Kansas City star, that’s what I are
Yodel-deedle ay-hee, you oughta see my car
I drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels, got rhinestones on the spokes
I got credit down at the grocery store
And my barber tells me jokes
I’m the number one attraction every supermarket parkin’ lot
I’m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Omaha, thanks a lot. ~~Roger Miller
King of Seattle Talk radio, Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) despite having a girl's name, scored big this
week by saying he believed "with every fiber of my being," that the "eco-terrorists" who allegedly torched the "Street of Dreams," mini-mansions this week are no differeant than mainstream environmentalists; or King County ExecuRon Sims and the Metropolitan King County Council.
Then he ran on-air with the McControversy generated when a Marine from Monroe might have acted badly with a puppy in Iraq. His having someone on his show who might have been the Marine's sister, got the little guy on CNN's prestigious Nancy Grace.
(Environmentalism is just socialists promoting socialism, says the mighty mouse of Mount Lake Terrace, whose nickname among the fully-grown males he runs with is, "short shit." Dori shares many of the characteristics of those rubber sacks for the holding of water or fluid used for vaginal lavage and enemas).
Odd, isn't it, the uproar about possible dog abuse in a war setting, and so little discussion and outrage -- especially on talk radio -- about U.S. torture policies; war crimes and acts of abuse and massacre against actual human beings. The kitties and doggies folk come out with both guns blasting at the mere suggestion of abused pets in a war theater where 100's of thousands of civilian, women and kids have and are being slaughtered. Well...Dori does have a dog food as a sponsor...
Dori scored big for a local host. The Seattle Times was stirred from its institutional ennui and actually acknowledged his existence by mentioning his name in a chiding editorial-- a real coup for a talk radio host -- it's a recognition that'll fuel his monarchical radio rule in Seattle for years to come.
This from the Seattle Times editorial page:
Matters are not helped by dragon-breathing. One overzealous radio host, KIRO-AM's Dori Monson, foolishly said there was not much difference between the alleged eco-terrorists and law-abiding public officials who advocate environmentally-oriented public policy.
Earth-friendly laws and policies of King County Executive Ron Sims and the Metropolitan King County Council, whom Monson smeared, can be debated by reasonable people.
Monson was not reasonable. He chuckled as he said he did not consider arson that far from certain policies of Sims and the council.
It's not clear whether lefty eco-freaks are responsible for the real estate arson -- there are others who are definitely not socialists who ostensibly could have motives for such an act.
Take it from us: we know Dori Monson better than he knows himself: he doesn't really believe these things he says.
Dori is a conventional character; a mainstream, normal guy. He's lives in the 'burbs; is a husband and a dad: he coaches girls basketball (or is it baseball? or leap frog?) drives a Jag. He's a jock, had cosmetic surgery; and loves chips & dips. He hangs with guys who shoot hoops, and thinks all art is garbage.
Dori whores for floor coverings, and dog food.
He's an all-American guy -- and no extremist. He just says extreme things to enhance his career. His success is what AM talk radio has come to.
Though we think he'd probably be better getting more fiber in his diet, than be trusting the " fibers of his being," Dori is doing what talk hosts do. Stirring up shit to get callers to call in; ratings to rise and shine.
It's part of the reason talk radio is declining. Monson has no clout, but neither does anyone else in local talk radio. Democrats and liberals continue to prevail around here because Dori Monson, negative and shit-disturbing is all they've got. His show exists to serve people who are anxious to hear what dang thing he'll say next; a few fellow grouches; and to provide Tim Eyman a place safe to speak without annoying follow-up questions.
As long as there's arson, and young men who think it's funny to throw a puppy off a cliff, Dori Monson has a job.
who cares what Dori thinks.....
Nice picture, by the way, Bla'M!
Posted by: sparky | March 05, 2008 at 04:52 PM
Jeez, Bla'M, that was brutal! Pitiful...Monsoon is pitiful!
But the pic is stellar...ditto, Sparks!
