No Mailbag Tonight Because......

Sometimes I tell viewers that the 'Mailbag' is empty. I'm almost always lying.

Its rarely a matter of no email at all. Its usually more 'can I actually use any of this stuff on the air?'

Sometimes it will look like McGinty's Mailbag is burting at the seams, when all I really have is 14 press releases and an urgent notice that I have won the Bulgarian Lottery Sweepstakes.

Other times, we have emails from viewers, but they're too nonsensical, too complex or just too dang mean to use. Here's one that came in right after that 14 year old kid was shot by the cops after he allegedly fired at them from the seat of a stolen mini-bike.

Sorry, its a sad story to begin with anytime you have a 14 year old carrying a gun. Blame should be place where it belongs, with the parents. Maybe had they spent more time with there son they could have kept him off a stolen bike and taught him why he shouldn't carry a pistol. Yes, it sad but at the rate he was going maybe this will save some innocent victim he would have encountered between the age of 14 and 21. Our streets are a little safer without him.

Now, c'mon. Our streets are a little safer without him? Perhaps true, but too insensitive after a kid has just been shot down. Especially since the circumstances of the shooting were and are still in dispute. Or how about this gem?

Reported today that hormone thearpy used to treat women for breast cancer was dramatically less effective for black women than for white women; resulting in a higher mortality rate for black women.
Those of us in the know fully understand that the cracker is behind this racist disparity. Perhaps the honkey has harnessed the molecule, or possibly cracker MD's are substituting a placebo. Regardless, it's racism on the part of crackers; and therefore, hormone thearpy should be banned.........

This guy writes me all the time, and I actually like what he's trying do here. (You do get it, don't you?) But I worry the satire might be lost on some folks, who may not be ready to hear words like 'cracker' tossed around. I could be wrong.

But I'm not wrong about this guy...whose writing about the Jena 6:

A hate crime if there ever has been. That is the reason network news is burying this. Black people are f***ed up on race. They can't get past their hate. I'm sure as hell am going to help them though from now on....

That kind offer from somone calling himself "Duke Lacrosse." Hoo Boy!

So you see what I'm up against here. Give me email I can use!!! Mailbag@wusa9.com