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Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column
By Howie Carr | Sunday, November 6, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
In Southie they’re saying, give Mikey a bullet.
Mikey being Mike Flaherty, also known as Baby Flats. And the “bullet” is a single vote in the at-large Boston City Council election Tuesday, even though you can vote for as many as four candidates.
In Southie they’re saying, you gotta help out Mike Flaherty. Mikey’s for Southie.
Please. You want to talk about guys who were for Southie? Jimmy Kelly was for Southie.
Mike Flaherty is for Mike Flaherty, period.
Ever been to Ireland? They have this group of people, the tinkers, they’re kinda like Irish gypsies. The tinkers set up a camp in your neighborhood, pretty soon your bicycle goes missing. Then a prize pig. The garda show up to ask questions, but the tinkers know nothing.
Not for nothing do they call the Flahertys the tinkers of Southie.
Mike Flaherty did not return a call seeking a comment for this column.
Baby Flats ran for mayor two years ago, saying he had done all he could on the City Council. Now he’s running again, so he can take on Mumbles one more time in 2013.
It’s not exactly a secret that Mumbles holds a grudge. That’s why Sam Yoon, the other city councilor who ran for mayor, didn’t just move out of the city after he lost, he moved out of the state. Good career move, Sam.
Baby Flats, though, said he was going to work for a law firm as a “rainmaker,” as if Mumbles would do a favor for anybody who used Baby Flats as his mouthpiece.
So now he needs that $87,500 council salary, plus the health insurance, the aides and the parking space at City Hall, so he can get ready for the 2013 mayor’s fight. It’s always about Flaherty.
Take the family, please. Remember how Baby Flats tried to get his wife on the police department at, what, age 40? Then there was his father, Flats Senior. He was a state rep until he decided to become a real-estate mogul in the Lower End. Lucky for him he had his cousin at the BRA, in addition to that second job the cousin had at the State House. A double-dipping Flaherty until he got stabbed to death down in Florida.
After the voters got sick of him, Flats Senior was starving to death as a lawyer until the Republicans took care of him with a judgeship at the Boston Municipal Court. Then there’s Baby Flats’ sister, Peggy. Mitt Romney appointed her the clerk of the South Boston District Court after the death of her 94-year-old boss, who also happened to be named Flaherty (no relation, believe it or not).
Then there was the cousin who grabbed the bag of cash that fell off the armored car on the Broadway bridge, and later went to work for the T — but I’m out of space.
The Flahertys — they are to Southie what the Connollys are to West Roxbury, another dynasty of Kmart Kennedys.
Remember Tuesday — Flaherty’s for Flaherty.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1378747
Howie says no death pool today. Too much news going on
He will prob do his “one minute make your case” deal at 6 pm
(elections tomorrow, mayoral etc.)
Cain harrassment
Dr Murray verdict at 4 ET
Re-districting—Herald says Keating to poss. face off against Lynch?
Murray guilty of invol manslaughter.
Lynch will probably win over Keating.
Sorry, Cain, you’re no longer able
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Herman, I was rooting for you. I was hoping you could tough it out in Tombstone territory.
But you couldn’t pull it off. I’m sticking a fork in you, Herman, you’re done.
I knew you were jammed up when you began using the third person, as in “that’s the person Herman Cain is.” Then you said it five more times.
Then you said you were running “for the children.”
Then you said, “I’ve seen situations where women attempt to sexually harass men.”
And finally, at the very end of the press conference, when you ominously warned, “There will probably be others.”
Yikes. Wasn’t it enough to say earlier, “This is not a surprise. It was expected.”
Maybe it was. Maybe there will be more. But why admit it?
I know, sexual harassment is the one crime you’re guilty of until proven innocent. Granted, it’s often cheaper to settle — excuse me, agree, to use Herman’s word — than it is to fight out harassment charges in court.
And no one’s forgotten all the Democrat sex scandals — Chappaquiddick, Juanita Broaddrick, Al Gore the lummox, the sex-crazed poodle, as the masseuse called him. Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds. The list of sleazy Democrats is endless.
Look, I like Herman Cain. How un-PC that it’s been reported that he will take a drink under extreme social pressure — in the morning. And that he stuck those snooty bureaucrats with the tab for two $400 bottles of wine — that story was in the Washington Examiner just yesterday. It’s great to see somebody up there on the debate stage with a sense of humor.
But as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” Why did Herman take all those questions? The first rule of being in a hole is: Stop digging.
Near the end, Cain asked the voters to “step back and look at the fact that there are no facts.”
So then why did you accuse Gov. Rick Perry of sandbagging you last week? Did you have any facts?
And he claimed that Monday on TV was when he saw “Ms. Allred and her client for the very first time. I don’t even know who this woman is.”
That was going out on a limb, when the Chicago Sun-Times was running a story that a month ago at a Tea Party event, Bialek was seen sneaking backstage to meet her harasser.
“It looked sort of flirtatious,” a radio talk-show host said. “I mean, they were hugging.”
I was ready to defend him as a “lady’s’ man,” to use that old-fashioned term. One of my listeners said he was just engaged in a little “Southern hospitality.”
Goodbye, Herman. We’ll miss you when you’re gone. I know, you said “it ain’t gonna happen.” But you also said, “There will probably be others.” One or two more will be all it takes.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1379506
As soon as Cain started off saying he had not acted inappropriately with anyone all I could do was envision clinton wagging his finger and saying he did not have sexual relations with that women......AND when Cain said he was running for the children, images of Pelosi were dancing in my head. AND as Howie pointed out Cain warned there could be more - if this was a democrat, republicans would be calling for his head on a platter and they would be standing by the women making the accusations. Now that the tables are turned, the women are liars and Cain is a saint. Funny what happens when the tables are turned. The hypocrisy is stunning.