Posted by: Fremont | March 05, 2008 at 05:16 PM
yawn, oh excuse me, these diatribes against Monson are getting soooooooo tired. The Big Show is what it always has been, entertaining. So Dori doesn't run in your Drinking Liberally old school "Seattle Liberal" model. Oh well, that model is pretty rusty and self satisfied and pudgy and balding and getting colon exams and shrinking brains. What do you got against flooring anayway? I bet you've walked on some for most of the minutes of your life. The Dori I listen to on the radio (which is the only one that I care about) cracks me up and makes me think and pisses me off, and isn't half of the things you claim he is. Maybe a big picture book, with plenty of puppies and flowers and horses and clowns, and a big glass of warm milk and some cookies would calm your unjustified fury. It's Hour number TWO ooo ooo ooo ooo
Wild Bill
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 05:34 PM
Wow Bill, you described my shop teacher in high school. Always talking about his bodily functions and how the cold air outside always made him want to pee. He also had bits of ass protruding when he walked around and how the govt. was targeting him specifically over some silly violation like not paying his taxes or child support.
Posted by: Jean Teasdale | March 05, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Dori's day is done. Only people just like himself listen to him. He's sunseting... he just getting some noogies before times up.
Posted by: Vera Smalls | March 05, 2008 at 06:16 PM
I'm loving the Dor-ster (Dori & Star 2008!), but - seriously - what the F is up with Kirby and Co.? I've now listened for 2 straight weeks and I don't exactly understand how that show stays on the air, unless someone forgot that it's still on, which could be possible based on how poorly KVI is scheduled (both in terms of programming [not shows, just scheduling of shows] and clock).
* First of all, Kirby sounds drunk.
* Secondly, Carleen (sp?) Johnson comes across like Nicole Kidman's character in The Golden Compass.
* The Matt dude reminds me of the Korean kid who ran our Junior State chapter in my senior year at Juanita HS.
Their so-called "experts" are like "WTF?" They had some entertainment expert on the other week and I thought "hmmm ... the KVI equivalent of Tom Tangney?" No - it was some guy who was like the assistant manager of a cineplex in Redmond. (?!?!)
Unless they sex things up like Luke Burbank has done with his show since he started flirting with his board op I'm on the verge of tuning out. Maybe have the Junior State kid start flirting with Carleen or something? Not really my bag there but it could help. I don't know, they just need to do something.
Sorry for my potty-mouth and stream of consciousness I just feel very passionate about this. Don't waste the frequency, please! Thank you!
Posted by: Gay Gary | March 05, 2008 at 06:20 PM
Carleen and Matt do a lot of heavy sexual innuendos both on-air, and off-air. Methinks she is ready for her pre-menopausal affair. She's so religious, she may not be aware of that on a conscious level, however. She definitely needs some action "outside the home," as the Christians say. Matt probably isn't aware of it except on a lizard brain level, such a geek is he.
Posted by: merks | March 05, 2008 at 06:36 PM
Vera, are you saying that there are no special snowflakes? I'm going to cry. Every snowflake is special! Your Absolutism: "Only people just like himself listen to him," makes me think of Yul Brynner in the 10 Commandnments, arms at his sides in some shiny Teal skirt, sneering, as the lackey says, "so it shall be done!" Let's see, Dori's married and lives in the burbs. I'm single, live on Capitol Hill. Let's see, I love Obama, and Dori, well, doesn't. YUP, exactly the same! I do love that TBLT, though; it's almost to the level of Uncle Alan's short lived Playhouse 90. Keep up the cultural stereotyping, though, that us and them thing is going to catch on.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 06:42 PM
TBTL, of course, urp, sorry a pretty bird feather was stuck in my throat
Wild Bill
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 06:45 PM
It is sad about the Wilbur show, & the commentators too. The last time I listened to Kirby they were talking about an education issue. Young Matt repeatedly talked about school 'facilitators.' I'm pretty sure he meant 'faculty.'
Send Rev. Carlene back to the newsroom, young Matt back to the phone lines, and let Kirby fly solo.
Posted by: wutitiz | March 05, 2008 at 07:06 PM
Monson was on Nancy Grace tonight, on CNN Headline News, regarding the video of the Marine throwing the puppy over the cliff. Grace t put him down for suggesting that the pup was maybe a stuffed anaimal, basically saying, of course in different words, that any fool can see that it wasn't a fake, stuffed dog. Dori recouped a bit, minutes later when he cautioned people against tarring the whole Marines with this incident done by one idiot. Grace smiled out at the little feller and said she was glad he said that , since her father was a war vet. Enough to make the little man's "golf putter" stand up straight tonight.
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 05, 2008 at 07:42 PM
About 10 years ago when I first retired I enjoyed listening to Dori M. But something happened and he started to change. His talk became hateful and so about 5 years ago I stopped listening to him.
