Wingnut radio host apologizes for calling Cynthia McKinney a "ghetto slut"

[wicket]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030010

On the April 3 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz issued an apology for his remarks about Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), stating, "I've known Cynthia McKinney for a long time, and there is no way in the world that that word should be used to describe her or her hairdo or any woman." As Media Matters for America noted, Boortz said that McKinney, "looks like a ghetto slut" during the March 31 broadcast of his radio program, and later added that he didn't "blame them for stopping" McKinney during a March 29 incident at the Capitol because she had a "ghetto trash" haircut and "looked like a welfare drag queen was trying to sneak into the Longworth House Office Building." In issuing the apology, Boortz added that it "won't mean anything to people who consider any negative comment or criticism of any type at any time about anybody who is not white to be racism."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. My southern grandmother...

Would have had just the thing for Boortz: she would have washed his mouth out with brown laundry soap.

Any volunteers?

[shenmue]

2. What the hell is wrong with him?

:dunce:

[kurth]

6. Just a typical libertarian bushbot asshole

who is deathly afraid of black people.

[wicket]

12. That sums him up perfectly

n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

14. Er, well, not to be a Boortz-pologist...

because I often find myself loathing him with a white hot intensity that is not healthy, but FWIW, his sometime-sidekick/producer, Royal Marshall, is black.

And as obnoxious as Boortz is on so many issues, he is one of the few RW radio yahoos who acknowledges that racial profiling continues to be a hassle for black folks.

Frankly, I was surprised by what he'd said about McKinney. He's a heartless jerk who really hates anyone he deems not to be self-sufficient, but I hadn't really thought of him as especially racist.

But then again, he used to be a speechwriter for Lester Maddox, so...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

18. except that his co-host is black n/t

[baby_mouse]

20. "meeeeeeeehhhh *I* wanna be a victim TOO!"

"WHADDABOUT *MEEEEEEE*? when do *I* get to be victim?"
"meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh"

Bleating piece of CRAP.

[Tsiyu]

3. Too little, too late Boortz n/t

[Wickerman]

4. ghetto. slut.

sorry, Boortz, when you string those two words together to describe a black Congresswoman you are being racis. No one involved in the outcry is being overly PC. You are, in fact, a racist pig and blaming someone else for your bigotry ain't going to change anything.

[DBoon]

5. What was going on behind the scenes

that made him apologize?

Did they threaten to fire his sorry ass?

You know Boortz would NEVER apologize out of decency.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. isn't what he said WAY worse than what that old creep on WABC

said? they FIRED that guy pronto.

Boortz said a bunch of other things, too, IIRC, from another set of quotes I read.

[yellowcanine]

8. "any negative comment"????? You call someone a "ghetto slut" and

complain that people might view it as racist? OK. You are either totally clueless or you think your audience is totally clueless.

[zbdent]

9. Something just occurred to me

It's a wonder James Traficant got in without problems, what with all his bad hair . . . days . . . ;)

[Rose Siding]

10. That's some crazy spin he's using there

Comparing a black woman with a "welfare drag queen" ISN'T just a "negative comment or criticism of any type".

It's a racist smear.

[Cyrano]

11. His addition to his "apology" is about as slimy as one can get.

He added, "it won't mean anything to people who consider any negative comment or criticism of any type at any time about anybody who is not white to be racism."

Whether a wingnut or liberal uses terms like "ghetto trash haircut," and "welfare drag queen," you can bet your ass that it's a racist remark.

But to drive home the point of this asshole's remarks, would you say that the Republicans have more KKK members than the Dems? I don't think anyone has to rack their brain to hard for an answer to this.

[wicket]

13. Amen to that

It was a non-apology apology.

[Gormy Cuss]

15. So good to hear his sincere apology

Or it would be, if he ever issued one.

Mr. Boortz, you now realize that your understanding of those terms 'ghetto slut' and 'welfare drag queen' were not quite right. Let me volunteer to take you through some neighborhoods of the nearest city with a sizable low income African-American population and we'll ask people to define them for you.

[CottonBear]

17. Ironically, he lives in the city of Atlanta. He owns a loft or condo. n/

[Gormy Cuss]

19. In Buckhead, no doubt.

I could show him around the public housing developments where I've been. I met a number of very nice residents but I doubt any of those women would be kind to Mr. Boortz after hearing that he called anyone a 'ghetto slut.'

[Chi-Town Exile]

16. He's a low life. All the Right-Wing Nazi's in metro Atlanta

listen to him religiously.

I was in a store where they were playing his show and a woman called up to say that her 3 year old loved his voice. I don't want to know how she figured that out. :puke:

[wicket]

21. kick

:kick:

[liberaltrucker]

22. Boortz, don't apologize for your REAL beliefs

Der Fuhrer didn't. He at least had the balls to die for his, you fucking coward.
:sarcasm: