Wednesday oddems: cultural warrior to the perves; wife-beating kitty; david gregory and gender equality; incest reality; radio astroturf des canucks; supervising ron & don; are morons a race?

~~ Culture Warrior to the perves. We know why we love The O'Reilly Factor. It's for the sex (not the articles). Latest prurient thrills you can't get anywhere else on cable: Tuesday, Billo ran great c-phone shots of a 12-year-old stripper in Dallas stripping. The ensuing discussion included two attorneys, who also happened to be young blonde women. The consensus: 12 is too young to be a stripper. Probably would be illegal to download those pics from the net -- thanks Bill, for indulging our inner pedophile.

~~ An exasperated KIRO staffer who calls himself kissdangerboy wrote to complain that the best-of replays of Too Beautiful to Live (KIRO m-f, 7-10) that replaced David Goldstein on Saturday evenings are butchered screwed up they make no sense. "They were talking," he writes, "about Luke's conversation with Mister T's agent. However, at the first commercial break on the (clearly forced) clock, it was cut off mid-sentence and then again at 7:30 for the bottom of the hour required news update and commercials. After that, the program came back to an entirely different topic!!! Can't [PD Rod] Arquette at least make them edit it to be concise and fit the clock? I mean c'mon, the big national shows do it for their weekend re-treads (ie Sean Hannity Weekend). Not awesome, guys.

~~ Explain why, please o please, if you type "dennis prager being on the left means never having to say your sorry," into The Google box, you'll get to BlatherWatch. That's slightly less embarrassing, though,that someone found us by putting "incest reality" in the inscrutable search engine.

~~ We know this is apropos of nothing that we're supposed to be concerned with around here, but we thought the Hello Kitty (ハローキティ, Harō Kiti?) wife beater shirt on the right is a cultural marker worth noting. We could be wrong.

~~ Canadian radio astroturf. According to Cnews, the Conservative Party North of the border provides its talking points to grassroots supporters so they can call talk radio shows and spout party lines correctly on everything from climate change to child care. Just type your postal code in a box on the party's website, then click on a topic you'd like to discuss on the radio. The website spits out the times, phone numbers, and names of local talk shows and a handy list of nice things to say about the Conservatives and nasty things to say about their opponents.

~~ Producing Ron & Don (KIRO m-f, 7-10) is pretty basic -- what with the, er... special needs of those two. The instruction written out on the Post-It note on the left is always, we're told, taped to the table top in Studio 101 where those drivetime geniuses do their daily show.

~~ Duly noted, David. Last week we wrote that the the new MSNBC show, Race for the White House with David Gregory, had a "woman's chair" that was inhabited by Rachel Maddow a good deal of the time. However, we were happy to see that the tables were turned Friday with distaff guests Rachel, Linda Douglass, Deborah Mathis, and Tony Blankley in the "man chair."

~~ did our lame April Fool's joke about Hearst Corp buying Fisher Communications fool any goddamn body? The answer is no+. Next year we'll back off from the merely erroneous and return to the patently ridiculous like our 2005 claim that Rush Limbaugh accidentally killed a busboy by falling on him in his clamoring back to a buffet. 

~~Tony Hazapis, former Seattle AFTRA exec, has died. Retired KOMO talker Jaynie Jones, wies " He was one of my listeners and a charter member of the KOMO Overnight Club. Dale Hazapis (Tony’s wife) is a graphics producer at KIRO. She let me know early today that Tony died Saturday. He had been hospitalized since December."

~~ Blogger generation targeted. We're not sure exactly what generation that may be, but Sirius is adding a new morning call-in, political talk radio show to new Indie Talk channel 110. Hosted by Vinnie Politan, a former prosecutor and Court TV reporter and anchor, the show will "air" Monday to Friday from 6-9a EST. The Indie Talk channel tries to appeal to the bloggers and other trash via features like “blogcast” news updates every 20 minutes; and the Blog Bunker, a roundtable featuring a selection of bloggers from around the world.

Comments

[abob]

Billo features a constant parade of blond bimbos posing as 'expert analysts'. The obligatory 'exposure' of some new sexual outrage is a regular segment on his show. The Loofa-Man knows what he likes and what his audience likes...SEX.

[Ron And Don Hater]

Why Are They Still On The Air?

I have to question KIROs intelligence for even putting Ron and Don on the air! They are clearly no tallent, fudge packers who somehow got pulled out of a local Jiffy Lube to host an afternoon drive time show on KIRO. If these two idiots do not know where to F-ing sit to do their radio show what the hell are they doing in radio?

Don O'neil is a total baffoon. Out of the two of him, he is worst. His lack of intelligence is there for all to listen to while we are trapped in our cars during the afternoon stop and go on the 405. Ron, is absolutely worthless. He gets steam-rolled by Don overbearing, dominating voice that the show should really be called "The Don Show".

Listen KIRO, you can pull some decent ratings by putting Tony Minor back on to do news during the afternoon drive while those hapless idiots at KOMO (HOMO) broadcast yet another disappointing Mariner Season on their little radio station. It will give us poor saps trying to get home from work going no where on the 520 bridge a break from teh relentless and mindless talk radio shows and actually give us some useful info like is there a rolled over mini van at the 520-405 interchange. That will be doing the public a real service instead of listening to two, no tallent, fudge packing baffoons on a has-been radion station.

