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Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column. Chances are there will be fill ins on Wed & Fri and maybe a best of on Thu but who knows.

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column

Howie thread for the week; not sure if there will be a Sunday Herald column (he's just coming back from Italy). A quick check of the Herald site just after midnight shows some columns by others but no Howie yet

Howie thread starting with his Sun Herald column. Howie is in Italy this week as part of Conservative Tours. Fill ins are Jody Applegate (Mon), Avi Nelson (Tue-election day, and Wed.), and Col. Hunt (Thu & Fri)

Howie thread for the week. Will post the Sunday Herald column (assume there will be one) once it goes up on their site.

Boisterous talkmeister Howie Carr has made no secret that he feels trapped at WRKO - but it appears he’s stuck there. Peter Smyth, chairman and CEO of radio station owner Greater Media Inc., said yesterday that he has no plans to go after Carr again. Carr’s contract with rival WRKO is up in 2012. A legal battle ensued two years ago after Carr struck a five-year deal worth up to $7 million to replace Don Imus in the morning-drive slot on Greater Media’s WTKK-FM (96.9). Carr’s bosses at WRKO-AM (680) were stunned to learn their star was jumping ship. The...

Howie thread for the week. Hopefully his Sun Herald column will be up soon and I will post it

Either the Red Sox win this afternoon at Fenway or they go home for the winter. There’s only one man who can absolutely guarantee this must-win game. Now pitching for the Red Sox: Barack Hussein Nobel Obama, the southpaw who wants to get both of his paws on your wallet. So what if he’s 48 and has never played the game? He’ll get the “W” - that’s the lesson of this Nobel Peace Prize nonsense. He can throw the ball in the dirt in front of home plate - strike one! He can toss it over the catcher’s head -...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column. Poor Howie, he took off for Florida before the news of the Nobel prize struck, but he gets a chance to address it here.

It's 10/4 good buddy and time for another week of Howie starting with his Sunday Herald column

Car czar Ernie Boch Jr. has been getting an earful from angry advertisers after a left-leaning blogger who calls himself Ernie Boch III urged readers to boycott Herald columnist Howie Carr’s WRKO radio program - and Carr’s advertisers. “I thought the mob was calling me on my cell phone,” EBJ told the Track after fielding a nasty call from SBLI biggie Bob Sheridan . “This guy, Sheridan, was ranting and raving about my boycott, and finally it hit me.” Of course, there is no Ernie Boch III. But the fake son of the Automile King has been blogging for more...

Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr is apparently okay after crashing his car into a telephone pole in Wellesley Sunday morning. According to police, the 57-year-old scribe and WRKO talk-show host was driving south on Wellesley Avenue, between Oakland and Forest streets, when his 2004 Acura suddenly crossed into the oncoming lane, hit a curb, and slammed into a telephone pole. Wellesley police Sgt. Marie Cleary said Carr refused medical treatment and the car was towed. (The pole was split in half.) Carr was cited for a marked-lanes violation. "There were no signs of alcohol or anything suspicious of that nature,"...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sun Herald column

Howie thread starting w/ his Sun Herald column

Howie Carr thread for the week. radio doings: a report in yesterday's Boston Globe-Democrat says that ESPN is going off the air (WAMG 890) tomorrow and one thing that may well happen is WRKO's sister station, WEEI...you know, the folks who took over Howie's studio...could move to FM (93.7, based in Peabody, most likely, and perhaps 97.7, with a tower on Great Blue Hill) with ESPN landing on AM 850. Nothing is official but Entercom is "in talks" with ESPN. Meanwhile there is also speculation that Entercom may dump WRKO's 680 signal and send the programming perhaps to 107.3 (currently...

Howie thread for the wk starting as usual with his Sunday Herald column

Click on link to watch; actually mostly audio. From 1994, Howie Carr, then with WHDH AM 850 talks with John Farrar who discovered Mary Jo Kopechne's body. He was pressured not to talk about his discoveries. excerpt: Howie Carr: John let me just get this straight..your belief is that while Ted Kennedy was walking past all these houses back towards the "party house" where we're broadcasting from now, Mary Jo was still alive. Farrar: Uh, that is correct. Carr: And she would have been alive probably for about an hour, do you think. Farrar: I think that's most reasonable--an hour...

Howie Carr live thread. When the Herald posts his column I'll post it here. Also Jerry Anguilo has shed his mortal coil which means another winner in Howie's death pool.

Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, who ruled Boston’s Mafia with an iron fist for two decades, died today, sources have confirmed. Angiulo suffered a broken hip earlier this month while fighting a losing battle with kidney failure. The ex-gangster was 90 years old. Angiulo had returned to his compound in Nahant upon his release from prison in 2007 after a 21-year stint behind bars for his 1986 conviction on federal racketeering, loansharking and illegal gambling charges. The reign of the former New England La Cosa Nostra underboss was ended by his rivals in the South Boston Irish mob, James “Whitey” Bulger and...

