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Posted on 01/26/2008 11:32:48 PM PST by raccoonradio
Another week of the Howie live thread, starting off with Howie's Sunday Herald column ("Mass. voters to thrill Hill on Moonbat Tues.")
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Mass. voters to thrill Hill on Moonbat Tues.
By Howie Carr | Sunday, January 27, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Hillary Clinton is no Tom Reilly. Can we all agree on that?
Which means the Democratic primary here on Super Tuesday (Feb. 5) is not going to be a replay of the state’s 2006 gubernatorial primary.
Deval Patrick came out of nowhere - well, actually, out of Texaco and Coke and assorted other corporate outposts where he stopped just long enough to pick up a hefty chunk of severance or whatever you want to call it.
Deval, a blank slate, crushed a tired, hapless white hack named Tom Reilly.
Some obvious similarities exist between Deval and Barack Obama. They’re both black, from Chicago, have very little experience, went to Harvard Law School and attract devoted followings of rich, middle-aged, guilt-ridden Baby Boomers.
Of course, in 2006 Reilly was such a complete bust as a candidate (not to mention prosecutor) that a third person jumped into the fight. Can we also stipulate that John Edwards is no Chris Gabrieli? Edwards doesn’t have nearly as much money.
One-on-one, Hillary should win Massachusetts going away. Hillary owns the hacks, after all, plus she has her own smaller cadre of moonbats. All Obama has is what you might call the full-moonbats, the shock troops of Political Correctness.
Generally speaking, the Hillary voter is older, wealthier and more female. Obama’s core is younger, more transient. And as House Speaker Sal DiMasi might say, they don’t learn from their mistakes.
Where will Obama do well? Moving east, he’ll take Berkshire County and Happy Valley naturally. He sweeps Amherst, Northampton and the other college towns, although the wild card there is whether those wacky kids will still be too hung over after the Super Bowl victory parties to get out of bed (or jail) on Super Tuesday.
Obama figures to carry all the suburban towns that tend to vote Republican in the general elections but go very liberal in the Democrat primaries. Bolton comes to mind. And all the lily-white burgs where Niki Tsongas and Jim Marzilli did well in their recent underwhelming special election victories. Obama will also do well in towns where Salvation Army bell-ringers get hassled at Christmas. Think Andover. Obama takes the ACLU vote by almost as large a margin as he carries the trust-fund crowd.
On the other hand, Hillary should sweep the areas where people actually work for a living. They’ll be weighing her votes on the South Shore (except for Deluxebury). The Cape should be a battleground. It’s conservative in November, but the Cape Democrat party is PC to the max, right down to their Priuses.
Hillary’s numbers here could also depend somewhat on the state of the GOP campaign after Florida. Mitt Romney is the favorite son, sort of, but he also left behind a lot of enemies in the wake of his one lackluster term as governor. If Mitt appears to be on the ropes post-Florida, a chance to deliver the coup de grace might draw out the independent remnants of, say, the old Bulger machine in South Boston and the Fat Matt Amorello crowd in Worcester.
We’re talking small numbers here, but they are 100 percent hacks, which means that otherwise they would probably break heavily for Hillary.
And then there’s Mumbles Menino. He, of course, is with Hillary. She’s the institutional choice, like Reilly was in 2006. She’s waited her turn, again like Reilly, and Mumbles, for that matter. Unfortunately for Mumbles, Hillary will probably lose the city, just as Reilly did. Sure, she’ll have her pockets - think Southie, Savin Hill, West Roxbury, Brighton. Ward 11 should be instructive - the lesbians presumably break for Obama, while Hillary takes the Hispanic vote.
My prediction: Hillary wins Massachusetts, 52-40.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1069235
After all these years of Kennedy and Kerry, you'd think I'd be inured to embarrassment about living in Massachusetts . . . alas, you'd be wrong! :(
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Boston’s Conservative talk am 1150 changes to Spanish
language religion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960851/posts
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It looks like Howie won’t be pre-empted by spring training of the Sox—any weekday games are on WEEI.
Note the start time of 2 games: March 25 and 26 vs. the A’s on WEEI: 5:25 am! That’s because
they’re in Japan. These are actually regular season games; the Sox then fly to L.A. to play 3 more
exhibition games vs. Dodgers (at LA Coliseum)
Again:
Howie won’t be affected—weekday games are on WEEI (though
I think one Fri night game is on WRKO, but it’s not till
10:40 pm)
Ted Kennedy has endorsed Obama as the democratic presidential candidate. Will this hurt or help Barack?
Help
53%
Hurt
47%
Max on in 5 pm hr
Any idea what thread has an image of HRC in a Rosemobile Delmont?
I did not know that she was the mother of M[ar]ia Farrow. That would explain a role in a Woody Allen flick.
IMDB says she didn't like working with Cheetah, the chimp.
There were several threads about the Kennedy endorsement;
not sure which one.
Yes I remember reading she’d died and I did know she
was Mia’s mama.
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Finneran the Felon is now a lobbyist, too. Media critic
Dan Kennedy doesn’t like it.
http://medianation.blogspot.com/2008/01/finneran-jumps-shark.html
Brian Maloney, http://www.savewrko.com:
“As for Finneran’s career, I don’t believe he’s doing this to create a gigantic conflict of interest. Instead, it’s an escape route, created to make up for the disbarment. With the radio show clearly not working out, he’s been in desperate need of an out.
“Note how WRKO management wasn’t available to comment: instead of defending him, they are now silent. And as corporate owners always include loopholes, radio contracts are rarely worth the paper on which they’re printed. With his legal background, Finneran must realize that. It’s virtually impossible to to host both a four-hour morning drive radio program and work as a lobbyist, unless The Felon plans on merely showing up each day without doing the slightest bit of prep work.”
an interesting post on radio-info.com, by Dr77radio. Not sure how good his info is, but dare we hope? (Silence
so far from Entercom.)
