I haven't done my duty and fisked Neal Boortz lately. Part of that is just that he's gotten so looney, there's almost no reason to. It's said that you can't reason someone out of what they weren't reasoned into... and anyone who gives Boortz the least bit of credibility certainly wasn't reasoned into it. But I would be remiss if I didn't occasionally pop off about him.

Boortz complains that the "anti-Bush media" (most of whom appear to be on Bush's direct payroll) don't play up the positive angles enough, and keep doing realistic stories on what amounts to a reality that sucks in many ways. A humorous aside: he labels the November election as a "landslide victory" for Bush... Anyway, the real irony is that reality even sucks when Boortz has to talk about it, as evidenced by the fact that he follows this blurb that complains about negative reporting on the war in Iraq among other things with... get ready for this... his very own negative reporting on the war in Iraq, among other things. Specifically, the next point on his page is headlined U.S. MILITARY STRETCHED THIN. He follows up with AL-QAEDA STILL A THREAT AT HOME, and then moves on to a story about Abu Ghraib, featuring this uplifting scene:

Yes, Neal... you're officially a member of the anti-Bush media.

A further point... I do agree with Neal's suggestion that the military up its recruiting by paying soldiers the salaries they are worth. Unfortunately, this will never happen, because spoiled, rich Americans won't ever give up a penny in taxes where they can find a politician willing to cut them. And it is tax-dollars, after all, that have to be used to pay soldiers. With all of our credit cards maxed out already, Bush would have to give back some of those tax cuts for the rich to increase military paychecks significantly. Ain't gonna happen.

And, the fact that we are in this mess in the first place tells you that America and it's political leaders have their priorities sadly and badly out of order.