Martha Antoinette Coakley blunders again: Calls Red Sox great Curt Schilling “Yankees fan”
Martha Antoinette (Photoshop credit: Ruby Slippers)
Lots of readers e-mailing tonight about Martha Antoinette Coakley’s latest gaffetastically gaffetastic blunder. In attacking New Yorker Rudy Giuliani’s campaigning for GOP challenger Scott Brown, Coakley tries to lump Boston Red Sox great Curt Schilling (who blogged about Coakley’s loser campaign the other day) as a Yankees fan, too.
You’ll get a chuckle out of the interviewer WBZ host/veteran Boston journalist Dan Rea’s disbelief — and Coakley’s lame attempt to take back the clueless insult. Crikey, can you imagine if Sarah Palin had said this?!:
I said tonight on the Glenn Beck Show that out-of-touch careerist Martha’s tongue will be her ultimate undoing. She keeps proving it…every hour! After dissing Catholic medical professionals, Fenway Park sports fans, and baseball legends, there’s not much lower you can go.
Well, actually, just wait another hour. She’ll find a way…
Attention, Saturday Night Live: Martha Antoinette Coakley is comedy gold. Who will you get to play her?
One more thing, SNL: Let Curt Schilling do a cameo!
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Psst, Martha: Just in case you didn’t know, Boston’s Paul Revere was on America’s side, not Britain’s.
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Hahahahahaha. Think she’s a little out of touch with her home state?
The more I learn about her, the thought that runs though my head is simply,’wow, what a loser.’
If she’s elected, it’ll be sad. Even by MA standards.
Wait wait, isn’t Sarah Palin supposed to be the idiot? That reminds me of John Kerry trying to name his favorite Sox player and had no clue – except this is quite a bit dumber.
Even a casual baseball fan who lives nowhere near Boston would know Curt is NOT a Yankees fan! Libtard is as libtard does.
Yes, and when Rea corrected her about Shilling playing for the Red Sox, she said, Well, he isn’t there anymore.
I suppose he’s in Yemen with all the terrorists who aren’t in Afghanistan anymore. /sarc.
How freaking out of touch can this woman who supposedly was born and raised in Massachusetts be?
The pressure has to be kept on these domestic enemies through to victory in the election.
But, I’m reminded of the expression that goes something like, “When your enemy is in the middle of destroying himself, do not interfere.”
Uh, excuse me. These are the kind of people that made it “Ted Kennedy’s seat”. Being out of touch isn’t a new thing with this woman either from what I can see.
Heh.. Too funny.
Curt was also a great Arizona Diamondback helping to beat the Yankees for the Championship in 2001!
*That woman has “Harry Reid” for brains!
The really sad part is, she is still likely to win the race.
I sooooo hope Brown defeats her and Obama, but this is MA we’re talking about.
Off topic but for your amusement.
I report, you deride.
How can she possibly mistake Schilling for a Yankee!?!?! Hasn’t she ever seen that pre-World Series video where he promises to pitch “wicked hahd”? No Yankee talks like that!
It saddens me to say this but this woman truly truly truly does not deserve to win.
I think you’re underestimating Obama’s pull. Corzine actually ran a fantastic campaign and given how enormously unpopular he was for much of his term, he had a very, very good loss. I don’t know where you got the idea that Copenhagen 15 was about any kind of a treaty, and I also am unsure as to where you got the idea that Obama was attempting to sway the Olympics council members (he was clearly there to energize the Chicago contingent). Your blind hatred for Obama is bizarre and dishonest.
Only slightly off topic:
One of the coolest moments of my life was being in the Fenway neighborhood when the Sox won the World Series in ’04. I had the good fortune of having a sister in law that lived about 5 blocks from the ball park. We watched the game in a bar and then poured out onto the streets when they had clinched it. Thousands of people climbing mailboxes, trees, streetlights, anything…a deafening din of shouting and joyous screams…
Then the mounted police showed up and my wife got nervous.
Damn.
On January 15th, 2010 at 11:21 pm, chapoutier said:
It takes both guts and integrity for you to say that, Chap,
and I respect you for it.
Yes, we thought so too. Fantastically good for the Republican in the race. Obama’s pull was quite evident. How else could Corzine have pulled it out?…. Oh, wait a minute……..
I’m not sure where you got the idea they went over there for any other reason but to sway the council members. But I realize you leftists live in a world of illusion, so don’t let us bring you down from your drug-induced fantasy.
Actually, he’s only stating the blindingly obvious.
