Are So Many Choppers Necessary For Our TV News Operations? And Remembering Frank Ford
CHOPPERS ARE US
There will be more about this later, but a report several months ago on philly.com uncovered some safety challenges on helicopters used by the news operations of several TV stations in our market. The report was very timely. Because of a tragic accident, stations in Phoenix recently decided to pool their aerial coverage with one chopper for the entire broadcast community. Safer? Yes. Wise?. Absolutely. When I watch the chopper wars to get video over our area, I worry, not just for the reporters and cameramen and women, but for the people on the ground. Two stations are already pooling their chopper coverage in Philadelphia. It is time for all the major stations to join in a cooperative effort to “pool” helicopter coverage. These stations have a greater responsibility to the people of our tri state area. Being FIRST is less important than being safe. Helicopters, are very safe aircraft, but why take any more chances? Why risk the skies over news events and stadiums with so many choppers?
Frank Ford -
The death of broadcast pioneer Frank Ford brings back wonderful memories of the power of radio in this community. Frank Ford was a hard-charging voice of reason and logic in a time in our history when things were changing fast. He was an enormous success because of one key factor: his understanding of all the diverse elements that make the region work. At his height of success, Frank Ford was a hometown hero. In death, we remember him as a man who made people think, and entertained and informed in so many creative ways. Our sympathies are extended to his wife, District Attorney Lynne Abraham, and members of his family.
Whose earmarks?
Are you bored? Have you not read any of my books to help you get out of your funk? Maybe you simply can’t breathe, waiting for the end of the Fumo trial. Perhaps you want more snow, or you’re trying to find other distractions.
Here’s an idea. Call your Congressman or Senator’s office and ask for a rundown on the “earmarks” that have been set aside for your region. After all, the Congress has approved 34 billion dollars in earmarks. That’s 34 billion dollars! Some of them will wind up in our area. Find out what you and your community are getting. After all, it’s your money. Hopefully, they are bettr projects than the tattoo removal program that costs $700,000, or the $1,600,000 program for a new honey bee farm in Texas.
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News reports indicate that Frank Ford helped develop the concept of talk radio. Is that true? This city had at least 2 all-talk stations in the 60s…WCAU had Jack McKinney, Bill Bircher(sp?), later Joea A. Spivak…with ratings significantly higher than other cities.
On an unrelated topic, I was reminded that a Philly WFIL-TV anchor named Gunnar Back once interviewed me and several classmates for a documentary on reading and arithmetic. An article I googled mentioned that you replaced Back when he retired. Is that how you became the anchor there?
From the sublime of the last post (at least sublime by the measure of most of Larry’s posts) to the absolute ridiculous (most of the mutterings that Larry produces) we now know what Larry’s position is on Choppers in our area.
As for Frank Ford, may he rest in peace. I thought his wife was Lisa Richette. No matter. I new it was some Phila employee.
As for the pork in the Federal bailout stimulus package…… again Larry remains impartial and unopinionated. Thanks Larry for your input into the most expensive outlay of the peoples’ money in the history of the world.
I can only imagine what OOOJ will come up with. Let’s hear it OOOj. “Thanks for changing the topic Larry. What is this crap!!!!!!!!” BTW I agree
The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 – 2005
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
From FREE AIR to free airspace,or freeing up airspace,a sort of linear topic.By the way,though the accident in Phoenix was tragic,it was inevitable.If APC doesn’t extend to choppers,it should.
Larry-I’m glad you got around to the stimulus.I was sorta hoping Philly would get the $50 million to study that particular mouse, or the $25 million to study the effects of prostitution( a friend suggested he could do it for cheaper),or any number of silly things that are included.Maybe Comrade Obamakov has something in store for us down the road.I know he’s distracted these days,worrying about talk show hosts and all.
Mayor Nutter is one of Obie’s peeps. Philly should get more than their share of pork… errrr stimulus money. How about a study on how much harder it is to recruit quality candidates for the Philadelphia Police Dept with the target painted on their backs by thugs. Not only will we get the wrong recruits but we’ll have to pay them more because of the safety factor. Wouldn’t it be more cost effective to take back the streets?
So many try to copy me but only one genuine article! El Rushbo crushes the opposition on the outside and within. Check out the new bumpersticker I had mount on the limo:
ONE BIG ASS MISTAKE, AMERICA
(first letters larger than rest)
Larry, thank you for changing the blog topic. You never cease to amaze me with your topic selection, however. The entire financial system is crumbling before our eyes and you talk about helicopters in TV? Unemployment is reaching epidemic porportions and you choose to speak about Frank Ford? Are you permanently detached or just intentionally leaving the real news to “the professionals” like Katie Freak’in Couric? It’s not incumbant upon you to put a local spin on every news story or is that the advice of Fast Eddie?
