Why is Neal Boortz Still Broadcasting on American Airwaves?
BOORTZ: You know what? I, for one, am tired of putting up with this crap. And you want to know why I moved out of Atlanta and only spend a couple of weeks a year in this town? That's one of the reasons. Carjackings, violence, people getting shot. It's ridiculous. This city harbors an urban culture of violence. And I want you to look around. You drive into the city. The railroad overpass is on the downtown connector covered with graffiti. And that-- That is just an advertisement for everybody coming into this town that we really don't give a damn about those who would screw up our quality of life around here. We really just don't care. We don't care enough to paint over graffiti on the overpasses that come into our city, advertising welcome to Atlanta, here's some of our finest graffiti, from some of our finest urban thugs and their little gang signs. And pick up the paper tomorrow morning. Read about all the carjackings. Read about the innocent people shot for the pure de-hell of it.
This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I'll tell you what it's gonna take. You people, you are - you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city. And let their -- let their mommas -- let their mommas say, "He was a good boy. He just fell in with the good crowd." And then lock her ass up.Media Matters
Neal Boortz has called for killing! He claims it is self defense, but he has taken law enforcement, the court system and the rule of law totally out of the picture.
He has put out a call for all his listeners, you know them, the 'good citizens of Atlanta' to pick up arms! Go get "trained" people, before you head out to do some "urban thug" hunting. Don't forget your permit, while you drive down that Atlanta street, sweaty palmed, just waiting for that "urban thug, Yo". Every stop light is a potential killing ground. If one of those "urban thugs" come near your precious car, the car you work every day to pay for, the car that is the life blood of your family, when that "urban thug" comes to take your car away, you will be ready to shoot him dead "right where he stands!" That car of yours is far more important than any "urban thug's" life, "yo."...but why wait until they get to your car, like the Bush doctrine taught us (get them before they get you) and "see some dead thugs littering the landscape" in the ATL!
I know I went a little overboard here, but seriously, why is this guy still on the air? I heard today that he is a lawyer so we can assume that he isn't a total idiot, but from a simple Google search he does have a history of being a racist. Why is this guy who put out a call for citizens to pick up arms and become vigilantes still on the radio? Have we become so desensitized by the "Right Wing Shock Jocks" of the world that this man's rhetoric is no longer shocking? I found it extremely disturbing and so does Ed Schultz and Joe Madison. Joe said on Ed's show this morning, "I think that skin heads are thugs, does that mean I can go out and shoot them too?" Could you imagine the outrage if "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison went on his show and said what Boortz did, only about skin heads? Both of these guys have called out Boortz on their radio shows and Ed has done so on his MSNBC show, but the big 4 networks have said nothing. I do remember a story about 3 New Black Panther members standing outside a predominantly Democratic polling place in Philly in 2008, on not just the nightly network news but my local news here in Wisconsin, but not a peep about this "more dead thugs in this city guy". I don't want this to just fade into another news cycle and neither does Joe Madison. He is telling his listeners to call the people responsible for putting this man on the air: Cox Communications/Cox Media Group. Several of his callers tried to call Cox directly, but they transferred them over to the Neal Boortz show producers. Cox put out a statement saying they were sorry for anyone who was offended, and providing links to Boortz's show.
One of the Mom things that I used to tell my little "urban thugs" before they went out to play with a ball or bat was, "That is your responsibility, if something gets broken because of your ball or bat, you are to blame, even if you weren't holding it at the time. You make the choice to take it outside or not." Knowing full well that if something got broken, my child would be the only one left stand there anyway, because the rest of the kids (non-urban thugs) would scatter. And things did get broken, and my kids did take responsibility and were often rewarded with not having to pay for the window. This is how Cox should be treated. You have to take responsibility for what you put on your air!
Cox Enterprises: http://www.cox.com
Corporate Headquarters:
Cox Media Group
6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: (678) 645-0000
Fax: (678) 645-5002
Links to the Radio: http://www.wsbradio.com/contact-us/
WSB-AM
1601 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: (404) 897-7500
Fax: (404) 897-7363
You can't scream "fire" in a crowded theater and you can't call for the landscape of Atlanta to be littered with the bodies of dead "urban thugs, Yo!"
Cox Media Group
6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: (678) 645-0000
Fax: (678) 645-5002
Links to the Radio: http://www.wsbradio.com/contact-us/
WSB-AM
1601 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: (404) 897-7500
Fax: (404) 897-7363
You can't scream "fire" in a crowded theater and you can't call for the landscape of Atlanta to be littered with the bodies of dead "urban thugs, Yo!"
