Since my ID is raccoonradio, I'll put forth the old tale of someone who shot their mother-in-law or something because he "mistook her for a large raccoon"
Posted on 11/29/2009 2:43:01 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday column. Note that if you go to his columns in the Boston Herald, look for "Go Behind the Scenes with Howie Carr" to see videos he recorded.
It’s hunting season, time to duck... and cover
By Howie Carr | Sunday, November 29, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Hot damn - tomorrow’s the start of shotgun deer-hunting season in this here state.
It’s been a month of Sundays since a body could go out in the woods, get hisself good and likkered up, and start peppering cows and stop signs alike with buckshot.
In recent years, the population of nimrods has dipped around here, and more prime hunting land is posted. But the ancient tradition of hunters blasting one other continues. On your way to work tomorrow, when you notice the pickups off to the side of the road, remember that deep in the brush, some toothless moron may be guzzling his final Budweiser.
Let’s go straight to this season’s hunting news roundup. If you’d like to find dozens of these stories yourself, just Google the word “mistook.”
Usually the hunter “mistook” somebody for a deer, although occasionally it’s a squirrel.
Here’s one from Virginia. A 23-year-old coed at Ferrum College was killed while out collecting frogs for a biology class. A hunter “mistook” her for, you guessed it, a deer. The poor woman - apparently she didn’t get the memo, never bring a net to a gunfight.
Sometimes the hunters kill themselves falling out of trees. It’s tough to keep your balance, a gun in one hand, a beer in the other. Then there’s the old I-was-unloading-it alibi. After one such “tragedy” in Indiana, a state conservation officer gave a statement to the newspaper: “You should treat every firearm as if it’s loaded.” Not to mention every hunter.
I know they claim they don’t drink anymore in the woods, but how do you explain this one from Mississippi? A mother and her 10-year-old daughter were on horseback along a riding trail when suddenly a hunter let loose with a shotgun, wounding the child, the mother, and one of the horses. The nimrod escaped.
Another popular excuse is that the gun “accidentally misfired.” Which I suppose is a better excuse than taking out an alleged pal for one of the more customary reasons: “Billy Bob done took-en my gal Mary Lou to the square dance at the Grange Hall, so when I got behind that snake I jes’ done let him have it.”
The family that hunts together seldom has to go to court to settle a disputed will together. Again, you’ll never hear anyone admit what actually happened: “Mama left the back 40 to Bubba and all I got was a stubborn old mule named Daisy, so when I see-ed that thar orange hat of his....”
Here’s a transcript of a recent 911 call in Virginia. A 21-year-old has just shot a 15-year-old. Note the passive voice the triggerman employs.
Caller: “My friend just got shot. Please hurry.”
Dispatcher: “What do you mean, he just ‘got shot’?”
Caller: “Please hurry. The gun misfired and shot him. Please. ... The bullet was jammed up in there.”
Dispatcher: “Right.”
Another one of those darned “accidental discharges.”
Here’s another one from Indiana: “(Victim) Richardson was wearing an orange hat at the time, but because it was getting dark and cloudy, his friend did not see him.”
Better sorry than safe, as they always say in the woods. Besides, them deer is crafty. They know you ain’t supposed to shoot at ‘em if they’s wearing orange blaze.
Two young brothers were wounded in Missouri last week. According to a deputy, “the timing between the shots indicated it may be a bolt-action rifle, witnesses said.”
You would suppose the first victim probably screamed out in pain, some colorful hick phrase like “Tarnation” or “Dadgummit” or maybe, “What the Sam Hill are you doing, boy?”
But this nimrod just kept firing away. They always do. Stay out of the woods for the next two weeks, and that means your little dog too.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1215192
Thousands of idiot liberals die of drug overdoses and gang violence, and AIDS - but as usual, contempt is held for white middle class men who happen to hunt.
Since my ID is raccoonradio, I'll put forth the old tale of someone who shot their mother-in-law or something because he "mistook her for a large raccoon"
But in this case, he means the ones who suffer from Kennedy disease...expect Howie to hear from some who may beg to differ on _Tuesday’s_ show...Howie is off Mon. and you get Avi Nelson again instead.
From a Maine hunting website; Howie is taken to task over one of his hunting columns, 2006:
http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/2006/11/24/whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander/
Excerpt:
>>Howie Carr, idiot extraordinaire, thinks he’s also a comedian. Perhaps he could make a better living as a comedian because he’s not a writer. Then again he’s not a comedian. Carr goes after hunters, doing everything that he can to paint the worse case senario of the bad hunter. The problem is he goes way over the top. He made his point in the opening paragraph, as crude and disgusting as it was, but feels the need to further insult and ridicule all hunters while spewing forth his obvious hatred toward hunters and hunting in general.
