Howie Carr thread week of April 13, 2008

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[raccoonradio]

Howie Carr live thread, starting off with his Sunday Boston Herald column

[raccoonradio]

Howie column ping

For Petrolati, crooked is as crooked does
By Howie Carr | Sunday, April 13, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com

Who put the rocket in Petro’s pocket? That’s the question at the State House: Who dropped - not a dime, but a bomb - on the “Speaker pro tempore” of the House of Representatives?

It seems that Tommy Petrolati’s contributors’ list is larded with gangsters, bookies, extortionists, bank fraudsters, tax cheaters, cash-skimmers, witness-tamperers and embezzlers.

To which there are two responses at the State House: No. 1, “That’s Petro.” And No. 2, “That’s Springfield.”

Yet Petro somehow hangs on. I mean, Speaker Sal DiMasi even invented this new phony-baloney title of “speaker pro tem” to keep his greasy-haired protege from Ludlow in the chips. But Petro has paid his dues, or as his most loyal plug-uglies would say, made his bones.

He went up before the federal grand jury that indicted the previous crooked speaker, Felon Finneran, and told them he did not know which river the Mystic-Tobin Bridge spanned. He was not indicted; the grand jury decided that he was, in fact, that stupid.

What saves Petro is that the Legislature, in its own dysfunctional way, really is a family. And Petro is a member of that family - the family dog. But the problem is that he’s always growling at the family’s other flea-ridden hound, Jolly John Rogers, the majority leader.

You might even say Petro is a problem dog, the kind that eventually pees on the rug once too often. That time is now for Petro, and it is time to find him a new home . . . in the country.

The leadership would love to “do a Nagle” and ship him out to a nice, obscure little courthouse sinecure in the Golden West, like they did with former majority leader Bill Nagle. Alas, this latest episode with the gangsters will scotch that. As hopelessly corrupt as the Massachusetts judicial system is, the last thing it needs is another Jackie Bulger. Sal DiMasi can’t be thrilled either: Petro’s organized-crime pals are yet another reminder of his own past associations with the likes of Vinny the Animal and Joey Y.

And by the way, what’s up with Petro getting $500 from mobster Frank Colantoni? Colantoni says “a friend” asked him to pony up. I always thought the rule was that if you’re going to shake down hoods for cash, you instruct them to find citizens to make the actual contributions, not vice versa.

Petro must not have gotten that memo. But he doesn’t seem to get a lot of memos. He also misplaced the one on Brylcreem - the one that said “A little dab’ll do ya.”

Given his dodgy record, not too many golden-parachute options remain for Petro. Perhaps a tollbooth on the Mass. Pike with a surveillance camera. He wouldn’t be the first Petrolati on the Pike payroll, that’s for sure.

But the news isn’t all bad for the Vitalis Kid. Things are starting to look up for his closest political allies and contributors, the Asselin family. His great friend, ex-Rep. Chris Asselin of Springfield, is getting out of prison on June 15. And Chris Asselin’s wife, Merylina, who was also indicted in the corruption case, just scored a massive Bulger-like hit on the public mammary.

She is grabbing $210,000 in back wages from her job at Chicopee High School as a “guidance counselor,” now that the federal charges against her have been dropped.

Before his incarceration, Rep. Asselin was working as, what else, a lobbyist. Convicted of bribery, theft and mail fraud, he’s at least as big a crook as his fellow lobbyists Felon Finneran or Good Time Charlie Flaherty - plus he actually did time. I think once he gets sprung from Club Fed, ex-Rep. Asselin should reopen his lobbying “office,” just like his fellow felon Finneran is doing.

And could there be . . . room for one more?

What a perfect fit: Petrolati & Asselin Global Strategies. “Youse have made the right decision to use us.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1086796

[maryz]

I really wish some big news would break — lately we’ve had an unbroken stream from Howie of details on the corrupt low-lifes that run this God-forsaken state! I can’t take much more . . .

[Lancey Howard]

Oh man. Howie is a great writer.

[raccoonradio]

Monday ping

Convicted Pedophile and alleged cannibal Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
will not be down for breakfast

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1086901

>>DEER LODGE, Mont. - Convicted sex offender Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, who authorities accused of killing and cannibalizing a young boy in Great Falls, was found dead in his cell early Sunday at the Montana State Prison.

