three years of sucking up to Mitt Romney, to the point of manfully trying to make sense of the Governor's incoherent stances on gay marriage and stem cell reserach, and the admin goes and hands off 42K in columnist payola to some hack from the Herald.
I'll bet Scot's snarls of rage can be heard up and down Morrissey Blvd.
:)
Yup Charles D. Chieppo (oh GOD I love that name...cheapo...) got sacked by the Herald for not disclosing his relationship as with the convention center, a writing gig worth 32K atop the ten grand Charles was pulling down to shill for Romney's enviromental policies.
Y'know, writing is a hard dollar, believe me...hell Humble Elias hasn't seen a check for his own scribblings in many a lean year. So I can sympathize with Chieppo's desire to cash in as big as possible.
After all who knows?
Maybe next year his column gets handed off to Laura Ingraham or some other dipsomaniac with a high Q-rating. Nonetheless, the Herald did right to discharge him. The name of the game is disclosure, without it the public is at a fatal disadvantage when reading a compromised writer's work - nice to know a that a rag like the Herald gets it.
Still and all that, the whole mishaugas simply confirms my notion that there are many many more columnists on the take out there, and for bigger sums than a paltry ten grand. And some of those columnist may be closer to home than you think.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Nothing so symbolizes the Vatican's
utter state of disconnection than the re-emergence of Bernard Cardinal Law former Cardinal Archbishop of Boston in the wake of the Pope's death. Yes, there he is, almost every night on our TVs looking blasted and haggard and explaining the whole Papal death-thing to the peonage in that silky unctuous voice of his. I don't think the climate in Rome agrees with him, but then being a passive aggressive yutz does things to man even a Prince of the R.C.C.
Its like he was never driven out of Brighton quite literally one step ahead of the lynch mob. I give Law this much, he may be shopworn within and without, but the man has sangfroid. He batted not an eyelash as the dioceses collapsed all around him-iti s something they learn at Harvard I guess.
Good grief every time Channel Five starts talking to his eminence you can hear the groans and sighs of sheer outrage all over the Commonwealth.
And the crowning indignity?
Cardinal Law, safe from the malign consequences of his endless cover-ups on behalf of pederastic priests, STILL has a vote to cast in the upcoming conclave!
Alas he is back, so the sooner the College of Cardinal's digs up some clown to be the next Pope, the sooner Cardinal Law will be off the airwaves. Unless of course, the Cardinals do something really freaklishly self destructive and elect Law Pope!
Oh won't that be a old timey jubilee? Good Lord I think this town might go up in a rhetorical mushroom cloud.
Its like he was never driven out of Brighton quite literally one step ahead of the lynch mob. I give Law this much, he may be shopworn within and without, but the man has sangfroid. He batted not an eyelash as the dioceses collapsed all around him-iti s something they learn at Harvard I guess.
Good grief every time Channel Five starts talking to his eminence you can hear the groans and sighs of sheer outrage all over the Commonwealth.
And the crowning indignity?
Cardinal Law, safe from the malign consequences of his endless cover-ups on behalf of pederastic priests, STILL has a vote to cast in the upcoming conclave!
Alas he is back, so the sooner the College of Cardinal's digs up some clown to be the next Pope, the sooner Cardinal Law will be off the airwaves. Unless of course, the Cardinals do something really freaklishly self destructive and elect Law Pope!
Oh won't that be a old timey jubilee? Good Lord I think this town might go up in a rhetorical mushroom cloud.
Jesuzzz Mary an' Joseph!
but the Romney is a Fraud Blog is frickin' on FIRE today!
I have nothing to add...only to note that its always somehow heartening to know that things are so much worse than I had ever realized.
I have nothing to add...only to note that its always somehow heartening to know that things are so much worse than I had ever realized.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Sad News...
Dan Kennedy is leaving the Boston Phoenix to devote more time to his Professor gig at Northeastern. The details can be found here
I'm gonna miss Media Log, it was a sensible read every week. And I'll miss Dan as well, the few time I e-mailed him he was polite and interesting. Hope he keeps blogging but I'm not counting on it.
I'm gonna miss Media Log, it was a sensible read every week. And I'll miss Dan as well, the few time I e-mailed him he was polite and interesting. Hope he keeps blogging but I'm not counting on it.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Noises Off...
If Phil Johnston wasn't trying to tempt Joe Kennedy into the 2006 Governor's race why was he giving the former congressman an award last night at the Annual Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner?
If Joe Kennedy wasn't at least thinking about running, then why did he accept said award?
Is Phil trying to "thin out" the gubernatorial roster next year with a Kennedy candidacy...the proverbial 700 lb gorilla?
Everyone is up to something here, if Kennedy gets in then at least Phil has a candidate with immense fundraising potential, one who will squeeze the herd and at the very least keep Galvin out of the race.
On the other hand what does Kennedy want? A clear shot meaning no Romney in the race?
Joe can afford to bide his time, of the lot he can get in the latest and still sweep the primary.
The question is, does he want it?
Everything hinges on this.
All over the Commonwealth there are grenadier's uniforms lying in closets waiting only for the war drums from out Hyannisport to be dragged out in all their gaudy glory.
The uniforms wait, we wait, and Joe? He merely contemplates his giant computerized map of Massachusetts in gleeful silence-again.
If Joe Kennedy wasn't at least thinking about running, then why did he accept said award?
Is Phil trying to "thin out" the gubernatorial roster next year with a Kennedy candidacy...the proverbial 700 lb gorilla?
