Friday -- April 1, 2005
 RANDOM
THOUGHTS FROM WICHITA
G'day folks. Belinda and I are in Wichita this morning. The Neal Boortz show
will be coming to you from the ballroom of the Raddison Downtown, courtesy of
our fine folks at KNSS radio in Wichita. I've turned over most of Nealz Nuze to
Bryan, Laura and Net Dog this morning ... and I've emailed just a few thoughts
to Laura, the winsome Web Wench for inclusion.
So ... some random thoughts:
Why do I particularly like being in Wichita? This city truly is the cradle of
American Aviation. Among the aircraft manufacturers located here ate Cessna,
Raytheon (Beechcraft), Boeing, Bombardier, and others. Wichita is also, by the
way, the birthplace of Mooney, and I don't have to tell you how I like Mooneys.
They're like flying Indy cars. If we play our cards right Belinda, Charles (our
engineer) and I may be treated to a quick tour through the Cessna plant and
watch them making those incredible Cessna jets before we hop on AirTran to head
by back to Atlanta this afternoon.
Carols Mayans was on the AirTran flight to ICT with us yesterday afternoon.
Carlos is the Mayor of Wichita. Just a little bit about Carlos Mayans, if you
will. He was born in Cuba. As a young child his parents sent him to the United
States under some sort of program where he was to be educated here and then
returned to Cuba. Now ... let me try to make this story a bit shorter. He went
from Cuba to a refugee camp in South Florida. After about seven months in the
refugee center he was told he had to leave to make room for more children, and
that he needed to pick where he wanted to go. He had heard about cowboys and
Indians, so he chose the west. He pointed to Wichita on a map .. .and Wichita it
was. When he got her he went to an orphanage, then to several foster homes
until, years later, his parents managed to get to America on a freedom flight.
He started a successful insurance business, became the first Hispanic member of
the Kansas legislature, and is now the Mayor of Wichita. Only in America. It's
stories like this that make you truly proud of this country.
Now ... before we get to some input from Bryan, Ken and Laura ... a note about
Jane Fonda. Her book is out there, "My Life So Far," and she's trying
to set the PR stage. She's now out there telling anyone who will listen that she
made a grave mistake when she visited that anti-aircraft battery that the North
Vietnamese were using to shoot down American airplanes. She's not, though,
apologizing for visiting North Vietnam in the first place, and making those
propaganda recordings for the enemy. I'm sorry, but her apology, if that's what
you want to call it, rings a little hollow. Some say that she's just making an
preemptive move against another "Swift Boat Veterans" charge when her
book hits. Seems about right to me.
OK ... from this point on I'm not responsible for today's notes. It's an
anything-goes Friday, so I'll see you on the radio. By the way, it's nice to be
in a place where people don't complain about airport noise.
WMD
REPORT RELEASED
A presidential commission on weapons of mass destruction released
its report yesterday, and the report absolves the Bush administration of
manipulating intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. It puts the blame for
the bad intelligence squarely at the feet of the intelligence community.
Naturally, the left is already up in arms about the report, because it does not
blame the administration for anything. The Bush-haters are out for blood, and
they're upset because they're not getting it. First up with his panties in a
knot is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. He complained that the report did not
review how the administration used the intelligence they were given. In perhaps
a breakdown in his own intelligence, Mr. Reid apparently doesn't realize that
wasn't the purpose of the commission.
Next in the "Get Bush" receiving line is House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi. She decided it was time to break out her Michael Moore talking points,
saying "The president's decision to go to war in Iraq was also dead wrong
— the intelligence never supported his claim that Saddam was an imminent
threat to the United States." Actually, that is a lie and she is a liar.
But we knew that.
Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States and his neighbor. He possessed
weapons of mass destruction, used them and had the capability to restart his
program at any time. He also possessed nuclear technology and the capability to
produce a nuclear weapon that he could then sell to terrorists.
The decision to remove him by force was the right one and the left can't stand
it.