At the risk of lending any credence to your topic, I for one do not need someone dressed like an eskimo standing in a snowdrift to report on the weather. Nor do I need someone standing in the breakdown lane on the Surekill Expy reporting on an accident with flashing red and blue lights behind them. “Being there” makes their report no more accurate or compelling to me. But that’s just my opinion…
Besides, shouldn’t all the radio and TV stations have to turn in their helicopters as a gesture of good faith during the financial crisis?
I have a general question. Why do we continue to get drawn back to this lame site like moths to light? Is it the curiosity factor like slowing down and staring when you drive by an accident?
Babby want choppers and honey from farms.
Choppers bom babby house.
Chopper crash is good new story and babby watch it.
As someone who spends a lot of time on the road, I used to find Limbaugh to be an obnoxious but entertaining companion, his eruptions more reliable than Old Faithful. But now that Limbaugh has become something else — the face of the Republican Party, by a White House that has played him brilliantly — he has been transformed into car-wreck-quality spectacle, at once scary and sad.
Behold:
The sweaty, swollen man in the black, half-buttoned shirt who ranted for nearly 90 minutes Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He reiterated his desire to see the president of his country fail. He misstated the Constitution’s intent while accusing President Obama of “bastardizing” the document. He made fun of one man’s service in Vietnam, to laughter.
David Letterman compared him to an Eastern European gangster. But he looked more like a bouncer at a strip club who spent all his tips on one bad outfit. And for the Republican Party, Limbaugh has become very much a vice.
Smarter Republicans know he is not good for them. As the conservative writer David Frum said recently, “If you’re a talk radio host and you have five million who listen and there are 50 million who hate you, you make a nice living. If you’re a Republican party, you’re marginalized.”
Polling has found Limbaugh, a self-described prescription-drug addict who sees America from a private jet, to be nearly as unpopular as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who damned America in the way that Limbaugh has now damned the nation’s newly elected leader. But Republicans just can’t quit him. So even poor Michael Steele, the nominal head of the Republican Party who dared to criticize him, had to grovel and crawl back to the feet of Limbaugh.
Some expected more mettle from Steele. After all, this rare African-American Republican won his post after defeating a candidate who submitted the parody song from Limbaugh’s show: “Barack the Magic Negro.”
Race is an obsession with Limbaugh, one of the threads I noticed on those long drives on country roads.
When Colin Powell endorsed Obama during the campaign, Limbaugh said it was entirely because of race. After the election, Powell said the way for the party, which has been his home, to regain its footing was to say the Republican Party must stop “shouting at the world.”
In 2003, Limbaugh said quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted a black to succeed. Over the next six years, McNabb threw for nearly 150 touchdowns and went to a Super Bowl.
And Limbaugh launched the current battle when he said of Obama: “We are being told that … we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president.”
Translation: submit sexually to a black man because “someone” is telling us all to. Who? Which leaders of the Democratic Party have made such a claim? Which opinion-makers? But therein lies the main tactic of Limbaugh, an old demagogue technique: create a straw man, then tear it down. The latest example was Saturday, when Limbaugh presented himself as the defender of capitalism, liberty and unfettered free markets. Obama, he has said since, is waging a “war on capitalism.”
There is a war, all right. We are witnessing the worst debacle of unfettered capitalism in our lifetime brought on by — you got it, capitalism at its worst. It cannibalized itself. Government, sad to say, had nothing to do with it — except for criminal neglect of oversight.
Now that government has been forced to the rescue, just who is insisting on taxpayer bailouts? Who is in line for handouts? Who is saying that only government can save capitalism? The very leaders of unregulated markets who injected this poison into the economy, the very plutocrats that Limbaugh celebrates.
And, of course, let us never forget that the bailouts of banks and insurance companies were initiated by the Republican president Limbaugh defended for eight years.
Of late, Limbaugh has wondered why he has trouble with women. His base is white, male, Republican — people the party has to stop pandering to if it hopes to govern soon.
It’s little wonder that the thrice-married Limbaugh, who uses “femi-Nazi,” “info-babe” and “PMSNBC” (Get it? The network is full of women suffering pre-menstrual cramps, ha-ha), among his monikers for women, can’t get a date with that demographic.
For Democrats, this is all going to plan. It was James Carville and associates who first cooked up associating Limbaugh with the opposition, as Politico reported. Then on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Limbaugh was the “voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”
Limbaugh played his role, ever the fool. A brave Republican could have challenged him, could have had a “have you no shame” moment with him, giving the party some other identity, some spine. Instead, they caved — from Steele, to the leaders in the House, Eric Cantor and Mike Pence, to Gov. Bobby Jindal, who would be ridiculed by Limbaugh for his real first name, Piyush, were he a Democrat.