The educated class, like David Brooks and Mothra Croaky, don’t demean themselves watching a plebian sport like baseball…
Baseball isn’t NASCAR or the NFL, of course, not that boorish, but it isn’t yachting or polo, now, is it?
OK OK let’s play devil’s advocate here.
Curt Schilling is a baseball player. Chances are, he’s a fan of any team that plays good baseball. His mentor in the game, Roger Clemens, played for the Yankees.
Her shot in the dark does wind up having merit. You just have to stretch it a bit!
HHAHAHAAH
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
HAHA
My daughter and I went out horn blowing for like an hour after the Phils won it in ’08. We were one car of many! These moments are always amazing.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Don’t sweat it, Chap.
Massachusetts isn’t sane enough to elect someone who would piss you off all the time!
HHAHA
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
On January 16th, 2010 at 12:04 am, txvet2 said:
Well, I’ve got a MA liberal who’s been commenting on my blog for over a year, and he says:
Mark Udall used the vile ‘teabaggers’ term in a fundraising letter supporting Martha Antoinette:
Mark Udall
I’ve met him and always thought he was a good guy, despite being a typical Boulder liberal. But worse than using a nasty term for taxpayers protesting the government takeover of our lives is supporting this nasty, stupid woman.
Why am I reminded of Martha Coakely’s campaign? Brick layers song Maybe even the Obama administration and congress.
“Really? Joe Theismann is a Cowboys fan?”
“No … well, he’s not there anymore.”
Don’t worry. Maryland Democrats are so forgiving of little goofs like that.
Gaffe-tastic.
Early this morning, Curt Schilling wrote a post linking back here!
He said:
On January 16th, 2010 at 3:34 am, RachelD said:
There are a lot of similarly great parodies over at the HotAir post.
Here are just a few…
(For those too young to know, the song was sung by the group “Boston“, not the group “Chicago”)
ya know liberalism truly is a mental disease…she keeps shooting herself in the foot…fun to watch that’s for sure…
Coakley, in trying to deliver a quip or sarcastic insult about Shilling, instead delivered a quack, making her look even dumber than normal.
By the way, I think Chuckie Schumer looks better as Marie Antoinette.
This is the best comment I have seen (from Hot Air):
Nice photoshop from Ruby Slippers!
These self-proclaimed elites sure do seem to be asking for it these days.
Does she wear a blunder-bust?
Yes indeed-we sent Curt up to Boston to try and teach those folks how to speak American correctly as we Desert Dogs do.
More Coakley gems: (from the WSJ)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575005513996542830.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
F. John Kerry-esque. “John, who’s your favorite Red Sox player?” “Well, I have always liked Manny Ortez.” Riiight. At the time the 3/4 hitters in the Sox’ line up were Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz (pronouced orr-teeze). The best that phony fob could come up with was Manny Ortez. Coakley’s no different, except she may have a bigger dick than Kerry.
That wasn’t even the best Kerry gaffe concerning the Red Sox. Asked for his all-time favorite Red Sox player, he chose Eddie Yost who never even played for the Red Sox.
Omu said:
Better lay off the wacky tabacci there dude and climb up out of the basement for awhile.When you write while your synapses are misfiring only shows that liberalism is a mental disease.
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Every few years my company sent me from El Paso, Tx. to Boston for a week or two. I skipped breakfast, lunch, and dinner and used my per diem pay to buy tickets to the Red Sox instead of eating on game days. It was a treat to walk from downtown to Fenway, buy some brats and beer, and watch the games. Like stepping back to 1910 when I went into the old brick park.
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On one trip–in the 1980′s?–I got to see a 4 game playoff series between the Sox and Yankees. Reggie Jackson was at the end of his career–but still great. He was eating Boston’s lunch–and had killed them in the previous game.
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Bases were loaded–Reggie at bat–Sox were ahead by a few runs. The crowd was yelling, “Walk him–walk him! The fool manager pitched him! He hit it into one of the lights over the Green Monster, and I could hear breaking glass from behind the wall! The Sox lost the playoff series.
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How could anyone live in Boston and not enjoy and know about classy Fenway and the Red Sox? The second best park is the Chicago Cubbie’s Wrigley Field. Keep Martha Coakley in BeanTown–she is too dumb to be allowed to “hep us out” in D.C.
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John Bibb
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He should have just pulled a Palin and answered “All of them.”
ROFLMAO–you’re joking, right? I think I’ve pulled a muscle laughing so hard.
Or maybe have said “Abraham Lincoln” as a certain MSNBC talking (empty) head said as she ridiculed Palin? At least Palin knew one.
Founding father, that is….
