Thank god for Russian sites that steal online content or this gem about the next mayor of Manchester, NH, the Hon. Richard H. Girard, would have been lost!
Richard H Girard keystrokes himself into sexting scandal
"Oh, my head!" -- Rich Girard's catch phrase, took on new meaning in 2014
Rich Girard, the host of the Girard at
Large radio program, used his Facebook account to try to seduce a
female fan who had appeared on his show. Friday afternoon, the Manchester
political world was abuzz with news about the sexting scandal as the the fan,
who uses the moniker “Little Mel,” posted screenshots of Girard’s sexting on
her Facebook page. The revelations are a bombshell as the staunchly
conservative radio host who postures as a defender of traditional family values
broadcasts on a Christian radio station.
Little Mel is a volunteer at a prominent
Manchester non-profit organization that Girard supports. She appeared on his
show when it featured a segment on the charity, an event mentioned in the
“sexts” that were exchanged between Little Mel and one “Richard H. Girard” via
Facebook’s private messaging function.
Richard H. Girard is the Girard at
Large radio show hosts “official” name.
Breaking Story
Alderman Joseph Kelly Levasseur, the nemesis
of Girard, was the first to break the story on his own Facebook page. Levasseur
contacted Little Mel, who confirmed that the posts were from Rich Girard. He
obtained her permission to post screenshots of sexually explicit messages that
Girard allegedly sent her on Wednesday, July 9th, and Thursday, the 10th. She
also posted messages sent by Girard to her on Friday, the 11th.
Little Mel assured Levasseur that it indeed
was Girard who wrote the sexts, and assured me after a query on Levasseur’s
Facebook page that Girard was the man who wrote the posts.
Levasseur contacted Rich Girard for comment,
telling him he was going to run the story. Girard did not respond to
Levasseur’s query.
Due to the extremely graphic nature of the
sexting dialogue, Levasseur only published one screenshot, then took it down
for editing as it contained Little Mel’s address. The screenshots show the name
“Richard H. Girard” with a picture of Rich Girard that I am told the radio host
uses on his Facebook page. The street address was on the screenshot that
Levasseur posted, as Girard, who said that he was drunk, was trying to arrange
a sex encounter with Little Mel at her home and she supplied him with the
information.
On Friday, Little Mel insisted that not only
was it Girard who sexted her, but that after the story broke in the wake of her
posting of screenshots of their sexting conversation on her Facebook page,
Girard called her on the phone to apologize for attempting to seduce her. She
at first thought he sounded angry during the conversation, but subsequently
decided he was not.
On Saturday night, Little Mel published on
Levasseur’s Facebook page two apologies from Girard. The latter read:
“Hi, Mel. / Tahnk [SIC] you for taking down
the screen shots of our chat messages. Would you mind posting that we spoke and
that you’d accepted my apology and granted the forgiveness I requested? As you
might imagine, I have some people looking for comment and I’d like to be able
to have more than my say so that you did that./ Thank you./ Rich Girard/ Humble
Host/ Girard at Large in the Morning”
Weird Relationship
The original sexting conversation that Little
Mel engaged in with Girard took place between approximately 8:00 and 8:25 PM on
Wednesday, July 9th. Little Mel and Girard were partaking in a Facebook private
messaging conversation before 7:59 PM, but apparently, it didn’t turn to sex
until around eight, which is the start of prime time on commercial television.
The screenshots I received from a source start at 7:59.
According to the screenshots (I do not have
access to Little Mel’s Facebook pages), Girard kicked off the salacious part of
their conversation when he sexted her,”too bad for you we’re separated at the
moment. I’m a bit tipsy and I owuld probably [expletive deleted] the [expletive
deleted] out of you if we were in the th esame room.” [Spelling including the
lack of capitalization is as it appears in the screenshots – Ed.]
The two banter back and forth, then Girard
wrote, “it’d be all weird.”
“I think our whole ‘relationship’ is weird
;-P”, Little Mel replied.
