New Coakley gaffe: Curt Schilling’s a Yankee fan or something
posted at 9:43 pm on January 15, 2010 by Allahpundit
A tiny mistake in the grand scheme of things, but combine it with her dig at Brown for standing outside Fenway to shake hands and the general perception that he’s more in touch with voters than she is and it’s a big deal. No wonder Ben Smith is pushing it late on a Friday night.
This, of course, is why The One feels okay about going up there. Even if she gets blown out, he can turn around and claim that she only lost because she was a walking disaster whom no one could save. And everyone will believe him. Because he’ll be right. Red-Sox-themed exit question: Is Coakley the Democrats’ Bill Buckner?
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Any bets that the Boston local and national media hive will come up with some eleventh hour ‘scandal’ or controversy about Brown to give the ‘Rat a boost.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on January 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Beat me to it!!!
stldave on January 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Yep, Martha’s one of them sophisticated “intellectual elites” of Mass society. You know, part of the ‘ruling class’.
GarandFan on January 15, 2010 at 10:30 PM
too funny….
Coakley spokesman Alex Zaroulis described it as a “very, very deadpan” joke, and another Coakley spokesman emails to note that she has Sox among her supporters and that “Curt Schilling has been involved in a lot of strike outs over time. I guess Martha whiffed on that joke.”
Posted by Ben Smith 09:13 PM
Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter on January 15, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Coakley says her favorite song is More Than A Feeling by Chicago.
Mark1971 on January 15, 2010 at 10:30 PM
I’m not so sure. If he invests personally in the closing days of a tight race, and his candidate loses, how can that not be a bad thing for him? How can it not add to the general impression of his weakness?
rrpjr on January 15, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Her favorite founding father……Babe Ruth
capejasmine on January 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Like when ABBA did don’t stop thinkin ’bout tomorrow.
Couldn’t resist.
B Man on January 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Have you seen the price of arugula lately?
jukin on January 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Well, she has no feelings. Anyone that let’s a ruthless child rapist go without bail, for 2 years…is a heartless, gutless, emotionless cold hearted witch.
capejasmine on January 15, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Why, this woman is eminently qualified to be a member of the United States Senate; just look at the things she says…
churchill995 on January 15, 2010 at 10:34 PM
She recalls the time she met Mr. Aerosmith once, a fine gentleman.
Alden Pyle on January 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Ha, you crack me up Hawk!
conservnut on January 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM
she says of Schilling.
Jeez. What a witch.
notropis on January 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Speaking as someone from the east coast of Canada,a part of the Red Sox nation for decades, this WILL cost her.
Schilling is a quasi-diety to Sox fans.
Jim708 on January 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I have and nothing is greater then that.
However
I am going to use my EMC connections to score corporate box seats so my family can sip Moet Chandon chatting with family members while watching every minute of the game. Since I can no longer get normal tickets to a Red-Sox game at Fenway.
F15Mech on January 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
She grew up watching Mantle shag flyballs off the Green Monstah
Ted Torgerson on January 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Wow, that is exactly how that idiot Joe “MSNBC” Scarborough responded when covering for his co-anchor when she said “Lincoln was her favorite founding father.”
These people have zero integrity.
tetriskid on January 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
What stupid thing will she say tomorrow? …and Sunday, …Monday, …Tuesday…
churchill995 on January 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on January 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Rush predicted the boston globe [or equivalent] will probably have one ready for this weekend. What was the timing on the Bush 43 hit piece on the DWI?
lukespapa on January 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
** Cough, Cough**
Alden Pyle on January 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
His “joke” about “doing well in school or you’ll end up like these guys in Iraq” (sic) caused a quick exit from the 2008 campaign before it even got started.
singer on January 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
The similarities to the Sox comeback against the Yanks in 2004 are striking.
Optmistic…..cautiously…..optimistic that Scott will prevail.
