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State Rep. tells Howie Carr: "You're a Lying Rat!"

State Representative Brian Wallace:  "Howie Carr is a Lying Rat!"

Howie, "the Rat" Carr is in the news again...This time for falsely reporting that South Boston State Rep. Brian Wallace was quitting his elected position for what Carr called a "hack state job."  Carr who not only was sued successfully by Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy for slander and libel in 2004, but he has been severely scrutinized in the past as having a reputation for reporting half-truths and innuendo.  Carr's inability or refusal to back up his columns with facts led to this current situation which prompted Brian Wallace to verbally deck Carr.

Wallace refuted Carr's charges with the following Letter to the Editor which appeared the next day in the Boston Herald.  Not only does Representative Wallace tell Carr that he's a lousy writer, but even goes so far to allude to Carr's long-time feud with Mike Barnicle who in 1998 leaked to Don Imus that Howie Carr's wife, Kathy, had been having sexual relations with former boxing heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe.  Imus, on live radio, is notoriously remembered as having said in reference to the affair that: "Bowe stuck his (you know what) up Kathy Carr's (you know where)."

The following is a reprint of Representative Brian Wallace's letter to the editor in the Boston Herald:

Here to stay
By Rep. Brian P. Wallace/ Letters
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Howie Carr's column, "If you can't buy their vote, buy their job," (June 1) should have been entitled "Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?" Howie wrote that I was leaving the Legislature that day (June 1) to pursue, what he calls "a hack state job." He simply made that up. While he continues to rail against columnists from another paper in Boston, who had made up stories, he has proven to be no better.

    The worst part is the wording of the story. "Wallace is checking out of the Legislature today," Carr writes, as if it were factual. It isn't. How can he write something so definitive without even calling to ask me if it were true?

    Before I was elected to the Massachusetts House, I wrote a weekly article in seven local Boston newspapers. I know that always writing a good column can be difficult. But when you continue to recycle old material or simply make up stories that are untrue, it might be time to give it up. I thought Howie was a better writer than that.

Rep. Brian P. Wallace, Fourth Suffolk District

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Loch Ness Monster seen by several witnesses!

If you believe this, wait till my next post 

The fabled Loch Ness Monster was eyewitnessed and videotaped yesterday and reported first this past Tuesday all around the United Kingdom and Europe on the BBC nightly news. 

The stunning footage at the following link shows the 55 foot long creature along the surface of the 700 foot deep body of water found in Scotland.  Is it real or is it a fake?:

Read more here.

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Formidable Gloucester Democrat challenges Senator Kerry in '08

Anti War candidate to challenge Flipper Kerry for US Senate 

Senator Kerry and Democratic Challenger Gloucester City Counselor Edward O'Reilly met eye to eye this past Saturday at the Massachusetts Democratic State convention held in Amherst.  The tenson between the two rivals was as thick as pea soup.  Both Candidates sparred with each other.  Kerry spoke first arguing why he should continue living in style for another six years as Massachusetts United States Senator and O'Reilly then told the convention, "How it was time for a new perspective in DC," and how Kerry has failed as Senator.  Go to the following link to read more.

John "who voted for the Iraq War before he was against the war" Kerry is being challenged for the Democratic nomination for United States Senate in 2008 by Gloucester City Councilman and Attorney Edward O'Reilly. 

Councilman O'Reilly made his formal announcement at this past weekend's Massachusetts Democratic Convention in Amherst, Massachusetts on Saturday. 

In addition to his current job, the well-experienced O'Reilly who is 53, was born in Watertown, is  a former lobsterman, firefighter, and Gloucester School Committee Chairman. 

O'Reilly is challenging Kerry because of Kerry's vote in support of sending troops to Iraq in 2002.  Kerry is nationally known for flip flopping more times than Seaworld's Shammu the Whale.

In a story this week in the Gloucester Times, reported that the former Gloucester city councilor and School Committee chairman said Kerry's vote to authorize force in Iraq in 2002 is one reason why he's running. O'Reilly, 53, said he would vote to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq.

"Immediately, like today," O'Reilly said. "And keep a temporary force in the area to fight al-Qaida."

Charges Kerry mis-handled campaign contributions

He also said Kerry mishandled contributions to his presidential campaign - including $2,000 O'Reilly donated. O'Reilly said Kerry should have used money in his account to challenge the results in Ohio, the state whose electoral college votes put George W. Bush ahead. There were allegations of voter fraud in Ohio.

Additionally, Kerry who lives on Nantucket has been publicly criticized for recently telling the Cape Cod Times Editorial Board that he is against the Cape Wind Project being built in Nantucket Sound.  However, a few days later while promoting his new book on the environment with his wife the Heiress Teresa Heinz in Cambridge, Massachusetts,  Senator Kerry again flip-flopped on the Cape Wind Issue and said he was for the project by saying he would "put a wind tower in his own backyard on Nantucket."

