By: Howie Carr
Attorney Joe Berman is a moonbat’s moonbat. He did all the right — meaning left — things that he thought he had to do in order to take early retirement at age 49 with a $135,000-a-year state judgeship.
He went to Gitmo to represent a bloodthirsty Muslim terrorist pro bono.
He gave at least $18,000 to Barack Obama.
He gave $2,500 more to Deval Patrick.
He even ponied up $1,250 for disgraced ex-Lt. Gov. Tim Murray.
In all, he and his wife gave $110,000 to, among others, the fake Indian Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Stanley Rosenberg, Jarrett Barrios, Paul Hodes, Hillary Clinton, Carol Shea-Porter, John Kerry, Ed Markey — do you get the picture?
Let me put it another way — on June 19, 2012, he wrote a $10,000 check to Barack Obama. Thanks for Obamacare, Mr. President!
One of the councilors asked Berman at his judicial hearing last week how much money he’d donated to charity in the years he was pumping $110,000 into the collaborationist wing of the Democrat Party. Berman claimed he couldn’t recall.
Recently he’s been swooning over state Sen. Katherine Clark to the tune of $3,500. Clark, a drifter who blew in from Colorado, is now running for Ed Markey’s House seat. Last year she established her bona fides by going on national TV to claim that the fake Indian was a real Indian, even after the Globe’s groveling admission that it had been running, uh, misstatements.
But all Berman got for his (or his trust fund’s) $110,000 was the likelihood of a 5-3 thumbs-down vote in the Governor’s Council.
Actually, though, in the end there was no vote. For once Gov. Deval Patrick earned his keep, postponing the vote before this latest limousine liberal (he’s from Weston) could be added to the bench to coddle terrorists, EBT fraudsters and illegal aliens.
The problem is not that Berman was brazen enough to say that representing a terrorist was the highlight of his undistinguished legal career. Even a werewolf’s got a right to legal counsel, as Hunter S. Thompson once said. He or his trust fund can even donate to corrupt hacks like John Tierney — as a matter of fact, Berman has!
Gov. James Michael Curley once called the council a “hock shop.” It’s still true.
Before Berman could be voted down, Deval postponed the roll call, to give himself time to wave a few shiny objects and assorted baubles in front of the councilors.
Berman did not answer repeated phone calls last week, so I finally sent him an email. I asked him if he felt like he’d wasted his $110,000. I asked him if he’d been selected in a nationwide search. I inquired if he’d ever recalled how much money he’d contributed to charities.
He didn’t get back to me. Too bad — if only I’d identified myself as an al-Qaeda terrorist, you know damn well he’d have returned my call, pronto.
See Howie at the Barnes & Noble in Holyoke this Saturday from 10 to noon.