Neal Boortz

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Neal A Boortz Jr. (born April 6, 1945) is an American author, former attorney, and former conservative radio host.

His nationally syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, which ended in 2013, was carried throughout the United States.

It was ranked seventh in overall listeners, with more than 4.25 million per week.

The content of the show included politics, current events, social issues, and topics of interest, which Boortz discussed with callers, correspondents, and guests.

Boortz touched on many controversial topics. Boortz's first involvement with radio was in the 1960s, while he was a student at Texas A&M University, working as a local on-air personality at WTAW.

After moving to Georgia, he became an avid listener of Atlanta's first talk radio station.

Boortz became a regular caller to the morning talk show.

When the show's host died, it created a job opening, which Boortz actively pursued.

He was initially hired on a two-week "trial run", and later offered the permanent position.

Boortz attended night law school, earning a law degree in 1977.

For some years he worked as both an attorney and as a talk show host.

He eventually closed his law practice to concentrate on his work in radio. Boortz has received many industry accolades.

He was named as one of the "25 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" by Talkers magazine, and one of "Georgia's 100 Most Influential People" by Georgia Trend.

In 2009, Boortz was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Boortz's first book was The Commencement Speech You Need To Hear in 1997, followed by The Terrible Truth About Liberals, in 1998.

In 2005, he co-wrote The FairTax Book with Congressman John Linder, proposing to implement a variant of a national retail sales tax in lieu of other federal taxes.

Boortz's involvement with the FairTax is covered in the documentary film An Inconvenient Tax.

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While attending Texas A&M University, Boortz began his radio career in College Station, Texas, in the 1960s at WTAW under the name of Randy Neal. Boortz moved to Atlanta and landed a sales job in 1967, after leaving Texas. He worked at Rich's Department Store for two years, selling jewelry and carpeting. Martin Luther King Jr., one of his clients, was remembered later on AM 680 WRNG (now WCNN). As in the ring of a telephone, the station was branded "Ring Radio." It was Atlanta's first talk radio station. Boortz listened to morning talk show host Herb Elfman and became a devotee within minutes. "Boortz swarmed Elfman with calls, reading him little scripts he'd written."

Elfman had committed suicide while watching the news on evening, he discovered it on television one evening. Boortz arrived at the front door of WRNG and announced that he was going to take Elfman's place. Boortz was given the role of temporary two-week replacement despite the fact that the boss told him that "they were going to look for a 'qualified' host to take his place." In the interim, the evening host was relocated to mornings, and Boortz took over the evening time slot. Boortz appeared on the morning show two weeks later, beginning his broadcasting career in Atlanta that spanned more than 40 years. Boortz honed his craft at the tiny 1,000-watt radio, as well as wrote a few speeches for then Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. He continued working at the station until 1974, when WRNG "dumped him." He was offered a job at radio station WGY in Schenectady, New York, but he turned down the offer to return to Atlanta and enroll in law school. While Boortz was enrolled in then-unaccredited John Marshall Law School (Atlanta), he went to class in his spare time, and his wife Donna worked full time loading mail trucks. "The money to keep me in law school" is credited to Boortz's wife. Boortz practiced law in a solo law firm from 1977 to 1993, after graduating from law school in 1977. He divided his time between his law practice and radio during the time. Evander Holyfield, boxer, was one of Boortz's most popular clients. Following the demise of a failed Subaru car dealership investment, Holyfield sued Boortz and other members of his leadership team later. "It had nothing to do with identifying him as a boxer," Boortz told Atlanta Magazine, "It had nothing to do with presenting him as a boxer." "It was settled and vanish." Campbell, a tense on-air debate with Boortz, Campbell, remarked on the Holyfield friendship, as did Neal, Evander Holyfield's... We talked a little about how well he's doing now and that he's about to open his 57,000 square-foot, $20 million home. How he's fighting for $35 million in a war. I was kinda wondering when you were representing him. He was living in an apartment over Lenox Road. He was fighting for about $20,000 in a war. It's kind of interesting how your strong legal skills have helped translate into financial stability for Evander. Boortz referred to mayor Campbell as the "unethical son of a bitch." "It's the first time I've ever been on the radio that I lost control." Boortz resigned from law school in 1993 and devoted his entire time to his radio career.

