just too busy being snakes.
They are not like regular pets. A cat will rub up against you to show there love, and a dog will wag there tails when you arrive home in order to let you know that they are happy to see you.
But not a snake even after you feed them they still don’t look content. They just look like they are waiting for the opportunity to sink there teeth into you.I would like to give couples the 101 in relationships.
Women give the man some space and a little respect. Let him make a decision with out you trying to manipulate his decisions. Just allow him to be a MAN and he will treat you more like a lady.
Men give your women lots of compliments because this is what a women desires. Drink water from your own cistern and not from another’s fountain and she will love and respect you more.
By:
The Source
http://www.askmeanything.biz/
What I mean by that is women will try and conquer as much Real Estate as they can. Whether it be the closet or the bedroom, or just the way you dress.
When you get married you have a full side of the closet and she has a full side of the closet. But after a couple of months your side of the closet gets smaller and smaller. Before you know it you just have a small space in the closet if you are lucky.
Sometimes she moves a lot of your things to a hall closet or maybe even the garage. Then she spreads all of her stuff all over the room, and if you place one book or a sheet of paper on the dresser she reprimands you like a child.
If you tell her that she has things stretched all around the room she will remind you that she is using all of those things. And sometimes she will use her trump card and say I am using those things for the kids.
Your one item is making the room a messy. But she pays no attention to the complete chaos that she as going on in the room. She asks you questions like “are you going to wear that”.
Then you say what do you mean, is something wrong with my outfit. Then she gets all passive aggressive and says “I’m just saying I would not wear that if I were you”. But here is the kicker “but I’m not going to tell you what to wear”.
Well you just did in your own passive aggressive way. Just say she was wearing an outfit that you did not like, and you said “Why don’t you wear another outfit that I like better”.
She would respond with “I wish you would learn to be more supportive and more sensitive to me”. She goes on to say that “you should know that a woman does not want to hear those types of comments”.
What! Did you not just do the same thing to me? And before you know it you are apologizing for being insensitive, and when she insults you. You apologize for not listening to her opinions.
Before you know it about 10 years into the marriage your friends and family don’t even recognize you. If the truth be told you don’t even recognize yourself. She as become mama and you have become the kid.
Some men even refer to there wives as mama. They say things like I’m going to need to ask mama, or “if mama isn’t happy, ain’t nobody happy”.
She wants you to act like a man but she is treating you like a child. The men are more like snakes because sometimes they will just bite you because; well they are just being a snake. Men can be getting everything at home sometimes, and still they will just slither into someone else’s back yard.
A snake does not even need to be hungry in order to bite you. You can have a pet snake that you are treating well and the snake will still bite you. A snake does not care if is neighbor’s backyard looks better than his he just wants to get into his neighbors yard to be greedy.
Men will do everything in order to win a woman but are just too stupid to work to keep her. When she got a new outfit and you were dating you would let her know how much you liked that outfit.
Now she can go from a brunette to a redhead and you will not even notice the change. Snakes never stop to spell the flowers because; well they are just too busy being snakes.
They are not like regular pets. A cat will rub up against you to show there love, and a dog will wag there tails when you arrive home in order to let you know that they are happy to see you.
But not a snake even after you feed them they still don’t look content. They just look like they are waiting for the opportunity to sink there teeth into you.I would like to give couples the 101 in relationships.
Women give the man some space and a little respect. Let him make a decision with out you trying to manipulate his decisions. Just allow him to be a MAN and he will treat you more like a lady.
Men give your women lots of compliments because this is what a women desires. Drink water from your own cistern and not from another’s fountain and she will love and respect you more.
By:
The Source
http://www.askmeanything.biz/
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