Saying he was cited by "Media Morons," Boortz again smears Mexicans: "[A]ny Mexican worth his salt would be able to" operate a floor buffer "without getting hurt"
Talking with the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell, Neal Boortz said: "I'm on 'Media Morons' today ... because I said yesterday on the air that I would make a lousy Mexican because I was trying to use one of those floor buffers and it tossed me around ... when any Mexican worth his salt would be able to do that without getting hurt."
On the April 11 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, in a discussion with Media Research Center founder and president L. Brent Bozell III, Neal Boortz said, "I'm on 'Media Morons' today." Bozell responded, "Congratulations." Boortz continued, "Yeah, because I said yesterday on the air that I would make a lousy Mexican because I was trying to use one of those floor buffers and it tossed me around ... when any Mexican worth his salt would be able to do that without getting hurt."
As Media Matters for America noted, on the April 10 edition of his program, Boortz asserted that "I would make a lousy Mexican." When asked, "Why is that?" by his engineer and "sidekick" Royal Marshall, Boortz responded, "Well, because I wanted to scrub the hangar floor the other day, so I went and rented one of these big buffers," later adding: "I turned on that buffer, and it damn near killed me! It was dragging me across the hangar floor, throwing me around like I -- it was like a dog shaking a cat or something like that. You know, that's skilled labor."
From the April 11 edition of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show:
BOORTZ: I got on -- I'm on "Media Morons" today.
BOZELL: Congratulations.
BOORTZ: Yeah, because I said yesterday on the air that I would make a lousy Mexican because I was trying to use one of those floor buffers and it tossed me around like a --
[Bozell laughs]
BOORTZ: -- when any Mexican worth his salt would be able to do that without getting hurt.
BOZELL: Do you hear that, advertisers? This man is dangerous.
BOORTZ: So, how did the awards go last night?
BOZELL: Oh, we had an awful lot of fun. We really, really had some fun.
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Nice of Bozell to join him and add to this brilliant line of reasoning.
Birds of a feather
Are stupid together....
Bigotry is not protected speech.
Ask any Constitutional scholar.
Bigotry is not protected speech.
Actually, leaving aside legal bits like "fighting words," bigoted speech is protected. The law makes a distinction between speech and conduct - so, for example, you are free to make all kinds of racist remarks about blacks but you are not free to refuse to serve them at a restaurant or hire them for a job due to the color of their skin.
More importantly here, the status of bigotry or bigoted speech as protected or not protected is irrelevant: MMFA is not calling for Boortz and Bozell to be imprisoned or fined, it is calling them out on their bigotry. Legalities simply do not arise.
What we invariably see, however, is the idiotic argument at which our Mad commenter hinted above, that speaking to express racist sentiments is free speech but speaking to object to racist sentiments is "persecution" and/or censorship. It's just a variation on the hoary wingnut argument that because of our belief in tolerance, we are obligated to tolerate their intolerance.
The really strange thing is that when they say stuff like this, they genuinely believe they're being clever.
Once again, Boortz shows his true color.
Lily-white.
I'm not surprised that floor buffer threw Boortz around, the guy is totally inept at doing anything that doesn't involve him sitting on his fat butt and flapping his beak, pandering to the knuckledrag contingent.
There once was a man, name of Boortz
With a brain made of nasty old warts
He's inept with a buffer
So he makes us all suffer
With stoopid talk no one supports
Boorish Boorst is proud that a floor buffer tossed him around. He's practicing so that he can pay his 5 bucks and ride a mechanical bronco next time he's in Texas.
Poor man's Rush. He's a wannabe. He wants to be a racist shock jock, but he's just racist. If "Media Morons" is a site he regularly checks out they must be doing something right to the insecure, insignificant stain of a twit.
Media Morons?
What ever happened to the Media Myrmidons?
Is it true that he changed his rant so that he didn't lose more fans who were turned off with him showin' off all that fancy book larnin'?
A simple VERMIN would make me happy.
To the little Boortzie monitoring this...I never heard him say it so I can only go by what he said posted here on MMFA...Did you know your leader was dumped in Pittsburgh. Not enough idiots to listen to him on 50,000 watt KDKA. O'Riledupone is still on a 10pm here...you should think of getting into "real" journalism and hook up with Bill O'...however, if you are a female, tread lightly and "DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE"
Boortz obviously tried to use a $1 word on his 10-cent audience.
"Morons," of course, they can all relate to.
"Morons," of course, they can all relate to.
After all, Neil's listeners are all related to morons, if not morons themselves....
Let me first state that I was not there when Boortz made these statements. People ask me why if I knew about these controversial statement didn't I just walk away. Did I hear these statements? Yes. And let me say this - it's easy to take a few comments and play them over and over on a loop and make anyone seem radical. But the main thing is this - I could no more turn my back on Boortz than I could turn my back on the entire talkshow community. Finally, let me bravely state that we need a conservation about this topic and really really need to confront the issues head on.
loonz
I should have put quotes around that post - because all the lines came from Obama's speeches and remarks about "Rev" Wright.
Go Obama!
...no one is asking you to distance yourself from or otherwise denounce the comments, as obama was pressured to do.
Kevino
So you're suggesting that Obama had to be "pressured" to denounce what the "Rev" Wright said about how the US gov't invented AIDS to kill blacks?
Really?
Obama needed to be "pressured" to denounce the statement of the "Rev" Wright when he said, "God Damn America"?
Can you please explain why any PRESSURE was necessary? Don't you think Obama wanted to denounce things like that?
To be perfectly honest here, you just insulted Obama more than you really know. So, Kev, who is the real dimwit?
