Remaking dori monson: fellow KIRO jock licks him to death in the paper

It’s on the record, in a Seattle, er, website of record.

Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 1-3p) is a beautiful man. He loves kids, and basketball. (And we already know how much he loves dogs).

Unfortunately, the "reporter" is Dori’s KIRO colleague, Jim Moore, (m-f, 3-6p) with a schmoozy lap dance fuzzywuzzifying the far-right blabbermeister in this morning’s P-I.com.

Rarely have radio talkers got much media in this town, even when the P-I was still rolling in the ink and could pay good money to good reporters to write features like this — reporters who don’t get a paycheck from the same company as the reportee. (Moore's bosses at Bonneville must be mighty happy with this effort: wonder if he got paid twice?)

Monson, the talk host with a girl's name but a boy's mind, is having his image re-tooled.

With a new civility code by the LDS Church-owned KIRO, he’s reportedly been told to tone down the political and race-rhetoric. After the instant public reaction to his angry decrying of the city’s support of the memorial for the Ethiopian family who burned to death in a house fire, he was told to desist.

Moore’s puff pastry is about Monson's recent promotion to head coach of Shorecrest High School's girls’ basketball team.

Politicians, liberals, and poor people would never get the respect Dori gives his girls: “I … believe in praising publicly and correcting privately."

“I wondered if Monson had ever been heckled as a coach -- if you look at the abuse he takes in cyberspace, it seemed likely but it hasn't happened.” (Emphasis ours).

There’s the indelible image of the normally bile-spewing Dori sobbing in the locker room after the team was defeated at the state tournament.

We couldn’t help but well-up ourselves, reading that Dori played John Mellencamp's Your Life is Now for his team in the locker room before the game.

In this undiscovered moment
Lift your head above the crowd
We could shake this world
If you would only show us how
Your life is now

Once Dori was the self-proclaimed King Of Seattle Talk Radio. “He looks fondly," writes Moore "in the winter of 2008, his show got the highest ratings in town.” All that particular self-proclaiming had to stop when the PPM’s began revealing who was actually listening to what on the radio, and when, and for how long.

That was before KIRO handed over the mighty 50k bullhorn of the ayem band to The Sport (and Jim Moore).

All the industry-planted jellyrolls in the world won’t cover up who Dori Monson really is. He race-baits for money. The unemployed are “bums.” Homeless people are “garbage.” The governor is a liar. The president is a loser.

Remember when Dori bragged on-air to Ann Coulter that he’d bought his teenage daughter a ticket to Al Gore’s anti-global warming flic, An Inconvenient Truth, so she could lie to her teacher about seeing the movie for extra credit? He had to apologize for that one.

Remember how he blamed (for being dead!) the mother of the black, orphaned kid who became the symbol of health care reform for her own “poor choices?”

Martin (and Bonneville) are trying to mainstream Dori in a market where he couldn’t be further from the main.

He’s a global-warming denying, Obama birth certificate questioning Glenn Beck wannabe who preaches that it's all an evil “one-world socialist scheme” to take away your precious libber-dee (and maybe your birthday).

But hey, Dori never yells at the refs: “Monson has received [only] one technical foul in his coaching career.”

Comments

[Ryder]

If Dori Monson ever goes away, will this blog survive?

Having said that I will say this: If Dori Monson were a Leftist radical none of his ranting would bother most of you at all. If he called Donkeys liars, small businessmen foolish for not being able to pay their taxes or families giving up their homes to the taxman selfish most of you would be singing his praises. But, since he disagrees with your politics he's is a racist, a pig with a girls name, selfish Donkey and so on down the line.

All of you who hate because of political ideology, go look in the mirror. What, me look in the mirror? Naw.............

[Andrew]

My biggest issue with his show isn't the politics, there's nothing wrong with playing devil's advocate, it's the constant whining and ceaseless pessimism. What could be a fair argument instead sounds like a hateful screed. I hope these reforms make for a listenable show.

[sparky]

Great...now all we need is for Brian Baloney to write a love letter about Rush.

I don't recall Bla'M ever calling Dori a pig...

[tj]

Y'know...if it weren't for Mr Hood's rather strange obsessions, I'd read this blog more often. Goodness.

[Andrew]

Yeah, a talk radio blog obsessed with talk radio, whodathunkit?

[Medved]

Dori Monson thinks Mormons are cult freaks who are obsessed with granny's underwear.

