He is banned in the UK...
A two bit huckster north beach republican.....
I wonder if he is related to Anthony??
Michael Alan Weiner (born March 31, 1942), better known by his professional name Michael Savage,[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Savage was born Michael Alan Weiner[1] in the Bronx, New York, one of three children of Benjamin and Rae Weiner,[15] Jewish emigrants from Russia.[15][16][17][18] He described his childhood as difficult.[16] His father, the owner of an antiques shop, died of a heart attack at age 57[17] in 1970,[19] and his mother died in 2003.[15]
After graduating from Jamaica High School in 1958,[20][21] Savage attended Queens College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1963.[17] After college Savage taught high school for several years in New York City. His first marriage in 1964 to Carol Ely ended in divorce, and he remarried in 1967 after meeting his current wife, Janet. During this time Savage also worked for famous psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary as keeper of the stone gatehouse on the Hitchcock Cattle Company estate in Millbrook, New York, to which Leary had been given access. Leary hired him to the post because Savage did not use LSD himself.[16] Savage then studied at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, earning a Master of Science in botany in 1970 and a Master of Arts in anthropology in 1972.[22][23] He obtained a PhD in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine.[24] His thesis was titled Nutritional Ethnomedicine in Fiji.[25]
Shift in political opinions[edit]
Savage introduced himself to certain writers in the North Beach area of San Francisco in the 1970s.[26] He befriended and traveled with Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Stephen Schwartz, also an acquaintance of Savage from this time, reported Savage possessed a photograph of himself and Ginsberg swimming naked in Hawaii and used the photograph as sort of a "calling card."[16][26] Savage maintained a correspondence with Ginsberg consisting of ten letters and a trio of postcards across four years, which is maintained with Ginsberg's papers at Stanford University.[16][27] One letter asked for Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti to come do a poetry reading, so others could "hear and see and know why I adore your public image."[18] Another acquaintance was poet and author Neeli Cherkovski, who says that Savage dreamed of becoming a stand-up comic in the mold of Lenny Bruce.[16]
Acquaintance Robert Cathcart says that by 1980, in his private conversations with Savage, he knew him to have conservative political views.[26] Schwartz stated Savage became alienated from the North Beach scene in the early 1980s. Savage had intense arguments with his liberal friends.[26] When asked about his shift in politics and other views, Savage replied, "I was once a child; I am now a man."[18] Savage has cited many occurrences in his life that helped shape his conservative views. Savage states that his opinions on welfare were partly shaped by his first job out of college as a social worker.[28] He described one incident in which his supervisor had him deliver a check to a welfare client to furnish their apartment, while his own apartment was furnished with cardboard boxes.[29] Another turning point occurred for him as a writer of health and nutrition books in the 1980s, when he experienced what he saw as "political opposition" after making the suggestion that the closure of homosexual bathhouses might be necessary in response to the emerging AIDS epidemic.[30] In 1994 his final health and nutrition manuscript, Immigrants and Epidemics, was rejected by publishers for being inflammatory.[31] In 1996, Savage applied to become the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. The University instead selected award-winning journalist and China scholar Orville Schell. Savage sued the University, contending discrimination for being conservative.[26] Savage later dropped the lawsuit.[32]
