Posts with the tag 'Massachusetts'
Thanks, Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, for so accurately representing your family’s sentiments toward the little people of Massachusetts.
That middle finger aimed out the window during Ted K’s motorcade perfectly sums up the situation: we’ll behave any way we like, while you will continue to reward us with eternal political power, all because of our “royal” surname.
Now that the circus is over, the focus has shifted toward political fallout. Harry Reid has already admitted that Ted’s death was really about boosting the party’s fortunes in Congress, while here at home, the local media is ready to assign the seat to crooked Joe Kennedy.
Though The Globies and their apologists are ready to turn the US Senate into the House of Lords, with its former tradition of hereditary peerages, opposition researchers representing a number of candidates will be pounding away at Joe’s shady background.
For its part, talk radio has a chance to be relevant: it may not be able to revitalize a moribund GOP, but it could easily stop Joe with a bit of effort.
Also in target range: Beacon Hill’s Corruptocrats. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s ill-fated, clumsy “run” for the vacant Senate seat in New York helped to damage Governor Paterson’s public standing beyond repair. Ultimately, he was stuck in a lose-lose position and made a different selection.
How our legislature and governor proceed from here could absolutely imperil their respective political careers as well. Let the implosion begin!
Tags: joe kennedy, kennedy, Massachusetts, schlossberg, senate seat, talk radio, Ted K
September 1st, 2009
While many of us will do what we can to avoid tomorrow’s ‘O’verdose, our children will not be so lucky. That’s because nearly all of them will be compelled to watch (and regurgitate via classroom assignments) tomorrow’s Oprah-infused ‘O’verkill, whether they like it or not.
Clearly, Obama’s cultists are using Tuesday as an opportunity to bring even America’s youngest children into their fold.
With fresh powder on the ground and sunshine, today was a beautiful day for sledding in New England. At a nearby school with hills perfect for the occasion, the place was packed, ironic given that classes were not in session.
Though I wasn’t aiming for it, the inevitable question came up with a couple of parents: will their children be forced to participate in this over-the-top nonsense? The consensus: short of pulling kids out of classes, resistance is futile.
Should we do that?
Partisan teachers and administrators, none of whom would have dreamed of interrupting classes for Bush’s inaugurals, are determined to ram this down their throats. One parent with high schoolers believed the situation would be particularly bad in that setting.
It’s not just occurring here: in Ohio, schools are banning viewpoints seen as unfavorable to the Obamists and in my Californian hometown, students are creating art using leftist buzzwords and connecting it to the “peace-loving” new regime.
Interestingly, so many families with children have fled Santa Cruz (and many other Californian cities) that a number of public schools have closed, with smaller, private charter outfits sometimes taking their place.
Meanwhile, Margery Eagan’s Boston Herald column tying the heroic USAir pilot to Obama has generated quite a backlash, not just here, but at their own site as well. At the New York Daily News, Mike Lupica tried the same ridiculous approach.
As for the relentless Obamist media overkill, at some point over the weekend, my anger dissipated as I realized that all of this has become so extreme that it can only help the emerging resistance movement.
Obama himself has made a key strategic error by promising the moon and making daily comparisons to Lincoln, FDR and others. Smart politicians place the bar low, but this guy has set himself up for failure from the get-go.
As Oprah, Will Smith and the other annoying, divisive figures in our society party it up tomorrow, remember that it will all be over on Wednesday. At that point, a harsh reality will set in: we’ve just elected an unknown novice during a time of great global upheaval. He will fail, it’s just a matter of when.
Obama’s rise was much too sudden and steep, the resulting downfall will be just as severe. I’m reminded of Jimmy Cliff’s classic anthem “The Harder They Come”:
So as sure as the sun will shine/
I’m gonna get my share now of what’s mine/
And then the harder they come the harder they’ll fall, one and all/
Ooh the harder they come the harder they’ll fall, one and all
Keep these words in mind tomorrow, they will prove prophetic.
Tags: Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Michelle Obama, obama, WTKK
January 19th, 2009
Inside any American mainstream media outlet today, the internal pressure to conform to the Obamist Overload is clearly enormous. For many newspapers and Barack’s over-the-top cheerleaders at NBC, newsrooms are already so far to the left that good news judgment is now a distant memory.
To see just one of thousands of examples from recent days, take a look at Friday’s Providence Journal, which features a gaggy fluff piece on a furniture purchase by the Obamas.
