Posted on 06/04/2012 6:02:54 AM PDT by TomServo
Neil Boortz will announce on his program this morning that he will be retiring in January. He will pass his seat over to longtime friend Herman Cain who thinks “they” think you’re stupid.
WSB appears to have accidentally released the announcment on their website, where a cached version of the announcement says it is set to post at 10:07 am this morning. Of Boortz’s news, it says:
Today national radio talk show host Neal Boortz announced live on his program that he’s retiring from his daily show and passing the torch to his friend and colleague, Herman Cain. His last day hosting The Neal Boortz Show, which premiered on News/Talk WSB in 1993 and now airs on more than 200 radio stations with six million weekly listeners, will be January 18, 2013.
“It’s time for me and my wife, Donna, to hit the road and travel in ways that we have not been able to through most of our 42 years together,” said Boortz – also known as “The Talkmaster” and “The High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth.”
Big time. He would mock Christians and banned his callers from bringing up the topic of abortion, but he would not resist using the pro-aborts arguments during the show.
I always had this suspicion that he facilitated an abortion in the past and had to justify his action as so many pro-aborts do. I think he probably paid for his daughter to abort his grandchild.
Sad though, on so many issues I agreed with him but couldn't listen because of these issues.
Leni
Up until about 4 years ago, I used to listen to him since his days at WRNG radio. I finally got tired of his petulant attitude along with his penchant for being a purile little man-boy when it comes to his off color remarks. I also came to think that many of the stories he tells about this and that from his past are extremely exaggerated. I think he’s a chicken who hides behind his mike and the the dump switch.
If any of you out there really want to know what he’s like, just think on this. Why is it that Boortz has NEVER been a substitute for Rush Limbaugh? I can tell you Rush likely met him and summed him up very quickly - weighed, measured, and found wanting as they say.
A legend in his own mind - won’t be missed around my household.
One phrase I first heard Neal use and I occasionally use, is the famous ‘Dirt Nap’ for executed criminals.
He’s a fiscal conservative, social liberal, anti-Christian shock jock. He’s basically Howard Stern without hair. I usually made a point of NOT listening to him on the way to work. I’m glad he’s off the air.
I remember hearing him on WRNG Talk Radio in the 70's when I lived in Smyrna, back in 1973-5. He never struck me as "all that", and a couple of times in the last 18 months when I've heard him, he struck me as boorish and bullying, as well as tendentious (Rush can be tendentious, too, but he has a purpose -- he's being didactic, so that even liberals from Rio Linda can understand and remember what he said).
That all said, nevertheless he broke ground for others and set up a new format, which an article I saw about Rush years ago called "non-guested confrontation". Despite the cheesy moniker, the format worked to bring out that the MSM doyens did not own the football, the field, the stadium, the broadcast rights, and the copyright to the game. He was the entering wedge that began to break the deathgrip the MSM cabal -- and we are now recognizing it as a cabal, run by weaselly little sob's like Ezra Klein and Jonathan Alter -- had on Americans for a very, very long time, and with which they did very great damage, damn their little Marxist hides, to a great ideal and a great country.
Boortz opened a door, and Rush and others walked right through. You have to give Boortz props for that. He wasn't the only guy in talk radio back then (it was usually a local show, one host, limited hours), but he was the guy who got it noticed and took it regional.
Boortz was boring but he was 1000 times better than Herman will ever be. Mr. Cain blew away any relevance he had when he let himself be blown out of the primaries by “alleged” ex mistresses
You and me both. His pro abortion ranting, as well as his ultra liberal take on most social issues, was just too much.
A shame really, as he was on the mark on other issues, esp. government indoctrination masquerading as education.
The "intellectually unimpressive prima donna" knew how to spell "riddance".
So what if the intelectualy unimmpresive primma dona new how to spel. Kolor mi unimprest.
Heh heh.
