Tom Finneran

You can't keep a good lobbyist down

adamg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:31:24 -0400

Or Tom Finneran, at any rate.

Earlier:
Tom Finneran to give up State Police lobbying gig.

Tom Finneran to give up State Police lobbying gig

adamg — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:13:42 -0500

The WRKO job must pay more. The Globe has more.

Tom Finneran's latest ethics issue

adamg — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:43:16 -0500

Speaker-turned-blabmeister apparently out to prove this is a post-ethical world we're living in.

Herald steals one from Globe book

adamg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:31:55 -0500

Just so you don't go around thinking it's just the Globe that proclaims "trends" based on the statements of one or two people (cheesemakers, anyone?), John Gonzalez notes that today the Herald has apparently redefined the term "experts" to mean "one former flack turned BU professor" in a short story about whether Mitt Romney and Tom Finneran prove it's OK for men to bawl in public (although the story, does mention a study in the very last sentence). Gonzalez adds:

... Next, perhaps, the Herald will address other pressing, age-old questions, among them "does wearing pink make you gay?"

Amazing: Somebody actually listens to Tom Finneran

adamg — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:36:00 -0400

Otherwise, how else would we know about him saying if he'd been Britney Spears's manager in Las Vegas, he would have slapped her in the face?

... Diva? You know what she'd be if I was there waiting for 4 1/2 hours? She'd be a diva with a black eye. I'd give her a dope slap. ...

A match made in radio felon heaven

adamg — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:48:44 -0400

Sure, Buddy Cianci wound up back in Providence, but wouldn't he make just the greatest on-air partner for Tom Finneran on WRKO? Jeff Keating says it'd be a win-win:

... By all accounts, Buddy is a real personality, heâ€™s got tons of radio experience, and WRKO is clearly looking for someone to partner Tom up with. Heck, they're both convicted felons! Sounds like a perfect marriage to me.

How do you define classy?

adamg — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:44:07 -0400

The Globe quotes Dan Kennedy as saying that, unlike race-baiter Bernard McGuirk, Tom Finneran has "some class and dignity." Carpundit retorts his definition of class does not include somebody who is an unrepentant, convicted felon.

Update: Kennedy in turn retorts (re-retorts?) that, while no fan of the ex-Mistah Speakah, he thought the charges against him were bogus and politically motivated:

Essentially, Finneran was given a choice: Plead guilty to trumped-up charges or go to prison. If you haven't done so before, I do urge you to read Harvey Silverglate's take, published in 2005.

'RKO goes after the racist market

adamg — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:27:00 -0400

Nothing like jokes about blacks to liven up the deadening Tom Finneran show.

But Elias seems just a little skeptical:

... McGuirk is an brutal little thug with what my mother would call "a cheap mouth" and a grating New York accent. For that reason alone I don't think he will last long if WRKO hires him. ...

Predicting tomorrow's news today

adamg — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:07:29 -0500

The Herald's Laurel Sweet will get Tom Finneran to insult today's insult-o-matic column by Howie Carr, thus letting her extend the Herald's Finneran/Carr streak to four days with a story that consists of one paragraph of new material and twelve paragraphs of background (or maybe two paragraphs of new material if she gets Carr to make a crack about Ron Borges over this boston.com poll).

Despite the Globe's wall-to-wall punditry today on Deval Patrick's telephone habits, Brian McGrory will get to leave work early this afternoon after he files a tut-tut-filled open letter to his friend Deval about how disappointed he is in him (bonus points if he recycles any of his quips from this column).

Poor Howard Carr

adamg — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:53:08 -0500

John Daley takes note of today's most important, 72-point front-page story in the Herald, that Tom Finneran has upset Howie Carr with a cheap joke:

... Howie Carr is such a nice guy. He always takes the high road in his columns, never resorting to tough guy, cheap shot, desperate attempt at humor, attacks on his subjects. Now radio competitor Tom Finneran is making derisive jokes about poor Howard. I'm sure this is very upsetting to the man. ...

If the Herald's involved, so's my disclosure.