In my opinion, obama would have responded with or without pressure.
And by the way, my "dimwit" comment was not about your perspectives....it was about your assuming that loonz "didn't get" your reference to a quotation that is deeply familiar to all. Sorry if it was a bit harsh. No blood, no foul!
So, Kev, who is the real dimwit?
YOU are, NAC.
Does Boortz think THIS punk can run a floor buffer?:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/12/alberto-gonzales-unable-to-find-work/
The name "Boortz" is pronounced exactly like the sound of gas escaping ones arse!
BBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTZZZZZZZZZZ!
Everyone need to click on that link on the word "awards" in the article. What a pathetic bunch of people - they do this hateful awards show ("just joking" of course!) and then dishonor the memory of a fallen soldier by using some false patriotism to "honor" him.
What a sorry bunch. Just the fact that Ann Coulter was there says exactly what kind of people they are.
Give Boortz a break, he "ONLY" has a high school diploma, from a small high school in Northwest Florida! Intelligence and Common Sense can't be bought, like his so-called Law Degree!
Boortz attended Texas A&M from 64-67 quitting or flunking out as a Junior! He then attended a night time law school roughly from 73-77 (a Diploma Mill in layman's terms) for 4 years at John Marshall Night School in Atlanta. The school until recently wasn't even accredited by the ABA (American Bar Association, The Gold Standard of Accreditation's) until 2005! In 2005 it was granted a "Provisional Accreditation" for 5 years! See Wikipedia-John Marshall School of Law. He is a Real Estate Closing Attorney, with terrible punctuation and spelling habits!
Last April 20,2005 Boortz was railing about a hit piece on him from MM, spelling on-air Myrmidons = MIRMIDONS! He's real slow on his feet ,even slower when it comes to thinking and speaking at the same time!
"wow, unbelievable. this is my first post on this ridiculous website full of , for the most part, whiny extreme left wingers."
This "website" is not the comments section. What's so wrong with holding the media accountable for what they say again? And before you throw out the "FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!" line, do you not know that these screech monkeys are beholden to their advertisers? If their advertisers don't like something, they can censor or even threaten to withhold their advertising dollars until said person is removed.
Also, many posters here have vastly different beliefs and theories, so to lump all of us in as "for the most part, whiny extreme left wingers" is beyond inaccurate. And I'm guessing the "shows" you mentioned include O'Reilly and others like him. Try this...tell me where MMfA (the website, not the comments section) has taken him out of context? I mean, they post the entire segment of the show that they find contains conservative misinformation, so it's O'Reilly's own words that he takes issue with? Do you see the contradiction there?
Hey, leave him alone. He knows for a fact that the site misquotes or takes out of context things Bill O'Reilly says. How does he know? Cuz Bill O. told him so. Clearly, this is all because left-wing loons have nothing better to do than defame poor, humble comb-over Bill.
Sniff!
You are a moron Tim. Did you really tell US to think for ourselves after outing yourself as a brainwashed hivemind idiot? Why yes you did. You repeated the incredibly ignorant argument that Booooore somehow has a free speech right NOT to be criticises. Anyone with two braincells to rub together understands our right to criticise his racist stupidity is just as protected by the first amendment as his racists stupidity. Beg, borrow, or steal a couple of functional braincells. Think for yourself and dont waste our time with more programed talking point nonsense from Screechmonkey radio. I notice also that in your embarassing stupidity you are DOING the very thing you attack US for doing. That is you come to this website to criticise us for what we are saying about BOOOOOOORE. The difference is WE are not ignorant enough to claim you are, in someway understandable only to the truly assimilated hiveminder, violating our free speech rights by doing so. Feel free to continue to come in here and embarass yourself by parading your ignorance. I personally just love to laugh at people as stupid as you.
What is laughable is this website encourages people to attack political commentary shows that typically take a center or right point of view because they excel in a media format that the left has never been able to conquer. Then the icing on the cake is that the elitists on this site immediately brand anyone with a differing political opinion from their own as a "knuckle dragger" or "uneducated" when this place smacks of thick-rimmed glasses wearing, Starbucks drinking pseudo-intellectuals who very likely only have a couple classes at a second rate state school under their belt. Simply because one asserts his opinion it does not lend it any sort of validity, in so doing your are every bit as bad as the radio personalities you resent. I encourage any one of you to take Boortz to task on air, which is on 8:30am - 1pm EST. If you disagree with him on whatever issue, tell the call screener and you are taken directly to the front of the line. If he is such a simpleton as many of you suggest then clearly you'll deal with him handily between lattes.
The very premise of this site is offensive, and what's worse is that many of you pat yourselves on the back because you think you are doing the public a service. What is even more laughable is that you've created a feedback loop. Boortz is on cloud 9 whenever this website mentions him. This site calls attentions to his comments sending many of you to engage him as fodder for his show, which provides him more material and earns him more of an audience as he picks apart the weakest from this camp while on the air. If you were truly as intelligent as you would like to suggest, you would shy away from these lightning rods because they thrive in your ire. Each email you send to their shows is counter productive as they revel in it and it falls completely on deaf ears. Each sponsor you drive away paves the way to new ones who know exactly what they are putting their money in to.
Metal, How dare you suggest that I drink Starbucks? To hell with you..I can't listen to Boortz...he was dumped from his 7:00pm to 10:00pm slot in our local area. No one listened to him.
Once again, if you can't call me VERMIN, don't call me anything. But since you brought it up...KISSMYARSE. But please come back often..your comment are welcome here.
"I'm on 'Media Morons' today ... "
And you're on it again today, moron.