Posted on 08/02/2013 5:06:27 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the month starting with his Aug 2 column
yeah I actually forgot for a moment he was off but remembered as soon as I heard her voice, yikes...
WRKO/WEEI prog dir Jason Wolfe let go by Entercom.
Tweets from Howie: “Jason Wolf, serial killer of Boston radio stations, will not be down for breakfast. No, Jason, I would not like my fries supersized...Now we really have a reason to celebrate tonight at the Barking Crab! See you there for 3-7 show, then party time!...A Gore Vidal memorial tribute to Jason Wolf (or is it Wolfe, who cares?): “No talent is not enough.”
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Ugh, same here. I was driving yesterday when Howie's show started. All I heard was McScreamer say: "Howie's off today... this is Michelle McPhee..."
Immediately shut off WHYN, and turned on my Sirius/XM radio for Hannity. Phew!
WHY does Howie torture his valued listeners with that woman? Where do we write to lobby Howie for *anyone* other than McScreamer as a substitute host??
Don’t know why Howie has her fill in. It could be Entercom’s decision...and if it’s Jason Wolfe’s, well, Jason’s last day at the station/group of stations was yesterday so who knows if the new prog dir will change this policy...she may have good knowledge of things but that VOICE!
By Howie Carr, 8/16/13
Where’s the cash, Whitey?
How very thoughtful of you to want to “cooperate” in solving all the cold-case mob murders, even though in most of them we actually know who pulled the trigger, or at least set the murder in motion.
Any number of them need to be solved officially — I’m thinking Donald McGonagle, Louie Litif and Donald Killeen, just to name a few. But the real remaining Whitey mystery is, what exactly happened to all those “millions upon millions upon millions of dollars,” to quote Whitey lawyer Jay W. Carney, that he made in the rackets, mostly cocaine?
All the cops found in Whitey’s wall hide in Santa Monica was $822,000? Surely there’s more left than that, a lot more. How about all those gold coins he used to hoard, and the ancient coins that his co-conspirators were trying to get to him back in 1996?
Most of all, where are all those safety-deposit boxes that you opened around the world during your days as a globetrotter back in the 1980s and 1990s? They say that a person bagged for OUI has usually driven drunk at least 100 times before he gets pulled over. We’ve only discovered a handful of safety-deposit boxes, so how many more must be out there?
Let’s go down the list, besides the $822,000 cash squirreled away in Santa Monica. There was the empty bank box in Clearwater, Fla., that Jackie Bulger lied about and ended up going to prison for. There was the one in Montreal that he used to visit when his semi-son-in-law Knuckles Nilan played for the Canadiens. Then there was the box in Piccadilly Circus in London.
These are just the ones we know of. What … about … the … others? Attorney Tony Cardinale has a lien on the $822,000 on behalf of Stippo Rakes’ former wife Julie. He says if he gets that cash he’ll use his one-third share, $267,000, to conduct a forensic investigation of the people most likely to know the locations of that ill-gotten blood money, not that they care in the least. They’re Bulgers, after all.
Put Whitey on the bus. Just keep driving him around the country. He couldn’t stand the daily rides to and from Boston in the Ratmobile — how’s he going to like being driven aimlessly around the U.S. in a bus with the windows blacked-out, a foul-smelling toilet in the back and nothing to eat but stale wrapped-in-cellophane sandwiches (not nearly enough ruffage for an old man).
How much cash do you suppose Whitey has in those boxes we haven’t found? Ten million? Twenty? He wants to cooperate? Now’s your chance, Whitey.
Right On: Biased media gets its comeuppance
by Howie Carr 8/17/13
When you were a kid, how many times did you have to burn your hand on the stove before you learned to stop doing it?
Not many. It’s the same way you learn to avoid people who cheat, or lie to you. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. You stay away from them.
So why is it so shocking that the Republican party is finally pushing back against the state-run media? They say they’re going to ban CNN and NBC from 2016 presidential debates, because the two moonbat nets are planning to run what amounts to millions of dollars worth of free publicity on Hillary Clinton disguised as programming.
The only mystery is, why aren’t CBS and ABC included in the ban?
“We’re done putting up with this nonsense,” GOP national chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday.
