[ale] Linux Sys Admin needed
James P. Kinney III
jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Jun 15 15:42:35 EDT 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:23 -0500, rhia wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:36 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Thu June 15 2006 10:37 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > Having met the guy personally many years ago (he once came to a
> > > wedding and as a wedding present he gave a pit bull to the couple.
> > > she was was a cat person.), his show is a grand act designed to
> > > inflame people to call in and make fools of themselves on the air.
> > and they do a wonderful job of it!
> > but he is a libertarian, and I like his line of thinking for MOST
> > things:)
>
>
> Bah. The Boortz 'show' isn't Libertarian (or even libertarian); it
> appears he just claims so to be listed as different from Rush. The radio
> persona Boortz is mostly a misogynistic conservative who happens to
> think the war on drugs is a crock and that our government bureaucracy is
> too big. Apparently it's a good hook considering the size of his
> listener base. His true colors can be gleaned from the way he fawns over
> Hannity et al and his utter contempt for even moderately liberal issues.
> With sharp callers, the only way he 'wins' an argument is his quite
> liberal use of the mute button. Other 'wins' can be credited to a
> stunning cluelessness evident in some of the callers (which, on the
> whole, doesn't say a lot of good about a sizable chunk of his listener
> base.)
>
> I consider his talk show just another form of shock-jock egotism
> designed solely to grab people emotionally and sell them crap they
> didn't realize they needed. ;)
I see you have also met him :)
>
> Of course, that's just my opinion, YMMV. =)
>
> ----
> rhia
> Excuse me, please. What universe is this?
>
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