Specter Faced The “Perfect Storm”
Arlen Specter has been on the scene for 45 years in Pennsylvania.. so his defeat is really the end of an amazing career. In a way he ran into the perfect political storm – an outrage against incumbents. the party switch, and of course an aggressive race run by Joe Sestak. In the end, Pa. voters decided 5 terms was enough. The challenge ahead is for the party establishment, most of which supported Specter, to rally round the winner and face off against the well financed Republican Pat Toomey. Democrats already face the possible loss of a Senate seat in Delaware. The healing process is critical because Sestak-Toomey may, with the Tea party, the social battles, and the big money make this Sestak-Specter race mellow by comparison.
For Toomey, the task is huge: He must convince a state with a one million Democrat voter advantage that he can get Democratic and Independent voters. Otherwise, he may be doomed to defeat. How he handles the next several months will determine his fate.
Final note for now: Bob Brady and Ed Rendell stood by Specter to the end. Not so for the White House, which abandoned Specter in the final days. The same thing happened with Jon Corzine in New Jersey. The White House needs to reaffirm it’s commitment to endorsed candidates. Otherwise, there may remain a lack of trust from within the President’s own party.
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Waiting for the 7:01.
Snarlin Arlen summarily dumped by the voters of PA. Wow. What a shocker. Larry thought that the old machine politics and the support of other PA Dem lightweights like Brady and Fast Eddie would be enough to erase the joke that Arlen has become. Not so big guy. And Barack distances himself from any potentially losing situation. Has since that district seat in Upstate NY where he sent me to help out. Barack has too many of his own chosen losers – Geitner – Napolitano – Sotomayor – Gates – and some may say me. Of course they would be mistaken. Yes Barack is a fraud and not to be trusted. No President has ever been more concerned with polls and focus groups. At least not since Bill Clinton. He is in this for himself and his legacy. Party and America be damned!
Larry you can blame this defeat on everyone from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton. You can attribute it to Tea Party politics and anti-establishment backlash. You can blame it on anything you want but in the end people are tired of Snarlin Arlen’s act and want him to just go away. Dog track time as Imus would say.
Your expose does not include what Specter will do next. Teach at Penn. TV talkshow on CN8. Private law office in Philly. Current events advisor to Fast Eddie. CNN Insider.
You have correctly and surprisingly pointed out that the task ahead of Toomey is daunting. In a state where 65% of the voters – both alive and dead – vote Dem he is facing a statistical uphill battle. Sestak may be a well financed Dem but he is a lightweight. He will have the full support of the President and the party in November as they fight to maintain a plurality in the Senate and regain a majority. In a dumbed down state like PA they may be successful. If Toomey’s message of less big government and taxes resonates with the voters he might win.
Enough with the experiment in socialism and Robin Hood-ism. Impeachment now! Run the rest of these lemmings out in November. Take back America from those that seek to destroy it from within.
Biden/Biden in 2012! We even support losers.
Larry
You are a wonderful journalist. Once again, a true tour de force from you.
You have hit the hammer on the nail perfectly.
Bravo.
A remarkable job by you.
You really know your stuff.
Please review my piece — with the cute little picture of a twister board — online as well.
You can then return the compliment to me. LOL
As always.
You are an inspiration.
I am honored and humbled to share these pages with you.
Larry, my condolences this morning. Looks like the Democrats have spoken. No storm…. no Flyers….. no Sestak was needed to send Specter packing. Looking back I have to think the old man jumped the shark the day he called for an investigation into the New England Patriots spygate controversy. How laughable was that?
More like the “perfect storm” of arrogance, impertinence and anachronism
Toomey gets the nod! We’ll move the GOP right of Mussolini yet! SEPTA GET READY TO RUN YOUR TRAINS ON TIME!
“SEPTA GET READY TO RUN YOUR TRAINS ON TIME!” He’s a politician,not a magician.
Speaking of magicians, who would have thought the Flyers would have shutout Montreal twice? Bob Kelly and Kate Smith are kabitzing somewhere.
shutout montreal twice while being outplayed for very long stretches.that should give the habs some hope & make for an entertaining game 3.
We at the Tea Party take the credit for the Flyers’ success in stopping creeping Canadian socialism from reaching the Cup Finals. It’s our grassroots efforts and refusal to listen to authority figures like Bettman that have gotten the Flyers this far. We’ll just see if our right wing populism can carry the day inside of one of the largest urban socialist centers in the dark communist country to the north.
Also, look for me at the games. I have a tricorn hat and a Liberty Bell codpiece. I jump around shouting “kill, baby, kill” during Flyer penalty kill, ringing my bell.
welp, Spector is political roadkill, he could not go gracfully. There is no perfect storm Larry, Spector made a fool of himself trying to hold onto power long after it was clear it was over. Had he just retired as a Republican i think his legacy could be respected. However, given what he did, he should be accorded no respect at all.
Larry, there are 15 more pricipals without credentials. When are you going to write about out of control black patronage in the city? It’s a legitimate story that needs to be investigated.
Specter’s legacy = crucifying that Anita Hill biotch to get our good friend and reticent ultra-conservative Clarence Thomas on the Court despite his shady treatment of women. He’ll be remembered fondly.
Larry, tell me we aren’t going to kick this Specter topic around for a week. I gave you my condolences, let’s move on. There’s plenty more topics in the sea. How about that lying Democrat running for Dodd’s seat in Conn? Vietnam veteran my foot. He served in some comfy base in the states during the war.
And what about that Mexican president telling us that our laws need to be changed? We’re inundated with illegals from his country and he’s telling us Arizona’s new law is racial profiling. Our guns are killing his people and we should change our gun laws too. He can’t control his own country let alone trying to tell us what to do.
Oh and how about North Korea threatening South Korea if any sanctions are implemented against them. Even though a North Korean torpedo sank a South Korean boat killing 46.
Lastly there is that little oil spill in the Gulf. No need to panic Larry this is an actual CRISIS!!!!!!!!!
Why hello Larry, my head feels fine thanks. Sestak Sestak Sestak……argggggg Joan is making pies tonight want to come over??????? Ed Rendell said he was coming over to discuss the magic bullet theory with me. I always love discussing the magic bullet. Maybe you can get Michael Smerconish to join you. He’s always good for a laugh, that bald headed freak. I bought a new camcorder today. I’m taping the Montreal Canadians practice tomorrow, I hope to steal some signs. Larry do they have signs in hockey? Oh you wouldn’t know all you know is shuffleboard. I’m not ready for shuffleboard yet Larry. I’m a racketballer. As Elton John would say Racketman
It goes something like this…..
I packed my bags last night
Zero hour 10 Pm
And I’m high as a kite
I miss my senate seat I miss my life
It’s lonely out in space
on such a timeless flight
And I think it’s going to be a long time
Til I touchdown again
and i’m the man they think I am at home
Oh yea yea yea I’m the racketman
racketman burning out his fuse up here alone
And I think it’s going to be a long long time………
Obama “Hope and Change” well it looks like we all better “hope” things don’t get much worse especially in the Gulf, and as for “change” it looks like his party is in for quite a bit of it. It seems every candidate Obama endorses falls flat on his face.
Obama is toast, brown burnt toast. He also has a bad habbit of stepping away from sinking ships really fast, as he did with Spector, even Bill Clinton would have tried harder.
He is in a box in the Gulf. It seems Uncle Tom made a untimely deal with the man to open up more drilling, right before a disaster that underscores the government is asleep or in bed with big oil. Doesnt look too smart does it? It’s going to be very easy to portray him as a house boy in 2012. The left will fade, independents will realize it was a mistake to take a chance on him, and Mitt Romney will become president.
Flyers lose. Glenn Beck says we should blame communism and Hitler, which run Canada and its health care system.
Flyers win.Montreal Gazette blames the Russian players,especially the twins,for getting too cozy with Montreal’s Russian mob.Too much blow & too many hookers.
I am in shock.
Two reasons.
1) Our Tea Party couldn’t bring a republican representative in to beat Murtha’s staffer. I’m questioning the validity of my own Tea Party if it can’t get the muslim haters to go against an Obama establishment candidate.
2) Tom Corbett the Attorney General is using legal subpoenas and his office to try to unmask two people who criticized him on Twitter. For reals? I was hoping he’d be that GOP small unobtrusive government sort. Anonymous criticism of government is a cherished American tradition and right. Imagine if he unmasked all the people on Twitter who criticized Obama the muslim facist communist socialist child killing white hater! I’d be toast. If Corbett has a beef, why doesn’t he file a civil lawsuit and pay some attorneys out of his own pocket instead of playing King George and using taxpayer money to exact personal reprisals?
Larry finally a slow news day. Whew!! I can’t take much more of crucial elections, environmental catastrophes, and Obama. Oh that’s right Obama was on the tube again today signing something or other. Larry can’t this guy let a day go by that he isn’t giving a speech? He’s not only addicted to the teleprompter but now he is endlessly putting his puss in front of the TV cameras. Enough already Obama…… I know what you look like. These Socialists love the camera…….
The Flyers really took one on the chin last night. Is this a sign of things to come or did they just take the night off?
I’m not sure. But I do know that I am not that excited about the series. If global warming wasn’t so advanced maybe i could get into guys on ice skating around. As things are I’m more concerned about what type of sunscreen I should be using.
I am in shock.
Two reasons.
1) Our Tea Party couldn’t bring a republican representative in to beat Murtha’s staffer. I’m questioning the validity of my own Tea Party if it can’t get the muslim haters to go against an Obama establishment candidate.
2) Tom Corbett the Attorney General is using legal subpoenas and his office to try to unmask two people who criticized him on Twitter. For reals? I was hoping he’d be that GOP small unobtrusive government sort. Anonymous criticism of government is a cherished American tradition and right. Imagine if he unmasked all the people on Twitter who criticized Obama the muslim facist communist socialist child killing white hater! I’d be toast. If Corbett has a beef, why doesn’t he file a civil lawsuit and pay some attorneys out of his own pocket instead of playing King George and using taxpayer money to exact personal reprisals?
