Today's Nuze: June 09, 2006 

BROADCASTING FROM NEW YORK CITY!

Today's Neal Boortz Show comes to you from New York City!  I'm just here to see if Sean will invite me on his TV show tonight, or maybe he'll take me out for a steak at Del Fusco's!  By the way ... just in case you care .. if you're staying in lower Manhattan I would suggest that Newark airport is a better choice than that LaGuardia hell-hole.  

ZARQAWI DEAD, DEMOCRATS DEPRESSED

Well ... at least the Democrats have that "culture of corruption" thing to run on. But wait! ... there's $90,000 in William Jefferson's freezer that says that won't work. Plus .. the Congressional Black Caucus is defending him? Corruption? Clean the green fuzz out of your own refrigerator first. Gas prices? People are actually starting to realize that there are market forces at work here that Bush has, and should have no control over. No, if the Bush Administration rights the ship in Iraq, the Democrats are done...and they know it.

So they responded accordingly yesterday. Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader and Speaker-in-waiting, said yesterday Zarqawi's death changes nothing. In fact, she responded with a quote that could have come right off an Islamic hate website: "Several hours after Zarqawi's death, 19 Iraqis were killed and 40 were wounded in a roadside bombing in Baghdad." Pelosi, along with most of her kook leftist buddies, are banking on American defeat in Iraq.

Some Democrats are so upset that Bush is getting some positive help from al-Zarqawi's death that they're actually claiming that the whole thing was nothing but a stunt.  Congressman Pete Stark from California said that Bush had al-Zarqawi killed to cover for the deaths of civilians in Iraq and to boost his poll numbers.  I guess we could laugh at Stark, if he wasn't so completely pathetic.  If al-Zarqawi remains free Bush takes the heat for not being able to find him.  If al-Zarqawi is killed, Bush takes the heat for trying to divert attention from his sagging poll numbers.  This just goes to show the depths to which Democrats and the left will sink to feed their hatred of George Bush .. hatred fueled by the election of 2000.

And as for whether or not Zarqawi was an important hit....absolutely he was. This is the guy who ran Al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq. Yet here are Democrats...downplaying it as symbolic. They call rubbing out Zarqawi symbolism, yet whine about how Osama Bin Laden hasn't been caught. This despite the fact that Osama is sitting in a cave somewhere in Pakistan doing absolutely nothing. Which one is it, fellas? Make up your minds already.

Any more good news from Iraq, and Democrats may get really desperate. Maybe they'll strap on an AK-47 and join the insurgency.

NICK BERG'S UNGRATEFUL DAD

Michael Berg, a Pennsylvania man whose son Nick Berg was killed in Iraq by Zarqawi, is unhappy these days. If you remember, Nick Berg was the kid whose head Zarqawi sawed off with a dull kitchen knife, then posted the video on the Internet. Now that Zarqawi is dead, you would think Michael Berg would feel a little justice for his son. After all, his son supported the war in Iraq and believed that being there was right.

But that's not how the mind of a fringe leftist operates. You see, everything is fair game for politics...even the memory of a loved one. Just ask Cindy Sheehan. So Michael Berg is once again hijacking his son's legacy for his own publicity and political cause. On the news of Zarqawi's death, Michael Berg was most unhappy. He even had some rather soft language for the killer of his own son, saying "I don't think that Zarqawi is himself responsible for the killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq. I think George Bush is." This is how liberals think, folks. Making sausage. Not a pretty sight.

Michael Berg's hatred of George W. Bush is more important than his the memory of his son, a young man now dead at the hands of an Islamic terrorist. But Berg's praise for his son's killer didn't stop there: "George Bush is the one that invaded this country, George Bush is the one that destabilized it so that Zarqawi could get in, so that Zarqawi had a need to get in, to defend his region of the country from American invaders." Unbelievable.

Oh..and Michael Berg seems sad that Zarqawi died at all, saying "I have no sense of relief, just sadness that another human being had to die." I wonder if he'll be a pallbearer at Zarqawi's funeral? His son would be so proud.

Do you think the design of this detention basin in Des Moines is an accident? Don't believe this? Check the parcel in context.

BLACK CAUCUS DEFENDS CORRUPTION

The Congressional Black Caucus is in a bit of a bind these days. One of their own, Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson had his office raided, his home searched and was caught on tape accepting a $100,000 cash bribe. In fact, $90,000 of it was found in his freezer. No word on the fate of the other ten grand...perhaps household expenses. Who knows.

Many members, including some Democrats, have called on Jefferson to step down. Some are saying he should step down from any committee assignments while others are saying he should leave Congress altogether. That may all be a moot point, as he is sure to be indicted at any minute. Of course, a trial would take awhile...and he could stay in Congress right up until he's hauled off to jail.

