Tête-a-Tête-Tête: Don't forget Cory Maye

December 13, 2005

Boortz enjoys being wrong on both counts yesterday.

He attributes his error to the fact that he did not take into consideration that it is “too cold in Los Angeles” for there to be riots. Maybe 66 degrees is too cool for those aspiring rappers and NBA stars to go out and steal flat-screen televisions.

Boortz then appeals to the “majority rules” crowd when it comes to important issues like life and death.

Normally Boortz has a total disdain for the “majority” unless he happens to fall into that group. I have always gotten a kick out of his rantings about how incredibly stupid the majority of voters are without seeing the irony in the fact that his beloved Republicans have control over absolutely everything and were voted into office by a majority of these incredibly stupid voters.

Classic Boortz.

By the way, did you know 3 states still offer hanging as the method of execution? You could put that on TV and give the money to the victims' families. Just a thought.

Ain't it a shame what it takes to sell radio advertisements these days?

It is too late for Tookie but it is not too late for Cory Maye.

While there may be honest disagreement concerning the fate of Tookie are there any other people in the United States who believe that Cory Maye should even be in prison much less on death row besides the jury that convicted him?

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Posted by Buck at December 13, 2005 10:57 AM

Comments

I was alarmed by a in which Angelica of BattlePanda lamented the fading interest that the blogosphere was showing in the Cory Maye story. I wrote to her and asked what might be done to keep attention on the story. She had several ideas, one of which included:

"[How about] a button that people can stick on their sidebars to say something like "I blogged to free Cory Maye" which, when clicked, take them to the website? One of the frustrating things about blogs is people forget a story as soon as it is off the front page. Always having that little reminder on the front page that Cory maye is still on death row would go a long way to keep the story alive."

My friend Laura Denyes, a talented graphic designer, donated some of her time last week to come up with some buttons that might be used in this fashion. We hope people will look them over and choose one they like. We provide the HTML they will need to make the images appear on their weblogs. We will be hosting the images ourselves, and whatever bandwidth issues arise, we will consider part of our donation to this cause. Please consider adding one of these buttons to your own sidebar.

You can see them here:

http://www.whatisliberalism.com/index.php?pageId=84629