While some of the things you say about Boortz opening doors are true. IIRC, he did NOT syndicate until he took the stint at WSB, the station he used to deride (while at WGST - remember Sasha Futrin?) because of the “blue hairs”....He stopped calling them that when he came to WSB.
Lastly, Rush was syndicated nationally in 1988. Although I don’t know the exact date, my recollection is the Boortz’s syndication was much later. The only “ushering-in” that I’d give Boortz credit for personally is Sean Hannity, and in some respects Hermain Cain. Regardless, Rush didn’t ‘walk through’ a door Boortz opened; he did it on his own.
Boortz, for me, was an acquired taste, but I really grew to enjoy listening to him when I used to have to drive to work in the morning. I haven’t been listening as much since I’ve been working from home, even though I could stream his show here if I chose to do so. He hasn’t quite been the same since Royal Marshall died so unexpectedly. But I will definitely miss him. He could be highly entertaining.
On the plus side, Herman Cain was always an able fill-in for Boortz — so much so, that WSB gave him his own evening show...until he gave it up to run for President. He has been filling in here and there ever since he suspended his campaign. It will be good to have him back on the air full time.
touche; my typo.
Amazing how this radio professional never took the trouble to learn how to pronounce gerunds. Or, as Boortz would say, “amazeen.”
Not so fast. That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there.
I met him on more than one occasion and never came away smiling. In fact, in August 2005 I helped organize the biggest book sales event he ever had up to that point and possibly to date (for his 1st Fair Tax book). Boortz's business office charged us $10,000 for the privilege of hosting a remote broadcast event at which they sold every book they could deliver to the convention center that day in Marietta, GA. Meanwhile, our non-profit org barely broke even - but that's okay, the issue was served.
A year or so later Boortz participated in a TalkFest event in Austin, TX. I was nearby and went to see him, but he could not be bothered for five minutes to discuss serious background issue developments about Fair Tax marketing. Local radio execs and on-air talent I spoke with agreed that Boortz was a pain the the butt to work with.
You’re right. Below is a link to the ‘Commencement Speech.’
Happy Trails, Neal. I grew up in the Atlanta area. Listened to him when I was at Emory Univ.
Thanks for telling it like it is way before Rush. He is currently the 6th most listened to talk radio program.
Everyone should read his “The Commnencement Speech You Need to Hear.”
http://www.gotgoldreport.com/2012/05/the-commencement-speech-you-need-to-hear.html
No one has been more passionate about the Fair Tax or his diatribes against the public school system as “tax payer funded child abuse.” And you know the guy has to be good if he goaded O’Reilly into calling him a “vicious son of a bitch” oh The Factor.
Am glad he is still going to be on air when Obama goes down in a landslide. Wish you all the best and enjoy your travels. You’ve earned it. You’ve come a long way from writing speeches for Lester Maddox lol.
Boortz opened a door, and Rush and others walked right through.
I have lived in the ATL metro area all my life and listened to Boortz since the “Ring Radio” days (anyone else remember Ludlow Porch? ZZZZZZZZZ).
Boortz has been around a long time, and with the exception of the abortion and Christian issues discussed above overall I think he has been an asset to the conservative cause. No one is perfect. I have to admit than Neal helped me through some tough times as a conservative. He would say what others were afraid to.
But OMG I cant listen to Herman. Just can’t. Rusty Humphrey will become my ATL fave.
HI! Used to live in Smyrna myself.
The only lame part of Boortz’s show was the female airhead, Belinda, and his repartees with some vapid newscaster named Jamie Dupree who pretends to be an unbiased reporter but cannot never say a good word about any republican.
“I always had this suspicion that he facilitated an abortion in the past and had to justify his action as so many pro-aborts do. I think he probably paid for his daughter to abort his grandchild.”
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Also, he mocked Rick Santorum’s views on marriage and sexuality. Did Boortz ever realize Santorum’s views on these matters weren’t something he just thought up but they are in fact the classical Christian position for the last two millenia? Then again, libs/libertarians rarely have the courage and the intellectual integrity to admit to that.
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