Posted on 09/07/2008 5:07:43 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie weekly thread starting off with his Sunday Herald column
Howie Sunday column ping. Yeah, I usually post this by
late Sat night but it wasn’t online by 12:30 am or so (at
least I couldn’t bring it up on my comp.) but here it is
Media loves to hate Sarah Palin
By Howie Carr | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
The Beautiful People just won’t let up on Sarah Palin.
It’s become a regular “60 Minutes”/Texas Air National Guard feeding frenzy of bogus reporting out there. The whoppers about Palin are piled up so high in the moribund mainstream media that the wrinkly newsreaders have taken to blaming their most scurrilous, sexist screw-ups on those nefarious unnamed left-wing “bloggers” - you know, like Brian Williams.
Why do the pampered poodles of the elite media loathe Sarah so much? Let’s go down the list.
She’s only 44 years old. She’s just not seasoned enough - and if you don’t believe me, just ask Gloria Steinem, age 74, or Barbara Walters, age 78, or Sally Quinn, age 67, or Eleanor Clift, age 68, or Andrea Mitchell, age 61, or Gail Collins, age 62.
Why, up on the stage, it has been noted that you can distinguish Sarah’s ankles from her calves. She’s never had a Botox injection. The hags of the Hamptons speak as one on this issue. Snow White Palin must be stopped. Anybody got a poisoned apple?
How can she be qualified when she doesn’t have a single $1.2-million-a-year lobbyist in her family? How can she relate to “lunch-bucket” Americans the way lunch-bucket blowhard Joe Biden can?
She admits smoking pot as a teenager, which sets a terrible example for the youth of America, unlike Barack Obama, who admits smoking pot as a teenager, and whose “refreshing candor” is a breath of fresh air after eight years of Cheney-Bush.
She went to multiple colleges as an undergraduate, which shows how flighty and immature she is, unlike Barack Obama, who went to multiple colleges as an undergraduate, which shows the inquisitive nature of his intelligence, which has been such an inspiration, at least to everyone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
She has been known to put out a flag - an American flag, of all things - on the Fourth of July.
The pregnancy and impending shotgun marriage of her teen daughter, Bristol, sets a terrible example for the youth of America, unlike the pregnancy of the teen movie character “Juno,” who sets a wonderful example for the youth of America by refusing to marry.
Sarah Palin is so stupid that on Friday she called the Penn State football team the “Nittaly Lions” - oh wait, scratch that, that was Barack Obama, who again proved his intellect by showing he has much weightier issues on his mind than college football. And who even cares about Penn State anyway, it’s not an Ivy League school.
She’s a member of the Alaska Independence Party - correction, she isn’t, it was The New York Times [NYT] that printed the flat-out lie that she was, in a story that, so said the Times, “called into question how thoroughly Mr. McCain had examined her background.”
You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It’s called “vetting.” Printing the truth about liberals - that’s called “swift-boating.” From career MSNBC jock sniffer Keith Olbermann to Barney Frank’s favorite publisher Jann Wenner, the verdict on Palin is unanimous.
The naysayers run the gamut of the political spectrum, from A to B. Sarah is a heretic on everything they gullibly believe in, most significantly global warming. For that blasphemy alone the PC Inquistion insists on the traditional penalty: She must be burned at the stake!
Twelve years ago, she considered banning books at the Wasilla Public Library, which is a chilling assault on the First Amendment, unlike Barack Obama, whose campaign 12 days ago tried to shout down an appearance on Chicago radio of an investigative reporter looking into ties between Barack and rabid terrorist Bill Ayers. But that mob of Barack brownshirts besieging WGN can in no way be compared to what Palin did because well, uh, um, it just can’t be, if you know what’s good for you.
And finally, we return to the real reason they hate her. She’s younger than they are, and better looking. Good looks is a deal breaker with this crowd, and if you don’t believe me, just ask Diane Feinstein, age 75, and Nancy Pelosi, age 68, and Hillary Clinton, age 61, and Barbara Boxer, age 67, and Barbara Mikulski, age 72.
Beautiful People indeed. In this case, the phrase is meant figuratively, not literally.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1117419
many comments on this article, which someone posted about 20 min. after I went to bed. Usually I’m up till 4 or 5 am due
to a night job but on weekends I try to catch up on sleep.
If Howie’s column is online by late Sat night I’ll post it
but last night I retired for the night shortly before it
showed up on the site!
comments at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076511/posts
Maureen Dowd is 57.
(ok folks, rules is be rules)
(did I mention that MODO isn't married. Never been. Statistically never will be. And Sara has a hunk steel worker husband?)
Bump for a good un.
