Posted on 07/30/2004 5:02:00 AM PDT by jslade
Here’s what he really said
By Howie Carr
Recent Columns by Howie Carr
Friday, July 30, 2004
If he really wanted to properly introduce himself to the American people last night, why didn't John Kerry [related, bio] use his trademark line, the one he has employed for so many years around here, whenever anyone calls him on anything?
``Do you know who I am?''
Instead - before the now famous balloon and f-bomb drop on CNN - we got the lame refrain, ``Help is on the way.''
Presumably, good help, which as John and the widow Heinz can tell you, is awfully hard to find.
It was an odd speech, and by the way, is it over yet? I thought he'd served in the Senate, but apparently he was fighting in Vietnam with a band of brothers from 1968 until last year when he announced for president.
If you used Kerry's speech to play the drinking game, where you take a sip whenever someone says a certain word, then you've probably got a hangover this morning if your word was ``Vietnam'' or ``fight'' or ``war.''
Thank God this convention is finally over. It turned into Mumbles Menino's Iraq war. Many fled the city in terror, so in case you didn't watch Liveshot's speech, let me provide you with the lines themselves, and then, in italics, what he really meant.
``People are working weekends; they're working two jobs, three jobs, and they're still not getting ahead.''
It's hard to get ahead when gigolos keep cutting in line in front of you.
``And what can I say about Teresa?''
Three words will suffice: one billion dollars.
``She's down to earth, nurturing, courageous, wise and smart.''
Did I mention her five mansions worth $50 million, and her $35 million Gulfstream V?
``Opportunity for all - so that every child, every parent, every worker has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential.''
You too can marry two heiresses. It's the American dream.
``My fellow citizens, elections are about choices.''
Which is why I try to be on both sides of every issue. You choose which side you're on, I'm there for you.
``I rode my bike into Soviet East Berlin.''
It was a Schwinn - I'd never even heard of an $8,000 Serotta back then.
``As president, I will ask hard questions.''
Sommelier, which of these two imported $125 Merlots which you recommend?
``So tonight we say: Help is on the way.''
I'm sending my butler.
Howie knows Hanoi John best!
All of the Fox & Friends hosts are eating up Kerry's speech this morning. I would have expected rave reviews from the Dem lib Kiran Chetry, but she wasn't even on this morning. When Brian Kilmeade acts like he thinks the speech was good, it's time to be concerned.
Fox is pandering to the Dems big time. All of those lawsuit threats must have them scared.
Exactly. It would have been great if he gave a Howard Dean rant. But that would have been politically stupid. Sure its bad to the point of being ridiculous but at least he didn't make himself look totally crazy. This was the best that could be expected from a party in meltdown mode.
It was an odd speech, and by the way, is it over yet? I thought he'd served in the Senate, but apparently he was fighting in Vietnam with a band of brothers from 1968 until last year when he announced for president.
Does this explain the absentee rate on votes?
If they go much furthur, they can expect about as much support from conservatives as was given to Bush Sr. in '92. Though it seems thay are suffering more from Jr.'s debilitation, imagining the can appease the left and thus obtain a favorable response.
I LOVE Howie Carr!!!! Sending this one out to all on my email list!
The best way to encourage a fool is to tell him he is doing a fiiiiiiine job.
Don't change a thing!
Teresa? OMG, the woman is a truly gifted speaker! Put her out in front more often. Why has she been hidden all these months?
Hey, people want higher taxes and to be subservient to the UN, keep pumping on those themes.
*snicker* Go *snicker* Kerr*snicker*ry!*snicker*
I've written fox many emails over the past several weeks, complaining about their hosts pro-liberal slant. The first thing they need to do with Fox & Friends is replace Dems E.D. and Kiran with Juliet Huddy. She doesn't take any crap from the libs.
They have done nothing but appease the left for some time now. The election is drawing near and a lot is at stake, so the anchors and hosts on Fox are letting their true feelings be known. The media is full of libs and Fox is no exception.
This may be what is going on, but when you have two known Dems (Hill and Chetry) doing co-hosting duties for the morning show on a regular basis, it is hard to believe that their remarks wouldn't reflect their true feelings. They are Democrats and they are going to support their man when push comes to shove.
And don't forget
"...and take away their guns so, when they finally wake up, they can't come after us!"
You don't need to give him up in Mass. Syndicated broadcasters can broadcast from anywhere on the planet!
