Posted on 08/24/2008 3:51:44 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread starting off with his Sunday Herald column
Joke I heard last night at a “Tribute to John Denver”
folk coffeehouse in Essex, MA (yup, I was there in
moonbatland) : “You know, before he died,
John did a lot of investments. He started a waste management company in Colorado—in fact, they’ll be handling the porta-potties at the Democratic Convention.
It’s called the Denver John Company.”
Ba dump bump!
Joe Biden got Duked in ’88 election
By Howie Carr | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Joe Biden does bring one big constituency with him - the Hair Club for Men.
Oh sure, it’s easy to make jokes about this windbag’s windbag, from a state smaller than Middlesex County.
Let the Los Angeles Times call him a “barrel of gaffes.” This man is a role model to millions of American men. He beat a disease - male pattern baldness. He persevered through the decades, plugging away, as it were, with his hair plugs. And now this is said of Biden on his behalf:
“He’s been there for three decades.”
That’s what you call damning with faint praise. Since when is being “there,” wherever “there” is, grounds for a promotion? Sal DiMasi has been “there” for 30 years. So has Charles Manson, come to think of it, even though it’s a different “there.”
The Associated Press is a house organ of the Democratic Party and even the AP feels compelled to describe Biden as “long-winded.” He slurs his fellow candidates, and the occasional ethnic minority. Lucky for Biden he’s a Democrat, because it’s only a matter of time until his next macaca moment.
What I kept searching for in vain yesterday was any description of the end of Biden’s first presidential run, back in 1987. Oh sure, the press mentioned how his campaign was wrecked by the disclosure that hed been lifting biographical passages wholesale from the stump speech of Neil Kinnock, then a British Labor Party leader.
Considering that Kinnock came from a long line of Welsh coal miners, this plagiarism required some creativity on Biden’s part, but then, he did have experience with that literary genre earlier, at Syracuse University College of Law.
Anyway, during the 1988 campaign then-Gov. Mike Dukakis had a tubby little hustler from New Jersey named John Sasso working for him. Sasso got hold of a videotape of Kinnock’s stump speech and one of Biden’s, then had the two intercut.
Talk about putting a rocket in somebody’s pocket.
Nowadays you’d just post it on YouTube, send out a few anonymous heads-up e-mails and let the chips fall where they may. Back then, you had to actually get the bomb into a reporter’s hands.
This was before the Iowa caucuses, so it was decided that the tape should go to David Yepsen, the political reporter at the Des Moines Register. Sasso put his top hitman, a fellow named Jack the Hack, on an airplane bound for Iowa. Jack the Hack dropped the tape in a mailbox, turned around and flew home to Somerville.
A couple of days later, Biden’s campaign blows up. I write a column pointing the finger at Sasso and he then gets two in the hat, only to be resurrected months later after Dukakis blew a 17-point lead in the national polls.
This week you’ll have to click fast to avoid seeing Dukakis droning on about the need for Obama and Biden to counter those rascally Republicans and their scurrilous attacks. Please. To paraphrase what an old Hollywood producer said about Doris Day: I knew Mike Dukakis before he was a virgin.
By the way, you may be wondering whatever happened to Sasso. Remember Obama’s $23,000-a-head birthday party at the Top of the Hub a couple of weeks ago? You guessed it. Sasso was there, hobnobbing with the swells, not to mention the Duke. I wonder how much he paid for his ticket, and I also wonder if he and his old boss had a good chuckle reminiscing about how they croaked Sen. Kinnock-Biden way back when.
But now Biden’s back, almost one heartbeat away from the presidency - and not the presidency of the Hair Club for Men, either.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1114779
Mon & Tue show ping
So what are all of you watching on TV this week? I have a feeling all my old Nick at Nite I Love Lucy tapes are going to get a real work-out! ;-) I guess if anyone comes to blows or something else really good happens, it'll make the regular news.
I hear on the news they're planning a tribute to Ted K. (Ted looked really terrible in the clip.)
Does anyone know if Max is creating a pod-cast of his Monday Segments with Howie?
Media-Zula was gone for awhile, and I cannot find the link.
Max had placed them on his B&C pages during his tenure there
Thanks…
Looks like Max hasn’t updated http://www.mediazulu.com since
March—and I think he admitted that on air.