[Rat Bastard]

I just read the article...
It was a nice story about a girl's high school basketball coach.
We can all pile on Dori for one thing or another we don't agree with him on, but this is about his being a coach, not the talk radio host.
Seems like he'd be a good coach to have and he's always said that he leaves his politics at the microphone.
I think this blog just simply CANNOT STAND the fact that some guy wrote something about Dori that wasn't an "Attack Piece".

[DT]

The thing about Dori is the thing about Dori. I think what Michael keeps trying to do is wake up the vast majority of Seattle that he exists and he's a dangerous little flu-bug.
The Mormons who own KIRO are trying to change its failing format without having to get rid of their 2nd best rated talent.

[Andrew]

Well, as a high school basketball coach he's not remarkable or news worthy. The fact that he's a radio host is the only plausible reason the piece was written. It's fair to ask if there was an agenda, and what that agenda might be - to soften his image, is a distinct possibility.

[PeakLimiter]

This is more of an indictment against the P-I and what's become of Seattle news than it is of BW.

[joanie]

You could have said "Monson, the talk host with a girl's name but a bully's mind..."

Ryder, I don't even understand your comparison. Who is calling small business owners foolish or people who give up their houses to the taxman selfish? Sorry. No comprende.

And whether he does what he does for simple entertainment and to make a name for himself or because he really believes it, it is ruthless and corrupting to the fabric of our society. I don't know anymore what got us here: our own need for more and more; corrupt politicians; unethical or lazy media; or people like chux who take advantage of everything they say they hate.

All I know is that Dori is part of the problem and should be called out for it.

[Pete]

Ryder, you complain that Bla'M and his readers would love Dori if were liberal. But Mike Webb - who, despite his political oddities, was the most adamant local liberal daily host Seattle has ever had (OK, low bar), got eviscerated here, far more harshly than Monson.

As both Bla'M and many commenters have noted, the issue isn't Monson's politics; it's his ethics. In many ways, Kirby Wilbur, John Carlson, and Brian Suits are all more classically conservative, but they're not constantly (or even very often) criticized here, because they conduct themselves with honesty and class. Monson? Not so much.

[Pete]

Should read "if he were liberal." Doh.

[KS]

My oh my, the leftwingnuts are coming out of the woodwork to excoriate Dori. Ryder at least has an element of reason. Now that Mike Webb is no more, he is BW's whupping boy... I will go ahead, keep listening to him on occasion and draw my own conclusions. He's an entertainer, but don't see his ethics any more outlandish than the average talk show host. (I am more critical of the left than many here, but ethics knows no bounds).

Speaking of ethics and conduct - how about Geoff Simpson ? Mentally unstable and very possibly a wife beater...

[sparky]

Pete is correct....Dori seems to have lost control of the "image" which hints at the idea that in "real life" he is not so outrageous.
Maybe.

According to Goldy's story on Simpson, he shoved his wife out of the way to enter the hospital room of his daughter, when the wife did not want him to see her.
Piss - poor behavior for sure, but beating one's spouse is a serious crime, and in this case he did not "beat her." He needs to get help for his anger issues.

[Andrew]

I've never even heard of Geoff Simpson. His personal issues are of no concern to me.

The Rethuglicans commenters on this blog are desperate, always looking for a way to score a few cheap points, going so far as to mention people that may or may not exist. Geoff Simpson, that sounds like a made up name. Is he in radio?

[sparky]

He is a legislator in Olympia, Andrew. Over on HorsesAss, Goldy wrote an article about it.
But you're right,..it has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

[KS]

What a lazy but desperate jackass... Look up Geoff Simpson yourself or are you afraid you'll see something that will upset your sensibilities ?

The version of the story from Goldstein is similar to what I heard - from those actions, it could be that he is a wife beater - that may or may not come out later - he clearly has anger issues. In today's politics, it is guilty until proven innocent

[Andrew]

... and what does this have to do with the price of tea of China?

[Rat Bastard]

"Well, as a high school basketball coach he's not remarkable or news worthy. The fact that he's a radio host is the only plausible reason the piece was written."
Posted by: Andrew

Of course Dori being a radio host who also coaches HS basketball was the reason it was written...
Just a fill in type of newspaper nothing story that they do all of the time.
It's just funny that so many here wish that it was about how Dori kicks puppies before games and strangles kittens after games.
As far as Dori's image...
He's a local watch dog of wasteful Government.
Being a bit frothy around the edges is par for the course with that role.
Other radio hosts do make the same points he does, just not with as much passion most of the time.

