Howie Carr column ping. The best talk radio show NOT on
the radio (due to legal crap)
Hill brings The Fear — and loathing
by Howie Carr 10/14/07 Boston Herald
Once again, it’s looking like 1992, and I have The Fear.
I try to concentrate on other topics - how ’bout them Red Sox, Patriots, etc? - but always the same dark cloud returns to blot out the sun.
Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president of the United States.
They’re getting picked off, one by one, everyone who stands in her way. This week it was John Edwards, a phony’s phony we’d all agree, but he was hanging in there in the Iowa polls. So suddenly one of the Clinton house organs, the National Enquirer, is running with a story about Edwards’ alleged affair with a horse-faced 44-year-old bottle blonde.
The New York papers are full of stories about an impending indictment of Rudy’s buddy, former Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik. And the Enquirer, with Edwards’ scalp fresh on its belt, has been hinting for months about a new Giuliani galpal.
The Internet moonbats are trying to take out Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly. This time their shots went wide of the mark, but next time, who knows?
Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize and now we get a week of nostalgia pieces from the lamestream media, starting with the wires saying that after he lost the 2000 presidential race, Gore fled to Europe and “puzzlingly” grew a beard.
Memo to The Associated Press: If you have a falling-out with the Clintons like Gore did in 2000, it behooves you to assume a disguise. Nothing puzzling about it.
Hillary announces she has a million ideas, but “the country can’t afford them all.”
I don’t know about the country, but I know I sure can’t afford any of them.
I look at the map of next year’s Senate races and I see ... devastation. The only Republican who isn’t retiring is Larry Craig. And the few GOP senators who aren’t throwing in the towel all seem to come from the blue states. Who knew - Sununu? Susan Collins, call your office.
Hunter S. Thompson called it The Fear, and it came over him whenever he thought about Richard Nixon. I get it thinking about what’s coming down the road. In the Fifth Congressional District on Tuesday, I see the polls showing Jim Ogonowski close and he must be or Niki Tsongas wouldn’t be running all these negative spots, and Chester Atkins wouldn’t be so nasty. I hope Ogonowski’s got a shot but ... I’ve got The Fear.
I close my eyes and it’s 1993 again and my paycheck has suddenly shrunk. Bill Clinton’s “middle-class tax cut” has become the largest tax increase in American history - at least until 2009, that is.
I see new justices of the Supreme Court and they all look like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And the GOP can’t even filibuster because they have fewer than 40 seats left.
It’s early, the Republicans keep saying. Bill Clinton never got more than 49 percent of the vote, and Hillary’s even less popular than the man who never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
But this country is dumbing down. That was - and is - the genius of Bill Clinton. He was the first national politician to understand that an ever-larger percentage of Americans now have the attention span of a fruit fly. Those are the people whose pain Bill Clinton feels. They’re the 47 percent who pay 3 percent of the taxes, they took out the subprime loans without reading the fine print. They work for “nonprofits.”
Their numbers grow every year. From 43 percent of the electorate in 1992 to 49 percent in 1996 to 50-plus percent (adding Gore and Nader’s votes) in 2000. Only three words prevented a Democratic landslide in 2004: John Forbes Kerry.
I close my eyes and I see Vernon Jordan and Terry McAuliffe and Bernard Schwartz and Sandy “Burglar” ... I see pardons by the dozen ... I see The Dream Act, not to mention driver’s licenses for illegals. Think the transgender-civil rights movement.I’ve got The Fear.
WHEN will this nonsense end? I can’t listen to the felon, he’s a snore fest........I used to like to hear feinberg from 10-12 - I do listen if Avi Nelson is on, can’t take Bob Hedlund another snore fest.....I don’t do Rush, I looked forward to Howie as my afternoon sanity,,,feinberg is ok, he’s in a difficult position so I cut him some slack, I hope tomorrow brings a conclusion to this insanity. Entercom just continues to show how stubborn and unprofessional (Scotto - Wikpedia) they are.....julie and jason need to be fired asap.
I may be wrong but I believe that Howie will bite the bullet, wait out the 180 days, forgedabout the $450,000 or so of money that he will forfeit for not working for the Dark Side and will eventually come back on a new FM station broadcasting in the same time slot AGAINST the FELLON Finneran and he will clean WRKO's and Finneran's clock (I hope he takes Sandy with him when the time comes.
Frankly, in spite of the short term financial loss, I hope Howie has the stones and moral fortitude to take this stand. Because it is the right course of action and shows that in the end, it IS about principle and taking a stand for what is right and not just about the money. If he does go back to WRKO it kind of sends the message that for Howie, it is about nothing more than the money.
Now I know that some may say, "well it is easy for you to say "turn down $450,000" because it does not cost you anything. But in my own small way that is not the case. The FELLON Finneran has been offering FREE tickets to the Red Sox play off games IF I and others will just "Tune it to FELLON Finneran's broadcast". I wrote the station back and told them that they can shove their Red Sox tickets where the sun don't shine because I refuse to listen to a Felons commentary of the moral and political issues of the day. Would I love to see the Red Sox Play? Absolutely, but not at the cost of my integrity. So yes, it has cost me and may others something as well.
Howie, on the odd chance that you read this, hang in there, stand firm and hold to your principles because when all is said and done, a good name is more to be desired than money. Your listening audience is loyal and we will follow you to your new station. And look on the bright side, now you have the time to write your second book ABOUT THE CROOKED KENNEDY'S!
bump for later.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to Howie’s show in the afternoons. I won’t be able to listen to the morning show, since it has to be syndicated to be heard up here in Maine.