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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:44 PM
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Boortz To The Rescue
A Grateful Memo To Neal Boortz
From Nancy Greggs

Having read your comments re the Virginia Tech incident, (i.e. ) I have to say that I couldn’t agree more with your analysis of the situation.

Our young men and women are becoming way too wussified, and that bodes ill for the entire country – especially in these times when we are virtually hours away from having to fight terrorists right down the road at the local mall.

But given the role models our children are growing up with, is it any wonder that they are turning out the way they are?

One has to look no further than the current administration to see where this glorification of wussification started. We have a president whose daddy had to get him into the National Guard during the Viet Nam days, because Junior was too scared to do his military duty – and then the little pisser (obviously as lazy as he was cowardly) couldn’t even be bothered to show up for cushy duty.

And things certainly haven’t changed. Remember when Lil’ Georgie was questioned by the 9-11 Commission – and insisted that Uncle Dick Cheney go with him? I guess he needed Uncle Dick to hold his hand because his Mommie wasn’t allowed to attend.

The Wuss-in-Chief just loves playing dress-up Commander Guy, and yet he can’t even face a crowd of people if they haven’t been pre-screened and hand-picked ahead of time. It just cracks me up when he talks about fighting ‘em over there instead of here, because it’s obvious that all Al Qeada would have to do to take the guy down is ask him a question that wasn’t pre-approved and pre-answered. Geesh, no wonder American kids are turning out to be such cowards, with that kind of Zero-the-Hero at the helm.

Then there’s Dick “Five Deferments” Cheney, the girly-man who, after shooting his friend in the face, had to have the Little Lady of the house he was staying at go out and deal with the reporters. What a wussified dick he turned out to be. No wonder he spends most of his time at an undisclosed location – he’s too damned scared to do anything else.

I hate to tar an entire group with one enormous crybaby brush, but you can’t ignore the impact of those Republicans who rubber-stamped every idiotic Bush-the-Wuss idea that came down the pike. Want to spy on citizens? Want to use illegal wire-taps? Want to bankrupt the country with debt? “Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir, whatever you want. We’ll forget our oversight role and just give you whatever you demand.” And people have the audacity to wonder why the younger generation are growing up to be so spineless, when the root of this evil couldn’t be clearer.

The real tragedy is how all-pervasive this wussification has been during the Bush years, and if you look at the C-in-C’s (Coward-in-Chief’s) so-called advisors, the PNAC crowd, it is blatantly obvious how this all started. I mean, Bill Kristol, for God’s sake? Imagine being in combat with that shrinking violet; you’d have to call for a time out in the middle of the War on Terror every fifteen minutes so he could have his hair re-fluffed and his manicure re-done.

As for your statement about the “ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals”, I think that pretty well sums things up. Had all of the VT students been packin’ heat, this tragedy could not have been avoided – but we’d certainly have had way more dead students than the paltry amount we wound up with. It could have been a glorious free-for-all, with guns blazing and literally hundreds of students being shot to death in the confusion that ensued.

Granted, a lot more parents would have been burying their children – but their grief would have been more than compensated by knowing that their kids went out in a blaze of glory, firing their last round with pride and a sense of patriotism that has been all but lost over the past few years.

I think we can agree that losing a child in such a manner would be a tragic thing. However, there are worse fates for one’s offspring; like watching them grow up to be an idiotic radio personality who cowers behind his microphone while telling everybody else what they would have done in any given circumstance, if only they’d been there.

We may have become a wussified nation – but knowing that you are at-the-ready to protect us gives me hope for a safer, more secure America.

NOTE TO READERS: Should you find yourself confronted with anyone who is crazed and armed, please contact Neal Boortz for immediate assistance at: Cox Radio Syndication, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:48 PM
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1. Thanks for this.
As for your statement about the “ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals”, I think that pretty well sums things up. Had all of the VT students been packin’ heat, this tragedy could not have been avoided – but we’d certainly have had way more dead students than the paltry amount we wound up with. It could have been a glorious free-for-all, with guns blazing and literally hundreds of students being shot to death in the confusion that ensued.


This is so very true.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:51 PM
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2. THIS is the way these assholes need to be portrayed
they've made such a big deal out of their tough guy image yet almost to a man they managed to weasel out of military service during the Viet Nam era. Ridicule is an ideal tactic to put their cowardice in perspective. Wonder how many of them actually know how to fire a handgun (well maybe the dick does but very few others).
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:51 PM
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3. I dunno Nance
seems to me there's no-one on earth better qualified to talk about wussiness than Boortz. He writes what he knows, poor little shriveled-up pork sausage that he is.

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brg5001 Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 12:21 PM
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23. Boortz will debate, but only for money
Neil Boortz is a radio tyrant, in which anyone who challenges him in the least is subject to ad hominem attacks ("Why are you angry at successful people...") or is cut off for refusing to "listen to reason" or, when he is exasperated, is just given an open mic for about 30 seconds. When the caller asks Boortz to respond, he just asks "are you finished?" but won't discuss the facts or engage the caller in a reasonable or intelligent way.

While he is very open-minded about sexual orientation (surprisingly so), he continues to delude himself that Repukes are somehow "fiscally conservative" relative to Dems, having adopted supply-side rhetoric as well as knee-jerk neoconservative foreign policy ideas. That is, he loves tax cuts and thinks the Iraq war was a brilliant idea.

This asshole now has the nerve to blame those who opposed the war for its failure. He worships Rush Limbaugh and has a similarly short-tempered, bombastic, abrasive style which seems to please the toadies who listen to him. Those who come armed with facts are, as I mentioned earlier, subject to ad hominem attacks. He's an attorney who knows how to verbally pound the table when the facts and/or the law are not to his liking.

