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Guess Boortz got spanked…

Why else would he apologize for calling Rep. Cynthia McKinney a “ghetto slut”?

Boortz Issues apology over McKinney smears

On the April 3 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz issued an apology for his remarks about Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), stating, “I’ve known Cynthia McKinney for a long time, and there is no way in the world that that word should be used to describe her or her hairdo or any woman.” As Media Matters for America noted, Boortz said that McKinney, “looks like a ghetto slut” during the March 31 broadcast of his radio program, and later added that he didn’t “blame them [Capitol police] for stopping” McKinney during a March 29 incident at the Capitol because she had a “ghetto trash” haircut and “looked like a welfare drag queen [that] was trying to sneak into the Longworth House Office Building.”

In issuing the apology, Boortz added that it “won’t mean anything to people who consider any negative comment or criticism of any type at any time about anybody who is not white to be racism.”</i>

Jackass.


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