“Still got that IUD?” the sexter immediately
asked her. The question is a bombshell that could do further damage to the
radio host as Girard portrays himself publicly as a “Catholic’s Catholic” and
an intrauterine device is a contraceptive device that prevents conception by
disrupting sperm, preventing them from fertilizing an egg. Many pro-life people
consider an IUD an abortifacient. [According to Little Mel, the two had talked
about her obtaining an IUD before Wednesday night’s conversation, not in terms
of birth control in anticipation of a future affair, but as a discussion between
friends about her healthcare concerns, She was looking into obtaining an IUD to
help regulate her menstrual cycle.]
“No. I didn’t get it,” Little Mel replied
before telling him why and then stating that she has “lots of condoms.”
“I hate those,” the sexter replied.
After more talk about birth control, Girard
asked her what will become an underlying theme of his side of the conversation
“so if we did it what then? You get all clingy and freaky on me.”
“No,” Little Mel replies before the two then
engaged in conversation about a preferred position for sexual intercourse,
which Little Mel says makes guys look powerful.
“Oh My Head!”
The Girard at Large host apparently is a fan of oral sex, both giving and receiving what is vulgarly known as “head”. Somehow, this is fitting, as Girard’s trademark expression on the air is “Oh my head!”
“Do you like it when a guy eats your
[expletive deleted]?”he asked, using a vulgarism for the female sex organ
commonly associated with cats.
An obscene exchange of words took place, after
which Girard asks, “can you do it once and only once?”
He then follows this up with “(omh, I’m
hammered….)” [I read the abbreviation “omh” as “Oh my head”. – Ed.]
Little Mel then raised the subject of marital
fidelity.
“does your wife know?”
I am missing screenshots for the next three
minutes of the conversation, but apparently, the subject of Little Mel having
actual real-life, four-footed cats — comes up, and she said she can put them in
the bathroom. Girard apparently is allergic to the feline variety. He told her
that segregating the cats would not make a difference.
The presence of cats apparently put a kibosh
on the intended assignation and gave Little Mel time to take stock of herself,
as she then broke off from planning a tryst when her conscience kicks in over
the other party’s wife.
“Carpe Diem”
“Sigh as much as I want to —- you….I don’t
think I can. Not only are you married but you’re drunk right now and I feel
like I was raking advantage of you at a weak moment,” Little Mel wrote.
Girard, still intent on meeting up with his
fan for sex, replied, “hrey, I asked…”
Little Mel posted in turn, “If you were in an
open marriage it would be different but you’re monogamous and you have 5 kids.”
Little Mel then asked, “How are you going to
feel after?”
Girard replied in a series of five posts: “who
knows?/who cares/carpe diem/besides, I’ve always wanted you/since you first
walked into my studio conservatively dressed.”
Carpe diem is Latin for “Seize the day”.
Apparently, Girard was still intent on seizing his opportunity with Little Mel.
His stratagems would backfire on him by Friday.
An Attack of
Conscience
“don’t tell me you’re having an attack of
conscience…” the interlocutor whom Little Mel swears is Rich Girard tells her.
“or is it that once won’t be enough?”
“depends how good are you? :-P”
Girard posted, “chalk it up to great… /final
chance…/going…”
“I really want to…” Little Mel said, before
declaring, “I can’t. I’m sorry. It would be going against what I believe and
what I preach.
“I wouldn’t tell but I’d feel guilty,” she
wrote.
After some banter, Girard asked Little Mel,
“what do you want?/the sex of the relatinship/the dream or the drudgery”
“I respect you too much,” Little Mel replied.
Girard posted, “so you won’t let me make a
drunken mistake?/actually, it’s not that drunk…you can tell by the few typos.”
Catholic Guilt
The back and forth continues and finally
Little Mel told Rich Girard, “you’re catholic guilt will get to you.”
“Don’t be so sure…./What about a good oral
encounter?” the sexter, who apparently will not be denied, wrote back.
