Did you hear Senator Warren’s remarks at the breakfast today?
Not cool Senator.
Making fun of Brian Joyce with a laundry basket and referring to Scott Brown as a loser made you look as if you were in the middle school talent show and called the fat kid “fat” and the special needs kid “retarded”.
Everyone knows what they are. Pathetic people. Easy marks. The material has to be A-1 if you take aim of them.
There easy targets like Baker and Walsh and Deleo and Rosenberg and Rosenberg and Rosenberg and Rosenberg.
But Scott Brown and Brian Joyce jokes? You showed me nuttin and I’m your biggest fan.
Rather than those crappy jokes all you had to do was announce your candidacyf or Sufffolk County Registry of Deeds.
The jokes write themselves.
Who wrote those shitty jokes for you? You should pull a Donald Trump and tell them they’re fired.
Mark L. Bail says
hasn’t been good since Billy Bulger. It’s time to put the thing out of its misery.
ChiliPepr says
I watched some of the speeches and hated it all… it was like everyone was putting on the political commercial they wish they could write. It was sad and I did not find it funny by either side.
Although, I have never been one to favor “roasts”.
JimC says
Putting aside the fate of the breakfast debate for a moment, the video from Marty Walsh is quite funny.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/03/20/marty-walsh-woos-charlie-baker-and-parody-adele-hello-music-video/NUBp45IY14sYB37JvaqYRN/story.html?
At first I thought it was lame that they just used the song without changing it, but that ends up working better than whatever else they could have done. Stay for the credits, and notice Joyce Linehan.
jconway says
To be bragging about wooing business with tax breaks to the biggest federal tax dodger in America on the backs of public school children. Even funnier to endorse usurious MBTA fare hikes on the working poor for the sake of the Baker bromance. A contact at BTU reminded me that since kids are required to get free T passes that the fare hikes are essentially a tax increase on the already cash strapped school system.
JimC says
And not the State of the City address.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
hey, what the hey!
mike_cote says
Reminds me of “Please Clap!”
Christopher says
It’s supposed to take two people to put something on the rec list. Three have recommended this diary, but for some reason it’s not on the list.
mike_cote says
This is like if Christopher had said, 2 + 2 = 4 and someone chooses to downrate a simple statement of fact. I don’t understand what is the significance of this!
Peter Porcupine says
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JimC says
Too big for the breakfast. She shouldn’t be expected to go. (I haven’t heard what she said.)
If the breakfast has any appeal at all, it’s the surprises. Hey, Rep. McMickton is funny! Who knew?
Whoever wrote her material likely had one and only one instruction: Don’t say anything that will make news in the presidential contest.
jconway says
Her jokes were just mean, not particularly funny. I also thought the laundry bit by Baker was in poor taste, public corruption on the order Joyce practiced it is no laughing matter. The man should have been booted from his seat by his peers, not merely mocked for being too stupid to get caught. Like the Elkeys, the breakfast is a stale reminder of our incestous insidery political culture. A least a woman of color was allowed to be the grand marshall, LDF is about the best part of the whole ordeal.
Christopher says
Hasn’t that breakfast always been owned by the State Senator who holds that seat?
johnk says
link.
Mark L. Bail says
Southies are choking on that.
jconway says
I think a lot of them committed to the old ways have died out or been priced out. You might as well call it South Cambridge at this point. I was amazed at how much it’s changed in the last five years since the last time I was there. The death of Wacko Hurley is an interesting signpost to the end of an era and a way of life.
Change largely for the good, far less crime and far more welcoming to minorities and outsiders more broadly, but there is also a good side to parochialism providing a sense of place and neighborhood identity that we are losing. And that loss is not unique to Southie either. But politically it’s entirely a good thing, look for Bill Linehan to retire rather than risk running for re-election.