Posted on 09/26/2009 9:05:14 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week starting with his Sun Herald column
Verdict on judge: He’s a lefty hack
By Howie Carr | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Who is Judge Thomas Connolly?
And why did this 66-year-old hack Democrat rule Friday that his fellow hack Democrat, Gov. Deval Patrick, had the right to appoint a third hack Democrat to the U.S. Senate immediately, despite a vote to the contrary by the overwhelmingly hack-Democrat Legislature?
Try not to let what I am about to tell you destroy your faith in the integrity of the Massachusetts judiciary.
This Connolly spent five years in the early 1960s at St. John’s Seminary (more on that later) and then went to BC Law. He got his robes in 1990 the old-fashioned way - after donating thousands of dollars to all the right, i.e., Democrat, politicians. The Dukakis for President Committee cashed a $1,000 check from Connolly in 1987. The next year, the future judge wisely coughed up another grand to the Duke’s “Victory Fund 88.”
The Duke lost, but Connolly won - and is winning still, with his $129,694-a-year no-heavy-lifting job, behind which in three years comes the $125,000 pension.
This future enabler of sordid Democrat machinations did what almost all future judges do, duking cash to all the connected Democrats. Whitey Bulger’s brother Billy collected $200 a year. The late Speaker George Keverian (D-Papa Gino’s) was taken care of, as were such contemptible layabouts as ex-Boston city councilor Rosaria “Sister Sunshine” Salerno, Bulger stooge Gerry D’Amico, Tom Reilly, Evelyn Murphy, etc., etc.
Connolly gave money to Sheriff Bob Rufo, who is himself a judge, and Sen. Mike Creedon, who is ditto, after giving his Senate seat to his brother, who is now a clerk, and did I mention that Bob’s wife is a state rep - a Democrat, naturally, like every one of the above.
In 1989, Dukakis announced he wasn’t running again, and Frank Bellotti became the favorite to succeed him as the guy who appointed judges. Suddenly the future Judge Connolly was funneling cash to Bellotti. In 1989 he gave him $200, then $500, then another $125. In 1990, Bellotti collected another $1,000 from the future judge.
But the Duke did the right thing to his maxed-out contributor, and appointed Connolly. At his confirmation hearing, his witnesses included then-Norfolk DA (and now rabid congressional supporter of Hugo Chavez and ACORN) Bill Delahunt. It was the least Bill could do, considering Connolly had just sent him a check for $1,000.
Remember how much Connolly liked to give things to ex- and future AG’s? Well, in 1994 he took the rare step of handing a directed verdict of not guilty to still another ex-AG, Eddie McCormack, who’d been indicted by then-AG L. Scott Harshbarger, to whom Connolly had given $1,000 in 1987.
Back to St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, where Connolly picked up his B.A. in 1964, then spent another year studying theology. Most of the worst pervert priests in the archdiocese attended St. John’s during those same years. In 2002, one of them, the Rev. Jon C. Martin, found himself in court, charged with negligence, in front of his fellow St. John’s alum-turned-judge.
A columnist for the Globe - yes, the Globe - demanded Connolly recuse himself from his schoolmate’s trial “not because Connolly is certain to side with a fellow seminarian but because those who rely on the court for fairness are uncertain that he won’t.”
Hmmm. Couldn’t the Republicans have made the same argument Friday, substituting the word “Democrat” for “seminarian.”
In 2006, a lesbian couple from Rhode Island asked the Democrat seminarian to rule they had been legally married here in Massachusetts, even though our state law prohibited anyone from getting married here if their marriage wouldn’t have been allowed back home.
The St. John’s alum issued a novel ruling in favor of the pair, saying that since gay marriage was not specifically outlawed in Rhode Island, hey, it must be OK, right? Mitt Romney demanded the absurd ruling be appealed. But AG Tom Reilly as usual declined to do anything. After all, Connolly gave him $1,000 in both 1989 and 1990.