Howie nails it again.
Right. Then you admitted to supporting Romney. I remember.
Really? Please show me the post where I said I support Romney.
You made the charge, prove it.
You obviously support Romney.
You keep making the charge but have no proof. I’m done playing your silly little game, you obviously have nothing better to do than stalk someone on the internet. Get a life.
Life's hard, when you live by the standard that you set for others, eh?
Denials mean you're guilty. That's your take, right? Live with it....or denounce it.
Fri column ping
Time to stop telling tall tales, Tiny
By Howie Carr | Friday, November 11, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Are you trying to hide something here, Tiny Tim?
Why are you stonewalling on releasing the black box from your wrecked car?
You’ve already passed the Breathalyzer — that’s what you told us. It’s not like there was a camera in the car. Besides, you weren’t wearing pajamas or anything like that when you hit that patch of black ice.
And yet, here’s the lieutenant governor running a Nixon-esque cover-up, without even a modified limited hangout.
The Pillsbury Dough Boy should be asked the same question Herman Cain got earlier this week:
“Are you willing to take a lie detector test?”
Hey, everybody eventually gets into an auto accident. OK, so not everybody totals his car at 5:30 a.m. and then claims he was driving 17 miles from Worcester up to Route 2 to buy a cup of coffee and a Herald, all the while inspecting the damage from the recent nor’easter — in the dark.
Embarrassing, but it could be worse. Ask Rick Perry.
And yet, the governor of Texas picked himself right up off the floor and went on David Letterman’s show last night to read the Top Ten list. And you can’t even bring yourself to release the black box?
Of course, Tiny Tim blames it on his dear pals at the state police. It is — or was — their car, and their “policies and procedures” are not to release such information, and Tim of course would never interfere, wink wink, nudge nudge.
Tim, you can surely understand the people’s interest in what really happened out there on your Dunkin’ Donuts run to Sterling. State House pols have a way of getting into trouble behind the wheel. Wednesday night, for example, former state Rep. Doug Peterson of Marblehead was popped for an OUI after the traditional “couple drinks.”
What made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of him.
Sooner or later, we’ll find out what happened that frigid October morning. In January, House Speaker Bobby DeLeo refused to turn over the photo of the three felonious ex-speakers taken in the House chambers.
I just bided my time, and a few months later, the three of them showed up at a funeral in Lowell and a Sun photographer snapped all of them, line-up style.
Same thing’ll happen here. Somebody’ll drop a dime.
Which is why when at least two other governors were involved in wrecks, they came clean. One was former Maine Gov. John Baldacci, the other was ex-New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
Tiny Tim, come clean. What could you possibly be afraid of?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1380053
While Howie slept?
Who knows if Deval would run for prez or not. I can only be reminded of the bumper sticker showing a guy laughing his ass off (also seen in the image saying “You want it WHEN???”) with the caption “Dukakis for WHAT?!?!?”
Wed. column ping
Time to take out the trash
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo
Photo by Stuart Cahill
Your turn, Mumbles.
Now even New York City has routed its squalid downtown Obamaville, after a ruling yesterday afternoon by a moonbat ACLU-type state judge. That leaves Boston as the last holdout among major U.S. cities. What the hell are you waiting for, Mayor?
“I don’t want to have an incident like they had in Oakland,” Mumbles said coyly yesterday, leaving everyone to wonder whether he was referring to the murder, or the rapes, or the muggings?
As for Dewey Square, it smells like the world’s worst petting zoo. We spent all that dough on South Station, and they’ve trashed it. We spent all that dough on the Greenway, and they’ve trashed it.
Elizabeth Warren is by her own admission the mother of this hippie Occu-tantrum. The professor’s got some ’splainin’ to do.
There’s a difference between free speech and free camping, as someone in San Francisco noted last weekend. How long would Mumbles have tolerated this rabble if it had been the Tea Party bivouacking in its own waste, accompanied by a cadre of crack dealers? And getting city services on the arm, on top of every other insult to law-abiding, taxpaying citizens. The Tea Party has to get permits for its rallies on the Common, but not these bums.
By the way, I’m not kidding about the stench. Now we know what revolution smells like. It smells bad. Some guy in New York wrote last week he used to wonder what medieval cities smelled like. After a walk by Zuccotti Park, the guy said he was pretty sure he had an answer to his question.
Mumbles, you were down in D.C. yesterday, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was supposed to be there, too, but he canceled at the last minute to deal with his Occupods. Too bad you didn’t get to chat with him.
Maybe you’re just waiting for the next incident, so you have some pretext for tossing these vermin out on their dirty ears. Perhaps the little pukes will have another rampage through the Back Bay like they did Saturday night, running down Boylston Street, screaming.
They stormed into Burger King and, according to press reports, “intimidated” some of the customers. Because, of course, a lot of the 1 percent likes to dine out at Burger King on Saturday nights before they go out night-clubbing. You can always spot the 1 percenters in line — they’re wearing top hats and tails as they order their Whoppers.
I hope you are just waiting for the right moment, Mumbles. Because to let this anarchy continue is “intolerable,” a word both Bloomberg and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter used at their press conferences this week.
If necessary, bring back the Tactical Patrol Force, the TPF. Hey hey ho ho, Occupy Boston has to go!
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1381292
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