Yesterday i had not one but two census takers on my porch. I had already given my info to the first census taker but apparently my info didn’t satisfy her. They had to send out a team of census takers to address my information. Yes I told them I already gave at the front door. The questions that they asked were a full affront to what I believe in. Ok counting people is a good thing, I guess. Racial and ethnic info is not.
Sarah, John Murtha was a crooked politician who greased the palms of his constituents. That’s how he kept his job. He wasn’t a representative of the people. He bought votes and allegiance. Those yokels in his district didn’t want to see all the pork he produced disappear. That’s why they voted for his crone assistant.
Sarah, who is tom Corbett?
Ed, I can’t get over how right you are so much of the time, too bad you’re not nicer, we could be lovers!
Looks like the world is stabilizing, hopefully all of the mess in Europe convinces Americans that we are on the road to perdition with the socialism, and voters will revamp the Congress, before its too late and we can right our capitalist democracy before it collapses.
I see I have not missed a thing. Ed, Pussy and Sarah. Sounds like a Menage a Trois or a folk singing group.
Barack put me in the kooler for 3 days after my gaffes on the Today Show interview. What ever happened to transparency and freedom of speech?
Banking legislature is another ruise. He knows that the public is outraged by oil spill and Wall Street. He can’t effectively do anything about either. All he can do is talk tough and impose fines on BP. He can and has come up with another convoluted bill to limit the free economy we prosper by and enjoy. He is so looking for a win. He slid this last bill through quietly. GOP sat on their hands. Not sure if they are trying to give him the proverbial rope to hang himself. It is just another diversion. Barack Copperfield – master of illusion. Tool. Sharp but not dangerous.
Alas today is Saturday. I must take off my legislative hat and replace it with my par-tay hat. Only one week before returning to Parrott mode. Can’t wait. Until then breakfast at Maggies. Demo at Home Depot on HVAC installation. Hooking up new pipes to existing pipes. Personally I’m more interested in laying pipe if you know what I mean. Back to Biden compound to supervise lawn chores by the illegals. Finish up Alex Cross novel and then downtown for dinner at Fast Eddie’s Seafood on Grill on C St at Heald. I wonder if it is Larry’s fav Fast Eddie Rendell that owns the place. Love the raw bar. Oysters on the half shell. Might spice up my romantic evening with Dr Jill. It might extend my performance by a couple of nanoseconds. I’m already using those extend condoms to help with my PE problem. Maybe oysters will give me a confidence boost. Every nanosecond counts. Dr Jill gets grumpy when she doesn’t climax.
Where has everyone gone? It appears that Pussy Foot, Tea Bag Patriot and Ed are the sole survivors.
I’m out of the kooler baby. I’m eating oysters and living large. Next week I’m back in full Parrott mode. Life is good.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Could it get any worse?
Larry, how did you know Tony (Anthony) Williams would be a factor in the Governor’s race? Especially, how did you know his campaign was going to receive millions in support of him, millions and millions supplied by a few individuals. That reminds me of the first job I took after college. It was a minority company so I thought. When I found out the whole company was backed by a few white guys fronting a black individual (who could take advantage of black enterprise money and tax breaks supplied by the government) I realized the shimmy sham was in effect. The white guys couldn’t receive such accommodations from the government so they fronted a black man to take advantage of the system. Boy was I naive.
Larry, I’m still celebrating the demise of Arlen (now) Spectator. We’ve suffered through his tenure here in Pa for far too long. He was a tireless individual alright but he was only tireless in getting reeeee eeee lected. I only hope that we no longer will let down our guard when it comes to lifelong politicians trying to save their own butt by any means possible. My next concern is getting rid of BooB Casey. This guy was elected purely on name recognition. He’s not Senate material, he’s a bureaucrat masquerading as a politician.
I’m celebrating the demise of this website. Can it be saved?
Carry I know how to save this website. Lets reverse the first letter of our first and last name. Now that is clever.
Better yet let’s make up fictitious names and reverse the first and last letters. Now that’s a hoot.
How bout the Flyers? Awesome display yesterday. Grabbed the Habs by the pucks and yanked them around the ice, eh? Next stop Chicago.
Karry very clever indeed. So how much more clever does that make you that you copied Carry? Dipstick.
Pounding headache from bender last night. Came home from Fast Eddie’s and got hammered on Chivas. In memory of Ted Kennedy. God I miss that guy. He was the standing joke in the Senate before his demise. Now only Robert Byrd stands between me and that moniker. Anywho. Should not pound the Chivas. So smooth but so deadly.
One of my interns called me yesterday. He said that that slimeball John Kerry was trying to slip Cap and Trade into the Climate Change legislation. How stupid do these jamokes think we are? Because we didn’t read the healthcare 2000 pages we won’t read any bill now? Not that stupid John. God blesses us each day that John Speedboat Kerry is not President. Captain Sourpuss. And Joltin Joe Liebermann is part of that bill as well. I would have expected more for Joe. Oh well. Kill the Bill. Vote all these old time Dems out of office. Clean house. Fresh start. It all begins in November.
Time for me to take a massive dump. Fried scallops were good but they want to exit.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Exit stage left for Barack.
Karry Lane. Any relation to Penny or Lois?
