Who is the worse radio talk show host? Michael Savage or Randi Rhodes?

Question

Who is worse:

Michael Savage with his constant call for force on those who disagree with his views...

...OR...

Randi Rhodes with her seemingly hypocritical selective use of facts and constant Monday morning quarterbacking.

What do you think?

Answer 1

Great question in that you at least tried to balance it out by asking about hosts for both parties.

One thing you need to remember about political talk show hosts is that priority number one for them is ratings, and second is getting out their message. This is after all their business, and it is driven by ratings. No matter how right you are, if you are uninteresting, then you are not getting ratings.

This leads to 2 important things: First, it means that the more flamboyant and controversial you are sometimes gets you talked about more and thus bigger ratings, and secondly, being that politics tend to be split evenly for the most part in this country among two parties, if you preach 100% to only one party then you will likely have the happy following of at least 50% of listeners.

So, the point of stating the above is that both of them obviously speak with extreme bias and say a lot of things that anger the opposing views because that is what gets them ratings. Who is worse? Hard to say. I believe Savage has much bigger ratings so he is probably better at what he does, but not necessarily more accurate in what he says.

From listening to each, I can't honestly say who seems more convinced of their own beliefs. You will always find that either side has is massive following of sheep who actually believe one party is 100% correct all the time and the other is 100% wrong all the time, as both Rhodes and Savage would have you believe. I don't think either of them actually believes it themselves despite presenting it for ratings. It doesn't take too much intelligence to see that both deliberately omit many things, take things out of context, and also are very hypocritical in that one day they condemn for one action and later give praise for the same action later on, depending on if it is their party or not. But can you blame them? If I were in the business of getting ratings, I might do just the same thing.

OK, so to answer your question. I don't particularly like either host, but having listened to them with open minds, I find Randy Rhodes far more annoying because she comes across as deliberately condescending even when speaking hypocritically. There are people like this you run into from time to time and they are perhaps the most ignorant and difficult to put up with (although Rhodes might do this for ratings, so I speak only to her radio personality, not to her as a person). I think Savage is a nut, don't get me wrong, and if his beliefs were held by our leaders we would be in a world of trouble, but in terms of listening to him on the radio, i find him much more amusing and interesting. Its more like listening to the old boy racists who also come across as ignorant, but at least you can laugh at them. The lessor of two evils I suppose.

Answer 2

Ditto with Minina.

Michael (Weiner) Savage is just a hateful animal.He got his start as a disciple of cult leader Roy Masters(Rueben Obenbaker) in the
Foundation for Human Understanding,one of the most caustic right-wing hate groups of all time.Masters himself is an avowed
UnAmerican(he came to America from London in 1949,sevred a year in jail for a small crime,and began as a self-appointed minister
in 1960).Masters' main quote comes from Karl Marx"Accuse others of what you actually do".

This would explain how someone as agressively hateful as Savage call say "liberalism is a mental disorder".Savage has a reputation for riding down the street in San Fransico and shouting
epithets out the car window to gay couples.How's THAT for a mental disorder?

Answer 3

I had never heard Michael Savage until eventually this twelve months in spite of the certainty that I had heard lots approximately him. I delight in him. I many times agree along with his politics yet it is not why I hear. i admire his variety. His storytelling. His attitude. His handle San Francisco the place I lived for seven years. i might decide for to hold close out with the guy, and that's with regard to the main suitable element you could say a pair of politico.

Answer 4

Definately Randy Rhondes but has she ever left the Palm Beach Market. She does not even deserve to be mentioned with Michael Savage

Answer 5

both are utterly worthless...i would say savage is the worst. at least rhodes manages a fact here and there.......if you cant stand to listen for more than a minute

savage is just a hate-filled idiot who bashes the left on virtually every issue, yet the hypocrite chooses to reside in san francisco...lol....he hates everything about the left, but resides in a city oozing with progressives

Answer 6

Savage.

Answer 7

Michael Savage is by far the worst. He is very opinionated and condemns those that do not agree with his views.

Answer 8

Savage.

Answer 9

Anyone of the commies from Air America

Answer 10

It's hard to choose. Randi is all wrong all of the time, but Michael is always pissed.