So now you know - this is the bum who effectively put the executor of Ted Kennedy’s estate into his master’s Senate seat. Just another day here in the Banana Republic of Massachusetts.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1200296
The funniest part was when this corrupt hack, Judge Thomas Connolly, sent word that his “ruling” would be announced at noon, as if he needed time to “deliberate”. LOL, his clerks must have really been scrambling to come up with some semi-coherent “explanation” on paper for this “ruling”.
I still say "banana republic" would be a step up -- after all, doesn't the typical banana republic routinely have a coup every couple of years?
Mon show ping.
Howie Carr’s okay. Howie’s car, isn’t...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2350135/posts
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Hey Raccoon, I’m taking a night class in Springfield and have to travel from Rt 128, I lose RKO halfway there, any suggestions for the 2nd half of my trip (to listen to Howie)?
I don’t know if WHYN 560 Holyoke carries Howie past 6 pm or not...try WCRN 830 Worcester which has a fairly good signal.
About 6:35 or so he started to read the Globe story and he took a few calls about it though he also did another topic. As soon as the jokes started to come about the big shoe or fried clams he said, “I knew it—this is why I waited till now to talk about it. Now there will be a bunch of calls on the Chump Line tomorrow about it.”
Readers of the Globe’s site and people on Free Republic were aware of the situation before Howie’s show. Howie explained that it was probably bald tires and a slick road that caused it. He noted that the Globe reporter had
asked if alcohol was involved “and I bet they were disappointed it wasn’t”. When someone brought up fried
clams he said, “it was 8:30 on a Sunday morning, who’s eating fried clams then?” The bit about the “marked
lanes violation: ‘it was a warning,’ says Howie.
Howie’s Acura will be in the shop for a couple weeks; as I noted; Howie Carr is fine, Howie’s car...not so fine.
from the Herald
Howie Carr uninjured in one-car crash
By Jessica Heslam | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
Herald columnist Howie Carr was heading home from the newspaper Sunday morning when his sport-utility vehicle slid across the road and slammed into a telephone pole in his hometown of Wellesley.
“I’m fine. Nothing happened to me,” Carr said yesterday. “I just slid over the center lane. It was raining, it was windy, and I was going down a hill.”
“I tried to pull out, I couldn’t and I hit the pole,” said Carr, who was driving a 2004 Acura SUV. “I’m definitely buying new tires for it.”
Police gave him a written warning for a marked lanes violation.
Carr, also a WRKO (680-AM) talk host, said he was on way his home from the Herald newsroom, where he’d picked up his mail.
Police said Carr was driving south on Wellesley Avenue just before 8:30 a.m. when he crossed into the northbound lane, struck a curb and hit the utility pole.
Carr declined medical treatment, and his vehicle was towed.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1200714
Howie talks with Joe Kennedy today—the OTHER Joe Kennedy.
Tue show ping
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Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winning movie director arrested in Switzerland as a fugitive from American justice, filed an application Tuesday with a Swiss court seeking his release, news reports said. The United States has been seeking his extradition for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, but the sudden move by Swiss authorities to arrest Mr. Polanski when he arrived in Zurich to collect a film-making award on Saturday has roused diplomats, offended supporters of the filmmaker and left more than a few onlookers asking themselves the same question: Why now? SHould Polanski have to face the music for a 30 year old crime?
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Joseph L. Kennedy, 37, of Dedham, a member of the National Libertarian Party collecting signatures to run as an independent, has established a Web site: JoeKennedyforSenate.com. He is not to be confused with Joseph P. Kennedy II, 57, whose decision not to run for his late uncle Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat left the famous family’s faithful wistful. We will speak to Mr. Kennedy about his run.
We will be joined by gubanatorial candidate State Treasurer Tim Cahill for a low down on the state of the state.
I hope he doesn’t legitimize this guy. Scott Brown has a hard road ahead as it is. This Kennedy will siphon off Brown voters, not hardcore Dems.....
