Wednesday oddems: bryan the scion, rectal potentiometers, congenital diaphragmatic hernias, greggg, the tina, rastafarian mac & cheese, clintonian nostalgia, assorted miscarriages, frank shiers fails his GED and jumps out the window

~ why does Bryan Styble (KIRO Sun-Fri, 1-5a) wear two watches, one on each arm? And why did he tell listeners on his radio show his phone number was in the book ? Maybe it's because he never goes home, just hangs out at KIRO like stray cat.

~ boy are we glad for her that theresajoy.com is not the website of KTTH morning babe Theresa Joy. 

~ our theory is that Bryan Styble has been given the overnight job at KIRO behind our back. He's been filling-in for a long, long time. There are now, we're told, bumps coming into his show from breaks that say, "You are listening to the Bryan Styble Show." This is new, say aghast staffers. His official AQH (average quarter hour) listener stood at 200, until yesterday afternoon, when Edna Dilman, of Perineum Bluff, B.C. passed in her sleep, leaving Bryan with only 199 stalwarts.

~ wisdom (or is it WISDOM) according to The Tina, producer of the The Dave: "They are great at terminology! "LIBERAL" - (come on, say it with a snarl like "they" do - it's catchy) -- I was recently a guest on KTTH our sister station and I was clearly introduced as a "LIBERAL"- I wasn't Tina, producer of the Dave Ross and Ron Reagan Show, avid dog lover, cheese lover, ultimate frisbee player, hiker, big book reader, lots of friends haver....nope...I was "Rachel Corrie lovin', Bill Clinton Votin', Goddess Lovin'...LIBERALLLL..."

~ Bill Clinton gave Democrats permission to finally show their anger about Iraq in his excellent abraiding of Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. Judging from what we heard all day on the radio, D's are emboldened, and shouting it out. (did you see Al Franken on Hard ball today?) The election gets closer and closer; Republicans' prospects look worser and worser. Barring dirty tricks and an October surprise, they should be able to more than offset the Bush Administration's blatant blameblitz on  Clinton to change the subject from the utter disaster of the war.   

~ we were ranting about how the afternoon drive now sucked in Seattle and all the best programming was bunched up in the  weekdaily 9 to noon- you know- Dave Ross, Thom Hartmann, Steve Scher's Weekday, etc. We forgot The 'Tators (KVI m-f,) that caffeinated dinner table debate between John Carlson and Ken Schram. We gotta admit, we like that show, and only wish it were on in the dull afternoon drive. We'll be interested to see what kind of numbers they're generating.

~ no surprise to anyone, National Punctuation Day was Sept. 24 and we slept right through it. We got 9 letters inquiring if we were taking it to heart, and suggested we reread  Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," to celebrate the big day. 

~ o jeez, guess what you'll get if you google up RADIO ANNOUNCER TALKING ABOUT FELCHING INCIDENT? Yeah, BlatherWatch. How embarrassing. We are so sorry.

~ we gotta admit, we really liked Dori Monson producer Phil Vandervort's forays behind the mic filling in for Dori and plugging the 9p-1a hole. 

~ wow. Our shocking Friday exposé of the bitter relations between the KIRO morning news team of Greggg Hersholt and Jane Shannon (shocking only to those who don't work on or listen to the KIRO ayem) caused some tremors. After doing his 4a newscast, that day, Greggg confronted the news staff about the Blatherpost, starting calm and terse, then erupting like an acne rodeo. Not sure what staff responses were, but he definitely had a case of the ass. Yelling and muttering, he picked up his lunch bucket, yellow rain hat and stormed out. Everyone thought he was just going outside to cool off, but he never came back. Because he's a bit of a control freeek, they say, and runs his own board, staff was left scrambling for not only an anchor, but also a board op. Yikes! People are whispering that his mid-show exit was the most unprofessional act they've seen since Mike Webb made his famous cookie run. Tensions must be high in the news room for a guy with 30 years experience to let such a thing push him to the point where he walks out on his people. "Guess he can dish it out, (which he does everyday)" says a source, "but cannot take it." Will there be disciplinary action? Well, none so far.

