Posted on 08/09/2008 9:24:24 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread starting off with his Sunday Herald column about Edwards & Moonbats
John Edwards scandal too much even for a moonbat
By Howie Carr | Sunday, August 10, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Now will you moonbats finally peel the Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers off your rusting Volvos and Saabs?
I’ve been telling you people for almost four years now how foolish you look, refusing to scrape off the reminders of yet another doomed Democrat ticket. This ongoing refusal to face reality has lasted longer than the Gore-Lieberman tantrum of 2000, which by 2002 had led GOP wags to festoon their SUVs with almost identical Sore-Loserman bumper stickers.
But after Friday, how can even a Prozac-swallowing moonbat’s moonbat continue to endure the snickers that a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker cw0produces everywhere, including on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge?
Consider ex-Sen. Edwards’ smarmy confession. He’s guilty, he admits, but before sentencing, Your Honor, Sen. Edwards would like to make the court aware of a few extenuating circumstances.
He met the woman, who by the way changed both her first and last names and used to date a novelist whose only readable book was about cocaine, at a bar.
A bar in New York City.
He never really loved her. So somebody else must have knocked her up.
And although my client stipulates that his wife does indeed have cancer, it was in remission, Your Honor, when he started tagging the woman he didn’t love whom he met in a bar in New York City.
Yes, he did visit her early in the morning in a hotel in Beverly Hills, and he did run away from the National Enquirer reporters, and he has been lying about the whole tawdry third-rate romance low-rent rendezvous for almost a year now, but actually he’d like the record to reflect that overall he has been “99 percent honest.”
In other words, you can trust Sen. Edwards. He’s not like the others.
You gotta give the mainstream media credit. The bow-tied bumkissers really do believe in “don’t ask don’t tell,” at least as long as it’s a liberal Democrat whose scandal they’re turning a blind eye to. This time the broadsheet curs didn’t even pretend to investigate. And when the National Enquirer finally dragged out the truth, the J-school sycophants immediately pronounced it a “personal tragedy.” Funny, when Newt Gingrich cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, it wasn’t a personal tragedy, it was a national scandal.
I don’t have a trust fund, and I work, so I really can’t put myself in a moonbat’s Birkenstocks. But after Friday I’d rather have a Re-elect Marzilli sticker on the back of my car than a peeling, faded Kerry-Edwards.
Say what you will about Republican wingnuts, but my recollection is that the 1972 Re-elect the President bumper stickers were long gone before Nixon was himself pried out of the White House in August 1974. At the end, as William Kennedy once wrote, “only boobs and bleepheads” supported Nixon. Ditto with these two pampered PC poodles, Kerry and Edwards.
Here’s my favorite part of Edwards’ closing argument to the jury, the American people: “If you want to beat me up - feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.”
I would have reworked that passage to this end: “If you want to lie about me - feel free. You cannot lie about me any more than I have already lied myself.”
In the “Nightline” interview, he was asked about the Enquirer’s claims that his girlfriend - you know, the one he didn’t love and didn’t knock up - is getting $15,000 a month. Edwards, in another one of his “one-percent” statements, said it is possible some of his friends or supporters may have made payments without telling him.
Don’t you hate it when somebody else pays your hush money for you? But by God, Edwards plans to get to the bottom of it and put an end to these terrible payoffs, ASAP.
In related developments, Sen. Marzilli is launching a probe of reports that perverts are frequenting park benches in downtown Lowell and reprobate probate register John Buonomo announced his plans to investigate the theft of thousands of dollars from the copying machines in the Registry of Deeds in East Cambridge.
Hey moonbats, I’ll only say it one more time.
Lose the bumper stickers.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1112068
Good analysis but it is not new. Democrats never take credit for their transgressions even when they do. Bill Clinton certainly didn’t until he was drug kicking and screaming before the American people and then argued semantics about about the meaning of “is”. New Jersey Gov. McGrevey offered a new take altogether, the gay defense. Edwards had sex but didn’t do it while his wife had active Cancer. Does cheating while ones wife is in remission make it better? Is anyone gone to talk about how he with his callous behavior may have caused her to relapse? Stress has been known to weaken and cause such relaspes. You would think liberals who pride themselves in such detailed analysis would ask that question.
It is pretty simple Republicans take out their trash. Democrats seem to treasure it. I’m eager to see what position in the Democrat party this narcissist takes next.
Don’t worry he will return. Democrats are good environmentalists, they recycle their trash.
This is such bull - it's a lie sooooo big and self serving, it's Clintonian.
My question is, "why now"? Why is the MSM looking at what they usually call "just sex" when it's a dem?
Why is Edwards being treated like he's a Republican?
Remember when Larry Flynt was offering a million dollars to any woman who had had an affair with a congresscritter? And after he got hundreds of calls about dems, he had to announce that the "prize" was only for dirt on Republicans?
