Please help us take on Neal Boortz. Boortz is the right-wing shock jock who recently attacked the victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech less than 24 hours after their deaths! Boortz needs to apologize and face disciplinary action for his outrageous behavior!
Watch this video about Boortz's vicious attack on the innocent victims of this tragedy. Please help us get the word out about Neal Boortz.
That clip reveals in the starkest possible way the lies and distortions of Republican commentator Neal Boortz. Now, here's the truth about the heroic resistance of Virginia Tech's students and faculty:
Professor Liviu Librescu held the door of his classroom, Room 204, shut while Cho attempted to enter it. Librescu was able to prevent the shooter from entering the classroom until his students had escaped through the windows, but he was shot five times and killed.
[Jocelyne] Couture-Nowak tried to save the students in her classroom, Room 211, after looking Cho in the eye in the hallway. Colin Goddard, one of the six known survivors of the French class, told his family that Couture-Nowak ordered her students to the back of the class for their safety and made a fatal attempt to barricade the door.
In Room 206, Waleed Shaalan, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering and teaching assistant from Zagazig, Egypt, though badly wounded, distracted Cho from a nearby student after the shooter had returned to the room. Shaalan was shot a second time and died.
Also in Room 206, Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan from Indonesia protected fellow student Guillermo Colman by diving on top of him; Colman's various accounts make it unclear whether this act was intentional or the involuntary result of being shot. Multiple gunshots killed Lumbantoruan but Colman was protected by Lumbantoruan's body.
Student Zach Petkewicz barricaded the door of Room 205 with a large table, while Cho shot several times through the door. No one in that classroom was killed.
Katelyn Carney, Derek O'Dell, Trey Perkins, and Erin Sheehan barricaded the door of Room 207, the German class, after the first attack and attended to the wounded. Cho returned minutes later but O'Dell and Carney prevented him from re-entering the room. Both were injured.
Matthew Joseph La Porte, a member of the Corps of Cadets and an Air Force ROTC student, attempted to tackle Cho from behind but was fatally injured in the attempt.
Hearing the commotion on the floor below, Professor Kevin Granata brought 20 students from a nearby classroom into an office, where the door could be locked, on the third floor of Norris Hall. He then went downstairs to investigate and was shot by Cho. Granata died from his injuries. None of the students locked in Granata's office were injured.[1]
Neal Boortz has defamed the innocent victims of this tragedy. Anyone listening to Boortz, sponsoring his show, or otherwise supporting his outrageous behavior should be ashamed of themselves.
H/T Raising Kaine.