In Back Bay, “mounted police” takes on a whole new meaning. She was right to be nervous!
“Bizarre and dishonest” describes your understanding of events. Are you really that dense, or just at a loss for a defense?
And it isn’t “blind hatred”, but more of a disgust for the ineptitude, or worse, the deliberate actions taken by this administration to dismantle the U.S.
I honestly hope it is ineptitude. The alternative would be cause for some serious action.
I find it rather amazing that this woman is actually doing so well. I mean, I knew Marxist efforts to subvert our culture through takeovers in mass media, the illiteracy cartel (e.g. public education), and the local church have been very effective, but good grief. A good book for those interested: “The Cloning of the American Mind” by Beverly K. Eakman (not to be confused with Allan Bloom’s also very good classic, “The Closing of the American Mind“).
I sure hope you receive a paycheck for your parroting. Sheesh GAFL.
Yes, I do. And I use it to rent buses to ship Mexicans and black people up to Massachusetts to vote illegally.
Lame attempt. This is better.
Johnny Damon was Curt Schilling’s teammate yet Johnny Damon is most definitely a Yankees fan now so maybe Curt Schilling is, too.
Nice.
He thought they were asking about a team from his “hometown” (Washington), not from the state he is supposed to be a representative of in the Senate!
No I think I come by it honestly…
How about…
Before 2004, winning the World Series wasn’t really a Red Sox tradition, it was more a Yankees thing. Curt Schilling, in helping them take the 04 pennant and championship polluted their traditional Boston losing ways with the NY Yankee ideas that he truly favored deep inside. As a fan of winning more than losing, he is really a Yankee fan.
Martha Coakley meanwhile, is a true Red Sox fan from the decades between 1918 and 2004, and has therefore pledged to do all that she can to make sure she finds a way to lose, even as a heavy favorite.
At the very least, Coakley has the excuse that she’s a “girl”. Jean Francois Kerry, however, is allegedly a man, so no pass for him on throwing like a girl.
That such clueless morons as these idiots could come out of the state that is home to the Boston Red Sox is beyond comprehension. If they don’t understand sports, why can’t they just keep their claptraps shut?
What next? Brady is a Giants fan.
Isn’t this an upgrade over the typical home-grown Mass liberal?
Lawls.. yeah, go ask Corslime about “Obama’s pull”…
And for today’s blunder…
Coakley infringes on UPS Trademark. UPS asks her to stop distributing pamphlet.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/01/coakley-infringes-ups-trademark.html
Are the Democrats embarrassed by this woman yet?
Wait… whoa whoa whoa. Where were you when the McCain campaign was violating copyright left and right with the music they were playing.
I recall Mellencamp, Heart and Jackson Browne complaining off the top of my head.
Well before Sarah Palin was nominated I was writing the RNC and posting here I would not vote for the office of President because there was no one to vote for.
After Palin joined the ticket I was busy in September 2008 trying vainly to figure out how the Obama campaign was not pilloried for raising $100 million in one month mostly from anonymous donors that made a mockery of the campaign finance laws.
But then copyright infringement is a must worse crime than fraud and massive illegal voter registration.
But then copyright infringement is what we are talking about.
When copyright infringement has the same or greater impact that massive campaign finance fraud and massive illegal voter registration has on the integrity of election process it will be worth discussing as a historical event that can have repricussions on this nation’s future.
Until then, some candiate’s alleged copyright infringement is as relevant to me as Nancy Pelosi’s flower expenses or Sarah Palin’s carbon footprint.
Well then criticize wren, who brought the issue up. Not me.
“Martha Coakley meanwhile, is a true Red Sox fan from the decades between 1918 and 2004, and has therefore pledged to do all that she can to make sure she finds a way to lose, even as a heavy favorite.”
That’s really good.
Copyrights aside there is something a bit troubling about musicians deciding music which has been “out there” for some time can only be used by people those musicians agree with politically. What’s next? We have to be the same religion to use their music? Melissa Ethridge only allows lesbian women to play her songs?
We’re talking songs that have been in the public for some time.
Just seems to me to be one more area where common sense has gotten shoved out of the matter.
Okay, make up your mind. MA electioneering or common sense? If you think I’m kidding, who sat in this seat last and long was he there? ‘Nuf said.
You find it troubling that artists don’t have control over their creative content, or at the very least, are not compensated for the use of their creative content?
Poor guy…… His cable TV must be on the fritz.
Omu said:
FIFY
If she doesn’t get elected, Obama should get rid of Biden and make her VP.
Kerry knew his favorite. It was Eddie Yost. Who never played for the Red Sox.