15 comments:
Bridget wrote (via Facebook): "The Big 4 won't do jack about it, either. The Big Money that is running the attack around the country has plenty invested in this kind of hate-mongering. They want to push enough to get some kind of violent backlash so they can perhaps move forward with martial law."
Police don't stop crime they only investigate it. If you're ever in a situation where you need a gun, a gun is the only thing that is going to do you any good.
Get rid of guns? Ok, show me how you can keep 13 year olds getting any kind of drug they want 7 days a week first.
Mass murder over the last 30 years has only happened in Gun Free Zones. Get over it.
And if you take a hard look, it is the hard left individual who is more prone to violence. Reagan was shot 5 times. Obama? Clinton? Carter? No attempts made on their lives, nor will there be. Conservatives are peaceful.
These hate radio jocks try to outdo one another to get their ratings up. This Boortz jackass has finally outdone the stupid in this latest effort to gain attention from the MSM.
I can't wait to hear his next pronouncement where he encourages his "listeners" to steal little Christian babies and roast them for dinner.
With a nice chianti to wash it down.
Malcolm, what Bridget said has been one of my favorite 'tin foil hat' thoughts for years. Their goal is to make this country SO bad that we will be begging them to come in with their private militia(Blackwater) to restore order and tell us all what to do. It is getting harder to put on that tin foil hat when my Gov. is trying to sell my state off to all his rich buddies.
Shaw, they have been taught that hate sells BIG. I thought Rush would have been off the air a long time ago, but he keeps pushing the hate and they keep giving him more money. Now it has gone beyond "normal hate" (wow, that is sickening to think hate is normal) with this Boortz guy. It doesn't look like he will be punished so now we get to brace ourselves for their next step into crazy land. AND when someone gets shot in the head, the shooter was a, 'violent Communist far left mass murderer'
Hi Kid, how are you?
Thanks again for this guest post Mary. The media should be all over this story. Like Rush, Neal is clever enough to use language that isn't blatantly racist. Although I think he's referring to blacks when he used the terms "urban" and "yo", there's no way to prove it. Even if Neal wasn't referring to blacks, he's still suggesting his listeners take the law into their own hands. I don't see how anyone can defend that. If someone follows Neal's suggestion, we could very well have a Bernard Goetz-like incident happen.
Notice how at the 2:15 mark of the clip, the producers starts playing music when Neal starts to ratchet up the inflammatory rhetoric. Although I can't say for sure this was the case, but producers in radio will sometimes employ this trick when the host's comments cross the line.
@ Kid who said:
"And if you take a hard look, it is the hard left individual who is more prone to violence."
"Conservatives are peaceful."
Come on dude, you can't be serious! John Hinckley's motivation for attempting to assassinate President Reagan wasn't political... he simply wanted to impress Jodie Foster. According to reports, Hinckley had been trailing from state-to-state Jimmy Carter when he was president. Therefore, it's likely Carter would have been the target had he been re-elected and Reagan wouldn't have been shot by Hinckley.
As for there being no assassination attempts against Clinton, that's not true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Martin_Duran
Furthermore, although no one has shot at President Obama, he has received more than his share of death threats. So many in fact, it’s hard for the Secret Service to keep up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2eTd8fO4IU&feature=related
To the best of my knowledge, no conclusive study has been done which connects a person’s political viewpoint with the likelihood they will commit a violent act. However, your sweeping generalization that “conservatives are peaceful” just doesn’t hold up when you look at the facts.
Here’s a Rachel Maddow segment on death threats against Democrats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWbXDZXlkY&feature=related
The story about the gunman who targeted both the Tides Foundation and the ACLU and as a result, got into a shootout with the cops:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20011219-504083.html
The story about the man who shot up a church, killing two people, because of his hatred for the liberal movement:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D926V4880&show_article=1
Not to mention Timothy McVeigh (who was last known to be a registered Republican) and all the violence committed by anti-abortion activists over the years. Do you think all the examples I’ve given you were permitted by far left individuals masquerading as conservatives?
Malcom, the folks you're talking about are maniacs, and certainly not politically motivated. McVeigh was an Arab sympathizer..
What I'm talking about are liberals who attack recruiting agents at universities like a screaming mob of children.
Liberals who vandalize republican voting headquarters.
Liberals who slash the tires of Republican voter assistance vans.
And of course, I said Conservatives, not republicans. People who say they are Republicans today may as well say they are democrats because republicans are useless and do nothing to turn back the Democrat agenda.
Also, Take a look at pictures of when liberals march on a site, whether it be something they don't like in San Fran or march on Washington DC. While they are there the police are kept busy and when they leave, they leave their signs and their trash. 2 million plus conservatives marched on DC recently, and had a good time talking to the police and left not a spec of trash. This is what I'm talking about. I'd never heard of any attempt on Carter. Doesn't seem like its well known.