Thanks for posting — and for the link! :)
And she can probably have more for the asking! I heard one woman call Howie's show -- she said, "Now my husband wants me to do my hair up and wear my reading glasses all the time!"
Another masterpiece from Howie.
As always, thanks for the ping.
Monday ping
What can Howie talk about—Brady’s injury, McCain’s
poll surge, Hurr. Ike—or how about the fact that Buonomo
has resigned as reg. of probate in Middsx. county! If you’re
on my ping list, you just got all the details!
Howie has Max Robins due in the 5 pm hour.
Wed column & Wed show ping. Did you hear Howie during the 5th inning of Sox game last night? The keyword is BUNT.
Whiney Patriots fans just can’t take a hit
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com \
Hey Patriots fans - stop whining!
What’s with this bereavement thing, just because Hollywood Tom Brady got hurt?
The reaction around here to Brady’s mishap has been so over the top, the only thing missing has been the deployment of grief counselors at local sports bars. Have they posted a sign yet on the Sagamore Bridge, saying “Suicide Is Not the Answer - No. 12 Will Be Back in 2009. Order Your DirecTV NFL Total Package Now.”
It’s a good thing Brady wrecked his knee on the field and not in an auto accident somewhere. Can you imagine what the size of that roadside memorial would have been? Every fat loser in New England would be unsteadily rising from the couch in his mom’s basement. It would have been like a funeral procession to the scene of the tragedy, where they would all be draping their XXX-L No. 12 Patriots sweatshirts over the thousands of candles, teddy bears and empty 40-ouncers.
Hey, fans, get over it. You should care as much about Tom Brady as he cares about you, which is to say, not at all.
You know about the thrill of victory, now get used to the agony of defeat.
It’s amazing to see how fast a bandwagon can stop in its tracks. At 1 p.m. Sunday this was the most asked question in New England:
“Do you think WE can go undefeated again this year?”
Three hours later, this was the number-one question in the Land of the Front Runners:
“What are THEY going to do now?”
It’s not only Bill Belichick who’s become a “genius” riding on Brady’s back. Through absolutely no fault of their own, that part of the media known as “Shillville” has cashed in big-time these last few years. The jock sniffers get their ratings and they high-five one another, like the big numbers actually have something to do with their insipid cheerleading.
Host number one: I love Tom Brady, man!
Host number two: I love him more than you do!
Host number one: Rah rah rah-
Host number two: - Sis-boom-bah.
There is no joy in Shillville. Mighty Brady has struck out.
I know, it’s so sad, because the Patriots are a “dynasty.” Some dynasty, considering that they haven’t won the Super Bowl since the last time George W. Bush won an election. But in Shillville seldom is heard a discouraging word. Two years ago, the dynasty got a giant bone in its throat against the Colts, and then last year in Arizona - well, let’s not talk about the “undefeated” team, lest the grief counselors have to be called out yet again.
Then there’s Coach Belichick, whose effervescent personality lights up the world, as they say, like a three-watt bulb. It is premature to begin referring to him as the Cinderella of the NFL? I mean, his team has turned into a pumpkin four years in a row now.
But look on the bright side, all of you Pats fans still living at home in your mom’s basement. The Red Sox [team stats] may yet force another lame victory parade on the city this year, but at least there won’t be any post-Super Bowl riots this February in Kenmore Square, or at Zoo Mass.
No stupid bets between Mumbles and some other idiotic mayor.
No flights out of Logan to Tampa diverted to Raleigh because of drunken Pats fans brawling in the aisles or locking themselves in the restroom for a smoke.
No Super Bowl victory parades with stoned teenagers from the suburbs phoning in bomb threats to their local high schools so they can come into the city to get loaded and vomit on their shoes. No media toadies, like the dweeby 65-inch-high former Pop Warner League waterboy jumping onto a float with a station sales weasel and then waving at the falling-down drunks lining the streets like it was their sycophantic station that actually won the big game.
I know, Tom Brady is a role model. He knocked up his girlfriend, then abandoned her for the supermodel. No wonder you want your kid to wear his jersey. No wonder you want to put his team’s flag up in front of your house, in case anyone in the neighborhood was wondering who you were rooting for.
Nothing to see here, grief counselors. Move along.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1118027
Howie is back on all four hours on WCRN 830 in Worcester.
According to posts on radio-info.com, Hank Stolz wasn’t
the ratings bonanza they expected. (What happened was that last yr when the Howie situation was in flux, they couldn’t wait any more and “dropped” him in favor of
local talk...then they brought him back, 5-7 pm only).
But now it’s full fledged Howie on WCRN.
btw I think Sox game tonight is on WEEI so WRKO won’t
leave Howie’s network at 6:25 for pre-game.
