Posted on 01/06/2008 5:56:07 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr live thread for week of Jan 6, 2008 (we will start off with his column from today's Sunday Boston Herald about how Hillary is "so yesterday". For those unfamiliar, Howie is a longtime writer for the Boston Herald and author of "The Brothers Bulger" (cash register rings here)--and, since the early 90s, Boston-based talk radio host.
Howie can be heard weekdays 3-7 pm (hours vary depending on station) on WRKO in Boston and several other stations in New England (WRKO, WCRN Worcester, and WNTK in New Hampshire all stream). For the New Hampshire primary, Howie and his gang are right in the belly of the beast (the Hilldabeast!) and his show will be must listening the next few days. As it is always...FReep me to join the Howie Carr ping list.
Howie Carr column ping
Dems over the Hill
Clintons’ aging strategy has seen better days
By Howie Carr | Sunday, January 6, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Once again, Hillary Clinton is the victim of a vast conspiracy. This time, it’s a vast left-wing conspiracy.
How over the hill are Hillary and Bill when 70 percent of the caucus-goers in Iowa voted thumbs-down on her Thursday night? And now it appears she’ll get kicked to the curb again in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Ouch. As Bill would say, better put some ice on that, baby.
This is a great weekend for those of us who never liked the first generation of trailer-park trash from Hope. And now what goes around comes around. The Clintons always fancied themselves so much cooler than those crusty old World War II Republicans, George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole. Now the Clintons are the dinosaurs. Did you see the people standing behind Hillary in Iowa on Thursday night during her concession speech?
Wesley Clark, Madeleine Albright, Terry McAuliffe - it looked like a new exhibit at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. The Clinton theme song has gone from “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” to “Yesterday.”
There is nothing more out than last season’s fad. Wait 20 years, everything comes back. Just don’t try to wear it to the cotillion this year. But that’s exactly what Hillary has been doing, and Friday night she was booed when she told the 3,000 Democrat hacks in Milford, N.H., that she would always be working for “change for you.”
Keep using that line, Hillary, and you will be working for change. Spare change.
If they only had more time, the Clintons could dig up dirt, some real mud, to throw at Obama. But this yearthey’re reduced to using ham-handed fools like Billy Shaheen and Bob Kerrey to peddle half-baked lies about Muslims and cocaine dealing. And now the clock works against them. It was the Clintons who wanted to front-load everything, to hold those early caucuses in Nevada and then get all the primaries over with. There’s an old saying: Be careful what you wish for.
You know a campaign is in trouble when the newspaper stories are full of phrases that are being used this weekend to describe Hillary’s campaign:
“Pointing fingers . . . second-guessing . . . sharpen the message . . . old hands . . . turmoil . . . question her strategy . . . infighting . . . top-heavy . . . shouting . . . missed opportunities . . . series of conference calls. . . .”
Now they’re stressing Hillary’s “experience.” Talk about running on empty.
Obama and Huckabee aren’t running campaigns, as someone noted Friday, they’re running movements.
Which is why a new word has suddenly entered this year’s political lexicon: “secular.” As in, “secular Republicans,” or, more generally, “secular voters.” Non-moonbats, in other words. For the GOP, it means voters for whom snakes are not part of their Sunday-morning religious services. For the Democrats, it means voters who don’t believe that 9/11 was a Bush-Cheney-Halliburton plot.
Another irony here: The Clintons were the first politicians to realize how dumbed-down the American electorate had become. It was Bill who figured out that even if Abe Lincoln was right, and you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, all you really need to fool is 49 percent, at least as long you can keep Ross Perot in the race.
Now, though, they’re angry because the voters are throwing them over for the new kid in town, the snake-oil salesman with an even smoother sales pitch.
As entertaining as this train-wreck is for Republicans, they should remember what the Germans did during World War I. They got the bright idea of sending Lenin back to Russia in a sealed railroad car, to sow revolution and bring down the Tsar. Short-term, a brilliant move by the Germans, long-term, not so hot.
Listen to what the Clinton people are saying about Barack and tell me it doesn’t sound like Tom Reilly’s minions talking about Deval Patrick in 2006:
“Everyone underestimated this conflagration,” one Clintonite told The Politico.
Now, in Massachusetts, we have a governor who believes in hope and opportunity. Just not snowplowing.
And Hillary is reduced to complaining about Iowa. She loves New Hampshire because “you’re not disenfranchised if you work at night.”
Poor Hillary. She’s forgotten that Clinton voters don’t work, period, let alone the second shift. Another sign of a dying dynasty, when you forget who your base is.
This is fun, pour another drink. We can all worry about the snow drifts in the morning.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1064810
:)
Of course, it would be more comforting if Barak weren't warming up in the Dem bullpen and Huckabee (!) in the Republican [sic]!
