First of all, Media Matters is not an organization "pledged to eliminate conservative talk radio." It's an organization pledged to correct the misinformation dispensed by Right-wing media outlets and pundits.

Calling Michael Savage a "Ph.D. researcher" is strecthing the definition of that term to a near Silly Putty-like distortion. Savage's doctorate is in a custom-made discipline that, apparently, nmo one else has pursued, and Savage's three political books have shown him to be anything BUT a researcher. Thanks to the footnotes he supplies, even a casual reader can see that the books are riddled with misquotes, cherrypicked information and they rely heavily on other people's work, some of which is incorrect.

Third, whether or not Savage has a radio program has absolutely nothing to do with free speech. Savage is free to step up on his soapbox, start his recording of "Dixie" and spew his filth from any street corner. The First Amendment does not, however, guarantee him the right to a nationally syndicated radio program. If that were the case, we'd all be suing Clear Channel for our three-hour time slot.

Savage is a pompous ass but I do think media matters has an agenda to squelch conservative talk rather than actually debate an issue.

Regardless of his footnotes many of his points are well taken.

Liberlais want to ease the pain while conservatives want to solve the problems. Translation: you need to break a few eggs to make an ommelette.

"Regardless of his footnotes many of his points are well taken."

That's astounding. So it doesn't matter if he lies, if he misrepresents information or if he passes on bad information from someone else without having checked it first. Many of his points are well taken.

I don't understand how his "points" can be accepted when their underlying premise is proven false. How do you accept a "point" built on a lie?

Many things that he says are rue and correct and never debated by liberals because they have no reasonable defense.

For instance in California the school cannot hand out an aspirin but a teeneger can get a state funded abortion without their parents knowledge simply by going before an aministrative judge and proclaiming that her parents would freak out.

Defend that...