Just when you think journalism can't get any stranger. I was watching some right wing scumbag on MSNBC today, spewing forth about how all homeless people should be rounded up and sent to prison and mental hospitals. His name is Michael Savage, and he is apparently what we get now that Phil Donahue is considered too liberal to be on TV any more.
Well, Savage, whose real name is Michael Alan Weiner, got a less than glowing writeup in the Register for his MSNBC performance. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/29754.html Midway through this well-deserved Savage-bashing, (or is that Weiner bashing,) who should be mentioned but everyone's favorite intrepid reporter, and in less than glowing terms. The Register opines about The Savage Weiner: <His career path mirrors the trajectory of former woolly Carnegie Mellon liberal Declan McCullagh, now a lavishly-paid writer at CNET. <Both realized the value of relentless self-publicity. And both - McCullagh, like Weiner - decided that principles are for fools. <You don't stay poor for very long if you can defend rich guys' their right to keep their money, each followed the dollar trail to arrive at their own, personal epiphany. Each advocates the gazillionaires' "freedom" to spend their gazillions. The knack to pulling off this stunt is in persuading us, dear readers, that it's our freedoms that are a stake. In all, it's a very simple equation, and one so alluring that it's never short of fresh McCullaghs or Weiners to heed the cry. There's one born every minute. <So what drives the tiny Weiner? ... > Michael Savage is the last person I would ever have compared to Declan McCullagh. Fortunately for Declan, he's "lavishly paid", and doesn't have a last name easily confused with a body part. Some consolation, I suppose. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
