Last night, I was flipping channels looking for the Yankees-Tigers playoff game (Go Tigers!) and as I went through FOX, I heard this guy say that President Obama is a bigger disaster than 9-11. I didn’t recognize him but later found out his name is Neal Boortz, apparently a talk show host. I figured someone would have the footage up this morning and here it is:
Boortz said:
Killing three thousand people is a tragedy, Sean. It is a real tragedy. But, killing the individualism, the self-reliance, and the self respect of the American people like Barack Obama has done is much more of a tragedy.
Conservatives have such a short memory. Remember the Bush is Hitler controversies that conservatives rightly decried? Boortz’s comments are on the same order and should have been confronted immediately by Hannity.
What an offensive comparison; mostly to anyone who lost a friend or family member on 9/11. However, Boortz also offends Americans in general. By his comments, Boortz demonstrates such a low view of Americans. Obama’s term has not been a good one on balance in my view, but are American virtues so fragile that a one-term President can kill them?
Over the last decade or so on the Internet and extant also in FOX News programming the most conservative-minded have tried to outline not just the most liberal-minded Americans but also the centrists among us as espousing unAmerican ideals. It has been a most disconcerting trend which seems to be exascerbating a growing rift of thought in the country.
That’s the silliest thing I’ve heard for a long time … and an insult to those who were personally affected by the terrible events of 11 September 2001.
Ah yes … FOX News … which should perhaps be called ‘FOX Opinion’ instead.
This ‘self-reliance’ stuff is flawed rhetoric. Maybe an issue in western (and other) societies is too little regard for personal responsibility, but personal responsibility is not the same thing as self-reliance: the former involves both a proper understanding of one’s own limitations and a proper appreciation of how others’ well-being is dependent on our own conduct.
Would the US jobless rate be any lower under a Republican administration? Would the US economy be performing better now if McCain had won the 2008 election? Was it not President Bush who did the lion’s share of that ‘seemingly-no-strings-attached’ bank bail-out (that has always puzzled me – collectively, UK taxpayer now have large equity stakes, which will in time be sold to provide tens of billions for the UK Exchequer, in any UK bank that was bailed out)? The western current socio-economic malaise transcends party politics, and no amount of narrow party-politicking will make things any better.
Ah yes … FOX News … which should perhaps be called ‘FOX Opinion’ instead.
This ‘self-reliance’ stuff is flawed rhetoric. Maybe an issue in western (and other) societies is too little regard for personal responsibility, but personal responsibility is not the same thing as self-reliance: the former involves both a proper understanding of one’s own limitations and a proper appreciation of how others’ well-being is dependent on our own conduct.
Would the US jobless rate be any lower under a Republican administration? Would the US economy be performing better now if McCain had won the 2008 election? Was it not President Bush who did the lion’s share of that ‘seemingly-no-strings-attached’ bank bail-out (that has always puzzled me – collectively, UK taxpayer now have large equity stakes, which will in time be sold to provide tens of billions for the UK Exchequer, in any UK bank that was bailed out)? The western current socio-economic malaise transcends party politics, and no amount of narrow party-politicking will make things any better.
Over the last decade or so on the Internet and extant also in FOX News programming the most conservative-minded have tried to outline not just the most liberal-minded Americans but also the centrists among us as espousing unAmerican ideals. It has been a most disconcerting trend which seems to be exascerbating a growing rift of thought in the country.
(Oh, I’ve just seen that Warren has said what I said above – apologies for the repitition.)
I can understand the dissatisfaction with the Obama presidency: the President does appear to have been overly mild and indecisive too often. My own feelings of disappointment are of one ‘from the Left’ as it were …
That’s the silliest thing I’ve heard for a long time … and an insult to those who were personally affected by the terrible events of 11 September 2001.
(Oh, I’ve just seen that Warren has said what I said above – apologies for the repitition.)
I can understand the dissatisfaction with the Obama presidency: the President does appear to have been overly mild and indecisive too often. My own feelings of disappointment are of one ‘from the Left’ as it were …