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If your name were Joseph Patrick, your candidacy would be a joke. That is of course a paraphrase of what Eddie McCormack said to Ted Kennedy back in their 1962 Senate debate. But it’s just as true now of Teddy’s great-nephew JoJoJo Kennedy. So what if he doesn’t have any qualifications. He’ll drive off that bridge when he comes to it. Actually, he does have a record, and that’s the fact that his name is Kennedy and he doesn’t have a record, a police record that is. For a Kennedy, that’s quite a record to run on. Somebody said yesterday...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie Carr Show thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald article about the mayor of Boston, prone to malapropisms ("together we can beat prostrate cancer"; "jumbletroms" meaning Jumbotron). The outcome of the big game tonight will influence how Patriots fans refer to it tomorrow: It'll be either "WE won" or "THEY lost". Hopefully either way we won't see "a few knuckleheads" acting like lager louts out in the streets of Menino-land tonight. Actually I'm sure we will.

Howie Carr Show thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald article about the mayor of Boston, prone to malapropisms ("together we can beat prostrate cancer"; "jumbletroms" meaning Jumbotron). The outcome of the big game tonight will influence how Patriots fans refer to it tomorrow: It'll be either "WE won" or "THEY lost". Hopefully either way we won't see "a few knuckleheads" acting like lager louts out in the streets of Menino-land tonight. Actually I'm sure we will.

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Scandal only way out for state hacks"

How profoundly America has changed since January 2009. I was pondering this the other night during the State of the Union address. Did you know that our elite military units like the Navy SEALs are now examples of America at its absolute finest? Why, wasn’t it just a few years ago that Sen. Dick Durbin was comparing these very same troops to the Khmer Rouge and Joe Stalin’s Red Army? What used to be Dick Cheney’s hit squad is now a beacon of freedom. But now of course the president is a Democrat. When Durbin spoke a Republican resided in...

Headline seen briefly on WBZ-TV website before it got pulled down: IF PATRIOTS WIN, MENINO WILL GET CRABS

Howie Carr thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "All Goes Wrong For Dudley Do-Right". Excerpt: (more below)-- Mitt Romney just can’t close the deal. Twelve days ago, Mitt was the toast of the GOP. This morning he’s just toast. Twelve days ago, he’d won a “historic” two in a row — Iowa and New Hampshire — and he had a double-digit lead in South Carolina. Now it turns out Mitt didn’t even win Iowa.

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, but here are two words you’ll never hear him utter: “Open marriage.” I raise this only because I’ve noticed something lately about another of the Republican candidates, namely Newt Gingrich. Women don’t like him. I mean, they really detest him. This problem predates last night’s “Nightline” interview with his second wife, Marianne, who proved once again that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Good luck avoiding those ABC sound bites today, now that they’re all in the public domain. Whether or not either of his first two wives was on her...

Democrats are all in a twitter over the recent revelation that Mitt Romney likely paid an annual average of only 15% of his income in taxes. They ignore the likelihood that he also likely paid an average of 10% of his income in annual tithing to charities as required by his Mormon faith. Democrats are banking on the premise that this sort of class envy rhetoric might help them in a year when the public has become conditioned to blame capitalism for the economic woes that have beset the country these past three years. As a presidential candidate, how does...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich defends his recent comments on Mitt Romney. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich joined Howie up in New Hampshire to talk about his campaign and how they are doing. Also Howie grilled the Newt on recent comments he made against Mitt Romney.

What did Callista put in Newt Gingrich’s Bosco yesterday? We all knew he was coming hard after Mitt with his newfound cache of funny money. But who knew he was planning to become a suicide bomber? His office in D.C. is on K Street — the K apparently stands for Kamikaze. He is now out Ron Paul-ing Ron Paul himself. I had him on my radio show last night before the polls in New Hampshire closed, and I tried to get Newt to explain what’s gotten into him. He seemed surprised that some people might be taken aback by his...

Howie thread for the week starting off with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "C’mon Sean, stop JoJoJo’s ‘coronation’" Can Sean Bielat (R) stop Joe Kennedy III from getting Barney Frank's seat? Read on!