Wed column ping
Superhack Paul Kujawski posing as Dem dolt fooled us all
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Let’s just waive the five-year waiting period right now and induct Rep. Paul “Kujo” Kujawski of Webster directly into the Hack Hall of Fame.
All these years, we’ve considered him a mere drunken Democrat dolt, below average even by the below-average standards of the Massachusetts General Court.
Now it turns out his persona as a stumbling boob was just a clever disguise. As mild-mannered Clark Kent was in fact Superman, Kujo, it turns out, is Superhack.
He was a double agent on the pension-reform committee, scheming how to double his kiss in the mail, from $16,200 to close to $34,000. As he sat slack-jawed in the committee meetings, no one suspected a thing.
Do you have any idea how much Budweiser you can buy with an extra $18,000?
And all this extra do-re-mi for his 18 years on the Webster School Committee - a non-paying job, and you can bet that Kujo was worth every penny of it.
Kujo is not the first rep to pull this greedy stunt. Ex-Sen. Jack Brennan of Malden did it with his “service” as a library trustee, but Brennan was finally shamed into giving up the extra dough.
In Kujo’s case, shame is not an option. He has none. He is, after all, the solon who was once busted for open and gross lewdness after allegedly urinating in front of a state trooper. That was the same night he suffered amnesia in the back of the state police cruiser, shouting at the cops, “Do you know who I am?”
Yes, they replied, we know who you are, Rep, and we know what you are, which is under arrest.
I’ve always chuckled over Kujo’s moronic stunts, ever since the time he told me, “I’m not like you guys from Boston. When I came down here I thought everybody was my friend.”
I thought about telling Kujo I used to live even further out west than he did, but why confuse him further? Remember when he left the satchel of cash and checks under the barstool at the 21st Amendment across Bowdoin Street from the State House? And how about all the Ethics Committee fines?
But as I look back on it now, somehow Kujo always skated. His hack brother Jan was going to lose his job at the ABCC. So suddenly Felon Finneran took the ABCC away from then-Gov. Mitt Romney. Last year “special investigator” Jan made $111,283.66 - isn’t overtime wonderful?
Then there was Kujo’s son Jonathan. First he was a summer tolltaker at the Pike, and then he scored a $35,713-a-year job at the Division of Industrial Accidents. Another nationwide search!
And all the while Kujo was lurking around the entrance to the Great Hall, circling like a seagull, waiting for the next free buffet. Some said he was the state rep from Commerce Insurance, I always considered him the man from Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, sans makeup.
And now we find out Kujo has doubled his pension, right under our very noses.
It just goes to show you can’t judge a book by its cover, even if it’s a comic book.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1201060
Lemme guess.... Kujawski is exactly the kind of Democrat who is routinely endorsed for re-election by the Globe?
Is it time for another “Death Pool”?
Did Hopper pass on? Last I heard he had big heart attack
No, but Susan Atkins did a few days ago. Somebody did pick her in the last death pool, unless Howie had another death pool done since then. I also don’t remember anybody picking Dennis Hopper in the last Death Pool that I listened to.
I think the death pool earlier this week was for Atkins...
The death pool for Atkins was last Fri. I copied down most of them. Look in the HC thread for 9/20/09
>>I was able to copy a partial Death Pool last Friday (9/18). >>With the death of Susan Atkins, a new Howie Carr Death Pool is in order.
Howie FR fans: Blue Mass Group has a blogger named Ernie Boch III (and no he is no relation to the real Ernie Boch Jr) and they’re now leading a push to contact Howie’s advertisers
and get them to pull their ads because of, waaah, what Howie has said on air.
You are encouraged to contact these advertisers should you choose and express your SUPPORT for Howie and also if you choose, to patronize them.
A list can be found at the Blue Ass Group:
http://www.bluemassgroup.com/user/Ernie%20Boch,%20III
>>Excellent news people. Letting advertisers know you are tired of Howie Carr is having an effect. So much so that P.R. man George Regan had to come up with a game plan to protect his cash machines, I mean clients, from the deluge.
