Feb 15, 2013
You talk about pay-per-view. I wouldn’t pay a nickel to see one of those crappy wrestling events, let alone $49.95, but who wouldn’t pay to watch Whitey take the stand?
The rule is, federal trials aren’t supposed to be televised. Heck, at the federal courthouse, the marshals even take your cellphones away at the metal detector. But you know, rules are made to be broken.
The trial is going to be up on the seventh floor, Courtroom 21. I plan to have a seat. I am, after all, a victim, threatened repeatedly by the serial killer and his knuckle- dragging plug-uglies. Just ask that tongue-tied tub o’ lard Kevin Weeks. Didn’t he write in a “book” that they were going to blow me up with a basketball, or shoot me through a stone wall, or something?
It was on “60 Minutes,” and we all know how truthful that fake-but-accurate show is.
Anyway, I’m a survivor. But I also have two jobs. I’m going to have to leave the Moakley Courthouse every day about 1 to get to my other job, in Brighton. But why should I have to miss a minute? Why should you have to miss a minute?
We taxpayers are paying for the prosecution, and for Whitey’s lawyers, too. The least they can give us is a crummy TV show.
They plan to have closed-circuit TV coverage piped into a second room at the courthouse, but that room will be jammed too, especially when Sal Mineo’s dear friend raises his right hand and then starts spouting ragtime.
How is Jay Carney going to ask these cockamamie questions? He should be wearing a clown nose, or at least some Groucho glasses and moustache.
Glenn Beck now has his own channel on Dish TV. Who do you think would give you better value for your entertainment dollar next summer, Glenn Beck or Whitey Bulger?
Doesn’t Catherine Greig deserve a chance to see her boytoy one more time, even if it’s just on the tube? This is the guy she played doctor with all those years in Santa Monica. She loved Whitey even more than her husband, both of whose brothers Whitey murdered.
Put the trial on the radio too, for people in their cars. The options are practically limitless — satellite, or WiFi, or you could do it the easy way, on regular boring terrestrial radio.
Give the U.S. District Court the old Rush Radio 1200. Right now they’re broadcasting “comedy,” but what could be funnier than Whitey’s claim that the government gave him immunity up to and including murder, but he wasn’t an informant, period?
Whitey, as your brother used to say at the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast: Keep your arms out, it’ll make it harder for them to throw a net over you.
Whitey’s trial on the tube. Catch it on WBTV.
THE HOWIE 'N' JOE SHOW
>>The Howie ’n’ Joe show February 15, 2013 PrintEmail 1 Comment By Herald Staff / Boston Herald @bostonherald View My Profile 0 0 googleplus0 reddit1 Thousands of viewers joined in the Herald’s new “High Noon” live webcast yesterday where columnist Howie Carr offered his views on everything from Scott Brown’s future as a TV news pundit to the ongoing James “Whitey” Bulger saga. Carr said he thought Brown, the former GOP senator, made a smart move in joining Fox News as a commentator — though it doesn’t help his political future in Massachusetts. Carr and “High Noon” host and Herald columnist Joe Battenfeld also took questions from viewers in a live Web chat where the hot topics included the city of Boston’s dismal job in snow removal and the increasingly crowded U.S. Senate special election. The webcast is streamed live at noon every Thursday, and Herald readers can also view it any time on bostonherald.com.