Of course, the networks’ defense is that Hillary is one of the smartest women in the world. Everyone knows that. That’s why this week she called the late civil-rights leader Medgar Evers “Medgar Evans.”
What the hell took the Republicans so long to wake up? Obama played golf and was hosted at a cocktail party Thursday night on the Vineyard by the owner of NBC, whose lunatic spinoff MSNBC spent the week flogging a preposterous story blaming the Boston marathon bombings on right-wing extremist literature.
As for CNN, what more do you need to know than Candy Crowley works there, and that Soledad O’Brien, who was caught using Democrat talking points in an interview last year with John Sununu Sr., used to be an anchor there, until she left for an even more simpatico network, Al-Jazeera.
Yesterday, driving to Maine, I was listening to Glenn Beck on satellite radio. His network, the Blaze, produces its own newscasts. The Blaze’s lead story was about a great-grandmother in San Diego becoming the latest woman to accuse Mayor Bob Filner of harassing her.
Only the Blaze described him, repeatedly, as “Democrat Mayor Bob Filner.” It was disconcerting — nobody who watches the news is used to hearing the words “Democrat” and “scandal” in the same sentence, especially the lead. It’s become a joke — if you’re reading a story about a pol who’s “embattled,” whether it’s for OUI or wife-beating, if the story doesn’t mention his party affiliation by the fourth paragraph, you can assume he’s a Democrat.
You know the phrase “tar baby?” When Mitt Romney used it, it was a racial slur. When John Kerry said the exact same thing — nothing to see here, folks, move along.
A rodeo clown puts on an Obama mask and the NAACP calls it a “hate crime.” One of the networks uses a freeze frame of George W. Bush with the sign “Snipers Wanted” superimposed — that’s speaking truth to power, baby. That’s the First Amendment.
You know, like mentioning “Democrat Bob Filner.”
Carr: Bay State ‘justice’ needs an equalizer
The late Jennifer Martel didn’t need a restraining order Thursday night, she needed a gun.
This is what happens when the population is disarmed. They can’t fight back. Kristina Hill and Benjamin Ray courageously risked their lives to save their defenseless neighbor, but what could they do with their bare hands against this monster?
They needed a gun, too.
The National Rifle Association has a host of slogans that drive moonbats crazy, probably because most of them are indisputably true. This is one of them:
“When seconds count, police are minutes away.”
Another one is, “I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.”
They don’t call firearms “the equalizer” for nothing. Jared Remy allegedly stabbed the mother of his daughter to death with a knife. We all know you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
It’s not easy to get a gun permit in many places in Massachusetts, in fact it’s almost impossible. It’s not Politically Correct to own a firearm. But this is exactly the kind of state where it’s most imperative to own a firearm, given the utter breakdown of the criminal justice system.
Two weeks ago it was Amy Lord, allegedly butchered by a guy whose driver’s license was given to the police by a woman he’d tried to strangle in Roxbury. That was a police breakdown, but much more common is what happened with Jared Remy.
For more than 10 years, he ran amok in Middlesex County, beating one woman after another after another, always skating. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. Especially when no matter how horrific your behavior, you can always fall back on the eternal question:
“Do you know who I am?”
Reasonable doubt at a reasonable price — that’s all Jared Remy is looking for now. Already his J.W. Carney-lookalike mouthpiece is striking the all-too-familiar chords. Jared is a victim. Dyslexia. This is a tragedy for “both families.”
(The lawyer is half-right.) Now more than ever, his daughter needs her father. We are told Jared had “defensive wounds” on his hands — as if she started the fight.
“We know how this ended,” the Remy lawyer said Friday. “But we don’t know how it began.”
Oh, but we do.
This is exactly why you need a gun. The more alleged compassion society shows for the perps, the more disposable their victims become.
The victim gets a red rose dropped at the murder scene, and her murderer gets hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars to hire a team of lawyers from San Diego.
Too bad Jennifer Martel didn’t come up with the equalizer. Ditto, Amy Lord. Ditto, Aaron Hernandez’s victims, and Whitey Bulger’s too.
Here’s another truth the bleeding-hearts find quite inconvenient. The recidivism rate among shot-dead murderers is zero.
column, Earth to Scott Brown You've Got Shot--In Mass.
by Howie Carr, Boston Herald 8/20/13
Scott Brown, please come back to Boston.
