Radio blowhard and new tweeter Michael Savage (I bet that’s not the first time he’s been called that, but I digress) announced on his program this evening that he is going to start a letter-writing campaign to get his name of the UK’s “banned in Britain” list.

Savage said that he will begin the campaign after Labor Day. His goal is to get 100 US congress members to sign on and put pressure on the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to remove Savage’s name from the list.

You will remember that Savage was included on a “name and shame” list released in early May by then-Hom Secretary Jacqui Smith. The list was a subset of a larger list of people who would not be allowed in Britain.

Savage reacted angrily, of course, suing Smith and the British government for defamation.

Savage now has his panties in knots because of the recent release of the Lockerbie bombing terrorist from a Scottish prison. He bemoans his “fact” that Brown released the terrorist, but won’t take him off the list. (The release was actually approved by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, but there are reports that Brown had a hand in it.)

So Savage will now, no doubt, turn to his listeners to write letters to their federal Representatives and Senators, asking them to join the Savage bandwagon.

Will any respond? No doubt. There have been a handful of wingnuts who have appeared on Savage’s program, so I have no doubt he’ll get some support.

But 100? That might be stretching it.

But it doesn’t matter, because if the letter-writing campaign fails, Savage will act as though it never existed, like he does with all his failures.

Keep the faith.