Advertisers:
Eastern Standard Restaurant
SBLI Life Insurance
Armstrong Advisory Group
Hanover Chop House Manchester NH
Amica Insurance
Michael’s Deli
Giant Glass
Shaw’s Supermarkets
Marconi Olive Oil
According to the Yahoos at Yahoo and AP, it was just dehydration, and he's home and feeling much better.
Done!
Thanks—yeah I oughta do the same. I was thinking of drafting emails to his advertisers and pointing out that if I don’t use them already, I will, and if I already do patronize them I’ll do it more. “Thanks for sponsoring Howie’s show. Those
Blue Ass Group people are boycotting you. I am not, and am
urging others of our silent majority to help support you just as you support the highly rated Howie Carr Show!”
Fri column ping & thanks to MassRepublicanFlyersFan for
posting this column, too! :)
Howie Carr to hater: Bring it
By Howie Carr | Friday, October 2, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Hell no, I won’t go.
Some moonbat posing as “Ernie Boch III” is trying to organize a boycott against my advertisers because, compared to other talk show hosts in Boston, “Howie is much different and we don’t need explanations.”
Okaaay. So much for a bill of particulars. Would it be mean-spirited of me to point out that this campaign apparently began on the last day of the month, when most moonbats are nervously expecting their kiss from either Dad or Uncle, as they sit by the phone biting their nails as they await the robo-call from CVS telling them that their new MassHealth prescriptions are ready for pick-up?
“Ernie Boch III” continues: “His motis operandi is not appreciated.”
Yes, but how about my “modus operandi”? I guess this moonbat can’t afford SpellCheck. Please, “Ernie,” do not panic. Your Halcyon is waiting at the drive-through window.
Somebody else on the site brings up a column I allegedly wrote that “associated an SJC justice of pedophilia - didn’t accuse him of it, of course, just sleazily put him near it.”
SJC justice? This was written by “Charlie on the MTA.” I think he strums his guitar and sings songs such as, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” in the Harvard Square station. SJC justice - could he be referring to something about a Superior Court judge, where I quoted a Globe columnist - a Globe columnist! - as saying that as a graduate of St. John’s Seminary, the judge should recuse himself from sitting on a case involving negligence charges against a fellow alum?
Charlie, hang on. Your Xanax is on the way! Ditto, your crazy check!
I know what the problem is. As one of the Herald posters said yesterday, the voices in their heads tell them not to change the radio station.
“Ernie” suggests that among those who might want to join the crusade - oh, can’t use that word, it’s Christian - are “the governor, the speaker of the house, the senate president, the mayor and other powerful people who have been targets of Howie’s unique brand of journalism.”
That’ll be quite the organizational meeting, won’t it? The Hands Off Jim Marzilli Committee joins forces with the Friends of Whitey Bulger.
Who else might join, “Ern”?
“Old Dukakoids.”
Go ahead, old Dukakoids, make my day.
The moonbats are also concerned about my “bizarre repetitive attacks on Tom Finneran.” Felon Finneran to you, pal. By the way, I’ve been bludgeoning Roman Polanski this week. I’d like to see him in a cell too . . . right next to Felon Finneran.
I guess they want me out of that AM radio station. Now, that’s funny, because what do these Birkenstock-wearing vegans think I’ve been trying desperately to do for the last, oh, four years?
Good luck, “Ernie.” If you can get me out of here, you’re a better man than me. So go ahead, make my day. Please. I beg you.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1201584
Ernie Boch Jr is on Howie’s show right now saying that for awhile someone has been calling himself Ernie Boch III
and he says he was getting a call from someone, Bob Sheridan wondering “why are you writing this?” EBJ:
“It’s not me.”
Greg (Hill): “Ernie is that you?”
