Monday - March 26, 2007
 CAPE COD!
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MORE BOOK SIGNINGS
 We're
entering the home stretch of the book tour:
- 3/26 Barnes & Noble, Tulsa, OK
- 3/27 Union Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, MO
- 3/28 Barnes & Noble, Washington, DC
- 3/30 Borders, Metairie, LA
- 4/2 Books-A-Million, Lawrenceville, GA
- 4/3 Barnes & Noble, Marietta, GA
Details and entire book tour schedule.
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Official airline of the Boortz Book Tour
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If you've read "Somebody's Gotta Say It" you'll be aware
of some of the problems that we've had getting my radio show on some stations in
the northern part of the country. There's this idea, probably promoted by
some of my competitors, that The Neal Boortz Show is a "southern show."
Never mind that we're heard as far north as Portland, Maine in the east and
Anchorage, Alaska in the west; this "southern show" nonsense persists.
There is, my friends, a deep and boiling prejudice against any and all things
that come from the south.
That brings us to Cape Cod. I don't know how much
more "Yankee," if you will, you can get than Cape Cod. Two words:
"Kennedy Compound." This is a state where every single member of the
congressional delegation is a Democrat. It was about a year ago, I
think, that WXTK-FM (95.1) replaced G.
Gordon Liddy with Boortz live! Oh boy ... did they get the phone calls and
emails from some devout Liddy fans ... but things worked out and The Neal Boortz
Show -- yeah, the show that is "too southern" for the Northeast -- is number one on Cape Cod!
All of this leads up to a great big THANK YOU for
the incredible turnout at my book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Hyannis last
Friday night. The book store was blown away by the crowd, and so was the
95 WXTK staff in attendance. OK, so was I, and I loved meeting each and
every one of you as you came through to get your copies of "Somebody's Gotta Say
It" and "The FairTax Book" signed.
Saturday morning, before heading to Boston to catch a
flight home (for a big whopping 48 hours) I drove around the Cape looking for
breakfast. I just couldn't bring myself to go to an IHop ... how much
local flavor do you get there? I asked a local in the Barnstable Harbor area
where a good breakfast can be found, and he led me to the
Back Again Cafe. There were
three cop cars parked outside. Either a crime had been committed there ...
or there was some mighty good eating. It turned out to be mighty good
eating. The next time I'm in town, breakfast there on me!
Can you just imagine how well I could do on these
Northeast stations if I wasn't such a "southern show?" Wait ... It's hard
to do better than number one, isn't it?
Subject: Hyannis Book Signing
Name: Carl
Message:
Attending the book signing to have you sign my copy of your book
made my week. I listen to your program on WGAN in Portland, ME each
Friday because of my work schedule (8pm-4am Sun-Thurs). I was the
individual that said I drove 25o miles for your signature. I hope
knowing a listener went that far to attend made you feel half as
good as I did making the trip to get your signature and shake your
hand. How about adding an appearance in Maine on your next
book tour so I don't have to drive so far? |
TONIGHT -- TULSA!
As soon as I finish the show today I head for Tulsa.
The book signing this evening will be at the Barnes & Noble on East 41st Street.
We'll be broadcasting Tomorrow morning from 740 KRMG
and then off to Kansas City! After a stop in Washington DC, we'll end the
week in New Orleans!
WHY PEOPLE THINK CONSERVATIVES ARE IDIOTS
 Sorry .. it's true. Liberals love to paint
conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on
occasion, retarded. For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in
order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage with someone who thinks
differently than they. After all ... you really don't have to consider the
opinions offered by someone who disagrees with you if you can successfully and
falsely brand them as ignorant.
Sadly ... many conservatives seem to have dedicated their
lives to lending credence to the left's "conservatives are idiots" claim.
You will remember several weeks ago I told you about one Georgia Republican
(former Democrat) legislator whose campaign chairman
sent out some memos and
letters promoting legislation to outlaw the teaching of evolution in government
schools. The letter referred the reader to the website of "The Fair
Education Foundation, Inc." In this website --- and I'm not kidding you
here --- you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even
rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the
earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding?