Bosox04 on January 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
She’s such a sure-shot, we’ll have to start calling her Martha Oakley! OMG…and Wild Bill is on his way there. The jokes write themselves.
hoosiermama on January 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Imagine being her campaign manager, you can’t hide her from the press yet every time she opens her yap…
Alden Pyle on January 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Don’t let us down Red Sox Nation :)
SoxNation on January 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Martha’s favorite hockey player is that nice French Canadian fellow Wayne Lemieux, who played for the Toronto Black Hawks.
angryed on January 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Before Brown emerged, Schilling was contemplating running against her. What no opposition research?
singer on January 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Are we sure that Martha isn’t related to Slow Joe Biden?
txag92 on January 15, 2010 at 10:47 PM
I think we’re seeing why she didn’t get out there and campaign for months. They had it right the first time.
stldave on January 15, 2010 at 10:48 PM
And he HATES the Yankees!
MassVictim on January 15, 2010 at 10:48 PM
what does Obama have to lose. If he stays in DC and she loses. His entire agenda goes down. If he goes to Ma and she losses his entire agenda goes down. If he goes to MA and she wins His agenda is saved. there is no spin just hard cold reality. Obama needs a win. A loss either way with him or without him dooms him to lameduck status till at least 2012.
Of course if he goes and she loses he will lose a little bit more cache but in the grand scheme of things that is small potatoes with what is on the line. MA could be his waterloo
unseen on January 15, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Via Instapundit
obama personally joins Massachusetts QUAKE relief…you really cannot make this stuff up!
lukespapa on January 15, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Don’t let us down Red Sox Nation :)
SoxNation on January 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
GO SOX!!!!!!! And Scott Brown too!!!!!LOL
Bosox04 on January 15, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Yeah, if you love the game and go there, a chill runs up your spine. Maybe not quite like a tingle up a leg, like Chris Matthews gets when hearing the Lincoln-Jesus speak, but a chill nonetheless.
Ted Williams. Babe Ruth. So many more. They hit and ran on that sacred ground. I wish I could’ve been there, then again I’d be dead today.
I got friends up there, who talk funny and vote lib most of the time, but even they are voting Brown. Maybe it’s this Red Sox Nation thing, or maybe they’re just tired of being used.
Come next week, Coakley and a whole bunch of them in DC may need to be placed on suicide watch.
TXUS on January 15, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Time’s running out for her stupid comments. Maybe she could just concede now to stop the flow of gaffes.
Mojave Mark on January 15, 2010 at 10:51 PM
+100000
Mr. D on January 15, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Holy crap. I can’t believe my ears. I played that clip over a dozen times…I’m friggin speechless. I’m deep in the heart of Red Sox Nation, and all I can say is… Scott Brown is Wicked Pissah dude! wicked pissah!! ya dude. Coakley is like a ship’s captain drilling numerous holes in her own ship’s hull…”You can’t fix stupid, son”
viviliberoomuori on January 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Good thing they brought all that gray matter in from the DSCC.
Goldy1 on January 15, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Ya know, as a native of Berkshire County in far Western Mass-she probably is a Yankee fan herself. If she even knows what a double play is.
Little Boomer on January 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM
The woman displays an Obama like disconnect from everyday American culture.
Bruno Strozek on January 15, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Just beyond stupid, priceless, but above and beyond.
(Loving every minute of it!)
Archimedes on January 15, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Isn’t Schilling the one who recently turned down a lucrative contract to play for the Yankees? I think it was one of his last years, and he said no way. I’m not a baseball follower, but I remember a story about this. Maybe it was another Sox player. Anyone???
conservative pilgrim on January 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Didn’t he bail out on that idea fairly early? He has served time in the political farm teams, as he worked for John McCain. If I were him I would wait a cycle before running.
Del Dolemonte on January 15, 2010 at 11:19 PM
A gaffe a day keeps victory away.
GardenGnome on January 15, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Curt Shilling and the bloody sock (Now in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown) is one of the greatest moments in Baseball History.
