From Adam Reilly:
A few minutes later, Carr moves on to gay sex, … further on in the show before turning his attention to the war in Iraq Carr hints that hes finally given up on the Healey campaign. Debate Kerry, or I say youre chicken, Deval! says a caller to Carrs Chump Line. Sticks and stones may break his bones, or the occasional empty soda can, Carr responds. But your words will never hurt him as hes elected governor.
If Kerry Healeys lost Howie Carr, shes screwed.
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when they eat their own.
Yes, it is SO much better than when we Democrats do it…which has so often been the case.
We don’t have a legislature that’s almost entirely Democrat for no reason.
On the other hand I had no idea that Brian
McGrory of the Globe was a political consultant to the Kerry campaign.
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A little more than two weeks ago, I made some points privately to her that I made a couple of days later in print — that she was too negative in person, that her ads were too harsh, that she wasn’t giving people a reason to vote for her even as she was berating them to vote against Patrick.
McGrory was probably just trying to help Healey, because Deval is from Milton. McGrory’s a Weymouth guy, and Milton just reminds him too much of Hingham. :>)
Brian McGrory is no more a consultant to Kerry Healey than Scot Lehigh is…they are both columnists which means a reporter with a personal opinion…
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I have never liked Scot Lehigh as I think he has thew same personality problems he attributes to Healey…however, in this column on Healey and Patrick, I think he has hit the nail on the head in regard to both of them.
I’m sorry, WHERE in the ridiculous Globe ‘article’ about how Deval apparently isn’t Perry Mason in that he conducts the entire investigation and trial completely on his own, was there any inference whatsoever that he spends his time playing tennis?
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Seriously, that column was seriously deranged on so many levels.
I always thought that if you had Carr supporting you, you were screwed. Who on earth would think support from that moron is a bonus?
Howie Carr is a bit of a wacko, but he’s written some good articles over the years. Vennochi, on the other hand, has consistently generated trash.
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In this column> [http://www.boston.co…] Vennochi sticks to the lame old media debate: The media is getting controversial, but have they gone to far?
Chomsky argues in ‘Manufacturing Consent’
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Vennochi opens this column>
[http://www.boston.co…]
like this:
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IT’S TIME grown-ups embraced a sentiment popular today with kids:
My bad."<br>It’s my fault. I take responsibility.”The expression -- launched from missed passes and shots during pickup basketball games -- means
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Thanks for the 101 course on the lingo, Joan. Your street-slangin’ ways will keep us all tight with the youth.
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I don’t think I’ve ever read a Vennochi article I liked.
I slammed Vennochi once or twice many months ago on this site, but I started regretting it almost immediately. On balance, her writing about the governor’s race has been pretty impressive. Consider a couple of examples. She did actual reporting and broke the Reilly-Killer Coke connection that had been obscured by the news department’s coverage. And she was relentless in naming the fear-mongering and racial subtexts of Kerry Healey’s ads. I wouldn’t trivialize that. Because the racist elements were subtextual, one could always question or deny that they were there–as Healey did and as even a number of BMG posters have. Having someone who is in the MSM and is not affiliated with a campaign name those elements is, I think, really important. I give Vennochi a lot of credit for being so vigorous on that front, just as I give Lehigh–who has clearly always had some reservations about Patrick–credit for being so blunt on what these campaigns say about character. That our quasi-official narrative on this election is now, “Kerry Healey launched polarizing, demonizing, fear-mongering attack ads and it backfired” helps make it less likely that our next campaign in this state will go that route. I’m very glad about that.
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As to your specific riff on Vennochi’s column on the Iraq war: I’m not sure what you expect her to say. As someone who is just sending to the printers a book on “the traffic in pain” in contemporary photograph–that is, on the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions raised by the way in which our media environment presents scenes of human suffering–I found her reflections fairly thoughtful, at least within the limits imposed by the format of a newspaper column. Does she reflect critically on the political economy of American empire and the way that economy is served by the conceptual limits and genre conventions of American mass media? No. Here, as a lefty, I agree with you. But I’ve stopped expecting such analyses from the daily press, and an indictment of that kind of limitation would, to say the least, take in a far wider group of media people than just one Globe columnist. And given the narrower, more specific focus of her Iraq column, I again think she did a pretty good job.
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In the shameless plug department, I was going to add a link to the University of Chicago Press web material on my imminent photo book, but I saw that they the publicity text is full of inaccuracies. Will post that shameless plug, with link, as a separate diary when those problems are–soon, I hope–fixed.