The people had no objections to what Boortz said but the politicians are trying to make a big deal out of how "insensitive" it was:
"Managers of four Virginia radio stations that carry Neal Boortz's nationally syndicated talk radio show say they have heard few complaints from listeners about his comments about the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech. But Scott Stevens, operations manager for Cumulus NRV, said his company's management may drop the show after getting a letter Tuesday from three members of the House of Delegates....
In the wake of the slayings of 32 people by student Seung-Hui Cho, who also took his own life, Boortz began asking why Tech students didn't fight back. He called it part of the "wussification of America" and a symptom of a passive culture fostered by the political left.....
On Monday, the three legislators called on the eight Virginia stations that carry Boortz to drop him. "This community up here's still suffering greatly," Shuler said Tuesday.... Still, Stevens said, before the delegates' letter, he had received just one call about the comments, and it was so nonspecific that he had not realized what it was about.
Similarly, managers at WFIR in Roanoke -- which pulled Boortz's show for a day in response to the comments -- WLNI in Lynchburg and WMVA in Martinsville said they had heard few complaints about Boortz. Leonard Wheeler, president and general manager of WFIR, called Boortz's words "totally unfair, horribly ill-timed, completely insensitive" but said he heard much more outcry when he didn't air the show for a day than about the remarks themselves....
Bill Wyatt, owner of Martinsville Media, sent a letter back to the delegates Tuesday calling their communication "politically motivated and opportunistic." Wyatt wrote that he resented the characterization of the Virginia stations' response to Boortz as "disappointing and meager."
"Since none of you reside in the WMVA listening area, I fail to understand how you could be aware of what my 'station's response' may or may not be," Wyatt wrote. "For the record, our response has been measured; we have received no complaints from anyone in the community where we are licensed to serve."
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I must say that what Boortz said was exactly what passed through my mind at the time. If the students had all jumped Cho that would have saved a lot of lives.