The former Massachusetts resident was serving a 130-year sentence for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and choking a teenage neighbor boy.

In 2000, authorities also charged Bar-Jonah with murder in the 1996 disappearance of 10-year-old Zach Ramsay. Authorities said they had evidence suggesting Bar-Jonah had butchered the boy and disposed of his body in meals served to neighbors.

They were later forced to dismiss the murder charge after Ramsay’s mother said she would testify she believed her son was still alive.

Sunday morning, shortly after shift change at 6 a.m., Bar-Jonah was found unresponsive in his cell, prison spokeswoman Linda Moodry said.

“Emergency medical response was initiated and he was transported to Powell County Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 7:06 a.m.,” Moodry said in a written statement.

Moodry said the cause of death is unknown at this time. She added that Bar Jonah had been in poor health recently and said an autopsy will be performed by the state medical examiner to determine cause of death.

---

From the Salem News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001289/posts
Deportation trick lets illegals skip trial
SALEM — Some illegal immigrants facing serious criminal charges are avoiding prosecution — with the help of the government — thanks to what prosecutors say is a gaping hole in the state’s bail law.

Take the case of Carlos Enrique Lugo, also known as Albert Varga, who was charged with heroin trafficking on the North Shore. If convicted, he faced a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison.

A judge ordered him held on $50,000 bail, and he sat in Middleton Jail for several months.

Then, last November, a Dorchester woman walked into the jail with a bag of cash and posted Lugo’s bail — even though Lugo was also wanted by immigration authorities for being in the country illegally, and would immediately be turned over to them. ...

A week after Lugo was sent back to the Dominican Republic, the woman who posted his bail showed up at Salem Superior Court looking for the $50,000 she had posted.

And she got it back — because even though by posting bail she had made a legal promise to ensure that Lugo would make all court appearances, the bail law allows someone to get his or her money back if a person cannot appear in court due to an act of God or the government.

Prosecutors believe the money may not have belonged to the woman, who is listed in court papers as a telemarketer, and that it will simply be used to help Lugo re-enter the country under a new identity.

[raccoonradio]

video (via this page): Outside his State House Office, state Rep. Thomas Petrolati (D-Ludlow) ducks a Herald reporter’s questions about campaign donations made to him by several felons, including convicted mobster Frank Colantoni.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1086418

[Calvin Locke]

FWIW, since even in the local Gannett rag, they didn't bother to include the age, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah. AKA David Paul Brown. Born: 15-Feb - 1957 Birthplace: Worcester, MA.

So he was 51.

Must have been something he ate...

[raccoonradio]

I think El Globo gave his age. btw the Globe also had a cool
ad by Jim Ogonowski (R), who’s running against Kerry in MA,
congratulating Kerry on the 9th anniversary of when he
last sponsored a meaningful bill. They encourage people
to send the ad, congratulating Kerry on his ineffectiveness,
to Kerry campaign HQ! And this was in the Globe!!

Web version!
https://www.jimogonowski.com/splash

[raccoonradio]

Tue ping

[Disturbin]

Longface figures he’ll sponsor a bill once a decade, just for good measure.

It’s high time (no pun intended) for mandatory “dug” testing of Congress.

[Calvin Locke]

Back around 2004, there was a caller that said he or she called up Kerry’s office on something or another, and the response was “What ever Sen. Kennedy’s position is....is Sen. Kerry’s.”

[maryz]

Kerry sponsored a meaningful bill??!! And I missed it??? :(

Speaking of the "Glob" -- Taranto yesterday linked to a Globe editorial that actually made sense, on ethanol: Can't eat ethanol. I guess the Globe is losing its grip . . . or getting one!

[Calvin Locke]

C2CAM tomorrow night Wed, 04.16 >> Dr. Tim Ball -Biofuel Reality-

The producers there must have been smoking something before they booked him.

Either that, or complaints about their overt, over-the-top biases must be having an effect.

[maryz]

Beginning of a trend? :)

[raccoonradio]

Wed column ping
Tell tax-happy pols to keep mitts off your income
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Mailed my state income taxes Monday. Stood in line at the post office. Thought about writing that check the night before, and all the layabouts who would be getting the money.

