Posted on 02/09/2008 10:27:37 PM PST by raccoonradio
We'll start with Howie's Sunday Herald column.
Column ping
Dem primary returns map out moonbats
By Howie Carr | Sunday, February 10, 2008 |
http://www.bostonherald.com
If you have ever wondered whether or not you live in a moonbat town, the answer is now available. Just look at a map of the Democratic primary returns last Tuesday, and you will know.
Oh sure, there’s an exception here or there. Politically Correct Arlington, for example, went for Hillary, but there were extenuating circumstances - a race for an open state rep’s seat. The Herald-endorsed candidate clipped the limousine liberal endorsed by the Globe, so of course Obama narrowly lost the town as well.
Statewide, though, almost every municipality ran true to form. And given Deval Patrick’s landslide 15 months ago, Barack Obama’s measly 41 percent is the best indication yet that “Hope and Opportunity” may be jumping the shark in Massachusetts.
If “Deval & Obama” were a Broadway play trying out in Boston, you’d have to say the first act is fine. You know, the one that ends on election night 2006 with everyone chanting, “Yes we can!” But there’s a problem with Act Two, after the inauguration. Nothing happens.
There’s no dramatic tension, only buyer’s remorse. It doesn’t work, either as entertainment or government. As they say in the theater, “the book” needs to be rewritten.
Let’s look at Tuesday’s map. Boston and points west were Obama-land. By their trust funds ye shall know them. But right in the middle is a huge chunk of Hillary real estate.
That would be blue-collar Waltham. And right next door, also going for Clinton, is Watertown, a “mixed community,” as it were, with moonbats east of the square, and working people west. It’s the difference between George Bachrach and Marilyn Devaney. But Rep. Rachel Kaprelian needed to get old-timers to the polls to put stickers on the ballot to re-elect her to the Democratic State Committee. Sorry, moonbats don’t do stickers. They also don’t do the state committee.
House Speaker Sal DiMasi has been tormented of late by his majority leader, John Rogers of Norwood, who has been campaigning for Sal’s job. Sal was with Hillary, so Rogers went P.C. and endorsed Barack. Rogers’ constituents in Norwood promptly voted for Hillary, 3886-1776. Rogers had better hope he can count heads better in the House Democratic caucus than he does in his hometown.
Down on the South Coast, I see one forlorn Barack barracks, Marion. That’s where Geraldo Rivera has his summer home. On the South Shore, Barack took two towns, Deluxebury and Cohasset. You are not surprised. And not for nothing are neighboring Dover (56 percent Obama) and Sherborn (61 percent) a regional school district with a “Peace Abbey.”
Then there are the bucolic little college and prep-school towns. The higher the tuition, the higher Barack’s percentage: Williamstown, Groton, Deerfield. In preppy Andover, where the Salvation Army bell ringers were silenced by moonbat Scrooges last Christmas, Barack won 50-48. Next door in Tewksbury, where guys with pickup trucks are on the road at 5:30 a.m., Hillary won 66-30.
Percentage-wise, Hillary’s biggest margin came from Fall River. Could it possibly be related to another special election for state rep that featured convicted gamblers and at least one other candidate who had been named but not indicted in a Mob gaming probe? Nothing like a battle of the bookies to generate a monster turnout in Fall River.
Final results in Fall River. Hillary: 12,544, Obama 3,120.
The bottom line from Super Tuesday is that primaries are tribal warfare, between tribes and clans. And the normal-people tribe here is still larger than in the moonbat mob, the 2006 election results notwithstanding. These results could be the first stirrings of a backlash, however muted, against Yes-We-Can and gutting the CORI laws and peddling judgeships to the highest bidders and coddling $115,000-a-year perverts.
In 1992, Massachusetts threw out 20 percent of its Democratic Congressional delegation. In 1994, the rest of the country followed suit. In 2006, this state anticipated the Barack boom by electing Deval Patrick.
On Tuesday, the state bucked the national Obama trend. Is it possible we may have predicted the coming 2010 backlash?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1072502
Monday show ping
Rush said that Nancy Pelosi said that President Obama will be good for an additional 75 House seats.
interesting—thanks! It should be noted that thanks to
the power of the free market and (lack of) demand, “they” have been off the air in Boston since Dec of 2006 when poor
ratings led Clear Channel to dump Air America here.
Oh, Tue ping while we’re at it.
A friend in L.A. gave me a bit of the Johnny Wendell show
from KTLK 1150, “Progressive is the new majority”...Wendell,
a Wellesley native, was known around here as Johnny Angel,
rocker in The Blackjacks and Swinging Erudites.
It was taped on Super Tue night at 7 pm local time and
guess who popped up for about 10 minutes or so at 7:35 PT?
The one and only Howie Carr! Yes, Howie said that things
looked grim for Mitt, and he tossed around stuff like
“moonbats”, “Deval”, et al! “I gotta run because I’m
writing my column”
Not Howie’s first time on the radio in L.A. of course—
for awhile about 4 yrs ago he was doing (via ISDN line)
some Sat. afternoon shows for KFI.
