Irony Abounds: Howie Carr, Dianne Wilkerson and Martha Coakley

Had a great laugh this morning reading the Boston Herald. First there was this story:

WRKO radio host Howie Carr has lodged a trio of complaints against the station with the state Attorney General's office, seeking unpaid bonuses and a pay raise in the three years since his bosses thwarted his attempt to defect to rival WTKK.

The Herald received the complaints from the Attorney General's office under a Freedom of Information Act request. Carr declined comment this week.

http://www.bostonherald.com/ne...

Wait, is this the same Howie Carr that bashes state employees, elected (Democratic) officials and government overall as hacks and taxpayer ripoffs? Why yes it is. But when he has a problem with his employer, where does Howie Carr go? To a government agency and asks help from public employees.

And guess what - those public employees (always hacks in Howie's retread columns) did their jobs and protected Howie's rights (including getting him 2 backpay checks).

In October, an Entercom executive sent Carr's bonus check - $8,694.87 after taxes and authorized reductions - to the Attorney General's office to be forwarded to the talk show host.

In December 2008, Carr filed a complaint after the station failed to pay him a $5,000 raise. In his complaint, Carr wrote he was due a $5,000 annual pay increase on Nov. 15 under the terms of his contract. "Company is in breach of contract for the second time in a year," Carr wrote in his complaint, which said he was earning about $15,000 a week at the time.

An investigator with the Attorney General's Fair Labor & Business Practices contacted the company. An attorney representing Entercom told the investigator on Jan. 5, 2009, that a check had been mailed to Carr, according to filings, and the case was then closed.

Still waiting for Howie's column on the useless hacks at the AG's office. Furthering the irony:

Disgraced former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson has lost a bid to force Attorney General Martha Coakley's office to defend her in a 2007 lawsuit, after claiming she couldn't pay her bills.

The gambit was rejected by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Raymond Brassard on Tuesday without a written explanation.

http://www.bostonherald.com/ne...

We have all seen (or is that read) Howie's opinion of Dianne Wilkerson. But there is Howie on the same page with Wilkerson when they have a problem - asking the same person, Attorney General Martha Coakley, for help.

Is this the same Howie Carr who paints a broad brush of guilt by any association when it comes to elected officials and issues. So, following Howie's own twisted logic, Howie Carr and Diane Wilkerson share much in common. It's guilt by association. It's a massive taxpayer ripoff by Carr - he used the same state government services that Dianne Wilkerson asked for help. OMG, Howie the Hack!

Attorney General Martha Coakley does a great job with wage and labor law enforcement (along with many other aspects of her job). Turns out Howie Carr knows this because he went to her office for taxpayer funded assistance.

So Howie - when are you writing the column about this?