Sorry If this reads a little groggy but I just came to. I was doing my usual morning routine and because I am ambidextrous I can read the Herald at the same time. Bad move. I read something that caused me to pass out and fall from where I sat striking my cranium on the open porcelain container in which I bathe.
I’ll let you read it for yourself. But be forewarned. Strap yourself in before you continue.
From a story in today’s Herald concerning the city council’s reaction to Mayor Walsh’s position on the immigrant children.
Council President Bill Linehan said he learned of Walsh’s intent in the Herald and wants to sit down and talk about the idea this week.
“He knew nothing about it until he read it in the paper,” said George Regan, Linehan’s spokesman. “It’s an interesting concept and a complicated issue. He intends to talk to Mayor Walsh early this week to figure out where they go.”
Did you catch that? George Reagan. The Half-Man himself. The man who for the right price can get you A. a seat by the window at whatever restaurant you want and B. your name in bold in the Inside Track mentioning your dining experience.
He’s also the guy that told Ernie Boch, Jr. to unmasked me and then Howie Carr could use Entercom’s FCC license to “terrorize me every afternoon.” Funny how that stopped right away because I was able to use this blog to fight back. Right Half-man?
(Ernie’s own Two and a Half-Men. Ernie, Jr. and Howie make two with vertically challenged Regan playing the Half-Man. I only call him this because I know it kills him. And guess what? After I attacked him he changed course and ignored. The Inside Track gals were all over me then in an e-mail they said word had come down and no more EB3 stuff.
Seeing a Howie Carr takedown The Globe wanted in and put it’s best columnist on it. Joan Vennochi bashed Howie for being Howie and posed the legitimate question of my anonymity. However Joan being Joan the column was evenhanded and fairly presented my position.)
Enough about me. A district city councillor has employed a high end and expensive public relations firm to handle basic crap. Who is paying for this and why can’t Linehan speak for himself or through his office?
And check out the issue. George Regan and Bill Linehan. Two pathetic excuses for Irish Catholics. (What would Pope Francis say?)
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I’m sorry but FOX calling out WEEI and Kirk Minehan for saying if Erin Andrews was 15 pounds heavier she would be a waitress after the bitch reference was smoothed over is so disingenuous.
How phony is this? FOX saw an out from expensive advertising with a dying station.
And how dare any broadcasting or production company that employs women as on-air talent criticize someone as being sexist. The morning news is now one big spank-o-vison. “Start your day with the best pair of tits in this market.”
Who’s kidding who? Minehan spoke the truth and the victims of the truth get the better media play. Truth be told if Erin Andrews gained five pounds she would hear about it from the same people who pulled the advertising.
Ladies and gentlemen, that sucks!
BTW I love how people in the media get off on seeing others lose the job and get publicly humiliated.
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Easy RICO case fro the Fred Wyshak School of Prosecution.
A CEO controls four votes on a seven member board.. The minority is controlled by people he hates. He does not hide the fact that he finds them intrusive and views the company as his personal property. He tells the board this in recorded meetings.
He commits himself to making sure the opposing shareholders never see any benefit they rightfully and legally deserve. One thing he does is provide generous salary and benefits packages to management and mid-level employees (nothing wrong with that) while at the same time unreasonably holding cash and not allowing shareholders dividend pay-outs.
Also there are real estate development companies owned and controlled by various members of the CEO’s family set-up solely to develop needed company expansion. No other development companies were considered.
Now suppose the mid-level managers and employees who may have been benefiting from this corporate pissing contest knew what was going on. Who couldn’t?
Well my friends, according to Fred Wyshak we have a RICO case easier to prove than the probation one. Market Basket is lay-up. Some of the high level employees were racketeering because they were accepting benefits and high salaries all the time knowing that Arthur T. was stealing from shareholders to their benefit. The case can made my friends.
This is an example of how the government’s theory in probation can easily be applied to the private sector.
With RICO hearsay comes in and rules of evidence used to protect the court from being duped get thrown out the window. So now we have the feds hauling in all these honest employees telling them they are racketeers and what will they do to help themselves.
Suddenly one guys “remembers” a time when he thanked Arthur S. for a sizable Christmas bonus and Arthur S. responded “better you than my a-hole cousins”.
BINGO!