“and I can’t do it on the maybe chance you’ll
regret it,” Little Mel replied.
“i won’t”, the other party to the sexting
said, “unless you get all clingy and freaky/then I’ll be wondreing if I’ll be
seeing boilig rabbits on my stove.”
“I like rabbits”, Little Mel declared,
apparently missing the reference to the 1987 Michael Douglas-Glen Close movie
Fatal Attraction, in which the “other women” (close) in an adulterous affair
with Douglas’ character became unhinged.
The subject of Little Mel’s mental state will
be used by the Girard in the following days, as he tries to do damage control.
It is this stratagem, and the patronizing attitude of the sexter, that likely
set Little Mel off and did push her into the Glen Close role of seeking
revenge, leading her to post the sexting threads on her Facebook page rather
than leaving a pet rabbit boiled alive on the Girard family’s stove.
“zi’m not trrying to mess with you,” the
sexter told Little Mel, “i guess my inhibitions are down.”
“Exactly and even though you say you won’t
regret it…. I know you will,” she responded.
Little Mel, as the Wednesday night sexting
conversation peters out, continually brings up the fact that she, too, would be
racked with guilt for sleeping with a married man she respects.
“and while I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d fell
guilty and I hate feeling guilty,” Little Mel wrote.
Guilt, Catholic or otherwise, apparently is
not something Richard Girard apparently suffers from. “don’t be so sure about
my regrets,” he wrote back.
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More banter, including obscenity by Girard
followed, while Little Mel continued to refuse him, though she claimed it is
with regret.
“I love you to death and that’s why I can’t,”
she wrote.
The continually rebuffed and frustrated Girard
responded negatively to this post.
“ugh…./i’ve heard that my whole life/I hate
it.”
“You’d rather people not care about you?”
Little Mel asked him.
“in some cases/besides, I can take care of
myself. I’m a big boy/who can take being turned down…,” the sexter reponded,
before posting a frowning smiley face emoticon.
As the chances for the hoped for assignation
dies, the sexter tried another tack: “that’s okay. You’re doing the right
thing/hell of a time to develop a conscience, though.”
Little Mel tells him, “I’m sorry. I feel
terrible.”
“why?” Girard asked.
“because I have a chance to bang someone in my
top 10 and I’m turning it down.”
Girard posted, “if you’re doing it for me,
don’t. if you’r edoing it for you okay.
The seemingly adept if not quite expert sexter
then applied real pressure to Little Mel: “crap…my window of opportunity is
about to close/yes or no/say it now.”
“No,” answers Little Mel. It is a definitive
answer, though Girard would continue to persist with his pursuit this Wednesday
night.
Incredibly, the sexter then posted, “(no
pressure…seriously)/waiting….”
Little Mel reiterated that she can’t have sex
with him and apologized. “I’d feel way too guilty,” she wrote, and I’ve been
the other woman before/and my last relationship ended because I got cheated
on/I’d feel like a hypocrit.”
Girard responded, “no worries. I respect you
and your decision…though I’m looking ]for a one time thing, not the ‘other
woman thing’.”
“I’m the Best”
The sexter, seemingly being reasonable and
compassionate at the moment, immediately propositions Little Mel again,
offering her oral sex rather than vaginal intercourse, though he tells her that
he would engage in intercourse “If you wold let me.”
“trust me, I’m the best,” the egotistical
sexter boasted to Little Mel. “or at least the best you’ve ever had”
These messages are immediately followed by his
declaration, “time has expired……..I can’t get awa now.”
“Sorry,” Little Mel said, before posting a
heart emoticon.
“well, I could if you really wanted me to,”
the sexter who will still not be denied replied. Apparently, Rich Girard is not
one who is easily discouraged.
“I can’t,” she told him.
Girard then attempted to transfigure himself
into some kind of relationship/lifestyle guru, hectoring her to “accept
responsibility…. You won’t, not can’t/there’s a difference between ability and
decision/you COULD, but you choose not to which is okay. I don’t hate you for
it.”