Looks like I made the right move.
mickh
Posted by: mick horan | March 05, 2008 at 07:48 PM
KIRO710 precious girlyman talkhost Luke Burbank is doing a Wednesday's with Gary shtick now, playing clips of Gary Busey, who made a fool of himself at the Academy Awards last week, when he crashed a Ryan Seacrest interview iith Jennifer Garner. The next morning Busey called into Seacrest's radio show, and rambled on and on. The man has obviously never recovered from his motorcycle accident, almost certainly has suffered brain damage, and I don't find Burbank's new shtick amusing at all. In fact it only confirm's my initial instints that the guy is a smug, conceited punk.
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 05, 2008 at 08:06 PM
initial instincts as opposed to....? smug, or snug? Up tight arses in greedy land....
We is right. They is wrong...
yawn, urp, bzzzzzz
William Ferren
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 08:22 PM
initial instincts as opposed to....? smug, or snug? Up tight arses in greedy land....
We is right. They is wrong...
yawn, urp, bzzzzzz
William Ferren
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 08:22 PM
Tommy, Tommmy,,,,Tommy, perhaps some therapy is overdue, as your squid smells ripened in the heats...
"girlyman," Yawn,,,,
"Shtick" ? (Sp)...Yeah, me and Big Moe had this shtick, see, we had, this shtick, as Seattle Know It Alls, We are the gateway for all, WE control the vertical,....
Me thinks you're ful of sour grapes...urp, that's the organic logan berry...The best of Seattle snubs: and then he/she beacame (insert) "hateful" and I couldn't have anything to do with it, so I ordered up some more Leeds certified organic green zone furniture, madee out of squirell poop and blessed by the genderless Blessed Vortex.
Ya Losers, (Me too) Dori, you see, is ACTUALLY on the radio, not blogging in his oragnic free-range cheeze doodle stained hemp boxer shorts..."Someday, a real rain was gonna come along..."
Wild Bill
Wild Bill
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 08:31 PM
Tommy, Tommmy,,,,Tommy, perhaps some therapy is overdue, as your squid smells ripened in the heats...
"girlyman," Yawn,,,,
"Shtick" ? (Sp)...Yeah, me and Big Moe had this shtick, see, we had, this shtick, as Seattle Know It Alls, We are the gateway for all, WE control the vertical,....
Me thinks you're ful of sour grapes...urp, that's the organic logan berry...The best of Seattle snubs: and then he/she beacame (insert) "hateful" and I couldn't have anything to do with it, so I ordered up some more Leeds certified organic green zone furniture, madee out of squirell poop and blessed by the genderless Blessed Vortex.
Ya Losers, (Me too) Dori, you see, is ACTUALLY on the radio, not blogging in his oragnic free-range cheeze doodle stained hemp boxer shorts..."Someday, a real rain was gonna come along..."
Wild Bill
Wild Bill
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 05, 2008 at 08:36 PM
"Fake rage is the key to success in talk radio" _Dori Monson
Posted by: abob | March 05, 2008 at 09:16 PM
What is that picture? Is that a photoshop job, or is it a really deformed person?
Posted by: DT | March 05, 2008 at 09:24 PM
I googled the picture:
This odd baby that looks like a character from the "Star Wars" was born in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, on March 29, 2006, and a large crew gathered to witness the event.
The baby, devoid of neck and missing the upper part, having extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye sockets, was the son of Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki. The child died 30 minutes after being born.
"We wouldn't have been able to save it, even if it had been brought here alive. This is an extremely abnormal case," said a nurse attending to the mother at the hospital.
The newborn weighed 2 kg (4.4 lbs) at birth and was delivered after the normal nine-month pregnancy period. The couple already had two normal daughters, and the mother did not experience any disease during the pregnancy.
This was an extreme case anencephaly, a developmental defect causing the absence of the cerebral hemispheres of the brain or the presence of minute ones. The embryo develops without the upper part of its skull and neural tube. These embryos can in some cases develop through all the fetal stages and even survive to be born alive, but they cannot survive The cause of anencephaly is unknown. Some genetic factors may exist, like low levels of the transcription factor TEAD2. Certain medication, like that against epilepsy and diabetes, could be a risk factor. Low levels of folic acid (vitamin B9) in the diet, too, have been blamed. And women should not wait until pregnancy to start taking folic acid: by the time she founds she is pregnant, the formation of the neural tube (which forms the spine and brain) defect has already occurred.
