Posted on 12/05/2009 9:24:57 PM PST by raccoonradio
Weekly Howie thread starting w/ his Sun Herald column
Sunday column ping
Pity poor Liveshot, down to his last $200 million or so
By Howie Carr | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
What a week for Sen. John “Liveshot” Kerry. First, his fellow limousine liberals in Congress propose a tax . . . on Botox! And now the really bad news: His net worth has plummeted from $336 million to $208 million.
Sen. Kerry’s portfolio has been swiftboated - by his own idiotic investments. We now have an answer to the eternal question: Hey, Senator, why the long face?
Oh well, easy come easy go. It’s just the money from his second wife’s first husband’s trust fund. You’ve heard of blood money. This is - was - ketchup money. At least they still have each other. He’s about to turn 66, she’s 69, so you can very well understand what the serial gigolo saw in the ancient gold digger.
About a billion dead presidents.
How could this happen? Who’d Liveshot use as his moneyman? Larry Summers? That’s like getting marriage counseling from Tiger Woods. Is it time for another name change for the boat formerly known as the Scaramouche - from Let it Be to Let it Bleed?
Senator, when financial genius Barney Frank publicly assured everyone in August 2008 that “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in fine shape going forward,” shouldn’t that have been your cue to abandon ship? Now you’re one-third of the way back to having to sleep in the back seat of your Chrysler LeBaron convertible.
Can you imagine the conversations in Louisburg Square as the Beautiful People ponder their reduced situation? “Lovey,” he screams up the stairs at his wrinkly bride in his best Thurston Howell III voice, “for my next fund-raiser on Nantucket, we can only afford a single porta-potty out on Hulbert Avenue. The hoi polloi will just have to make do!”
The only way this could get worse would be if Mike Capuano prevails over Martha Coakley on Tuesday. My Gawd, this Capuano fellow - why, what if he decides to be a real senator, you know, trekking around to all those dreadful tank towns such as North Adams and Hull and Leominster?
Then Liveshot might have to take off his jaunty yachtsman’s cap and embark on his own “listening tour,” instead of parachuting into the provinces in election years.
“Lovey, do you think we’ll have to get rid of those six SUVs that belong to your family, not to me?”
“Lovey, I’ve got it - we get my brother Cam to open up a bed-and-breakfast on Naushon! I’m told that’s what our kind does in straitened circumstances. The riff-raff will lap it up with a spoon.”
“Lovey, I’m going to stop making charitable contributions for a couple of years. That should save us at least $10.”
We know he’ll insist on retaining his own Gulfstream, the Flying Squirrel. No way Kerry can ever go back to the D.C. shuttle, especially not now that everyone has a camera in his cell phone. It’d be only a matter of time until grainy videos would be posted on YouTube showing Liveshot cutting in line, bellowing the eternal question: “Do you know who I am?”
“Lovey, I do hope this doesn’t mean you’ll be reneging on that new windsurfing kit you promised me for Christmas.”
“Lovey, do we still have a phone number for Bob Jaffe? Do you remember that marvelous chap he was telling us about at the Somerset Club who absolutely guarantees your return on investments? That’s who we need. What was that fellow’s name – Madoff?”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1216957
You know, I just don’t like his writing style for his editorials. Maybe he is trying to target that special “Herald Reader” type who only watches sports and Entertainment Tonight.
I have no problems with his radio show and have read articles Boston magazine which are well written. I guess he thinks that he can connect better with Joe Sixpack with this style.
His style, such that it is, is unique to Howie. His book was fairly well written I thought and definitely a fast read. It’s good that he has Avi on to substitute as well.
HC list ping: poss. for Police Blotter Fax Friday?
Suspect back on road for one day--Driver charged with third DUI
SALEM — A man who lost his license for drunken driving got it back on Thursday and the very next day went on a drunken jaunt through Peabody and Salem, where he was arrested, police said.
Salem District Court Judge Richard Mori ordered James P. Malone of North Reading held on $10,000 cash bail yesterday, twice the amount recommended by police prosecutor Lt. Conrad Prosniewski. Malone faces two charges, failure to stop and drunken driving, third offense. Malone was last arrested in January on drunken-driving charges he faces in Woburn District Court, which caused his license to be suspended for the six months, Prosniewski said. His license was reinstated Thursday.
