(title of post a reference to Morris Albert's 1970s soft rock hit "Feelings". Whoa, whoa, whoa feelings...)
This time of yr produces more than a few fill ins for talk hosts. Pat Desmarais has been on for Dan Rea on WBZ.
Howie had a speaking engagement last Friday and put Maria Stephanos of Fox 25 in (Maria had a bit of a scare
yesterday; turned out she was dehydrated. She's fine.)
Brian Maloney's blog SaveWRKO notes that Jay Severin's vay-cay has again brought us Grace Blazer's pal
Mike Smerconish (whom he notes made waves last year as being a conservative who endorsed Obama) and
WTKK's Michele -with-one-l McPhee has had Norman Goldman in. Listeners to the Ed Schultz show (yeah,
both of you
) may know him from doing occasional fill-ins for Ed. He's not quite the same political philosophy
as Michele (the progtalk fans must be excited, though I wonder how many knew he'd be on?)
When hot subjects appear, such as health care or Ted K's wish to have the gov appoint his successor, hopefully
fill in hosts are up to the task. But of course for some once we hear a different voice and sample it for a few
minutes--we may turn away in disappointment.
Of course many years ago I would be even more interested when one particular newspaper columnist would
fill in for Jerry Williams--who would have thought he'd inherit that slot eventually? "Good afternoon New England,
this is Howie Carr from the Boston Herald, in for the Dean today..."
This time of yr produces more than a few fill ins for talk hosts. Pat Desmarais has been on for Dan Rea on WBZ.
Howie had a speaking engagement last Friday and put Maria Stephanos of Fox 25 in (Maria had a bit of a scare
yesterday; turned out she was dehydrated. She's fine.)
Brian Maloney's blog SaveWRKO notes that Jay Severin's vay-cay has again brought us Grace Blazer's pal
Mike Smerconish (whom he notes made waves last year as being a conservative who endorsed Obama) and
WTKK's Michele -with-one-l McPhee has had Norman Goldman in. Listeners to the Ed Schultz show (yeah,
both of you
) may know him from doing occasional fill-ins for Ed. He's not quite the same political philosophyas Michele (the progtalk fans must be excited, though I wonder how many knew he'd be on?)
When hot subjects appear, such as health care or Ted K's wish to have the gov appoint his successor, hopefully
fill in hosts are up to the task. But of course for some once we hear a different voice and sample it for a few
minutes--we may turn away in disappointment.
Of course many years ago I would be even more interested when one particular newspaper columnist would
fill in for Jerry Williams--who would have thought he'd inherit that slot eventually? "Good afternoon New England,
this is Howie Carr from the Boston Herald, in for the Dean today..."