Biden/Biden in 2012! Superman is in my ears and in my eyes. There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit, and meanwhile back.
Which puppet has morphed into Karry Lane? Could that be our Tea Party impersonator?
I am in shock.
Two reasons.
1) Our Tea Party couldn’t bring a republican representative in to beat Murtha’s staffer. I’m questioning the validity of my own Tea Party if it can’t get the muslim haters to go against an Obama establishment candidate.
2) Tom Corbett the Attorney General is using legal subpoenas and his office to try to unmask two people who criticized him on Twitter. For reals? I was hoping he’d be that GOP small unobtrusive government sort. Anonymous criticism of government is a cherished American tradition and right. Imagine if he unmasked all the people on Twitter who criticized Obama the muslim facist communist socialist child killing white hater! I’d be toast. If Corbett has a beef, why doesn’t he file a civil lawsuit and pay some attorneys out of his own pocket instead of playing King George and using taxpayer money to exact personal reprisals? Of course I know a thing or two about using public office to settle private scores. You betcha!
Beep beep beep!!!! This is not a drill. Wee Willie Weber has passed away. A mighty local broadcaster long beloved by the kids that grew up watching his show is now gone. He was the dad I never had (and I did have a dad). There was Uncle Pete and Sally Star and Gene London, but Wee Willie captured a generation whose fathers were too busy to give them the time of day. I bought what Wee Willie was selling. I couldn’t wait to get home after school to see if my latest Wee Willie purchase was in the mail. So long Wee Willie, you’ll be missed.
Bigger than Life – Wee Willie Webber
I knew Wee Willie Webber. He was a pioneer in the infant TV industry. He was well established at WFIL by the time I arrived. I could make his story about myself as I often do in obits but the classy thing to do is let Wee Willie be.
You can’t miss “Wee Willie” Webber. He stands six foot, five before he puts on his shoes and hat. Turn on your radio in the morning and he’s there. Turn on your TV in the afternoon and he’s there. Go to the opening of your new Supermarket and chances are good he will be there, too, giving away door prizes.
Bill Webber, a New Yorker who now prefers Philadelphia, likes to keep himself highly visible. He’s on WIP radio from 10 am – 1 pm, six days a week, Monday thru Saturday, where he chats before records and spins what he calls “middle of the road” music to one of the highest adult audience ratings in the listening area.
In the afternoon, after a quick “brown bag” lunch, he drives his Chevy (no hopped up sports cars or big gasoline guzzlers for him) out to the Chestnut Hill studios of Channel 17, WPHL-TV where he has won the unofficial title of “vice-president in charge of children.” From 3 pm to 6:30, he hosts a series of shows pitched to appeal to the youngest children at the start of the schedule and, as the afternoon goes on, to older children home from school and then to young adults and the whole family together by the time the twilight hours arrive.
“I start with a Canadian show, The Friendly Giant,” says Wee Willie, a friendly giant himself. “Then we do Casper, the Friendly Ghost, and Milton the Monster, followed by Rocket Robin Hood, George of the Jungle, King Kong….” By 6 pm, Webber is into the family fare; Patty Duke, followed by reruns of the adult Western, High Chaparral.” Once a week, he does a “live audience participation” show, so popular that potential participants are booked a year in advance.
In the baseball season, sports-loving Webber does a “Before the Game” show at Phillies games. He is a popular dinner speaker with all types of club groups. He makes frequent appearances at the opening of charity drives. With all this, he also finds time to do radio and TV commercials.
But always there’s time for his own family at home in Whitemarsh. “My family is my hobby,” says this dedicated family man. There’s a pretty wife, blonde Connie. He met her when she came to see a show that was being taped at the “old” WFIL. Now they have two children; Bill, Jr., 12 and Wendy, 9. No vacation trips are taken without children. Last summer it was Europe. “We have a ball together,” says the head of the family. “But we were sure glad to see home.”
Bill Webber started in radio by working the mail-room of a New York FM station after attending classes at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. He was in Lancaster before the Army put him behind a microphone with the Armed Forces Radio in Korea for two years. He returned to Reading where he became known in the trade as “Kiss of Death Webber.” Seems he was hired in 1953 to do the sign on of a new UHF station, WEEU. After a little more than a year, the station went broke and guess whose was the last face on the channel signing-off?
Webber worked into the Philadelphia scene on “summer relief” announcing jobs on local stations, soon became a full-timer and is now in his eighth year around town. He likes splitting his time between adults in the morning on radio and children in the afternoon on television.
“I’m fortunate to be doing different things in both radio and TV,” he says. “Believe me, the children are the toughest audience. If they like you, they can be the most loyal fans in the world.”
He got tagged “Wee Willie” by the wife of another radio announcer after Bill bumped his head going through a low studio door. The name stuck, and he started using it on his show.
His heavy fan mail includes giant drawings of himself by small Michaelangelos. Who sign their names in crayon. It’s the children, he says, who make Wee Willie feel very big.
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html
Larry
I miss you terribly.
Can we have lunch soon? Or maybe a cup of coffee? I know you really enjoy a good latte, with just a *pinch* of sugar-in-the-raw.
