Dori Monson’s Feedback Friday – what do Dori and Rachel Maddow have in common?

Welcome to Dori’s Feedback Friday feature, where we collect a sampling of comments received over email and Facebook on various topics throughout the week. Want the chance to have your comments included in Feedback Friday? Send your thoughts about any show topics via email or the Dori Monson Facebook page.

Dori used to be fun

Dori, you used to be fun. And I completely agree with your opinions of the Seattle City Council, Sound Transit, Socialists, and especially CNN. They have gone off the deep end. But you have become the CNN of the Right.  No longer unbiased. Where has the Libertarian gone? Just constant attacks against the Left. You know, the “other side” has serious issues too. I’ll still tune in occasionally to see where your bent is heading, but I miss your fun.

– Paul in Tacoma

Racist photo causes uproar in Issaquah

Walkout sheds light on a prevalent issue

This news story about the sign in Issaquah pales by comparison to what has been passed around my son’s high school in the form of memes via texting and email. The biggest difference between the two stories is in the social media aspect and the media coverage as a result. This is by no means an isolated case of student-displayed racism in our schools, and it needs to be dealt with. I’ve never been an alarmist, but have seen recently and first-hand how racism in our public schools causes people to feel unsafe and unwelcome. When disciplinary action does not seem evident, the students themselves must have a voice to express their feelings and concerns when these things come up. Let them protest. Let them walk out. The peer pressure for social change will be much more powerful than any disciplinary action school faculty can take.

– Joy in Bellevue

Hypocrisy at work

What about the male in the picture with the female high school student? Is he receiving any of the abuse like the young lady, or is she being singled out? Wouldn’t that be gender discrimination? After the sheep walk out for racial justice, tomorrow they can plan another walkout for gender injustice. People need to relax and focus on forgiveness.

– Patrick in Seattle

Dori and Rachel have something in common?

I’m just listening to your show regarding the way Rachel Maddow repeats certain phrases or words. However, I guess it is like continually referring to a nose ring wearing grandma as, “Ooooh, edgy.”

– Michael in Olympia

The most wonderful time of the year

Hi Dori, just came back from the Woodinville Costco. They have cherry pie.

– Baze in Kenmore

Seattle is dying

Here’s one solution

I am so saddened after I saw “Seattle is Dying.” I think I need to set up a GoFundMe page. With money collected I am going to pay homeless people money $50 per day to camp, poop, and leave their needles in front of the mayor and city council members’ homes until they do something about it THAT WORKS. I don’t even live in Seattle.

– Thanh in Bellevue

Call it the drug crisis, not homeless crisis

Good afternoon Dori and staff. Over the past several weeks, I, like many, have been giving a lot of thought to the “Seattle is Dying” report. The city has a narrative, and to a large measure, that narrative is captured in the title chosen to describe it. The city calls it a “homeless crisis,” and for the most part, everyone follows suit. This gives the city control of the narrative. It is similar to changing the narrative on “global warming” to “climate change” when certain facts did not fit the title. I challenge you and other media to seize control of the crisis in Seattle by calling it by an appropriate title. Please consider calling it “the Drug and mental illness crisis,” which describes the actual crisis. That is what I am doing going forward. To me the “homeless crisis” is reserved for those who are not homeless by choice and are actively seeking help to get out of their situation. They constitute a small percentage of the thousands whom the city has attracted by its policies. Thanks for considering my suggestion.

– Michael in Gig Harbor

The Seattle City Council is approaching “Idiocracy”

Ah, the $15-an-hour minimum wage … ask Seattle minimum wage earners, at $15 an hour, how that is going for them. It just meant a cut in hours for most, which equals less earned income. And then there are the ‘living wage’ restaurants in Seattle city limits that tack on a specific amount of gratuity to a patron’s meal that is suppose to ‘equalize’ the amount of earnings a service person(s) in a restaurant/bar receives into a ‘fair’ amount of wage. Guess what? When presented with this forced gratuity placed on a visit to a restaurant in Seattle (that means ALL sit down establishments), regardless of the level of service, aptitude, or attitude, that will be the most that service employee receives from me. Why? Because it was forced upon me to pay by the Seattle City Council in their attempt to make a society that looks to government to ‘make things fair,’ even if it means dumbing down everyone to a level where no one really cares.

It seems a lot like the movie “Idiocracy” is upon us. I was in Seattle last weekend to see some friends and celebrate the birth of their first grandchild. I was appalled at the restaurant prices and the audacity of the ‘living wage’ tax, ahem, gouge, placed on our meals. I won’t pick Seattle proper as a place to visit, I will NEVER think of adding anymore to the ‘assigned’ amount of gratuity, and I feel so sad for the hardworking, decent people who are being caught in the middle because the Seattle City Council is nothing more than a socialist cesspool that actually brings people down their road to “Idiocracy” as a way to finance their own gain. I really cannot stand going to Seattle anymore. From now on, I’m just going to bring out-of-state friends and family anywhere else.

– Paula in Skagit Valley