You could almost hear their teeth clattering in fear of the all-powerful talk radio wacko, the denier of global warming, the man who said Bill Clinton’s economic policies would fail just before an unprecedented run of prosperity.
But Limbaugh has a fear of his own. If people see him purely as an “entertainer,” as Steele suggested, he will be exposed for what he is: a clown with a very large audience.
Crash and Bern-ita?
Al, I’m as open minded as the rest of normal people, and I stress the word normal. On this site Rush’s name has never been evoked when it came to discussing current affairs until that weasel Rahm Emanuel anointed Rush the voice of the Republican party. Why don’t you and your buddy Rahm take a tour of Barney Frank’s bedroom. He may not be the voice of the Democratic Party but he is the ass of the Democratic party. Some even call him an asshole……..
OOOJ, Larry’s blog is like the Liberal Progressive Jewish households that I visited when I was A kid. While my mother was at home wearing a house dress,cleaning the house, my Jewish friends’ mothers were wearing two piece bathing suits, bronzing their bodies while relaxing by their pool. Even while she was home we were upstairs smoking a doobie and hanging the monthly Playboy pinup on the wall.
BTW I’m taking over for George while he’s gone………..
I live by the Blue Route and on several occasions have gone outside to get the paper only to think that I was in the middle of the movie Apocalypse Now. Helicopters all over the place (no napalm) hovering over an accident or some such interference of the flow of traffic. When I rush inside and turn on the TV to see what is happening, it turns out to be a fender bender or a deer that ran into traffic. Hardly worth the effort…………..
Ed 18, TMI
Late to the party, but are helicopters really the most pressing issue facing Philadelphia? Larry, how are the poor bloated newsreaders supposed to lure the great unwashed into watching their newscasts without lots of “scoop” aerial footage? Consumer product and health teasers will only get so many people to tune in at 11:00 p.m. I think “Bernita” is right, too, about the fact that helicopter crashes are the stuff of local news: cheap sensationalism and death and fire.
OOOJ, 18 was a response to your question as to why we continually return to Larry’s blog. He lets us say just about anything we want and those with different opinions are civil enough to let everyone have their say without getting too personal. I believe it is out of respect for Larry that no one goes beyond the limit of proper blog etiquette……. yet we do try to push the limits every once in a while.
BTW, I meant no disrespect to the memory of Frank Ford in my earlier post. I do not remember him but I’m sure he was a great TV pioneer as Larry points out. My point was that he might be a sidenote to a blog, not the 2nd lead story. I apologize if I offended anyone. It was not intended to be offensive.
Hey Al Franken 15, you are sounding as pompous and outrageous as the person you are ranting about. You are the ultimate fraud. Never funny. Never successful. Were you not funny looking, you would have disappeared 30 years ago. Faster than your national liberal radio program ended. Faster than you dropped your partner Tom Davis. Minnesota, land of a million fools – twice fooled by frauds – Jesse Ventura and now Al Franken. What would Hubert Humphery think of this?
I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were
scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every
day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I
still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight
years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I
worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight,
and I’m tired. Very tired.
I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth around” to
people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government
will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people
too lazy or stupid to earn it.
I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in
their homes. Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to
help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off,
$250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing
Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community
Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them-with their own money.
I’m tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like
Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in
luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they
get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women’s
rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the
press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of
Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won’t multiculturalism be
beautiful?
I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every
day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives
and daughters for their family “honor;” of Muslims rioting over some slight
offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t
“believers;” of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning
teenage rape victims to death for “adultery;” of Muslims mutilating the
genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an
and Shari’a law tells them to.
I believe “a man should be judged by the content of his character, not
by the color of his skin.” I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t
matter” in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it’s all that matters
in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation
standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides,
tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children
that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators
from Illinois. I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and
that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote
the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi
Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less in
an all-knowing government.
I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural
expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were
wonderful. That thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential
time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control
weight and stress, that picked over every line of Bush’s military
records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with two
years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with
three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.
Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox
News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry
drove me to his camp in 2004.
I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we
must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic
schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to
fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach
love and tolerance.
I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global
warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a
two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We
also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our
carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore,
you’re green enough.
I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must
help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ
rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their
noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be
Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of
harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I
never tried marijuana.
I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,”
especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s
next? Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”? And, no, I’m not
against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it’s been a few hundred
years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I’m willing to
fast track for citizenshi p any Hispanic person who can speak English,
doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on
welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the
citizens we need.
I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the
uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped
kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids
can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life
and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people then themselves. Do bad
things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does
this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for
the last fifty years-and still are? Not even close. So here’s the deal. I’ll
let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on
terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be
subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl
in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col.
William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered
Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off
the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian.
Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops
in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding
from in fear.
I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue
and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers-bums are
bi-partisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bi-partisanship.