Send me a text and lets set it up
Hugs
Will
Calling in sick today. Not feeling like making the DC commute. Hey if everyone else can call in why can’t I? I think I’m suffering from Senoritis. Too cool for school.
Larry swung and missed on the Bill Webber obit. Much like the Phils all weekend. How obnoxious is RedSox Nation? They take over visiting parks like they were Fenway. Hello. Who has been in the WS the last 2 years? Go back to Boston and park your car in the hot tar at Harvard Yard.
Back to Cap and Trade. Am I the only one outraged here? Speedboat Kerry and Flip Flop Liebermann are trying to railroad this through under the guise of global warming. Pleaseeeee. C&T got rejected a year ago. Done. Finished. Do not go their Speedboat. The only thing you need to be concerned about with Cap and Trade is Ketchup.
I do not remember Wee Willie as a child as he started after my formitive years. Hell I was working in the mines at 12. No time for kids shows. Seems like a nice enough guy. RIP Bill Webber.
Biden/Biden in 2012! No Speedboat legislation under my watch.
Larry
If you dont want to get a coffee, I can also take you for an ice cream. Just let me know.
Your muffin
WB
In an effort to increase the traffic and popularity of this site, I will be posting links to sites questionable integrity and character. No holds barred!
Larry
Another option would be for us to go for a Water Ice
I am partial to the Rita’s tropical fruit myself
LMK My muffin :)
Fondly
Funny how little criticism Obama’s gang has received since the Gulf oil spill. If the spill had happened right after GW Bush had promoted more drilling in the Oceans old Georgie boy would have been persecuted to no end.
Beagle boy, it is the notorious double standard. Bush could do no right; Obama can do no wrong. Fact is that neither has any control over an oil spill on at offshore drilling site. That being said, GWB would be getting persecuted for causing this oil spill just like he caused Katrina
Save the Fish!
We fish are high in polyunsaturated fat. We don’t need no stinking BP additives. We already get a bad rap for mercury.
Sorry Fish too late to save the fish…… We’re trying to save Obama’s presidency.
Excuse #1 “We are always fighting the last war”……… If we’d only known something like this could happen we would have been prepared. Excuse #2 Obama was never a boyscout. “be prepared for him meant here Barry get ready to get a whiff of this…….”
Doesn’t Pat Sestak already have a job on TV. With a succsessful game show why would he run for the Senate
Now that Arlen is gone I may host What’s My Line until I’m 81. No it’s not What’s My Line it’s Wheel of Fortune. No that’s Pat Sestak’s gig. I host……… em da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da … What is Jeopardy!!!!!!!!
Alex, shouldn’t that be in the form of a question?
I know Pat Sajak and Admiral Wrongway Joe Sestak is no Pat Sajak! Spin on that.
Save the Fish!
My brothers are washing up on the shores of the Gulf drenched with a nice crude oil and served with sauted seaweed over dolops of kelp.
I am particularly fond of Grouper. Fish, can you hook me up with some Groupies?
Larry must have Cheeto orange on his fingers and around his mouth. He must be binging after Arlen’s defeat. No more insider info.
Looks like my vacation got delayed another 2 weeks, eh? How about them Flyers? Richards reminds me of me, eh?
Waiting for the 7:45. Feeling a bit better today. I realized yesterday that I’ve been missing out. As a government employee I get 30 days vacation a year. Can’t remember when I’ve taken more than 3 weeks vaca. I also get 2 sick days per month accumulating. I must have thousands of accumulated sick days. I need to start taking them. I may be able to take off all of 2011 and 2012. I could be VP in name only. I could start campaigning immediately for 2012. I need to start thinking like a government employee. Afterall what are they going to do fire me? Only Donald Trump could fire me. Barack doesn’t have the stones.
How bout those Flyers? Kudos to Leighton and Richards and Gagne and Giroux. I didn’t get to the Wach this series but wild horses couldn’t keep me away from Lord Stanley’s finals. You’ll see me up against the glass in my Bobby Clarke jersey. Dr Jill will be sitting next to me busy grading papers. She doesn’t get hockey. She’s too busy. Go Flyers.
I spoke with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday expressing support for reforms initiated by Ukraine’s president. We discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral and international cooperation and the state of the European and global economies. Considerable progress was noted during the conversation in restoring good-neighborly relations. Whatever. Actually I was trying to get his mother’s Perohy recipe. I love those little boiled dumplings. Like Pierogies. I was tempted to fly to the Ukraine just to get some. Barack has posted a moratorium on state travel except for Hillary. He doesn’t want her anywhere near DC. Can’t blame him. Those Clintons are always trying to steal the limelight. I’m just happy to be here.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Impeachment now!
Larry I heard that “you’re fired”. How could an “american Idol” like you get the ax? Maybe you got “Lost”. I’ll give you another “24″ hours before I call the “Cops”.
Get ‘r done!
http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/
hank you for breaking the spector story!
As usual this administration is more corrupt than Nero running rome! I voted for that clown but never again. I learned my lesson & I only hope he goes to jail where he belongs!
I wanted to say goodbye to my loyal viewers in the Delaware Valley. Thank you for your faithful viewing.