"And the next day he gets picked up for drunk driving?" Mori asked. "What timing."
"Yes," Prosniewski responded.
The lieutenant said a police dispatcher in Peabody received the first call on Malone on Friday around 10:20 p.m. An erratic driver in a red Buick was traveling on Boston Street into Salem. Salem police officers found Malone driving from Summer Street onto Margin Street, Prosniewski said.
Officers noticed the car weaving in front of the post office, saw it run a stop sign at Mill Street and pulled the driver over on Endicott Street, according to the police prosecutor.
Malone attempted to open the door about 20 times but couldn't and eventually managed to roll down the window. The officer could smell alcohol coming from inside the Buick.
"His eyes were red and watering," Prosniewski told the judge. "His speech was slurred." When officers asked Malone where he had come from, he told them his house and gave the same answer when asked where he was going. The driver struggled to get out of his car and during a field sobriety test could not lift up his left leg without losing his balance, the police prosecutor said.
Standing outside, Malone urinated on himself. He also was unable to recite the alphabet, Prosniewski said. After being taken back to the police station and read his Miranda rights, Malone was given two Breathalyzer tests, the police prosecutor said. His blood alcohol content was .20 on the first try and .21 on the second, the police prosecutor said. The legal limit for drunken driving is .08.
"His license was seized and destroyed at this point," Prosniewski said.
He said another driver had followed Malone from Peabody and had seen him lose control of the Buick and strike a tree. The police prosecutor said officers could not determine which tree had been struck. "The tree could have been a vehicle or another person," Prosniewski told the judge
Wed column ping
Hey, Pags, how ’bout them Celtics?
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 9, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
When the phone don’t ring this morning, you’ll know it’s Steve Pagliuca.
Sorry, Steve, those robo-calls just didn’t pay off, did they? Neither did all your lame TV spots. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time, as a famous Republican once noted.
Steve, until this weekend I didn’t know who I was going to vote for. Usually there’s one Democrat in any primary who is at least marginally less committed to the moonbat agenda than the rest of the field. This “special” election, I was at a complete loss. It was Moe, Larry, Curley - and Shemp.
But then I got that third Pagliuca robo-call. And I knew what I had to do. I voted for Alan Khazei, even though he’s a moonbat’s moonbat, even though he’s from Brookline (am I repeating myself?), even though he was endorsed by the Globe (understandable, an unprofitable rag endorsing someone from a “nonprofit,” which to a moonbat is the next best thing to not working).
But Steve, I just had to vote for Khazei, to push you into last place.
How’s that championship trophy of yours doing this morning?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Steve, given your record of supporting George Bush and Mitt Romney, did it ever occur to you to run as what you really are, which is to say, a Republican?
That is not to say that you would be the favorite today against Martha Coakley. She is, after all, the perfect candidate for the modern Massachusetts electorate - someone for rich, white lunatics to vote for if they still feel guilty, even after voting for Barack and Deval (and, in Newton, Setti).
Steve, here’s something you should have considered about $10 million ago. If you give moonbats a choice among three moonbats and a fake moonbat, they’ll pick the moonbat every time.
Capuano wasn’t always a moonbat. But at least he had the voting record to prove that Barney Frank has kidnapped his mind. Watching Pags veer left there were only two possibilities - he’d either lost his mind, or he was lying. Either way, his credibility was zero.
When he claimed he was inspired by Kerry’s 2004 reporting for doody - I mean duty - speech, you knew he would say absolutely anything to get elected.
Yesterday morning, I heard one final Pags radio spot: “I’ve met so many people whose lives were turned upside down by this recession. . . .”
And Bain Capital does what to people’s lives when it buys a company? But Pags wants confiscatory taxes on those evil robber barons - now that he’s made his bundle.
See ya, Steve.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1217582
A message to the “Brown can’t win” people —which may include you, Howie:
“He’s not going to win. I won’t bother voting.”
“I know there’s some anger against Washington and the State House, but he can’t win. I’m sitting this one out.”
“I agree with him on 8 out of 9 issues but that’s not good enough. I’d rather have a Dem in office whom I agree with on 0 out of 9 issues.”