BUT it looks like Max has indeed put up podcasts of his
appearances—at least the last one being Aug 4. He took
the next 2 weeks off but was on yesterday and I think he will podcast it soon.
http://www.mediazulu.com/audio
Wed & Thu show ping and Wed column ping. He also did a column for print version of Tue paper which follows.
Deval Patrick’s doublespeak
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Hey, Deval, don’t give up the day job.
I’m not saying the governor phoned it in last night in Denver, but the guy batting behind him, Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana, a rancher who came out wearing a string tie and bragged about both cutting taxes and owning a crucifix - even that obvious outcast from modern party orthodoxy got a bigger hand from the moonbat delegates than Deval did.
Don’t you get the feeling that this is the kind of effort Deval put into his big corporate jobs at Coke and Texaco? He turns on the charm to get the job, then utterly loses interest once he’s expected to start working.
Let’s go straight to the speech. First, what Deval said. Then, what he was really thinking.
“Our youngest daughter Katherine graduated from high school a year ago.”
(There was no reason to mention her at all except to then point out that she’s a lesbian, but Axelrod told me some of those people who cling to God and guns might be watching, so I had to cut out the good stuff about gay marriage.)
“I grew up in poverty on the South Side of Chicago. I shared a room and a set of bunk beds.”
(Fortunately, the talking heads on my local news channel, NECN, are drowning out these insipid remarks, so unless they’re watching C-SPAN, nobody back home will know I’m just rehashing my 2006 campaign speech.)
“More and more families are working harder but losing ground.”
(Mine, for example. I haven’t shaken down a Fortune 500 corporation for $5 million for three years now. I’d tell you what the monthly nut on my mansion is, but it’d make even John McCain keel over.)
“The middle class are one paycheck away, one serious illness away, from being poor, and deeply anxious about it.”
(That’s why I keep telling Barack, I can’t afford to be attorney general. I need more big paydays with no heavy lifting, like Clinton got for Franklin Raines at Fannie Mae. I need more Texacos, more Coca-Colas.)
“(Barack) wants to better train and better reward high-performing teachers.”
(More money for the teachers unions! That’s what they want, except in Massachusetts, their bosses also demand gay marriage, which is something I’ve been ordered not to talk about tonight.)
“John McCain is just of the same say-one-thing-do-another crowd.”
(Did I ever tell you about my campaign pledge to cut real-estate taxes for homeowners in Massachusetts?)
“The same folks who call themselves ‘compassionate conservatives’ are the folks who abandoned all those people not only after Katrina, but before that storm.”
(More welfare - that’s just what they needed in New Orleans.)
“Government, as Barney Frank likes to say, is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together.”
(That’ll show ’em. I have to get at least one gay reference into the speech or Arline will kill me. They can’t stop me from mentioning Barney Frank, can they?)
“We are going to have to put our cynicism down, and learn to say again, like that Greatest Generation, Yes we can.”
(It’s my line, Barack. You stole it from me. I told you I don’t care but I do! You get to be president and even with the book deal I’m going broke paying for my mansion and you won’t guarantee me Fannie Mae, or even Freddie Mac.)
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1115367
Last night’s convention theme was America, and Americans.
Ted Kennedy is a great American. Michelle Obama loves America. And John McCain has eight houses - in America.
Good God, what a night for the Red Sox to take off, especially with Monday night football still two weeks away.
Meanwhile, our local hack pols are jetting back and forth across the country as if they’re boarding a Fung Wah bus for Foxwoods. Deval and his lieutenant governor, Tim Murray, the Pillsbury Doughboy, flew back into Boston last night to attend the funeral for a soldier slain in combat.
Very commendable, but why exactly is the Pillsbury Doughboy returning to Denver today? Isn’t the reason for having a lieutenant governor so that he can fill in at moments like this?
Memo to Tiny Tim: You’re supposed to be like a spare tire, not spend all your time expanding your own spare tire.
Speaking of which, do you think he packed his special lobster bib that he picked up last week at the AFL-CIO’s summer clambake at, of all places, the Newton Marriott?
What about the carbon footprint, guys? What about the polar bears?
