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Title: The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military
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| The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson A classic | I listen to Michael Savage occasionally and while not agreeing with all his conclusions, I learn something every time.
The book is well written and informative. It will not please the leftists who seem to be upset with anyone who deviates from straight and narrow path of the political correctness. However will liberals in media, academia, and government try to build up the leftist orthodoxy, as long as there are Michael Savage's books, USA is still a free country.
Much of the book reminded me of the Hans Christian Andersen story where a child unaffected by propaganda describes the situation as it is: "The king has no clothes!" Similarly, Mr. Savage states facts as they are - many liberals perform acts that would be considered a treason in any normal situation, but elevate themselves by moral equivalency "above conflict" so that they do not have to make moral decision. However, no matter what the posturing - it looks like treason, it sounds like treason, it is treason!
And that is the reason why Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, and many others are so important for all of us: they help to keep the flame of freedom going!
This is book that should be read by anyone who cares for this great country and its future!
MPK | | The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson the truth hurts | The truth hurts some liberals. everything Dr. Savage writes about is A FACT, regardless you like it or not.
Accept the truth. Savage's truth. | | The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson Almost right on | | Learned a bit. Savage seems a little too full of himself about his departure from MSNBC. He also seems to blame Fox news for this. I apprieciate his religious convictions, but he could tone that part down a bit. Other than those two minor exceptions, the book was one I would recomend to anyone who is trying to gain information about politics in this country. | | The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson His Own Worst Enemy | | I'm embarassed to say that I used to support this toad. What can I say? I was young and impressionable and I got a kick out of all his on-air screaming and ranting and demands for justice. To be fair, I think there is a semblance of truth to SOME of what he argues, but at bottom, he is just a paranoid, rage-filled, ego-maniac. I'm still not sure if it's all an act or if he really is that demented. I just caught part of his radio show the other night for the first time in years and it was like I never missed a beat. Domestically, he sees everything as some vast left-wing socialist conspiracy; he was talking about the pharmaceutical companies and how they're in on some grand scheme to turn the country into a doped up, ie complacent, socialist paradise. I suppose it wouldn't occur to him that these companies would be out to make a profit, ideology be damned. On top of all that, he is a classic neo-con chicken hawk who would just as soon drop a bomb on any country that dares to look at the US the wrong way, never once considering that perhaps his beloved America shares any blame. And all of this is done with a nauseating self-aggrandizement that would lead the unsuspecting listener/reader to believe he is God's latest prophet. So for entertainment purposes, Savage is great, but if you want a serious, sober analysis of current events, you'd be better off talking to a fifth grader. | | The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson Savagely Unsatisfying | Before writing my review of this book, I should like to make one thing clear: I owe a tremendous debt to Michael Savage. Listening to him was what first made me question the liberal nonsense which I was being fed in high school, and now that I have swung fully to the other side of the spectrum, he is still a joy to listen to, if a touch over-the-top at times. As such, when I opened this book, I expected to enjoy it. Certainly, I was prepared for a moment or two of thought-provoking shock, since Mr. Savage is a master of delivering such a thing on his radio show, but that was a risk I was prepared to take, because I was sure that Mr. Savage's voice would translate very well into the written medium.
I was sadly mistaken. Reading this book felt to me like reading some horrible, unholy union of a drunken rant, a war cry and a speech by some vilified totalitarian demagogue. Every page seems to shriek with rage and irrationality. It is a sad disappointment.
Needless to say, Mr. Savage is a far better talk show host than author. What this book does, however, is unveil Mr. Savage's long forgotten socialist roots, for the style of argumentation is one far more familiar to those on the left than those on the right. For instance, Mr. Savage does not even bother to intellectually attack his opponents. Rather, he accuses them of supporting pedophilia, drugs and perversion simply for objecting to certain expansions of government power. His opposition on this point, ironically enough, invokes a quote from the great libertarian economist Frederic Bastiat, who wrote:
"Every time we object to a thing being done by the government, the socialists conclude that we object to it being done at all. We object to a state sponsored education. Then the socialists say we are against education. We object to a state sponsored morality. Then the socialists say we want no morality at all. We object to a state enforced equality. Then the socialists say we are against equality. It is as though the socialists were to accuse us of wanting people to starve because we do not want the state to raise grain."
