Book Review: Savage Nation

Review of The Savage Nation, by Michael Savage. This is my review I put on the Amazon.com website.

First of all, this book provides absolutely no notes, stats, or any type of documentation to back up anything he says. Believing almost anything in this book is to forget an AWFUL lot of history. On top of that, there are COUNTLESS contradictions in the book. Especially when he proclaims that he loves the freedoms of this country (which he proclaims often) and then two pages later he says that radicals who oppose the war should be locked away at war time for national security reasons! another example is when he talks about how he hates "hate-free zones" because he says that it's "his right to hate who he wants"... two pages later he says "look what terrorist nations have accomplished. Racism. Sexism. Hatred. Religious intolerence." then he goes on to bash Islam.
The book reeks of Stalinist-type propaganda:
"They come to kill us. They come to poison your daughter's lunchbox. They come to fly planes into buildings. These snakes pretend to be one of us. They might blend in as they await their orders to stab America in the back."
Savage is ostensibly racist and doesn't try to hide it. He even has a section of his book that celebrates the "fact" that "most important and consequential inventions have come almost exclusively from white males". Again, this overlooks an AWFUL lot of history.
He is critisizes Americans of not racial profiling enough. It's amusing when he speaks of middle-eastern nations: "We are facing a battle of civilization versus one-thousand years of darkness." Could he be MORE eurocentric? This is also amusing because scientists have proved that civilization CAME from that area of the world (the fertile crescent)! In refering to Bagdad, he proclaims that "one American child is worth more than your entire, rotten, stinkin city".
But there is more ignorance! Savage LOVES to use "clever" sayings on almost every page of this book. One example is "Commu-Nazis". This is especially funny because using this term requires forgetting all knowledge in the feilds of nazism and communism. Nazi fascism is the extreme OPPOSITE of Soviet communism. In fact the Soviet Union considered Hitler's fascist Germany even more of an enemy than America did! Savage either ignores the fact that Russia and America allied together in fighting Germany, or he just doesn't know much about what he is talking about... I assume the latter.
The funniest part of the Savage Nation is probably when he talks about Christianity and he states the "problems" with relying on science: "I'd have to say most of the scientists that I have met were amoral." But it gets funnier when he says that you need a lot of religion to keep a society working because with only science, people would have no morals. "science is not conerned with right or wrong. Take the Germans. For the first half of the twentieth century, the Germans had the most advanced society on the earth at the time. They were great scientists. They also gave us death camps."
Conclusion: Michael Savage is an idiot. Germany had Christians as well and Hitler even tried to appeal to many of them. A quote from Hitler's 'Mein Kampf': "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord"
Clearly Nazi Germany needed MORE religion... And what about the KKK? They probably needed more religion too. How about the Islamic fundamentalists? They probably just aren't religious enough!
The book is full of amazing examples of ignorance such as this. I still have much more to critisize about this book, but I'm going to stop about here.
A section of the book is called "how to pick up liberal women". Savage says: "Here's how it works. Go to a bookstore. That's the place where most liberal women congregate, for reasons unknown. I don't know why books are associated with liberalism, but they are."
Maybe Savage should spend more time at bookstores looking for BOOKS, not women.