REDEEM YOURSELF KIRO!

[Janet]

Bye Bye, KIRO; be back -- maybe -- in September when the Mariners blow yet another chance to go to the playoffs.

Till then, I'll be torturing myself every day (but it's not as bad as it could be since the departure of Ron "If you want to win the game, you gotta get more runs" Fairly), but it's no worse than listening to R&D or TBTL. And NOTHING could be worse than Dori--him, I stopped listening to months ago. (What is the Wee One up to these days other than shilling for anyone who'll write a check?)

[Duffman]

Up to high ratings, high bank accounts and King of Seattle-area talk radio, that's all!

[DT]

If that post-it note is legit, it seems to me that it is intended for, and would be put in front of in-studio guests, so they would know which one is Ron, and which one is Don.

I don't believe Janet.

I'd be curious to know what Phil's ratings are compared with Goldy's old ratings.

[abob]

Goldy got a -1 rating. Luke gets a zero rating. I guess that is some kind of improvement.

[Sandy Schroeder]

Again BlatherWatch makes a joke out of child abuse. This is the kind of wink-wink that has made sexual molesting such a difficult problem to address. Michael please, use another crime to make your punchlines.

[g0d]

"They are clearly no tallent, fudge packers..."

you mean "no talent," right?

at least you didn't call don o'neil a total balloon.

[AprilMayJune]

Thank god for baseball!!

Hopefully by the end of the season KIRO will have something I can listen to. That would be not D & R or that other evening thing.

I am not ashamed to say I love baseball, Dave Niehaus and all.

[Duffman]

As long as you can say that 100+ games into the season when they've no chance of playoffs even tho they have one of the highest $salary rosters - then you ARE a TRUE fan.

[chucks]

Duffy
Knock off the black cloud crap. Good grief. We hear enough of your ranting about thunder thighs, picking on our Mariners is over the line.

[Duffman]

Not pickin on them, just sayin IMO watchin the M's 'spit' and 'scratch their private parts' for the astronomical prices they charge (for admission and all associated accoutrements) & PARKING is akin to PAYING for 'watching grass grow'. When the scenario I depicted above happens there are not that many 'true fans' attending...it's sometimes difficult to even 'give' our Company tickets away.
It's all about keeping the IMAGE of a big league city - nothing more, nothing less. Don't get me wrong I played and I like baseball - college competition is more than good enough for me!

[sparky]

Taking the bus or the Sounder eliminates high parking prices, Duffman. If you don't need a box seat, attending a mariner's game isn't all that expensive.

[AuthenticAndrew]

When you go to a sporting event both teams win, the vendors win, the parking husslers and nearby businesses win, everybody wins except the suckers sitting static in the painful plastic chairs and aluminum benches, packing on the pounds drinking watered down beer and eating SHITTY food, ignoring their children and wives to stair blankly at a bunch of extremely well payed men who are living out their own dreams and staying healthy in the process. Sports players and club owners don't even watch their own sports for fun, they play golf. I want in on that racket so bad.

[Duffman]

aparks: I agree, taking the Sounder is a good way to go to see an M's game...we do it sometimes from Sumner on up. However it's major league baseball and not the most exciting way to spend an afternoon. I'm all for the M's (don't get me wrong) as long as they can self-subsidize...just don't ask me for any tax money to fund them or their stadiums...PERIOD. I now note that we're 3-games into a 162-game season and Seattle's top relief pitcher is injured. Oh My!

[Dr. No Comments]

I recorded that "Best of TBTL" show.
The first hour ended with eight minutes of ads:

shane co.
honda
miracle-gro
B97.3
starttalkingnow.org
donatelifetoday.com
theBBB.org
myNW.com
call 811 before you dig
nwkidney.org
joe's sports
volvo
national guard
myNW.com
dave ross promo

[Scoobee]

Duffy,

Is it just me or is there something wrong with analysis of essentially listening to a rerun of TBTL with the last 8 minutes of the show being ads? Doesnt it seem odd that a re-run of a radio show which has already paid for itself during is first run need fill the last 8 minutes with adds? Now that truly is lame!

[Dr. No Comments]

I should clarify: I recorded TBTL off the air so I could skip the commercials. I didn't record it for KIRO's broadcast!

[sparky]

This seemed like the only appropriate thread to post this..I was attracted to an ad about if there were hate groups in my neighborhood..I typed in the zipcode and I looked at the state of Washington..

http://www.splcenter.
org/intel/map/hate.jsp

good grief...

[joanie hussein for obama]

ditto, sparky! Very interesting.

(umm, you need hot link directions again?)

[sparky]

heh..yes please...my computer that has them has crashed and I am on the backup computer...

[PugetSound]

Nice hategroup website. Always good to keep an eye on those yahoos.
Great book by Attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He used the RICO statutes to bring down KKK leader Tom Metzger who had encouraged some goons to rough up minorities. Ended up killing some poor student from Ethiopia.

Here is the html page.

LinksforHTML

[sparky]

Yep, that is what I think too. I knew of the ones who make the news, but it was interesting to see how pervasive they are other places. Mukilteo!! I bet most of the people who live there have no idea...
While we have a few, click on some of the states in the south...gack.