Thought about who was responsible for the fact that instead of 5 percent, it’s 5.3 percent - a certain bald-headed, talentless fork-tongued little corrupt felon-lobbyist who should be doing a five-year stretch in prison, if only Judge Stearns had given him the same deal he’s going to give Cadillac Frank Salemme.

God, I can’t wait for Nov. 4, when I get my chance to vote to abolish the state income tax.

It’s going to be on the ballot in the fall. Could you use a 5.3 percent pay increase, or would you prefer that the money go to “the children” - the Bulger children?

Oh sure, the hacks will refuse to implement the people’s will. So let ’em. Let ’em thumb their noses at the public and keep the income tax after we vote to get rid of it. Maybe this time their arrogance will wake up the sheeple of Massachusetts.

The people who are pushing the income-tax repeal already are anticipating the 30-second TV scare spots that the pinky-ring boys in the public-sector unions will be paying millions for in October. The state income tax provides 39 percent of Massachusetts’ revenue. If it’s abolished, the state will still have $17 billion a year left in revenues - as much as the entire state budget was in 1995.

Have state services improved since 1995?

Here, according to Small Government News, is a partial list of state taxes that still will exist after you vote yourself a 5.3 percent pay increase Nov. 4:

A 5 percent sales tax, estate taxes, gasoline taxes (sure to be going up soon!), booze taxes, cigarette taxes, fishing and hunting licenses, water and sewer assessments, Registry of Motor Vehicles fees, and various assorted other taxes on cable TV, electricity, the Internet, long-distance telephone services, professional licenses, hotel occupancy and gambling.

Then throw in lawsuit settlements (including suits against Big Tobacco, which makes less profit on a pack of smokes than the state does), investment earnings (billions in retirement funds) and federal grants.

And this doesn’t even include the local taxes - property, auto excise, room taxes, building permits, dog licenses, etc.

Last Thursday night, the House got this year’s tax-hiking frenzy under way. The leadership rolled out a Worcester rep/reprobate named John “Spuds” Binienda to shed a few crocodile tears about the “need” to soak the working classes yet again.

“It’s never easy,” Spuds said, according to the State House News Service, “to ask the people we represent to pay more.”

But it’s a bit easier, I suppose, if you know that a lot of the extra dough to be extracted from your constitutents’ wallets will not only go to pay the rep’s own $65,737.10-a-year salary, but also his son Jamie’s take of $90,835.50 a year (with overtime) as a “special investigator” with the ABCC.

Granted, the Republicans at the State House are totally powerless. But on the issue of taxes, they do understand what people are thinking. Here’s Rep. Lew Evangelides, (R-Holden):

“When I go around my district, everybody’s asking, are you guys going to raise my taxes again? They’re thinking about the income tax, the gas tax . . . You start with the taxes you think you can get away with. You pick on the cigarette smokers. That won’t cost us any votes.”

Not until November, anyway.

“What we are establishing here,” said Rep. Bob Hargraves (R-Groton) “is a breeding ground for a vote in November, a vote to eliminate the income tax.”

I’m keeping my fingers crossed, how about you?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1087426

[warsaw44]

was amazed and stunned to hear the cackle of Marjorie Clapprood on WRKO this morning. What the hell are they thinking?
I've been getting up earlier this week preparing myself for a 6:00 AM wake up this Saturday. The alarm clock radio has been blasting the Felon and his guests which isn't really that bad. But this morning? The radio goes off with Clapprood in mid cackle / rant mode. It was horrifying. I went into the office, turned on the radio for a bit but then turned the dial to sports radio.
Really - why on Earth would Jason Wolfe decide that one of the least liked WRKO talkers of all time be a good thing for the morning show?

[maryz]

the rep’s own $65,737.10-a-year salary

I didn't know they made that much . . . :(

I heard Carla Howell on the show yesterday, and I definitely wish her luck (didn't it get almost 50% of the vote last time?) -- maybe next time she can get up a referendum to eliminate the legislature! :)

Actually, I did hear a news bit on the radio that businesses are protesting the higher business taxes. I wish the businesses (not the big ones who have the legislature in their pockets) could get together and scare up some candidates and assure that no seat would go uncontested in the next election -- they could run sort of state-wide, on the model of Gingrich's Contract with America. The uncontested rate in this state is a disgrace.

