... that attack Conservative Talk Radio. Let's see if he's right?
Direct quotes from Sean Hannity:
"Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, ..., let this be a day of reckoning."
I don't find any freedom in having 32 dead students on a university in the USA. Do you, Mr. Hannity?
"My sympathies to all involved in this tragedy, but, from the start of this the liberals are making this into a political issue."
Really? I suppose 32 dead students planned on being political icons? The problem with radio anchors of Conservative 'Talkie' radio is that they don't know what being civilized is. They don't understand when one dies that means something to someone other than a body count. This current Bush presidency has to be the most violent presidency on record and now with 32 students dead there is no doubt it's worse than Nixon.
Mr. Hannity used as his defense, in promoting lenient gun laws, the death of a Japanese mayor. He stated Japan has the tightest gun laws in the world. I don't know about that, I think China might have them beat. But, just the same, a Japanese mayor was killed with a gun. The killer was a a member of organized crime. The killer at Virginia Tech was a student and not a member of organizaed crime. The killer in Japan knew cognitively well what he was doing, the killer at Virginia Tech was demented. There is a difference. I honestly doubt the killer of Virginia Tech premeditated those murders so much as accummulated momentum toward them.
Japanese mayor dies after being shot by organized crime figure
April 17, 2007 (TOKYO) - The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, police said.
The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned and only four politicians are known to have been killed since World War II.
Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at point-blank range outside a train station Tuesday evening, Nagasaki police official Rumi Tsujimoto said.
One of the bullets struck the mayor's heart and he went into cardiac arrest, according to Nagasaki University Hospital spokesman Kenzo Kusano. Ito died after emergency surgery, said Nagasaki prefectural police official Hirofumi Ito.
Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, was wrestled to the ground by officers after the attack and arrested for attempted murder, police said.
Direct quotes from Neil Bortz
"...when my book made the New York Times Best Seller List, I got faced...have you ever smoked pot and drank champagne at the same time?"
"...there was a shooting at Virginia Tech, where is Marcus Vick?" Neal is referring to an African American student he believes is a 'gangsta.'
"If this news happened last week, Imus would still have a job. The problem was that there was no news last week to overshadow a bad joke."
The next day, he stated, "...you know with the climate these days, I really didn't intend to make Marcus Vick sound like a killer. I stated that yesterday before I knew any of the deaths.
What???????? ...does that mean exactly? Although Bortz doesn't accuse Vic as a murderer, he is a shooter, huh?
If Mr. Boortz thinks bigoted speech achieves a patriotic goal he needs to take example from the students at Virginia Tech.
The Virginia Tech Tragedy and Why Sports Matter
When I hear the words "Virginia Tech," sports immediately come to mind. I think of Michael Vick nearly leading the Hokies to the national championship and Marcus Vick falling far short of the expectations that came with his famous name. I think of the breakout season for Seth Greenberg's basketball team and the way they knocked my Illini out of the Big Dance this year.
I think of things that don't really matter, not compared to the tragic loss of life that happened on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday.
...and he'll rag on and on about Harry Reid but won't once talk about the ease with which Virginia allows the sale of guns. No, not Neil Boortz, but, '...someone has to say it.' What Mr. Boortz is protesting is the fact Senator Reid, Majority Leader of the Senate stated that the war in Iraq is lost because Iraq needs a diplomatic solution with nearly the entire world agreeing with him except for approximately 32% of Republicans that can't seem to get out of their own way.
Leading Democrat in Senate Tells Reporters, ‘This War Is Lost’
By Jeff Zeleny / New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 19 — As Congressional Democrats sought to reconcile their differences and send an Iraq spending bill to the White House, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Thursday that “this war is lost,” a stark assessment that Republicans argued would demoralize American troops fighting in Iraq.
One day after legislative leaders met with President Bush, failing to find common ground, House Democrats signaled their intention to step away from a mandatory deadline to remove troops from Iraq, and to work instead toward a compromise of setting a goal for troops to be withdrawn next year.
But the president said that any timetable for a troop redeployment, even a goal, would face a veto. “I think it’s a mistake, and I’ve made it clear, that the Congress should not have artificial timetables for withdrawal in a funding statement,” Mr. Bush said Thursday during a speech in Ohio.
In Washington, Mr. Reid delivered a biting critique of the Iraq war, saying there was no military solution to the conflict. At a news conference, he recounted a private conversation with the president about the Vietnam War, saying he told Mr. Bush not to follow the path of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who “did not want a war loss on his watch.”
See, what Mr. Boortz and all those that support this president refuse to believe is that Bush is "W"rong about anything. These are supposed to be thinking people loyal to a government that protects them, with the majority of the world staring at them in the face pointing to the fact of how "W"rong they are.
Do they learn from experience? No.
Do they learn from the experience of others? No.
Do they learn at all? Good question.
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