Boortz returned to work at WRNG while in law school. He migrated to WGST, the country's biggest news-talk radio station. He later described how he would often go to work at 5 a.m., work there for several hours, then WGST, and finally back to the law office until 11 p.m. Boortz's salary as an advocate and a radio host had been requested by WGST for a raise in 1992; a figure equal to his combined earnings as an attorney and a radio host. Boortz was left standing when WGST refused. He received his pay when he signed an exclusive deal with AM 750 WSB to host a weekday radio show. He closed his law office within a short time after. Boortz was selected as one of the "25 Most Popular Radio Show Hosts in America" by Talkers Magazine in 1995. Boortz was included in the Georgia Trend magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in Georgia" list this year.

Through Cox Radio's owner, Cox Radio, his show became nationally syndicated in 1999. The show was still based in Atlanta. Boortz, designers Belinda Skelton, and Royal Marshall, were interviewed and called on by callers during the Neal Boortz exhibition. Boortz admonished his listeners to take no interest nor place any authority in anything he said, describing himself as simply a "entertainer" on air and on his website. Boortz, a 2002 NAB Marconi Radio Awards finalist and Radio & Records NewsTalk Personality of the Year, 2002.

The Georgia Association of Broadcasters named Boortz and his radio show "Best Radio On-Air Personality" and "Best Radio Program of Any Type" in 2007. He was also a winner of the 2007 Georgia Radio Hall of Fame's Career Achievement Award. The Neal Boortz Exhibition debuted in the country's ninth (9th) largest radio market and was ranked sixth overall most listened to radio show in the country. Boortz was a finalist for the National Association of Broadcasters "Marconi Award" in 2008 as the country's top syndicated radio personality. (The award went to Glenn Beck).

In 2009, Boortz was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

In 2013, Boortz resigned from full-time radio work.

Boortz's first foray into authorship was in 1997 with The Commencement Speech You Must Hear, in which he gives his thoughts on various topics in the form of a commencement address in which he would give to recent college graduates if ever invited to do so. His second book, entitled The Terrible Truth About Liberals, was published in 1998 and includes reprinted content from his first book as well as a substantial amount of new material.

The FairTax Book, Georgia congressman John Linder's co-authored book, discusses the opportunity to implement a national retail sales tax in lieu of federal income taxes, payroll taxes, estate tax, and other topics. For the first two weeks of August 2005, the hardcover version debuted on the New York Times bestseller list for the first non-fiction section and stayed in the top ten for seven weeks. The paperback, which was released in May 2006, contains new details, an afterword, and several revisions of misstatements made in the hardcover version. It also appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. Boortz has pledged 100% of his royalties from the FairTax book to charity, and has said on his radio show that he hasn't earned one cent from the book. Boortz says his book proceeds have surpassed one hundred thousand US dollars as of July 2006. The book is one of his most popular topics of discussion.

Somebody's Gotta was published on February 20, 2007, and it debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list, second only to Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope. He has published columns on Townhall.com and other online magazines occasionally.

FairTax: The Truth, his 2008 book, is called FairTax: The Truth. This book aims to answer the Fair Tax initiative's skepticism and misrepresentations. For paperback nonfiction, it reached #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list for the week of March 2, 2008.

After Boortz's departure from talk radio in January 21, 2013, maybe I should Just Shut Up and Go Away. (ISBN 978-0988930345) was published in hardcover by Carpenter's Son Publishing in Franklin Tennessee.

Boortz retired from full-time radio work in 2013 and became a presenter for WSB for six years before being barred by station.

Boortz, who played on radio part-time on WFOM (1230 AM, "Xtra 106.3" FM) in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 2022. Boortz has pre-recorded "The Boortz Report," a commentary that airs several times a week, and it appears on the station at least once a week for live segments with the local morning hosts.

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