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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Neal Boortz: pathetic, incompetent, ignorant, worthless liar
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Friday, August 04, 2006

Neal Boortz: pathetic, incompetent, ignorant, worthless liar

i could easily take off on an extended tirade about this wheelbarrow full of shit but i'll just give an executive summary below... LOL...
On the August 3 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Neal Boortz asked his audience, "[H]ow incompetent, how ignorant, how worthless is an adult that can't earn more than the minimum wage?" Boortz continued: "You have to really, really, really be a pretty pathetic human being to not be able to earn more than ... the minimum wage."

i am not incompetent, i am not ignorant, i am not worthless, and i am most certainly NOT a teenager (pay no attention to the mental state you see peeking out from behind the curtain)... i have qualifications up the wazoo... in late 2002/early 2003, after sending out well over 70 job apps and receiving two telephone interviews, one in-person interview, and being offered only one job (working at an airline reservation call center for $7.56 an hour), i was almost prepared to take it...

in the process of interviewing for the call center job, i witnessed a scene very familiar to me - a huge room full of people working for what, in today's world, is basically peanuts... they are like the majority of people everywhere - decent, hard-working, many of them working two (or more) jobs, struggling to keep body and soul together... they're far from "pathetic human beings," far from "incompetent," "ignorant," and "worthless..." in fact, those descriptors that mr. boortz uses for minimum wage workers are so ignorant and pathetic that i humbly suggest mr. boortz shove them directly up his ass...

get out from behind the microphone, mr. boortz, and take a walk with me... let me show you the REAL AMERICA, not the america of your fevered, delusionary, hate-filled mind...

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