Howie Saves A Life

WRKO’s Howie Carr has done more than just entertain and opine from the microphone; he is now being credited with helping save a life.

Howie Carr does indeed have a heart.

The hardboiled WRKO radio host and Herald columnist tried to dissuade a female caller – distraught over the bleak economy – from killing herself, divulging that his own grandfather committed suicide during the Depression.

The caller, who identified herself as 54-year-old “Carol,” told Carr during yesterday’s show that she moved to Jonesport, Maine, three years ago, bought a $59,000 house and had been trying to get a job, without success.

In a stunning on-air admission, “Carol” revealed that she swallowed 100 pills in a suicide attempt last February when she was about to lose her home. Her daughter from Montana showed up “out the blue” and “saved my life,” according to an audiotape of the show.

Ever since, her two daughters have been paying her mortgage and other bills. “And now, they’re so strapped out from helping me that I am right back where I was last February and seriously contemplating suicide,” said “Carol.”

“Don’t kill yourself, Carol,” Carr said. “It’s always a bad mistake to kill yourself, Carol. I’m serious about that. Your family never recovers from a suicide.”

“Carol” became emotional during the 3 minute call, saying she was “burdening” her family.

Carr talked with her a bit longer before moving on to other callers. But his listeners wanted to stay on the subject, with several trying to persuade Carol not to take her life.

Carr told listeners that he’s made jokes about it in the past but that his grandfather killed himself in 1931 during the Depression. “The family basically never recovered,” Carr said.

It turned out an agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency was listening to Carr’s show, and police were quickly dispatched to Carol’s home.

Reached yesterday, “Carol,” whose name the Herald is withholding, said she had called Carr’s show because “I feel like nobody’s listening to me.”

Nice job, Howie.

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Howie Carr: The Media Loves to Hate Sarah Palin

Howie Carr, in his fantastically unique way, excoriates the media attacks on Sarah Palin:

It’s become a regular “60 Minutes”/Texas Air National Guard feeding frenzy of bogus reporting out there. The whoppers about Palin are piled up so high in the moribund mainstream media that the wrinkly newsreaders have taken to blaming their most scurrilous, sexist screw-ups on those nefarious unnamed left-wing “bloggers” – you know, like Brian Williams.

Why do the pampered poodles of the elite media loathe Sarah so much? Let’s go down the list.

She’s only 44 years old. She’s just not seasoned enough – and if you don’t believe me, just ask Gloria Steinem, age 74, or Barbara Walters, age 78, or Sally Quinn, age 67, or Eleanor Clift, age 68, or Andrea Mitchell, age 61, or Gail Collins, age 62.

Why, up on the stage, it has been noted that you can distinguish Sarah’s ankles from her calves. She’s never had a Botox injection. The hags of the Hamptons speak as one on this issue. Snow White Palin must be stopped. Anybody got a poisoned apple?

How can she be qualified when she doesn’t have a single $1.2-million-a-year lobbyist in her family? How can she relate to “lunch-bucket” Americans the way lunch-bucket blowhard Joe Biden can?

She admits smoking pot as a teenager, which sets a terrible example for the youth of America, unlike Barack Obama, who admits smoking pot as a teenager, and whose “refreshing candor” is a breath of fresh air after eight years of Cheney-Bush.

She went to multiple colleges as an undergraduate, which shows how flighty and immature she is, unlike Barack Obama, who went to multiple colleges as an undergraduate, which shows the inquisitive nature of his intelligence, which has been such an inspiration, at least to everyone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Howie then goes on to list various lies about Sarah Palin that have been reported as facts by the mainstream, and really nailed the situation perfectly.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It’s called “vetting.” Printing the truth about liberals – that’s called “swift-boating.” From career MSNBC jock sniffer Keith Olbermann to Barney Frank’s favorite publisher Jann Wenner, the verdict on Palin is unanimous.

Read the whole thing.

Howie: Is WRKO Hiring?

You gotta love Howie Carr’s column about the Marzilli scandal…

And so the reputed moonbat masher, Sen. Jim Marzilli, pulls an even quicker Eliot Spitzer than Eliot Spitzer himself. Doesn’t quit – wants to get that one day on the payroll in 2009 for the extra year on his pension. But he won’t seek re-election.

As always, the dodgy pol is retiring due to ill health. The voters got sick of him. And sure enough, a couple of hours after doing the Spitzer, Marzilli took the logical next step. He checked himself into a booby hatch, McLean Hospital.

Repeat after me, Senator: “One grope is too many, and a thousand are not enough.”

Perhaps the socialist solon can write a book about his affliction and promote it on “Oprah.” Suggested title: “The Audacity of Grope.”