But those who have the courage to stand up to this wild (and frankly divisive) excess will quickly experience a newfound appreciation from grateful readers, viewers and listeners. Certain conservative talk show hosts have already recognized the need to fight back, but we are also lucky enough to have a newspaper willing to balance its coverage as well.
In recent days, the Boston Herald has carried at least two catty anti-Palin columns and today offers a sappy love-letter to Barack written (shockingly) by one of his Harvard buddies.
But it was also willing to consider that many here at home are feeling overwhelmed by the nonstop reminders of Obama’s supposed (yet unproven) greatness. Friday’s front cover provides a rare example of fairness. In an environment where the mainstream media believes it can compel us to love him, it’s a refreshing approach.
Another welcome perspective comes from conservative talk icon Rush Limbaugh, who on Friday refused to cave into the silly notion that all Americans “want Obama to succeed”. Keeping the country safe is one thing, expecting single-party rule with no political opposition is another.
From his show:
I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, “Well, I hope he succeeds. We’ve got to give him a chance.” Why? They didn’t give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I’m not talking about search-and-destroy, but I’ve been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don’t want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he’s talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don’t want this to work.
So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.” (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.
Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed?
With the Obamists poised to assume power, his media supporters have now shifted their focus back to hyping “threats” against their Messiah by bitter, gun-clinging whiteys. See coverage here, here, here, and here.
For those of you not yet grabbed by the body-snatchers, now is no time to get sucked into to this absurd excess.
And finally, for the remaining respectable media types reading this, here’s a tip: it might be worth your while to check out local and state offices on Tuesday. Apparently, some workers may be planning to take a fun-filled four-day weekend culminating in local Obamist celebrations on Tuesday.
Nice work if you can get it!
Tags: Barack Obama, Boston Herald, Howie Carr, Massachusetts, Rush Limbaugh, WRKO
January 17th, 2009
After apparently convincing themselves that corruption in Massachusetts politics was limited to Dianne Wilkerson, local lefties are now forced to confront the arrest of another one of their own.
How do you fault Bush and the GOP for this? We know they’ll try. In fact, newly arrested Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is already blaming a racist conspiracy by the FBI, according to The Globies.
Fair enough, Chuck: there’s a whole list of white Democrats who deserve to be the next to go, starting with Therese Murray and Mayor-For-Life Menino.
By the way, you won’t see Turner’s party affiliation anywhere in today’s news stories, so I looked it up: he’s apparently a Green Party member.
Tags: Boston City, boston city councilor, Chuck Turner, Massachusetts, massachusetts politics, therese murray, Tom Menino
November 21st, 2008
World leaders, you have met your match: the sheer arrogance brought upon by single-party rule in New England.
What else explains the disgusting sense of entitlement that exists within the Bay State’s corrupt politics-media ruling class?
With today’s revelations that WTKK’s Jim Braude tried to interfere with Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s motorcade, the libtalker has revealed just how overconfident Boston’s politically-connected hacks have become.
From the Boston Herald:
State police Sgt. Steven Godfrey said he was at his post for two minutes when his lieutenant radioed that the escort was leaving the library. It was then that Godfrey heard a “car horn blaring” and saw a black SUV “traveling northbound in the southbound lane” on Morrissey Boulevard.
Godfrey then saw the SUV making an illegal U-turn.
“I don’t know whether this is a terrorist or an aggravated driver,” Godfrey recalled yesterday. “Had they continued to go all the way around the U-turn . . . they would have been heading in the direction that the escort was coming.”
Godfrey said he ran into the roadway, arms flailing and yelling, to get the driver’s attention.
“This was a potential life-and-death situation for this person and/or one of us,” Godfrey said. “Had he continued to drive in toward the escort, he could have put his life in peril. He could have been shot. The Secret Service doesn’t take this stuff lightly.”
The driver, who turned out to be Braude, pulled over and began yelling at Godfrey out the window, according to the sergeant.
“You people don’t know what you’re doing,” Braude said, according to Godfrey. “You people are screwing up traffic. There’s people that need to get places. I demand to know what’s going on.”
(Braude said he never demanded anything.)
Godfrey told him the “only demand that would be met” was his demand for Braude’s license and registration. Godfrey mailed Braude a citation for wrongway operation and illegal U-turn.
“This was a situation that could have become an international incident,” said Godfrey, a 20-year veteran of the force who didn’t know the media personality. “This guy just had that demeanor of entitlement.”
Especially troubling is not just the fact that Braude feels justified in fighting his citation, but that there are 100 other local hacks who would have behaved the same way in those circumstances.
And why didn’t we find out about this until now? The incident occurred in April, when the PM was here to suck up to the Kennedy family.
