OK ... SO NOW I'M A LITTLE EMBARRASSED.

Well now, I seem to have created a bit of a kafuffle here!  Suddenly, for some people, the issue isn't Cynthia McKinney hitting a law enforcement officer and then screaming racism.  Nope.  The issue is what I had to say about her hair style.  Well, to a certain extent, that's entirely fair.  Yesterday on the air I said that that hairdo ... the wild and crazy every hair going in a different direction hairdo -- made her look  like a ghetto slut.  Know what?  That was wrong.  Bad wrong. That was overboard.  I know Cynthia McKinney.  I've know her for years.  We have always gotten along just fine .. kidding each other ... needling each other. I remember her spotting me sitting in the House visitors gallery one day and yelling (with a smile on her face, by the way) "Neal Boortz! Who the hell let you in here?"  I've known her father much longer than I've known her. I don't like her politics one bit, but, as I said on the air several times this past week, I think that she has an endearing personality and a million-dollar smile.  That being said, I don't think that it was  right to use the word "slut" in any description involving her or her hairdo.  So ... my apologies to Cynthia McKinney. I'll say it here, and I'll say it on the air on Monday.   When I'm wrong I'll admit it with no hesitation.  Now this apology is going to mean absolutely nothing to those of you who consider every word ever uttered by someone-not-liberal to be "hate speech."  This apology is going to mean nothing to those of you who consider every negative comment or criticism ever made of or about anybody-not-white to be "racism."  Most of the people who have sent me some rather nasty emails in the last 24 hours know nothing about me except what they've read on some far-left websites.  The apology, therefore, is for the millions of listeners who do know me and who were disappointed by my statement on Friday.  Sorry I let you down.

Actually, I should be horsewhipped for saying something stupid that allowed, to some extent, the attention to shift from the wrongdoing of Cynthia McKinney to my ill-chosen words.  The issue here is not how one would define Cynthia McKinney's hairstyle.  The issue is whether or not Cynthia McKinney assaulted a law enforcement officer who was merely trying to do his sworn duty.  Contrast, if you would, my apology with that of Cynthia McKinney.  McKinney has only said that she "regrets" that the incident happened.  That is not an apology.  So far as I've heard there has not been one "I'm sorry."  Instead, McKinney stages a news conference Friday afternoon featuring two of premiere jackasses, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, two men fresh from their recent appearance with America-hater Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.  So, there is Cynthia McKinney, standing there with two men who have said some mighty foul things about our country and our president, accusing a police officer of being a racist because he didn't recognize her when she circumvented a screening station.  That man spends his days protecting McKinney and her colleagues; and she thanks him by calling him a racist for merely doing his job.  Let's see if Cynthia can eventually stand up and apologize for being a fool.  I just did.  It really doesn't hurt all that much.

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