Posted on 01/20/2008 1:49:50 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr weekly thread. Howie's columns and discussion of his radio show. We'll start with his Sunday Herald column. (Just think: who will raise a right hand to take the oath of office as President...a year from today?)
Evolution of a campaign: Huckster’ 08
By Howie Carr | Sunday, January 20, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
The end is near. That theme was no doubt a staple of the sermons of the Rev. Mike Huckabee, although the dope from Hope now refuses to release his fire-and-brimstone perorations.
But the polls before yesterday’s primary in South Carolina were a veritable Book of Revelations that his political Armageddon was just around the corner.
Too bad, because a come-from-behind victory by the former Arkansas governor would have put a real crimp into John McCain’s campaign as the candidates head south for the Florida primary on Jan. 29.
The Huckster was doing all right, I suppose, once one got off the main roads and into the red-dirt redneck districts where, as H.L. Mencken once put it, the howls of holiness are heard in the woods. But overall, the “Christian leader” seemed to know that the wheels were coming off his rusty pickup truck. On the Friday TV liveshots he looked spooked, like one of his favorite snakes had just bitten him.
Earlier in the week the Huckster promised to deport every illegal alien in the country - you know, the same criminals he’d been calling “children of God” a couple of weeks earlier.
It’s one thing to speak in tongues, it’s another to speak with a forked tongue. But his constituency doesn’t care. They just want to hold up John 3:16 signs in the end zone at football games during the point-after kick. For some of them, “Deliverance” isn’t a movie, it’s a way of life. They cheer at the end of “Easy Rider.” Teeth are considered an optional fashion accessory.
He won Iowa but it’s been downhill since then. The other GOP candidates have morphed into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He tried some affirmative action by hiring a Catholic as his campaign manager. But Ed Rollins turned out to be a loud-mouthed, over-the-hill dolt - a veritable Sgt. Carter to the Huckster’s Gomer Pyle.
Shazam, Sgt. Rollins, I think this here campaign is flat broke! Ain’t nobody throwin’ nothin’ into the collection plate. Do you think it’s too late for Jim Pinkerton to beg Newsday to give him back his column? It’s all ending rather badly, the way it did for William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes monkey trial.
The Huckster really jumped the shark this week when he attempted to win the trailer park vote by mentioning his deep appreciation for the taste of fried squirrel. He reminisced about his college daze at the Bible school, using a popcorn popper in the dorm to cook the rodents.
From a chicken in every pot to a squirrel in every popcorn popper - there is the trajectory of the Huckabee juggernaut in a nutshell, so to speak.
Who knows how Huckabee would have fared if it hadn’t snowed yesterday in his South Carolina base, the hookworm counties upstate? But God, as they say, moves in mysterious ways.
If the tracking polls were correct, Huckabee appeared to be headed for the same fate as his favorite college dinner - roadkill. From the penthouse to the outhouse in 16 days.
Now the Huckster’s campaign needs a lot more than a bottle of Chuck Norris’ favorite K.O. Fitness Recovery Drink. Exit polls in the early states showed Huckabee winning the support of 93 percent of the voters who have bumper stickers saying their cars will be unmanned when the Rapture occurs. The bad news was, among everyone else in the Republican party, he was running neck and neck with Ron Paul.
A Channel 4 poll of the Massachusetts GOP this week showed favorite son Mitt Romney with 48 percent and John McCain with 34. Huck had 3 percent.
So what does the future hold? Infomercials would seem to be the Huckster’s next big thing. His pal Chuck Norris has cornered the Total Gym market, but maybe the Huckster can bless shotgun racks and peddle them C.O.D. Even better, how about the Ronco Total Squirrel Fry-o-Lator? Can somebody shout amen?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1067725
AMEN!
AMEN AMEN
That article needs it’s own thread here.
AMEN
Oops - it does have it’s own thread - Great....
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She was in the DP before his "vacation", but I missed the "Welcome Back Howie DP".