I live in Illinois, where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats and
Republicans has worked together harmoniously to loot the public for years. And I
notice that the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet are bi-partisan as well.
I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of
both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful
mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting
caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned
homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t
have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have
to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives
and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or
discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m
not going to get to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry
for my granddaughter.
“Al”,
Did you catch Colbert’s bit on Limbaugh at CPAC last night? Hilarious. Limbaugh claims Obama is bastardizing the Constitution, but Limbaugh doesn’t even know what the Constitution says. A clown indeed.
“Robert”, cry me a river. If having a house and two cars and a color TV means you are rich, then stop bitching about paying taxes. You’re rich.
I needed an earmark becauzzze of collony collapse disorder drving the price of honey up. Save the beezzzz.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_dishonest_gimmicky_budget.html
MUST READ!
Charlie come by the librarry, it has ramps for wheelchairs. My girls do charity lapdances, those are great for frustrated guys who have no functions down there. We take care of you and set you straight. Bring yo freinds.
I am a half bee because of an ancient injury.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_go_co/limbaugh_kennedy
Why is the leader of the republicans someone who would send 15 helicopters into a small airspace if it would kill people who disagree with him?
Teddy no offense but the last time I even had an iota of respect for you, you were on the beach in Florida in nothing but a towel,in the middle of the night, holding a glass of Chivas, yelling at one of your nephews to stop humping that girl he brought home from a bar in Palm Beach
Teddy Kennedy – 60 years of a free ride (no pun intended) in a drunken stupor and a national embarrassment on the order of William Jefferson Clinton.
Ah I see the acolytes are here. How about you eat my brain tumor? I am sure it would taste good to you balless weasels.
So Rushbo abuses drugs illegally and has sex with boys on islands and you think I should be blamed for my lifestyle?
I do not have sex with boys. They have sex with me. The Viagra is for the reacharounds.
Rush makes me sick. I am almost as fat as he is but he is nowhere near as smart as I am and I didnt go to coullege.
I like your Jimmy Carter. Go get me shot by extremist. Idiots rule.
Come to our Dead Sea and see why you are fighting these wars.
We have old writings that say you should be fighting these wars for us because we are the chosen ones.
You must believe in Larry. He is trying.
Teddy, you are the ball-less wonder. You left a woman to drown. You didn’t send for help or report it to the police. You had your handlers handle it. You are a ball-less wonder supreme. Further, I would not wish a brain tumor on anyone. Your years of drinking like a fish likely have led to your own demise. Perhaps drinking is the only way you could live with what you did in 1969 in Chappaquiddick.
Rush Limbaugh may be a pompous a-hole but I don’t think he ever killed anyone.
It looks like a some bloggers are suffering from a lack of vitamin D. I suggest that they take in a few rays at the local park.
Others seem to suffer DLS. Deranged Limbaugh Syndrome. I suppose they are in withdrawal from the effects of DBS. Deranged Bush Syndrome. This is closely related to the medical condition known as EOO. Euphoric Obama Obsession.
Dr Punjab I suspect you suffer from the same problem as your quack counterparts Dr Sanjay Gupta and Dr Phil McGraw. That would be your head squarely up your anus. Quacks of a feather fly together. You all need a good proctologist. And no I do not need a refill on my prescription thank you.
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/P/Proctologist.asp
Perhaps you are refering to the Senate Undertaker Pelosi’s Pork-laden Obama Stimulus Initiative To Overtly Redistribute Individual Earnings $. That would be SUPPOSITORIE$ for short. Stick that one where it belongs Punjab!
I chuckle when weak minded reactionaries mention events of 40 years ago. That is ancient history. Let it go. I have done more good for more people than your republican leader Limbaugh ever has or will. Those who cant do bitch about it on the radio.
There is a reason that we as a society do not have a statute of limitations on murder
Too bad there isn’t a statue of limitations on stupidity either. You can be dumb as dirt for a lifetime.
Pickled Ted name one positive accomplishment in your entire life. One. The only thing that saved you from a life in a trailer park is your last name and the inheritance that came with it you fat bastard.
Ah Rush you are so full of bile and hate. Your true colors showed through at CPAC when you couldnt even get the preamble to the constitution right. Some defender of the constitution you are, you dont even know what it says. Like they say, having a mindless 5,000,000 followers and alienating 50,000,000 people is great if you are Rush Limbaugh but not so great if you are the republicans party. People love me and vote for me and my party. You not so much.
Pickled Ted you fat bastard you should know all about that. 14,000,000 mindless voters in Taxachusetts vote for you every election despite your far left voting record, drunken demeanor and personal wrecklessness. You alienated 500,000,000 Democrats by rejecting Shrillary and the Clintonistas in favor of Barrack Hussein Obama. People hold their noses and vote for you and your flaming liberals because they are mindless sheep. Sheep we are leading to slaughter!
http://www.ytedk.com/jacoby.htm
Ted=Leo
Rush= ?