Similarly, Mr. Savage concludes that because the ACLU opposes giving policemen drastically increased powers, they want perverts and druggies to walk free. What he conveniently ignores, of course, is that no one, policemen included, will always use their powers for good. This is not to say that I do not find his critique of the ACLU to be true. I merely find it to be sloppy. The argument against the ACLU is infinitely more complex than a simple false dichotomy which places pedophiles on one side and good people on the other. Mr. Savage does his allies in the conservative movement no good by spewing this oversimplified invective into the air. Rather, he makes us look like the idiots which so many left wing college professors imagine us to be.
This brings me to a larger problem with Mr. Savage's book - it employs the sloppiest of argumentation techniques. Rather than attack arguments, what it does is attack imagined motivations. For instance, rather than shoot down the argument against prayer in schools on an intellectual level, Mr. Savage complains that the Left hates God. Anyone who has ever heard of the Reverend William Sloane Coffin or liberation theology knows this is not universally true (unless one imagines that Richard Dawkins speaks for the entire left wing). I have already touched on Mr. Savage's rather unfair treatment of the opponents of the patriot act (not all of whom are Leftists, incidentally - unless you consider the CATO Institute to be leftist). Besides this, Mr. Savage shows himself to be a hypocrite. He spends a good portion of his book ranting about how we need to shut down the "traitors" in our midst, but warns critics in his introduction that any sort of criticism of him shows them to be "brownshirts." Obviously, many of Mr. Savage's critics are fascistic in nature, but the hypocritical nature of the message, coming as it does in the preface to a book whose entire purpose is to demonize dissenters, makes Mr. Savage's otherwise persuasive argument look weak. Again, Mr. Savage is not doing himself or the conservative movement any favors.
I will continue listening to Michael Savage, however. I shan't buy any more of his books, but I shall listen to him. I would suggest, however, that Mr. Savage listen to the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Bill Bennett. Perhaps if he imitates them, he will stop exposing his own psychological nudity and expose the rather more unattractive intellectual foolishness of the Left. Those looking for an intellectual attack on liberalism, look somewhere else. Those looking for a scream of rage permeated with demagoguery, you have found the book of your dreams. | | The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson Product Description | Talk radio sensation and New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage again goes for the jugular in this latest brash, incendiary attack on the corrosive effects of liberalism on our culture. Where The Savage Nation took shots at everything under the political spectrum, this book focuses squarely on the dangers assailing the cornerstones of American life, pointing out how liberal propaganda and agendas are seeping into our churches, our schools, even our families. Bold, sometimes angry, and always controversial, this book is pure, no-holds-barred Michael Savage, one of the strongest, most original voices in America today. | | The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military by Thomas Nelson Amazon.com | | Popular radio host Michael Savage returns to print with another attack on the forces of liberalism that he believes are tearing America apart. Using the same brash, abrasive style in his writing that has become a trademark of his radio show, he writes that "the Left operates specifically to undermine God, country, family, and the military" and that liberalism is "either treason or insanity" or "a mental disorder." He also takes on illegal immigration, the state of health care in the U.S., the "Hollywood Idiots," and the decline of schools and morality in general, all of which he blames on Liberals. Savage also drops bombshells such as: "Federal courts and judges in America today are to be more feared than al-Qaida," and Ruth Bader Ginsberg's appointment to the Supreme Court is "akin to appointing the general counsel of the Ku Klux Klan to the bench." Statements as bombastic as these deserve to be backed up with substance and well-thought out arguments, yet Savage offers little more than an anecdote or two before moving on to the next rant. This is not to say he doesn't make some good points or highlight blatant abuses by government, questionable suits brought by the ACLU, or morally bankrupt product coming out of Hollywood, but one can't help noticing that several shades of gray have been left out of his black-and-white arguments. Due to this lack of hard facts and background, Savage's book is not particularly convincing. Still, Savage does consistently challenge readers with controversial opinions and conclusions, so it would be a shame for potential readers to dismiss his book simply on ideological grounds alone. And if he really sets your blood boiling, you can always call him up on his show and take him to task. --Shawn Carkonen |
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