My latest experience with right-wing talk radio

[NightTrain]

Without delving into the circumstances, today I found myself in a situation that exposed me to the first hour of a talk-radio non-entity named Howie Carr. For the uninitiated, Howie Carr is a fourth-rate Limbaugh wannabe, which ought to tell you just how limp-dicked the man is. And his callers--all of them white, and all but one male--were even more pathetic!

As I listened to this pitiful wretch and his human-waste audience, I did not become angry at them. You read that right--I did *not* become angry! Rather, I became enlightened vis-a-viz just how much the Republicans, in their attempt to discredit John Kerry, are grasping at straws.

Here's what I remember Carr and his dumbass listeners talking about:

1. The "phony" Brahman accent that Kerry "affected" when he testified before Congress in 1971.

2. A $300 bonus check that Kerry supposedly applied for and received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for his Vietnam Service.

3. That John Kerry is a war criminal who should've turned himself in to the proper military authorities over what he said he did in Vietnam. One caller suggested that if Kerry got elected, perhaps the Republicans could impeach him over his "war crimes."

4. That Kerry's attack on Bush's National Guard "service" is an attack on every American who has ever served in the National Guard--whether or not any of those soldiers went AWOL, I guess.

5. Theresa Heinz Kerry's re-emergence in her husband's campaign. One caller claimed that Lady T is an alcoholic who temporarily vanished from the spotlight because she was in rehab.

6. Kerry's having proposing a Department of Wellness. The hilarious Mr. Carr mused, "Will Kerry's Department of Wellness have a Secretary of Wind Surfing?"

7. A caller claimed that he once saw John Kerry park an SUV in a handicapped space in Boston, and then emerge from the vehicle with a bag of golf clubs.

8. Finally, like a drunken relative who attends every family reunion and bitches about a perceived insult from 1975, Carr repeatedly bad-mouthed Michael Dukakis, the Democratic former governor of Massachusetts, who hasn't been politically viable since 1988.

It made for truly pathetic, desperate-sounding radio.

Carr and his audience of losers know full well that John Kerry is far more qualified to be president than their boy Georgie will ever be. They know that Kerry has a damned good chance of getting elected, and it scares the crap out of them. Like a cornered bobcat, these Bush-lovers won't go down without a fight. But you know what? They're going down anyway!

KERRY LANDSLIDE, BABY!!! :kick:

[StClone]

1. What is of interest

Is who is footing the bill to keep this crap on the air?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

5. Advertisers, no doubt.

You know, the ones that are all about the herbal "male enhancement" and hair growth schtick.

[pretzel4gore]

6. exactly!

a major watergate type televised investigation of the corrupting of the 'press' and who's responsible for the vast sums of money used to subsidise the corrupting, which has been ongoing for a long time, is needed.....remember, when reagan scrapped the Fairnesss Doctrine, he did so despite widespread opposition by the Democrats AND the Republicans (this was 1986/7) during the height of the iran contra affair.....
kerry will probably soft soap it though ( hell, those creeps would nuke a US city if it suit their purposes) so he maybe have no choice

[daligirrl]

2. I know what you mean. . .

Last Friday I found myself in a stalled car and had to call a tow truck. The truck showed up, driven by a frail young man, who was very polite, but as I feared, had the local AM station playing on the radio. It was somebody filling in for Rush, and this guy was totally pathetic. I avoid these stations at all costs, but that day the worst had already happened, so I got a bit of a kick out of it. Best line: "Maybe the liberals would be happier with our President if he had married into his money." WTF???

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. This is why things like the Franklin Mint

and Elvis collectors plates are marketable.

[Kat45]

4. Those of us in Boston are very familiar with Carr.

A local guy. He's been polluting our airwaves for years. Newspapers too.