Check it our for yourself.
Well .. there's more. Sunday's Atlanta
Journal-Constitution tells us about another website, this one run by Andrew
Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly.
Conservapedia pushes the
creationism theme with revelations that
dinosaurs and humans roamed the Earth at
the same time.[video] You'll also learn that atheism has led to a large increase
in bestiality. But once again you'll learn that not only is the Earth
standing still, but it's actually flat ... and sitting still in space while
everything revolves around it.
Tell me .. how do you counter the "conservatives are
ignorant" argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of
lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have
people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to
office as conservatives, and running websites as conservatives all the while
telling us that the earth does not spin on its axis and does not revolve around
the Sun .. and that everything in the known universe revolves around the Earth?
If true conservatives really want to expand their
philosophy and mount a sustained movement that just might save individualism,
freedom and economic liberty --- they had better jettison these zealot nut-cases
.... and FAST.
This all sure makes me glad to be a Libertarian.
WHO'S GETTING THE GOODIES .. AND WHO'S PAYING THE TAB!
The Tax Foundation has issued a new report entitled "Who
Pays America's Tax Burden, and Who Gets the Most Government Spending".
You can read the
report for yourself right here, though I suspect you already know the
answers to the questions.
As you might now, economists and government bureaucrats
divide us into quintiles. There's the highest income one-fifth, the lowest
income one-fifth, and the three-fifths in the middle. The Tax Foundation
study shows that the lowest-earning one-fifth of households in America get about
$8.21 in federal, state and local government spending for every dollar they paid
in taxes in 2004. If you're in the middle one-fifth, you got about $1.30
in spending for every dollar in taxes. Now, can you guess what happens if
you're in the top one-fifth? Right. You get raped. You get
about 41 cents in government spending for every dollar you pay in taxes.
Those of you out there who so ardently hate the rich might
want to rethink things. Looks to me like you need them to cover your cost
of living. Pity you can't care for yourselves. Maybe that's where
the hatred comes in. The dependence that those in the lower income
brackets have on government handouts breed resentment .. and that resentment is
aimed at those who have more. Perhaps instead of resentment these people
might want to think in terms of gratitude. Thank goodness there are people
out there who do go the extra mile, make the extra effort, work the extra hours
to get themselves into those higher brackets. Who is going to create all
of this wealth that gets redistributed if they don't? The government?
THE FINAL FOUR IN ATLANTA
... anyone want to make any guesses as to how many rapper
wannabe murders and Hip Hop related violence there will be over the weekend?
IRAN
PUSHING THEIR LUCK
 Iran continues to play
games regarding these
British sailors they took hostage in Iraqi waters the
other day. These were our allies operating in a war led by the United States.
Is it time for a showdown? Is it time for Bush should give Tehran 24 hours
to return them without a scratch...or else?
The Islamic fascists
are going to continue to push until they find that magic point where we push
back. Evidently kidnapping soldiers off the high seas isn't that point.
Our response should
be no different than if Iran took a group of U.S. Marines hostage from
international waters. So what are we doing about all of this? Not much. How
about the Brits? Well, not much either.
Tony Blair says they're
taking Iran's actions seriously. Yeah! That ought to show them! This is
why Iran does the things that it does...because it knows it can get away with
it. Ahmadinejad knows he can exploit the weakness of the politically correct
Islamic appeasers in Europe. He rightly calculated that he could draw attention
to himself by capturing these soldiers and perhaps arranging a prisoner swap.
No one is standing up to him thus far. So, perched atop his phone book in
Tehran, he continues his nuclear weapons program and has now taken these
prisoners.
Britain is an ally and
this was an act of war. Why not give them what they seem to want? Reagan
wouldn't have put up with this. And just to be bipartisan about it, neither
would Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. How long do we wait until we
push these dangerous people back?