Here is what that turdbucket Coakley doesn’t understand: Shilling didn’t go out there & pitch for himself, he had already won a world series with another team, and he was hurt – really hurt. He pitched injured in game 1 and delivered a stinker. But now it’s do or die- game 6 win and play one more or go home. Shilling takes the ball or it’s all over, so he gets the team doc to stitch him up and he pitches a one run 7 inning win.
Shilling delivered it for the fans, for the team, for honor. That is something that stupid turdbucket Coakley will never understand because she is in it for herself.
batterup on January 15, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Coakley: Didn’t John Havlicek play for the Lakers?
Steve Z on January 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM
He ended up re-signing a 1 year deal in late 2007 with the Sox as a free agent almost immediately-they had let him go because of age/condition.
Del Dolemonte on January 15, 2010 at 11:29 PM
And don’t forget Red Sox legend MANNY ORTEZ
Can I get me a huntin’ license here?
Del Dolemonte on January 15, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Her numbers might be getting better now, by virtue of the portion of the electorate that wants to keep her around for the comedic relief.
churchill995 on January 15, 2010 at 11:32 PM
But doesn’t that just point to more ineptitude on the part of P-BO and his party. This defense just shows how the Dems can only select “walking disasters” (Daschle, Van Jones, etc.) They knew all about her screw ups as Attorney General yet they chose her to run for that seat. They either ignored all of it because Mass. is Blue or they missed it during the vetting.
Either way looks like we may have another Epic Fail. And even thought Brown getting elected is the ultimate prize, I’d still like to see The One hung by his own petard and challenged regarding that defense.
beselfish on January 15, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Curt Schillings actions played a huge part in the rest of the ALCS and the World Series.
I remember saying to co-workers…I am going home to watch the Red-Sox loose game 4…
F15Mech on January 15, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Yeah, awesome game — I remember it like it was yesterday — but I’m pretty sure it was Game 8 of the Stanley Trophy Series.
holygoat on January 15, 2010 at 11:46 PM
Tiny mistake?!! Allah, do you know any Red Sox fans? They hate the Yankees! Given that Schilling is forever a savior who literally gave his blood for that historic, curse-killing world series victory, to confuse him for a Yankee fan is nothing short of blastphemous. This is no tiny mistake to the voters in MA.
beselfish on January 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Nina Easton…
Can you think of how many dock workers, police officers, fire fighters, and other union workers that are supposed to support Coakley, but when they look at her, she reminds them of their ex-wives?
Seven Percent Solution on January 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Seven Percent Solution:If Nina said that,OUCH!:)
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Funniest line I’ve read today. Thanks, AP!
dissent555 on January 15, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Barry must go up there or risk looking like he did not care about saving healthcare. He has to go.
bloggless on January 15, 2010 at 11:50 PM
+100000! :)
Elektra on January 15, 2010 at 11:51 PM
yeah, baby! given ‘em all the rope they need.
beselfish on January 15, 2010 at 11:52 PM
added to the greatest politically stupid phrases in the past 40 years:
“I am not a crook”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
“Curt Shilling is a Yankee’s fan”
for those of us in New England, her verbal screwup makes Bill Buckner look like Babe Ruth.
viviliberoomuori on January 15, 2010 at 11:57 PM
I have to agree this is NOT tiny because it will ignite people who maybe don’t even follow politics that closely. I’m from Texas. Called my dad tonight who is a HUGE Red Sox fan from WAAAAY back (are there any other kind).
I asked if he knew that Curt Schilling was a big Yankees fan, and it stunned him speechless for a full minute. Then he said, “A YANKEES FAN? CURT SCHILLING?! I DON’T THINK SO!” I told him then what Coakley said, and he laughed and said, “You’re kidding. She didn’t really say that about Schilling.”
Remember that whole sleeping giant meme? Well, you can run all these stupid ads and say all these stupid things, but let me tell you, you mess with the Red Sox, and you are toast!
And for me, that’s how I feel about the whole Twin Towers in the ad thing. The rest was just dumb, but them’s fightin’ words there!