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Carrnac Predicts"

Sometimes, when I’m talking to Ron Paul supporters, I feel like I must have been out of the room when they started ladling out the Kool-Aid. This isn’t a campaign, it’s a cult. You don’t have to wear a tinfoil hat to be for Ron Paul, but it helps. Maybe he should change his name to L. Ron Paul. Four years ago, most Ron Paul supporters had this goofy, stoned quality about them, like Hempfest attendees. They’d tell you how, like, George Washington used hemp in the Continental Army, dude, and if it was like totally good enough for the...

IÂ’d like to address a question to all the people I hear from who tell me how bad U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is, how heÂ’s a turncoat, sellout, backstabbing, snake-in-the-grass Republican in Name Only (RINO). My question is, if Scott Brown is so damn liberal, how come the Democrats already are spending millions upon millions of dollars to knock him out of the Senate next year? Granted, I donÂ’t think there are that many of these Brown haters out there, but they are way overrepresented in the universe of talk-show radio callers. When the first words out of their mouths...

I’m glad I thought to ask Mitt that question about Uncle Omar – that headline looks great on the Drudge Report this afternoon. “Romney: I’d Deport Obama’s Uncle" It was a no-brainer. I was just surprised he didn’t know who I was talking about at first. I understand that he wouldn’t read Barack’s narcissistic memoirs, but hey, Uncle Omar’s been in the Boston papers for months now. This is the kind of red meat Republican primary voters want. The reason Gov. Rick Perry dropped like a stone in the polls last fall wasn’t so much that he had that brain...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Congress sees the light over bulb ban"

A mug shot is worth a thousand words. And these BPD mug shots from Occupy Boston tell us quite a story, namely, how greasy and dirty you’ll look if you stop bathing for weeks at a time. Until they were run out of Dewey Square, the howling-at-the-moon hippies were protesting the fact that they can’t find jobs. And it is true that the vast majority of those lugged early Saturday morning are unemployed. Imagine that — how could a potential employer not be bowled over by, say, Jonathan Landry Kenyon, age 19, a drifter from Freedom, Pa. Look at that...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Hasta la Vista, Freeloaders!" "Good riddance. Better late than never. How could we miss them when they wouldn’t go away? I’d have preferred a final Armaggedon-like confrontation featuring a 21st century reincarnation of the Tactical Patrol Force swinging billy clubs and letting loose the German shepherds on the filthy, drug-addled, obscenity-spewing trust-funders...."

Howie Carr Show thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "How ‘brainy’ Frank got Barney-mandered"

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Occupy Thanksgiving Table Occupy Boston’s tent city is no settlement of hardy New England Pilgrims. Many of the unwashed and infamous Dewey Square squatters apparently will be heading home, as Occupy takes a holiday for Thanksgiving. A random sampling yesterday found few committed to sticking around for turkey in the cold. Lori Owens, 40, of Rochester, N.H., said she’s northbound to spend the holiday with her husband and two teenage children, who she admits think her current preOccupation is a little crazy. “I’m going to fix Thanksgiving dinner and hang out with my family, and then on Saturday I’m coming...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column

There’s only one way to put an end to the abject national disgrace that is the Massachusetts state judiciary. Elect them. Let the voters decide. Hey, if the electorate wants to put a drunkard with an OUI conviction on the bench who then brooms 11 out of the 11 drunken-driving cases that come before him, so be it. That’s democracy. The people get the government they deserve. But with elections, you would have to end up with a higher class of judge. I say this because you couldn’t possibly end up with any lower class than we already have. As...

I don’t know what Herman Cain did or didn’t do at the National Restaurant Association, and neither do you. But I can quote you some of what the journalistic common nightwalkers of Politico said in their alleged blockbuster: “There were also descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable.” Not overtly sexual? That could mean anything. Please pass the salt. Get me Joe on the phone. How ’bout them Steelers? Do you remember this exact same point in the 2008 campaign? The National Enquirer had just started running their...