The problem with almost all the constitutional officers being out of state tonight is that the acting governor will be Tim Cahill, the state treasurer.
Everybody’s been giving Cahill a wide berth since he announced a few weeks back that he intended to “protect the taxpayers’ interests” in state government.
A friend of the taxpayers? I guess Cahill’s not planning to win any more Democratic primaries - not in this state anyway. Can someone say persona non grata?
The local guy who’s having the toughest week has to be Sen. John Forbes “Liveshot” Kerry. America’s Gigolo will never admit it, of course, but he and his friends, all of whom could fit in a phone booth, still seriously believe he won the 2004 election.
And now, instead of readying himself for his renomination/coronation, Liveshot has to prepare for a Democratic debate against some guy named O’Reilly. He’s praying that all the Republicans in the state forget that they only have until tomorrow night at 8 to re-register as Democrats or “unenrolled” so they can try to humiliate Liveshot in the Democratic primary Sept. 16.
At one of the hotels in Denver, some delegates report that the signs were removed over the weekend from the lobby bathrooms. Apparently gay Democrats vociferously objected to the hate speech of those vile perjoratives - “Gentlemen” and “Ladies.”
Some of the younger delegates, meanwhile, don’t seem to know all that much about the senior senator from Delaware. In Massachusetts, though, there is an easy answer to the question, “Who is Joe Biden?”
The reply: “Think Eddie Markey with a brain.”
One night down, three to go.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1115118
Geez -- haven't heard any PSAs about this . . . maybe Howie should have put it in inch-high letters, or at least bold! ;-)
What an a$$clown, did he forget that the gov and the clown mayor at that time were both DEMOCRATS???? Helllllo.......does he also forget that the storm warnings had gone up days and days before the storm and the whole city of NOLA just sat back and drank themselves silly, the smart ones, the ones NOT on welfare got their butts out of town before the storm hit, the rest just sat back and waited and whined for the government to come rescue them..........and let's not forget that other fool, Kanye West who claimed that Bush doesn't like black people....apparently Nagin and Blanco didn't like black people either............
A not bad article in Boston Magazine about Kerry.....
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/how_to_make_a_senator_sweat/page1
Anybody else see the new Kerry ad on TV yet?
Global warming,Algore endorsement,blah blah blah........
At least the global warming ad is relatively honest — as opposed to the “Jon Carey supports our fighting men” ad, which almost had me throwing things at the TV!
Thanks for the link!
Thu convention special column
A Dash of Joe Biden is more than enough
By Howie Carr | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
How did Joe Biden get 9,000 votes in the Democratic primaries?
Poor Hillary Clinton. It’s one thing to lose out to Barack Obama, but to have your runner-up dreams dashed by Dash? It had to hurt, big time.
Dash Biden, Pennsylvania’s third senator, at least since last Saturday, had his moment last night. He did accomplish a few things. Unlike last weekend, he got his running mate’s name right.
It’s Barack Obama, not Barack America. You laugh, but this is not a small thing for the small man from Wilmington, by way of Scranton, as he now informs us endlessly. After all, Biden is a first in his own way. As someone noted yesterday, Biden is the first white-male-affirmative-action pick selected solely because of his race and gender.
He will now operate in the shadow of a man whose qualifications he was openly scoffing just a few months ago. When Barack joined him on stage at the end of his dreary speech last night, word is that the press, off to the side of the building, began wildly cheering. And not just Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, either. They’re all in the satchel.
America, Biden claims, is in the grip of a new Great Depression. Things have been getting worse and worse, for so long, for all those decades that Dash has been dashing back and forth on the Amtrak between Washington and Wilmington, although he’s originally from Scranton.
That’s in Pennsylvania, you know. Twenty-one electoral votes. Delaware has three. If you were Dash, where would you claim as your hometown?
Here’s what Dash said, followed by what he meant.
“Barack Obama and I share a common story.”
(Our fathers were both coalminers in Wales - just kidding!)
“Failure at some point in everyone’s life in inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”
(Like, when I got caught lifting Neil Kinnock’s speech, word for word, some pols would have confessed immediately. Not me. I claimed another Labour pol had given me the speech. Another complete lie, but who cares?)