Posted by: sparky | March 05, 2008 at 09:57 PM
Learn more about the deformed infant!: http://news.softpedia.com/news/See-the-Frog-Baby-79358.shtml
We've known for a long time that Dori creates a list of pros and cons, fors and againsts in any given debate, and then goes on the air and reads column A while ommitting column B resulting in the outrage and indignation of anybody who cares about column B. He has done it time and time again and once you recognize the pattern its no longer interesting because you know he can't possibly be dumb enough to be oblivious to the counter examples of his position, and you know you're being played. He's absolutely nothing more than an internet forum troll transplanted to AM radio.
It's like if I were to say Jean Enerson and Dennis Bounds are akin to arsonists for heaping free publicity on the arsonist's cause and are therefor accessories to their motives. It's an all too common pattern in the scummy elitist Seattle liberal media. YOU CAN'T STEAL THIS DORI, IT'S MINE!
Posted by: Andrew | March 05, 2008 at 10:12 PM
While I think Monson is an idiot for thinking that may have been a stuffed or previously dead dog that that Marine threw off the cliff, I think that frog baby is a hoax. Why would the parents allow their baby to be paraded around in the streets like that? No one would do that to a dead baby. This has to be a hoax.
Posted by: DT | March 05, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Just a note that I was surprised recently to hear Tim Eyman also being allowed to blather on without questions/challenge in a KUOW news story.
BTW, is it just me or is all of the news on KUOW just read directly from the pages of the Seattle Times?
Posted by: YellowPup | March 05, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Don't try to shit me about that picture. That is Dori Monson. I recognized the dick.
Posted by: Caleb | March 06, 2008 at 01:05 AM
Dori (agnyk) Monson is simply brilliant at what he does, and the fact that he's brought up so much herein and discussed ad nauseum only reinforces that. His delivery is incredible and his knack for 'stirrin the pot' (so to speak) generates interest whether it be pro or con. This is why he gets paid the big bucks and is so highly rated. :)
Posted by: Duffman | March 06, 2008 at 05:15 AM
And furthermore Would You Buy A Used Car From This Man? :) [Aren't you glad he won't be around selling them much longer?]
Posted by: Duffman | March 06, 2008 at 06:31 AM
Delivery? Dori looked and sounded liek a deer-in -the headlights idiot on Nancy Grace last night. A smalltown rube. It was embarrassing for our city. When he started off terribly, with the bonehead commen about the pup maybe being a stuffed animal, Grace barked at him, treating his comment derisively, like he was a fool.
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 06, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Nice job of anencephaly enlightenment, Sparkly! Digging out the ugly truth...someone's gotta do it! Thanks!
Liver lover, knock it off! You suck me into the black hole of despair every time!
Posted by: fremont | March 06, 2008 at 08:58 AM
"Take it from us: we know Dori Monson better than he knows himself: he doesn't really believe these things he says.
That pretty much sums the guy up right there. He's just an actor that has figured out a formula after 9/11. Attack anything liberal and claim extreme connections like all liberal politicians are eco-terrorists. Ignore any issue or question that indicts anything on the right unless you absolutely have to and then make a generic "I am against X" comment and change the subject.
I don't like him at all but he does have a great many idiots duped.
Posted by: cowpotpi3 | March 06, 2008 at 08:58 AM
You can't apply these math formulas to a show built around a human personality, or personalities and chemistries. To try and do so is to pull the petals from a flower in an attempt to understand its beauty. The differences amongst us are more fascinating to me than Legion. chips and implants and Kesey's machines in the walls...Empirical Seattle Thought is icy,,,Dori is a flower threatened by the heel of the proper, rational shiny robots. The art of radio is not a math quiz, the business of radio is.
Wild Bill
Posted by: Wild Bill | March 06, 2008 at 11:10 AM
>>he can't possibly be dumb enough<<
Yes he could.
Posted by: Dana | March 06, 2008 at 11:44 AM
He must be doing something right. You really have to get someone pissed off to get the times to write about you, especially if you are a talk show host.
The "real" media will go out of their way to not mention a talk show host if it's at all possible. In this case, Dori played the times like a fiddle.
The only group the "real" writers hate more than talk show hosts are bloggers. You guys should take some lessons from dori.
Posted by: asdf | March 06, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Just doing my part, Fremont. Facts are often missing around here :-)
Posted by: sparky | March 06, 2008 at 06:22 PM
Dori was on with Nancy Grace-less another CNN shill - she's rather pathetic. Those who expend all the energy disdaining Monson are pretty much clueless, when large pieces of significant s**t are hitting the fan, such what will undermine our liberties - considering how to make this country better after Bush, instead of worse - I'd say worse is definitely in play - which is scary.