Did The Globies cover this story at all, or are they protecting a local establishment figure, as they usually do?
This astounding level of self-importance is what happens when checks and balances are removed from the political process. Because Massachusetts is ruled by Braude’s friends, laws don’t apply to him, they’re for serfs.
As I mentioned earlier this week, Eagan and Braude’s ratings have been sliding like crazy recently, with the most recent figures showing Rush Limbaugh now beating them.
And with stupid “topics” such as bickering over sandwiches and burritos in the studio, why would anyone be surprised?
Braude image: Ted Fitzgerald, Boston Herald
Tags: Boston, Boston Herald, Globies, Jim Braude, Massachusetts, Morrissey Boulevard, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Ted Fitzgerald
November 13th, 2008
At the dying Boston Globe, producing partisan political propaganda is the paper’s primary mission. But does that mean we should ignore it?
Take a look at this work of art, for example:
Future GOP candidates shaking off dust from Obama landslide
Sarah Palin keeping door open for the 2012 election.
November 11, 2008
The 2012 tea leaf reading is well underway for Republicans.
Several pundits see significance in Mike Huckabee - the former Arkansas governor turned presidential candidate turned talk show host - starting his book tour in Iowa, where the first nomination contest will take place in January 2012.
Many expect vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to run for the top job, despite harsh criticism from outside and inside John McCain’s campaign. Palin said yesterday that she would speak Thursday at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami, another high-profile appearance.
On Fox News channel last night, Palin said she can’t predict what will happen by 2012 and will rely on God to show her the open doors in her life. “If there is an open door in ‘12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door,” she said.
Meanwhile, Charley Manning, a longtime adviser to Mitt Romney, poured some cold water on the former Massachusetts governor’s ambitions.
“I’d be surprised if Mitt ever ran again for president. . . . I sure don’t think it was the best experience of his life,” Manning said on WTKK radio in Boston, citing anti-Mormon bias in the Republican primaries. “There are other things he can do.”
On the other hand, Romney has been piling up political chits - both from his articulate and steadfast support as one of McCain’s top surrogates and from his raising money for congressional Republicans.
There’s no doubt Obama’s win was significant, we won’t try to take that away from him. But a landslide? Not even close.
At Wikipedia, there’s a flawed attempt at both a definition and historical list of “landslide” victories around the world. One contributor has tried to stick Obama’s electoral vote count into the mix, but that has been disputed by others, especially while final counts are still underway in a few states.
Here’s a partial list of real landslides:
* Lyndon Johnson’s 61.1% to Barry Goldwater’s 38.5% in the 1964 presidential election
* Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 60.8% to Alf Landon’s 36.5% in the 1936 presidential election
* Richard Nixon’s 60.7% to George McGovern’s 37.5% in the 1972 presidential election
* Warren Harding’s 60.3% to James Cox’s 34.1% in the 1920 presidential election
* Ronald Reagan’s 58.8% to Walter Mondale’s 40.6% in the 1984 presidential election
* Theodore Roosevelt’s 56.4% to Alton B. Parker’s 37.6% in the 1904 presidential election
As for “anti-Mormon bias”: if it were against their messiah Obama, we know it would be called “bigotry”. But when it hits groups unpopular with the left, it’s merely “bias”.
In the most recent survey, The Globies have lost 10% of their daily print circulation, now down to just 324,000 copies and dropping like a rock. Yes, web traffic is strong, but who could survive on that tiny revenue alone?
What have you done today to undermine our Globie enemies? Are you still buying the paper? Running ads?
What can you do to help finish off this miserable paper for good?
Tags: Alf Landon, Alton B. Parker, Arkansas, Barry Goldwater, Charley Manning, Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George McGovern, Globie, Iowa, James Cox, John McCain, Lyndon Johnson, Massachusetts, Miami, Mike Huckabee, Richard Nixon, Romney, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Mondale, Warren Harding
November 11th, 2008
Another silver lining coming from Election 2008 is that the left really blew their wad on Obama: $700 million they won’t have to defend Congress in 2010.
With the financial meltdown further wiping out wealthy white suburban boomer Obama supporters, they will be strapped for cash next time around. And when the inevitable disillusionment with Obama quickly sets in, they won’t want to give Corruptocrats another penny anyway.
Meanwhile, conservatives held back this year because McCain was forced upon them and due to his reliance on public financing, a fatal error. They’re already gearing up for a repeat of 1994 in 2010 and 2012.
