Posted on 12/17/2006 6:06:06 AM PST by raccoonradio
Mayor Thomas M. Menino is chastising shock jocks Opie & Anthony and WBCN for broadcasting a live "Homeless Shopping Spree" yesterday where homeless people were given money and were taken to a New Jersey mall...
"This so-called "shopping spree" is a sick and twisted exercise that degrades the most vulnerable members of our society," Menino. "This is wrong, and we need the public . . . who care about the homeless and about basic human decency to stand up and tell them so."
According to a live broadcast of the program yesterday, more than 2,000 people showed up at the Mall at Short Hills to greet the homeless crowd and give them extra money as they shopped with gift cards from the Opie & Anthony show.
The broadcast was punctuated with jokes about how the homeless people smelled, how much they drank, and how irresponsible their shopping was, such as buying a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses and a boom box.
Opie (Greg Hughes) and Anthony (Anthony Cumia) were once fixtures on the Boston shock-jock scene. But in 1998, they were fired from Boston's WAAF-FM after broadcasting a false April Fool's report that Menino had been killed in a car accident in Florida. They then moved their show to New York, became syndicated, and Boston's WBCN picked them up in 2001. But in 2002, the two were kicked off FM radio after they staged a contest that resulted in the arrest of a couple for public lewdness for attempting to have sex in a vestibule at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Republican Administration: "Bums"
Democratic Administration (OK, so Patrick isn't
in office till 1/4 but an early start): "The homeless"
(Also "homeless" applies when being used by the paper
Michael Graham calls "The Boston Globe-Democrat"
Nice to give to the needy though (charity not govt
spending though...)
For Howie Carr fans: "Thank you, Cap'n!" (he once sent a producer out to give coupons for booze, I believe, or was it food, and the producer asked the bums to say that)
Hey, they oculd have taken to a liquor store and bought them what they really wanted.
Then maybe the mayor could have gotten a little upset.
"Hey, who was that half-shaven guy who just spoke gibberish to me...was that a homeless person?"
"No. It was the mayor of Boston."
http://www.mumblesmenino.us
Howie Carr ping (am sure he'll mention this tomorrow)
The homeless deserve no charity now? Don't make their lives any better or they may rejoin society!
Had they been given elephant dung and sent to deface an image of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, they would be described as pushing the First Amendment envelope and backed by the ACLU.
"These individuals and this station should be punished," Menino said.Good idea there, Mumbles. You just might run into a bit of trouble with the Constitution, though, particularly that pesky First Amendment. Ever read it?
Today's Howie Column (btw it's 9:12 am, where the heck
is my Sunday Herald?!? got it online tho)
What Boston City Hall needs is an exorcist
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Somebody told me this week that Boston City Hall is for sale.
Isn’t it always?
Of course this is supposed to be different from all the earlier “sales.” This latest proposal would be on the level, with RFPs, public hearings and certified checks, as opposed to the customary City Hall currency - cash, in unmarked bills, exchanged with the lights low after a polite pat-down of the shakedownee, to ensure that no unsightly federal wires are attached to the armpits of what the indictments always describe as CW (Cooperating Witness).
As always, Mayor Mumbles Menino is on top of the situation. He knows exactly what the problem is with City Hall. It has too many floors, or, as he put it last week, floorses.
Here is Mumbles’ verbatim quote:
“The buildin’ is unworkable, I mean it doesn’t - it’s not conducive to, uh, customer friendly, uh, when you have so many different floorses, third floor on one side there’s no third on the other side, fourth floor on one side no - you know, and the public gets confused.”
Here is the problem with City Hall in one word, a word that Mumbles can neither define nor pronounce: mezzanine.
Personally, I hate the building. When I worked there, for more than a year in the ’80s, I used to have nightmares about falling endlessly through the back, concrete stairwells.
Have you ever walked across City Hall Plaza in the winter? It’s so cold that city councilors keep their hands in their own pockets.
But let’s face it: If Mumbles did raze City Hall and give the land (which is what you know he’d do - wink wink, nudge nudge) to private developers, all you’d end up with is another crime-ridden Downtown Crossing. Still, anything would be an improvement over Government Center, especially if Tommy Tsoumos is finally allowed to open his sanctuary for weary businessmen, the Foxy Lady Downtown, where the first shot is on the house, and after that you have to use your own bullets.
City Hall may be a dismal place, yet there is an argument to be made, as the preservationists did this week, that it is a historic site.
Put it on the National Register of Historic Bad Buildings.
Think of all the Boston lore you’d be destroying if you tore it down. What giants strode those halls. Every Wednesday’s City Council meeting wasn’t just a civics class, it was a spelling lesson. I still recall Freddy Langone bellowing, “Who ate at the Parkman House? Who? H-W-O-H, who?”
And Pat McDonough thundering, “Anyone who votes for this is politically dead. D-E-D, dead.”
I could direct the FBI’s Violent Fugitive Task Force to at least two locations where hand-written correspondence from one James J. Whitey Bulger is filed. One is at the Boston Retirement Board, where he listed his brother Billy’s address as his own, and the other is at - well, I’ll keep that to myself for now. There is a $1 million bounty at stake, after all.
And then there was the city budget director who filed for disability after claiming he slipped on a patch of ice - inside City Hall. His name was Squawker, and the feds indicted him because they wanted to turn him into Squealer.
Remember the high-ranking female appointee, still at City Hall, who attended the Mafia induction in Medford back in 1989, and who was later promoted after her FBI surveillance photo appeared in the papers.
What Stonehenge is to the Druids, Boston City Hall is to the hackerama. You can’t tear it down, no matter how hideous it is. Mumbles, forget the appraisers, what you need is an exorcist. And make sure they sprinkle holy water on all the floorses.
These unfunny, no talent posers continue to show why they don't hold a candle to Howard Stern's flatulence; and I haven't listened to Howard since he left FM.
92.3 usually plays music on weekends and I'm a listener. Instead I was treated to a few minutes of their tasteless non-sense of homeless exploitation yesterday.
BTW, the Short Hills mall is the swankiest mall in NJ.
It's the home of Donna Dees Thomases, when she's not leading the Million Mom March to help get Al Gore elected.
>>Ask if they are hungry and if so buy them a meal.
Howie has said the same thing. Otherwise it goes for
Boone's Farm or MadDog 2020.
I hear they like those 40 oz. stocking-stuffers...
I'm thinking, he's at least go healthcare, universal or not. Or he's BSing me. So I offered Dunkin' Donuts juice and bagels and he accepted.
Clip from an actual public service announcement with Da
Mayah: "Together, we can defeat prostrate (sic) cancer"
http://www.mumblesmenino.us/mumbling/Prostrate%20Cancer.mp3
Who has a better command of the English language, Tom
Menino or Daisuke Matsuzaka?
Opie and Anthony are complete imbeciles.
BTW, the guy who had sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral died of a heart attack, at the age of 38, before he could even appear in court on the charges.
Apparently, he was sentenced in a higher court.
Maybe someone should ask the homeless recepients of the gift cards if they have any objections.
LOL. Yes, it was quite the coincidence.
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