[Truth Table]

RE 2 Years DUH!

Classic

[Fenris6]

Have you noticed a huge shift since FOX news came into its glory? I used to be an avid C-SPAN fan, as it was the only medium I considered "balanced". Seems that their conservative audience is now watching FOX. I note that Jerry Springer runs in the same time slot as C-SPAN's call-in segment - it appears that most of the current callers are shut-in Dems who are surfing between both progams.

No offense ;)

[TFine80]

God, I love Howie....

[FormerACLUmember]

There is so much that Boston's Howie Carr knows about "Liveshot" John Kerry that never made the national public airways. Most democrats have no clue about the sick narcissist they are voting for. Sadly, they don't care.

[Joann37]

Yes, these letters are from Kerry's base!

[risk]

Question is, how will we react? I'm going to look for new ways to talk with liberals who don't seem to see a threat to even the things they value in the new left.

[Semper Paratus]

Of course the C-SPAN audience is not a microcosm of America. Its viewers seem to be predominantly old men, shut-ins, mitten-knitters and collie dogs

Howie nailed C-Span's demographics.

[secret garden]

I knit, own collies, drive a Volvo and vote Republican. Take that, DNC!

[Shortwave]

I listen to Howie everyday and I was impressed on Friday with his ability to point out how stupid, lame, and shameless the other side argues for their guy. Secondly, Howie will and at times "doe's" take the President to task on one of my biggest heartburns with the guy, immigration. I'm surprised that Howie's syndication efforts haven't been more lucrative, but on the other hand, I love the fact we in New England have 'em all to our selves! What a sexy bald bastard!

[BenLurkin]

"[O]ld men, shut-ins, mitten-knitters" sound like ordinary Americans to me, and if they are watching C-SPAN there is a very good chance they vote.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

One of my recent hate mailings:

Dear Click and Clack,

Curses and maledictions on your hate mail.

I have been a steady listener for the last couple of years and enjoy the
show immensely. It is about the only time my radio isn't tuned to Rush
Limbaugh or Country Classics.

However.

I recently cruised over to the "Hate Mail" link on your web page,
http://cartalk.cars.com/Mail/Hatemail-2/. You call this pile of bilge hate
mail? I get worst emails from my wife. Tommy would understand.

Where are the death threats, the vituperation, the vulgarity? In place of
the abuse, vitriol, vilification, slander, calumny, epithets, cheek and
contempt which I so eagerly anticipated (and y'all so richly deserve) I
found whining, mewing, self-pitying bathos.

Consider this letter hate mail to your discontented listeners. Okay, people,
how 'bout some real animosity, laced with open enmity, bitter hostility and
active hatred. If this is best you can do, may be you should be listening to
Dr. Laura or Howie Carr. I know you can do better. Look at the letters you
send to your Senator every time a Republican from Mississippi (quelle
horror!) is nominated to the Federal bench.

-Lonesome in Massachussets

[The Loan Arranger]

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their betters. H.L. Mencken

[dighton]

Surely zotted again and again:

Lepolin, Panama City: ``Of all people how doe's (sic) that sound coming from you neo-cons when you are the main people to try silincing (sic) people by trying to boycott them and when are you going to come up with some better lies cant (sic) you be more inventive(?)''

[benjaminjjones]

Longtime listener, never a caller (I think Sandy has a block on my caller ID, LOL).

I like to joke that I became self-employed so I could listen to at least a little bit of Rush and Howie each day. The truth is that I'd go nutty up here in Boston without my daily double dose of sanity.

It was great watching the Howie show on CSPAN. It was Radio Verite! (sorry, too lazy to look up the code for an e with accent aigu)

Loved seeing Osama bin Meehan's expressions each time Howie gave him the needle (not a little flu-shot needle, not a big spinal tap needle, but a hugh [sic] foot-long amniocentesis needle).

He knew Howie was right each time, but had to keep spouting the Party Line. Looked like a little boy caught in lie, who can't come clean, 'cause he knows he'll get a worse whoopin' if he 'fesses up. Priceless!

It had been four years since Meehan had appeared on the show. I'm betting his next appearance will be something approaching infinity.

Loved hearing the audio feed from the booth, especially when that loony liberal lady kept calling back, over and over, trying to get back on the show after Howie cut her off.

Why is it that almost all the foaming-at-mouth ranting callers he gets are libs, drunks, Canucks, or d) All of the above? Suspect it has something to do with the far left side of the IQ bell curve.

Loved seeing his lib producer Sandy come in during a break and verbally genuflect before Kerry's chosen representative on Earth, Bishop Meehan. Was surprised her moo moo dress wasn't Monica blue, but I guess she was hoping that black would have a slimming effect. NOT!

I'm betting she wants Kerry in so he can task the Skunkworks with developing a Stealth Moo Moo.

Finally, was amazed at Howie's impressive display self-control. He held off eating a Big Mac on camera for at least an hour! I could feel his pain.

I'm betting he inhaled that baby in two, maybe three, bites as soon as the cameras went off, LOL. Probably couldn't even wait to change back into to his dirty sweatshirt and ruined his tie with burger grease!

Luvya Fat Bastard! Keep the medicine coming, we need it out here!

[Todd-O]

Yeah - Howie outed me nationally for using the F-word in a private email. But he was careful to delete the reason for my anger. That reason being, he was disrespectful of fallen US servicemen.

I watched briefly one night as he conducted a so-called interview. That was a mistake that I will not make again. I don't remember the name of the guest; he was some local Democrat from Massachusetts. This fellow told Carr up-front that he had to leave in time to attend the funeral of a local boy killed in Iraq. I have no idea why he even stayed; Carr was interviewing himself really. For some reason, he put up with Carr's badgering until he ran out of time – and, to his credit, he responded politely. If you can believe it, Carr wanted to keep this guy on a cell phone *while he drove to the boy's funeral*. That was the first clue. Carr's guest had to explain to him that it would be inappropriate.

Carr did the typical, modern interrupt-your-guest-ad-nauseum. It was nothing special. He was generally rude, superficial (playing strictly to the sound-bite), and didn't listen to his guest's responses –- the usual kind of thing you see nowadays. Carr played taped questions at extremely high volume demanding to know *three things* Kerry had ever done for his Massachusetts. Whenever his guest tried to answer, Carr just played another tape of exactly the same question right over him, so loudly the guest's answer couldn't be heard. It was all intimidation, no substance.

Finally, the beleaguered guest managed to stammer out some of what he was trying to say. He apparently admired the civilian mission undertaken together by John McCain and John Kerry after Viet Nam, to find out what happened to the MIAs and POWs -- and bring some peace to the families. And then, *Carr openly mocked him for this*.

That did it for me. I am rarely profane anymore –- something about getting older and mellowing a bit. Carr's behavior took me right to the flash point. Right, left, Democrat, Republican, or little Green man –- if, in your quest for ratings-through-conflict, you can't show some respect for United States servicemen killed in war, you are just a common selfish bastard. That's just how it is.