Bravely bold Sir Teddy rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Teddy. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Teddy. He was not in the least bit scared to drive off a bridge, mashed into a pulp, or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Teddy. His head smashed in and heart cut out, and his cirrosis liver removed, and his bowels unplugged, and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his …
Sir Teddy: That’s, uh, that’s enough music for now, lads… looks like there’s dirty work afoot.
Minstrel: [singing] Brave Sir Teddy ran away…
Sir Teddy: *No!*
Minstrel: [singing] bravely ran away away…
Sir Teddy: *I didn’t!*
Minstrel: [singing] When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
Sir Teddy: *I never did!*
Minstrel: [singing] Yes, brave Sir Teddy turned about, and valiantly, he chickened out.
Sir Teddy: *Oh, you liars!*
Minstrel: [singing] Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat. A brave retreat by brave Sir Teddy.
Ted has a brain tumor. As one astute politician pointed out in reference to Ruth Ginsberg, he is not long for this world. Why the constant attack on this guy who lost three brothers in the service of their country. Ted has been given a free pass in life because of his losses. He IS the last remnants of an era called Camelot.
Lets not let up on this fat pig Rush Limbaugh. He IS the leader of a the Republican party. He is what’s left of its former glory and influence, I am ..er Obama is the future of the US. Heil Obama! Heil Obama!
Rahm you little snizzling nerd we will crush you like the cockroach that you are. 4-8 years from now no one will remember who Rahm Emanual is unless you’re finally up on racketeering charges. Or already in jail for trying to buy Barrack Hussein Obama’s senate see from your esteemed Governor Blagovich. El Rushbo will still be going strong. I can not be stopped. I am the second coming. Live with it snerdly.
Mrs Kopechne my heart goes out to you for the loss of your daughter Mary Jo. I’m sure she was a wonderful person and daughter. The fact that her murderer has been allowed to walk free for the last 40 years is an outrage. A malfeasant guilty of a horrendous murder does not deserve your pardon or foregiveness anymore than he deserves to be knighted. Knifed perhaps but not honored by knighting. He does deserve to spend his last days in jail. Perhaps God is finally exacting his own justice. Remember, he left your daughter to die to save his own reputation. That reputation has not been sufficiently tainted and the fat bastard continues to get a free ride.
#52, wrong. I’m just back from a funeral.
That said, conservatives lament Limbaugh and the current state of their party, which is so badly fractured because of nuts on the far right on social issues that it can’t even get it together on tax reform.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188279
I see Larry stayed up until 2 a.m. to turn his clock ahead.
Leo, sorry for your loss. As for Larry’s blog, time will remain an hour off as long as daylight savings time in effect. Larry is Blogdog Thousandaire and deadbeat landlord. He is not technically inclined; he has “people that do that sort of thing”. Get use to being an hour off and way out of synch on this site.
I realize you are revelling in the current attempts by the far left to subvert the 1st Amendment and ban ultraconservative talkshows like Limbaugh and Hannity. By focusing current attention on Limbaugh, the Obamanites weaken the resistance of the few remaining conservatives in Congress who don’t care to be lumped in with Limbaugh. It may be an effective short term plan but will not work long term.
One article by an obscure Canadian journalist in Newsweek does not make your point. This is just a liberal ploy to divert attention away from a rapidly failing economy, a stock market down 33% since the election and no answers (or apparently a clue) from either Obama or his trusty Geithner. We might be better served letting Bernie Madoff take a shot at fixing the economy.
Limbaugh does not speak for the Republican Party. Rather, he speaks to shut-in seniors from America’s Greatest Generation who are tired of all the liberal b.s. and endured the likes of Hoover, FDR and Truman. The GOP is happy to have Limbaugh rant daily on the Dems. They are happy to have him do their dirty work. No one, not even Limbaugh, considers him the party leader or the face of the GOP anymore than Al Franken is the face of the Dems. Spurious agrument at best…
Larry, if this weekend was any indication, the sock puppets will be out in droves today. Better change the blog topic while someone is still reading…
oooj, the Dems aren’t trying to ban conservative talk shows. Indeed, they’re focusing mainstream attention on those programs, which reveals to most Americans what extremists (and how stupid) their hosts are. Sunlight is a powerful disinfectant.
Limbaugh doesn’t speak only to seniors. A lot of young Republicans dig him. I know people who listen to him who aren’t seniors. Also, Limbaugh, in whaling on Steele, did set himself up as the de facto leader of the party, it’s new Rovian brain. *shudder*
its. Need more coffee.
