I guess it’s not enough that Savage was profiled in the New Yorker, and given an incredibly positive profile at that. (Some would say fawning.)

No that’s not enough for our favorite self-aggrandizing blowhard. He has to make it out to be more than it is.

At the bottom of Savage’s Web site appears his claim that he is the “only media figure in history” to be profiled by the venerable magazine.

Really, Savage? You want to go with that?

A one-minute (literally one minute) Google search puts the lie to this claim.

There’s a book available at Amazon.com called Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker that is, as its title implies, a collection of profiles. Included in this collection: Johnny Carson, newsman and publisher Henry Luce and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Edna Buchanan, media figures all.

And I found all that without even trying.

This guy’s need for public acclaim borders on the psychotic. It’s not good enough for Savage that a magazine with the reputation and readership of the New Yorker would even bother to include his name in an article, let alone slobber all over him with a press release-worthy profile, but then he has to make it out to be more than it is. Why would he lie about something that is so easily disproved? Because he knows the mouth-breathers who hang on his every word and take it as gospel won’t check his veracity. “Savage said it, so it must be true,” is their mantra.

And what happens to those of us who have the temerity to question their hero? There’s never anything said about the substance of what we say (as is evidenced by the comments I’ve receive on other sites). No, the criticism takes the form of personal attacks, name-calling and other hallmarks of the Savage Nation indoctrination.

So it’s no wonder that Savage feels safe in propping himself up with lies, when he knows the saps who listen to him and send him money for his “legal defense” (the man makes about $10 million a year, according to published reports. People, wake up!) will swallow what he gives them and then resort to schoolyard taunts against his critics.

Keep the faith.