>>(CARR): Hot damn! Shotgun deer-huntin’ season starts in these here parts Monday morning, and what in tarnation will any red-blooded, pickup-truck-driving, Budweiser-swilling toothless good ol’ boy be doing come Monday at dawn but tracking Bambi, or, failing that, Bambi’s mother?
>>And you thought I was exaggerating didn’t you! Oh, but Carr then tries his best to “tone it down a bit” by showing his complete ignorance by using a statement any pretend writer/comedian could use.
>> CARR: Look, I have nothing in particular against hunters. I just like to make sport of them once a year.
>>What this overweight, biased, two-fingered, keyboard-pecking moron does is then carry on about all the dumb things hunters have done causing accidents. Like any uneducated fool, he spans the country and Canada to find stories that make all hunters look to be drunken, bumbling idiots. Here’s some of his examples he uses.
(And it goes on)
yeah and then there was the one showing him next to a pic of a turkey
Wed column ping
One question in Senate race: Is it over yet?
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
This Democrat Senate primary is accomplishing the impossible. It’s making the Mumbles-Flats fight for mayor of Boston seem downright exciting.
It all comes down to the moonbat turnout. They’re depressed, demoralized, Devaled - and by the way, if Deval were a chicken in the oven, his little white temperature button would have popped up by now. Stick a fork in him, he’s done. But that’s next year’s story.
Let’s look at the Senate candidates with a mere six days to go, not that we’re counting the days until it’s over.
Martha Coakley: Have you seen a male in her TV ads, other than the dog I mean? If you want to know which men in your neighborhood are henpecked, check out the houses with the Coakley yard signs out front.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say if her name were Martin Coakley, her candidacy would be a joke. But what exactly is the rationale here, other than payback for Shannon O’Brien? Take that, Mitt! And never forget what John Silber did to Evelyn Murphy. Or was it Frank Bellotti?
She is woman, hear her roar, or is it purr? But she does have male supporters - every lawyer in the Legislature who wants to succeed her as attorney general.
Steve Pagliuca: Is the frontrunner for this year’s Chris Gabrieli Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s finding out the hard way that the male sports fan is a mighty small caucus in the Democratic primary electorate.
One problem is that the handful of people (okay, men) who might be inclined to vote for Pags now have to convince themselves that he’s been lying to them in all those TV spots in which he claims to be a moonbat. Oh, and by the way, Pags has apparently never heard of DVR. Most of the people in his campaign’s target demos don’t watch TV ads anymore. They fast-forward through them.
If I were one of Pags’ consultants, I’d want my last paycheck wired directly to the bank. Before the results start coming in Tuesday night.
Mike Capuano: The only candidate who’s running against Dick Cheney. Has full-blown Potomac fever, boring everyone with committee-assignment talk and his votes. Endorsement from Barney Frank should be good for at least a dozen votes.
Mumbles’ organization is behind him in Boston, apparently as payback for Martha’s zeal in going after the Mumbles e-mail “scandal,” except of course in reality she did everything but personally deliver Mike Kineavy’s City Hall hard-drive to a trash compactor.
Alan Khazei: His theory of victory, such as it is: If you give Democrats a choice between a moonbat and a moonbat, they’ll pick the moonbat every time. That steady 4 or 5 percent he gets in the polls was most likely going to drift off in the final days to Capuano. But now the Globe has endorsed him, and it could sway as many votes his way as that big Barney Frank nod for Capuano.
Three guys, one woman = woman wins.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1215934
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Howie Fans: I knew already there was a Howie Carr appreciation society on Facebook. But apparently for a couple months there has been a Fan Page as well. Join if you wish.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Howie-Carr-Show/117272378049?ref=mf
I’m thinking of taking a Dem ballot and writing in Steve Lynch — the one Howie was going to vote for when he was going to run; as Howie said, “The one who hates America the least!”
Howie talks off line about his life in radio and his hopes for the future. He displays his graft and shares his best John Kerry impersonation.
Howie Carr Behind The Scenes Pt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YweoLcmnU08
(still being processed as of 2:55 but should be visible soon)
Howie is funny today:
“The house is surrounded. The Enquirer is closing in on him and he makes the stupid phone call?”
Howie can’t stave off the jokes.
And if you haven't seen this yet...
These are pretty good, Thanks for putting them up
It was nice to see Sandy included also
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