Posted on 08/20/2004 8:57:30 AM PDT by Redcoat LI
It's beginning to look a lot like August 1988 By Howie Carr Recent Columns by Howie Carr Friday, August 20, 2004
John Kerry's August 2004 is beginning to look like Mike Dukakis' August 1988.
Not a good month, in other words. It's probably too much to say that the wheels are coming off Kerry's campaign the way they did off his political mentor's 16 summers ago. He hasn't climbed into a tank yet, but isn't it odd that he reaches out to Mike McCurry almost 16 years to the day that Dukakis brought back a sleazemeister named John Sasso?
Sixteen years ago this month, the nation learned that the Duke was a henpecked wimp who went to bed at night with, as he himself put it, ``Kitty's advice, counsels and urgings ringing in my ears.''
Now we discover from Kerry's ditzy ex-girlfriend that when he used to call her he used an alias - Miguel. And that when they were playing doctor with the shades drawn, he would whisper sweet nothings in her ear. In French.
Sacre bleu!
We've come a long way from John Kerry [related, bio] reporting for duty to Miguel reporting for booty.
And now Sen. John Miguel Kerry throws down the gauntlet to the swift-boat vets. But this may have been a time for Miguel to have recalled the words of Jim Curley: ``Never complain, never explain.''
For 30 years, Miguel has been in a media liplock with the bow-tied bumkissers of Morrissey Boulevard. And this love affair has apparently led him to believe that the rest of the media will roll over for him the way his kissin' cousins always have in Boston. And most of the PC press has until now totally ignored the charges of the swift-boat vets. But how can they now?
You know how every profile of Kerry this year has included the old story about how the late state rep Bill Reinstein passed himself off to the clueless Kerry as another legislator. The anecdote is always cited as an example of how out-of-touch Kerry was, and is.
But it appears that Kerry never absorbed the most important lesson of his tormentor Reinstein's career. Back when Reinstein was mayor of Revere, a scandal erupted over the building of a new high school. Reinstein began writing letter after letter to Garrett Byrne, the DA of Suffolk County and an ally, demanding an investigation.
Finally, after about the third missive, Byrne felt compelled to refer the matter to a grand jury. Reinstein was promptly indicted.
Now Kerry brings up the swift boat vets issue himself. And the lamestream media, like Garrett Byrne before them, may finally be forced to do something they are loath to do - go after somebody on their own team.
Miguel has benefitted from hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free publicity from Michael Moore, Moveon.org, and every brain-dead junkie and slut in Hollywood. The bookstores are full of anti-Bush tomes that are prominently displayed, but good luck trying to even find a copy of ``Unfit for Command.''
Day after day, Miguel's flanks are protected by The New York Times, CBSNBCABCCNN and every pointy-head Ivy League windbag in America, and he's freaking out over a $500,000 TV buy because the contributors are from, gasp, Texas. The Democrats' big-money guy is George Soros. He's from Hungary.
Now, though, all these semi-official organs of the Democratic Party are going to have to at least mention the charges against Kerry. Aren't they?
The media can't ignore the swift-boat vets anymore. Can they?
And Miguel asked for it. He forgot that, as they say in Revere, you should never let your mouth write a check that your rear-end can't cash. Somewhere, the shade of Bill Reinstein must be smiling.
( Howie Carr's radio show can be heard weekday afternoons on WRKO AM 680, WHYN AM 560, WGAN AM 560, WEIM AM 1280 and WXTK 95.1 FM. )
Howie--You rule!!!!!
"It's beginning to look a lot like August 1988"
I wish I could believe it!! I must say I am getting more nervous about this election...not less...this kind of stuff makes me feel better! :-)
bow-tied bumkissers of Morrissey Boulevard = What Howie Carrr calls the Boston Globe
bow-tied bumkissers of Morrissey Boulevard = What Howie carr calls the Boston Globe.
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ROTFLOL!!
THAT is Deathless Prose!
The first goal of the mainstream media is to make money. That's done through ratings. The media will drop their political biases in favor of reporting the big story. If that story if that JF'nK is full of it. Then they'll run with it.
LOL!
For 30 years, Miguel has been in a media liplock with the bow-tied bumkissers of Morrissey Boulevard. And this love affair has apparently led him to believe that the rest of the media will roll over for him the way his kissin' cousins always have in Boston. And most of the PC press has until now totally ignored the charges of the swift-boat vets. But how can they now?
IS this guy watching the news? Of course the Big Media types are going to go down to the wire for F'n
HAHAHAHAHA
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... for Bush!
GMTA
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"....Miguel reporting for booty."
LOL!
The only thing that would make the democrats more desperate would be for Dukakis to come out in support of Kerry. They've avoided that name like the plague.
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