Nov 22, 2007 8:05 pm US/Eastern
Keller Announces 2007 Local Turkeys
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
It's that time of year for WBZ's Jon Keller to reveal this year's top five Local Turkeys.
What is a "turkey"? It can be a person, a thing, even an idea, but it must be inept, offensive in some way, a flop, a failure.
And here are the 2007 Local Turkeys:
5) The Fenway Park pizza tosser. Throwing insults at the umpires? Fine. An occasional spilled beer? Understandable. But hurling a pizza slice at another fan - and he's not even a Yankee fan? Out of bounds.
4) Patrick's Podcasts. The new governor bragged about his grasp of new technology and how it would enhance his communication with the public, but his dreary podcasts would have greater reach if he simply went to his window and shouted them across the Common.
3) Mashpee Wampanoag leader Glenn Marshall. The beleaguered tribe spends years working toward federal recognition and public confidence in their potential stewardship of casinos, and this guy squanders it overnight in a flurry of lies about his military service and past.
2) Greenbush train line. Thirty years in the making, millions over budget, and the thing is underused and screwing up schedules for the other commuter lines that share the track. Good planning!
And now for the biggest Local Turkey of 2007:
1) Big Dig. More cost overruns, more accidents in the poorly-designed tunnel, and coming soon, whopping toll hikes to pay for it all.
Here are the 2007 National Turkeys:
5) Dade County Probate Judge Larry Seidlin, who turned the Anna Nicole Smith baby-custody hearing into an audition for the hosting gig at "The People's Court." Don't worry, Judge Judy, you're safe.
4) Conservative pundit Ann Coulter, for dragging political discourse even further into the gutter by calling John Edwards a "fag" and suggesting Jews need to be "perfected." Like you Ann?
3) Radio talk-show host Don Imus. Hey I-Man, here's an early Christmas present for you. Ho ho ho.
2) Over-the-hill mercenary Roger Clemens. Get this: he made more than $4 million per win as he helped drag the Yankees over the cliff yet again.
1) Paris Hilton. The drunken driving, the blubbering, the repulsive Larry King interview, the red-carpet "perp" walk. And now she's right back on the party circuit, but only until her public-service schedule can be worked out, of course.
Keller's 2006 National Turkeys:
5) Then-Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld for botching the occupation of Iraq;
4) President George W. Bush for hanging in too long with Rumsfeld;
3) Michael Richards, the washed-up "Seinfeld" star who let loose with a string of racial slurs during a "performance" in LA;
2) OJ Simpson for attempting to publish a book about how he "might" have murdered his wife and her lover "if" he had done it;
1) Sen. John Kerry for his botched "joke" about getting "stuck in Iraq" that offended military families and embarrassed Democrats on the eve of the 2006 election.
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