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The president gets his...

It's the White House Correspondents' Dinner where President Obama gets to zing Washington and his many critics ... This is worth watching, if for nothing else, the fake smile and the extra hair jel on Donald Trump.

John curley says he's going into republican politics

"He's gonna run for something, that's the idea," says a former cohort, "He [told me] as he left KING [TV] that he was going to get into Republican politics."

He speaks of John Curley, "the quintessential Local Celebrity," as The Seattle Times once described him. The erstwhile teevee host cum radio blabbermeister is the slightly-more-than- occasional host of his own show on KIROFM (m-f, 7-11p).

Curley lives in the 5th legislative district, a very red (conservative) district. And true to form, he's already busy voting no on public works, and taking food out of the mouths of widders and ophans. (Sounds like the beginnings of a Republican political career to us).

With redistricting ripening by the end of the year, the 8th District is rife for change. It's ostensibly a good place for someone to be if they're Republican and up-and-coming.

Someone could leap into the County Council breach if Reagan Dunn goes for either Attorney General or Dave Reichert's congressional seat (once held by Dunn's mother, Nancy Reagan). Jay Rodne, a 5th District state rep is said to be eying the AG job too, and the Senator Cheryl Pflug is said to be stepping down. (Can't see Curley with all that local star-power going for an office as pedestrian, lowly, and ill-paid as state rep, though).

Curley shows up when he shows up for his evening radio gig and through the snark and the silliness, sounds more and more political.

Resented his radio cohorts who are hanging desperately onto fewer and fewer jobs, Curley flaunts his radio opportunity by showing disdain for listeners or not showing up at all.

On teevee, Curley's reportedly has been naked on-air; let himself be chewed on by goats and peed in his pants (he told The Times it wasn't intentional). These are all great experiences for a career in public service (except politicians should get accustomed to being peed on).

Problem for us is, if he goes into politics, John Curley will more than likely displace someone more serious, with more brains, pith and feck. Just as he has with his phony radio career.

Sigh.

 

 

O'Donnell flames nbc over trump's presidential run

Mouth biting off the hand that feeds it?

This from the NY Times:

“Trump is now hiding behind NBC when asked the single most important question in front of him: Are you going to run for president?” Mr. O’Donnell said. “NBC is hiding behind NBC.”

Wonder if this is why O'Donnell was missing tonight?

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Will dori monson source his unproven 'spring spheres' story?

Dori (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) is back today... will he clarify or prove his so far, unsourced and suspicious Easter Eggs/"spring spheres" story? 

Probably not. Producer, L'il Jake has not answered emails with inquiries from The Stranger, and the PI.com.

Dori doesn't make corrections or clarifications. He just goes onto the next "outrage." Stay tuned.

KIROFM news sea-changing: heather bosch to CBS new york

Jeez, first Tony Miner, now good bye to KIRO ace reporter, Heather Bosch.

 

Snippet from internal memo to CBS affiliates:

 

CBS Radio News has announced the hiring of two more correspondents.

 Heather Bosch, an award winning reporter for KIRO Radio in Seattle, joins us as a New York based correspondent effective May 2^nd.  She worked at KIRO for more than 10 years both as a reporter and a news anchor. Prior to that she was an anchor and reporter for KOMO TV and Radio as well as KXLY TV and Radio. She has won numerous RTNDA Murrow awards for her wonderful series reporting, use of sound, sports reporting and newscasts.

 

KIRO's 'asshole seat'... in play!

Wow. The PPM weeklies are in: And for the first time in years, the KIROFM Asshole Seat is in play. We thought Dori Monson (m-f, 12-3p) had it tied down.

On the other hand, we believed the "Dumb Shit Seat," held somewhat tenuously (or so we thought) by Ron & Don (m-f, 3-7p) was the one in flux, up for grabs. We thought the new guy, John Curley (KIROFM sometimes mondays; frequently tues & weds; lots of times thurs; and occasionally, even on fri. 7-10p) was showing brilliant tabloid fluffiness in his new evening show and crowding the drivetime boyz.

We (as is so often the case) had it dead wrong. John Curley, it turns out, is way more asshole than dumb shit. And it seems his brilliant broadcast marriage of snarky assholiness with utter asininity worked great with Dori's midday audiences.

Remember this guy?

Ah, the memories. We remember well, the late, late-night KIRO talk host Mike Webb commiserating with Scott Ritter  about how they both were victims of "political prosecutions," if not "persecutions."

Webb had been convicted of insurance fraud, had fought it very stupidly; had lost his case, a few of his marbles, and his radio career. He was then doing bitter live stream shows from his attic rooms.

(photo: Mike Webb; thanks Greg McKie)

Tony Miner RIP 2000-2011

Newsman (reporter/anchor) Tony Miner braced himself against the gunwhales and weathered KIRO's tosses and turns through such gales as Entercom's neglectful ownership and the station's scary flip to FM.

(photo: the anchor man)

All the while, commuting to Eastlake from LaConner, over 100 miles (and 3 or 4 decades) to the north.

Next month he's making a change that will take him off Seattle radio after 30 years behind the mic. He told BlatherWatch: "Bottom line is this: After 30 years on the air in Seattle and 20 as an extreme commuter from the north sound, it was just time to 'go home.'”

                                              (photo: man the anchor)

Tony's taken the position of Director of Programming & News at KGMI in Bellingham taking an hour and half off his commute and keeping him closer to his family, and his beloved boat, the StarFire. His last day will be May 6.

He writes: "When you’re a long distance commuter like I am, it’s hard to feel connected to the community where you work."

Before this long (for radio) run on KIRO, Tony's been all over the Seattle dial: KING, KVI, KOMO, and KZOK, doing everything from anchoring shows, newscasts, reports, podcasts, and features to managing and imaging.

Tony Miner's a newsperson's newsperson. A real grown-up. He will be missed.

Yikes! the tea-party speaks up...

A South Carolina Democratic consultant took a camera to the Columbia, S.C. Tea Party rally starring Michele Bachmann and Tea Party Gov. Nikki Haley.

He told Slate's Dave Weigel: "I interviewed around 25 people total and probably 75 percent of them said they were supporting Donald Trump, and just about every single person is a birther. I took two hours of footage and chopped it down to six minutes of mind-blowing stuff."

Dori Monson's 'spring spheres' story: "... we don’t even know if it happened."

Ruffled Christians from around the world who bombarded Seattle Public Schools with ferocious emails last week. 

They were furious about a teacher who refused to call colorful eggs "Easter eggs," but insisted they be called "spring spheres," of all things.

(photo: feckless talker, Dori Monson)

It was based on a call to The Dori Monson Show KIROFM m-f, 12-3p) from a 16-year-old allegedly named "Jessica," (last name withheld) who said she was corrected by the teacher when she'd tried to fill plastic Easter eggs with treats for 3rd graders at her volunteer job.

Of course this was red meat to the feck-free Monson, Seattle's last, red meat radio winger. Pious man that he is, he pumped it with a trumpet, heaping his normal ration of anti-Seattle scorn and "outrage" on the Board, the teacher, and all the rest of us unchurched, Seattle, latté-lapping, hippy scum.

Ho-hum, another day on the radio with The Master of the Puny-verse.