Whitey's dream forum
Friday, May 10, 2013
By: Howie Carr
Whitey Bulger has obviously decided it’s time for a Hail Mary pass.
He’s trying to get on “60 Minutes,” like his brother before him. Now we know why he shaved his beard.
Of course, it won’t happen, at least not until after his trial. But you can’t blame the accused serial killer for wanting to taint the jury pool, a jury of his peers, and what better jury of his peers could he get than the “60 Minutes” audience?
He’s 83, which puts him on the younger side of the “60 Minutes” demographic, which is 80 to death.
And we know he’s a big fan of the show. In fact, Whitey was watching in Santa Monica the night in 2008 that his old partner, Johnny Martorano, went on and talked about what he would do to his light-in-the-loafers pal if he ever got hold of him.
Whitey was so angry he got out a legal pad and began dictating his own memoirs:
“I have been driven to this by the lies of John Martorano and seeing his insane interview on 60 Minutes was the last straw.”
To which Martorano replied, “Why didn’t he just change the channel?”
It’s the perfect venue for Whitey. Like the Globe, it’s not really journalism — remember their hoax story in 2004 about George W. Bush and the Texas Air National Guard? These days “60 Minutes” more closely resembles a cross between MSNBC and the second hour of “Good Morning America.” A mix of Pravda and show-biz schmaltz.
As far back as 1992, Whitey’s little brother Billy benefited from the show’s lax standards. The 65-inch-high tyrant known as the “Corrupt Midget” was portrayed as Jimmy Cagney in “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” As part of their faux journalism, they even let the CM throw out a line about the mass murdering, drug-dealing, bank-robbing Whitey:
“He’s my brother. I care about him. I encourage him to come by (my house) all the time.”
Oh, isn’t that touching? Of course, the problem now is, “60 Minutes” won’t be able to find a lot of people willing to go on the air and talk about how “it’s just plain fun to have a leader with blood in his veins.”
That was what the 100-year-old reporter from “60 Minutes” said about Billy Bulger back in 1992. Maybe the new reporter could say something like, “It’s just plain fun to have a gangster who doesn’t mind draining the blood out of his partner’s girlfriends’ (that’s plural) veins.”
Don’t worry, Whitey, they won’t fact-check anything you say. That’s “60 Minutes’” motto: Some stories are just too good to check out.
Carr: Let Herald check welfare tips
Sunday, May 12, 2013 By: Howie Carr
I have a modest proposal for the Department of Terrorist, er Transitional Assistance (DTA).
Turn your telephone tip line over to the Herald.
It has become painfully obvious over the past 18 months that the DTA and Gov. Deval Patrick have zero interest in cracking down on waste, fraud and abuse in the welfare department.
What could account for this abject dereliction of duty? Professional courtesy, perhaps? More concern for illegal aliens and terrorists than the taxpayers?
Maybe Deval et al. really do believe that these crimes are but “anecdotes,” as the governor insists upon calling them. Ten percent of the 480,000 entities getting EBT cards turn out to have no current addresses, or maybe they just don’t exist. Whatever, it’s just a little “leakage,” as the governor says with a shrug.
Given this attitude, it’s no surprise that the DTA tip line, so-called, is where tips go to die.
Consider the latest outrage last week. A Dedham cop named Bob Walsh participated in the bust of an illegal alien Dominican drug dealer. This undocumented Democrat had been deported once and returned. In his apartment the cops found $65,000 in cash, 50 grams of heroin, 45 grams of cocaine … and an EBT card for his illegal-alien galpal.
Detective Walsh made his first call to the “tip line” five weeks ago. When the phone didn’t ring, he knew it was the DTA. All it took to finally get action was a front-page story in this newspaper Thursday. First the DTA refused to say anything about the case. After the page-one story appeared, the DTA claimed they’d already referred Walsh’s heads-up to the state auditor’s investigations bureau.
But the crack sleuth who called Walsh said he’d just been handed the case that morning, after the paper hit the newsstands.
Now the powers that be claim to be shocked, shocked that illegal aliens are obtaining EBT cards. Maybe they should have driven over to South Boston and asked Auntie Zeituni how it’s done.
Or they could have spoken to state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell (R-Taunton).
“It’s pretty obvious,” she said on Friday. “If you don’t have a Social Security number, they give you a ‘placeholder’ number. That means anybody can get an EBT card.”
Last year the Legislature considered a bill to prevent EBT cardholders from getting cash with their Everything-Free-in-America plastic. How mean-spirited, the moonbats whined, voting down the amendment. Now it turns out the Tsarnaev brothers went on a cash spree with their EBT cards before the bombings.
Considering that Tamerlan’s occupation is listed on his death certificate as “Never Worked,” where do you suppose he got the money to build his pressure-cooker bombs? Most likely from the very people he killed and maimed — American taxpayers.
We at the Herald couldn’t possibly do a worse job than the Department of Terrorist Assistance does in policing the non-working classes. These DTA pencil-pushers aren’t watchdogs, they’re lapdogs, and that’s just the way the Democrats, from former welfare-recipient Deval on down, like it.
Meanwhile, the ACLU of Massachusetts is weighing in … on the high cost of putting photo IDs on EBT cards. It would cost so very much — $4 million. So I suppose the American Civil Liberties Union is even more opposed to spending $275 million yearly on welfare for illegal aliens, the House Republicans’ lowball estimate of the cost to Massachusetts taxpayers.
In its “alert” to the bleeding hearts, the ACLU says that photo IDs, which are required to do anything in this society except vote and collect free money, would “stigmatize people who receive government assistance,” you know, like the galpals of once-deported illegal-alien Dominican drug dealers with $65,000 lying around their apartments.
The ACLU continues: “Putting photos on EBT cards will not solve perceived problems of program fraud.”
Note that adjective “perceived.” In other words, there really isn’t a problem in the welfare department, it’s all just … anecdotes.
So I beseech the Legislature, let the Herald take over the DTA tip line. We’ll even change the name to something more palatable. How does the Anecdote Line sound? The Perceived Anecdote Line?
It’s time to bring privatization back to the hackerama of state government.