FOX, the writers and I decided we need to break you of your 24 joneses slowly and painlessly. That is why we took extended breaks in between seasons. Wrote progressly weaker storylines and plots. We didn’t want you to go cold turkey off a another riveting season. I think we succeeded. This season really sucked. You are ready for the end.
I am part MacGruver and part Houdini. I have more lives than a cat. For all the dopes that had a gun to my head but chose not to pull the trigger, here I am.
What will I do now? Well I have my sensational movie acting career playing Jack Bauer-like characters in second rate movies. I don’t need to work. I have more money than Trump. I’m more successful than my dad. Chloe is well taken care of. What else can she do. All she does is make those pouty faces.
So long and thank you for your support. Like the Marlboro Man and Joe Camel before him, I am no longer wanted on TV.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1502663561
You’re coming to Chicago and we are not going to use lube.
Patrick, you are awefully young to be visiting this site. This is Larry’s Jurassic Park. Stay thirsty my friend.
The worst possible matchup for Philly,4,5,6 or 7 games of watching Kane & Sharpe & knowing both should be playing here.
Terrible finale for 24.I wanted something truly catastrophic & actually expected Jack Bauer to die too.Screw the upcoming movie.This season lacked a real villian,a Sharon Myers type.
Ditto on 24. This season was a convoluted, proposterous plot with a storyline and characters that were boring. I was hoping Jack would take both Logan and the Ruskie out with 2 quick shots. Better yet, gutting Logan for the fun of it.
Ah,Sara Meyers .
For anyone interested, “Larry the K” was spotted in Models today hooking up with some Flyers’ paraphernalia. I saw him modeling a new pair of Flyer logo Speedos and a pair of Flyers’ flipflops, along with a straw hat with the Flyers’ logo. He also got a pair of Flyers’ sunglasses and a Flyers’ beach bag. I think Larry’s all set for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Did you see her on the TNT shows Trust Me or Men of a Certain Age? She played wife and girlfriend respectively.
Or a visit to the Golden Banana…
Flyers’ orange will hide the Cheetos stains and make him a front runner at the same time. Very ingenious, Larry. The ensemble will be completed with a pair of knee high black dress socks.
I am writing a book similar to “Harry the K” except I’m calling it “Larry the K”. It will include Larry’s life as a TV celebrity, but most of it will encompass his tremendous efforts writing this blog. His insight is only surpassed by a monkey looking for his next banana. And his political acumen is like a fish writing about how to survive out of water. On social issues I will point out how Larry never escapes the obvious and strives for the principles of non commitment and neutrality on every topic he writes about. When finished I should become a best seller on the Larry Kane readers blog.
I am writing a book similar to “Harry the K” except I’m calling it “Larry the K”. It will include Larry’s life as a TV celebrity, but most of it will encompass his tremendous effort writing this blog. His insight is only surpassed by a monkey looking for his next banana. And his political acumen is like a fish writing about how to survive out of water. On social issues I will point out how Larry never escapes the obvious and strives for the principles of non commitment and neutrality on every topic he writes about.
Ed, you are certainly on to something. Perhaps you can follow up your Pulitzer Prize winning novel with a song. Perhaps you can change the words for Allan Sherman’s classic Camp Granada to some Larry schtick.
Beieve it or not I heard on the news today some senator from Maryland say the oil spill was Bush’s fault.
Bush could do no right; Obama can do no wrong. Fact is that neither has any control over an oil spill on at offshore drilling site. That being said, GWB would be getting persecuted for causing this oil spill just like he caused Katrina. Now it has happened.
Waiting for the 7:45. Less motivation each day. We need a regime change. Pronto hasto.
Looks like the NBA is at it again. Stretching out series to maximize revenue. It is hard to believe that teams in the semifinals could play so well one night and so badly the next. Do we have to watch another Magic-Celtics game after tonight? We all know that Lord Stern has preordaned the Lakers and Celtics in the finals. It makes perfect symmetry. East coast vs west coast. Throwback series. 2 franchises rich with winning tradition. Tons of be name stars.Pleaseeeee.
I think the judges were trying to push the balance of power over to Crystal last night on the final singing night. I think Lee has captured the hearts of America and will be the next American Idol. Upset winner again tonight. The part time paint salesmen for Chicago. Book it Danno.
Speaking of book it Danno did you see where CBS is coming out with remake series of Hawaii-5-0? Hopefully it will be better than the first.
Word on the street is that Larry is holed up with Snarlin Arlen at Specter’s $1M condo in Georgetown. They are on a 7 day bender after receiving the election results last Tuesday. I don’t know how many winecoolers you have to drink to stay drunk but Lord Abott should consider buying stock in Bartles and Jaymes.
With nothing going on in the world except a morbid fascination with the BP oil leak everything has come to a scretching halt. Even this cheesy website. The topic smells worse than the fish washed ashore in Mississippi and Louisiana. Time for a change Lar!
Biden/Biden in 2012! Drill baby drill.
fish-no,i wasn’t aware she was on that show,give me a heads up next time.
ed-larry sporting a playoff beard yet ?
YAP, Trust Me did not get renewed even though it was well written. Men of a Certain Age is in summer hiatus. You’ll have to wait until fall.