Little Mel replied to the sexter who is
blowing both hot and cold — like someone possessed of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
personality, “I can, but I won’t.”
“tomorrow, I’ll probably thank you,” Richard
H. Girard then posted, before immediately launching into more salacious talk
intended to seduce Little Mel, before following it up with a mea culpa.
“fyi, i respect your conscience….you’re right
to say no. I felt like trying though./sorry fo rthe advance/didn’t want to
cause you stress.”
Little Mel ended Wednesday night’s
conversation by telling Girard that despite what has transpired, “I still think
you’re awesome.”
The Following Day
The Facebook conversation between Rich Girard
and Little Mel started up again the next day, at 4:37 in the morning. Girard
typically is at his radio studio in the Pinardville section of Goffstown around
4:00 AM to prepare for his daily broadcast, which kicks off at six.
At that time, 4:37 AM, Girard has contacted
Little Mel to engage in what is part damage control, and part mind games. The
sexter answered Little Mel’s last post of the night before, in which she said
she thinks he’s “awesome”, with this reply:
“and now I know you are…I’m proud of you! You
proved that you’re more than a sexually driven piece of mean last night. You
have a good conscience and are concerned about the well being of your friends.
might sound crazy, but it’s what I’d hoped you’d do. Your a good egg! Be proud
of yourself. You have a lot to offer.”
After posting an open-mouthed smiley-face
emoticon, Little Mel wrote, “it was sooooo hard to say no!”. Her post was made
early six hours after Girard’s. It would be four hours before Girard would
again contact Little Mel.
In that post, Girard continues in his guise of
the Victorian reformer as sexual hypocrite, claiming that his intent all along
was to test Little Mel with the idea of saving her virtue and uplifting her.
“I was counting on it and you didn’t let me
down. See there’s more to you that what meets the eye,” he wrote, ending the
post with a winking smiley face emoticon. [I have seen a picture of Little Mel
with Rich Girard at his studio, and she is a physically attractive woman, a
quality that he seemingly is referring to.]
A little more than a half-hour later, Little
Mel wrote back, “and what if I had said yes?” before issuing what seems like a
warning:
“And I’m like a transformer…. more than meets
the eye.”
Little Mel would indeed morph into something
quite different than the besotted fan of Wednesday night.
Friday’s Child
“Wednesday’s child is full of woe,” the Mother
Goose rhyme goes, while “Friday’s child is loving and giving.”
The Little Mel of Wednesday, more akin to
Friday’s child, was about to unleash woe onto Richard H. Girard, the sexting
fool who postures as Mr. Morality to his audience on a Christian radio network.
Apparently, she’d had enough with the mind games, and was tired of being hit on
and used by men like Girard.
At 6:58 AM on Friday morning, which might have
been a commercial break during the Girard at Large radio program, Girard
replied to Little Mel.
“if you’d said yes? I wouldn’t have showed up
and it my attempt to show you something about yourself would have backfired.”
These are the words of a world-class hypocrite
and coward operating at “11” on a volume dial. In my opinion, these are the
exchanges that definitively prove that this is Rich Girard.
Girard, who earlier was worried about a Fatal
Attraction type scenario developing, now assumes the guise of “Mr. Morality”
playing “Big Brother” cum Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” to Little Mel, and
inadvertently triggered a negative reaction in his now wary fan, who is
appalled by the self-serving hypocrisy. She knew what the sexting Girard was
after on Wednesday night, and it wasn’t an opportunity to uplift her. But for
her own strength in fighting off her attraction to Girard, she believed, in my opinion,
that a sexual tryst would have taken place.
Little Mel answered the post approximately an
hour and a half later by asking, “Why did you feel you need to do that.”
Girard replied that he has been following her
posts on Facebook, “and you seemed to need a challenge that might change your
focus to someone other than yourself.”