Another Howie column!
Amnesty bill could derail McCain’s train
By Howie Carr | Monday, January 7, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
John McCain is old - very old.
Which may explain his abject confusion about whether he supports amnesty for 20 million illegal aliens. When you’re 71 years old, short-term memory loss can be part of the package, along with the delusion that Wilfred Brimley’s endorsement is big with the iPod generation.
Last spring McCain and the hero of Chappaquiddick, with the help of La Raza, put together a grandiose scheme to grant amnesty to millions upon millions of foreign invaders. It was so outrageous they refused to hold hearings on it. The bill went down in flames, twice, and so did McCain’s campaign for almost a year.
Now McCain is back, sort of. But his “amnesty” bill is still political poison. So when he’s called on it, as he was by Mitt Romney Saturday night at Saint Anselm College, he speaks with forked tongue:
“It’s not amnesty. And for you to describe it as you do in the attack ads, my friend, you can spend your whole fortune on these attack ads, but it still won’t be true.”
You can understand his hysteria. It’s now or never for the grumpy old man. If he wins tomorrow, he goes on to Michigan and South Carolina. If McCain loses he heads straight to the dogtrack. Wonderland, here’s Johnnnnnny!
Amnesty could kill him. Nobody remembers the Keating Five scandal. But amnesty? Have you been to a hospital emergency room lately? Or read the police log in the Nashua Telegraph?
This is why McCain so loathes Mitt Romney. Romney is calling him on it, and McCain, who has never been too tightly wrapped, is about three 30-second spots on WMUR away from a Caine Mutiny-like meltdown.
Did you see what happened at the debate Saturday night, when he tried to zing Mitt on flip-flopping? Before McCain got to the punch line he began giggling - always a bad sign. When he delivered it - “I agree, you are the candidate of change” - hardly anybody laughed, and then just out of embarrassment.
Here’s one of the McCain money quotes on amnesty, from the Tuscon Citizen in 2003: “I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people.”
That was McCain then. This is McCain now: “The fact is that I’ve never supported amnesty.”
Even his greatest supporter, the Manchester Union-Leader, said in an editorial that the Kennedy-McCain bill “would encourage border jumping.”
One of the more odious parts of the bill was the insistence that illegals should receive Social Security credit for work they did while in the country illegally. Illegals can’t have a Social Security number, so there are only two ways they can have a job here. They can work under the table, which is tax fraud, or they can steal a citizen’s number, which is identity theft.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) put in an amendment to stop the illegals from benefiting from their felonies. McCain, along with Obama and Hillary, voted to kill it.
To which Ensign responded: “There was a felony they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me.”
This morning McCain runs neck-and-neck in New Hampshire with Romney. But what may doom him is that the independents he’d been counting on to pull a Republican ballot to vote for him, as they did in 2000, are now going to vote on the Democrat side, to finish off the Clinton machine. Like Hillary, McCain was caught flat-footed. He never saw Barack Obama coming.
Both of them must feel like Bobby Vinton and Connie Francis and Chubby Checker in January 1964. One day, they were on the top of the Billboard charts, just like they had been for years, and the next day . . . the Beatles. From the penthouse to the outhouse.
Barack Obama is the Beatles. John McCain is Perry Como with an attitude.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1064993
Yep! Watch for Hillary's operatives to be scrambling to come up with a picture of Barack still smoking before tomorrow! She needs the heavy artillery now! ;-)
show ping
It is the New Hampshire Primary and we are live Monday and Tuesday at The Radisson Hotel on Elm Street in Manchester, NH. Guests will include Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Pat Buchanan, Bay Buchanan, Tom Tancredo and whoever else we may happen across...
Poll
On 60 Minutes Roger Clemens said he did not use steroids. Do you believe him?
Yes
15%
No
85%
MONDAY JANUARY 7
It is time again for the New Hampshire Primary and we are here live. On Monday January 7th and Tuesday January 8th we will be at Talkers Row in the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH. Guests will include Pat Buchanan, Sen. John Sununu (R-NH), Bay Buchanan, Tucker Carlson, Tom Tancredo and various presidential candidates including Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul and whoever else we may happen across...
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I'd give him the benefit of the evidence, and say that he didn't use after the stuff was banned.
Howie’s on w/ Col Hunt & Pat and Bay Buchanan. Wonder if
Max is on? Did you hear the Golden Globes got scrapped?
America yawns.
but did before maybe...the trainer says he injected him. RC
says it was B-12 and painkiller.
Hope they drop Max today.
Some d-bag just called in, spoke to Mitt, said Mitt lost his vote when he shook Mitt’s hand, and Mitt didn’t make eye contact.
