Brian Maloney - The "baloney" zone?

[pfitz59]

While surfing hate radio after Shrub's recitation I stumbled across a talking turd called Brian Maloney. I had never heard him before, so I listened. He is slime in the Limpdick/O'Lielly/Insanity tradition. Anyone have the scoop on this waste of air?

[ArmchairActivist]

1. Bleh... I can never really put up with him for long...

There's a reason KIRO only puts Maloney on the weekends. What I don't understand is how a 50,000 watt blowtorch station in a gigantic media market (Seattle) has sooooo many really laughably bad hosts. Maloney is horrible, mean and dumb as is the overnight guy Lou Pate. (Hey Lou, the late hour isn't the only reason you don't get any calls.)

The guy in the afternoon (Dori Monson) is just a boob who seems congentially incapable of expressing any kind of complex opinion or idea. Ross is ok in the mornings, I guess, for a centrist, and I don't know much about the new evening guy Ebert, except that he likes to brag about all the classified stuff he supposedly knows. He doesn't seem to care much for Whistle-Ass, so I guess that counts for something.

Oh well, I believe KIRO is an Entercom station, so what do you expect? At least they've got Mike Webb on at night. Mike's ok.. a little overly cranky at times, but hey, these are overly cranky times.

-AA

[Missy Vixen]

2. Oh, gosh, it's KKKVI Lite

I'm soooo glad someone's talking about this.

Dave Ross is a bit of a centrist, but he's the closest to a liberal one will find on KIRO-AM at any time before 10:00 PM. Dave is also a fair person -- in other words, he won't slam the phone down on someone who's disagreeing with him, as long as you're being polite (and interesting!).

>There's a reason KIRO only puts Maloney on the weekends.<

He couldn't get a job anywhere else? I shut off the radio the minute I hear his whiny little "Radio Equalizer" introduction. (Isn't it funny that all the right-wing hosts have to have some kind of coded "slogan", so the wingnut listeners will know they've stumbled on One Of Their Kind?)

>Maloney is horrible, mean and dumb as is the overnight guy Lou Pate. (Hey Lou, the late hour isn't the only reason you don't get any calls.)<

Can we talk about Lou Pate? Please? PLEASE?

Lou Pate's favorite stunt (along with Brian Suits, now of KKKVI,) was to call back any listener that hung up on him. Didn't matter if the listener was being harangued and embarrassed; if they hung up, Pate used the station's caller ID to call their house. At 2, 3, 4 AM. On the air. He (or Suits,) would then verbally abuse the caller.

This practice seemed to come to a screeching halt right after I called KIRO-AM's program director and told her I was filing an FCC complaint against the station and against the two personalities mentioned above. She claimed that she'd "never heard" this was happening. I told her that she might want to pull the previous evening's air check and give it a listen, and if it happened again, I was sure that the local media would be interested as well.

What's the use of asking listeners to call a talk radio station that doesn't want to have any input from listeners that disagree with on-air hosts?

>The guy in the afternoon (Dori Monson) is just a boob who seems congentially incapable of expressing any kind of complex opinion or idea.<

He's also congenitally incapable of talking with anyone without the protection of his "dump" button, the "mute" button, and a screener. If I had a nickel for everytime I heard Monson take off on an elected official (with NOTHING near the facts of the matter at hand,) DH and I could pay off our mortgage.

For instance, I was listening several weeks back when Monson was screaming at a Seattle City Council member about park funding and a piece of property bought by the city of Seattle for a potential landfill. Seattle's running short on park funds, most likely because of spiraling maintenance costs. City funds are in several "pots" of cash; each of these "pots" have laws governing what they can be spent on. In other words, one does not spend park funds on sewer treatment plants, and vice versa. It's a check and balance; it's to prevent someone exceedingly greedy or dumb from draining one fund for a purpose it wasn't meant for. I called the station to explain this matter. Of course, I "didn't know what I was talking about" even though I serve on another city council, and we're governed by the same damn laws...

It's too bad that Monson will never run for office; he's too chicken to actually take responsibility for his opinions. One doesn't get paid a quarter of a million per year and several weeks' vacation for four hours per day's work, either. (Oh, silly me, not unless you're *.)

>At least they've got Mike Webb on at night. Mike's ok.. a little overly cranky at times, but hey, these are overly cranky times.<

Mike can get a bit cranky, but he's terrific.

BTW, Erin Hart is NOT a liberal. It's too bad she's snowed various people on the Web into thinking that she is. She also was advocating pretty heavily for * right after September 11th and when we went into Iraq.

Julie

[pfitz59]

3. Baloney was orgasming over Bush*'s speech......

says Dems are plain mean for calling Shrub bad names. He takes his cues form O'Lielly and cuts off speakers with his Reich-wing blather. Spurted a second time when one caller blamed Clinton for not stopping terrorism! I thought 570 KVI was bad ("Support Our Troops" and all), I'll have to include 710 KIRO. At least KOMO 1000 sticks to news and sports.

[Newsjock]

4. KVI and KOMO are co-owned

Both are scumbags Fisher Broadcasting, and KOMO's news is quite often just as mind-numbingly disgustingly rah-rah-Bush as KKKVI. And when it's not, it's often just pure tabloid trash.

As for Brian Maloney, I seem to remember hearing him in a regular afternoon spot on KKOH Reno (780 AM). You can also find a lot of talk about him (and, sometimes, by him) archived in Usenet by going a search on "ba.broadcast BriMaloney" at Google Groups.