Last week Dori Monson was ambushed by Governor Gregoire that is, called him without prearrangement -- and he's been bragging/complaining ever since.
We loved the whole exchange, it was great radio, and wrote almost lovingly about Dori for once. (It showed that despite he has a girl's name, he is The King Of Seattle Talk Radio)
We realized that one of the things that bugs us about local talk radio now that it's been dry-cleaned, pressed and all the local weirdos removed, is the absence of the unexpected. With just Dori, Dave, The Commentators, Ron and "I would Be" Don, there's none (save maybe Kirby of KVI) of the pure, local, slightly strange, one-of-a-kind hosts that promote (not always intentionally) that tension of the unexpected and take you occasionally by surprise.
(That's some of why we're hooked on Too Beautiful to Live (KIRO m-f, 7-10p -- it's feeling that anything -- though perhaps trivial -- can happen at any time).
Local talk radio quirkies gone, but not forgotten: Allan Prell, Frank Shiers, David Goldstein, Bryan Styble, Mike Siegel, Lou Pate, Mike Webb, Dan Sytman, Fred Ebert, Gary Ryan. Bryan Suits, Gary Mantz, Erin Hart. We bitched about these fruitcakes constantly, but it was a feast, at least, to write about.
But we digress:
Dave Ross writes in his show blog:
I think listeners should know that I, too, have been ambushed by Gov. Gregoire. In fact, the day the Boeing decision was announced, she called me TWICE on the SAME SHOW for a double-ambush. I have received exactly zero expressions of sympathy for this treatment, which I feel borders on ruthlessness. It's outrageous that our tax dollars should be paying, however modestly, for the governor to treat me in this way.
But he says he feels dissed by Dino Rossi (Gregoire's slippery opponent) who has never ambushed him. He's been in-studio for a half hour which translates to 17 minurtes of pure talk, but it was brely enough time, he says, to ask him the questions he's aching to ask the skeezy, mellowmouthed Machiavellian real estate developer.
- If Gov. Gregoire 'lost the Sonics' does that mean you favor use of state money to subsidize Steve Ballmer (net worth about 14 billion)?"
- I also want to know what he'll tell the Seattle neighborhoods who have settled on a six-lane 520?
- What [does] the BIAW may want from him?
- Why he considers his tax returns off limits?
- [Does] he agrees that the revenue-sharing deal with the tribes he endorses would also have meant a significant expansion of gambling?
Dori won't ask these questions, and Dino will make it darn hard for Dave to do it. That's why the aura of the expected looms over local talk radio, and has caused us to lower our expectations.
This reminds me of when TBTL takes calls (or doesn't), Luke constantly mentions that taking calls put the producer Jen on edge, and she sounds like it does. Aside from shielding us listeners from the spontaneity of someone else they forget I'M RIGHT HERE. They're talking about listeners as if we're a bunch of retards that can't be trusted ON THE AIR.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | July 16, 2008 at 02:45 PM
I hear unpredictable, quirky, funny stuff everyday on KISW. But listening to that means I'm a knuckledragging goon.
I'm 26 and TBTL sucks and the fact they cant take calls shows what a pampered, uptight, prom king and queen lifestyle they had growing up, cowards.
Posted by: Bud Dickman | July 16, 2008 at 02:50 PM
Well AA if you tuned in last night you obviously heard Seattle-area's infamous 'pot-head' call in and proceed to go thru his antics; so can you blame Jen for her apprehension.
Posted by: Duffman | July 16, 2008 at 02:51 PM
Dave is a pompous ass that talks with his nose stuck up in the air and has a big time Napolean complex.
Give me a break....he can't sing, he couldn't beat Reichert and he has a predictable boring radio show.
Go back to your DUX bed Ross!
Posted by: My Man Dori | July 16, 2008 at 03:05 PM
Does anybody remember the softball questions Dave asked Darcy Burner?
She refused to answer a simple yes/no question...would you cut off funding for the troops?
Posted by: Schick Shadel | July 16, 2008 at 03:24 PM
Holy crap...Darryl-420 is calling KIRO again?? I thought they blocked his phone number. He was an ass in the KIRO chat room. By now, Darryl must have balls the size of BBshot.
Posted by: sparky | July 16, 2008 at 05:07 PM
Schick, I'm glad I don't live in that district. I'm a Democrat, but Ms. Burner is such a weak candidate that I would vote for the Sheriff. Her interview with The Great Dave Ross (Seattle's best) was really bad, not an original idea or position in her blather. As far as tbtl, Andy and Dick, if you don't get it that's fine. There's always Ricker's Chinese (Yawn) pizza for you. Luke is Seattle's next Dave Ross, if we're lucky enough to keep him; that kind of talent usually leaves us here in the navel gazing Jet City.
Posted by: Wild Bill | July 16, 2008 at 05:45 PM
If Art Bell can do it, Luke Burbank should be able to do it. Anyone who says otherwise is an absolute coward.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | July 16, 2008 at 06:13 PM
Darryl...lol I remember Errant Heart used to wrap her whole show around him calling in.