You are trying to defend the indefensible. Obama’s pull as in his poll numbers? Obama’s pull…well pull my finger.
“You find it troubling that artists don’t have control over their creative content, or at the very least, are not compensated for the use of their creative content?”
No, not quite that. First of all professional artist do not have full control over their product just because they are the artist. Yes? So the idea that an artist does or should have full control is already not true. The person who legally owns the product has the control. I absolutely am for compensation for the use of their product. No problem there.
But the idea that a song that has been played a bazillion times in the public must then be submitted to some kind of artist approved political correctness seems to be to be out of balance. Whoring one’s “creativity” for profit comes with a price. Total control seems to me to be part of that price.
Using a song in any political campaign, left, right or independent, is not the same thing as the musicians voting for or endorsing a particular candidate any more than using a song to sell toliet paper means Sheryl Crow uses only one sheet of tp.
Yes compensate. Yes follow copyright laws. Of course. But seek the artist “stamp of approval”? That seems to me to be out of balance.
If that makes any sense.
Speaking of the Red Sox. It is interesting that once the steroid thing really was taken care of, the Red Sox tanked. I bet this year will be another bad year for them.
If the song is being used at a campaign rally/party, then it is just a normal use of the right you have to play the song when you bought and paid for the CD/mp3 file/whatever. You didn’t just pay for one listen. When you bought your right to use the song you didn’t agree to not let anyone else hear it when you played it.
If you are using the song in your official campaign ads, then it probably crosses the fuzzy line.
Chap’s comparing the abuse of the UPS trademark with the use of a song at a campaign rally seems a bit odd. It seems he’s letting his partisanship get the better of him, though I suppose I could be missing something here.
Did McCain use the songs in his ads?
chap; the good people of st louis give a hearty, you are welcome. in 2002, our football team allowed your team to win the superbowl in new orleans. i was there, and mike martz flat threw the game. check me if i’m wrong, but that was your first. then 2 years later our cardinals allowed the red sox to get a world series win by choking on the big one. st louis had over 100 wins that season, and lost 4-0. but they redeemed themselves 2 years later to win their 10th or 11th series. early alzhiemers, and i haven’t been to the stadium to count the pennants and series wins and losses in 4 months. so how about returning the favor, and getting you and your wife to go vote for scott brown on tuesday. it’s ok, you can hold your nose, but vote for real change, not just change of cronies.
I do believe the main reason the Demo’s are so desperate for Ms Coakley to be elected is for her to raise the Demo’s average IQ level in the senate.
“Did McCain use the songs in his ads?”
I believe it was in the campaign itself. And his campaign did make some mistakes about their use of copyrighted music.
No. That doesn’t make any sense.
chapoutier is right about this, and his comparison isn’t odd at all. Both campaigns committed intellectual property infringements, and the owners of such intellectual property have the right to disallow further use.
Personally, I believe the McCain staff caused more damage than Coakley. Music copyright law should explicitly protect owners from the type of infringement McCain committed. The owner of a copyright should get paid for the use of their property.
However, trademark law is really supposed to protect the consumer and protect the trademark owner from competition. Coakley isn’t selling anything which may be confusingly similar to UPS. UPS may have simply sent the letter in order to demonstrate efforts to defend the trademark. These efforts are necessary to legally maintain a trademark.
jsmiddleton4, if you owned a lawnmower that you rented/loaned to the neighbors, don’t you think you should have the right to decide which neighbors you charged and which neighbors you didn’t? Don’t you think you should be allowed to make this determination based on any criteria you want – even political beliefs?
I’m going to research this further and comment again.
“No. That doesn’t make any sense.”
It doesn’t make sense or you don’t agree with it?
Two different things.
“The owner of a copyright should get paid for the use of their property.”
Yes. And I agree. That is not what I have been pointing out. I’ve been pointing out this practice of getting “permission” from an artist. Its goofy. Sorry but its more of this artist are “special” crap.
All legal channels need to be adhered to. Absolutely. If the legal channel is such that the artist has to give permission, by all means seek permission. If not, then they can take a hike.
“Don’t you think you should be allowed to make this determination based on any criteria you want – even political beliefs?”
If I owned the lawnmower.
Not all “artist” own the rights to their songs. Some think you see when some of these rap dudes cover songs that the original artist does not appreciate.
I believe it was in the campaign itself. …
“The campaign itself” means exactly what? At campaign rallies? That is the only place I remember hearing them.
I do not see how using songs at a party (which is what a rally is) could possibly be a violation.
“means exactly what?”
