Book’s success will be ‘Rigged’
Free pass for Liz because she’s a Dem
Friday, March 22, 2013
Howie Carr
So U.S. Sen. Granny Warren has now hired a big-time literary agent to peddle her memoirs, and the working title is “Rigged.”
Rigged? Surely some mistake — wouldn’t “Hammered” be a much more appropriate title?
Or even better, “Faked.”
Somewhere, Scott Brown is shaking his head. Because he knows that the same nastiness and cheap shots that he endured after his million-dollar payday for “Against All Odds” will not be leveled against the author of “Hammered,” er, I mean, “Faked.”
The reason is very simple. The fake Indian is a Democrat. Scott Brown is a Republican.
I can write the reviews of Granny’s book right now, as they’ll run in the Globe (assuming the broadsheet hasn’t followed the Phoenix into well-deserved oblivion by the time the tome comes out in 18 months or so).
“Awe-inspiring ... must-read ... fascinating ... a classic for the ages ... a Mother Jones Pick of the Year. ...”
Certain accolades are reserved exclusively for the Beautiful People — Pulitzer Prizes, Profiles in Courage Awards and, of course, good book reviews.
Actually, Scott Brown didn’t get the proper savaging that most of the Morrissey Boulevard moonbats would have liked to have given him. The problem was, Brown’s $1 million advance was less than Gov. Deval Patrick’s $1.35 million.
Anyway, a month or so after both memoirs came out, Scott’s sales of 15,534 were described in Politico as “disappointing.” Deval sales were approximately 6,000 — a best-seller!
But Deval’s grab for the gelt gave Scott cover. A Globe columnist, writing her own stuff for once, sadly noted that with Deval pulling another major Coke-Texaco type corporate heist, “It’s hard to tag (Brown) as uniquely opportunistic.”
Still, slam him the moonbats did. Somebody on DU.com said Brown’s book was worse than “Mein Kampf.” I think they were kidding, but maybe I’ll tweet that to the Globe and see whether they’ll run with it. Somebody in Plymouth “questioned whether Brown might have fabricated the (sexual-molestation) story.”
Not identifying the molester — “a permanent unsightly stain on his moral character.”
But pretending to be an Indian to steal affirmative-action slots at two Ivy League law schools – nothing to see folks, move along. And I guarantee you the genteel rumpswabs who review Granny’s tome will not bring it up. If you can’t say something good about a fake Indian ...
It’s always been this way. Newt Gingrich in 1995 gets a $4.5 million advance from Rupert Murdoch — he had to give it back. Five years later, Hillary Clinton grabs $8 million — no problemo.
The Globe review noted Brown’s book wasn’t quite as good as “Profiles in Courage” or “Dreams of My Father.” How could it be? Those books were written — er, ghostwritten — by Democrats.
One thing’s for sure. It doesn’t matter how many copies it sells, “Rigged” will be a “best-seller.” It’ll be rigged.
Silence in House speaks volumes
Saturday, March 23, 2013
by Howie Carr
Call him “Rep. Weiner,” this unnamed solon whose name you already know, and if you don’t, you can find it easily enough in the Daily Mail of London.
His extinguished colleagues in the Mass. General Court have lowered the Cone of Silence over Rep. Weiner’s latest alleged unspeakable actions. If the Boston Mafia had observed its own code of omerta this rigorously, they’d still be running organized crime around here.
It’s all about Rule 16, which seems to boil down to this: Dummy up, lest somebody someday drop a dime on you when you get a bad ice cube, or feel an insatiable urge to stuff some FBI cash in your bra, or steal enough absentee ballots to vote every illegal alien in your slum apartment house.
Loose lips sink ships, and maybe you, if the guy you rat out decides to trade you up to the feds.
So you can understand how deeply concerned both the House speaker and the chairman of the House Ethics Committee are about the “integrity” of the process, especially the speaker, considering the last three speakers are convicted felons.
The Ethics chairman is Rep. Marty Walsh, the real Marty Walsh, not the alias that then-Sen. Jim Marzilli gave the cops when he was arrested for flashing old ladies in Lowell.
Marty, who is also an official of a union, said all proceedings are “confidential,” and that he would have “no comment, including to confirm or deny,” on any Anthony Weiner-like hijinks that “may or may not have been referred” to his very ethical Ethics Committee.
Rep. Weiner is the third rep to run into trouble this year, if you include the solon emeritus in Lawrence who violated a restraining order. He’s the fourth if you throw in the judge’s son who was worked over by a lobbyist in Dartmouth. Ironically, Rep. Weiner’s eccentricity, shall we say, surfaced on the radar screen a day after a Herald reporter was ejected from a House ethics training session.
It seemed like such an innocuous gathering. A few people reciting the State House’s 10 Commandments: I am the Speaker, thou shalt have no gods before me; thou shalt not get caught stealing; thou shalt not covet thy chairman’s bagman. … But no, we weren’t allowed in. Because the House is such an august body. They call the U.S. Senate the world’s most exclusive club. The Mass. House may be the world’s least exclusive club.
Say what you will about the Boston City Council, when Chuck Turner went down for the count, they ejected him from City Hall. OK, so it cost them $100,000 because they didn’t wait until Chuck was sentenced. At least for once they tried to do the right thing.