{"id":412,"date":"2007-02-02T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/02\/savaged\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:59:59","slug":"savaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Savaged"},"content":{"rendered":"

I listen, occasionally, to Michael Savage for about the same reasons I occasionally listen to Steve Vai.\u00a0 The material itself bores me stiff, but the sheer technique is fascinating.<\/p>\n

Savage has mastered the art of pushing listeners’ buttons; he is a virtuoso of manipulative talk-radio technique.\u00a0 And, like any virtuoso, watching them riffing can get pretty dull after you watch the same arpeggio for a while.<\/p>\n

So I don’t listen much anymore.<\/p>\n

But this view into life behind the scenes on the Savage show<\/a>…:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Kicking off hour three of last night’s live broadcast, Savage dropped the “F-bomb” onto unsuspecting affiliates from coast- to- coast.<\/p>\n

While some sharp- eared station board operators may have kept the offending words from reaching the airwaves, it’s highly likely that most were unable to catch it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…is interesting, if only because it’s so much like a day at the NARN with Chad, Brian and King.<\/p>\n

(And you can tell Brian Maloney’s been in the bigs too long; he thinks most of Savage’s stations have actual live board operators…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I listen, occasionally, to Michael Savage for about the same reasons I occasionally listen to Steve Vai.\u00a0 The material itself bores me stiff, but the sheer technique is fascinating. Savage has mastered the art of pushing listeners’ buttons; he is a virtuoso of manipulative talk-radio technique.\u00a0 And, like any virtuoso, watching them riffing can get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}