Other potential candidates for U.S. Senate in 2008 are: 1. the GOP's Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card,   2. Charlie Baker Jr. who is the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and a former Swampscott Selectman who quit only after a single term this past April; and 3. Massachusetts state Senator Scott Brown.  Former Wakefield Selectman and Department of Public Works Commissioner Kevin Scott who nearly won the 2006 GOP nomination only to lose by a 1000 votes is expected to run again.  However, Scott failed on three occasions to report his campaign finance reports  in his last race to the FEC and now faces a hefty fine.  And finally, Harwich Resident and former Counter-terrorrist Jeff Beatty.  Beatty is a carpetbagger who moved to Massachusetts only two years ago.  Beatty, formerly of New Jersey,  was crushed and blown away by U.S. Representative William Delahunt in last fall's 10th District Congressional race, already "threw his hat" in the ring by announcing back in February that he would seek the GOP nomination.  In this race, Beatty only received 27% of the vote... a terrible effort in what is probably the most GOP dominated Congressional district in Massachusetts.  Now Beatty back and he's now challenging Kerry next fall in 2008.

Like Scott, Beatty failed to file his campaign finance report when he foolishly tried to win the 10th Congressional District.  Yet, Beatty could also be described as "Ken Chase the 2nd," the unfortunate poor sap who was eaten and sh_t out from the rear by Kennedy in 06.'  See, Beatty shares the another distinction with Chase.  Both Chase and Beatty have been sued by former campaign workers for stiffing them out of the money that had been owed to him.  The poor shame of it all is that Beatty goes around brandishing his previous military credentials over Kerry's exagerrated claims of being a hero, Beatty never mentions that the poor fellow he ripped off was the Cape Cod 2004 Soldier of Year, Joshua Dunn, an Iraq War Veteran.  According to a Cape Cod Times Article out at the time, Judge Joe Brown had invited Beatty and Dunn to appear on his Television show.  Beatty remembering what had happened to Ken Chase (who like Beatty was an also-ran) was embarrassed on national television when he was successfully sued because he also stiffed a campaign worker out of his money.  Beatty settled out of court with Dunn at the very last moment in October 2006.  Another criticism of Beatty is that many suspect that he also is embellishing his military credentials as well.  

Too bad Beatty is a phony too.  Many GOP members around the Commonwealth are hoping for a fresh face to emerge and pose a dark-horse challenge for the seat. 

For more information read the following article in Foster's Daily here,  and in the Standard-Times here.

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Is Romney the Republican John Kerry?

Or does Massachusetts just have a thing about "Flip Floppers"?
Romney threw a fundraiser for a Democrat candidate in 1992

Former Massachusetts Governor and current Presidential candididate "Flip" Romney, the Republican version of John Kerry, is in the news again.  "Flip" made this week's edition when it was discovered that he threw a fundraiser for a Democratic Senate Candidate from Utah in 1992. 

This was only two years before "Flip" unsuccessfully challenged Ted Kennedy as the Massachusetts GOP candidate for U.S. Senate.  The question for "Flip" Romney, who was for gay marriage before he was against it and pro-choice before he was pro-life, were you Democrat before you were Republican, or is it in your nature to flip more times than an Olympic Gymnast?

Among the shocking statement in the article are these;  "The fundraiser is significant because it shows that Romney actively sought to help a Democrat take an open Senate seat from the GOP. Romney has already been heavily criticized by conservatives who think his socially liberal views in the early 1990s — he migrated from a pro-choice position to a pro-life one several years later, and underwent a similar conversion on gay rights — are a sign that he would be an unreliable ally in the White House. Romney has aggressively been moving to explain his earlier views in an effort to convince conservatives they can trust him."

Please read the following article about Mr. "Flip" Romney here.

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Media Hitman knocked off by Finneran "Hit Job"

The Barbarians are eating their young 
But you CAN tell the rats by their color
 

Last week,  WRKO Hitman Howie Carr claimed he was the victim of a "Hit Job" by former Massachusetts Speaker of the House, Tommy Finneran. 

Carr, who makes a living by destroying the lives of people by reporting innuendo and uncorrobaratted rumors about the personal lives of others, felt "a bullet in the back of his head" in a live radio interview with Governor Patrick when Carr's collegue, Tom Finneran said the following: 

"Hey, I've got a proposal for the Governor.  The Governor and I are going to take Howie Carr for a ride (in the Governor's new Cadillac).  Three will leave, only two will come back.  We'll take a little pool on who it is." 

According to Herald reporter, Laurel Sweet, with Governor Patrick  "chuckling in the background," Finneran went on to refer to the Massachusetts State Police by telling listeners:

"And by the way, the staties are here and these are good guys.  They ain't going to be talking, either.  I know.  So it will be three in the car who leave, only two will come back.  No questions asked."  

