BARRY WHITE VOICE LEADS TO NO VOICE

And no voice, means no show. So Neal is home resting the voice. The staff has pulled together some notes for you so you don't miss out on too much. Hopefully Neal will be back tomorrow, voice and all.

INDICTING THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

Depending on whom you believe, the indictments in the Plamegate case are about to hit the fan in Washington.  Right now, the three names being floated about are:

--Karl Rove. Possible charges?  Hard to say.  Maybe nothing.  Probably either perjury or obstruction of justice and maybe a charge for disclosing the name of a covert officer.  That's a stretch...there's still no proof Plame was one.  Apparently Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald was interviewing neighbors to see if they indeed did know Plame was a CIA agent, as has been reported. 

--I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff.  Same thing as Rove, although Libby seems to have a greater chance of getting in the soup because evidently Rove says he heard about Plame from Libby.  Seems more likely to be indicted than Rove, but who knows.

--Dick Cheney.  A late addition....the New York Times reports Dick Cheney may have outed Plame to Libby.  Hard to believe Cheney would be a target, but anything could happen.

Reports are that indictments could come today, tomorrow or Friday.  Of course, being indicted doesn't mean a person is guilty, but in the world of Washington, being indicted means you're gone.  Anybody indicted will be expected to resign.   Democrats will immediately want to hold their own hearings and expect the calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush to begin.

The left, along with the media, is going to be in seventh heaven.  The biggest non-scandal in history will now become a career-making opportunity for every reporter in Washington.  Millions of hours will be wasted reporting on something that means absolutely nothing to no one, except those involved.  Rove and Libby probably will wind up being acquitted, but it won't matter.

The Bush-haters are about to hit their peak, and we're never going to hear the end of it.  Also, if no one is indicted, the left isn't going to go quietly.  They will demand their own hearings in Congress and this will become the never ending scandal for the rest of the Bush administration.  And the media will go along with it.

They will also pretend that this is some sort of Republican problem.  Remember the two Clinton cabinet secretaries that were indicted for real crimes?  The media wants you to forget.

HEROES, NOT VICTIMS

So it has finally happened.  Unfortunately, 2,000 US soldiers have died during Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq in just over 2 1/2 years.  A sad milestone, to be sure.  It is too bad that the media and nutcases in the anti-war left are exploiting the memories and deaths of these soldiers for political gain.

Already, we are seeing the media playing up the sympathy and the tragedy angle.  We're hearing stories about people who served in the war effort....their families, things they may have written or said before they went off to war.  Unfortunately, the media isn't reporting all of this to be nice.  They are using these families to further their own political views, which essentially go like this: George Bush lied about WMD and now he's killed their son (or daughter.)  They use these stories as propaganda to stir up opposition to the war.

The fact is that we have an all-volunteer fighting force in this country for a reason.  Everyone who signs up knows that there is the chance they could be deployed.  And the vast, overwhelming majority of the service men and women serving in the war on terror believe in the mission.  That is a fact that is not reported, because after all, it makes George Bush look good. 

Can't have that, you know.

BIAS IN THE POLLS

Ever wonder where the media gets their ideas for polling?  The answer, of course, is that they make them up.  Yesterday there were two new ones, two of the most meaningless and partisan polls ever conducted.  They come to us courtesy of CNN/USA Today and Gallup. 

The first one asked if they would vote for George Bush if he were again running for the presidency this year.  This is an idiotic question because Bush has already been elected twice and can't run again.  But that's not stopping the leftist Bush-bashers at CNN/USA Today and Gallup from pushing their agenda.  So they manufacture news by taking a poll.  By the way, the poll said 55% would vote for a Democrat over 39% for Bush.  The only reason for taking such a poll is to embarrass the president and continue to push their biased, liberal reporting on the American people.

Poll number two involved the Valerie Plame non-affair.  It said that only 1 in 10 Americans believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical.  Once again, the CNN/USA Today and Gallup organizations come together to create a poll that bashes George Bush, so they can report it as news.  If you were to walk down the street in any city in America, you probably couldn't find 1 in 10 people who even knew who Valerie Plame was.  Yet now we have a poll. Riiiight.

The media and the anti-war left continue to do everything they can to bash the Bush administration.   All they have to do to justify their efforts is take a poll.

Tour Gallery | BUY ONLINE

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Here's the perfect car for a redneck midlife crisis. Note the shadow of the guy taking the picture. Nice hat! More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

Coming to a town near you, well, if you're in Sweden, trains fueled by cows.

Did Neal really suggest Katrina victims turn to prostitution to support themselves? Of course, mediamatters.org is all over it. Hey, look, you can leave comments there...

Matthew Scully, former speechwriter to President Bush, on why conservatives should care about animal cruelty.

WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE POINTY HAND THINGS?
These are links to each individual story on the Nuze, p-links for the geeks out there. Plus, they work today and they'll work tomorrow. Now you can easily discuss/debate/rip apart the Nuze without worrying about the links going bad. Enjoy!

BOORTZ BLAST NEWSLETTER
Everyone is talking about the Boortz Blast newsletter. Do you want yours? Sign up here and we'll deliver it directly to your inbox every 2 weeks. If you signed up but aren't receiving it, either your company or your spam filter could be keeping it from you. Try using a personal email address and check your spam filter's junk folder for wayward newsletters.

NEAL'S FANS GET TOGETHER
If you like Neal and are looking for like minded people to hang out with online or off, check out these places:

• Talkmaster Yahoo Group
• Meet Boortz fans in your area
• alt.fan.neal.boortz newsgroup (note, you're going to have to figure out newsgroups all on your own)

Belinda Skelton, Ken Rogers, Laura Nunemaker and Brian Ganey assist in the daily preparation of Nealz Nuze!