Wow.
I wonder why Max couldn't be bother to be on tomorrow????
I heard that. He can’t give eye contact to everyone.
Did you hear the 5 pm hour? Howie had Hannity on (despite the fact that a competing station in Boston runs Sean—same in
other markets) and there were inside jokes about Howie’s
situation in trying to move to FM. Howie said hi to a “Grace”
at one point (I assume WTKK prog dir Grace Blazer?) and
actually gave a plug to former colleague Michele McPhee
who would be starting that night at the station where
Howie intended to go!
Michele paid back the plug by saying “Oh look,
there’s Howie Carr...” from Radio Row at the Radisson,
as Howie headed out. Must’ve only reminded WTKK of
what they could have had, had Howie’s lawyers gotten
their act together.
Good point — that was funny when Howie and the Wallbanger were ripping WRKO, and mentioning “the FM station” several times.
Howie didn’t disappoint when he took food from the WTKK table.
Yeah and I guess he was wearing a WTKK button! From
http://www.savewrko.com
“Howie’s Button Stunt
“Boston radio folks are buzzing today about Howie Carr’s decision to wear a WTKK button while broadcasting his WRKO afternoon drive show from Manchester. What’s it all about, Howie?
“Carr was broadcasting from “radio row”, set up by Talkers Magazine, the industry advertorial publication.
“Thanks to Scott Allen Miller for the report from the scene.
http://iamscotto.blogspot.com/2008/01/manchvegas-day-one.html
“
The Tue thread. I don’t know if WRKO will do continuing local coverage of the NH primary after 7 pm (they normally go
to Savage). WBZ will have news and talk (they’re
bumping the Bruins game to sister station WODS 103.3).
WTKK will have coverage until 11 pm or midnight, etc.
Permit me to sum up the typical Max segment:
MAX: Oh Howie, hahahahahha, you're so right, that's funny, hahahahahahah
CALLER: Max, can you tell me what the deal is with (insert TV show name here)?
MAX: Geez, good question. I'm not sure. Check the internet.
anything but BC basketball - !
Ditto that a hundred times over, I hate that my TALK station is slowly turning into an all SPORTS station.....sooooooo sick of tuning in and hearing sports.....
Just keeping ratings in mind for WRKO, how can BC basketball attract more listeners than Michael Savage? Even if one does not like Savage the man does pull in the ratings. I cant imagine what share the BC game does - if any!
Contractual obligations. WEEI carries them and when
they have something else going on, like Celtics, they bump
them to WRKO.
I never understood broadcasting BC games, hell, I don't understand broadcasting any sports on the radio, I'm visual so "hearing" it doesn't cut it unless I'm seeing it! I don't mind hearing the scores, etc. but hearing a game is just so boring to me and YES it cuts into SAVAGE, I listen faithfully everynite, the man is so informative, one of a kind!
Dick Morris has no credibility! Dick predicted a total Democratic Party takeover of Congress in ‘02, which didn’t happen, and Dick also predicted that Hillary Clinton will win everything in ‘08, which now looks like that won’t happen. What is it with so many people still seriously believing that Dick Morris has any credibility when it comes to any political predictions?
The most used example is golf. Golf has a relatively low number of viewers, but most of those viewers can afford to buy the luxury goods that are advertised.
Ergo, the advertisers get the best value for their money in hitting that demo.
My guess is radio stations seize upon whatever local venue there is to grab the local listeners' attention whenever possible. Now they have a sports demo to sell to advertisers.
Plus, there's probably listener fatigue to take into account too. Nothing but politics wears one out.
I'm ready for another death pool, elevator-music-from-hell, some non-political author, or even a celebrity-promoting-a-charity/cause segment to get away from politics for an hour.
I justy got in. Have I missed chumps yet?
Howdy Rocki! how’s things goin?
I used to have a basset hound named TAG!!
Hey cheapskate! Long time......I’m fighting a cold, today the temp was 66 bleepin’ degrees and I just KNOW in a few days we’re gonna be shivering again......please say prayers for our FRiend and INFIDEL stephenjohnbanker, diagnosed with cancer..........
DAMN! Will do!!
No, no DP. I’m just sick of politics and was wishing Howie would go on the lighter side of talk for a change.
During the New Hampshire Primary? Not a chance!
Howie column ping
Long haul falling short for Mitt, bank account
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Twenty million, 30 million, 40 million . . . pretty soon, Mitt Romney is going to be talking about real money here.
“Washington is broken,” Mitt said last night. Unfortunately, so is his campaign. Ann Romney stood behind him, wearing black, which seemed appropriate for the occasion. According to his staff, Mitt’s in it for the “long haul,” although that all depends on what the definition of the word “long” is.
