Savage Intolerance *

In the battle of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors v. Michael Savage, it's hard to know whom to root for.

Michael Savage, for the uninitiated, is the living, breathing embodiment of all liberals' worst nightmares about AM talk radio. While most of liberals' denunciations of the genre strike me as uninformed and overblown, in the case of Savage, they're spot-on. The guy is a vitriolic bomb-thrower, mean-spirited and vicious. It hurts one's ears and sensibilities just to listen to him. That he said some pro-immigration activists on a hunger strike should "fast until they starve to death" may be outrageous, but it's pretty much par for the course in the Savage Nation.

So it's curious that this particular comment -- which is truly just one culled from millions that are equally noxious -- should arouse such consternation. And one wonders whether the San Fran supes, who are considering a resolution that condemns Savage's comments, really have nothing better to do with their time than denounce a talk-radio host.

Worse, though, is the language of the supervisors' pious resolution, which boasts of how San Francisco "values the dignity of all its residents," and brags of its "tolerance." Oh please. This is the same city that subsidizes the grotesque Folsom Street Fair -- a grandiose insult to human dignity -- with its anti-Christian advertisements. And in a smear worthy of Michael Savage himself, just 18 months ago these same self-righteous politicians condemned a Christian youth rally in their city as "fascist."

Savage deserves the condemnation, but then, the San Francisco supervisors deserve one, too. Truth be told, Savage and the supes really deserve each other -- both are poster children, right and left, of savage intolerance.

* UPDATE: The SF supes have voted unanimously to condemn Michael Savage.