The MSM operates the same way. So who wants to take Edwards out? Who has the ear of the MSM -( a hint here - it's NOT Republicans).
Monday show ping. I was just on the Rolling Stone(d) web site, since they had a big cover story on John Edwards
last year (”The Real Liberal”) and they had some comments on their political blog. The general feel was, who cares about
what someone does in their personal life.
Real liberals indeed (never mind the lying bit or the media coverup/ignoring the story; I guess a lib
response to the lying bit would be ‘Edwards Lied, Nobody Died’...)
UGH! Except his poor wife, eventually. :(
Wed column & show ping.
Col. Hunt will be in for Howie tomorrow (Thu) so Howie
can pick up one of his daughters at Logan.
For the rest of the Red Sox season,
Howie will appear on Tue nights during HOME games (5th
inning?). Last time he was on, the Sox committed three
errors in the inning (vs. Angels). Tonight the Sox gave
up 8 runs in the inning during which Howie appeared
(a wild game though Sox wound up winning).
Howie told the story of seeing knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm
at Fenway and there was a situation of him (or was it someone else) being in the bullpen and going inside to use the bathroom. Someone grabbed a broom and put it in the door
so he couldn’t get back out to the bullpen. The bleacher
creatures got a kick out of that...(he was banging, etc.)
OK, column:
John Buonomo used good cents in Somerville switch
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
It’s all about the pension now, isn’t it, John Buonomo, reprobate register of probate in Middlesex County?
The state police have him on videotape pulling a Finneran, as they say at the State House - committing a felony out in the open, beyond brazen to the point of insanity, as if he’s, well, as if he’s Tommy Taxes or somebody.
John Buonomo has become the poster boy for a yes vote in November on Question 1, which would abolish the state income tax. If Carla Howell has any money for TV, all she has to do is run 30-second spots of the surveillance video of Buonomo robbing the copying machines.
Voiceover: “This is your state government at work. What this elected official is doing to these copying machines, his brother pols are doing to you every day of the year. Picking your pocket. Robbing you blind. Register Buonomo wants you to vote no on Question 1 so he can collect a pension after he gets out of prison.”
Let’s look at the numbers. Buonomo is 56 years old, was making just over $110,000 a year and has basically been a hack’s hack his entire life, going from the city of Somerville to Middlesex County to the state court system. With that kind of pedigree, you can bet he knew what his kiss in the mail was, down to the last penny.
He was looking at 80 percent, which comes to $88,000 a year. Not too shabby for a crooked hack who never broke a sweat in the last 30-plus years, except when he was creeping up on a Xerox machine in the Registry of Deeds office.
I figured his pension was gone, until I discovered that perhaps the reprobate register had a premonition that some day he would get caught. Because back in 1999, he had his pension transferred from the state to the Somerville Retirement Board.
This is significant, because the State Retirement Board usually does the right thing when it comes to separating felons from their ill-gotten gains, whereas the city of Somerville well, remember what Billy Bulger used to say at the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast about the All-American City:
“Why don’t they just build a fence around it and give everybody inside three to five?”
You must understand, what happens in Somerville, stays in Somerville - fence or no fence. A call to the Somerville Retirement Board was not returned yesterday, not that I expected it would be.
As far as the criminal charges go, Buonomo appears doomed. He has a decent lawyer, Michael Natola, who by a strange coincidence is married to a woman, Toni, who makes $53,430 a year as the assistant to the first justice of the Middlesex Probate Court, which is apparently not a conflict, because Natola says he checked with the Office of the Bar Counsel. Also apparently not a conflict is that Natola gave $500 this year to Buonomo.
Natola is the right lawyer for this case, having once represented serial killer Stevie Flemmi, who was to little girls what Buonomo was to state-owned copying machines - a menace.
Despite having suffered the great hack tragedy of being placed on “unpaid leave,” Buonomo isn’t exactly broke. His campaign account is flush, with just under $135,000, compliments of his friends from the Forgotten but Not Gone brigade. Talk about a blast from the past - Buonomo collected from Frank Bellotti, and a Bretta from Medford, a McGonagle from Everett and a Brennan from Malden. Also from Medford, I see a Marotta, a McGlynn and a Donato. Ex-Middlesex County commissioner Mike McLaughlin ponied up $100, as did Rep. Spuds Binienda. and at least two funeral home owners, from Medford and Everett.
In the public sector, you can always tell how extraneous someone is by the number of diminutives in their job title. Buonomo has - had - three “administrative deputy assistant registers.” Their names: DeChristofaro, Colameta and Twomey. They all make $92,430 a year. Would it shock you to learn that people with different first names but those exact same last names of DeChristofaro, Colameta and Twomey all did the right thing for good old John Buonomo?
One hand washes the other. You scratch my back.
I look at Buonomo’s campaign filings and I wonder: Will he continue to pay one Carol Ragucci of Everett about $500 a week for “consultant services?” Will he ask for a refund of the $7,500 he just paid to something called Alston Street Realty Trust in Somerville for “storage” and “office space rental,” even though he was running unopposed?
