Matt Ortega

Conservative radio host Neal Boortz recently said on The Neal Boortz Radio Show that he would be a “lousy Mexican” because he was unable to properly use a floor buffer.

On the April 10 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Neal Boortz asserted, “I would make a lousy Mexican.” Engineer and “sidekick” Royal Marshall asked Boortz: “Why is that?” Boortz responded, “Well, because I wanted to scrub the hangar floor the other day, so I went and rented one of these big buffers,” later adding: “I turned on that buffer, and it damn near killed me! It was dragging me across the hangar floor, throwing me around like I — it was like a dog shaking a cat or something like that. You know, that’s skilled labor.” [emphasis added]

Boortz later continued with in the bigoted tirade with a caller who complained about an car accident he witnessed involving an alleged undocumented immigrant.

Later in the show, a caller recounted a story, saying he “was in a parking lot and witnessed a wreck on the road. And it was one of the illegals from south of the border and didn’t have insurance. He ran, came into the parking lot, and was going to run my wife and myself down to get away from the police. But I was carrying a weapon; my son was carrying a weapon. We both drew down on him.” Boortz interrupted, “Qué pasa? Qué pasa?” The caller said the man “got out of the truck spouting Spanish.” After the caller finished his story, Boortz commented, “You know, I think with this Rosetta Stone software — you know, Spanish-language software — I think the first phrase they teach you is, you know, ‘Hands against the — hands against the car and hood, and spread ‘em.’” [emphasis added]

The bigoted characterization of Mexicans by Boortz is beyond reprehensible and par for the course on conservative talk radio. He is the rule and not the exception.

Man Eegee writes that Boortz would make a lousy Mexican.

Neal Boortz is right - he would make a lousy Mexican because he makes a lousy human being. With a face that’s perfect for radio, the façade of his cultural supremacy is only as mighty as the flash flood of verbal diarrhea that he is allowed to grunt out each day. He knows this, as this is not his first time he’s lit a burning cross through the airwaves.

To add to that list, Boortz would be terrible at a lot of other things, too: civil rights leader, labor activist, public policy wonk, legislator, community activist, four-star general, astronaut, songwriter, musician, R&B artist, comedian, ballplayer, boxer and actor, to name a few.

Ted Williams, whose maternal grandparents were of Mexican descent, had more “skills” in his finger tips than Boortz could ever dream of.