Tonight we will take a look at the election season, locally and nationally. There are only two weeks remaining and things are getting interesting.
7pm EST: We had another useless debate this week. Kerry Healey stayed negative and drove Deval’s negatives up, along with her own. I’d like to hear from someone tonight who wants to defend this,
`Inmates’ take protests to Patrick
Demonstrators rally outside home of candidate, his campaign manager
About a half-dozen demonstrators showed up at Patrick’s home in Milton at about 7 a.m., dressed to appear like inmates and brandishing placards mocking him as a coddler of criminals, according to Patrick’s campaign. At about the same time, two people wearing orange jump suits appeared at the Abington residence of his campaign manager, John Walsh.
Walsh’s 12-year-old son, who was home alone preparing to catch his school bus, called his father, who had left for work. Walsh’s wife, Donna, who was also on her way to work, became concerned about her son and called Abington police to go the house. Police say the pair left by the time officers arrived.
“It was certainly disruptive to the neighborhood,” said Chief Dave Majenski, who confirmed that a group “dressed in prison-type garb” were demonstrating in front of the Walsh house.
Negative ads against Deval are one thing. He has taken some obscene positions with regard to Ben Leguire, the eloquent rapist. I don’t even have a problem with the orange jumpsuit stunt outside the debate, politics is theater after all. But taking this to the private homes of the candidate and campaign manager, that is too much. Would Healey welcome this kind of stunt in Prides Crossing? I don’t think so.
8pm EST: We welcome back the blogosphere’s leading election season analyst, Tom Bevan from the invaluable Real Clear Politics. Tom joined us a month ago, tonight we will see how much things have changed. Are the Democrats getting ahead of themselves?
Carried Away by Talk of a ‘Wave’
By Tom Bevan
Dire. Bleak. Grim. Those are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the election prospects of Republicans just 18 days from now. So is it really that bad for the elephants this year? The answer is “yes” – and “no.”
At 9pm EST, Blackfive’s Someone You Should Know, our weekly collaboration to bring the inspirational true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world to the radio.
We also will be discussing CNN’s decision to air video handed to them by Al Qaeda in Iraq showing snipers killing American soldiers. CNN thought long and hard about it, and decided to air the video.
The bottom line for Matt from Blackfive, “CNN knowingly plays into the hands of the enemy.”
Hard to argue with that, especially in comparison to what NBC News did this week, a similar segment about the snipers in Iraq targeting our troops. NBC provided detail and analysis, without using footage of Americans being killed.
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