You know, I've noticed that the Boston Herald has not been real friendly to the Dems this week. I thought they were a liberal newspaper. Whasssup? Somebody help the boy out here.
Howie broadcasts out of WRKO in Boston from 3:00 - 7:00 P.M. and is syndicated in different parts of the country (I don't know how extensively, though).
If you're able to listen streaming audio on your computer, there is a link at www.howiecarr.org. He's definitely worth listening to.
Kerry got the name Liveshot because he has always headed for the TV cameras. Don't get between the two.
Now's the time to swap stories about Liveshot (Kerry)
Boston Herald ^ | Howie Carr
Posted on 07/20/2004 11:32:03 PM PDT by Jenya
Now's the time to swap stories about Liveshot
This is the moment John Forbes Kerry has always dreamed of.
All his life he's been cutting in line, and then, whenever anyone complained, he would angrily turn to them and snarl, ``Do you know who I am?''
Now, when Kerry jumps the line and somebody yells at him, he has flunkies who angrily turn to them and snarl, ``Do you know who he is?''
It doesn't get any better than this for Liveshot. He laps up adulation. And now the city fills up with his supporters, these legends in their own minds who think that not only do we know who they are, but that we also care.
Every cop in New England - including county mounties - will be here, rousting the handful of taxpayers too broke to run. They're taking out the trash cans. Every gin mill around North Station now has signs saying ``Budweiser Welcomes the DNC.''
Don't you think the bars would get more action even with a hand-lettered sign that says, ``TED KENNEDY DRINKS HERE!''
But finally, Liveshot is out of Ted's massive shadow. This is the time to be a Friend of John - a FOJ. Everyone has their own stories about him, to show that they have been close to the man.
Here are my stories. We go waaaay back.
Let's go straight to the good stuff. Vietnam. Once, near the end of his ``gypsy years'' - i.e., before he signed the prenup with the widow Heinz - he suggested we get together for drinks.
I knew what this meant. I was buying. After a quick trip to the ATM, I met him across the street from the TV station at the Red Hat. We bonded.
``Sometimes, Howie,'' he said, ``I still have nightmares.''
Let me guess . . .
``Vietnam.'' He nodded, finished his beer and tried to catch the bartender's eye. I wondered if I'd gotten enough money out. ``It's tough, the nightmares.''
I'll bet he says that to all the girls. And the guys, too.
Now we moved onto a new subject. Apparently Liveshot never heard the old Hollywood saying about ``Self-pity is not good box office.''
``Do you know something Howie?'' he said. ``I'm the second poorest member of the U.S. Senate.''
A living hell - his life was a living hell. But I felt compelled to mention Naushon Island. How broke can you really be, Senator, if your family owns Naushon Island?
``You think I own Naushon?'' he said. ``I only get to rent down there, two weeks a year.''
It's not like I'm the only one who has disrespected Liveshot. When he filed his papers last year to run up in New Hampshire, he completed his paperwork and then announced he was ready to take questions.
``Hey,'' said one of the Boston TV reporters, ``you've changed your hair, haven't you?''
A regular Rodney Dangerfield, that's Liveshot. He was the first pol I ever saw who wore make-up outside a TV studio.
One of his daughters yesterday was complaining how mean-spirited the press is, saying, apparently without foundation, that this is going to be a massive headache. I remember one Sunday we were after him for comment on a negative story. He had a press availability at North Station - and he brought his two little daughters with him. Human shields is what they were.
``It's just my weekend with them,'' he said, when we called him on it.
It hasn't even started yet, and already I have a throbbing headache. Can someone direct me to the nearest bar Ted Kennedy has been thrown out of?
( Howie Carr's radio show can be heard weekday afternoons on WRKO AM 680, WHYN AM 560, WGAN AM 560, WEIM AM 1280 and WXTK 95.1 FM. )
Check out the article Howie wrote about Kerry earlier this year. It is about what the people in the Boston area think of him. It is priceless, awe heck I am HTML challenged this morning, you may have to copy paste to get this to work! enjoy!.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1072243/posts
It is the Boston Globe that is printed in pink paper.
The Real Kerry by Howie Carr
NY Post; Boston Herald | 2/05/04 | Fishface
Posted on 02/05/2004 4:24:04 PM EST by Fishface
February 5, 2004 -- BOSTON
ONE of the surest ways to get the phones ringing on any Massachusetts talk-radio show is to ask people to call in and tell their John Kerry stories. The phone lines are soon filled, and most of the stories have a common theme: our junior senator pulling rank on one of his constituents, breaking in line, demanding to pay less (or nothing) or ducking out before the bill arrives.
