Howie Carr Live Thread 1/4/07

howiecarr.com ^ | 1/4/07 | raccoonradio

[raccoonradio]

Mass. gets its first black governor, and the first Dem to be elected to that office since Dukakis in '86. If you liked Pee Wee, you'll love Urkel.

[Cheapskate]

Wow, My typing stinks about as bad as Pelosi and Dingy Harry thinking they own the country lock, stock and barrell.

[maryz]

So what was the rabbi's speech (invocation?) like? Howie mentioned it a bit, but I didn't catch the original.

[UKRaddell]

This call just answered my last question.

[johnny7]

Job training... midnight basketball... sentencing reform... KUMBAYA!

[raccoonradio]

Neither did I (rabbi's speech)

btw, Howie just said death pool is tomorrow

[raccoonradio]

poll below (btw Finneran has been considered for a WRKO
talk show slot!)

F, I, double N, E
R, A, N spells Finneran...

FINNERAN
Former Massachusetts House speaker Thomas M. Finneran, in an agreement that will allow him to avoid prison time, will plead guilty tomorrow to obstruction of justice in exchange for federal prosecutors' dropping perjury charges against him, according to two sources familiar with the deal.

Should he get jail time?
Yes 91%
No 9%

[raccoonradio]

FROM BOSTON RADIO WATCH

Developing : WRKO pursuing Finneran for AM drive

Boston Herald's website is reporting this afternoon that Entercom's talker WRKO AM 680 is still very much interested in hiring former speaker of Mass. House of Representatives speaker Tom Finneran. Negotiations are still on-going between Finnearan and WRKO. However, the Herald's report states that Finneran is seeking a morning-drive slot and not, as earlier reported, the vacant early midday slot(9am-12pm) previously held by John DePetro. It's not clear whether Finneran would become a co-host with the current morning driver Scott Allen Miller or would become station's new solo AM-drive personality.

Arbitron's winter survey period begins next Thursday(1/11) and market's two fulltime talkers - WRKO and WTKK - are in the process of putting together and rolling out their new line-ups. WTKK 96.9FM has already announced this week(BRW 1/3) that will unveil its reshuffled all-live&local morning and afternoon line-up starting on Monday(1/8). Depending on how much longer the Finneran negotionations take, WRKO should also be announcing its revamped line-up any day now. WRKO will also become a new Red Sox flagship in April and its weekday night-time schedule, except for Wednesdays, will be taken up by sports.

[maryz]

Deval has a nice voice and everything, but even in the bits Howie's playing, his voice just goes by in waves and nothing he said leaves an impression. Weird.

[whd23]

radio stuff: Herald article about WTKK lineup changes says that Barnicle's show is being cut from two hours to one due to LOW RATINGS!

Good news indeed. They shouldn't have hired the fraud in the first place. What amazes me is that they're giving Eagan & Braude more time again. Does WTKK think the dippy Duo are going to do better this time around? And why?

[raccoonradio]

As the Talking Heads once put it, "(he's) talking a lot but (he's) not saying anything. Say something once. Why say it again?" And didn't James Brown once sing about "Just Talkin'
trash and sayin' nothin'?"

meanwhile, "breaking news" from Herald. And remember folks
the guy being mentioned in this web piece is the subject of a Howie poll that has 91 per cent of respondents saying he should be in jail! :)

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WRKO owner Entercom Communications plans to move forward with talks to sign former House speaker Thomas Finneran to a morning talk radio host deal, despite Finneran’s reported plans to plead guilty to obstruction of justice charges, an outside spokesman for the radio station operator told the Herald.

"(Entercom regional chief) Julie Kahn has a great deal of respect for Tom Finneran and thinks he would be terrific on the radio and would look forward to working with him on WRKO," said George Regan, a spokesman for Entercom.

Entercom plans to go forward with a meeting with Finneran - scheduled for before news of a plea deal surfaced - aimed at hammering out a deal that would give the once-powerful speaker the morning drive time slot on WRKO (AM-680).

Entercom would not be deterred by a guilty plea to the federal charges stemming from sworn testimony he made in 2003 in a civil suit pertaining to legislative redistricting.

Finneran could not be reached for comment. A source close to Entercom said he is interested in the job.

If a deal is signed, Finneran, who has done fill-in work at WRKO, would apparently be poised to take over the WRKO morning slot currently occupied by Scott Allen Miller.
Miller declined to comment.

[maryz]

I don't much care for Scotto, but this still seems like shabby treatment.

[raccoonradio]

Someone on a radio-interest mailing list says that the likes of Barnicle and Franken being on air is not due to their
(lack of) talent but because they're a "marquee" name
that attracts attention to the station. Right.

[raccoonradio]

Fung Wah is Chinese for "The Bus Is On Fire"

[raccoonradio]

Howie's ONLINE EXCLUSIVE column on Herald site. Read Howie's full column tomorrow.

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Let the record show, there was a full moon last night. Perfect weather, in other words, for moonbats, and that’s who was out in force today on Beacon Hill.

Deval Patrick was sworn in as governor, and as he does every four years, Secretary of State Bill Galvin got to yell out, “God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!”

Some years that phrase resonates more than others. Today is one of those days.

If you listened to the entire 17 minutes or so, you don’t have to go to church Sunday. You’ve heard your sermon for the week. Every time he said, “Let’s reach for that!” (four times, if you were keeping score at home), I reached for my wallet.

There are going to be a lot of second collections over the next four years.

Perhaps you missed the inaugural address because you have to work, because you are a - to use a word missing in the speech - taxpayer.

Well, here’s the bottom line. You know that quarterly property tax bill that arrived in the mail a couple of days ago?

If you go over to your pile of unpaid bills and re-examine it, you’ll notice something. You still owe the exact same amount of money you did before.

Property tax relief? Didn’t Deval mention something about that during the campaign? Forget about property tax relief.

God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

My choice for a nickname for Deval Patrick is "Devil" Patrick! Each time that I do a spellcheck, "Devil" always comes up as one of the substitute words for "Deval".

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Deval could be in the U.S. Senate even sooner if Senator Kennedy ends up dying before '08.

[Cheapskate]

I wonder if the dolphins that have beached themselves have papers min order,

Or are they GUESTS

Devil's name must have wide acclaim.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Maybe you know this already, but Howie said today more than once that the Death Pool will be held tomorrow.

[raccoonradio]

breaking news from Herald

The family of the elderly Leominster woman raped and sodomized by Benjamin LaGuer is demanding Gov. Deval Patrick make it his first order of business to apologize to them for trying to help LaGuer clear his name.

“The new administration is very insensitive to victims,” charged Bob Barry of Worcester, the now-deceased victim’s son-in-law. “We feel that (Patrick) doesn’t get it about real families and real crime.”

In an ill-timed turn of events for the freshly minted governor, LaGuer’s latest appeal to have his conviction for the brutal 1983 assault on the then 59-year-old woman jettisoned based on fingerprint evidence that neither the defense nor prosecutors knew about was heard this morning by the Supreme Judicial Court prior to Patrick’s inauguration.

Barry said of Patrick, “He probably wishes he never got involved with Benjamin LaGuer.”

[Gay State Conservative]

Deval could be in the U.S. Senate even sooner if Senator Kennedy ends up dying before '08.

True...Teddy's liver could implode at any time.