Dori wins! city nixes political incorrectness fest

Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) won a big victory Tuesday when the City of Seattle struck down his plan to block off Eastlake Avenue in order to have a station event with politically incorrect activities like Xmas tree decorating and vandalizing a streetcar.

With their refusal to block off a busy street during Friday rush hour for a talk show, Dori loses his precious liberdee but wins the rights to weeks of self-righteous squawking about being a victim to the evil socialist system under the jackbooted heel of the evil Mayor Nickels, and he won't even have to throw us a party!

Ostensibly to protest Nickels' car-free day when a few streets will be blocked off, Dori's so-called "Days of Rage" & Home Improvement Block Party -- as with his other "activism," was a promotional event for his show, and to help raise his stature in a city rife with people taller than he is.

Sponsors were lining up: we were hoping to have a BlatherWatch booth at the Faire.

In a letter to acting producer Chris Powell, (known around KIRO these days as "The Little Prince") city officials denied Dori's proposal:

In short Chris, closing Eastlake on a weekday is a very bad idea. This
would cause an incredible inconvenience to thousands of Metro passengers
who rely on us. It would require a massive public information campaign
to warn passengers and alert them to take alternate bus routes and to
tell them where they can catch their bus. We try very hard to
communicate with the public any deviations to Metro service.

The socialist bastards!

Crying foul and discrimination, Dori said the Mayor's "car-free" day is for streets like Rainier Avenue that also have buses. (Of course, the city plan is for Sundays, while Dori's Grouch Faire & Piss Fest was to be at rush hour on a Friday).

That the event might inconvenience thousands of people, doesn't bother the King of Seattle Talk Radio -- after all, people who ride buses are just human garbage like violent punks who want to hurt you; morons who don't have the spunk or the intelligence to buy a car; and far-left enviro-wackos who want everybody to have to ride the bus.

Dori wins the crowing rights, the exercising of which he's already begun. The rest of us get bupkus. No corndogs, no slurping transfats; no Xmas trees or festive crêches, or carbon finger-printing; no bi-sexual toilets. No hilarious global warming dunk tank or plastic bags to take home.

No opportunities to take more unflattering candid pictures of The Dori.

We, for one, are bummed.

Comments

[AuthenticAndrew]

I really really wish they would have permitted it. Imagine FOX 13 news reporting "A conservative talk show radio host closed a busy downtown arterial in protest of the Mayor's efforts to clean up the environment. The street closure caused major delays, angered motorists and displaced bus passengers from their normal routes. The station hasn't issued an apology."

And of course only fifteen people would have showed up, so if news camera's were there that would have been a spectable; a massive stretch of road blocked off for a small broadcasting table in a turn lane draped with a KIRO banner and few people standing around with arms crossed, drinking Diet Coke perhaps.

It was too beautiful to live, as it were.

[Duffman]

Stupendous at stirring the pot Seattle's super-hero yet again sticks it to 'em. I'm lovin it!
It's no wonder he's KING!

[Brian]

Yes, the potential traffic tie-up from closing down the street. We will probably see the exact same effect when mayor 5-pennies closes down 3 neighborhoods for a whole day in the name of global warming.

[Mungo]

Hey Duff,

I assume you're a regular Dori listener. Has he talked about Warren Moon's DUIs at all recently? Dori was always Mr Hang Em High - strongly condemning anyone caught driving drunk (and their subsequent lack of character)...did he devote as much time/scorn on Mr Moon as he has in the past on others? Or, did he just mention it in passing?

[Duffman]

Actually I listen infrequently but when I can, so you've assumed incorrectly.
Sounds like you already know the answer to your question...but if not may I suggest you call in and ask him.

[Jingleheimer Smit]

TV doesn't cover radio promotional events, but if Dori had any balls, he'd go out, stop the traffic, sit in the street, and broadcast while the cops came and took him away. TV would cover that, but unfortunately, he doesn't have the stones to do a real protest, and pay the price of making a public political point with civil punishment. He's just full of shit, a strutting little rooster.

[dana]

"but if Dori had any balls.."

That's the catch...the Wee One doesn't have any.

[Bruce]

I see Dori every day. At work he's considered a prima donna who can't be trusted to not go to management to tattle on people to bring others down and make himself look better. He has gotten even harder to be around since he's had 2 or 3 good books. Nobody much likes him, he's a loner. and he really is 4 feet tall. He can be a problem in station politics, its hard for the commoners to live with a king.

[Duffman]

...meanwhile, he keeps 'banking it', seems to have a great family life and lots of otherwise friends. Gee, what a failure huh?
You don't have to like him...you just musn't ignore him. ...jealousy prevails herein

[Geov]

Jingleheimer: that's kind of a brilliant idea, actually. Much as I dislike Dori (and think his faux "protest" idiotic), I'd give him props for doing that. I hope someone proposes it to him.

[KS]

Dori Monson seems to know how to stir it up - and there is plenty of fodder in politically correct, McDermott-leftist Seattle. The jealousy is coming out, mainly from the lefties who believe that anyone more to the right of them is too much like the radioactive Bush...

[Tommy008]

I actually agree with Dori on certain issues (Critical Mass, the little moronic protest punk he had on toay with 5 "like" 's per sentence, etc.)but i still personally detest him and see him as a social fascist. Today he was back on his hobbyhorse about his faux block party permit query emails and calls by him and his bitch boy producer to the workers in the city departments. At one point he kind of took a break to do a sort of "reverse Sally Field" and express his wonderment that the folks down at City Hall, officials and worker bees alike, apparently, just hate him, they really hate him. His tone of voice betrayed his complete and utter disbelief that this could be possible.

