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Yesterday Neil Boortz was reading the comments from HuffingtonPost, alarmed by the disturbing fantasy of seeing the Vice President dead. Boortz then said, in reference to either one particular commenter or the "artist" who did the painting with a knife through Bush's head (I wasn't paying close enough attention until the part I'm about to quote), that he hopes the Secret Service finds him and questions him ... "Jack Bauer style."
A few minutes later he took a caller. It went like this (paraphrased)
Caller: Hey, Neil glad to hear you loved my shirt!
Boortz: Uh, what shirt?
Caller: A while ago, you said at the book signing you loved the shirt that said "Rope. Tree. Politician ... some assembly required." That was me.
Boortz: Oh, yeah. Er .... we should probably say that you know ... that's just the spirit of fun
Caller: Yeah, right. Just saying everyone is frustrated with politicians.
Seriously. Could someone have written better parody than that? But it actually happened.
