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Skriven 2008-02-05 02:33:54 av Ross Sauer (1:123/1011)
     Kommentar till en text av Jon Massey
Ärende: Boortz the racist, heartless bastard.
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Can ANYONE still be as stupid, as to still listen to his radio show and read
his bullshit on his web site?

Just look at this from his radio show:

BOORTZ: I'm reading here about John Edwards. Oh, what a wimp. You know what
he's gonna do now? He's gonna, he's going to continue work with Habitat
Humanity, or for Humanity, at the volunteer-fueled rebuilding project at
Musicians' Village. Where's that? Oh yeah, New Orleans, is that New Orleans? I
like this: "Edwards' campaign will end the way it began 13 months ago, with the
candidate pitching in to rebuild lives in a city still ravaged by Hurricane
Katrina. Edwards embraced New Orleans as a glaring symbol of what he described
as a Washington that didn't hear the cries of the downtrodden." Cries of the
downtrodden, my left butt cheek. That wasn't the cries of the downtrodden;
that's the cries of the useless, the worthless. New Orleans was a welfare city,
a city of parasites, a city of people who could not and had no desire to fend
for themselves. You have a hurricane descending on them and they sit on their
fat asses and wait for somebody else to come rescue them. "It's somebody else's
job to get me out of here. It's somebody else's job to save my life. Not mine.
Send me a bus, send me a limo, send me a boat, send me a helicopter, send me a
taxi, send me something. But you certainly don't expect me to actually work to
get myself out of this situation, do you? Haven't you been watching me for
generations? I've never done anything to improve my own lot in life. I've never
done anything to rescue myself. Why do you expect me to do that now, just
because a levee broke?" 

And then Edwards said, yeah, it was Washington's problem, it was all
Washington's problem, it was all George Bush's fault. You had a city of
parasites and leeches, and that's George Bush's fault? So, boy, I need to slow
down. I'm saying too many of the things I actually believe today. Let's see,
I'm gonna start, who's been waiting the longest? Well, that would be you, Mr.
Ed. 

[...]

BOORTZ: Hello, [caller], how you doing?

CALLER: I'm doing great. How are you today?

[...] 

CALLER: I used to walk for the post office. The people in New Orleans were
waiting on their government checks. They weren't moving until they got them.
That's what they were waiting on. You know, not only for somebody to do
something for them, because they certainly weren't gonna do it for themselves;
they were waiting on their checks. One other thing: I have a sister-in-law in
Newport, Rhode Island.

BOORTZ: Yeah.

CALLER: Which is probably the snootiest of the snoot-snoot places you can live.

BOORTZ: Oh, do you think it's snootier than Martha's Vineyard?

CALLER: I think so.

BOORTZ: Well, maybe -- I'm not gonna say that it's snootier than Cape Cod
because you know whose radio show is number one on Cape Cod? 

CALLER: Oh, my gosh.

BOORTZ: Me, me. Can you believe that? Cape Cod. Me.

CALLER: No, I can't believe it. Then you're really moving on up.

BOORTZ: Oh, that's stunning stuff. In fact, Belinda [Skelton, producer] and
Royal and I are gonna do a road trip up to Cape Cod this spring just to say
thanks to those people up there. And maybe go pick some cranberries. 

CALLER: Yes, do that. They got 100 of the Katrina refugees in Newport. So the
whole town goes crazy, oh, we've gotta help these people, we've gotta get jobs
for them, we have to get them a place, we have to do this. So they put on a job
fair. Do you want to take one guess how many showed up?

BOORTZ: I'll say two.

CALLER: Zero. 

BOORTZ: Zero?

CALLER: Zero.

BOORTZ: Listen, listen. When these Katrina so-called refugees were scattered
about the country, it was just a glorified episode of putting out the garbage.

CALLER: And when they keep on railing on TV, we want our homes rebuilt, our
home, our homes -- they weren't their homes. It was public housing.

BOORTZ: It's like these people say, they're taking my jobs and sending them
overseas. It's not your job.

ROYAL MARSHALL (engineer and "sidekick"): I've got to jump in here and bring
some sense back to the program. A lot of people that lost their homes in New
Orleans did actually own them. If you look at the videos -- I'm sure this
caller has watched Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke and saw the tragedy that
was, you know, laid upon these people at their feet. And to assume that they
were waiting on a welfare check is just ridiculous.

BOORTZ: Royal was right, [caller], a lot of these people did own their homes. 

CALLER: Yes, they did. A lot of them did; a lot of them did not. I would
imagine the ones that did not were the most vocal.

BOORTZ: Well --

CALLER: And that, yes, trust me. As a mail carrier, they were waiting on their
checks.

BOORTZ: Well, I don't know if -- you see, I don't think they were waiting on
their checks before they would evacuate after a flood. But I do think, I do
think that their entire lifestyle prior to Katrina was sitting around on their
asses and waiting for checks. 

[...]

BOORTZ: I mean, I am sick -- here is this John Edwards character announcing,
admitting to the world that he's a complete failure as a presidential candidate
in New Orleans. Now he's gonna go build Habitat for Humanity homes. Well, isn't
that just so sweet and warm and fuzzy. If he walks by here before he drives in
the next nail I'll kiss him right on the mouth. But the fact of the matter is,
you know, he's doing good work, fine. 

But I am fed up with this conventional wisdom that Katrina and the disaster
that followed was George Bush's fault. It was not. The primary blame goes on
the worthless parasites who lived in New Orleans who you -- couldn't even wipe
themselves, let alone get out of the way of the water when that levee broke. 

NEW CALLER: I completely agree. And anybody who had the right mind to get out
of there did. 

Neil Boortz, January 30th radio show


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