* RADIO RANT: Savage Pronouncements
Lat night (7/23/07), Michael Savage was showing off his culture again, calling the CNN/YouTube questioners "illiterate morons," while intermittently playing Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" and cooing about "great art." "Great" and "art" are both problematic terms, but never mind that: I'd just like to tell Dr. Savage that most of those YouTube folks probably know how to pronounce Dizzy's last name correctly, in contrast to our "great art" connoisseur: the first syllable is gill, not jill.
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2 comments:
Hah! I heard that, too, and said the same thing to my radio.
My guess is that someone found that cut earlier in the day and Savage decided he liked it, never having heard of Dizzy. Maybe it reminded him of his days swimming nude with Alan Ginsberg.
At least he pronounced "Tunisia" properly.
He also has a habit of pronouncing "herbal" with a hard "H," as if he is saying the name "Herb." Odd for a guy who got a Ph.D. studying herbs.
Yes! I remarked on the hard-h "herb" a few blog entries ago! And the Ginsberg remark is right on: it's really hilarious when he tries his hand at poetry and it sounds like a bad version of "Howl."
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