Hi MaryB. I'm doing good, totally non violent.
Malcolm PS
btw- I know nothing about Neil Boortz, so my comments shouldn't be associated with him.
You know, I'm also reacting to our incompetent head of DHS who says things like "look out for returning Afghan vets and the "Right' as they are most prone to be domestic terrorists". loosely quoted.
A statement so Unreal and tool-ish is goes beyond words.
Malcolm, Neal Boortz actually doubled down on the racist angle. He misquoted some numbers about violence in the black community. The media just doesn't care anymore. Ed had it on his show on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43473686#43473686
This has everything to do about racism and he can hide behind his "self defense" crap, but he isn't worried about crime in the city of Atlanta, he doesn't even live there anymore, he is worried about making a name for himself and saying something so stupid he will be a shoe in for a job a Fox "News" Channel.
You did a wonderful job refuting the Kid, but you shouldn't have bothered. That is not what he is here for. He doesn't care about your stinking facts. He told you himself:
"btw- I know nothing about Neil Boortz, so my comments shouldn't be associated with him."
He wasn't here to comment of the blog post, he was here to be a troll. I therefore acknowledged his humanity, because he is one of our species, then I ignored him. (which is usually followed by a litany of personal attacks, but did not happen in the Kid's case, he must be a kinder and gentler troll.)
Mary, Yes, I'm a very peaceful troll.
Lol
Good luck to ya and us. Difficult times we're in and I understand how easy it is to be polarized either way.
Kid: You said, "What I'm talking about are liberals who attack recruiting agents at universities like a screaming mob of children. Liberals who vandalize republican voting headquarters. Liberals who slash the tires of Republican voter assistance vans."
Come on now... you were talking about more than that in your original comments. Otherwise you wouldn't have brought up Reagan being shot and the Democratic presidents who haven't. Besides, if you think conservatives aren’t capable of vandalism, littering, or vitriolic/physical attacks against those with opposing views, you’re deluding yourself.
Also, just because the people I mentioned are maniacs in your opinion doesn't mean they aren’t also conservative. Besides, you used John Hinckley as part of your argument. A man who was ruled insane and didn’t shoot Reagan for political reasons. Kid, you’re spinning like a top man.
You think the folks I mentioned weren’t politically motivated?! Just to be clear, I don’t think Francisco Duran’s assassination attempt against Clinton was politically motivated. I only included him in my comments because you said an assassination attempt was never made against Clinton. However, if you don't think Byron Williams, Jim D. Adkisson and the incidents where Democrats were targeted weren’t politically motivated, you’re showing me you have no interest in facts.
Although your "conservatives are peaceful" claim was off topic, I addressed it because it's so nonsensical. However, if you think we're going to get into a drawn out debate about which side is more peaceful, it's not going to happen. Now if you have something to add about the actual topic of this post, I’d love to hear it. Otherwise, I’ll look forward to your comments on any future Diversity Ink posts.
Mary: Thanks for including the link to the Ed Schultz piece. I posted it to my Facebook page. What I’d love to see happen is for Ed or Joe Madison to invite Neal Boortz on their program for a debate over this issue. I doubt if Neal would have the guts to show up though.
As for Kid, when I see conservatives spout that kind of B.S. elsewhere, I often let it slide. I wasn’t having it in this case. However, had Kid made it clear in his original comments that he knew nothing about Boortz and that his comments shouldn’t be associated with Boortz, I would have ignored him. I will admit it was fun slapping Kid down with those things many conservatives are allergic to: facts.
The Ed Show did contact Neal Boortz's people and they declined the invite. Once again the ramped up right get to throw their violent rhetoric around and don't have to stand behind it. Shame!
Mary: Boortz' decline of Ed's invitation doesn't surprise me at all. Boortz is just like Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity. They talk pretty loud on their own shows, but don't have the guts to defend their actions on someone else's turf.
Kid: You may have noticed I deleted your last comments. In my previous response to you, I thought I was pretty clear in asking that you stick to the actual topic of this post. Apparently, I wasn't.
The reason Mary and I have deemed you a troll is because you fit the definition. Look it up sometime. I have no issue with people whose views oppose mine coming here and debating the topics on which we post. However, I have zero interest in off-topic debates here. If you allow people to do it on your blog, that's your business. It's not happening here though. I hope I've cleared things up.
No, I didn't notice :)
I have to agree with the spirit of what he said. I would not have phrased it that way, but yes we need more people to stand up to criminals.
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