Posted by: Coiler | July 16, 2008 at 09:03 PM
Darryl use to get quite the beatdown when he called into John Carlson's show.
Merci, I like your updated blog. Some good stuff.
Posted by: Puget Sound | July 16, 2008 at 09:14 PM
I actually thought Dave Ross was rather harsh on Darcy. I could have sworn that if Dave ross had pressed further, she would have broken down and skeddadled like Sparky does when the questions gets to tough for her.
And was that Patty Murray today who stood up in Congress and said...
"Even if we drill off-shore it will not effect the cost of gas".
Does she even listen to or watch the news. President Bush just lifted the ban on off shore drilling and what did oil do? Dropped like $10.00 a bbl. So Patty, instead of showing your disgust at the current President, show some courage for once and break with the party line so your constituents here in Washiington State can get back to living like they did in 2006. You and the rest of that Liberal Party you belong to have dragged us down enough. Either help your State or get off the pot and let someone else more qualified do it.
Posted by: nevets | July 16, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Haha, ambush in progress.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | July 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM
The price of oil has dropped because of decreased demand. What Senator Murray should have added is that the oil in ANWR has a high sulpher content, which makes it take long to clean and process. She also should have said the oil is already slated to go on the World Market, specifically mostly to Japan. Russia, India and China use even more than we do, and we will not be seeing much, if any, of that oil, should it be drilled.
Oil companies will snatch up any new leases -- a process that essentially amounts to calling "dibs" on the remaining domestic oil and gas -- and sit on them so they can trade the oil on the commodities market. The price will likely bargain up, not down, and then maybe we can put a stake through the heart of this "drill here, drill now" nonsense once and for all, and shift popular thinking to alternatives.
The U.S. has in its reserves available for drilling, about 3% of the world's oil. We use 25% of the world's oil daily.
We could put drilling platforms shoulder-to-shoulder along our coastline and we would still only have 3% of the world's oil. We would still use 25% of the world's oil.
Where does the other 22% come from? Russia, Venzuela, North Atlantic, Middle East, etc. And that is not likely to change until our cars run on something else.
We cannot drill our way out of this problem.
Posted by: RedmondDem | July 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM
The price of oil has dropped because of decreased demand. What Senator Murray should have added is that the oil in ANWR has a high sulpher content, which makes it take long to clean and process. She also should have said the oil is already slated to go on the World Market, specifically mostly to Japan. Russia, India and China use even more than we do, and we will not be seeing much, if any, of that oil, should it be drilled.
Oil companies will snatch up any new leases -- a process that essentially amounts to calling "dibs" on the remaining domestic oil and gas -- and sit on them so they can trade the oil on the commodities market. The price will likely bargain up, not down, and then maybe we can put a stake through the heart of this "drill here, drill now" nonsense once and for all, and shift popular thinking to alternatives.
The U.S. has in its reserves available for drilling, about 3% of the world's oil. We use 25% of the world's oil daily.
We could put drilling platforms shoulder-to-shoulder along our coastline and we would still only have 3% of the world's oil. We would still use 25% of the world's oil.
Where does the other 22% come from? Russia, Venzuela, North Atlantic, Middle East, etc. And that is not likely to change until our cars run on something else.
We cannot drill our way out of this problem.
Posted by: RedmondDem | July 17, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Wow! I didn't think there was any one shorter than slick 'ol Dino Dave Being Hi-Jacked haha
Posted by: Duffman | July 17, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Sorry for the double post. My Internet connection went down and when it came back on I hit POST again.
Posted by: Redmond Dem | July 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM
LOLOLLLOLzerz!!! I don't have instant playback but I swear I just heard Ron and Don's producer say something to this effect: "people come to Seattle because we're tollerant... but all the tolerant people are white." Don't quote me on this, I'll have to go back and listen to the podcast whenever it becomes available.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | July 17, 2008 at 03:17 PM
why is that funny????
Posted by: sparky | July 17, 2008 at 03:23 PM
I don't think KIRO or Bonneville likely appreciate their on air staff making straight faced attributions of virtue based on ethnicity, especially when it's an allusion to white supremacy. I laugh at their misfortune.
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | July 17, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Dave said the drop in oil prices was due to Bush sending a Diplomat to Iran. I'm not sure if I buy that or the story that it was GW's move to open offshore drilling.
So if 3% of the world's oil is in the US and available for drilling isn't that a lot less than what would be available if the ban was lifted?
Why is it okay to let other countries trash their environments for our oil when we could do a cleaner job of obtaining our own resources? The old "not in my backyard" scenario?
Darcy burner sounded like a fool in that interview with Dave, "innovate our way out of the problem". Shove some innovation in your gas tank & see how far it gets you.
Posted by: Brian | July 17, 2008 at 04:27 PM
Why would there be more or less than 3% of the world's oil because we started drilling? That is like saying if you had a well in your backyard with 500 gallons of water in it, and you drilled 3 holes or 5 holes or 1000 holes, your well still only has 500 gallons. 3% of the world's oil in our backyard does not begin to meet the 25% we use. That is why you hear that drilling wont get us out of this.
