Deval not pleased with Graham claim about his Obama backing

[raccoonradio]

Michael Graham said that the reason Gov Patrick is endorsing Barrack Obama has to do with the fact that
the candidate is black. Gov. Patrick is not pleased with this news.

http://thenaturaltruth.blogspot.com/2007/10/deval-i-didnt-know-you-cared.html

There's also a Herald article about this but I can't find it on their site yet (was in print version of paper).
I'd like to think that the Governor made his decision based upon the content of Obama's character
rather the color of his skin (as ML King once put it)...

 

[Casablanca]

Cannot blame the Governor. This is the same station with the fellow who will not use his right name who calls Governor Deval Patrick's monthly segment on WTKK, "AXE, The Governor".

And Howie Carr and others have also raised the issue in the campaign basically asking how a Black man can own a mansion in Milton and a compound in the Berkshires. Of course, these are questions no one asked the Kennedy clan whose father made his millions as a bootlegger in Prohibition days.

The color line is sadly still with us and the Governor perhaps to his detriment is pointing that out.

BTW, Barack Obama is half white if it matters. Does Graham Crackers mean by his redneck statement that Deval Patrick is giving Obama only HALF an endorsement...

Graham Cracker is exactly that a Cracker.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I think the next installment of "Ask the Governor" is Thursday, November 1st. I wonder if he will bring it up. Maybe he could begin each call that comes in to the show: "thank you for calling 'Ask the Governor' on WTKKK."

 

[raccoonradio]

Barack is actually distantly related to Dick Cheney.

"There you go. Why don't we just ask Osama Bin La-- er, Osama Obama. Obama. Because, er,
because he won by such a huge amount"--Ted Kennedy

 

[Blackroc]

Sen.Chafee--not black-- is about to back Barack. But really why would the Gov. even care what Graham says?

 

[D. R. Tucker]

Sen.Chafee--not black-- is about to back Barack. But really why would the Gov. even care what Graham says?

I can only guess that Patrick is still angry at the local conservative talkers for criticizing him last month after he made that, er, unusual speech about how 9/11 was a "failure of human understanding." However, I don't remember Graham being the guy who went after him the most after that speech. It was Howie.

By the way, Casablanca, do you really think Graham is a cracker? I think he's pretty golden myself...

 

[ciao99]

Cannot blame the Governor. This is the same station with the fellow who will not use his right name who calls Governor Deval Patrick's monthly segment on WTKK, "AXE, The Governor".

And Howie Carr and others have also raised the issue in the campaign basically asking how a Black man can own a mansion in Milton and a compound in the Berkshires. Of course, these are questions no one asked the Kennedy clan whose father made his millions as a bootlegger in Prohibition days.

The color line is sadly still with us and the Governor perhaps to his detriment is pointing that out.

BTW, Barack Obama is half white if it matters. Does Graham Crackers mean by his redneck statement that Deval Patrick is giving Obama only HALF an endorsement...

Graham Cracker is exactly that a Cracker.

I usually agree with you, but this time you are out of line. Cracker is a racially derogatory comment, just like the list of others we are all very familiar with. If one racial name is wrong, all racial names are wrong.

I don't like Michael Graham at all, I think his voice is whiny and he plays up the culture wars. But I also don't like seeing racist terms for white people either.

 

[merlin843]

this may be slightly off-topic but it is a product of this thread. All the name calling. Graham says it, people on this board follow suit.

the name calling goes nowhere. It comes down to something else. The fact that Michael Graham has no talent. Much of what is on Boston radio requires no talent. Eagen, Severin, Carr, Whitley - go down the list and tell us which voice is good enough to stretch across states and make an impact. David Brudnoy was able to use that WBZ signal to establish himself in a way that has eluded all of the current crop of blabber mouths. Brudnoy and Jerry Williams and Gene Burns made a national impact to different degrees. Even Carr's appearances on cable shows and in a movie have all failed to give him any traction - and there's a good reason why - there's simply no substance there. His voice is lousy and his show is the same old same old.

and all of the above have the web and other situations at their disposal - like the companies they work for have dozens and dozens of stations - a factor that wasn't available in the 1980s. Yet with all these resources take a trip to Ohio or Wisconsin and see if they ever heard of Howie Carr or Michael Graham

 

[DaleGriffin]

How can you constantly bitch about the same thing (Axe the Governor) and point out this...

