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Michael Savage: last of the French-Bashers?

February 12th, 2008

Über-conservative commentator, Michael Savage was reported to have gone on another anti-French tirade on his show, aired Friday February 8th. He revisited one of his favourite theories, according to which Jerry Lewis’s status in France is due to a form of closet Anti-Semitism. Michael Savage believes the French do not admire Jerry Lewis nor Woody Allen, but hold them in deep contempt, as “schlemiels”. During this Friday show, he also declared France “culturally worthless”, probably an echo to Time magazine’s recent article on the supposed death of French Culture.

Being unable to locate a podcast, or transcript of the show, at this time we cannot give our readers any more details that were reported to us. However, Michael Savage has been known to go on vicious anti-French tirades in the past as mentioned on this site and elsewhere.

Putting aside for a minute the fiction Jerry Lewis is popular in France, a myth well exposed by SuperFrenchie, this tirade begs the question: why is Savage revisiting his old material from his MSNBC years? Could it be from the mounting pressure from several activist groups currently organizing an advertising boycott campaign? For instance, CAIR – the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has managed to get ITT Technical Institute, Chattem Inc, Union Bank of California, Intuit and GEICO Insurance to pull their advertising from Michael Savage’s show.

Is Michael Savage, the last of the French-Bashers?

Sources:
Michael Savage and CAIR: ThinkProgress.com – PR NewsWire
Jerry Lewis Myth: SuperFrenchie.com
Time Magazine: Death of French Culture

Schlemiels: Yiddish, a simpleton, a simple – a person lacking intelligence or common sense.

Thank you to R.S.

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18 Responses to “Michael Savage: last of the French-Bashers?”

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Jean-Luc Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 11:54 am

Savage at times comments on France in negative terms, however to be fair, once in a while he does have positive things to say about our country. With that said, I listen to the show everyday, and laugh a lot, not with him but at him. He is pompous, arrogant, and self centered, that’s what makes the show so great. But what’s also funny is his failed attempt at humor; it’s like watching a bad sitcom, it’s so bad, it’s good.

Chu Says:
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 am

Same here, I often listen the savage nation, but not on a daily basis because it’s kind of exhausting! I too laugh a lot at the guy, he even sounds parodic sometimes, but I know he’s actually not. He is the incarnation of the extreme things that free speech allows: definitely not something I could have imagined before moving from france to us.

fx Says:
February 24th, 2008 at 9:17 am

Michael Savage’s real last name is Weiner. Not to belabor the rhyme with “whiner”, but his agenda confounds those of a neocon, a zionist and a bi-polar mind. His being intellectually lazy, France is an easy target.
This all comes together when you know that his family’s company, Rockstar Inc. (not to be confused with the videogame designer, btw), deals in fizz-caffeine drinks promoted via pseudoporn and has slutted itself to Coca-Cola for distribution.

Kanowakeron Hill UE Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

CNN’s resident curmudgeon, Jack Cafferty, apparently found a ‘funny’ viewer comment to end his on-air nightly pontificating:

“Q: France’s foreign minister says “the magic is over” for the U.S. Is he right?”

“Mark, Berwyn PA March 13th, 2008 1:54 pm ET

No. And there is no ‘magic’ to what this country is all about, and what this country stands for, and what this country has proven since the dawn of the US. The US has faced difficult situations before, both economically and foreign-policy wise, and we survived and became better for the challenge. This time is no different. The French would just love to see us fall, but they should not hold their collective breathes. And by the way, who listens to the French anyway? Seriously?”

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/13/can-the-us-repair-its-tarnished-image-abroad/#comments

Well, apparently Congress and Boeing are interested in listening to Airbus. And a quip by the French Foreign Minister made the national news in the States today, so there’s another case of ’somebody’ listening to the French.

From where I sit ‘down here’, French-bashing is FAR from over.