John and Ken's (Los Angeles RW talk show hosts) Misguided Fury on Immigration

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Last week I got a real taste of how far these low-brow instigators will go and how low they will stoop to "stimulate" political discourse. For these trash-talking agitators any type of immigrant integration legislation is "treasonous", any immigrant supporter a "traitor", and tax-payers (code word for non-immigrant, white males) should be mad-as-hell about it all.

Late last week John and Ken decided that pushing the envelope with rabid anti-immigrant rubbish was not enough. After much on-air ranting and raving about what they labeled "the illegal alien California DREAM Act"(AB131-Cedillo) scheduled for a vote in the California Assembly the following day, they proceeded to verbally attack the "Mexican Democratic mafia" in the California State Assembly and the "traitorous" bill author Assemblyman Gill Cedillo.

"Nothing makes them happier than stealing money from an American kid and giving it to an illegal kid. They get aroused, they get excited," asserted one of the shock jocks referring to supporters of the California DREAM Act. "We got to cause trouble. They are the traitors, they have committed treason," the second shock jock chimed in. (AB131 was approved on Friday by the California State Assembly and will now go to the Governor Brown's desk). As unsavory but wildly-popular as their venting can be, public officials face this type of verbal attack constantly from the right and the left and everything in between. But when these toxic assaults violate a citizen's privacy, it is a whole different matter.

This all changed last Thursday when John and Ken decided that during the show's popular 5 pm hour, my name, my office's direct line, and my personal cell phone number were fair game as they taunted their audience to rise up against California's attempt to pass AB131, part two of the California DREAM Act. Call Jorge, the DJs pressed the audience, to "congratulate him for stealing your taxpayer money". They went ahead and read out loud both of my phone numbers as listed in a press advisory I had sent KFI's news director. Although my phone contacts were clearly labeled, radio listeners were not informed that one of the numbers was a mobile number and likely a private number meant to be used by media outlets only.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jorgemario-cabrera/john-and-kens-fury-on-imm_b_949237.html