HANOI
JANE COMES CLEAN
 The
former Mrs. Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, has come out with a new book. She is making
the rounds doing publicity...and she has given an interview to '60 Minutes' that
will air this Sunday. In it, she admits (sort of) that she was wrong to go to
North Vietnam and visit an anti-aircraft gun site used to shoot down U.S.
pilots. Well isn't that nice....but she's a bit late, don't you think?
Fonda says that her trip to the gun site some 33 years ago was a
"betrayal" of the U.S. military, its soldiers and "the country
that gave me privilege." She calls the picture of her sitting on the enemy
gun barrel the largest lapse of judgment she can imagine. Really. So what about
the whole decision to visit North Vietnam in the first place? She won't
apologize for that. No, Hanoi Jane will only apologize for posing for pictures
with enemy weaponry. She won't apologize for being photographed with American
POWs, nor will she apologize for going on Radio Hanoi and being a propaganda
mouthpiece for the Viet Cong.
Jane Fonda gave aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States during a time
of war. We used to call that treason, and there are people sitting in prison for
it. Somehow, Jane Fonda got away with it...and now she wants us all to relieve
her of her guilty conscience.
SANDY BERGER CUTS A DEAL
Former National Security Adviser in the Clinton administration, Sandy Berger has
cut a deal with the feds, and will plead guilty to stealing classified documents
from the National Archives. If you remember, Sandy Berger was observed by
National Archives staff stuffing classified documents in his jacket, socks and
down his pants. We never did find out why he was stealing the papers.
He calls the whole episode an honest mistake, but was it? An honest mistake
would be walking out with some papers mixed in with his own. But he tried to
hide what he was taking. That means he knew it was wrong. Was he trying to
protect the Clinton administration? Himself? Who knows.
Apparently we'll never find out. Sandy is getting off easily on this one....a
slap on the wrist. He's expected to enter a guilty plea today and pay a $10,000
fine, surrender his security clearance for 3 years and cooperate with
investigators.
By the way, some of the documents were never returned. We may never know what
was going on here.
NOTHING SAYS SLUT LIKE A TATTOO ON THE BUTT?
The discussion this week turned to back tattoos. Neal and Royal each have their
own opinion of them. Vote on listener submitted tailbone tattoos.
THE "MILE HIGH CLUB"
Here's a unique gift opportunity...a chance to join the mile high club! Does it really count if you don't have to figure out how to do it in the cramped bathroom or with Joe Businessman in the aisle seat next to you? Okay, you know we're going to ask since we've become bored with the tattoo thing. Do you have a mile high story? Send it with mile high as the subject. Neal probably won't be able to read on the air. Maybe we'll post here if they aren't too nasty.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
More than 80 percent of people polled, were they in the same situation as Terri
Schiavo, would want their feeding tube yanked. Dick
Morris says the case is an example of the political middle rising up, and
those on the right are going to pay for it. He also says Jeb Bush is
finished.
Pat Buchanan got it with a bottle of salad dressing at Western Michigan
University last night....check
out the video.
Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign is gearing up for next year, and they've
already trotted out the same torn and tattered playbook. They're
already complaining about "the right wing attack machine."
Oh, and the Swift Boat Veterans too.
North Korea is demanding an apology for being called an "Outpost of
Tyranny" before they'll return to nuclear talks. We should really
give them something to cry about.
Belgium's interior minister has been embarrassed after it was discovered that
pictures comparing George Bush to a chimpanzee were found in a police training
manual. So that's where those pictures came from.
There are lots of facts thrown around in the debate over drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge, and Governor
Frank Murkowski of Alaska sets the record straight.
The mainstream media is still sheltering Jesse Jackson over his decision to back
the Schindlers in the Terri Schiavo case. The
Media Research Center has a full report.
Townhall.com is still running their pledge drive, and could use their
support. Edwin
J. Feulner explains why the site is breaking off from the Heritage Foundation.
With all the news today about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Mona
Charen says the press is missing the point. They're still trying to
hang this one on George Bush.
With democracy flourishing all over the Middle East, Syria under Bashar Assad is
being backed into a corner over its support of terrorism. Charles
Krauthammer says the Assad family's support of terrorism goes back a long way. | 
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