“Barack Obama will bring down health care costs by $2,500 for the typical family . . . He’ll make college more affordable . . . He’ll cut taxes . . . Barack Obama will put more cops on the street . . . ”
(Abraham Lincoln was right: You can fool some of the people all of the time. It’s just that I could never fool more than 9,000 at any one time. Thank God I’m from Delaware, I mean Scranton.)
“Now let me ask you: Whose judgment should we trust?”
(I’ll tell you whose - the guy who passed over someone who won 18 million votes for a tired old windbag like me.)
“Folks, remember when the world used to trust us?”
(No? Me neither, certainly not when I was first elected, and Lyndon Johnson was president, followed by Richard Nixo . . . )
“I am here for everyone I grew up with in Scranton and Wilmington.”
(Key word: Scranton. As in, Pennsylvania.)
“When I look at (the Obamas’) young children - and when I look at my grandchildren - I realize why I’m here. I’m here for their future.”
(Yes, I’m doing it for the children.)
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1115565
Howie Ping ;)
Thanks that worked well
Howie’s Fri column and Fri show ping. The Colonel will be in for HC on Monday.
Will GOP veep be Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty ? It’s a tossup
By Howie Carr | Friday, August 29, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Heads it’s Romney, tails it’s Pawlenty . . . Heads Pawlenty, tails Romney.
Typing away while waiting for the news about John McCain’s pick for a running mate to leak.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he’s popular with his fellow Mormons, and may help keep those wavering red Western states with big LDS populations like Nevada and Colorado in the Republican column.
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because as a Mormon, he’s deeply suspect with many evangelicals, and his presence on the ticket might put some otherwise-solid red Southern states into play.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because, unlike McCain, he made millions as a venture capitalist, and can speak with authority on the economy.
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because he made millions as a venture capitalist, and can be portrayed as a predatory corporate raider, the way he was in 1994 when he ran for the Senate against Ted Kennedy.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he’s what they used to call a “compassionate conservative” - after all, he signed the legislation giving Massachusetts universal health care.
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because he signed the legislation giving Massachusetts universal health care - which is quickly becoming a budgetary black hole, a Big Dig of medical costs.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he’s that rarest of Republican politicians - a guy still married to his first wife.
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because he’s a Mormon - you know, those guys who live up in the mountains of northern New Mexico in communes and look like Jed Clampett and have five wives.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he alone of the four candidates has perfect hair.
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because his hair is so much better than McCain’s.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he’s got his own harrowing life-changing story to tell - the traffic accident in France, when the gendarme wrote “He is dead” on his U.S. passport.
If it’s not Mitt, its because everything came too easy to him as the son of a millionaire industrialist-governor.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he finished second in total Republican votes behind McCain, and how can McCain not pick him when he’s run spots this week criticizing Barack for not picking Hillary when she was the runner-up?
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because he finished second by spending $47 million of his own money on TV spots ripping John McCain.
If it’s Mitt, it’s because he can credibly claim ties to at least four states - Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan and Utah, and also maybe California, where he just bought a spread in La Jolla.
If it’s not Mitt, it’s because he owns houses in most of those states, and the GOP can’t have two rich white guys at the top of the ticket.
And if that’s the reason Mitt ends up being passed over, well, the irony will be rich indeed. Just ask Jim Rappaport - he was the rich white guy who thought he was going to be Mitt’s candidate for lieutenant governor in 2002, only Mitt didnt want another rich white male, so he picked Muffy Healey, the wife of a rich white male.
Heads it’s Pawlenty, tails it’s Mitt heads it’s Mitt, tails it’s Pawlenty.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1115778
from http://www.savewrko.com BY BRIAN MALONEY
In 2008, opening up voting to listeners allowed WRKO’s Howie Carr to be inducted into the museum.
An especially alert reader has noted a little-noticed change in their policy, however, which has been posted on their website:
In the reader’s view, “(it) looks like they regret opening the voting to the public and letting WRKO buy and promote Howie Carr’s election.”
Whatever the reason, it appears Howie got lucky: had he been nominated just a year later, induction would have been much less certain.—BRIAN MALONEY
Muffy for VP?
oops, wrong Palin...hey, I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisiton...
badabing...
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