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Speaking of Market Basket they have the best jobs going right now. The press doesn’t report this but people, mostly young summer cashiers and such, are reporting to work, signing in, then going outside and spending the day picketing in a nice party atmosphere. They are getting paid. They invite their buddies. They meet chicks. Oh, and they all go back to school in a couple of weeks.
I wish I knew what Team Arthur S.’s plan is.
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How about David Bernstein? Where did this guy come from? He is by far one of the most arrogant and condescending “journalists” we have around.
Check this out. Noted civil libertarian lawyer Harvey Silverglate wrote a piece for Lawyers Weekly that explained in some detail why RICO and other federal criminal charges were abuses of prosecution and other such bad stuff.
Harvey cited case law and precedent and backed up his assertions with facts and law.
On the other hand hand we have David Bernstein tweeting out that he “respectfully disagrees with Silverglate on many of the issues”.
Oh really David? Let’s see what you have to say.
Ouch, we get this crap? No research. No case law cited, no precedent, no sign of understanding of the laws to convict and an obvious lack of understanding and appreciation of basic legal concepts. No mention of Harvey either. No mention of any lawyer with an opinion.
Dave’s not alone in this.
BTW what is journalism school? You would think all these “journalists” who constantly opine on the law would have some education in it.
BTW2 Notice how hard it is for Harvey Silverglate, Nancy Gertner, and other legal experts to get heard on this? The media has shut them down.
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Have you guys heard about this twitter thing? It’s amazing. I bet it catches on. Anyway, I’m on it and you should check it out.
JimC says
Nobody shut down Harvey Silverglate; he’s always heard by those who listen and ignored by everybody else.
I didn’t read Bernstein’s piece as condescending. However, his logic still seems sound to me. Is there a legal case to be made against patronage? There might be, and the approach they tried has some precedent (and worked). Whether they should have done anything is a separate question, and one I don’t have a good answer for.
On this —
Very true. I recall someone (I forget who) decrying the schadenfreude when Talk magazine closed. Some journalists celebrated, but the death of a publication is always bad news, especially when journalism jobs are scarce, which is always.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
they can’t get printed in the Boston Media
JimC says
BMG would run it.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Without citing legal precedent or research but rather his own unqualified opinions is a disservice to the readers.
Let me throw this at you Jim. Suppose there was an epidemic that hit Massachusetts. Suppose doctors and a huge majority in the medical establishment listed precautions and cures which involved prescribed medications.
Now suppose the local media refused to report what the respected medical establishment was saying but instead went with the state’s health commissioner who recommended infected citizens cover themselves in leaches.
The press wrote this in different convincing ways over and over with help from the daft health commissioner.
Meanwhile, the rest of the medical community is shouting yet nobody will hear them because their opinions, though more worthy than journalists, contradicts the now invested media’s narrative and thus is ignored.
In other words, there are serious legal questions here which have been raised by many in the legal community and David Bernstein says he disagrees yet ignores their in depth arguments in his amateurish one.
David promotes leaches.
JimC says
That makes sense.
I think some of us (me included) might be a little too cavalier about the practice of patronage, but I get your point.
I also don’t think the general public is knocking down the door to be probation officers, but there must be more applicants when the economy is tough.
JimC says
I forgot the most important point — Linehan! I’ve NEVER heard of any public officeholder hiring a PR firm. “Who’s paying?” is an important question.
ryepower12 says
that have repeatedly and consistently been called out as suspect by myself and others?
You have been criticized for it on several threads now and continue to state these things as if they’re universally agreed-upon facts — instead of allegations by Arthur S and his family that the courts have looked at and dismissed.
Is it okay to continually print highly suspect allegations as fact on BMG — after the person posting them has been corrected numerous times?
Repeating accusations as fact is just spreading innuendo — maybe that flies in some places, but this isn’t the Drudge Report or People Magazine.
What’s next? Stories on Bat Boy?
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
I’ve printed facts about Arthur T. What allegations are “Highly suspect” to you? Please point to them and I will respond in kind.
Thank you
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
I’m patiently waiting for you to point out the lies and such you and others say i have reported.
My good man, I am waiting your reply.
Thank you
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
you can respond when you get in.
I gotta call your mother. She’ll be so happy to hear the news.
mike_cote says
mike_cote says
Even with the typo, the sentence is technically grammatical as a command, just not an appropriate allusion.