Fox News (faux news for Joanie's momentary jolly) has the news babes - i.e. Megan Kendall, Laurie Dhue (but not Rachel Marsden)- I'd rather see them anytime than the hags at CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: KS | March 06, 2008 at 06:58 PM
Monson played the tape of himself on Nancy Grace today and I picked up on somehting new. It was worse than what I remembered. When Dori makes the comment about the stuffed animal, right off the bat, it seems Grace goes out of her way to put him down and make him look like an idiot. She interrupted him and said,"there's no way that's a stuffed animal. Even I can tell that from two thousand miles away." Monson spent an hour of his show today trying to ridicule Nancy Grace, trivializing her show and dissing CNN for not telling him it was Grace's show he was to be on until it was too late to back out. He made fun of Grace's pronunciation, so forth. Dori, At least Grace has graduated from being an ATLANTA assistant D.A. , a mid-sized city mildly successful local yokel like you, Monson, to National bigtime on CNN and Court tv before that. When she appears on the screen she doesn't look and sound like a small town bumpkin with a deer- caught- in- the- headlights gaze.
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 06, 2008 at 10:26 PM
CNN didn't tell him whose show he'd be on, as if he wouldn't lick CNN's toilets clean at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | March 06, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Racist Ray talaiferro, KGO's 1-5 a.m. snarling troll, frazzled and stressed over Hillsry's Tuesday electoral asskicking of his idol, has resorted to dishing nightly dirt on the Clintons. This morning he resorted to trotting out the old "circle of death" crapola made popular by the righwing hate machine during the nineties. This had to do with the supposed high number of sudden or strange deaths sourrounding the Clintons in Arkansas up to and including Vince Foster and some others during Bill's first term. The obvious slander was that the Cinton's were involved in murder, and of course that's the slander Ray is slyly making. Shame, ahame Ray. Shameful.
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 07, 2008 at 04:31 AM
Taliaferro is a racist pig, but the Clintons are no pillar of moral virtues. However, he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the ars. Funny that he is repeating all of the dirt on the Clintons that the right-wing loons did in the 90's - what a jackass !
It's fun to watch the Dems cannibalize their own with their vitreol now, instead of the talking-head conservatives who did it earlier.
Posted by: KS | March 08, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Once again, it is time for me say (reflexively)
Dori is an ass.
Posted by: howie in seattle | March 08, 2008 at 08:10 PM
After hearing Dori on the radio, I have to turn to a Liberal like Mark Levin or read that Pravda-influenced Sound Politics.
Posted by: Mike Barer | March 11, 2008 at 09:09 AM
Dori RULES!...and don't you forget it bub!!! :)
Posted by: Duffman | March 11, 2008 at 09:12 AM
dori is just balance to the left media in radio, bet you left wing morons would love to suck keith olberman's cock, bunch of homos, OH NO NOW IM A BIGOT FOR MAKING A GAY JOKE, MY ADDRESS SHOULD BE POSTED IN THE STRANGER SO LEFT WING IDIOTS CAN COME TO MY HOUSE AND DEAL PROPER JUSTICE!!! cunt off liberal peices of shit!!!!dave ross loves little boys.
Posted by: ken | November 23, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Kenny
I, being a right of Reagan conservative have no problem standing with my lunatic left friends on this site in suggesting that you put your butt plug back in your mouth and go away. What you have just posted is about as childish and idiotic as anything I have read here in years.
If there is some kind of gay joke in that post, I can't see it.
If some of those leftwing idiots do come to your house, there will be hell to pay when your mommie finds out what you posted. She will restrict you from the computer for months.
So, be a good boy, get your homework done. Get a good nights sleep and listen to your mommie and your teachers. Come back when you are a big boy and have learned how to behave in public.
Posted by: chuck | November 23, 2008 at 07:34 PM
You're a good man and a true Patriot, chucks.
Posted by: sparky | November 23, 2008 at 08:13 PM
hey chuck! typical post from a fat guy with no life or friends. good job idiot! nice try holding people to a standard that doesn't exist. eat shit you fat son of a bitch! and p.s. no one of the right would agree with this site, therefor proving you're a two faced idiot. have fun being a nobody!
good day.
Posted by: ken | December 06, 2008 at 09:13 PM
GOOD GOD, IMAGING GIVING BIRTH TO THAT SON OF A BITCH! SHOCKER!
Posted by: babii boii | December 22, 2008 at 01:26 AM