Michael Savage has often been off the wall even by comparison to other conservative commentators. He’s now guaranteed his bragging rights as one of the nuttiest of all. Media Matters reports that Savage claims that Democrats might be responsible for John Roberts’ recent seizure. On his show on July 30 Savage said:
Chief Justice John Roberts has had a seizure in his summer home in Maine, and he fell on a dock. Now, what’s interesting to me, and almost frightening and puzzling, is that on Friday Charles Schumer gave a loud and vociferously nasty speech during which he said he would never support another Bush judge. He would never support a — it was — you know, let me ask you something. All you leftists believe in the conspiracy of Bush and Cheney, the conspiracy of 9-11. Am I to believe that there’s no connection between Charles Schumer on Friday saying that he would never appoint, or never, excuse me, approve another Bush appointment to the court, to any court? And then the chief justice suffers a so-called seizure two days later? You’re telling me there’s no possibility of a conspiracy by the Democrats to have caused this seizure in some manner? Tell me that it’s not possible. Tell me that the stakes are not so high that the liberals — who’ve finally lost the court after 50 years — that they would stop short of anything like this. Tell me it’s not possible, and I’ll tell you you’re a liar.
To provide a little fact checking, Schumer did not say “he would never appoint, or never, excuse me, approve another Bush appointment to the court, to any court.” He actually said, “Given the track record of this president and the experience of obfuscation at the hearings, with respect to the Supreme Court, at least: I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances.”
I’ve previously discussed the belief in 9/11 conspiracy theories here and here. Unfortunately there are some liberal blogs which have promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories, but these are people on the fringes who do not speak for other liberals. I would hope that most conservatives similarly feel that Michael Savage does not speak for them.
You dont realize that your leg is being pulled. He is making fun of you for believing in conspiricies. Charles Schmumer is a big windbag who was elected after Al Damato ran the worse campaign ever devised and made Schumer a household name when he was done. This election is truly shaping up to be the bottom of the barrel vs the bottom of the barrel. Its time for a third party candidate but who would be willing to be slimed in public and have thier family raped in order to win a $200,000 a year job. God Bless America and we can sure use his help in 08.
Who believes in conspiracies? If he’s making fun it misses the mark as he mischaracterizes those he makes fun of (unless he is clear that it is only a small segment of the left).
It sure sounds like he means it when he talks about this conspiracy to give Roberts the seizure, but considering how off the wall it is I suppose it is possible he was pulling our legs. Does that mean he is also pulling our legs with all the other stuff he says throughout his show?