Prominent Republican talk show host shows us how the right is bringing dignity and honor to political discourse.
On the March 31 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz said that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) "looks like a ghetto slut." Boortz was commenting on a March 29 incident in which McKinney allegedly struck a police officer at a Capitol Hill security checkpoint. Boortz said that McKinney's "new hair-do" makes her look "like a ghetto slut," like "an explosion at a Brillo pad factory," like "Tina Turner peeing on an electric fence," and like "a shih tzu." McKinney is the first African-American woman elected to Congress from Georgia.This will pass barely noticed and is so common that it's not even considered news by the press.
Keep in mind that this guy probably makes over a million a year for saying things like this. The right wing richly rewards the cogs in their noise machine.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 3/31/2006
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Dope, your outrage here seems, um, selective. Otherwise, I know you would have had a post about how a prominent Democrat talk show host, Al Franken, showed us how the left is bringing dignity and honor to political discourse, with the riposte "Screw you!" aimed at conservative talk show host, Michael Smerconish on The Today Show on Friday. I'm fairly certain more people see The Today Show than listen to Michael Savage. Another point is that when left-wingers like John Aravosis denounce McKinney a "nutsy-cukoo", you probably could have picked a better example than McKinney if you wanted to make a statement about incivility. My view is that there is too much of this crap on both sides, but since this has been going on forever, I doubt either the right or the left will cease and desist.
Yes, I agree. Franken should have told the guy to "go Cheney yourself!"
To you, telling someone "Screw you" is equal to making disgusting racial insults and saying a black congresswoman looks like a "ghetto slut"?
How interesting. But then again, you're a Republican.
OK, now I get it---your scumbags are better than their scumbags (I'm no Republican). Thanks for clearing that up!
Paladin exactly "what" are you then??
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