[Seattle Radio Buff]

NOON TO 3 PM, BlatherMichael.

My sentiments were conveyed well by you though (re: Sunday afternoon vs. Friday, etc.)

[Tommy008]

This just in- a woman last hour was decrying the official legalese in the tribal hiring policy at an Indian Casino, which gives favorable treatment to tribe members. Monson had no problem with that, but he went on to say that he believes he should be able to hire only white people in his business, if his heart so desires. In taking this position, he is butting heads with bipartisanly supported, permanently established Federal civil rights legislation and clearly establishing himself as a righty wingnut, a social fascist, and a racist. Thanks, Dori, for making my job easy.

[Tommy008]

And Monson can't fathom why he is hated by the workers and managers in the Seattle city departments.

[chuck]

So Tommy
Is what you are saying is that it is OK for Indians to have racist policies but it is wrong for middle aged white men to have identical policies in place that favor middle aged whit men?
Your kind of racism is good, his kind is bad?

[Tommy008]

Indians on the reservation do not have to follow Federal employment laws. They are a sovereign nation. I never expressed an opinion on it. It's irrelevant. Apples and oranges. Also, the Indian casino guielines just said they would Favor Indians over others in hiring managers, not that they would never hire whites or blacks. Monson WENT TO AN EXTREME and said it's ok to flat out only hire white folks at his hypothetical business if he gets a wild hair up his ass and decides to do so. Monson doesn't believe in following the now overwhelmingly accepted Federal employment laws in regards to racial discrimination. That exposes him as a nut, and way, way out of the mainstream.

[sparky]

And they started building casinos to increase financial independence and provide jobs for their fellow tribe members, since unemployment is very very high on the reservations.
Tommy is right..it's apples and oranges.

[Ksor]

I frequent several of the Indian casinos in the South Sound area. Native American employees are rare. There is a perponderance of Asians.
That is just the way it is.

Why should the Skins work when they reap the bennies wheather they work or not?

[nevets]

Hmmm

"Decides to do so"

and

"not that they would never hire whites or blacks"

Sounds like the same to me. Just different wording. Neither saying it is a policy which they use which would then be discrimination.

[Tommy008]

forget about the Indians and their hiring policies. It has nothing to do with my point and I wish i hadn't even mentioned it. As i said they are not bound by federal hiring laws. Tribal Indian Nations are not the U.S.A., with all it's inherent high moral and legal standards. Monson believes that an employer has a right to discriminate on the basis of race- he clearly stated that this afternoon. He is a wingnut. period. And i truly believe that anyone who doesn't believe in something as basic as the U.S. federal eployment civil rights laws has got to be a racist. Hence, Monson is also a racist, in my opinion. This fuming midget will reveal himself in brief moments of candor.

[Dana]

>>seems to have a great family life<<

I'd like to hear what his kids have to say when they're no longer under his thumb--especially the oldest girl who he helped cheat on a school assignment and then bragged about it on the air.

[Tommy008]

Monson had an ass on yesteray, this prissy, prudish little punk BWHO IS BEING SUED for not staying out of other people's business. This bluenosed, smug freak took it upon himself to run a phony ad on Craig's list, and received responses from men who assumed they were communicating their desire for rough or kinky LEGAL sex WITH A WILLING FEMALE, in private. One guy was a Microsoft eployee.He was fired after his response and the other responders emails and pics were published on this dweeb's website. These men were doing nothing illegal and are protected under the Constitution. They diD not expect their emails to be eXposed. Wheteher they were naive or not is no excuse for this despicable toad to act as a little moral policeman, judge an jury, followed by his 'punishment" of the men for violating his personal morality, by his publicatio of their info on his website. Later a much bigger website republished them. A true libertarian , as Monson claims to be, would have reamed this guy for what he did. Instead Monson indulged this asinine fool, chuckling and laughing along with him , while offering only the mildest of censures. Monson knew a fellow judgmental prig and prude when he heard one. Disgusting.

[dana]

Tommy08, sounds like you were one of the people who got caught.

[gdog]

You guys are hilarious! Why do you raise your blood pressure by listening to someone you hate so vehemently? Tommy, its like a blow-by-blow account of Dori's shows with you. Just turn the f'ing channel, stupid!
And I love how when liberals don't agree with others its a "gloves-off" smearfest. "midget", small dick jokes, etc... Can't you people just debate issues, or must the second grade-level playground insults come out every single friggin' time? And if so, here's my response to the, i'm sure, landslide of "knuckle dragging, moronic, fat assed, and lazy conservative" insults heading my way: "I know you are but what am I?"

[Mungo]

gdog dude: don't you get it? we're doing what we love! Trashing the most arrogant little shit on the radio is fun, and a way to while away the hours at work or at home. He's fun to listen to, and fun to make fun of. Goofing on him and comparing note of his strutting around is just part of the whole Dori experience. We hope he's on the air until he dies, and we hope he outlives us. He's just egotistical enough to love what we do here.

[Burns]

I may hope his dick falls off, but nonetheless hope he stays on the radio forever. His little man preaching and preening help make my day.It's the Jerk Hour. It's so much more entertaining than Ron & Don who are just dumb.