Larry, I’m petitioning SEPTA to change the name of the Market-Frankford El line to Market-Frank Ford El line. With your support, it could happen. It’s no R5, but it’s dependable, if you follow. Slap some new paint on it and clean up the chicken bones, urine, spilled sticky beverages, etc., and it’d be a first class tribute.
Limbaugh admitted that his listeners doubled last week after the Kennedy comment and Steele tiff. If that’s all it takes, he’ll be whaling endless. These lightweights are easy targets. Let’s see if he narrows his sites on Obama and grinds away daily like he did on the Clintons. Obama is far less swarmy than Clinton but his holier-than-tho attitude lends itself to abuse.
Larry, I keep missing you at Reading Terminal Market. I was hoping that you’d be there to take up the cause of the SEPTA Market-Frank Ford El petition. Tomorrow at 12:30? By Philbert the Pig?
First we had Larry Craig hooking up in airports. Now we have Leo hooking up in train stations.
Larry, I think we could get an earmark for the SEPTA line renaming. It would be great to spruce up the Market-Frank Ford line with stimulus funds. Let me know if you’ll go to bat for the project in the media. If you want, I’ll write copy for you to read.
PC Police, first you had Limbaugh hooking up with children in D.R. Your attempted character assassination will no derail the SEPTA Initiative or the FREE AIR Initiative.
It seems like the only way to get a response from Larry is to evoke the Deceased Police Department or the Hole in the Head Club.
That being said, there really isn’t much here for Larry to respond to, when you see a whole weekend spent discussing (I use that term very loosely) Ted and Rush. Don’t get me wrong, Larry would love to interview either one of those Palm Beach aristocrats but after watching Larry’s show, he is happy interviewing any one he gets his hands on. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that Larry isn’t worth the time of day.
In fact Larry doesn’t even keep the time of day.
What’s Wrong With Gilbert Grape? Or should I say What’s Wrong With Larry Kane? Larry it doesn’t take much to stimulate the readers here on you blog. A local media icon as yourself should have paid more attention to your ability to be a “voice to the people”. Your “voice” has been subjected to much criticism and pointed remarks but there were always those of us who continued to think that a light bulb would go off in your head and you would print thoughtful and relevant topics. Now that that time has passed maybe you can sell your book on Twitter. That’s all you cared about from the beginning….selling your book
How sad………
Rush Limbaugh dismisses anyone who is not a white conservative, targeting “others” who mightily tick off his listeners: Muslims, feminists, people of color, gays, and environmentalists. There’s no need to understand them or try and accommodate their views. Just put them through the wringer of Limbaugh’s perpetual judgment and, poof, there’s no problem anymore. Of course, the whole scheme is delusional. Problems aren’t solved by remaining perpetually ticked off. Accords can’t be reached when you demonize the other side.
By any sane account, Rush Limbaugh is dead weight when it comes to finding a solution to anything. Like Sarah Palin, his spiritual bride, he lurks in the shadow of the human psyche, expressing the dark anger, resentment, jealousy, and vindictiveness that society can never escape. And yet, the next time you tune into Limbaugh’s censorious circus of insensitive scurrility, give him a kind thought. As far back as Mark Twain, the American character has been ornery. We secretly love rascals, bank robbers, tricksters, swindlers, hell raisers, and outlaws. And when we feel so inclined, we laugh at them. Rush Limbaugh may represent a toxic form of entertainment — and the bile he spews bears no resemblance to true morality — but the fact that America makes room for him is something to be proud of. I don’t pray that he goes away. I pray that we can keep laughing, even if our grin is crooked, at the pranks of the eternal shadow who is our companion for life, whether we want him or not.
Deepak take a chill pill
Hey “Deepak”, plagerism is not allowed here. If you are going to pull out someone else’s article and plunk it down in Larry’s blog, you need to credit the original writer. Besides, you will give the rest of us a bad name.
Leo, Larry is not biting on your SEPTA proposition. Larry’s not even reading his own bloggers. Larry is holed up in his condo in Boca watching VCR tapes of his glory days. He has his technical people monitor the blog count until it hits 100+ and then he changes the topic.
Why can’t we get people like Jack Bauer in politics? Selfless patriots with only the country’s best interests at heart and willing to do whatever it takes. Instead we get self promoters with personal agendas and outdated ideologies.
Ed, in trying to analyze why Larry is such a bad blog host, you are missing the key ingredient. He is just lending his name to a website for self-promotion and trying to remain relevant. The problem is that by being a really bad, absentee landlord host, he only serves to diminish his legacy as a Philly icon.
YFAP, where have you gone?
I’m too busy,it’s Philly Beer Week.
Schmitz of Philadelphia
Schmitz will ring a bell for ya
Larry, I missed you today at Reading Terminal Market. Are you really in Boca? Why? Do the gas stations in that utopia all charge the same amount for a gallon of unleaded? Do they already offer FREE AIR? Have you forsaken us?