Howie Carr thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Whiz Elizabeth Warren a little short on Street smarts"

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column

I take it all back. There is something positive going on down in Dewey Square: The trust-fund hippies are finally getting some reality-based education. And guess who is giving them this lesson in the school of hard knocks? Not their precious professors, but the indigenous bums, street drunks, junkies and assorted other deinstitutionalized, as they used to be called. If you missed yesterday’s Herald, you didn’t see some of the most priceless quotes of the month, from Steph’s comrades down at the local Obamaville. Here’s one from a 36-year-old protester describing the “homeless” who are trying to protect their turf...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sun. Herald column

President Mitt Romney? Is it really possible? Mitt Romney — the guy fellow Republican John Lakian used to call “Mr. Mormon?” Who put Seamus the Irish setter on the top of his car and then drove to Michigan? Who in 2008 said his sons were doing their national service by campaigning for him? Mitt Romney, who couldn’t put John McCain, Mike Huckabee or Fat Matt Amorello away. Who literally didn’t have the coattails in Massachusetts to get even one state rep elected? Mitt Romney, who probably wouldn’t have been elected governor if Shannon O’Brien hadn’t decided to show up at...

The outing of an Icelandic woman as the snitch who dimed out Southie mobster James “Whitey” Bulger could put her in danger and may have a chilling effect on other witnesses who could think twice before coming forward, former prosecutors warn. The FBI — which vowed confidentiality to the tipster — also could take a hit if it comes out that the agency was involved in the leak, experts say. The FBI did not return calls yesterday. The woman’s identity was made public yesterday in a Boston Globe story on Bulger’s life of the lam. Her background, photo, husbands, career...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column

What a shocker. I mean, WE were doing so great until Sept. 3. And then THEY had a worse September than Rick Perry. There is no joy in Shillville. Worst choke in baseball history, even worse than the Braves this year, the Braves who used to play in Boston, which as someone said yesterday proves that you can take the Braves out of Boston, but you can’t take the Boston out of the Braves. Everyone chant together, “We’re number three! We’re number three!” I guess the cream of the Boston sporting press is going to have to find some new...

I never thought Rick Perry was going to be the next Ronald Reagan. But who knew he’d turn out to be the next Mumbles Menino? At least the governor of Texas picked the right place to turn into a pumpkin — Orlando, home of Disney World. That GOP debate Thursday night was a political NASCAR race. All the fans got what they came for — a massive crack-up on the far turn. Remember two weeks ago when everyone said Rick Perry was ready for prime time. It turned out to be a “monstrous lie,” to coin a phrase. Here is...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sun. Herald column

starting with his Sun. Herald colmn

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column: "‘I’m sorry, it’s my turn’: If Mitt’s supposed to be GOP nominee, someone forgot to tell Rick Perry"

Breaking news on the Howie Carr show (heard in New England): Obama's uncle, despite being an illegal alien, has a VALID social security number and driver's license... valid SSN _more than 20 years ago_... "If you go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and try to get a license and don't have a valid SSN, you have to get some kind of letter...you become a refugee and you're automatically entitled to the welfare...you had to come up with an excuse. But he had a social security number from more than 20 yrs ago even though he's an illegal alien. His...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column. Just before 10 am now, as what is now Tropical Storm Irene heads through the northeast. Here on Boston's North Shore I can tell you from our Eyewitness Weather studio (where I look out the window and witness the weather) that it's light rain, not really windy. (It may pick up later but the storm is weakening though I'm sure it's a lot worse west of here)

Mitt Romney vs. Rick Perry — this primary season is going to be class warfare at its most entertaining. It’s barely even started, and already you hear callers to Rush Limbaugh saying, “Rick Perry dittos.” And the dying broadsheets are already ramping up to defend Romneycare, trying their damnedest not to trip over anybody in Massachusetts who’s had to pay a $2,000 fine for the crime of having no dough. And it’s not even Labor Day yet. So let us consider the profound, irreconcilable differences between these two men. Rick Perry goes to rodeos, Mitt Romney goes to Rodeo Drive....

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column

Howie Carr thread for the week though Howie is on vacation from the radio show. He says there may be columns but so far I don't see one for Sunday

Howie thread for the wk starting with his Sun Herald column

Howie Carr live thread starting off with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "Rank behavior: Liveshot (John Kerry) mum about pal’s disgrace"

(K.D. of Cambridge writes): "I work in a two-person office with my boss. He listens to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk shows while we are in the office and when we are driving in the car to a job site. I am finding it harder and harder to listen to those shows, which I find increasingly offensive. In the car, I generally can tune it out by bringing something to read. Would it be rude to bring a personal music player to the office and listen to it with headphones while I’m working, explaining that I find listening to...