 Carr, who is notorious for writing Brothers Bulger , once claimed "Whitie" and the Irish Mafia chased Carr down, forcing Carr to hide in a Southie graveyard to avoid an indescribable fateful end.  After Finneran's obvious humor, Carr, a self-proclaimed media hitman, then ratted out to Richard G. Stearns, the Federal Judge who sentenced Finneran to 18 months' unsupervised probation for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice:

Carr ratted: "I think (Stearns) ought to send (Finneran) to jail.  That's where he belonged in the first place and this just reiterates it."  Carr alleged in his letter to the judge that Finneran's joke was a threat and is "tantamount to witness intimidation."

Yet although he has made a living throwing mud on people and has publicly said he enjoys kicking people while they are down, Carr's efforts to inform the feds will be futile.  Although he is not an elected official, Carr is a notorious radio personailty and gossip columnist.  Because of this Carr meets the definition of being a "public figure."  Paraphrased from the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court Decision, New York Times Company vs. Sullivan:  "A person (in this case Carr) can not successfully sue for libel or slander if he or she is a public figure for something someone else said about him or her unless this person (Carr) can prove that the writer (Finneran) knew it wasn't true when he or she first wrote it."

Finneran, who did not know that Carr would acted the way he did when he said his joke, appears he will be protected.  On the other hand, Howie "The Rat" Carr, who has been protected by this Supreme Court case for all the years of torment that he joyfully and unmercifully put on hundreds of lives throughout his bloody, reckless career as a media hitman, got a taste of his own medicine... He was the victim of a "Hit-Job" by Tommy "Guns" Finneran.  May the "Rat" rest in peace. 

Read the Herald story in whole here:

Also read about the New York Times Vs. Sullivan (1964) here.

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Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown's "Meltdown" in the "Freak Show!"

Brown is not beautiful (but he was in Comos as a "Hunk")

This is a great story about how State Senator Scott  Brown, (on right in Cosmo) out of Wrentham and leading candidate for the Massachusetts Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2008, had a "meltdown" in front of 80 King Philip's High School students at a student assembly.  Brown had asked to speak to the students because he felt he had been "abused" by student detractors from King's Philip High School who made fun of him on their student run internet chatroom, "facebook."

At the assembly in King Phillip's High School auditorium, State Senator Brown called each student out, one by one, using curse words that every mother would be horrified to hear and would've covered their children's ears if they were there.  Above the protests of all the teachers who were aghast at the state Senator's anti-social behavior and foul language, Brown refused to stop his child-like tirade calling each student out one by one in great pleasure.

If this man thinks he should be entitled to the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate just because there are only a few GOP contenders out there, then how can a man with such thin skin be able to defeat John Kerry whose skin is thin and cold-blooded already.  What make's Brown think he can represent Massachusetts as United States Senator when it's obvious he can't even handle a few teenagers teasing him.  

Please read more of " Scott Brown's meltdown at the Freak Show:"

• Wonkette whacks Brown
  "...While picking on the dude’s daughter is not very nice, we have no compunctions about pointing out the fact that Brown won some kind of “Hunkiest He-Hunk” contest in Cosmo in 1982, which resulted in the photo spread you see above..."
• Sun Chronicle Editorial
  "...The high road became the low road during a high school assembly last week in Wrentham and, because of that, an important appeal to civility has been muddied.  Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, alas, became what he was condemning..."
• BlueMass Scoop on Brown
  "...It's hard to figure what mischievous sprite temporarily possessed Senator Brown and warped his Republican mind into thinking that it was OK to use profanity in a school, in front of a bunch of sophomores, most of whom probably had nothing to do with the incident that got him all worked up...."   

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A 1776 Patriot looks at 2008 Politics

Thumbing his nose at the state which fed him
Romney to run against "Massachusetts"

Here are some views of Mitt Romney causing concern inside his campaign:

• His hair looks too perfect,
  
• He's not a tough war time leader, and
  
• He has earned a reputation as "Slick Dancing Mitt" or "Flip-Flop Mitt."

The 77-slide Power Point presentation offers a revealing look at Romney's pursuit of the White House in which he names the things he will "run against" like:

• France
• Massachusetts
• Hollywood
• Hillary
  

According to today's Globe the plan, for instance, indicates that Romney will define himself in part by focusing on and highlighting enemies and adversaries, such common political targets as "jihadism," the "Washington establishment," and taxes, but also Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, "European-style socialism," and, specifically, France. Even Massachusetts, where Romney has lived for almost 40 years, is listed as one of those "boogeymen," alongside liberalism and Hollywood values.

Read the rest of this insulting report here. 

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