Masscrastination

Anybody’s who’s been reading the Newton Tab this past month has read about Alderman Lenny Gentile (ironic) getting Slumerville’s panties all up in a bunch over one of his speeches.  It’s taken me a while to actually get around to watching the video of the speech and now that I have I’d like to explain to you why it may be the greatest speech delivered by any alderman anywhere. 

• Gentile introduces his speech with one word, a proper noun, “Somerville.”  Anytime a speech is titled “Somerville” you know that it’s going to have a lot of backhanded jabs at people, because that’s what Somerville does. 
• I understand that Newton could be compared to Brookline and maybe Cambridge, but where or what is North Hampton?  What does Gentile mean by “some things that where going on in North Hampton”?  Why does he make it sound like there was a secret mob war going on in “North Hampton and communities like that”? 
• Somerville should be more upset that they were compared to Chelsea and Everett and should be grateful anytime their name is uttered in the same sentence as Newton. 

You can try to justify it any damn way you want but it’s BS, OK, it’s BS.

-Nacho