Boch: “It’s not me....I’ve always had a good relationship with you” (his dad syndicated Howie on WTKK)
Boch says that fake Ernie “works at the State House”
George Regan said to EBJ “we should get a private investigator to find out who this guy is”
EBJ: “I am offering $2,000 to someone who can find this guy...”
oops WXTK I mean
A Boston Radio Blog post by yours truly
http://bostonradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/wtkk-shuffles-its-talk-lineup.html
WTKK Shuffles Its Talk Lineup
Having recently celebrated their tenth anniversary, Greater Media’s WTKK-FM 96.9 is
now shuffling its talk host lineup. Don Imus is being cut back to two hours, only one
of which is live, weekdays from 5 to 7 am. Former afternoon talkers Jim Braude and Margery
Eagan begin 15 consecutive hours of live and local talk from 7 to 10 am, followed by Michael Graham (10 am to 2 pm) who gains an hour, Jay Severin (2 to 6 pm) whose show gets pushed to an earlier time, and Michele McPhee (6 to 10 pm) who gains an hour. The rest of the lineup is the syndicated Curtis Sliwa from 10 pm to 1 am and Phil Hendrie from 1 to 5 am.
Two years ago WTKK thought they would be adding Howie Carr to their lineup in morning drive but a judge ruled otherwise. Now Carr, still at WRKO till 2012,
has had a blogger calling himself “Ernie Boch III” from the left-leaning
Blue Mass Group, urging advertisers to dump their spots due to the show’s content. The real Ernie Boch Jr. however, who has long supported Howie (when his family owned WXTK on the Cape, they were the first
to syndicate Howie), has denounced the “impostor” and offered a reward to find out
who he is. He told Carr, “I’m going to tell you who he is so you can terrorize him every afternoon.” The “Carr who drives Boston home” was pleased by the show of support by Boston’s “car czar”.
Winners and losers?(besides Imus?).....
I don’t really listen to Eagan and Braude but at least they’ll have some local talk now to compete against the Felon (and national Laura’s first hour). McPhee, as I just noted on SaveWRKO.com, has a voice I can’t take but sometimes she can be good on local/national issues...then she resorts to talk about songs that get stuck in your head. Severin btw can be OK at times when WRKO is in a commercial break but I generally prefer Howie of course.
I do remember Severin 10-mid. or something on WRKO but he left because he had too many things (TV, etc.) to do and soon turned up as one of WTKK’s inaugural hosts when they
started up 10 yrs ago. Soon he began referring to AM radio talk as “fart radio”. For a short time when it looked like
Howie would be headed there, he and Graham seemed enthusiastic about the man who would soon be their co-worker—till the judge shot it down.
Looks like WTKK is starting to move away from the aging Imus. If they want to do the “Kiss Me I’m Imus” show again next March, they may just allow Imus to keep going on WTKK
past 7 am of course, just that day only. Of course the reason Howie almost wound up on WTKK was that Imus’ show got pulled off Westwood One/CBS Radio/WFAN flagship. They figured they could put HC in am drive. But shortly after the courts decided Howie’s fate, Imus signed with ABC/Citadel/WABC flagship and the I-Man was soon back in Boston. Supposedly he got good ratings or billing but not so sure about these days. The Imus/Severin flap was good fun; I liked the pic of Jay cowering next to a table
when Don lay into him, off air...
Hi Raccoon, FYI - it seems RKO remains strong right up to the Carlton Rest Area on I-90 going westbound @ about 3PM, then WRCN 830 is OK till the split at I-84 and then I switch over to a fairly strong WHYN 560 all the way to Springfield.
Monday night was pretty clear, I’m not sure but perhaps it accounts for the lousy reception from 830 on my return.
Ten more nights of school and counting..........
The alleged nighttime coverage of WCRN 830--beams more to the east?
WCRN by day:
Hey that’s a cool map Raccoon!
“If Howie were on a big FM like WTKK this wouldn’t happen”
How long is Howie now obligated to RKO?
Till Sep or Nov of 2012...
btw for those wondering about Howie’s column in the Herald
I think the “empty space” in it was actually part of an ad underneath for coffee or something..it was supposed to represent the steam coming off a cup of coffee or something
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