[raccoonradio]

VOTE FOR HOWIE! STARTING MAY 1

Jess Cain has just been chosen for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame (based in Chicago). Jerry Williams was inducted in the 90s.

AND...

There are some various other awards to be given out by the Radio Hall of Fame and one category is "Local or Regional--Active". Among the nominees?

>>Howie Carr, outspoken, conservative commentator, he has been on the air for almost two decades in the Northeast U.S., currently on WRKO/Boston.

Details here >>The national online balloting will begin on May 1st and ends at midnight on July 15th.
Voting is free and open to the public as well as major radio industry leaders, however, an online registration will be required. Please visit Radio Hall of Fame to learn more.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

[Nathaniel Bar-Jonah. AKA David Paul Brown. Born: 15-Feb - 1957 Birthplace: Worcester, MA.]

I didn’t know that had happened over in Deer Lodge until I saw it on this thread. (I live a couple hundred miles from there.)

So, do you want him back? We’ve got lots of ground in Montana, but I’m not sure I want to pay to bury that sh** here.

[Disturbin]

Hope Howie gets it.

He’s a radio staple around here.

[raccoonradio]

Tune: Dominique

We’re the priests, oh we’re the priests
Who like to diddle little kids
The Cardinal* doesn’t mind
We’re molesters we are gay
He’ll just transfer us away
Out of sight and out of mind

*—”Bunnie” Law, now in a nice sinecure at the Vatican

[Calvin Locke]

Feed the remains to rodents that are used for medical experiments.

Maybe he came be of some use that way.

[Calvin Locke]

One comment I made about Law when he was hiding out, before escaping to the Vatican, drew umbrage from somebody.

I don't remember exactly what I said, but it was probably along the lines of what Howie is saying now.

I do remember my response used the shepherd analogy, something like "he did a great job, letting the wolves prey upon the youngest of his flock."

And speaking of his sinecure, I was absolutely appalled that they let him preside over something during the JPII funeral.

[Little Bill]

The Clap Is Back?

[warsaw44]

I hope that was a one day event. Her voice alone is enough to aggravate but throw in her dingbat opinions and her accent and I'm ready to listen to NPR.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Good idea, if there’s a lab around there.

There are always coyotes, vultures and bugs around that need to be fed, though.

[Calvin Locke]

Some squash player, a white guy, told me the best players in the world come from Pakistan.

Growing up, a parish priest (also white), played squash. The diocese paid out $$$ to squash lawsuits because of him.

He never put the moves on me. I guess I wasn't his type.

[raccoonradio]

Thu ping

[Cheapskate]

Hmmm sounds like the only thing the good father was squashing was kid’s butts.

[Cheapskate]

I like both Howie &Steve Dahl.

Been listenin to Steve off and on for thirty years.

Actually, both shows have kind of a beer with your buddies at the bar feel about them.

[Calvin Locke]

Linda Evans???? Must be a different from the one I’m thinking of...

[Disturbin]

That’s what I like about Howie. He’s down to Earth, unlike some other hosts who shall remain nameless .....

[Calvin Locke]

Pardons? The two congressional perps from Chicago, the paedophile, name forgotten, and the Rostenkowski, the former House Ways & Means chairman.

What about the Florida vitamin scam guy? He was under indictment for running the same scam again, and Clinton pardons him for the first one?

Oh, and along the lines of pardoning terrorists, you can't forget the self-serving pardon of Patty Hearst. That was back when sucking up to people that were buying ink by the barrel made some sense.

[Cheapskate]

Yeah, one would hope anyway!

[raccoonradio]

Yeah I think Steve Dahl was the pet rock guy, right? Also
did the disco demolition night at Comiskey Park. Someone gave me a tape once (I later taped over it) of Steve the day
after the riot happened at disco demolition night; his voice
was all raspy from all the stuff going on. Think he also had
a partner named Gary Meyer.