Caller to KLTK: “I had to listen to some Republican
radio station for awhile because you guys had a hockey
game” (Kings were playing NY Rangers at NYC, a game
that ended just before Wendell’s show) Aww!
I remember having to wait for the end of NJ Devils games for Drudge to start on WABC.
Sports has pre-empted WRKO’s Sunday night Pundit Review show.
Bruins games were scheduled on the nights of the NH primary and Super Tue. but in both cases WBZ shuttled the Bruins
off to sister station WODS so they could do coverage.
“Sports has pre-empted WRKO’s Sunday night Pundit Review show.”
Did you hear when Greg from the Pundit show called in and ripped Romney when he was on with Howie a short time ago?
And Max seems relatively young to go senile...
As for "Lie Detector", not on my list either, but I did read the WGA letter "thanking" people for putting up with reruns and reality shows, while they were on strike.
What qualifies as “classic” on Turner Classic Movies Channel? TCM showed “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” on Sunday, which was made in 2003. TCM also showed “Spirited Away” just two years after it was shown in theatres. How old do movies have to be before being shown on TCM?
Sienna Miller was the roomie Max referred to.
I guess she's a real twit, judging from her comments about Pittsburgh, after filming a movie there.
The other hot looking one is the secretary that Eddie "imagines" says very suggestive things to him whenever they pass by each other.
As for a horse, there was an epi that I sort of put out of my mind, but it opens with somebody hiring a hooker or two to "massage" a horse or horses, and collecting the result.
Don’t know. I don’t get TCM.
column ping
Allegations vs. Dem hack fly under the radar
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
It’s been almost seven weeks now since a $115,000-a-year Deval Patrick hack named Carl Stanley McGee was arrested at a posh resort in Florida and charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in a steamroom.
Yet the assistant secretary of policy and planning in the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development remains on “unpaid leave” - not fired, in other words.
McGee was arrested Dec. 29 and continued drawing a paycheck until Jan. 7. Granted, he is innocent until proven guilty, but what about the appearance of impropriety? These are not frivolous charges - the platinum-haired fop’s bail was set at $300,000.
Suppose this had happened in a Republican administration - say, Mitt Romney’s. What if a conservative, heterosexual GOP lawyer who worked for Mitt had been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl?
You think it would have taken six weeks for the story to break? And now it’s practically disappeared. McGee has already gotten one continuance, which raises the question of whether a broom is being readied.
According to the cops, Deval’s minion first approached the boy in the men’s room and struck up a conversation. The next day the kid was in a steamroom when McGee came in, sat down beside the child, and, according to the police, dropped his towel. You can guess the rest of the sordid story.
Compare McGee’s alleged crime to the arrest last summer of Sen. Larry Craig. All he did was assume a “wide stance.” Or Rep. Mark Foley. He got drunk and wrote some randy e-mails to pages. Why are they run out of office and McGee can hang in there?
Could it possibly be related to the fact that Craig and Foley are Republicans, and McGee, like reprobate gay Reps. Barney Frank and Gerry Studds, are liberal Democrats? By the way, McGee’s lawyer, Charles Rankin, did not return a call yesterday.
McGee’s co-workers, according to one report, were told only that he was “sick.” No kidding. Sadly for McGee, he’s not in Massachusetts anymore. He’s on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Unlike here, none of the judges in Lee County were appointed after donating big bucks to Barney Frank and George Rogers. The likes of Maria Lopez, Richard Moses and Margaret Marshall do not exist in the Sunshine State.
McGee must be shocked by his predicament. He’s used to getting a free ride. When he got “married” to one John Huston Finley IV in 2005, he got a write-up in The New York Times [NYT].
The wedding story in the New York Times mentioned how when the alleged perp’s mom met her son’s future groom, she noticed a painting of Finley’s grandmother. McGee’s mom remarked to her son’s boytoy how beautiful his granny was.
To which John Huston Finley IV replied, “With a fur and pearls, I could look just as beautiful.”
This is what they call “All the News That’s Fit to Print?”
And that wasn’t Carl Stanley McGee’s last puff piece in a New York Times-owned sheet. The Globe last year named him one of the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians. Among the questions he was asked was, where do you get your fashion ideas?
Among others, he mentioned Brad Pitt, George Clooney and even Daniel Craig. Surely he meant to say “Larry Craig.”
Then he mentioned the fashion challenges of his platinum hair.
“You cannot wear pinstripe suits and have my hair color.”
Oh, you’ll manage somehow, Stan, should you move to cellblock 10.
“I’d have to say I’d be hard pressed to live without black tie,”he sniffed. “It would significantly impact the things I do and the invitations I accept.”
Why doesn’t Deval tender an invitation to him? To resign.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1073120
This should be fun!!!
Does Max even have a job anymore?
He went from TV Guide to TV Guide Magazine to Broadcasting & Cable Magazine to this new web site .....
“Steamroom” McGee is in some deep doodoo here. If that boy had been 12, he would potentially face up to life under Jessica’s law. Between 12-16, the penalties should still be pretty severe.
The website is his job. Maybe he wants to be the “Drudge” of the tv biz niche, which would be bizarre, since Drudge loves the entertainment gossip.
Exactly — he is building a crappier mouse trap.
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