He earned a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine from the University of California, Berkeley. Under his real name, Savage/Weiner was an herbalist before he was a conservative commentator. He is also rumored to be a massive closet case, having had a past history of skinnydipping with certain homosexual 1960s poets (he was ejected from said company by virtue of being incredibly insecure and annoying).[5][6] He also once wrote a weird, semi-autobiographical stream-of-consciousness novel about a closeted, psychotic herbalist (which, you have to admit, are words you seldom see applied to the same person).
As a white male Savage feels so entitled to everything that he tried and failed to apply for dean of UC Berkeley's graduate school of journalism (seriously) and after being rejected in favor of Orville Schell (someone with real journalistic credentials) he used that incident as the basis of his opposition towards affirmative action and even filed a frivolous discrimination lawsuit assisted by a David Horowitz-funded organization.[5] In 1991, Savage published a whiny screed The Death of the White Male based on his experience instead of doing what Herman Cain would've told him: "Blame yourself!"
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