Posted on 03/04/2007 10:43:51 PM PST by raccoonradio
It backfired as hit man humor and now Herald columnist Howie Carr wants Tom Finneran behind bars for a tongue-in-cheek threat to have him whacked and stuffed in the trunk of Gov. Deval Patrick’s Cadillac.
“Real men don’t talk about putting people in trunks, they just do it,” Carr sniffed yesterday of the former Democratic House speaker, who traded up a felony conviction for a plum gig hosting WRKO-AM’s morning talk show.
Last week, Finneran told Patrick on the air that the two of them should take “Howie Carr for a ride,” and “only two will come back.”
Calling the exchange “disturbing,” Carr is firing off a letter today to Richard G. Stearns, the federal judge who in January sentenced Finneran to 18 months’ unsupervised probation for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice.
“I think (Stearns) ought to send (Finneran) to jail,” said WRKO evening radio show host Carr. “That’s where he belonged in the first place and this just reiterates it.”
Patrick was the in-studio guest of “Finneran’s Forum” Wednesday. On the same day a never-before-seen photo of 1976 Irish mob victim Richie Castucci’s final resting place in the blood-soaked trunk of his Cadillac appeared in the Herald.
Patrick, meanwhile, has been under fire for leasing a luxury Cadillac DeVille as his state ride.
“Hey, I’ve got a proposal for the governor,” Finneran piped up. “The governor and I are going to take Howie Carr for a ride. Three will leave, only two will come back. We’ll take a little pool on who it is.”
As Patrick initially chuckled in the background, Finneran pulled state police into the bit.
“And by the way,” Finneran told listeners, “the staties are here and these are good guys. They ain’t going to be talking, either. I know. So it will be three in the car who leave, only two will come back. No questions will be asked.”
When it appeared the joke had gone too far, Patrick and one other unidentified male sternly interjected, “Behave, behave.”
Yesterday, Patrick’s spokesperson said it was all a joke.
“I think the governor as well as the listening audience took it for what it was - a joke,” said Kyle Sullivan. Finneran could not be reached for comment yesterday.
When Patrick gave that answer, I laughed out loud. The dems in Massachusetts don't even bother faking it anymore, they let their contempt for us pour out.
My liberal girlfriend is a Texan living in MA, btw.
So true.
Except this isn't funny. A felon "jokes" about Howie being done in. Said felon has ties to someone who has a brother who is a felon on the run, who was responsible for at least 21 murders.
Howie is not an alarmist.
Is she from Austin -- or a UTA student?
BTW, Howie and the BSO/POPS make up most of my very short of things I really miss about MA...
Your Honor, I would like to put the following sound cut in as evidence.
http://microfurry.250free.com/threewillleave.mp3
I actually saw this late last night, about 1:30 am, when they had posted it to the site.
The Scotto bloggo is still out there and he still may be living in the Boston area. The following is a post on
radio-info.com Boston board:
"Last week, the website universalhub.com ran a comment by Scott Allen Miller referring to the actual location of a J. J. Foley's pub. This indicates to me that Scott is still in the Boston area. Could it be that Entercom struck a deal with Miller that if he kept quiet about the Finneran hiring during Scott's last few weeks on WRKO, they'd pay him a stipend to hang around if the Finneran Forum didn't work out, clearing the way for Scott to return to WRKO in his old time slot?"
Who knows, but I wonder if maybe they're relishing the attention--bad publicity though it is--that this is getting.
"Say what you want about me but get my name--or the call
letters--right..."
Of course FelonMan is a criminal and he gets rewarded with a plum WRKO gig, morning drive!
>>This is NOT good for box office, OR for ratings; it sends ALL the wrong messages
There is an effort to pressure WRKO to drop him, run by
Matt Margolis (local blogger) and Brian "Radio Equalizer"
Maloney:
http://www.savewrko.com
They are asking people contact the sponsors. btw one reason DePetro was let go was because some sponsors like Harvard
Pilgrim Health Care were upset.
>>What Finneran said about Howie, was a thinly veiled threat. It wasn't a joke, if this man had the ability to, he would bury Howie, because Howie has told the truth about "Tommy Taxes" for years and Finneran hates him for doing so.
I think in many ways Howie is doing this tongue in cheek but you do have a point and we'll hear the next chapter in
this saga around 3:07 pm today or so! :)
:-) I will have to wait until I get home this evening to listen. Thanks, for the ping, raccoonradio!
I can't believe that even Finneran is that stupid.
Note: You'll have to tune to Howie online to hear the start of his show today. They have a Red Sox exhibition game on
instead (started at 1 pm). Same with WCRN!
Thanks, raccoonradio!
I'm at work until at least 5pm, so I won't have an issue, but I am sure that other FReepers will be glad of the update.
I believe she's from outside Dallas, will have to get back to you.
He is also in a good position to end up dead, that is why this veiled threat is so serious. Beleive me, it WASN'T a joke.
I believe you. I read The Brothers Bulger
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