For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
Frank Kaner of Powder Springs, Georgia, nominated Neil Boortz
as the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week because "He lies when it doesn't
even matter! Thinks he's being cool with his racist innuendoes. Couldn't
tell
the truth
if his
life
depended
on it!"
In short, the "libertarian" pundit put the boor -- "a churlish,
rude, or unmannerly person" -- into Boortz. Neil supports some liberal
issues as an alleged libertarian, but most of his audience are right-wingers
to the max. So the libertarian side of him is pretty much submerged in his
pro-Iraq war, flat tax, anti-Islam, anti-homeless people sentiments.
Media Matters cited Boortz for one of the most outrageous on-air comments
of 2006 when he said of former Rep. Cynthia McKinney's (D-GA) hairstyle: "She
looks like a ghetto slut. ... It looks like an explosion in a Brillo pad
factory. ... She looks like Tina Turner peeing on an electric fence. ...
She looks like a shih tzu!"
Did you know that companies pay to advertise on shows such as Boortz's? It
boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Media Matters also took note of one of Boortz's many
grossly offensive statements in 2007:
During his June 21 show, Boortz offered a suggestion he said
he got from a listener's email: "When we defeat this illegal alien amnesty
bill, and when we yank out the welcome mat, and they all start going back
to Mexico, as a going away gift let's all give them a box of nuclear waste." Boortz
continued: "Give 'em all a little nuclear waste and let 'em take it
on down there to Mexico. Tell 'em it can -- it'll heat tortillas."
This is the "civilized" society that the "conservative" talk
show hosts offer up to us? Apparently so.
Boortz, Coulter, Limbaugh and the rest are shock jocks, drawing in huge
paychecks, by expressing thoughts on the air that are outside the pale
of acceptable
discourse, except they get away with it. That's a painful commentary on
the state of American media, and the corporate world that makes these people "marketable
brands" by funding their programs and giving them a platform.
Many illegal Mexican immigrants work two or three jobs at below minimum wage
to send money back to their families in Mexico. They have integrity and dignity
and the ultimate in family values.
Neil Boortz doesn't have any of these values that the conservatives supposedly
cherish, just has a microphone and a political potty mouth -- and that makes
him the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week.
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