Comments

[mercifurious]

Unbelievable - but true

Another yawner 09/26/06 on Styblehead Boast-to-Boast.

...well, that is until Styblehead went on another rabbit-trail convo with Gary "Fancy" Mantz. During this Styblehead mentioned talking to a caller at home on his "Batphone".

Mantz asked how the caller got him at home. Herr StybleGENIUS said "from the phonebook".

Jaw drops. Then closed long enough to check white pages. Yep. Good work dumbass:

http://www.whitepages.com/9900/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Bryan&name=Styble&city_zip=&state_id=

[joanie]

Hersholt really walk out? Don't you think that is sort of bizarre?

[murf]

Hersholt is untouchable over at Eastlake. He does what he pleases. Management is afraid of him, anmd the power he has amassed over the years.

[sam]

If Greg likes you you are OK, if he doesn't look out!

[JDB]

The 'taters is one of the best things to happen to radio since the glory days of Mike Siegel when you had to turn in just to hear what other paranoid raving (police pediphile rings, mayors engaging in anal rape, etc. etc) he would come up with. Now that was good radio.

John is actually pretty damn smart, and it is good to hear him having to back up his positions and not just rant. I've always thought that the best parts of Limbaugh is when he is forced to be thoughtful by a good liberal caller (they take way fewer of these now that the GOP is in such trouble). Could you imagine how bad it would be if the Suits or Wilbur had an intelligent liberal holding them to the facts? Sean Hannity would run in fear if he was checked by strong liberal.

Schram is doing better than I thought he would, and I like his non-doctrarian liberal views. It's actually three of the better hours on radio now, although if they moved it to drive time, it would still lose out to All Things Considered.

[Gregggggggggggg]

Anybody else would be fired. And Gregggggggggggg's ratings suck.

[Rick]

Perineum Bluff?!!

[Liz]

That was just a cheeky crack, Rick.

[Mike Barer]

I know that there will be "dirty tricks and an October suprise" I just think that America will see through it.

[joanie]

I'm fearful, Mike. The parts of the NIE (?) report are all about the growing terrorism threat . . . Rove's not stupid. He thinks if he scares everybody, he'll keep them in line. So far, it's worked.

Us libs don't care about being scared . . . we know that a bunch of baloney. But, the right? Dish up a little terrorism and their baaing like sheet and running for the Republican hills.

[joanie]

Make that "baaing like" sheep rather than sheet . . . it's been another long day. :(

[joanie]

Just had to comment, JDB, I remember the greatness that was Mike Siegel in his heyday at KING . . . he was one political operative! A political Pied Piper!

[cowpotpi3]

re: the NIE

Notice how they are only releasing a portion of it, heavily edited of course. More lies and deception! We should indeed expect a planned October surprise.

[sparky]

I think they will find or create a reason to attack Iran..but I thnk they will be the ones who are surprised because the public is NOT open for starting another war.

[Tommy008]

Michael Medved (Litterman, "the disgrace", etc.) is on the air smugly crowing about Republicans being much more likely to marry and have lots of kids than "libs". disgusting little man.

[anomolos]

Sparky sez:

I think they will find or create a reason to attack Iran..but I thnk they will be the ones who are surprised because the public is NOT open for starting another war.

Could you be a little more dense? "Find or create" a reason to attack? How about the fact that Iran, a fascist theocracy run by fundamentalist zealots ("just like the U.S.! Duurrrrrrr......"), is currently developing nuclear weapons, AND high-level Iranian political officials are on the record as willing to annihilate Israel, and who knows who else. Maybe we should send them some cookies to placate them?

