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.
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.