[raccoonradio]

We will do this as a Friday column ping and also a Friday
show ping. Not sure but I think Howie may be on vacation
next week; someone on SaveWRKO.com had said they heard
WRKO’s Reese Hopkins say he’d be filling in for Howie
“the week of the 21st”...

Column.
Can Mumbles get up from this tumble?
By Howie Carr | Friday, April 18, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Disability-pension fraud in the city of Boston? Round up the usual suspects!

Like Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” I am shocked, shocked. Actually, it is stunning, but only that finally some local prosecutors are showing even the slightest interest in going after the political kleptocracy that is bankrupting this state.

In Boston, you have the district attorney, the attorney general, and the U.S. attorney - or, as they are known on the street: See No, Hear No, and Speak No Evil. The U.S. attorney - Speak No Evil - finally realized he had no choice but to go after the Boston Fire Department.

First the cops with their steroids and protection rackets, now the faking jakes. Next you’ll be telling me that Mayor Mumbles Menino is taking “contributions” from city contractors.

How bad is it? You remember the old TV spot with the old lady screaming, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Imagine dozens - scores - of firefighters chanting as one:

“I’ve fallen - on the one day that I was working at a higher rank - and I can’t get up!”

This is nothing new at City Hall, of course. Mumbles Menino is in his fourth term as mayor. The last time we had a mayor in his fourth term it was Kevin White, and his political minions, at least a few of whom were ex-cons, were doing the old slip ’n’ fall in then-unprecedented numbers.

I remember one high-ranking hack from Brighton named Squawker McNeil, who claimed he had slipped on a patch of ice - inside City Hall. The joke was, knowing Squawker, he probably tripped on an ice cube. Everybody at City Hall signed off on his phony-baloney pension because, well, they didn’t want him squawking. He went to the can and then got a job at the dog track in Raynham.

Now we have a different mayor and a different “probe,” and Mumbles finds himself in an odd position.

He immediately announced yesterday he’s not a target of the grand jury - strange, because no one had suggested he was.

That’s the good news for Mumbles. The bad news is that, as we all know, many jakes moonlight as tradesmen - painters, electricians, plumbers. Mostly plumbers. Plumbers interact a lot with the city’s Inspectional Services Department, also known as the Building Department, another city agency prone to the occasional blizzard of FBI subpoenas.

Now, if you are a crooked Boston firefighter, and you are looking at the prospect not only of losing your freedom, but also your pension, do you think you might be inclined to trade up? And once the dominoes start falling inside City Hall, you never know how many will tumble.

I noticed an old byline on the story yesterday. The Boring Broadsheet brought back one of the guys who used to chase Kevin White - an old reporter reprising an old scandal, you might say. It’s the City Hall Scandal Reunion Tour ’08. Next they’ll be peddling T-shirts: “I Faked an Accident and All I Got Was This $8,000-a-month Pension.”

And Mumbles has to run for re-election next year.

But you can’t beat somebody, even Mumbles, with nobody, which is what Councilor Mike Flaherty is. How can Baby Flats run on a scandal in the hackerama - those are his peeps, after all, starting with Daddy Flats, the judge, and Sister Flats, the clerk.

If I am the U.S. attorney, this morning I am putting up a new framed photograph in the grand-jury room. It will be a picture of Jackie Bulger leaving the courthouse, on his way to Devens, stripped of his state pension. That’ll put the fear of God into these crooked firefighters.

You know what they say about hacks who’ve been stripped of their pensions? They’ve fallen, and they can’t get up.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1087962

[maryz]

He immediately announced yesterday he’s not a target of the grand jury

Hopefully, he only meant that he's not the target of this grand jury! Grand juries are like buses -- there'll be another one along in a bit! ;-)

[raccoonradio]

Yup! Been funny hearing the Mumbles clips this week as he reads to 8 yr old kids (and seems to be having a tough time even with that, about a garbage truck. Needless to say, it's great to hear Mumbles read the parts like "Boy do I stink" :)

Via amazon.com, this is apparently the scholarly tome Da Mayah is reading to the kiddies.

