Herald's a conservative paper, a tabloid daily. Solidly pro-Bush, anti-Kennedy. Less, I think, out of principle than because it gets up the nose of the Globe. The Boston Globe is on the far left end of far left end; most editorial decisions are never handled by a heterosexual, and the only religious believers they employ are Jeff Jacoby (if he's still there) and the guys in production. The Globe will never report this story. They speak no ill of members of their party.
The Herald was once mainstream-liberal (sort of like New England, chamber-of-commerce Republicans) but Ted Kennedy rammed through a bill that required the owner of the paper to divest himself of a TV station he also held. He sold the station (I am sure to the benefit of Friends of Ted) but the Herald suddenly went from Kennedy appreciation to Kennedy exposure... which made it a much more interesting paper.
Boston radio institution Howie Carr has an excellent column in the Herald; and he reads FR, at least some threads.
I'm sure Howie is asking, "at what point in the arrest did Dempsey try the old, 'Do you know who I am?' line?" As he has pointed out, this line isn't even working that well for the Kennedy crime family lately (thank you, Mark Furman).
This worthy, Dempsey, is my brother's state rep. (This is my liberal brother who is going to have to adopt his next kid, because he is backing Bush and the war and his even-more-liberal wife has shut him off). I'll talk to him in the morning and find out what people are saying about him.
Almost all the state legislature in Mass is Democrats, both houses. They have a veto-proof majority by an embarrassing margin and have overridden most of Gov. Mitt Romney's vetoes. (Mitt is a liberal by Republican standards). They're all too liberal for me. All this and snow up the gazoo... I need a new state.
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Criminal Number 18F