But now the Congressional Black Caucus is asking where the presumption of innocence is for Jefferson. They say we shouldn't rush to judgment. They don't think anything should happen to Jefferson at all. Very interesting. I seem to recall quite a different stance being taken by Democrats when it came to Tom DeLay. They wanted him to step down right away....where was Tom DeLay's presumption of innocence?

DeLay hasn't been convicted of anything. Why did he have to go? The answer is DeLay is a Republican and Jefferson is a Democrat. DeLay is automatically guilty of whatever he's accused of and Jefferson is going to be innocent no matter what happens. And Tom DeLay didn't even have $90,000 in his freezer. I wonder how many members of the Congressional Black Caucus think O.J. didn't do it?

KUDOS FOR AN EXEMPLARY HATE MAIL!

I want to recognize excellence wherever I see it .. and this hate mail certain stands out as one of the best!  After Web Guy forwarded it to me last night (with effusive praise, I might add) there was just no way it wasn't going to make it to today's Nuze.  In fact, I suspect that it will find its way into my next book!  Read and enjoy!

Subject: Radio Hosts
Name: Arvid Berge
Email: ++++++++@sbcglobal.net

Message:
I love talking about radio hosts probably as much as you love talking about folks caught up in Hurricane Katrina. Hosts like you and Michael Savage and Glenn Beck and Rush and Billy O'. Seems like all of you radio personalities can't swim fast enough to reach the bottom of whatever excrement filled ditch you dive into on a daily basis. I enjoy thinking about how maggots that normally would feast on rotted road kill actually become sick to their stomachs and vomit when in your presence. And, I never want to miss an opportunity to describe to my many friends and also strangers...some of whom may be among the debris from Hurricane Katrina...how good I feel when I think about fortunate we are to have talk show hosts like you who are so vile and immeasurably perverse you make the least worthy among us seem positively divine.

Wow!  Awesome!  Well done!  Now that's some good writing, don't you think?

FDA APPROVES CANCER VACCINE

This one is designed to prevent cervical cancer, a huge killer.  It can also block infections by viruses that cause genital warts.  This particular virus is spread by skin-to-skin contact.  It's called the human papillomavirus, and it's the most common sexually transmitted infection in our country ... and there's the rub (so to speak).  The FDA is approving this drug, Gardasil, over the objections of some religious zealots who believe that if there's a vaccine that guards against a sexually transmitted disease, it will cause more people to have sex.  Well, isn't that just all warm and touchy-feely?  Don't you just love the idea that we have people out there who want to punish sexual conduct with disease, possibly even cancer?

CORRECTING MY GRIEVOUS ERROR

Every day I get -- and welcome -- emails from Nuze readers and listeners correcting me on items that may have appeared in Nealz Nuze or that I might have mentioned on the air.  No problem!  If I make a mistake, and I make them frequently, I want to correct them.

Now .. yesterday I made a mistake, and you wouldn't believe the volume of the email correcting me.  I said that Stone Cold Steve Austin was the professional wrestler who once said: "know your role and shut your mouth."  Well, I was wrong.  It was actually The Rock.  OK, I stand corrected.  Now, if you will, I would like to express my dismay, though not my surprise, that such a huge number of people seem to be prepared to correct a quote involving a professional wrestler.  What if I mistakenly attributed a quote to Tony Blair or Condi Rice?  Duhhhhhhh.

THOSE CHEATIN' REPUBLICANS

There is just a fantastic editorial that ran in the New York Times a few days ago-"Block the Vote, Ohio Remix"--about Republicans and their wily attempts to squelch voter registration efforts in Ohio. As a feisty election season draws near, liberals are already complaining that Republicans are cheating. Who knew you could cheat before the games began?

J. Kenneth Blackwell, secretary of state of Ohio and now Republican candidate for governor, is being criticized for...wait for it...interpreting the voter registration laws that were recently passed by the Ohio legislature. Wow! What a crime! Imagine that. It seems that folks are upset with two issues. Number one: the new voting rules were passed by a Republican-controlled legislature. So clearly, they are inherently designed to keep minorities and poor people from voting. And number two is supposed to get us really riled up: "This year, Mr. Blackwell's office has issued rules and materials that appear to require that paid registration workers, and perhaps even volunteers, personally take the forms they collect to an election office." Oh boy, imagine that!

The funny thing about the whole issue is this: when did it become a rule that the government must provide every last freaking opportunity for people to become registered voters? Isn't voting a privilege? Aren't we, as responsible and educated citizens, supposed to take it upon ourselves to register to vote? I didn't realize my voter registration card was supposed to be personally delivered to me with my welfare check and a silver spoon.

And now, since Blackwell is running for governor, they want him to relinquish his responsibilities come election time "to a decision maker whose only loyalty is to the voters and the law". Let's just ask one more question: since when has a politician's only loyalty been to the law and his/her voters? Man, what a different world we would be in if that was truly the case.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Yet another regulation mailbox, I'm sure. It gets better when Farkers have a go at it. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Neal's guest today, comedian Ron White, talking about his new book I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability

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