Part of Howie's column for tomorrow is already up at the Herald site
Listen to me, Tom Finneran. I’ll always be there for you when you have a problem at the radio station.
Think of me as your probation officer. Whenever you’re gripped with an overwhelming state-rep urge to, say, steal a hot stove, come to Mr. Carr. Consider me the ankle bracelet you should be wearing. And incidentally, keep your sticky felon fingers off my headphones in the studio. I have the phone number in Judge Stearns’ lobby, pal. You could still end up on the BOP.gov website under “Inmate Locator.”
It would be easy to make jokes about this latest development in the one-man crime wave that is the former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
I could say, there goes the neighborhood.
Or that radio companies just aren’t making moral-turpitude clauses like they used to.
But hey, as much as I wish that Finneran had gone to prison, where he so obviously belongs, he’s now working with me, so I’m trying to look on the bright side. Like, are the rumors true about how much money he’s getting - 400 large, a half-million? That would be real good news for me, because a rising tide lifts all boats.
John F. Kennedy said that. He was never convicted of obstruction of justice, by the way.
Talk about a guy who was down to his underwear in the great strip poker game of life. Finneran had just been forced out of his $416,000 job, God willing, he’ll be disbarred, or at the very least suspended from the practice of law, and he’ll lose his $30,000 state pension - knock on wood.
Cripes, if he doesn’t get the job at my radio station, his fallback was the IHOP on Soldiers Field Road. You know what they say. When one door closes, another one opens.
In Felon Finneran’s case, it was going to be a swinging door, into the IHOP kitchen.
Boy, oh boy, Howie's audience is riled. Don't blame them. I can't stand Finneran and will never listen.
I also want to know what becomes of Rush's show when the Red Sox start airing on WRKO this spring?
Have you been being a good little boy lately?????