This is silly, this road trip to the Iowa State Fair. Get back here, the governorship is winnable. Take the plunge, win it, work it, and forget about 2016. Stop with the beery tweets and get serious — if the Republicans lost with a moderate from Massachusetts last year, why the hell would they go for another one in 2016?
The moderate in this fight is Gov. Chris Christie. He’s already in office, he’s about to be re-elected, and his state has more electoral votes than Massachusetts.
Scott’s got an ego, and it’s easy to see what he’s thinking — I have the same number of years in the U.S. Senate as Barack Obama did when he ran for president. This overlooks a few advantages that Barack had, starting with his race, thereby inoculating him against any serious media scrutiny, to this very day.
Number two, the ideological winds were drifting Obama’s way in 2008. The moonbats were on the march. Scott definitely does not have that going for him. When was the last time you heard a Republican (other than Karl Rove) say, “You know, I think we need a RINO at the top of the ticket in 2016.”
Number three difference, Barack became a star as the keynote speaker at the 2004 convention here in Boston. Scott Brown spent the GOP convention last year in Tampa in the political equivalent of the Witness Protection Program.
Let’s face it, Scott Brown should have run for the Senate this year when Kerry’s seat opened up. But he didn’t realize how feeble Ed Markey, aka Son of a Milkman, was. Nobody did. But that opportunity is gone forever. The Corner Office is still up for grabs. Marsha Coakley appears to have absorbed little from her humiliating defeat.
Yesterday, she was asked about state Rep. Jim Lyons’ call for the resignation of appointed Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan in the wake of her office’s botching of the J-Roid Remy murder case. Coakley hissed, “Ridiculous!” Marsha sounded the way she did at the end of 2009 when she was complaining about having to campaign at Fenway Park “in the cold.”
Put a sock in it, Marsha.
Scott, come home and start fundraising. You have next to no money, and you’ll be operating under state rules — $500 annual max on contributions. In other words, you need 2,000 people to max out to reach a million bucks. This, in a race where you’ll need $10 million.
The Democrats back here are concerned. No one is in charge. Gov. Deval Patrick told the state convention in Lowell, “This is not goodbye,” which of course means it is. He hasn’t set foot in the State House in almost three weeks. This is a guy whose most reliable punch line for years was to refer to Mitt as a “recreational governor.”
Takes one to know one, Deval.
Beam yourself back home, Scottie. You can run for president. You can get another $1.7 million book advance. But first you need to get elected to something … and it ain’t president.
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Johnny Pockets avoids questions on ethics during appearance with Bela Pelosi (”she vants to suck your wallet”—Jay Severin) in Beverly; nothing to see here move along
If Golar Richie Makes Final All Bets are Off
by Howie Carr Boston Herald 8/25/13
Most of the candidates for mayor have two goals in the preliminary election Sept. 24.
First, finish either first or second, thereby winning a ticket to the Nov. 5 final.
Second, make sure Charlotte Golar Richie is not the second candidate on the final ballot.
She’s a black woman, and the men need to keep her out of the final to avoid another one of those hope-and-change, high-turnout elections. Other pols want to take their chances in a traditional, boring, two-white-guys-from-Boston-in-the-final fight.
If they can keep the turnout down and make sure it comes disproportionately from the usual wards, the next mayor will in all likelihood be another good old boy who knows the words to both “For Boston” and “Wild Colonial Boy.” Right now, it looks like the regulars are getting their wish. Charlotte Golar Richie is not exactly dazzling them out there on the campaign trail. Several minor black candidates —this means you, Charles Yancey — are chipping away at what should be her natural base. According to most observers, she’s also being outworked by City Councilor Felix Arroyo. Her fundraising has been less than spectacular.
According to the polls and the fundraising, going into the final month the two top contenders appear to be state Rep. Marty Walsh of Dorchester and City Councilor John Connolly of West Roxbury.
Until very recently, Walsh was the $167,911-a-year secretary/treasurer of the Boston Building and Construction Trades Council. The unions even provided him with a $38,750 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee. This explains why you see his bumper stickers on every pickup truck at every construction site in the city. Whether the guys driving the trucks still live in Dorchester or have long since moved to Weymouth is another question.