Everyone is up to something here, if Kennedy gets in then at least Phil has a candidate with immense fundraising potential, one who will squeeze the herd and at the very least keep Galvin out of the race.
On the other hand what does Kennedy want? A clear shot meaning no Romney in the race?
Joe can afford to bide his time, of the lot he can get in the latest and still sweep the primary.
The question is, does he want it?
Everything hinges on this.
All over the Commonwealth there are grenadier's uniforms lying in closets waiting only for the war drums from out Hyannisport to be dragged out in all their gaudy glory.
The uniforms wait, we wait, and Joe? He merely contemplates his giant computerized map of Massachusetts in gleeful silence-again.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Jacoby today...
offers up a grudgingly fair minded column on the supremacy of the law in the Schiavo case. Although he does succumb to the freeper-ish temptation to refer to it as a “court order death”. Indeed...isn’t every death sentence handed down in the Texas Utopia a “court ordered death”?
Well whatever, Jeff’s attitude towards the law seems to roughly parallel the line taken by this blog...I wonder if he is a reader?
Cause I use the click throughs - especially now.
Of course, others on the right have not been quite so high minded. It is worth noting that Jeff has maintained an admirable and decorous silence as Congressman Delay screamed threats at the judiciary from the steps of the Capitol and the talk show yaps howled murder and worse on the public airwaves.
Jeff is sort of naive when it comes to rightical chic outrages. He sees Jeb Bush’s calling off the state police bid to reattach Terry Schiavo’s feeding tube as due deference to the law. I see it as a ominous sign of the sheer absolutism that habitually infects La Famiglia Arbusto. The fact that Jeb was even considering such a move is a sure sign of the law’s imperiled state, you can bet the next Terry Schiavo case will end differently based on what we saw last week.
Moreover none of these excesses will make Jacoby’s annual “hate speech round up” come December 2005. Conscience or not, absolving conservatives is something Jacoby does with a great deal of child-like gusto.
Well whatever, Jeff’s attitude towards the law seems to roughly parallel the line taken by this blog...I wonder if he is a reader?
Cause I use the click throughs - especially now.
Of course, others on the right have not been quite so high minded. It is worth noting that Jeff has maintained an admirable and decorous silence as Congressman Delay screamed threats at the judiciary from the steps of the Capitol and the talk show yaps howled murder and worse on the public airwaves.
Jeff is sort of naive when it comes to rightical chic outrages. He sees Jeb Bush’s calling off the state police bid to reattach Terry Schiavo’s feeding tube as due deference to the law. I see it as a ominous sign of the sheer absolutism that habitually infects La Famiglia Arbusto. The fact that Jeb was even considering such a move is a sure sign of the law’s imperiled state, you can bet the next Terry Schiavo case will end differently based on what we saw last week.
Moreover none of these excesses will make Jacoby’s annual “hate speech round up” come December 2005. Conscience or not, absolving conservatives is something Jacoby does with a great deal of child-like gusto.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Whither Willard?
Just maybe...just...maybe this week...on the QT amidst the deaths of the mighty and the miserable, Willard Mitt Romney might have reached his Waterloo.
Despite a bunch of big scary radio commercials the state legislature blithely wrote and passed it’s own stem cell bill and by veto proof majorities. All the King’s Horse’s and all the King’s Men (or in this case Scot Lehigh and Joan Vennochi) couldn’t pump up Mitt as a player on this issue. Hell, Romney’s been hissing and flapping his arms about stem cells for the past two months and has achieved just exactly nothing, indeed his political position has been visibly eroded.
Willard could’ve come to the table and negotiated in good faith, but alas he did nothing but make threats and sarcastic remarks about the issue and mostly in front of allegedly respectful out-of-state wowsers. Clearly the leadership in the lege read all this and made their plans accordingly. What do they have to fear? I think DiMasi and Travaglini both have Willard’s number, he lacks the patience to govern and thus they flourish when it comes to issues like biotechnology and whatnot. The public is unresponsive to any demagogic appeals on stem cells and Mitt himself has no reach into their home precincts and wards.
Romney wring as much drama out of his veto as possible, but given the Pope’s death and all, the whole thing may get buried. In the end, Romney will look hapless and helpless, which of course is the PERFECT image for a future GOP candidate for President.
If Romney's political career comes to a premature end next year it may have its seeds in the vote that went down this week.
Hapless and Helpless...remember that.
Despite a bunch of big scary radio commercials the state legislature blithely wrote and passed it’s own stem cell bill and by veto proof majorities. All the King’s Horse’s and all the King’s Men (or in this case Scot Lehigh and Joan Vennochi) couldn’t pump up Mitt as a player on this issue. Hell, Romney’s been hissing and flapping his arms about stem cells for the past two months and has achieved just exactly nothing, indeed his political position has been visibly eroded.
Willard could’ve come to the table and negotiated in good faith, but alas he did nothing but make threats and sarcastic remarks about the issue and mostly in front of allegedly respectful out-of-state wowsers. Clearly the leadership in the lege read all this and made their plans accordingly. What do they have to fear? I think DiMasi and Travaglini both have Willard’s number, he lacks the patience to govern and thus they flourish when it comes to issues like biotechnology and whatnot. The public is unresponsive to any demagogic appeals on stem cells and Mitt himself has no reach into their home precincts and wards.
Romney wring as much drama out of his veto as possible, but given the Pope’s death and all, the whole thing may get buried. In the end, Romney will look hapless and helpless, which of course is the PERFECT image for a future GOP candidate for President.
If Romney's political career comes to a premature end next year it may have its seeds in the vote that went down this week.
Hapless and Helpless...remember that.
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