You know that Marzilli’s amen chorus, the Arlington moonbats, are blaming the vast right-wing conspiracy for their hero’s downfall. Weeping bitter tears into their lattes, they’re still saying the lewd dude’s pinch is a “tragedy,” and indeed it is. It’s tragic that the foot chase through the garage, after he gave the false name, did not end in a Tasering of the Senate chairman of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.

Usually it takes two or three terms in the Senate before they slap on the handcuffs and read you your Miranda rights. Marzilli sets a new record here – six months in, and now he’s on his way out.

But the best part is the end..

What will he do, after his case is broomed (again)? Well, he maxed out to Gov. Deval Patrick’s campaign, and he is a (nonpracticing) lawyer, so I’d say a state judgeship could definitely be in the works. Or he could become a DPW drawbridge operator.

Or he could ask the eternal question all disgraced, talentless pols eventually pose:

Is WRKO hiring?

Personally, given Gerry Studds unhampered career following his illegal sex-capades with an underage congressional page, Marzilli could probably still have a future in politics… if only in Massachusetts.

Howie Carr To Leave WRKO, Heading to WTKK

This is a huge shocking development. The Boston Herald got the scoop.

In a bombshell development, WRKO-AM radio host Howie Carr is jumping ship to rival station WTKK-FM, where he’ll take over the prized morning-drive slot.

Carr, whose contract with WRKO-AM (680) expires in September, will host WTKK’s morning drive show solo and replaces shamed syndicated talk jock Don Imus, who lost his national show after the “nappy-headed hos” scandal.

Carr inked a five-year deal with WTKK (96.9), according to his lawyer, Bret Cohen of the law firm Mintz Levin. Carr could not be reached for comment and is vacationing in Florida.

Carr’s move to Greater Media’s WTKK pits him against disgraced, ex-House Speaker Tom Finneran, Carr’s longtime nemesis. Finneran’s morning-drive show on the Entercom-owned WRKO has bombed since he got behind the mike earlier this year. WRKO was banking on the former speaker to boost the station’s dismal morning ratings.

This is good news for Howie Carr, who was getting screwed over by the WRKO management, and it’s also good for WTKK, who will get a viable morning drive personality who will clobber Finneran for the morning drive ratings. The big loser is WRKO, who will suffer a great deal from the loss of Howie Carr.

Updates will be posted at SaveWRKO.com.

Is Chivalry Gone?

By now, many have heard the news of the 4-against-1 beating at the Natick Mall.

Still sore two days after a brutal beating by a Framingham mom and her three daughters at the Natick mall, a Framingham teen said she is still angry about what she said was an unprovoked attack.

“They‚Äôre all pathetic,” said a petite Lizbeth Cortez, who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs about 100 pounds. “She‚Äôs (Marilyn Camacho) pathetic to get involved in her daughter‚Äôs fights. It was the mom who fired this thing up. She was the first one to come up to me.”
Camacho, 40, and her three daughters, 12, 13 and 16 years old, were all arrested Monday after the 5 p.m. melee in the Natick Collection.

Cortez, 16, is a sophomore at Keefe Tech, along with Camacho’s 16-year-old daughter. The two are not friends and had been in a fight in the past.

But, Cortez said, she never expected the girl’s mother to take matters into her own hands.

Cortez said she was at the mall Monday and was speaking to a friend at Dunkin’ Donuts when Camacho came up to her and started yelling. Her three daughters came over and they began to attack her while dozens of shoppers watched.

Her cousin and a male bystander tried to unsuccessfully stop the beating, Cortez said.

I caught a little of bit of the end of Howie Carr’s show yesterday, and of course, Howie said that he would have been a bystander, not even attempting to intervene. Listening to his reasoning, I don’t blame him. There could have been deadly weapons involved, you don’t know what kind of substance the attackers are on, etc., etc., it’s not worth it. Howie felt it was more important that he make sure he’s around to be a father to his kids than be martyred trying to stop a fight between someone else’s kids. Fair enough.

While listening to this, I couldn’t help but think I wouldn’t want to get involved because sometimes the good Samaritans who step up to the plate don’t always have a happy ending. Whether it’s a lawsuit, or getting hurt or killed, it does make you take a step back and say that you aren’t getting involved, especially when you have a lot a lose.

Sadly, this is the case these days. We worry more about avoiding lawsuits than doing what is right.

I’m sure when asked, most people would say they wouldn’t think twice had it been their friend or family member being attacked–but a complete stranger? I would expect most people to be hesitant these days, but then again, you never until you find yourself face-to-face in that situation.

Perhaps chivalry in most of its forms is dying. How many able bodied people could have stepped in to stop that fight at the Natick Mall? Would you have?