The tales often have one other common thread. Most end with Sen. Kerry inquiring of the lesser mortal: "Do you know who I am?"
And now he's running for president as a populist. His first wife came from a Philadelphia Main Line family worth $300 million. His second wife is a pickle-and-ketchup heiress.
Kerry lives in a mansion on Beacon Hill on which he has borrowed $6 million to finance his campaign. A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of Boston at his behest.
The Kerrys ski at a spa the widow Heinz owns in Aspen, and they summer on Nantucket in a sprawling seaside "cottage" on Hurlbert Avenue, which is so well-appointed that at a recent fund-raiser, they imported porta-toilets onto the front lawn so the donors wouldn't use the inside bathrooms. (They later claimed the decision was made on septic, not social, considerations).
It's a wonderful life these days for John Kerry. He sails Nantucket Sound in "the Scaramouche," a 42-foot Hinckley powerboat. Martha Stewart has a similar boat; the no-frills model reportedly starts at $695,000. Sen. Kerry bought it new, for cash.
Every Tuesday night, the local politicians here that Kerry elbowed out of his way on his march to the top watch, fascinated, as he claims victory in more primaries and denounces the special interests, the "millionaires" and "the overprivileged."
"His initials are JFK," longtime state Senate President William M. Bulger used to muse on St. Patrick's Day, "Just for Kerry. He's only Irish every sixth year." And now it turns out that he's not Irish at all.
But in the parochial world of Bay State politics, he was never really seen as Irish, even when he was claiming to be (although now, of course, he says that any references to his alleged Hibernian heritage were mistakenly put into the Congressional Record by an aide who apparently didn't know that on his paternal side he is, in fact, part-Jewish).
Kerry is, in fact, a Brahmin - his mother was a Forbes, from one of Massachusetts' oldest WASP families. The ancestor who wed Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter was marrying down.
At the risk of engaging in ethnic stereotyping, Yankees have a reputation for, shall we say, frugality. And Kerry tosses around quarters like they were manhole covers. In 1993, for instance, living on a senator's salary of about $100,000, he managed to give a total of $135 to charity.
Yet that same year, he was somehow able to scrape together $8,600 for a brand-new, imported Italian motorcycle, a Ducati Paso 907 IE. He kept it for years, until he decided to run for president, at which time he traded it in for a Harley-Davidson like the one he rode onto "The Tonight Show" set a couple of months ago as Jay Leno applauded his fellow Bay Stater.
Of course, in 1993 he was between his first and second heiresses - a time he now calls "the wandering years," although an equally apt description might be "the freeloading years."
For some of the time, he was, for all practical purposes, homeless. His friends allowed him into a real-estate deal in which he flipped a condo for quick resale, netting a $21,000 profit on a cash investment of exactly nothing. For months he rode around in a new car supplied by a shady local Buick dealer. When the dealer's ties to a congressman who was later indicted for racketeering were exposed, Kerry quickly explained that the non-payment was a mere oversight, and wrote out a check.
In the Senate, his record of his constituent services has been lackluster, and most of his colleagues, despite their public support, are hard-pressed to list an accomplishment. Just last fall, a Boston TV reporter ambushed three congressmen with the question, name something John Kerry has accomplished in Congress. After a few nervous giggles, two could think of nothing, and a third mentioned a baseball field, and then misidentified Kerry as "Sen. Kennedy."
Many of his constituents see him in person only when he is cutting them in line - at an airport, a clam shack or the Registry of Motor Vehicles. One talk-show caller a few weeks back recalled standing behind a police barricade in 2002 as the Rolling Stones played the Orpheum Theater, a short limousine ride from Kerry's Louisburg Square mansion.
The caller, Jay, said he began heckling Kerry and his wife as they attempted to enter the theater. Finally, he said, the senator turned to him and asked him the eternal question.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Yeah," said Jay. "You're a gold-digger."
John Kerry. First he looks at the purse.
Howie Carr, a Boston Herald columnist and syndicated talk-radio host, has been covering John Kerry for 25 years.
Because there are decent, God-fearing women in the audience, I cannot write my true feelings to show approval of your choice.
I'll leave it as a resounding... YESSS!!
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