I heard on the BBC that Russia is in the process of signing an agreement with Iran regarding oil production. To me, that means if we attack Iran, we end up messing with Russia. Sending an envoy to Iran is a smart thing to do if we want to be at the table to have any of that oil. It means, as Darcy says, we need to start becoming innovative and figure out other sources of fuel. We put men on the moon, and we are building a space station. I think we have more than enough brain power in this country to figure it out.
Posted by: sparky | July 17, 2008 at 05:07 PM
yesterday this Chris Bennett character who owns black radio stationsa and newspapers in Seattle came on Ron and Don and told them how the rat who killed James Paroline had been delivered to a church for arrest with NAACP backup so that the fellow wouldn't be harmed by police. What JOKE. trying to play the race card. I watch 48 Hours on A and E, where they follow real life homicide detectives around. The wanted killer just calls up and surrenders at th e police station, either with a lawyer or without one. The police are not going to shoot him at the police station. I'm rapidly getting sickened about how the usual suspects like Bennett are turning this into a bogus race issue and making up lies to protect the rat bastard suspect. Their latest spin is that Paroline choked and slapped the girls. Fortunately a neighbor caught almost thee whole hting on video. Don ONeill put this clown Bennett in his place when he tried to pull that race card bullshit. The rat bastard's mother served time for armed robbery. she called Dori's show with nothing but lies and excuses for her little darling.
Posted by: Tommy008 | July 17, 2008 at 06:46 PM
It is soooo funny to hear the 'can't drill our way out of this' crowd yammering on and on.
We don't just increase supply by drilling. We do other things such as nuclear and other alternative sources. All of this helps to increase demand.
Just having the speculators in the world market see us make a move in this direction has seen oil prices drop $15 bucks a barrel over the last three days.
If we keep falter we'll see the price go back up.
Posted by: Puget Sound | July 17, 2008 at 07:14 PM
"All of this helps to increase demand. "
yeah, i caught it. should read supply.
man, i need to go to the gym.
Posted by: Puget Sound | July 17, 2008 at 07:16 PM
Keep saying that you'll not bring the vote on ending the no-drilling offshore moratorium to the floor for a vote, Pelosi, while oil prices have gone down $15/barrel since the executive moratorium was lifted and you may be the biggest influence on the election. The dirty secret is that lifting the offshore drilling moratorium would pass in the House, if brought to a vote..
Many people are getting pissed off at your Marxist tactics and if that's the way you want to be, keep it up and we'll see how you and fellow Democrats do in November. Sen. Obama seems to feel the same way as Pelosi which is a total outrage ! Soon the masses will see that the motto for the Obama campaign will be "Change for the worse you can believe in".
Posted by: KS | July 17, 2008 at 07:43 PM
former Microsoft brat Darcy Burner came on Dave Ross and had the generosity of spirit to say that she thinks John McCain "PROBABLY does love his country". Probably? What kind of a snide, snotty little punkass thing is that to say. She just blew it with me with her little cheapass comment. I wouldn't vote for her, even if i move to her district, whic won't happen . I'd write in Don McNeill
Posted by: Tommy008 | July 17, 2008 at 07:44 PM
But just as the prices were coming down, look what Pelosi and Reid did, they went out and said the areas are off limits. Any bets that oil prices rise in the next few days because of these remarks.
Posted by: nevets | July 17, 2008 at 10:29 PM
And did you hear Darcy Burners solution to winning the war in Afghanistan. She said
"we need to do it like we won the west, we didn't go in there guns drawn we used diplomacy."
If I am hearing her right, she wants to put all the Afgahns on reservations. Thats how the west was won
Posted by: nevets | July 17, 2008 at 10:45 PM
How come Dave Ross does not have his interview with Darcy Burner on his site at mynorthwest.com. Am I looking in the wrong place, anyone else see it there or has he taken it down at her request because she blew it and showed no class.
Posted by: nevets | July 17, 2008 at 10:53 PM
I thought you had some lawns to mow, nevets?
Posted by: coiler for Gregoire | July 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Corporate Ross has made a lot of ludicrous claims, one is the left said there is no oil off shore , when it has been widely publicized, it will take 6 - 10 years for oil to come to market as Gas , besides nobody has suggested there was no oil off shore or in Anwar, opposition is bcs of environmental reason and 10 yrs to get gas .
Also failed to acknowledge car makers have little incentive for Battery cars , bcs of the billions made from car repair industry (as caller pointed out)and collusion with oil companies. Nobody can be THAT naive or it's just an aCT , to cover his lapdog corporatism .
We'll he believed Cheney when he claimed Iraq War , had nothing to do with OIL. Ya right Dave. shtick is very transparent and getting old .
Posted by: KAHONEEZ | July 24, 2008 at 12:19 PM
i am not sure what to think about this. its not funny.
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