“No media toadies, like the dweeby 65-inch-high former Pop Warner League waterboy jumping onto a float with a station sales weasel and then waving at the falling-down drunks lining the streets like it was their sycophantic station that actually won the big game.”
Meterparel(guessing at spelling)?
No, Jason Wolfe (WRKO prog director)
How many guns does it take to shoot your way out of town?
Tune in to Howie today from 3-7pm as he broadcasts LIVE from Washington, DC for this year’s National Drive for Immigration Reform. Today’s show will feature guests such as political commentator Pat Buchanan and Angela Marie “Bay” Buchanan, chair of Team America PAC (Political Action Committee) which is a group committed to securing the borders of the USA.
Also scheduled to appear on the show is Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, Senator John Sununu from New Hampshire, journalist Joseph Farah of WorldNet Daily, and directors Rusty Fleming of “Drug Wars” and Chris Burgard of “Border.” The show will feature other nationally known immigration experts, activists, all speaking out the immigration issue, this year’s candidates and their status on illegal immigration and much more.
here is the link to listen to Howie live 3-7 PM EST
if you want to include it in the ping
http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.cc/etm_plr/audio_player.php?id=WRKO&playerType=wmp
ah, thanks! Now let’s do the Friday column ping...
Moonbats dropping like flies from PDS epidemic
By Howie Carr | Friday, September 12, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
It’s America’s newest disease - only diagnosed by some in the media a few days ago - but it is spreading among the nation’s Beautiful People at an alarming rate.
You know it by its initials - PDS. Palin Derangement Syndrome.
You can watch the victims of PDS on TV every night, frothing at the mouth in front of Obama banners, repeating scurrilous lies lifted from left-wing blogs or just making up new whoppers as they go along. It’s an epidemic - Palin Derangement Syndrome swept through MSNBC studios this week and claimed two anchors, who are survived by dozens of viewers.
The bad news is, PDS appears to be incurable. The good news is, it only strikes one demographic group - moonbats.
Like so many earlier plagues, PDS mutated from an earlier affliction, BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome. But BDS often metastasized over months, if not years, and struck across the political spectrum.
Are you at risk of contracting this virulent contagion? Do you work for a living? If the answer to the latter is yes, the answer to the former is probably no.
You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary. PDS is spread by “Typhoid Sarah,” but it’s not infectious. It only strikes the Politically Correct. So far, it has struck only those who believe that 9/11 was an “inside job,” or who have “Redefeat Bush” bumper stickers on the backs of their Priuses.
Researchers racing for the cure say that sometimes a single word or term relating to Sarah can touch off a full-blown case of PDS - “pro-life” is one such predictive phrase, and others include “blue-collar,” “public school” and, most alarming of all, “mother of five.”
Let us consider a few case studies. A mere fortnight ago, most of these victims were clearly demented, but still able to function, at least among their own kind, the trust-funded idle rich.
First case: “Matt D.”
One day, Matt D. was just another liberal puke making lousy movies. The next, he had lost his mind, thanks to PDS. He made a videotape in which he impersonated an actuary, used the word “absurd” about 30 times, and then asked “if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago”.
Remember, Matt D. believes that by buying “carbon credits,” he can personally stop the oceans from rising. Is this a guy who should be worried about somebody else’s wacky beliefs? Prognosis: Incurable.
Second case: “Carol F.”
No one had ever heard of this obscure Southern moonbat until Wednesday, when she suddenly blurted out that Sarah Palin’s “primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
Later she apologized for her “clumsy” statement. What Carol F. really meant to say was that she hates Palin because she hasn’t had an abortion. Prognosis: Put her on suicide watch until 1-20-09.
Third case: “Joe B.”
Normally considered nothing more than a plagiarizing blowhard, Joe B. was struck down with a particularly nasty strain of PDS - an overpowering depression and paranoia about his own worthlessness. Never one to speak succinctly, Joe B. suddenly became an even bigger windbag. Listen to this endless torrent of words in Nashua, N.H.:
“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and, quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate.”
Prognosis: Verbal diarrhea poses no immediate danger to himself, but his audiences are increasingly falling into comas or trances.
Fourth case: “Barry O.”
Since first glimpsing Sarah, Barry O. has been unable to speak coherently, has talked of “wrecking havoc” and brought up his “Muslim faith” on national TV. Finally, in the grips of full-blown PDS, Barry slurred Sarah as a pig, and then claimed that he, not Sarah, was a victim - admittedly, his perennial fallback position, which has never failed him before.
Prognosis: Grave. Drs. Al Gore and John Kerry have been called to his bedside.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1118511
PDS PING!
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