Radio Host Howie Carr today revealed that Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick is holding a fundraiser on Cape Cod today at the residence of the Red Cross CEO today. Gov. Patrick will be speaking at Sen. Kennedy's "time" tonight.

I never voted for Ted Kennedy, not once, and neither did maybe a quarter to one-third of the Massachusetts electorate, although you’d never know that from the echo chamber of the mainstream media since his death in Hyannisport late Tuesday night. While offering condolences to the Kennedy family at this sad moment, it is important to note that his life was not as simple, nor heroic, as is now being portrayed. On the cable channels yesterday, his fellow Senate graybeards, of both parties, were lamenting the passing of what was invariably described as Ted Kennedy’s “collegial” Senate - where voices...

Thanks Senator for holding on to that Senate seat till your last breath instead of resigning early so an election (or even an appointment) could be held. Made 9 of the last 270 votes, I hear. Talk about a full time senator! Anyway, the Howie Carr show hereby launches a Ted Kennedy memorial ping. All are invited to tune in to Howie's show weekdays 3-7 pm Eastern Time. And yeah I guess someone won the death pool. http://www.wrko.com http://www.wntk.com http://www.wcrnradio.com

Let us now consider the State House friends of Teddy Kennedy. OK, so the senior senator’s scheme to keep “his” Senate seat in the family is probably a non-starter. After all, it’s too late for Teddy to provide the customary “gratuities” to the sleazy solons who in 2004 rolled over for him on the bill that took away the then-GOP governor’s ability to fill a vacant Senate seat. You know, the bill that Teddy demanded passage of, but which he now claims “concerns me deeply,” because it’s so, uh, undemocratic. What sort of reprobate reps would vote for such palpably...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column

Hey, Deval, if you thought your recent poll numbers have been abysmal - and they have been - wait until after this latest pool-closing fiasco. You’ll be . . . drowning. Do you know what the governor calls a Herald plane hovering over his sparkling pool and cabana on his $1.7 million estate in Richmond on the second-hottest day of the year? “Every rich man’s nightmare.” The name of Deval’s Berkshires retreat, by the way, is Sweet P Farm. Now we know what the P stands for - pool. Talk about tone deaf - firing Dan Grabauskas, not firing Jim...

No, no, a thousand times no to this last Kennedy play. Here’s what this naked political ploy boils down to: Sen. Ted Kennedy is basically asking the Massachusetts Legislature to repeal a law that he personally pushed through that very same Legislature in 2004. He would gut his own law in order to give a very unpopular governor the right to appoint a rubberstamp who might - might - provide the 60th vote in the Senate to ram through this Obama-care monstrosity that is vehemently opposed by an ever-growing majority of the American people. Democracy in Massachusetts - you can...

Howie thread starting w/ his Sunday Herald column

http://wrko.radiotown.com/audio/Howie_Carr_interviews_Reagan.mp3

Click on link to hear Ronald Reagan on socialized medicine. Howie Carr crafted an "interview" with the audio from Reagan(unknown how old the audio is)

OK I'll at least start the thread but GQuagmire will do the pings as I'll be away.

Howie thread for the week; I will post his Sunday Herald column when it goes up on the Herald site

Howie thread for the week. He returns to the air Mon 7/27 after hip surgery. I'll post his Sun column but right now (8:35 am) I can't get into the site -- heavy traffic (Gates case?) at bostonherald.com Stay tuned.

Howie Carr had hip surgery the other day and will absent from his radio show for the next two weeks. There will be various fill ins. Here's the thread for these upcoming two weeks. If Howie has any newspaper columns I will repro them here. (note: so far no sign of any Sunday Herald column for 7/12 but if it appears I'll post it)

Howie thread for the week

OK a little early but at least I'll get it started. Hope to post Howie's Sun column later tonight. After that it's mostly GQuagmire (thanks!) doing the pings for the next 2 weeks

Sen. John Kerry - stop talking about baseball! Forget his Sarah Palin “botched joke,” to coin a phrase. The night before he cracked wise about wishing that she, rather than Gov. Mark Sanford, had disappeared, the junior senator was down in D.C. in the Red Sox [team stats] broadcast booth during their road game against the Washington Nationals. Talk turned to Liveshot’s tossing out the first pitch of a Yankees game at Fenway during the Democratic convention in Boston in 2004. Perhaps you recall that limp-wristed toss? But, Sen. Kerry informed the NESN audience, it was not his fault. Just...