It looks bad, but one thing you know John Buonomo is saying to himself this morning. Thank God for the Somerville Retirement Board.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1112656
Well, of course he stole from the copier -- he only makes $110,000 a year! Do you expect him to live on peanut butter or something???? ;-)
Howie's right about using this for the referendum question. Next referendum, how about we go for making the legislature part time (I think 30 days a year would be more than enough) and strictly volunteer (i.e., no pay)!
HA! I finally got on the chump line!
W’oah! Send me - col. David Hunt!
Howie column ping & Fri show ping
Howie Carr’s listeners booted
By Howie Carr | Friday, August 15, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Do you regularly listen to the Howie Carr radio show?
That’s one of the questions the lawyers for accused cop killer Michael “Stix” Addison want to ask prospective jurors in his upcoming capital murder trial in Manchester, N.H., next month.
His public defenders (that means we’re paying for them) are trying to empanel an O.J. Simpson-type jury. So they want my listeners O-U-T out of the jury pool, and what can I say, except this is a great honor to me and my audience. We must be doing something right if the bleeding hearts want us banned from the courtroom.
You remember this bum “Stix.” From Roxbury, 25 years old. Murdered (allegedly) a 35-year Manchester bicycle cop named Michael Briggs in cold blood in October 2006, then fled to the Dorchester home of his grandmother, who told reporters, “He said he didn’t do nothing.”
Oh, and he “struggled with hyperactivity as a child.”
Stop me if you’ve heard any of this before. Another relative said, presumably with a straight face, “There’s no telling how far he could have gone in any pursuit.”
Now Stix is going to death row - knock on wood.
Among Stix’s greatest hits, before being accused of murdering the decorated ex-Marine cop, was stabbing a fellow basketball player. He wanted to steal the other youth’s hat. Earlier, he had approached a group of students at the Jeremiah Burke High School waving a loaded pistol and yelling, “Which one of you Cape Verdeans is going to get shot?”
(Note to Stix’s public defenders: You might want to add a 127th question to your proposed list: “Are you Cape Verdean?”)
So the bleeding-heart lawyers who are defending this monster want to make sure that Stix gets a “fair” trial, meaning, a jury of like-minded limousine liberals that will think at most he should get 200 hours of community service, suspended, if he joins the local midnight basketball league.
In addition to whether or not the prospective jurors listen to my show, the public defenders are asking the judge to let them inquire about jurors’ TV viewing habits. Just a hunch, but I’m guessing that Stix’s apologists are much less likely to challenge someone who watches “60 Minutes” or “Channel 11 (PBS)” than someone who’s a fan of Fox News or Nancy Grace.
To make sure Stix receives his get-out-of-jail-free card, his defense team also seeks to ask the jurors if they belong to the National Rifle Association (bad) or the ACLU (good). Do they read the Union Leader (bad) or the Concord Monitor (good)? Are you “working full-time” (bad) or “unemployed not looking for work” (good)?
You get the picture. They’re after my (bad) listeners because we often discuss crime, and punishment, or the lack thereof. I can’t speak for my audience, but I truly believe in the presumption of innocence. In fact, on the air, I often find myself quoting Judge Roy Bean: “We’ll give him a fair trial - then we’ll hang him!”
It seems doubtful Judge Kathleen McGuire will approve all 126 defense questions. They’re tilted so far to the left that even Stix’s lawyers want to include an admonition asking potential jurors to “please do not give ‘politically correct’ answers.” You know, like saying, good heavens, I would never listen to some lowlife like Howie Carr, not when NPR is running another story about Mumia’s latest appeal, or the divinity of Barack Obama.
Still, since I’ve been dragged into this, I’d love to throw in a few of my own questions for the jury pool:
“Do you want to throw up whenever you read in a crime story that the victim and/or perp was ‘turning his life around?’ Or that he was about to get married to his ‘fiancee,’ the mother of his three children? Do you sometimes wonder whether the good father ever paid any child support? Do you roll your eyes when you hear that the perp was a ‘good boy’ or a ‘bookworm,’ or that he was ‘an aspiring rapper’ with ‘no enemies’? ”
But those questions won’t cut it. Instead, the jurors are asked in Question 36 if they listen “regularly” to Howie Carr.
Oh well, I still know how my New Hampshire listeners can get on the jury next month: Pay close attention to Question 39: “Do you have any bumper stickers or decals on your car? If so, please describe them.”
All you need is this two-word answer, and Stix’s lawyers will wave you through:
“Kerry-Edwards.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1113093
Another fantastic article from the mind of Howie Carr........Howie never ceases to tell it like it is....
I tuned in late — just in time to hear “First we had Buonomo, now we have Borin(sp?).” What’s the story on Borin — or whatever his name is?
I forget but if his name pops up in the paper I’ll mention it
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