UnderstandingisPower on January 15, 2010 at 11:57 PM
…And who could forget Ted Kennedy’s famous gaffe as he tried to appear as an ‘everyman’ during the ’98 home run derby:
“Mike McGwire…”
“Sammy Sooser…”
This really happened, and remember, Coakley does consider herself the heir apparent to ‘The Kennedy Seat.’
CaptFlood on January 15, 2010 at 11:58 PM
I’m still undecided whether to file this latest gaffe under “Bidenism” or “Boxerism.”
Martha needs to change her name to Coke-ly or Dopely.
viking01 on January 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Meanwhile in “The Onion” offices another writer tears at his hair and runs screaming down the halls. “How in the HELL am I supposed to compete with THIS!!!!! ARRRRGGGGGG!
Lily on January 16, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Has anyone asked her why she’s running? I don’t get it. She has no desire to represent the people of Massachusetts, and can’t be bothered to lower herself to interact with them.
Is she a republican plant? A PSA on how not to run a campaign? Are we being punked?
rosewaning on January 16, 2010 at 12:03 AM
I’m a mariner’s fan and I know hated everytime that they played against the bloody sock and curt. But Curt a Yankees fan. Not only does coakley not know Mass, she doesn’t know baseball either. Has she even ever been to Fenway, or seen the green monster. I sure hope she sees the red monster of the GOP on Tuesday
ConservativePartyNow on January 16, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Buckner was a great ball player who made one error at a critical point in time. Coakley is no runs, no hits, all errors.
Ironwood297 on January 16, 2010 at 12:05 AM
Spoken like a true New Yorker.
RINO in Name Only on January 16, 2010 at 12:08 AM
But he turned down a Yankee offer right? Didn’t he balk at it and say he’d NEVER play for the Yankees? Then he retired.
conservative pilgrim on January 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM
I’d love to see a huge Tea Party group meet Obama’s motorcade on Sunday with signs reading “Welcome to Copenhagen Part 3″.
Left Coast Right Mind on January 16, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Iirc there was talk of Schilling becoming a Yankee just before he was traded to the BoSox, just look up “Theo Epstein Schilling Thanksgiving” for details…but there is just about zero chance this woman knows that…
das411 on January 16, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Meanwhile in “The Onion” offices another writer tears at his hair and runs screaming down the halls. “How in the HELL am I supposed to compete with THIS!!!!! ARRRRGGGGGG!
Lily on January 16, 2010 at 12:02 AM
No truer words have ever been typed.
pghpat26 on January 16, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Martha Coakley’s Favorite Book.
A Tale of Tahiti?
A Tree Grows in Boston?
A Massachussettes Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Holger on January 16, 2010 at 12:21 AM
Coakley pant on the ground pant on the ground looking like a fool with her pant on the ground.
bessex on January 16, 2010 at 12:23 AM
BoSox Nation knows it. Coakley’s comments about Schilling reveal that she is a blathering idiot. (We knew that already, but this has been confirmed for Massuchusetts’ residents.)
conservative pilgrim on January 16, 2010 at 12:36 AM
No, her favorite song is New York, New York. Chicago Pizza is her favorite food
If I was in Boston, I’d be out in front of obama rally with large Where’s C-SPAN signs.
lonestar1 on January 16, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Lucky her she is not in Sarah Palins party… can you even imagine?
shar61 on January 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Exit question:
This happened after Obama announced he would be going to Boston to support her.
Think he’ll
change his mindflip-flop on his little trip now?mrt721 on January 16, 2010 at 12:41 AM
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he’ll decide the Haiti earthquake is more important than the Massachusetts’ earthquake and take a trip to the Caribbean.
conservative pilgrim on January 16, 2010 at 12:47 AM
Are Martha (grognard Kurt is a Yankee fan) and Mika (Lincoln is my favorite Founding Father) related in any way, even distantly?
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 12:48 AM
This is what happens when you get one-party rule at the state level.
Has this woman even talked to any voters in that state yet?
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 12:50 AM
Obama has a 62% approval rating in the state,this seat has been owned by the Kennedy’s for decades, and this woman is such a moron that there is a significant chance she will lose it.