Might as well put Coakley stickers on your cars...Who are the real Republicans in Name Only, certain politicians, or the conservatives who stay home because “we can’t win”? If you stay home on election day—one when complacent Coakley supporters may stay home because they KNOW she’s gonna win—you are part of the problem, not the solution. I know it’s a moonbat state but you have to at least try to effect some change. If conditions get bad enough—and they will—this Commonwealth may finally wake up. And don’t forget there are many unenrolled people who are now expressing support for Brown—anyone hear Dan Rea’s show (WBZ, a station whose signal doesn’t fade after dark) last night?
Conservatives For Coakley...because if you can’t support Brown, you may as well be...
Howie Wed show ping; day after the primary. “It’s the day after the night before.” —Jerry Williams
First, here’s the last of 3 parts of Howie behind the scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giHUq7GyjXI
Snow Happens. (or lots of rain)
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I’ll be supporting Brown because he is probably with me 70% of the time. If you’re a Reagan Republican, he’ll be along the lines of Howard Baker...I think. Charlie Baker is a different story. The more I hear from him and about him it’s become apparent that he is a spoiled, pampered rich boy who’s been handed everything in life. It is also apparent Charlie has contempt for the type of people who elected Ronald Reagan to office.
Republican senatorial candidate Jack E. Robinson had hoped to carry 25 to 30 percent of the vote. He got 11 percent. He even lost his hometown of Duxbury. Still, Robinson, whose business fortune has gone to support other seemingly quixotic races in the past, said he was “not downtrodden at all” after losing big to state Sen. Scott Brown in the Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
“I’m not going anywhere from the standpoint of being a Republican,’’ he told about 15 campaign staff and supporters gathered at Boston’s Back Bay Hilton at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Acknowledging his fourth failed campaign, Robinson paraphrased fellow Harvard graduate Teddy Roosevelt, saying the man who had fought in the arena and tasted defeat would eventually triumph.
The campaign party was one in name only. The nine Robinson supporters gathered in the ballroom spent their time watching “The Biggest Loser” on NBC and every so often looking at the election numbers as they scrolled across the bottom of the screen.
I think Tiger is gonna eat a bullet soon; good choice for the “Death Pool”.
Some entity has done a remarkable job in systematically destroying him.
Fri column ping
Scott Brown, here’s my gift to you: ‘Merry Christmas’
By Howie Carr | Friday, December 11, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Two words for state Sen. Scott Brown to use in his uphill campaign for the U.S. Senate:
Merry Christmas.
That’s it, just those two simple words. Throw them in at the end of a TV spot, a postscript, just to give the networks some B-roll when they run their inevitable stories about this despicable outburst of . . . Republican hate speech.
Merry Christmas.
The moonbats will go bonkers. Within hours, Scott, you’ll be denounced by every snore-monger at the Globe. First bow-tied bumkisser to compare you to Dick Cheney doesn’t get laid off next month! MSNBC will demand your immediate extradition to The Hague to stand trial in the World Court for . . . something.
But who cares? None of these blow-in, trust-funded drifters from New York was ever going to vote for you anyway, Scott. What you need to do is get Martha Coakley on record, coming out against Merry Christmas, because you know damn well she doesn’t dare utter those two horrible words.
Here are some of the things Madame Moonbat would rather say than “Merry Christmas”:
“Of course Tooky Amirault was framed - but he’s a white male heterosexual, so who cares?”
“Gay marriage? What’s wrong with letting the people of Massachusetts vote, like they did in Maine and California?”
“What part of ‘illegal’ do these illegal aliens not understand?”
Every year, the insufferable PC Posse tries to snuff out any manifestation of yuletide spirit. Now the grinches are even squatting in the White House. Check out the mention in The New York Times [NYT] about how Comrade Barack was considering ditching the Nativity scene in the East Room of the White House.
He was talked out of it - that’s for the second term.
Scott, your task now is to show the electorate who pulls Martha Coakley’s strings. Which side is she on? Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas? Put her on the spot.
Because everyone knows what saying “Merry Christmas” means. It’s not even about religion, it’s about tradition - American tradition. One of the people fighting to restore the Merry Christmas sign at the North Andover firehouse last week was a rabbi. People get it. Even advertisers - don’t you always feel better about a company that’s not afraid to use the “C” word in their spots??
This is one of those rare occasions when a political campaign takes place during Christmas - excuse me, the winter solstice. So you can frame the issue, Scott. Just say Merry Christmas, and we’ll see which side Martha Coakley is on, as if we didn’t know.
Merry Christmas.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1218130
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