Puke alert: Boortz being inducted into National Radio Hall of Fame

[CurtEastPoint]

Gawd:

From today's AJC:

This November — after 40 years on the air and answering more than 180,000 callers — the WSB (AM 750) radio host will really have something to crow about. He will be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame — the highest honor a radio host can achieve.

“People outside our industry have no idea how big a deal this is,” says Boortz’s WSB colleague and close friend, Clark Howard. “ It’s bigger than an Academy Award would be for an actor. Instead of honoring one piece of work, it honors a lifetime.”

“I was almost in tears,” says Boortz

Probably the first time

Forget about it all for a few minutes — forget about his suggestion that Atlanta’s “urban outdoorsmen” (the homeless) should be shipped off in a freight train in the middle of the night; that certain Katrina victims were “worthless parasites”; that the parents of an incoherent 9-year-old were raising a “worm farmer.”

Forget Boortz’s more measured positions, as well: His support for the FairTax plan and former President Bush’s War on Terror. Turn off that hectoring radio voice for a moment, and ...

“Are you sure I can’t get you a cup of coffee?” Boortz asks a visitor, making another of his many daily trips to the coffee pot in the cafeteria at WSB Radio’s Midtown Atlanta headquarters. He seems a little like Mr. Wilson — that gruff softie from the old Dennis the Menace cartoon.
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[texasleo]

1. That hall of fame is literally meaningless. It's a boarded-up building in Chicago.

[wilt the stilt]

2. He's a racist n/t

[mmonk]

3. Low standards.

[Louisiana1976]

4. The fix was in.