We are the Unforsaken!
Larry may abandon us but we will not go away until there is a chicken in every pot and free air at every gas station.
The scoop is that Madoff will plead guilty to charges carrying a life sentence in Martha Stewart’s Camp Kupkake.
Wagers on how many tens of millions of ill-gotten gain his wife gets to keep in exchange for the plea?
So many choppers, so little time.
Larry, please change the blog topic!
LARRY, PLEASE CHANGE BLOG!!!
LARRY, YOU ARE TESTING OUR PATIENCE!!!
LARRY, PLEASE PUT SOME REAL THOUGHT INTO NEXT TOPIC!!!
LARRY, EARLY BIRD SPECIAL NOT FOR ANOTHER 8 1/2 HOURS!!!
LARRY, IS ANYONE MONITORING YOUR WEB SITE???
LARRY, I AM MAKING AN ALL POINTS BULLETIN FOR THE SOCK PUPPETS. SOCK PUPPETS, DO YOUR THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next topic: News vans & carbon footprints of the local network affiliates. Larry will opine about whether each network having numerous vans and SUVs is good for the planet, will determine that it is not good for the planet, and will speculate that Ed Rendell just might be the guy to make bold political moves to reduce carbon emissions from news organizations. But who will tackle all of the methane coming from this blog?
Josh Shapiro, who else?
oooj, touché.
And Larry is deferring to Bob Casey on FREE AIR
Oh the humanity!…..
oooj, Bob Casey is an odd candidate given that he is against FREE AIR CHOICE.
In other news, I heard that Martians have landed in New Jersey and are wiping out all military units that have been sent in to stop them. Local news will have salient coverage at 11 p.m. of the house fires caused by the invasion.
After witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst NJ, Larry Kane appropriately responded, “That’s some big fire”………
After witnessing the the destruction in the aftermath of the Osage Ave. conflagration Larry Kane appropriately responded, “That was some big fire”……
Larry don’t you think we look alike? Maybe a little? Just wondering….
Jump’n gee hosafat…..!! What’s with all these dern Walters popping up on Larry Kane’s blog? Litt’el Luke what’s yer take on this phenomenon
Larry, you and your kind ruined the newspaper industry. Now we’re reduced to blogging for information. It looks like you and your kind might ruin blogging industry also………
Walter, the Hindenberg fell victim to part of the Martian Advance Force, sent to probe our defenses.
Larry, I missed you at Reading Terminal Market. I can only take it that you will not support our SEPTA petition to get the Market-Frankford line renamed Market-Frank Ford line. Talk is cheap.
Luckily, the Hindenburg got past the MAF, only to explode over Lakehurst, further encouraging our foes from the Red Planet.
http://hindentee.ytmnd.com/
I think we should get one for Lar.
O LARRY! MY LARRY!
O Larry! my Larry! rise up and hear us all
Rise up—for you the flag is flung–for you the bugle calls.
The port is near the bells I hear–the people all exulting
While follow eyes the steady keel. the vessel grim and daring.
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red
Where on the deck my Larry lies
Fallen cold and dead……..
Mr. Kane, I am looking for someone to lend his voice to an important animated character in one of my company’s new films to be called “Dumbo Does the News.” A flying elephant will get a job with a news bureau, reporting traffic and other news from the air. We have that part cast. However, we are looking for a voice for the villain, an old buzzard who has limited skills but who keeps trying to remain relevant after the flying elephant arrives on the scene. The old buzzard is somewhat thick and causes congestion in the air space over important stories – like Sleeping Beauty getting a kiss from a handsome prince and waking up – and makes the elephant crash and harm himself so that he, the buzzard, can be back in the spotlight again. Have your agent contact my office if you are interested in an audition.
Mr Disney I’ve been having a tough time getting any roles lately. If Larry doesn’t want the job I’ll take it. BTW Larry don’t you think we looked alike. Just wondering……
I remember Larry calling up and asking for tickets to the Knicks game vs the Sixers. I said Larry who?
Feds Spending Millions on Kennedy Legacy in Mass.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:18 PM
BOSTON — More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.
The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy’s mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Kennedy, who at 77 is battling brain cancer, said he hadn’t requested the money for the library and institute, and that there are dozens of other earmarks in the spending bill for homeless services and community health centers.
The $22 million JFK library earmark was sponsored by fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, who is also a top sponsor for the money for the Kennedy Senate Institute. Kerry defended the library project, which he said is needed to upgrade the facility.
“This National Archives project will eliminate the worst archival storage space problem in the presidential library system and it will facilitate six years of work to expand the library,” Kerry said in a statement. “This shovel-ready project will also bring much-needed jobs to the area.”