The color line is sadly still with us and the Governor perhaps to his detriment is pointing that out.

and then type this

Graham Cracker is exactly that a Cracker.

Are you a hypocrite or just an idiot?

 

[Casablanca]

It is all the matter of Michael Graham Cracker dishing it out but not being able to take the same. Can you believe this guy was once a stand-up comedian. Well, now Cracker can say he has failed in two professions.

As to the noting above of legends - Brudnoy, Burns and Williams - and not having the Internet Toys of the present talkers it reminds me of the talent and effort it took for great comics like Sid Caesar to create humor that is as funny 50 plus years later as it was when first presented.

Bruds, and Williams and Burns still to this day worked and honed their craft. Guys like Carr, Graham and Severin(o) are pretenders.

 

[merlin843]

and Sid Caesar will live on via DVD.

Proof of the pudding, Casablanca, what soundbites are MORE relevant?

Gene Burns vs. Todd Feinburg

Jerry Williams vs. Jay Severin

David Brudnoy vs. Howie Carr?

The math is simple, and quite revealing. Cookie cutter radio that doesn't attract an audience,
that just cuts up the pie and dishes slices out to whoever they can trick into listening to them.

Poor Dana Hersey has more credibility - he must gag when he compliments the talent on those voiceovers...

"talk radio with the voices to back it up" or something. Not in the real world.

 

[DaleGriffin]

It is all the matter of Michael Graham Cracker dishing it out but not being able to take the same.

I'm sorry is he here "not taking it?"

 

[Casablanca]

Writing metaphorically. But who knows you may be he.

It is all the matter of Michael Graham Cracker dishing it out but not being able to take the same.

I'm sorry is he here "not taking it?"

 

[DaleGriffin]

Writing metaphorically. But who knows you may be he.

If metaphorically = nonsensically than you are right.

 

[Casablanca]

More evidence that you may be he. Your response in nonsenical. but this is getting personal. Let's stop.

Writing metaphorically. But who knows you may be he.

If metaphorically = nonsensically than you are right.

 

[D. R. Tucker]

Yes, let's stop and get back to Graham's original point. Even if he's off-base in his assertions, doesn't it strike anyone as odd that Patrick didn't endorse Hillary Clinton? After all, didn't Hillary's husband give Patrick his first major career platform with the Justice Department gig in the mid-90s?

More evidence that you may be he. Your response in nonsenical. but this is getting personal. Let's stop.

Writing metaphorically. But who knows you may be he.

If metaphorically = nonsensically than you are right.

 

[raccoonradio]

Yes, but maybe he thinks he'd be a good Cabinet member in a Pres. Obama administration. If Barrack
falls short, he could always be Hillary's running mate, etc. I guess he was friends with both, etc.
(Bill and Hill campaigned for Deval...but I think Barrack did too)

 

[Nate Wesley]

How can you constantly bitch about the same thing (Axe the Governor) and point out this...

The color line is sadly still with us and the Governor perhaps to his detriment is pointing that out.

and then type this

Graham Cracker is exactly that a Cracker.

Are you a hypocrite or just an idiot?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Michael Graham said that the reason Gov Patrick is endorsing Barrack Obama has to do with the fact that
the candidate is black. Gov. Patrick is not pleased with this news.

Boo-freakin'-hoo. Here's a clue, Deval: You're a politician. Not everyone is going to like you or agree with you. Stop dwelling on the ravings of a talk-show host with a nearly invisible 2.6 12+ share (meaning, 97.4% of the radio audience is listening to something else) and move on. Your complaints don't do a damned thing for this state except to make you look less like someone who can accomplish something and more like a whiner obsessed with his enemies.

 

[D. R. Tucker]

Michael Graham said that the reason Gov Patrick is endorsing Barrack Obama has to do with the fact that
the candidate is black. Gov. Patrick is not pleased with this news.

Boo-freakin'-hoo. Here's a clue, Deval: You're a politician. Not everyone is going to like you or agree with you. Stop dwelling on the ravings of a talk-show host with a nearly invisible 2.6 12+ share (meaning, 97.4% of the radio audience is listening to something else) and move on. Your complaints don't do a damned thing for this state except to make you look less like someone who can accomplish something and more like a whiner obsessed with his enemies.

Either that is in fact who he is, or he just doesn't like talk radio. Didn't the Herald report last year that in 1996, Patrick tried to blame conservative talk radio for the arson fires that hit African-American churches in the South that year?