You sit there with your head lolling like a cretin, speculating that the big evil U.S. will "create" a reason to strike Iran where none exists. We already have the best possible reason to attack: an aggressive totalitarian state developing nuclear weapons ("Again, just like the U.S.! Who are we to judge them? I have the political sophistication of a sheltered teenager!"). Probably the only reason we haven't attacked already is out of political consideration of liberal douchebags like you. Meanwhile, millions and millions of lives hang in the balance--but you're oblivious to all that. Because they're Jews, perhaps? Yeah, you're right--there's no reason to attack Iran. Fuck the Jews, let 'em all burn. And anyone else who insults glorious Islam by, say, conducting their life like a free person.

The only thing that liberals like you contribute to this (or any) discussion is knee-jerk, broken-record, zero-analysis reaction of blaming Bush and the U.S. while totally ignoring the larger issue. Maybe in a year or two, you can rejoice when the Jews are out of the Middle East--because they're all dead!

Pull your fucking head out already.

[coiler]

Hey fuck off anom, listen to Alex Jones, together we will begin exterminating the neo-cons.

[sparky]

Oh golly, the cons just hate it when you disclose their ugly little secrets.

Call me all the names you want, Oh Brave Anonymous One....YOUR President, who is reviled around the world for his hypocracy, arrogance, boorishness, dishonesty and stupidity, already lied us into one war. No reason to believe he wont do it again if he thinks it will help him.

[Oly]

News flash for Anomolos: Not all of us who think attacking Iran is a TERRIBLE idea are mush-brained lefties or anti-Semites. Far from it. Some of us, in fact - myself included - are political centrists who make a serious effort to acquaint ourselves with the sociopolitical and cultural intricacies of that unhappy part of the world, and indeed have been doing so for many years. And some of us, again including myself, are ardent Zionists who wouldn't shed a tear if we awoke tomorrow to find that all of Israel's enemies had disappeared from the planet overnight.

If you were able to step back from your comic-book oversimplifications and anachronistic stereotypes, and consider the possibility that honest, intelligent people of good will can gaze upon the same planet you are squinting at yet reach different conclusions than you do about what makes it tick, you might approach that level of mature reasoning you appear to mistakenly assume you already practice.

Or does that Limbaugh-flavored Koolaid just taste too doggone good to stop drinking?

[Oly]

As for Styble's phone number, I clearly recall a time - around ten years ago - when one could find the home numbers of quite a few KIRO and KVI hosts in the local white pages.

Styble is so desperate for callers that he may actually welcome crank calls to his house. Wouldn't it be telling - and even sort of sad - if he doesn't get any?

[sparky]

So...Doc Hastings and Dave Reichert think that torture is just fine.....

Family Values!

[joanie]

No way Anomolos was for real . . . that kind of boorish stupidity reeks of someone who is simply looking for attention. Sparky and I have learned to extinguish such behavior by ignoring it.

I've heard many Americans who want to bomb Iran . . . what's the difference between Americans who want to bomb Iran and Iranians who want to bomb Israel?

Wanting to isn't doing it.

[sparky]

it's because Im so cute :-)

[Tommy008]

Frank Shiers is at this moment entertaining a pro-torture boob that trivializes Abu Garaev as if it was a frat party that even the prisoners should have enjoyed, and consenting by his silence.

[Mike Barer]

Another big scandal gives Democrats a big boost. Hopefully Democrats can stay scandal free for a few weeks.

[joanie]

Am watching Mike DeWine and Sherrod Brown on Meet the Press . . . who can a good liberal support when DeWine is part of the problem and so is Brown who actually voted for the compromise on torture?

I'm inclined to say you stay with the corrupt incumbant you know rather than change to the corrupt candidate you don't know . . .

Just because Brown has a "D" in front of his name doesn't give him a pass in my book. In fact, a Democrat voting for torture's got something big to hide.

I guess Brown and Ford of Tennessee are trying to appear tough on terror but that is not the way to do it. They have given this bully and imcompetent Resident Idiot cover and I resent it. Where's your integrity, guys?