Sunday, April 01, 2012

Mixed Messages on a Sunday

On the front page of today's Globe, there is a poll indicating that the still hypothetical Brown-Warren match is all tied up with both candidates seemingly rock solid with their respective bases.
Then there is some palaver assessing their particular strengths and some good news as to Martha Coakley & Deval Patrick's favorability ratings.

All well and good, Humble Elias thinks this is gonna be a close race when push comes to shove.

And then on the Op Ed Page Joanie Vennochi screams "GAME OVER" for Citizen Warren and all but predicts victory for Colonel Brown.
It seems less a column in the accepted sense of the term an more a sequenced collection of blast faxes from the perpetually perturbed Eric Fehrnstrom.

You can read it all here for just .99 USD.
Said column though, does contain this howler:
"Warren is not known as the candidate who reaches out to people.
Instead she is known as the candidate preferred by Barbra Streisand, Cher
And the local liberal elite."
Wow Joanie, Channel Howie Carr much?
Situations like this make me dial back to first principles, ergo we know who Joan Vennochi hates, but we still do not know what the Globe columnist believes in...if anything.
To believe the Globe's front page Citizen Warren is glad handing every coffee shop, bar and block party from Peru to Mashpee.
Meanwhile Joan Vennochi's rebuttal, reads like a Allen Drury novel, shrill and vindictive.
Spiteful Joanie is back it seems.
And I for one, could not be happier.

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