TS
I think that Severin's barbs would be more effective if he took the racial aspect out of his criticism of the Governor. Deval Patrick does not fit into those stereotypes.
Casa
It's a parody, get it?
It doesn't seem to be having an effect on anyone but you. Nobody who's heard Patrick speak thinks he's some ill-dictioned Bromley-Heath homie, anymore than educated people think Copernicus was stupid because he was Polish. And anyone who does, on either score, doesn't count because they are morons.
What you and, on the other side, certifiable nitwits like Maloney don't seem to understand is that you can't go to the wall on everything, you can't find racism or conspiracy lurking under every action and utterance and expect to be taken seriously when something actually important rolls around. After a while it becomes like white noise, nobody cares what you think because nobody notices.
I'm a hard core conservative, and I depart from Patrick on almost everything, especially social issues. Despite those issues, I won't waste my time listening to Carr or Severin or Feinberg or Graham beat Patrick to death on every slip-of-the-tongue or political misstep because I know where they are coming from and find their critcism occasionally amusing but essentially meaningless. They, like you, have no sense of perspective or proportion.
Tom Finneran, in his political days, sucked all the air out of Scott Harshbarger's campaign for governor with one remark about him being a moonbat lefty. That is real, gloves-off opinion and political power, not Carr or Severin referring to Patrick as Coupe-Deval.
Boston political talk radio, in case you haven't noticed, is politically powerless. Your mentor, the Dean of Talk Radio, had one political success in his entire time on the air in Boston, the rollback of the seatbelt law, which almost seems quaint looking back at it now.As Boston talk radio has become almost universally conservative and Republican, conservatives and Republicans have vanished from positions of power, with the Dems essentially running the table last election. Patrick was pilloried by almost every talk show host in town, non-stop, and blew Healey away without breaking a sweat. Talk radio is entertainment of the preaching-to-the-choir type, and nothing else. Why you want to spend your life in high dudgeon over what these folks say is beyond me, and does why you even listen to them, except so you can act as some kind of thought-patrolman.
Plus, all news has a shelf life. Yes, Howie Carr torpedoed Williams over a decade ago, nobody cares. Yes, Jerry used his influence to get his sweetie a Lottery job...nobody cares. Jerry actually threw you under the bus...and nobody cares, not even you since prefer to buy some counterintuitive BS about irresistable polical pressure.
To make a long post even longer, nobody cares how Severin wants to depict Patrick's diction, because it doesn't matter. It's just boob bait for the bubbas.
Regards,
TSB
I'll have to get another chair for my ego...