(Va.)Delegates call for boycotting talk show host (Boortz) for Tech stance

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http://www.roanoke.com/vtreactions/wb/115279

The radio personality referred to the "wussification of America" and asked why students did not retaliate.

Three members of the Virginia House of Delegates are calling on radio stations to drop self-described "Talkmaster" Neal Boortz after his comments that Virginia Tech students should have done more to defend themselves.

"Mr. Boortz's hateful comments should have no place in this Commonwealth, particularly at this trying time," says a letter that Dels. Jim Shuler, D-Blacksburg; Steve Shannon, D-Fairfax County; and Chuck Caputo, D-Fairfax County, sent Monday to the eight Virginia stations that carry Boortz.

"How in the hell do you line students up against a wall (if that's the way it played out) and start picking them off one by one without the students turning on you? You have a choice. Try to rush the killer and get his gun, or stand there and wait to be shot," Boortz says in the April 17 program notes on his Web site.

By April 19, Boortz was saying he had expressed his point inappropriately. But he continued to say students' response should be discussed. Boortz's online notes from last week wonder, "Did the relentless attack on individualism by the left play a role? ... Were there students in those classrooms who had been indoctrinated since grade school that you do not retaliate when attacked at school?"

"His characterization of the victims is just outrageous," Shannon said Monday, adding that he had heard complaints from constituents about Boortz. "We're asking radio stations to assume some responsibility for the public good."

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1. Oh Now I understand

to be an individual I have to be heavily armed at all times (handguns, hand grenades, flamethrowers.) And, if someone looks at me cross ways at the gas station I just blow the fuck out of him to show off my individuality. Hey, it must really be cool having a conservative brain.

And I didn't know that I had been indoctrinated since grade school. I went to Catholic School through the sixth grade and thanks the Sisters I knew a thing or two about violence.

Too bad ole neal wasn't on campus, he'da kicked some serious ass.

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3. You want to be an individual just like everyone else ....

DON'T YOU!?!?!?

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4. Exactly

just like neal and rush and sean are individuals.

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8. But why wasn't Neal on campus?

I mean, the massacre continued on for a couple of hours. Why didn't Boortz charter a plane, load up his weapons, and fly to Blacksburg to show us all how it's done? He had the time, the means, and clearly the mindset to put things to right, and yet . . . he didn't. I wonder why?

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2. It's a shame that you have to have a national movement to ..

rid ourselves of an asshat like this. Broadcasters don't have the decency to remove them on their own. Clearly we need to do a lot of house cleaning once we ge rid of GOP control

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5. Do ya think reagan had a motive when he

got rid of the FAIRNESS Doctrine? He fucked the doctrine and gave birth to the likes of limbaugh and boortz and hannity (people who couldn't make a living any other way) and the hate has flooded our airways unabated. Its very telling that those involved in the right wing hate noise machine have an incredible fear of the FAIRNESS Doctrine. It would cause them to be "persecuted." Just like the preachers who don't want their hate speech to be labeled hate speech.

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6. I'm not sure Reagan could even find his way around the ..

White House. He approved whatever he was advised to approve. That was the beginning of the Republican philosophy of electing a popular dimwit and surrounding him with a bunch of so call experts and letting them run things. We see how that's worked out.

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7. Conservatives have that scenario covered

The government does not work, put us in charge and we'll prove it.

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9. I'm glad his sh*tty mouth is finally catching up to him

He is vile.