Howie thread starting with his Sunday Herald column

So now The New York Times is quoting “experts” saying the Boston Globe may only be worth one dollar - a buck! Eight bits! OK, here goes. I’ve got a hunch, I’m gonna bet a bunch. Pinch Sulzberger, if you’re listening, I am going to offer you a premium for your dreadful sheet - two bucks. I will take the entire rag off your hands - even the weekly editorial about how wonderful Barney Frank is. Terms: cash. I just counted out eight quarters from the change cup in my car. That’s my last best offer. I still have three...

Weekly thread starting w/ his Sunday Herald column

Howie thread starting w/ his Sunday Herald column

Deborah DiMasi’s TV book show has been suspended “indefinitely” by NECN in the wake of her husband’s federal indictment on fraud and conspiracy charges. In a statement released yesterday, NECN President and General Manager Charlie Kravetz said the regional news network is aggressively covering the federal case against ex-House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi and wanted to avoid “any perception of a conflict of interest.” Deborah DiMasi co-hosted “The Open Book Club” with Christy Scott Cashman, the wife of politically wired construction magnate Jay Cashman. The Sunday night show debuted in April 2008. “NECN is aggressively covering the government’s case against...

Howie thread starting with his Sunday Herald column

Posing as a reformer is tiresome work. So said James Michael Curley, and nothing has changed. Just ask Gov. Deval Patrick. Riding around in his Cadillac, handing out six-figure jobs to his unemployed neighbors, appointing maxed-out campaign contributors to judgeships - now that’s fun. Trying to keep a straight face while claiming he believes in “reform before revenue” - not nearly so much fun. Will the benumbed voters buy Deval’s tiresome new pose? Not if they remember his 2006 vow to deliver property-tax relief to homeowners. Last week, the Senate was “debating” the latest round of tax increases, although maybe...

Swine flu is so April, but here’s Mumbles Menino, stepping to the microphone to brief the city on the closing of Boston Latin. “I ask for your continued core-op-peration and patience as we take the appropriate steps to take - keep residents healthy. And this decision, let me just say wasn’t done, wasn’t done . . . a lot of thought, a lot of consideration in it.” Kind of like his campaign for another four-year term as mayor of Boston. This is an incumbent who, despite rampant street crime and even more rampant corruption at City Hall, can still raise...

For those 2,063,891 of you Massachusetts voters who last year refused to abolish the state income tax because it wasn’t the “responsible” thing to do, I have a question. Are you happy now, dopes? They told you if we abolished the income tax, they’d have to raise the state sales tax. Now they’re raising the state sales tax anyway - by 25 percent. They told you if we abolished the income tax, they’d just have to bring it back. So now these emboldened hacks are threatening to jack the income tax up to 5.95 percent. It’s “for the children,” you...

Finally, after all these years, Billy Bulger and I are on the same side of an issue. We are both rooting for the Globe to fold. Stipulated, your Honor, that the Corrupt Midget continues to grab that $200,000-a-year state pension. He’s still got his spalpeens at the public trough, including at least one double dipper. Makes ya wanna throw up on TV, as Dapper O’Neil used to say. Yes, Bulger is the generalissimo of the Forgotten but Not Gone Brigade. He’s made disparaging remarks about this paper, too. How can we miss him when he won’t go away? Still, the...

Howie thread starting with his Sunday Herald column

What state budget crisis? Here is a very partial list of some of the hacks who, in the midst of the alleged fiscal “meltdown,” have filed bills to move themselves into more lucrative state-pension classifications: Parking-meter supervisors, senior parking-meter supervisors, clerk/magistrates (who make $110,220 a year), assistant clerk magistrates, recorders, registrars, bridge operators, radio maintenance techs, supervising tree surgeons, tree climbers, municipal fire chemists . . . you get the idea. The average public employee already makes 46 percent more in salary and benefits than the typical private-sector worker. But it’s not enough. They want more . . . More...

How come when Aiden Quinn brags on a Web site about being “FTM” - female to male - that’s celebrating diversity? But if you bring up his sex change it’s hate speech. Even if you mention Quinn’s gender-bending in the context of his apparently criminal behavior, it’s still a verboten topic. Why do you, the taxpayer, have any right to know about the person born Georgia Quinn, whose moronic behavior Friday night allegedly caused a $10 million accident that injured 50 Green Line riders and exposed the cash-strapped MBTA to millions in lawsuits? So what if Quinn had three speeding...

Implosion on Morrissey Boulevard It’s every moonbat for himself now at the Globe. May the best trust fund win. Jan. 1 will be D-Day - D as in deadwood. Assuming the effete Globe union OKs the new pact - and what choice do they have? -New Year’s is when the suits can start whacking useless overfed zombies like Dan Totten, the guys with the “lifetime” guarantees. The bow-tied bumkissers are throwing a hissy fit. Why, these givebacks are “draconian” (a true Globe word). The Times wants everyone to work . . . 40 hours a week! The publisher, who was...