In Massachusetts, we have similar good news, as labor unions blew $7 million on an income tax repeal measure that probably wouldn’t have passed anyway. Here are the numbers from the pro-One camp:
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BALLOT QUESTION 1 RESULTS BY THE NUMBERS
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$7,000,000 in Union dues and Union in-kind contributions swelled our
opponents War Chest and overwhelmed our private fundraising efforts.
Teachers Unions pumped in $5,687,565 – 86% of all “NO on Question 1” money, 93% of the cost of all “NO on 1” advertising.
With the Committee For Small Government as YES on Ballot Question 1, and the Teachers Unions and their Allies as NO on 1, here’s Question 1 by-the-numbers:
2008 Votes on Ballot Question 1
YES: 901,802 (30%)
NO: 2,063,891 (70%) – 1,162,089 more votes than us.
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2008 Cash and In-Kind Donations Ballot Question 1 – through 11-1-08
YES: $487,491
NO: $7,268,816 — $6,781,325 more than us.
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2008 Petitioning Expenses on Ballot Question 1
YES: $304,000
NO: Zero cost — $304,000 LESS cost than us.
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2008 Advertising Spending on Ballot Question 1
YES: $81,000
NO: $6,120,000 – $6,039,000 MORE money for advertising than us. 76 times our ad spending (as of the 11/5/08 campaign finance report.
With the economy on a long road to recovery, especially with a novice now in charge, these guys are going to have a tough time coming up with two nickels to rub together next time. The warchest is depleted.
They got their people in office, now, let the backlash begin!
Tags: Ballot Question 1, Barack Obama, campaign finance report, Congress, election 2008, fundraising efforts, Massachusetts, Petitioning, teachers unions
November 7th, 2008
Our corrupt legislature must be quite pleased today that the gay marriage initiative didn’t appear on the Mass ballot, especially after seeing it pass in three other states.
While California is often compared with Massachusetts, yesterday’s Golden State ballot proposition results were amazingly conservative. And in what must come as a shock to white liberals, high black and Hispanic turnout is the reason cited for the rightward shift.
The sad truth for white “progressives” is that many ethnic minority groups hold conservative views on social issues, even while they vote for liberal Democrats. That factor only partly explains the split results, however.
— Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, passed 52% to 48%, despite polls showing it miles behind.
— Proposition 11, a measure opposed by Democrats, takes the redistricting process out of the legislature’s hands, eliminating gerrymandering. It was pushed by Arnold and the (normally very liberal) League of Women Voters.
— Two eco-kook measures, 7 and 10, were soundly defeated.
Had gay marriage finally reached the Mass ballot, it probably also would have passed.
While the Republican brand name is tarnished, conservative issues still prevailed in a number of states, including otherwise-liberal California.
By the way, with Question 3 on our ballot now resulting in a ban on dog racing, how quickly will casinos be built on those sites? Massachusetts needs the revenue much too badly.
Be careful what you wish for, liberal voters, look what it leads to!
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Massachusetts, Proposition 8
November 5th, 2008
One reason why I’m not as upset as other conservatives tonight is that I already know how the Obama situation will play out. Living in Massachusetts, you do too!
Obama’s arrogance and overconfidence will cause many early gaffes and screw-ups. We saw it with his buddy Deval Patrick in his first weeks in office. Patrick’s credibility has never recovered.
Obama will make the same mistakes and we will have a field day! Welcome to the Carter Administration II: The Crappy Sequel!
Here, I’ve laid out what needs to be done next: fight impending plans by the Dems to clamp down on political dissent by limiting free speech. It’s already on the front burner.
You libs wanted total control, be my guest. Now, you’ll have no one to blame but yourselves when it goes horribly wrong.
Tags: administration, Carter Administration II, Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
November 5th, 2008
Despite the influx of Boston-area residents, the South Shore is still surprisingly moderate to conservative, with McCain beating Obama in several towns and coming darn close in many more.
I noticed it in my area recently, where McCain signs greatly outnumbered those for Obama.
Along with the North Shore and parts of MetroWest, this is Boston talk radio’s target audience, NOT the city itself.
If you don’t know that by now, you shouldn’t be on the air or programming a radio station.
Thanks to tonight’s national election results, talk radio is now in for an unprecedented audience surge, the one format that will grow as music FM dies.
Let’s hope our local stations, including WRKO’s post-Entercom owners, get a handle on this quickly and capitalize on it.
Tags: Boston, Entercom, Massachusetts, Metro, North Shore, South Shore, talk radio, WRKO
November 4th, 2008
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