How did this woman get the AG position?????
Massachusetts is looking a lot like Minnesota, they will elect any idiot that calls themselves a democrat.
I believe “Baghdad Bob” had more credibility than this liberal idiot.
Baxter Greene on January 16, 2010 at 12:52 AM
This is why it is so important for Sarah (or any politician) to practice her throwing of the baseball off the mound.
A good macho windup and accurate pitch, especially if she looks better than mom-jeans O-man is worth an instant 30,000 votes in a place like Fenway.
How can any red-blooded man vote for O-man then? “Oh, so you voted for the girlie-man over the manly-girl?”
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 12:54 AM
A sense of the miraculous is starting to creep in. This just feels like destiny unfolding. I smell a blowout.
But I keep thinking the big story could be what comes next. The Dems may play games to try to get Obamacare through before Brown is sworn in. That would INFURIATE a lot of folks and could go down in history as the most Pyrrhic victory EVAH.
Pythagoras on January 16, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Oh your killin me man. :)
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 12:57 AM
Let’s check the score, shall we?
Coakley openly advocated job discrimination against Catholics.
A campaign aide assaulted a reporter right in front of her, with pictures taken, and she denied it.
The Democrats invoked the World Trade Towers as an attack on capitalism.
And she turned her nose up at the mere thought of associating with the unwashed masses at Fenway.
…..
But NOW she’s REALLY crossed the line, damn it.
Hawkins1701 on January 16, 2010 at 1:00 AM
Maybe she’ll pull out of the election and endorse Kennedy.
Oh wait,isn’t he a Tea Partier? Never mind.
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 1:00 AM
Oh that’s a good memory! Half a year ago….remember some Dem’s at work saying he was booed because he wore a White Sox jacket. We Cards fans dislike the CUBS, not the White Sox. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The thought that people might be booing him because of his politics seemed ridiculous to them then. They aren’t holding those same delusions now.
stldave on January 16, 2010 at 1:00 AM
The analogy doesn’t work because Buckner had established himself as a very, very good player before his fateful gaffe.
If Coakley was a baseball player she would be more of a Steve Sax type. Lots of potential but unable to make the routine throw to first base from second. If Coakley blows this, will they start talking about “Martha Coakley Disease”?
Mallard T. Drake on January 16, 2010 at 1:04 AM
You think Steve Bartman in Chicago will ever be forgiven?
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 1:07 AM
It would be like Sarah Palin not knowing who Balto was.
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 1:13 AM
Not until the Cubs win a championship. In fairness to Bartman, the umpire should have called interference. Bartman was clearly extending his arms into the field of play. The Cubbies caught two bad breaks: Bartman and the ump. They could have gotten out of that inning, but then the shortstop booted a ball. The curse lives!
Mallard T. Drake on January 16, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Didn’t Obama salute the Nittally Lions of Penn State?
Mallard T. Drake on January 16, 2010 at 1:17 AM
You know….with the election coming this Tuesday,…I’m kinda bummed.
I wish it would last another week and we can have even more fun each night with that day’s Coakley Chokely.
I’m gonna actually miss her.
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 1:25 AM
Will her name become a verb? “Man, I thought we had that game but we really Coakley’d it in the 9th.”
stldave on January 16, 2010 at 1:29 AM
You know she is so out-of-touch she reminds me of Brooks.
Sapwolf on January 16, 2010 at 1:37 AM
Remember, they used to burn witches in Mass….
lovingmyUSA on January 16, 2010 at 1:44 AM
They are the genius daughters of Wolf Blitzer, the Celebrity Jeopardy Champion…obviously they drained the Blitzer gene pool.
Coakley: Curt Schilling was a Yankee pitcher in the mold of Pele, Lance Armstrong and my all time favorite Yankee Bill Russell.
dthorny on January 16, 2010 at 1:56 AM
Why bother?
Silly singer, didn’t you know this is Ted Kennedy’s seat?
RINO in Name Only on January 16, 2010 at 2:16 AM
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