He then talked about his concern for her
mental state after having read some of her Facebook posts, then posted, “Can’t
really focus on that now, doing an interview,” although the time of that post
was 8:55 AM and the Girard at Large radio show had only five minutes left to
run. Girard always is hustling, it seems: his audience, women fans….probably
his friends, his family….definitely himself.
On Friday morning, the sexting Rich Girard of
Wednesday night was attempting to justify his behavior, pretending that he
wasn’t really inveigling Little Mel for sex, but had been putting her through
some kind of test to boost her ego.
“Suffice to say I saw reason to act took a
risk that might boost your evaluation of yourself.”
Little Mel dismissed the attempt by Girard to
play psychiatrist, then lays into him:
“But it’s cool attempt to subdtly shame me as
a way to boost my evaluation or whatever,” she wrote back. “Being sexually
active or wanting sex doesn’t make me a bad person.”
“sigh….I give up,” Wednesday’s sexter responded
at 9:47 AM Friday morning, basically telling her she had failed his test, which
was a sham to being with.
“there was no attempt to slut shame you,”
Girard continued, “only to prove you could put the needs of others/what was
right before your own personal desires. That boosts most people’s confidence
and sense of self-worth.”
This long post by “Richard H. Girard” goes on
and contains a rather bizarre declaration: “BTW, I don’t get paid for every
counseling session, so I have no desire to see behavior in need of counseling
continue until the next session….”
The sexter of the Richard H. Girard/Little Mel
dialogues likes to play mind games. This exchange makes one wonder how many
other woman fans has he engaged similarly?
“sorry, I knew it was a risk,” the long
exchange by Girard ended. The sexter than posts, “didn’t think you’d find a way
to deprive yourself of your own accomplishment though./I guess I should have
just left well enough alone.”
The dialogue between Little Mel and Girard
ended with two post by Little Mel, made immediately after the sexter’s last
post:
“but what accomplishment am I achieving? What
does me turning you down have to do with anything? All it looks is you trying
to set me up./And the thing is I generally always put others before me.”
The screenshots I received from a source end
there. It was 9:50 PM on Friday morning. Little Mel began posting screenshots
of the exchange on her Facebook page later that day. After hearing of her
revelations, Rich Girard then called her on the phone and she hung up on him as
he apparently was hostile.
Christian Radio
Will Rich Girard and the Girard atLarge radio program survive the revelation of these sexting dialogues?
He broadcasts on a station owned by New Hampshire Family Radio (NHFR). According
to its own website, NHFR is a part of Knowledge for Life, a tax-exempt,
non-profit corporation focused on “religious and educational purposes”.
Knowledge for Life is an evangelical Christian
ministry that spreads “the Good News thereby making it more difficult for
anyone to go to hell.”
I am not trained in psychology, but Girard has
always struck me as possessing a split personality. This duality in Girard’scharacter is always on display, on his radio show, and in person, such as when
a cold but not unfriendly exchange between us in a men’s room at Manchester
City Hall turned ugly. As I started to leave the men’s room, Girard suddenly
drew himself up, his eyes going as cold and mean as those of a yellow-eyed junk
yard dog, and challenged me to a fight. It was a real Dr. Jekyll turning into
Mr. Hyde moment, and that duality is apparent in the Girard/Little Mel
exchanges.
The owners of his radio station are intent on
making it “more difficult for anyone to go to hell.” Yet, the sexting component
of Rich Girard’s personality certainly seemed intent on going to hell in a hand
basket last Wednesday, and on taking Little Mel along with him.
CORRECTION
NOTICE: After speaking to
Little Mel, I have changed two paragraphs to reflect new information. I
originally reported that she had hung up on Girard because he sounded angry; in
fact, she did not hang up on him, and upon reflection, she does not believe he
was angry during the Friday call to apologize. On the matter of the IUD, they
had discussed the device as two friends mulling over an issue concerning Little
Mel’s health, not in terms of a birth control device.
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