The people who run the campaign. Like Coakley did not make, sell and put out the UPS ad. Someone, some paid person, did it for her campaign. Was she involved at some point to say “yes” or “no”? Probably. But honestly those kinds of details probably aren’t a high priority for folks running for Senate. They can’t micromanage. Does not mean she does not bear the final responsibility. Just that in the sameway McCain did not endorse the use of a particular song I’m guessing Coakely did not do the UPS artwork.
You response does not address my question. Where were the songs actually used?
If they were only used at campaign rallies or other campaign parties, then how is that a violation?
Maybe chap can give you the details Roland.
Some additional thoughts about why Martha Antoinette Coakley said what she said.
As quoted in the Hot Air headlines, Steve Kornacki says that Martha Coakley’s internal poll for Friday night showed Republican Scott Brown leading by two points, 47 to 45 percent. He goes on to say in an update:
What is silly is Kornacki’s thinking this is about “baseball IQ”.
Who brought up the topic of baseball? Coakley did. And why did she do so? In a condescending attempt to get Red Sox fans to ignore Rudy Giuliani because he is “a Yankees fan”. That ALONE speaks volumes. She thinks voters are stupid enough to ignore her “terrorists have all left” remark, and ignore Rudy’s support of Brown on national security issues, simply because Rudy is “a Yankees fan”.
Interviewer Dan Rea was right on to immediately challenge that stupid dismal of Rudy by bringing up the fact that Curt Schilling also is supporting Brown.
And here’s where Martha showed her ignorance. I doubt that she knows any more about the Yankees than the Red Sox. She is an elitest who’s probably never watched a MLB game in person. She likely said what she said about Rudy because HER HANDLERS TOLD HER TO DO SO.
So both Coakley and those advising her think baseball fans are stupid and would ignore Rudy just because he’s a Yankees fan.
Martha, a member of the “educated class”, then extrapolated that dismissal to anyone else who opposed her. They all must be just “another Yankees fan”.
She deserves to be hammered for her arrogance.
This isn’t about “baseball IQ”. It’s about elitism and arrogance. It’s not the voters or interviewer who brought up baseball, it was Coakley. And not only did she strike out, she managed to somehow get hit by her own pitch!
“This isn’t about “baseball IQ”. It’s about elitism and arrogance. It’s not the voters or interviewer who brought up baseball, it was Coakley. And not only did she strike out, she managed to somehow get hit by her own pitch!”
That’s good.
Running for Senate in MA, bringing up baseball, and dissing Schilling as a Yankees fan would be like running for Senate against John Glenn, bringing up the 60’s space race, and saying John Glenn was a fan of the Russians beating us to the moon.
I knew John Glenn. And Mrs. Coakley, she is no John Glenn.
Just to clear something up; several people have brought up and discussed the McCain campaign’s use of certain songs, like Heart’s Barracuda, and the issue of copyright infringement as compared to the Coakley campaign’s legal trouble with UPS for copyright infringement.
I’m a musician, and have had to learn about what is involved in licensing of intellectual property, as well as what constitutes ‘fair use’.
And the bottom line is that the McCain campaign paid the copyright holder a fee that granted them permission to play Barracuda at their events, and I think they did the same with the others. Heart didn’t hold the copyright to the song anymore, so the band’s objection is moot – and they did get royalties from the licensing fee that the McCain campaign paid out.
Coakley got no such permission from UPS to use their image in campaign ads, so it’s an entirely different issue.
There is a difference between a licensing fee for use in live performance (like a baseball game or campaign rally) and for use in an advertisement (like the Coakley situation). McCain may have had the rights to use a particular song during a live performance, but they also had several instances of using a song without permission in campaign ads. John Mellencamp sued McCain and the GOP for this and the campaign was forced to pull a video posted to youtube, which used Frankie Valli songs without any permission.
McCain = past/history and he made the correction/paid up/or whatever.
Coakley = present. The extent to which this issue is resolved will be interesting.
Then why is he campaigning for Coakley?
Raising taxes with rising unemployment is a great way to get knocked out of office.
You really expect us to believe that he did zero lobbying over there? Obama is alobbying mogul to the rest of the world, mostly in terms of apologizing like someone suffering from white guilt.
Of course, as a liberal, any criticism of Obama you hear makes the skeptic a hater or a racist. But I’d rather have someone who hates government (or a particular office thereof) than someone who follows it blindly.
BTW, how’s that “hope and change” working out for you?
“I guess that’s what you call a football.”
It doesn’t make any sense – probably because it’s wrong.
Are you claiming that no artist had any management rights of any copyright McCain used during his campaign?