By Howie Carr, 8/16/13
Where’s the cash, Whitey?
How very thoughtful of you to want to “cooperate” in solving all the cold-case mob murders, even though in most of them we actually know who pulled the trigger, or at least set the murder in motion.
Any number of them need to be solved officially — I’m thinking Donald McGonagle, Louie Litif and Donald Killeen, just to name a few. But the real remaining Whitey mystery is, what exactly happened to all those “millions upon millions upon millions of dollars,” to quote Whitey lawyer Jay W. Carney, that he made in the rackets, mostly cocaine?
All the cops found in Whitey’s wall hide in Santa Monica was $822,000? Surely there’s more left than that, a lot more. How about all those gold coins he used to hoard, and the ancient coins that his co-conspirators were trying to get to him back in 1996?
Most of all, where are all those safety-deposit boxes that you opened around the world during your days as a globetrotter back in the 1980s and 1990s? They say that a person bagged for OUI has usually driven drunk at least 100 times before he gets pulled over. We’ve only discovered a handful of safety-deposit boxes, so how many more must be out there?
Let’s go down the list, besides the $822,000 cash squirreled away in Santa Monica. There was the empty bank box in Clearwater, Fla., that Jackie Bulger lied about and ended up going to prison for. There was the one in Montreal that he used to visit when his semi-son-in-law Knuckles Nilan played for the Canadiens. Then there was the box in Piccadilly Circus in London.
These are just the ones we know of. What … about … the … others? Attorney Tony Cardinale has a lien on the $822,000 on behalf of Stippo Rakes’ former wife Julie. He says if he gets that cash he’ll use his one-third share, $267,000, to conduct a forensic investigation of the people most likely to know the locations of that ill-gotten blood money, not that they care in the least. They’re Bulgers, after all.
Put Whitey on the bus. Just keep driving him around the country. He couldn’t stand the daily rides to and from Boston in the Ratmobile — how’s he going to like being driven aimlessly around the U.S. in a bus with the windows blacked-out, a foul-smelling toilet in the back and nothing to eat but stale wrapped-in-cellophane sandwiches (not nearly enough ruffage for an old man).
How much cash do you suppose Whitey has in those boxes we haven’t found? Ten million? Twenty? He wants to cooperate? Now’s your chance, Whitey.
Right On: Biased media gets its comeuppance
by Howie Carr 8/17/13
When you were a kid, how many times did you have to burn your hand on the stove before you learned to stop doing it?
Not many. It’s the same way you learn to avoid people who cheat, or lie to you. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. You stay away from them.
So why is it so shocking that the Republican party is finally pushing back against the state-run media? They say they’re going to ban CNN and NBC from 2016 presidential debates, because the two moonbat nets are planning to run what amounts to millions of dollars worth of free publicity on Hillary Clinton disguised as programming.
The only mystery is, why aren’t CBS and ABC included in the ban?
“We’re done putting up with this nonsense,” GOP national chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday.
Of course, the networks’ defense is that Hillary is one of the smartest women in the world. Everyone knows that. That’s why this week she called the late civil-rights leader Medgar Evers “Medgar Evans.”
What the hell took the Republicans so long to wake up? Obama played golf and was hosted at a cocktail party Thursday night on the Vineyard by the owner of NBC, whose lunatic spinoff MSNBC spent the week flogging a preposterous story blaming the Boston marathon bombings on right-wing extremist literature.
As for CNN, what more do you need to know than Candy Crowley works there, and that Soledad O’Brien, who was caught using Democrat talking points in an interview last year with John Sununu Sr., used to be an anchor there, until she left for an even more simpatico network, Al-Jazeera.
Yesterday, driving to Maine, I was listening to Glenn Beck on satellite radio. His network, the Blaze, produces its own newscasts. The Blaze’s lead story was about a great-grandmother in San Diego becoming the latest woman to accuse Mayor Bob Filner of harassing her.
Only the Blaze described him, repeatedly, as “Democrat Mayor Bob Filner.” It was disconcerting — nobody who watches the news is used to hearing the words “Democrat” and “scandal” in the same sentence, especially the lead. It’s become a joke — if you’re reading a story about a pol who’s “embattled,” whether it’s for OUI or wife-beating, if the story doesn’t mention his party affiliation by the fourth paragraph, you can assume he’s a Democrat.
You know the phrase “tar baby?” When Mitt Romney used it, it was a racial slur. When John Kerry said the exact same thing — nothing to see here, folks, move along.
A rodeo clown puts on an Obama mask and the NAACP calls it a “hate crime.” One of the networks uses a freeze frame of George W. Bush with the sign “Snipers Wanted” superimposed — that’s speaking truth to power, baby. That’s the First Amendment.
You know, like mentioning “Democrat Bob Filner.”