[Tommy 008]

Ron and Don may be heathens, but my guess seemsto be right that the Bonneville Mormon suits like their kindness/charitable,community giving values more than Dori's meanness. Sur Dori participates in superficial charity from time to time but isn't is always through his church? as i suspect it is with his girls or at least one of his girls going to South america or mexico to help the poor. All about pushing their brand of Christianity to the unwashed and unenlightened. I find th obnoxious and offensive. True charity come with no religious baggage.

[joanie]

True charity come with no religious baggage.

Well put. And, again, it is about ethics and bullying and not opinion.

[Puget Sound]

... and what does this have to do with the price of tea of China?

Posted by: Andrew | July 09, 2010 at 10:58 PM

ks is just noting your lazy jack-assery for the record.
it's quite extensive, if i may so myself.
your inappropriate comments on the Larry Nelson Tribute thread as linked above, the NY Vinnie kerfuffel, and the blaming the victim with the attack on Mrs Suits.
Add in the latest attempt with Chucks and it becomes clear.

All in all, uncle Duff will no doubt be taking you to the woodshed this week.

[Tommy 008]

Bawling in the locker room after "your girls" bombed out at "state? Does thast fill us with endearment or contempt for the fellow ? Kind of girlyman teritory isn't it? Yeah, i think so. uncomfortably so.

[KS]

Posters on this blog have a propensity for kicking those when they are down not so much if they are of a liberal persuasion. Nice work - those who disdain Dori's alleged mean spiritedness. You are one and the same. Hmmm.....

[Clearwater]

Has Monson finally been canned? His blog is missing from the MyNW.com site.

[Clearwater]

It's back. Shoot. I wishes were horses , rides would be free.

[Tommy 008]

no, he's apparently still with KIRO but his star is definitely in decline and his image is badly tarnishged. I don't caer for Suits at all really, but I can't imagine Bryan Suits letting KVI suits tell him to cease and desist discussing a subject he was strongly opinionated on, such as Dori and his issues with the funeral . I can see him getting fired over the principle of his own onair autonomy. The Monson that Dori tries to project on the air, the macho libertarian, take-no-guff standup guy, has just been proven to be a fake,a mirage, by the fact that he is still on the air and has not been fired for standing up for his free speech rights. He has shown himself to be the poltroon that we all knew he was, all along.

[Tommy 008]

Monson has boasted in the past, when Bonneville took conrtol of KIRO for the second time a few years back, that Bonneville had never said a word to him about what he said on the air when they previously owned the station.....i can;t say for sure Monson said this next part but he may have....a lot of talk show hosts start with a phrase like "Bonneville (or Clear Channel or whatever) has never told me what to say on the air," and then finish it with " and the day that ever comes is the day i'm finished working for them." In the end, Monson caved in , real fast, like a whimpering, butt-paddled pup.

[chucks]

Why do you still have such a hard-on for Munson, Tommy? Good grief. It is getting a bit monotonous.
Hell, some babbler on KIRO used my own words in a feeble attempt to disparage me just this past week and I am not bothered in the least bit, let alone moved in to a career of bashing him, as you do Dori. Hell, I choose to look at it as he, as well as some of you (particularly the BW follower that sent the post to him) are at least considering my opinions, whether you agree with me or not.
Tommy, you need to make some kind of adjustment in your life so that you can spend less time obsessing over a man (yes, I know, with a gurlz name) you do not agree with.
One day, you are going to wake up dead and maybe realise how much of your life was wasted making your own self miserable.

[Tommy 008]

If what Michael claims about you is untrue Dori, that you were told to shutup abiut the funeral by your Mormon Masters, and you obeyed, now is the one time in your life to contact him with a denial. And then prove its not true by bringing it up the Ethiopian Funeral as a topic on the next day's show, and allowing your bitchboy Phil to take calls on it.

[Michael Waters]

Dori was a vocal proponent of Bush's boneheaded invasion of Iraq.

I marveled at Munson's insensitivity and imperviousness to the facts. For example, weapons inspectors had been on the ground for months finding no WMD, but Dubya chose to invade anyway, calling in the weapons inspectors.

No matter, Dori and Bush wanted war.

Dori wanted that war badly, facts be damned. I could sense blood lust in Dori's tone and words.

He's a hard-hearted man in my view.

Dore championed Bush's stupidity, his cruelty.

That alone told me all I needed to know about Dori Monson.

I quit listening to him around 2003.

I'm just visiting today because my sister told me Dori impugned the 84 year old lady who was pepper sprayed in Seattle last night. Sheesh. Typical Dori Monson: Cruel, hard hearted, Right wing, arrogant.