My favorite moment as a former Boortz listener was when his sidekick, Royal Marshall (who is African American) challenged his comment that "no one in Florida was prevented from voting in 2000." Royal mentioned that an outsourcer misidentified thousands of Black Democratic voters as convicted felons which has been clearly documented. Boortz cut him off and said, "enough!"

For a professed Libertarian, he sure sounds like a lot like a reactionary Republican. With Boortz, if a liberal suggests it, or agrees with it, then it must be a bad idea. He has been challenged to debates numerous times but considers debates "personal appearances" for which he expects to receive thousands of dollars. Like Faux News, the only left-of-center voices you hear are people who send him hate mail or who are poor debaters. Those who are talented are cut off or never get on the air.

No wonder he vociferously opposes equal time and claims that the airwaves are not owned by the public, in direct contradiction to the Communications Act of 1934. He is truly one of the "Worst People of the Decade."
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:56 PM
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4. You really should
be writing commentary for a newspaper or magazine. Your stuff is really good!
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:04 PM
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9. Yes! Try sending it to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution! n/t
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:44 PM
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13. Nance's OPs are too good to be written for free!
Nance, you should be paid for these gems.

No offense intended toward anyone else who is offering great stuff without pay.
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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:57 PM
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5. Remind me again what branch of service Boortz served in....
...I'm scratching my head trying to think of one, but dang it if I can remember.
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:59 PM
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6. He was with the 101st Bloviators aka "The Fightin' Windbags"
but keep it on the down-low. He hates to brag.

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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:03 PM
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8. That's right....
The 14th "Fighting Key Board Operators" Corps, 101st "Fighting Windbags" Bloviator Division, 2nd "Sucking Thumbs" Brigade, 9th "Curled in the Fetal Position" Battalion. That's the ticket.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 10:07 PM
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15. The 82nd Chairborne
That's my favorite.
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:24 PM
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11. He fought in "Operation Chickenhawk."
:evilgrin:
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 04:21 AM
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18. You know, there might be paydirt there....
Boortz was a cadet at one of only two public universities which has a Corps of Cadets, Texas A&M.

Certainly such violence as happened at VT could never happen at a school where there are a thousand officers-in-training.

Oh, wait. Virginia Tech is the other school with a corps of cadets.

Anyway, I see in Boortz's Wikipedia entry that he graduated as an officer candidate in 1967 and then kicked around doing odd jobs for the rest of his draft eligibility.

Wonder how he got away with that?

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PegDAC Donating Member (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 10:50 AM
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21. Sofa King,
you must be thinking about VMI (Virginia Military Institute).
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 01:39 PM
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24. No, I'm right about this.
VMI is a state-sponsored military academy, as is the Citadel (the Citadel also calls its students the Corps of Cadets), but those are cadet-only schools.

Only A&M and (VT) have a military academy incorporated into an otherwise civilian, public university. Both cadet programs were started in the 1870s. VT's first Commandant of Cadets was a VMI graduate and Confederate officer named James Lane, but Lane Stadium is not named for him.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 11:10 AM
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22. Probably had a pimple on his butt...
It worked for Jeff Christie.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:02 PM
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7. Excellent as always...
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blondie58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:19 PM
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10. why, it is incredible that this tragedy even happened
Edited on Sun May-06-07 08:24 PM by blondie58
as we have Commander Guy to protect us all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x26455

Great job, as usual, Nance!
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NoAmericanTaliban Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:37 PM
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12. Boortz is just another chicken-hawk blow hard republican talking pointer
I had written him a couple years back on the fact that he was blaming the Dems for low moral the troops in Iraq have. It was all the Dems fault. I suggested he go to Iraq and cheer them up - maybe even suit up and join them since he missed out on that chance during Vietnam. I thought he had a trick knee that kept him out. He actually wrote back - about me wanting him to get killed in Iraq and that it wasn't a trick knee that kept him out of the draft.

He now claims that Cox will not let him in Iraq or Afghanistan because of some contract. What B.S.!!! It is his way to have someone else to blame.

Wonder if he will write you back. I used to listen to him for a while - just for fun - he claims he is a libertarian, but he is really big time Repuke. I haven't listened to him for months.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 08:54 PM
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14. Boortz is a genuinely sick man. He babbles and rambles like a
90 year old man with advanced Alzheimers.

He can't talk for 5 minutes with out his sidekicks Belinda or Royal propping him up.

Can you imagine this pathetic mental case packing a weapon???????????
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ChipperbackDemocrat Donating Member (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 10:16 PM
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16. Conservatives talk so much trash, they ought to call them selves "Deion"
All these conservatives talk tough...until they see two men kissing. That's what really freightens them

An official GOP song..

We're afraid of the big bad gays! The big bad gays! The big bad gays!
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intaglio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 03:28 AM
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17. Nice to see you back
Missed your journals
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 08:44 AM
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19. I REALLY hope you're getting this published somewhere else too.
Here at DU you are preaching to the choir. We certainly appreciate and treasure your concise & well-reasoned OPs. But your writing is at the level that you should have a nationally syndicated column. I think your writing style is more focused and readable than Maureen Dowd, as one example. I also appreciate that you take the time to participate in other people's threads/OPs - which makes you a valued member of the community.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 09:44 AM
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20. You are awesome

:thumbsup: :applause:

Thank you for sharing your great mind with DU.

Neil will hate and enjoy your way of putting them all in their own wussie place.




... I'm putting his # in Atlanta on my speed-dial right now. :evilgrin:

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muffin1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-08-07 03:24 PM
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25. Your writing is always spot on
I'm new to posting here at DU, though I have read nearly everything you have written. Your journals never fail to make me laugh and/or cry.
I'm sure another one of my favorite writers, the late, great Molly Ivins would be proud!:applause:
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