This morning, how’d you like to be a Romney fund raiser? Or a Romney worker in Michigan? Or a Romney anything? On the Internet message boards last night, they were trying out a new name for him, “MittWitt.”
Personally, I like the guy. But it’s just not happening. His spokesman, Kevin Madden, was reduced last night to describing John McCain as an “incumbent” in New Hampshire. Cripes, Mitt’s the one who owns a house on Lake Winnipesaukee. It’s not on an island, though, which spares Mitt from being the butt of another joke - about being voted off the island.
Facts are stubborn things, as he told Mike Huckabee the other night. According to the exit polls, he lost to McCain not only among independents, but also Republicans. I repeat, he lost to John McCain, the Bob Dole of 2008.
Remember in 1988, when another Massachusetts governor, Mike Dukakis, won the Democratic primaries and then retired to the Berkshires to savor his victory, supremely confident that he could dispatch a guy, George H.W. Bush, with an accent like Frank Hatch’s?
The Duke had never had a real fight in the general election; once he knocked off Bob Quinn or Ed King, he was home-free. The Duke didn’t know how to run in November.
Mitt Romney has the reverse problem. He’s never really run in a primary. (John Lakian in 1994 does not count.) He’s always gotten a bye into the final, first against Ted Kennedy in 1994 and then against Shannon O’Brien in 2002. A presidential race is a tough place to get on-the-job training.
A woman in New Hampshire told me yesterday that she could never vote for Romney.
“He’s too perfect,” she said.
Too perfect? Mitt put his name on a book about his salvage job of the 2002 Winter Olympics - “Turnaround.” Saving the Olympics is a day at the beach compared to turning around his campaign. You might call it, The Impossible Dream.
How much money has he spent? He’s long since passed John Connolly and is now heading into Steve Forbes territory. I saw Mitt’s ghost of Christmas future in Manchester on Monday - Steve Forbes. He was working radio row for Rudy Giuliani, along with Paul Cellucci.
The most amazing number Ive seen was posted by National Review. One of the reporters said he’d been to WHO, the big clear-channel AM station in Des Moines where Dutch Reagan got his start.
The No. 1 advertiser on the station in 2007 was Monsanto, which produces fertilizers. No. 2 was Mitt Romney. Mitt dropped a million bucks on WHO in 2007 - on a radio station! The No. 3 advertiser was Bayer, another fertilizer company.
So it was a fertilizer company, Mitt, and then another fertilizer company. Fill in your own manure joke here.
How much more money can he blow in the next week in Michigan? It’s basically an open primary out there, which means more independent trouble, although he’s got enough headaches with his GOP base. If I’m Josh Romney out in Wyoming, looking to buy some more land out by the back 40, I wouldn’t sign any p&s’s. That money may have to go for the media buys in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
Ted Kennedy, Dukakis, Tsongas, Kerry and now Mitt Romney. Massachusetts is now 0-5 in recent presidential candidacies. A grateful nation breathes another sigh of relief.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1065416
Interesting moment last night when former Gov.
Paul Cellucci, the man whose great judgement
gave us Jane Swift, was on to plug Guiliani
and bash Romney, and Citizens for Ltd. Taxation’s
Barbara Anderson called in and slammed him.
Barbara was the force behind Prop 2 1/2 and,
with Howie and Jerry Williams, was one of the
“Governors” on WRKO for years.
I heard Barbara Anderson yesterday, she did not let up, kept pounding Cellucci, didn’t give him a minute’s peace, it was beautiful!
Turned me right off.
Wed. show ping. It’s the day after the night before, as
Jerry W. used to say.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9
1st Hour to be announced but prob NH primary talk
2nd Hour tba
3rd Hour
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4th Hour tba
Did you catch the end of Rush? Obama sound bite “Yes we can!”
I did hear the sound bite, when Howie played it. Yep,
stole from Deval—or Deval actually gave it to him.
Howie was slamming WRKO at the start of his show today (and having a bit of fun with it); mike broken
(at “the mothership”), lights out in studio, signal stinks after sunset, and they had a small booth to broadcast from in N.H. while “other stations” get auditoriums...
"YES WE CAN"
I was jumpin between threads!!
Hmmm, perhaps Howie’s minions should track down a Rodney Dangerfield sound clip: “I’m telling ya, I don’t get no respect....”
Hi Howie!!!!!!
What the heck is a “Bob the Builder”?
Rush was saying that McCain and Huckabee probably have an agreement to dump solely on Romney.
bob is a carpenter/builder type that has talking bulldozers /enloaders ect that help him build buildings
It tries to teach positive can -do attitudes to kids.
That's what the "Can we build it? Yes we can" bit is about.
The Thu. ping
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