Reviews:

4.0 out of 5 stars For Lovers of the Stink!, By J. Liberty "jimlib" (Van Nuys, CA USA)

... "I Stink" by Kate and Jim McMullan is the book for you. This is a really fun book that follows a trash truck as he makes his rounds. The artwork is really unique and the trash truck is pretty funny. You also get a chance to run down the alphabet by naming some of the yucky stuff in the trash truck. It's a unique and funky book, but kids really enjoy it. I thought the artwork was particularly unique and well done.

Defecation: The Book, March 7, 2004
By E. R. Bird "Ramseelbird" (Manhattan, NY) - The most testosterone laden picture book ever conceived and executed. You thought "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" was a tad bit too masculine for your kids? Then forgo the wonders of "I Stink". A rip roaring celebration of the joys of sanitation (THERE's a new word for your kids to learn!) this book follows the daily work of a garbage truck as it makes its daily rounds in the wee hours of the day. The book is so good natured in its exclamations you just can't help but love it either. And trust me, the kids will.

Here's how the book begins. No namby-pamby openers for this morning vehicle. "Who am I? I've got lights. Ten WIDE tires. No A.C., not me. I've got doubles: Steering wheels, gas pedals, brakes. I am totally DUAL OP". You half expect this truck to disintegrate into a series of well-chosen cuss words, it's so certain of its own glory. Acting more like an Oscar the Grouch in garbage truck form, the dirty monstrosity exhibits its own forms of belching before launching into the ABC's of its morning diet. A word of warning: don't read this book too early in the morning. You may find yourself growing nauseous (even as your kids howl for more) reading about fish heads, ugly (stained) underpants, and year-old yams. The authors aren't squeamish about defecation either. Here we can clearly see dirty diapers, kitty litter, and puppy poo (not to put too fine a point on it). The truck then explains how indispensable he (I'm only assuming it's male, but it's a pretty clear guess) is summarizing the predicament we'd be in. Without the Sanitation Department, "You're on Mount Trash-o-rama, baby". Never thought you'd ever hear a garbage truck call you "baby"? You obviously could not have predicted this book.

[maryz]

LOL! I wonder if the choice had anything to do with the problems of city departments (as in Howie’s column) — seems like the sanitation guys are the only ones not under some kind of investigation . . . oh, wait — sanitation’s private now, isn’t it? ;-)

[Calvin Locke]

There's always the other children's book, Everybody Poops.

"...elephants have great big poops...", etc.

[maryz]

Reese Hopkins say he’d be filling in for Howie

Looks like I won't be tuning in next week! Can't stand Reese!

And Howie's fulfilling a dream -- to be 1,000 miles away for the Marathon! My own dream (well, not my only one!) is to have Howie start doing his wonderful Marathon coverage again -- he stopped, or at least cut it drastically, when he started to be picked up by stations outide of Boston . . . those were the days! ;-)

[Calvin Locke]

Steve is reminding me of "Scott from Boston". Regular caller, that is. Like "eFrank from Astoria, Queens...".

Scott calls up Dennis Miller regularly, and Scott called Howie Tuesday or Wednesday.

Any way, Scott calls up Andrew Breitbart filling in for an ailing Miller yesterday. Scott goes off on his anti-semite/anti-Israel shtick, and suggests Breitbart read some of Henry Ford's books to understand why Israel is the root of all the problems in the world. Breitbart points out that Ford's missives were from the 1920s, and Israel wasn't founded until the late 1940s.

First thing Miller does today is comment on how bad Scott sounded, and told the screener to limit Scott to one call/quarter for the time being.

Steve, OTOH, seems to have had a bit of an epiphany, no longer sounding like a moonbat.

[Cheapskate]

Yeah, that's Stever! His voice has always been sorta close to a rasp.

The show has changed quite a bit in the last 27 or 28 years.

[Cheapskate]

Andrew is doing fill-in work now?

[Calvin Locke]

He has been. I know I've heard him filling in before, probably for Miller.

Breitbart and one of Miller's lackies went to the Dogers' game Wednesday night when Miller called the lackey to say he wasn't feeling well.

If nothing else, he can tout his website. That is, "if you like your news raw, five minutes before the networks..."

[raccoonradio]

>>”Scott from Boston”.

(high pitched voice) “Thank you for taking my call Mr Carr...”

[Calvin Locke]

Exactly. At least some of the wackos have learned to be polite so as to get some air time before being cut off.