But the pinky rings are pumping big bucks into the Walsh campaign and watch what they do for him at the Labor Day breakfast next week. He’ll come out of the Park Plaza looking like a cross between Samuel Gompers and Joe Hill.
John Connolly has the advantage of being the first candidate into the race. You could make the argument that he’s the one who forced the ailing incumbent Mumbles Menino out, which is not a positive. As a lame duck, Mumbles’ clout fades by the day, but whatever juice he has left in the fall, he’ll use on behalf of whoever is running against Connolly. As we all know, Mumbles can hold a grudge.
Then there is Suffolk DA Dan Conley. He’s got it all on paper — a lot of money, a citywide organization, half-Irish, half-Italian, City Hall experience — but somehow it hasn’t jelled, at least not yet.
City Councilor Rob Consalvo has been working hard and has a shot, but there is a certain Mumbles fatigue out there, and how many Italians are left in either the North End or East Boston?
City Councilor Mike Ross has a geographic base. That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s the city of Newton, his real hometown. Fortunately, he hasn’t wasted his years (and free parking space) at City Hall. He’s got a law degree, which will come in handy in January when he has to get a real job.
City Councilor Felix Arroyo is campaigning tirelessly, going door to door, trying to galvanize his base, collecting dough from the lefty unions. But this is probably not his year.
Walsh-Connolly would be an interesting race. Walsh would portray himself as the second coming of Ray Flynn, and Connolly would change his middle name to “Harvard.”
It might be the first final race ever with even an echo of the old James Michael Curley class struggles, between what little is left of old Southie versus the Irish of Ward 20 and the newcomers who are supplanting them.
On the other hand, maybe Charlotte Golar Richie catches fire and gets into the final. We’ve seen that race before. So has Hillary Clinton. And so has Tom Reilly.
AVI in for Howie today, Wed, Fri.
Col Hunt Tue and Thu
Howie off all week
No michele
Coakley tags Tim Murray with $80G fine
by Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8/30/13
It must be a holiday weekend coming up — Attorney General Marsha Coakley is throwing the book at another corrupt State House pol — a comic book.
Extinguished Lt. Gov. Tim “Crash” Murray has been hit with an $80,000 fine, $10,000 of which will actually be his own money. A civil penalty, rather than time in the jug — wrist-slap, where is thy sting?
The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce must be very, very proud of its new president and CEO and executive director. If the chamber’s next breakfast-meeting invitation says “Cash Only,” you’ll know Crash is reverting to his old sticky-fingered ways.
He and his convicted-felon bagman Mike McLaughlin have been caught “unlawfully soliciting” public employees for Crash’s coffers. Unlawful solicitation is a nice way of saying shakedown, but when you have low friends in high places, you can always walk, at least if you’re a Democrat.
But it does seem Marsha doesn’t like guys named Tim. First she hits Tim Cahill for a $100,000 fine, and now Tim Murray gets the Labor Day discount.
As for career criminal McLaughlin, he’s been indicted. For that Marsha should get a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, considering that he’s already ticketed for a three-year bit in Club Fed for stealing himself a $360,000 state salary at the Chelsea Housing Authority when he was supposed to be making $160,000.
The news was announced after Gov. Deval Patrick had fled the building for the Labor Day weekend. Too bad, because he always had such a kind word for Lefty, who picked up that moniker in 2007 when he was first sworn in by yet another convicted felon, Sal DiMasi, who instructed him, “Raise your right hand.”
Crash promptly raised his left.
But Crash and the governor were always simpatico, perhaps because they both needed three tries to pass the bar exam. Marsha Coakley, who usually likes to preen for the cameras when she has a tree warden lugged for jaywalking, was likewise MIA. Professional courtesy and all that. Her press release said Crash “did not exercise proper oversight.” In case you were wondering, he also “failed to exercise reasonable care to ensure that the contributions were not unlawfully solicited.”
I told you, Marsha really let him have it.
No mention of his sealed cellphone records, or his mysterious 108 mph accident at 5:20 a.m. in a state car while wearing his jammies. To use yet another phrase from the press release, it would seem that when he aimed his Taurus at a stone wall and then floored it, he yet again “failed to exercise reasonable care.”
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