A proposal to build a national institute on the U.S. Senate and to name it after Kennedy has been under discussion since 2003, but accelerated after Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer.
Local officials last year announced they were seeking up to $100 million to build the institute, which they said would focus on the Senate in general and Kennedy’s more than four decades of service to the body. The facility will be located in Boston on a four-acre plot near the JFK library.
About $20 million has already been raised for the institute, including contributions from drug companies, insurance companies and hospitals. Tentative plans called for a replica of the Senate chamber itself, as well as programs to train new senators.
The list of earmarks provided by Kennedy, Kerry and the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation highlights programs throughout the state, including $3 million to preserve New England fisheries; $1.7 million for land acquisition at Cape Cod National Seashore; and $333,000 to study any links between environmental pollutants and breast cancer.
“These funds will create jobs that are desperately needed, and will provide lasting benefits for all our citizens long into the future,” Kennedy said in statement accompanying a list of earmarks.
The billions in earmarks in the federal spending bill have been a source of contention.
President Barack Obama signed the bill which he described as imperfect. He said it must signal an “end to the old way of doing business.”
Critics led by Republican Sen. John McCain have denounced the 8,000 pet project contained in the bill as pork.
© 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
It is strange that there is no mention the Kennedy Memorial Bridge in Chappaquiddick Mass.
The Kennedys get millions and I got vacuum cleaners. (and probably a trip to jail) I only hope they name a rest stop on the turnpike after me.
You know I was a pretty good singer with a top rated TV show but I’ll always be remembered as Sausage Boy. Shucks, I was kicking Dean Martin’s butt for a couple of years.
LARRY,PLEASE CHANGE THE GODDAMN BLOG!!!!!
Larry you are a miserable host. You ignore your guests. You should be baking them cookies and burning scented candles. I had many deeply self reflective moments while in incarceration. I am a better person now because I am less self involved. Perhaps you need to spend sometime with your pal Bernie Madoff in prison. It could be cathartic. You certainly would have time to change your blog topic routinely. I suggest a vanilla smelling candle.
Or should that be chocolate?
Hey Daddy-o I just want to say I dig your blog. It is like an old hideout I had where no one hassles you. Want to come for a drive with me?
Ahoy maties I be in town for the beer festival. I had me eye on a Ballantine for over a fortnight. Baseball and Ballantine as me old pal By Saam use to say. Arrrgh. Been down in the Gulf off the coast of Tampa spying on the Yankees and Pirates.
Sacre bleu I come into town for Wing Bowl and I miss by 2 months. Now I am forced to drink watered down beer served by unattractive wenches. Why do I keep returning to this God forsaken city?
Larry-What’s your take on the grandstanding Mayor Nutter ? I’m cool with it if he does it every day, or however long it takes to collect all the outstanding money.As a one shot deal it would be symbolic of a one term mayor.Yout thoughts please.
That should be your,not yout.Had coffee so I don’t have an excuse.Oh,Captain Chausette,you’re not looking very hard if you’re settling for watered down beer in this town.Sacre Bleu.
*peers at invisible computer screen*
*frowns*
*shrugs*
*turns off invisible computer*
*leaves room and struggles against invisible wind*
*pays fare and goes through turnstile at SEPTA station*
*sits on train then stands quickly as though having sat on chicken bones*
*horrified expression*
*heaving and vomit*
Give a Jamaican Dragon Stout a try mate. It’ll put hair on your chest.
CC I will try this Jamaican beer. It will be needed to wash down the dreadful food there. I am in Haiti most often and forced to drink the local horse piss called Prestige. Sacre bleu! On occasion I can get a Carib Lager which is not so bad. Have you been around Cape Horn recently? Very treacherous!
No need to go around Cape Horn mate. Panama Canal shortens route. Where have you been mate?
Mon Dieu!
Zoot Allors!
I may be Ponce buy you are poofs you sweaty men.
HELD HOSTAGE – DAY 8
Larry, WTF?
Hey Ponce, you sound like a cross between Barney Frank and Snaggletooth the Tiger…
Christopher Columbus discovers America and I get 6 vacuum cleaners……..
Is you with fountain of youth?
Hey, Ponce, you related to Bernita or are you from the hood?
I noble Spaniard you vassal pig trough. Who is Bernita you speak of?
Hey Ponce, you must be mistaking me for Jimmy Dean…
“Beer Week” in Philadelphia…….. doesn’t that happen every week in Philadelphia?
Hey my brothers, weez be riiiiden the ship to destruction. All of deeez phoney
Frenchmen couldn’t plug up a hole in my baaaffroom sink. Dats dah truth. Ponce and his friend Marcel gots to get real. Especially that mute guy. What …he can’ts say what he means. And Ponce didn’t he realize that we didn’t want to be here.