On Neal "Save the rich first" Boortz

[Mortos]

Neal Boortz, conservative radio talk show host said on his syndicated show that rich people should be saved first in the event of terror attacks or natural disasters. Poor people, in Boortz' opinion, are not worth saving. They are "undeducated", "can barely read", and "have children they can't afford".

Boortz is like the Fred Phelp's church members, extreme and vitriolic but speaks for many more people on the right who are afraid to voice their true opinions.

I have one question for Mr. Boortz: If you save the rich and let the poor perish, who is going to work in the factories for minimum wage? Who is going to cook and clean and pick up the trash of the elite? Who is going to buy the crap at Wal-Mart and keep this teetering economy going?

The gap between rich and poor is ever widening in this corporate dominated country and I know and work with many more poor people than I do rich. We may be getting closer and closer to a class revolution and the rich, while powerful by means of their money, are far outnumbered by the poor uneducated hardworking masses.

If their is a class war, my money is on the poor. I know all the conservative radio talk show hosts would be easy marks because of their poor physical condition, pale sensitive white skin and flabby asses.

The irony is that most of the local conservative talk show hosts make less than stellar incomes off of their shows. Some of them have resorted to begging to keep their alleged 100,000 hits per month websites functioning. Nearly all of them have to flack products or services to supplement their meager incomes. Their Rush Limbaugh fantasies keep them plugging along and propagandizing for the upper class elites they hope to someday join.

My grandfather used to say, "If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a democrat". I would add; If you want to leave the poor to die in terrorist attacks and natural disasters, just keep voting republican. They are doing a bang up job already.

[wryter2000]

1. Franken meltdown

Did you hear Boortz meltdown on Franken when Franken caught him in an all-out lie? It was right after AAR started, so spring of 2004. God, it was sweet. Franken had the audio on the AAR site for a while. I wonder if it's archived over there.

[Kagemusha]

2. You know, it's not the bleeping point.

No government worth its salt should ever concede being in a position to have to choose between rich and poor, healthy or sick, black or white, male or female. We are not building Noah's Ark. We are not conceding defeat regarding the government's duty to protect its citizens - ALL its citizens - from evil and calamity.

I would not go after Boortz for choosing the rich or the poor. I would go after him for conceding that we would ever allow civilization to come to that choice. That is defeatism, pure and simple.

[Mortos]

3. Read or Listen to Boortz

Statement. He comes out and says the rich are more valuable to society than the poor. They are worth intrinsically more and are therefore worth saving. Boortz comments are not far off what Nazi's said about Jews and Gypsys.

What he said is reprehensible.

[Ladyhawk]

4. So, how long until it goes from allowing the poor to die to killing

them outright?

I'm disabled. Oh! Oh! Kill me first!!! I have NOTHING to offer society.

[notadmblnd]

5. I think it's time for a general strike in this country

just to show the hoity toity who it really is that keeps this country running. They (the rich) think they are self sufficient? Who's going to do their laundry, watch their kids, cut their grass, sweat in their factories and create the millions they hoard if the poor are eliminated?

[Eric J in MN]

6. Unfortunately, dreams of being rich someday

affect a lot of voters, not just conservative talk show hosts.

[SillyGoose]

7. Neil Boortz asks us to put some logical thought into this.

Boortz described the poorest Americans as "a drag on society"...

"Come on. Just put a little logical thought into this, folks."

Umm...ok.

Talk radio hosts, such as Mr. Boortz, are a "drag on society" because they release massive quantities of hot air into the atmosphere thus increasing global warming. Applying logic accordingly, Neil would find himself on the outside looking in.