Howie has really got to do it during the 4PM hour.
I really liked Pleshette's performance in Support Your Local Gunfighter, especially when contrasted with her role in The Birds.
Amen, amen, amen! Another great column! I especially liked the "college daze" comment!
Oh no! She was married to Tom Poston who just died recently.
yes...
Ping for Monday, Martin Luther King day. Avi in for Howie.
Staying true to his word,,,,,,,,he’s taking EVERY holiday off, good for him!
Last yr on MLK Day the Celtics were still on WRKO and they had a 3 pm game. Howie didn’t take day off—you could hear him on
WEIM in Fitchburg (I think WCRN didn’t have him yet)—and
he was back on ‘RKO by just before 6 pm or so
I had the same thoughts about the Amber Alert PSA weeks
ago, when I first heard it: imagine the ruckus if they had
said the victim was a Caucasian girl and the suspect
was an African-American male in a black van...
Flipping thru TV channels right now; Stroker Ace with
Burt Reynolds is on CMT right now. And look who’s in it:
Mike Huckabee! Oops, I mean Jim Nabors.
I agree with Avi on that ad, it is definetly racist.....OMG,,,,,all the whackjobs are coming out of the woodwork tonite, the doug guy, the ken guy, now this whackjob teacher..........excellent radio! Avi knows how to shake the whackos out of the bushes! I’m surprised that idiot SADiki hasn’t called in,,,,,I heard him earlier on Reese, I haven’t listend to all of Avi’s show so maybe he did call in,,,,the only time he calls in is when the topic concerns blacks or iraq.
Hopefully he’ll be back...definitely provokes responses
from moonbats, etc. Whether they would take him off due
to listener outrage/listener-advertiser boycotts, who knows.
The Tue ping. Some nice responses to Avi’s show yesterday,
from the “comments” at savewrko.com:
DAVE wrote: “Anybody catch Avi in the 6:00 hour tonight? That’s some good radio. Can’t anybody find a full time slot for the guy?
PS, Sadiki is still trying to pass off his and Chucky Turner’s spank pix collection as pictures of “American soldiers” committing “atrocities”.”
BARBARA wrote: “Dave,,,,,the 6pm hour with Avi was EXCELLENT radio! All the whack jobs where coming out of the woodwork, good stuff, especially that idiot Ken, wow, what an a$$. I heard SADiki earlier today but did not hear him tonite, was he on with Avi? I didn’t catch all of Avi’s show..........it would be nice if Avi got a permanent slot on RKO.”
(I thought he had a weekend show? maybe not—rr)
JOY wrote: “babs, sadiki was on with avi for a good 20+ minutes. it was great radio to hear avi take apart sadiki’s fantasies one by one.
sadiki still avers that those pics of our GIs “raping” iraqi women that he peddled and got the globe to publish were legit, in spite of the globe having to apologize for publishing those porn movie images without verifying them.
and as usual sadiki asked for reparations.
avi dismantled sadiki. i like avi. he’s old-school, but entertaining.”
Rich wrote: “Avi was awesome. That was the best local hour of radio around here in some time.
I might be wrong, but I think part of Howie’s salary is tied to ratings, so I wouldn’t think he’d be mailing it in.”
(Recent ratings showed Jay Severin beating Howie and
some have accused Howie of “mailing it in”, not
trying hard enough...)
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Damn, I’m sorry I missed that loser sadiki, I bet Avi turned him into dust!
He did. Maybe they’ll podcast it on the WRKO site. I heard
it while driving into Brookline to see Morgan White Jr’s trivia show at the Coolidge Corner Clubhouse. It was good
listening.
Another one bites the dust: Fred Thompson’s candidacy
will not be down for breakfast. (And we hear Huckabee’s
got money troubles in Fla...) When will Rudy drop out?
Losing even in NY! Start spreading the news...
LOL, Howie talking about Heath Leger death saying perhaps the pills found may have been advil,,,,,bashing the felon!
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