“-—TOMMY IS IN VIOLATION OF HIS CONTRACT WITH WRKO. THERE IS A MORAL TURPITUDE CLAUSE WHICH PROVIDES THAT HE CANNOT ENGAGE IN ANY CONDUCT THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL, UNETHICAL OR VIOLATE THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST LAWS OR REGULATIONS OF ANY LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL JURISDICTION.
“GIVEN THE FACT THAT TOM IS ABOUT TO BE RELEASED FROM HIS CONTRACT IN A FEW WEEKS...IT APPEARS THAT ENTERCOM WILL BE ABLE TO AVOID THE BUYOUT THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED.
STAY-TUNED.......”
IF and I stress the word IF this is true, I'm chillin' the champagne and getting ready to dance in the streets! LOL!
Howie column from the NY Post
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/teddys_last_call_955655.htm
TEDDY’S LAST CALL
By HOWIE CARR
January 29, 2008 — BOSTON
TED Kennedy couldn’t help himself. He decided to throw his own last hurrah.
“This is the first good thing that’s happened to the Republicans all year,” said one Bay State Democratic politician yesterday, watching Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama on TV. “He’s reminding everyone why sometimes they can’t vote Democratic.”
Teddy turns 76 in three weeks. He’ll be 80 when, or if, he next faces the voters. Where his nephews used to run his Senate campaigns, now it’s his grand-nephews. He is, as they say at the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in South Boston, rounding third. Kennedy is nearing the checkout counter.
As late as Sunday afternoon, Clinton coatholders were blaming Ted’s wife, Vicki, for the unexpected nod to Obama. More likely, it was Ted’s call alone.
Go left, young man: That’s been the Kennedy mantra since Bobby’s murder 40 years ago. They’re not just for abortion; they’re for partial-birth abortion. They’re not just against the surge; they’re against the war.
JFK talked about the rising tide; the Kennedys have been swimming against it. Look at the last generation - Kathleen Townsend Kennedy, defeated for governor of Maryland; Joe Kennedy, reduced to membership in Hugo Chavez’s amen chorus in return for cheap Venezuelan oil. Their brother Max was even forced to drop out of a 2001 House race in Boston on the grounds of complete political ineptitude.
The only Kennedy relative who’s really succeeded lately in politics is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican. But the Kennedys stubbornly refuse to change course. Like the royalty they think they are, they never learn, and they never forget.
Now Bill Clinton feels betrayed. After all he did for them - the Cabinet job for then-in-law Andrew Cuo- mo, the ambassadorship to Ireland for Willie Smith’s mother, Jean . . . Have they no gratitude?
To which the answer would be: No, they don’t - as any number of Massachusetts politicians, dating back to James Michael Curley, could attest. It’s all about them. It’s their movie, and everyone else is an extra.
A political endorsement is almost always more about the endorser than the endorsee. In this case, Kennedy reinvents as his brother a freshman senator whom he was confusing with Osama bin Laden three years ago.
At the start of this presidential cycle, Teddy was backing his Senate colleague, John F. Kerry. Then he privately let the word go out to a new generation that he was with Sen. Chris Dodd, his old drinking buddy from the 1980s. Some of the lesser royals publicly endorsed Dodd, while others (like Townsend) have stuck with the Clintons.
But they don’t matter. Those Kennedys in the direct line of succession - Ted and Caroline - have thrown in with the insurgents. So has Ted’s son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy.
Adding insult to injury for the Clintons, Teddy delivered his stemwinder yesterday as Hillary campaigned here in Massachusetts. In fact, the Kennedys stole the spotlight not only from Hillary but also from the State of the Union Address.
Both cited JFK - with Caroline mentioning an earlier American University speech in which her father vowed, as she put it, “to make the world safe for diversity.”
Teddy, the old war horse for racial quotas, denounced politics that “parse us into separate groups.” He trotted out all his customary bromides - on universal health care, global warming, illegal immigration. In the media, the usual suspects swooned in the usual ways.
But (perhaps ominously for the fall campaign) the right-wing Web sites were also aflame. The customary Photoshopped pictures of Mary Jo Kopechne in a sinking 1967 Oldsmobile were replaced by photos of Hillary, her hands raised, her mouth open, panic stricken in the Olds’ backseat.
As one poster summed up the red-state reaction on a California thread: “Can’t drive, can’t fly, can’t ski, can’t skipper a boat - but they know what’s best for us.”
Ted Kennedy’s back in the spotlight. It was fun yesterday. He’ll soon know how long that sensation lasts.
Howie Carr is a columnist for The Boston Herald.
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Funding For Froggies...
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack.
“Miss Whack, I’d like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday.”
Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it’s okay, he knows the bank manager.
Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.
The frog says, “Sure. I have this,” and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.
Very confused, Patty explains that she’ll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.
She finds the manager and says, “There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral.”
She holds up the tiny pink elephant. “I mean, what in the world is this?”
(You’re gonna love this)
(A masterpiece)
(Here it comes)
The bank manager looks back at her and says ..
“It’s a knickknack, Patty Whack.
Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone.”
Say, is Giles Threadgold still alive and mentally competent?
I'd like to hear him defend this move. One segment only, please, then one segment of him going up against callers.
And can someone explain why Dan Kennedy, and others, say Finneran's conviction was a "travesty"?
Dan Kennedy et al are mentally ill, afterall, liberalism is a mental disorder. Poor poor tommy, got rooked and convicted, he did NOTHIING to deserve this "travesty". I think we all know better.
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