CHUCK
HAGEL FLOATING IMPEACHMENT
 Republican (in name only)
Senator Chuck Hagel, darling and hero of the leftist media, appeared on 'This
Week' yesterday. It was there that
he used the "I" word....impeachment. Hagel's all upset about the war and says some see impeachment of the president
as an option to stop said war. Of course, Hagel is running for president...and
whenever he criticizes George Bush the media considers him the most important,
solid, hard-core Republican ever. This is all despite the fact that 99% of
Americans outside of Nebraska have never heard of Chuck Hagel and couldn't pick
him out of a lineup.
The threat against
Bush went this way. When speaking about his frustration that Bush is going
ahead with the war despite it being unpopular, Hagel said: "Any
president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of
this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the
Congress does, I am going to proceed if a president really believes that, then
there are what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that." Ahh
yes...ways to deal with that. Nice threat, Senator.
Not listening to the
majority of the American people does not constitute a "high crime and
misdemeanor." In fact, it might very well show wisdom. Remember, the
majority of the American people (a) think this country is a Democracy; and (b)
can't name their two U.S. Senators.
But .. Hagel is just huffing and puffing. Just like the Democrats who
don't have the votes to cut off funding and end the war, Hagel doesn't have the
ability to deliver impeachment. Perhaps he should be reminded of the
process....the House would have to pass articles of impeachment, and we all
know they can't agree on anything.
But to the media...Hagel is the man. There is no more important or powerful
Republican, but only when he criticizes Bush.
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK
If you're marketing to rednecks, this is
probably quite effective. More in the Redneck Scrap
Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Neal has a $10,000 FairTax
Refund for a lucky Atlanta listener!
Forty daily
prizes of $1,000 to be "refunded" from Mr. FairTax himself
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A new study says that the poor received $8.21 in government spending compared to
the rich only receiving .41
in government for each dollar of taxes paid in 2004. So...despite the fact that
they benefit the most from government spending, they're still poor. We always
hear about how the war in Iraq is going poorly...how about the war on poverty?
Looks like a quagmire to me.
Despite the president's
support,
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales could still be on the way out.
His support in Congress is starting to erode...several GOP Senators are starting
to say he has to go. He's scheduled to testify April 17th.
President Bush says he
will veto the Democrats' pork-laden defense bill...because it tries to impose a
deadline for ending the war.
Dick Cheney also made a speech Saturday
in which he accused Democrats of undermining the troops, and he would be right.
The new U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon visited Yasser Arafat's grave
and met with the parents of imprisoned terrorists on Sunday. Well, if you
thought the UN's anti-Israel policy was going to be different than it was under
Kofi, you would be wrong. Same old, same old.
Senate Republicans are objecting to Al Gore's global warming concert
being held at the Capitol. And in the Senate, when a Senator objects to
something...it goes back to committee...where it dies. Harry Reid is still
trying to push it through, though.
The next pseudo-scandal is being teed up against the Bush Administration
by the media and the
Democrats. This time it's over some sort of political organizing that went on
over at the GSA...the General Services Administration. This won't end until
Noon on January 20, 2009. There will always be a scandal.
Robert Novak points out the lack of support for President Bush in the Congress
from his own party. He says it wasn't this bad during Watergate...or even
during the dark days of the Carter presidency with this own party. Novak
explains how things wound up this way.
The Libertarian party,
despite never getting very many votes on the national scene, is starting to pick
up some steam.
Brian Doherty writes in the L.A. Times that people are starting to warm up to
its free market ideals.
This could be a breakthrough.
George Will reports on an interesting trend.....anger and outrage as a trendy
fashion accessory.
People are starting to throw temper tantrums at and about everything. Will also
talks about how groups use anger to get new rights. Interesting column...be
sure to check this one out.
Michael Barone tells us that Al Gore acts like a prophet of doom when it comes
to global warming, but
he's really just pushing junk science as a form of religion. But even the Left
is starting to see it, so things should be getting interesting for Gore. | 
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