Larry is under contract with CN8 so no facial hair. He has shaved his pubic hair into the shape of a well maintained goatee. Maynard G Krebs was his idol as a child. Personally, I recommend a bikini wax with the speedo.
Larry I’m going to stickhandle a puck into your five hole.
Must have been that bikini wax comment, huh Patrick?
“Arlen Specter has been on the scene for 45 years in Pennsylvania..” Almost as long as this blog topic has been a “news flash”.
When do men start grooming “down there”?
I’m still au natural but I’m from Binghamton NY. The woman there don’t even know what a Lady Schick is.
In honor of the Philadelphia Fliers, I will be having ORANGE water ice all week long at Ritas.
For more info, please visit there website
http://www.ritasice.com/
Love you Larry
XOXO
Bunchy
Do they know who Lady Byng is? How about Bada Bing?
Will is still trying to figure out where the other 3 holes are (reference 5 hole comment).
Larry, how about them Muslims erecting a multimillion dollar mosque at the base of the twin towers in New York? Sounds like Jerusalem if you ask me. These people lay claim to another one of their conquests. It gives me great pause.
Only in America, eh?
I guess erecting a mosque in Shanksville or by the Pentagon might have been too obvious.
Maybe Larry should crash his Cesna into the mosque.
Hey Chaka, these people think 800 years from now New York is going to be an Islam capital.
It probably will if Obama gets reelected.
Sorry, Chaka, 2012: End of an Error
Sean Hannity is making a big deal about Obama offering
Sestak a job, to stay out of race. He’s trying to fan
a flame, and it is illegal to offer jobs as bribes like
that. I said it when Larry broke this story, it has the
potential to be a real scandal, except the press or congress
Won’t really go after it. Larry is getting zero credit for
this story, he is referred to as a reporter who asked a
question, to which Sestak says he answer honestly.
That reporter is Larry “woodward & Bernstein” Kane!!
Larry, fan the flames of your own story you moron.
It’s all you have now and it is somethibg real that
is being taken from you by the national press. It must
Burn your Britches to see Sean Hannity running with
your own story. He’s a bigger tool than you, so why are
you letting him take this story from you?
Larry’s britches not burning as badly since bikini wax. You should try it Lord Abott.
Sean Hannity is not a reporter and never claimed to be. He has a staff of interns that do all his work for him. He’;s just a teleprompter reader. Hmmm sounds familiar.
Waiting for the 7:01. Just another 2 days before a glorious long weekend. I can’t wait.
Lee Dewyze the next American Idol as predicted here. You know neither he nor Crystal Bowersox are really that good. Neither will be a big hit like Underwood or Clarkson. By the by did you even recognize Kelly Clarkson. Fat and frumpy. She looked like a 48 year old has been instead of a 26 year old has been. Lee won because more teenage girls vote than boys. He was likeable. He was endearing. Crystal was convinced she had it won early on. She never saw this coming. Sorry MamaSox. Go back to being a mother.
Both NBA semifinals going at least 6 games. What a shocker. Building drama or cashing in. Pleaseeee.
In Louisiana they have changed the game. Instead of Where is Waldo? It has now become Where in Barry? Barack Obama is MIA on the Gulf oil spill. He has turned an ecological nightmare into his own political nightmare by his own inactivity. GOP will make big hay out of this. Poor little turtles are washing up soaked in goopy oil and Barack is 2000 miles away in San Francisco at 3 rubber chicken fundraisers. Sending the wrong message. What a fraud. And where are his advisors? He should be wading around in hip boots pulling dead pelicans out of the water. Imagine that photo opp. Like the Ocean Spray cranberry commercials but oil and dead animals instead of cranberries. Instead he is distancing himself from the whole affair. Bad strategy. Even CNN is calling for action and questioning his inactivity. If MSNBC totties Keith Olberman and Rachel Madcow turn on him he might as well put a gun to his chin like Charles Logan. Dolt. Fraud. Complete incompetent surrounded by complete incompetents.
Lord Abott I can’t tell if you are seriously encouraging Larry or just taunting him. Please don’t bother Larry. He and Arlen are holed up in Arlen’s plush condo in Georgetown on a serious bender. Do not disturb sign on door. They are both finished. A sad day for PA politics. Hey Larry maybe you can do ads for Bartles & Jaymes. You know the tagline “and thank you for your support”.
Biden/Biden in 2012! Impeach this fraud!
VP Joe, I love the visual. Obama standing hip dip in the oily, murky gulf in hip boot waders standing next to Bret Favre. Dead turtles and fish are floating by. Green Bay Cheesehead floats by. Obama says to Bret, “I wouldn’t miss your retirement party for anything. You rock for an old guy, Bret.” Bret chimes in,”Yeah I’m going to make my retirement announcement official any day now (nod nod wink wink). God I love this region!”
Tagline runs under scene: “Mississippi, where old guys and washouts go to get away from it all. Experience the beauty of gulf first hand.”
Somewhere in Texas W is laughing his ass off.
YAP, can’t wait for Stanley Cup Finals. Can you believe Patrick Kane has already gone 5 hole on Larry?
Lord Abott, what would Obama and the Democrats possibly hope to gain by getting Admiral Wrongway Sestak out of the way for Arlen Specter. It does not make any sense. Please explain the rationale.
I didn’t really have high hopes for Obama but truly never expected this mess.What would have happened if Bush had taken such a hands off approach to the oil spill ? Three days for Katrina equals outrage,thirty one days for Obama equals nothing.Man,lots of people ( not YAP) got duped.Truly one & done,2013 can’t come fast enough.
Yo Fish-Me too,in fact I think I might go down & catch game 3.Philly needs to be able to shut down Dustin Byfuglien,I think he’ll have a field day in Chicago against Parent & Krajicek.
You Philly boys are going to suck on our sticks.
Patrick,aren’t there any cabbies you can “stick” it to ?
Your mother. Only she’s all scabby down there.
Larry
I need to be honest.
I really like you.
More than “just friends” if you know what I mean.
I ? You
Will, get a room.
Patrick, get a cab.
YAP, you are entering dangerous waters.
As long as the Flyers can keep Farfignugen from camping in the crease they’ll be allright. He’s a load and tough to move out. A real space eater.
I was in Chicago on business during the Hawks-Canucks series. They already had the Hawks in the finals and Dusty in the HOF, eh.
Obama tried to coordinate the disaster response with a private company that was responsible for it. Good for him. If he’d seized the well and trucked in the federal government, you know what Ronnie Reagan would have said? That the scariest words in the language are that the government has arrived to help. This is one time he hasn’t been the big socialist communist fascist statist Muslim we all know he is. I’m just glad that the little folks in Louisiana and Alabama are going to get to sue the pants off of BP. They could have tried suing God after Katrina. That disaster wasn’t made by a corporation after all.
Also I’m sorry to hear about Mrs. Air Pirates scab problems.
TPERP or TPEPR or whoever you are going by today Leo, Obama is completely incompetent and indifferent on the subject.
“Obama tried to coordinate the disaster response with a private company that was responsible for it.”
You can’t have it both ways. You would have been killing Bush if he had let The Weather Channel coordinate the disaster response for Katrina.
I am bigger than the Weather Channel. I am bigger than the weather. I am the biggest attention seeker since Evil Knievel. I can not be stopped. You can only hope to contain me. I am, Jim Cantore, Weather Man Extraordinaire.
Barack Obama made me the most famous Weatherman since 1969. Back down, weather boy.
There’s a big difference between a natural disaster the government has a department that is supposed to use to assist affected people and a corporate-made disaster that a private company caused and which it bears principal responsibility for addressing, where the massive federal government regulates but does not bear responsibility for being the first responder. But, then, you’re a rotten piece of fish meat so no one would expect you to understand the massive difference. The difference, too, is that the federal government was still following cozy Bush practices when it loosely regulated BP. Conservatives everywhere would have gone apoplectic if they thought Obama was starting to regulate offshore drilling more stringently before this happened. You can bet your stale sandwich bun on that. I know because I’m a bitter conservative who doesn’t want the government fucking around with his Social Security or Medicare.
Besides. We Tea Partiers are all about dumping stuff in the ocean that doesn’t belong there. It’s how we got our start. DRILL BABY DRILL!
Actually we Weatherman pulled off the Katrina disaster as a means of disrupting commerce and unseating the government. We seeded clouds for torrential rain and blew holes in the levees. We are very proud of our work in New Orleans. We do not brag or taunt because do not want to get caught like those douche bags in El Queda.
YAP, you make a good point, over 35 days and Obama has not has his bullhorn moment with the greatest manmade disaster in American history. What is he afraid of? Looking like a San Fransciso chardonay sipper lecturing a bunch of rough necks who risk their lives so we have energy that is free of mideast politics and war? Is he afraid his expanded drilling policy will be exposed as not too well thought out, since he was going to pursue it under current policy that he oversees? There’s no more blaming Bush on this and he finally jumped the shark with those free passes.
Obama owns this mess, and its way worse than Katrina, he didnt even do a f-ing fly over. He needs to dip his toe in the oily water and get the white bottoms of his feet dirty to understand whats going on down there. His presidency hinges on this, no more clever talk or putting boot heels on executive’s necks. The buck stops with him, the government regulates and grants leases to this industry. He’s got NASA up in space jerking off in a space station, yet the government cant figure out how to manage a problem a few miles under water in the Gulf? If he took the NASA cash and applied it to managaging the resources under the ocean there would be a huge payoff to the government, and they could pass the NASA under sea exploration cost research off on the oil industry.
The good news is we have plenty of domestic oil, they just have to fugure out how to get it up safely, the way Kennedy got a man on the f-ing moon. turns out there’s no oil on the moon or in space, yet nobody told Obama, and he cant figure out how to relaunch this crisis into the centerpiece effort of his administration- e.g. exloring the deep sea for oil under the guise of a NASA type effort!!! Wake up Larry, why dont you write this stuff? it feels like I have to do everything for you these days!!
Barry owes everything he is and everything he knows to me!
Is it true Larry’s show was cancelled?
I hope not, he is a good man and earnest
reporter, he just lacks a clue on many issues.