Groups want 'John and Ken' show off the air - YES! Virulently racist radio hosts.

[Liberal_in_LA]

these guys are as bigotted as Rush Limbaugh, maybe more. More in some ways. Many shows are naked invites for callers to trash people of color, women, immigrants. I use to wonder how they got away with it. and many mainstream companies advertise on their show. Trust me their rhetorics is UGLY. Most racist stuff I've ever heard. Basically equating blacks and hispanics with savages. Lots of talk about "their culture".


Groups want 'John and Ken' show off the air

The popular KFI radio hosts gave out the cellphone number of an immigrant rights activist, prompting hate-filled calls. Minority and immigrant rights groups say they will boycott advertisers if the show isn't taken off the air.



Long-time immigrant rights activist Jorge-Mario Cabrera is used to being called to task for his views. But when radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou recently gave out his cellphone number on the air in a campaign against the California Dream Act, he found himself unprepared for the barrage of hate-filled phone calls that followed.

"Hi, this message is for Mr. Cabrera," one caller said in a voice mail transcribed by Cabrera. "Listen, you pile of garbage…You need to pack your up and go back to wherever it is you came from. Nobody wants you here. You are invading the legal people that are in this country and ruining this country. I hope you choke in your own vomit."

In the days after the KFI-AM (640) radio hosts read Cabrera's cellphone and office numbers on the air and told listeners opposed to state tuition assistance for illegal immigrants to call him, Cabrera, a spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, got more than 400 calls, many of them filled with hateful language and calls for violence.

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The incident struck a chord among leaders of civil and immigrant rights groups across the state, many of whom saw it as the latest example in a long history of the popular radio show inciting anger and vitriol.

"It was the last straw," said Alex Nogales, president and chief executive of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "These guys have been at it day in and day out. It's the same ugly rhetoric."

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"For years John and Ken have terrorized Los Angeles' Latino, Asian American and African American communities, creating an atmosphere of hate and intolerance and legitimizing violence and discrimination," the letter said. "There is every reason to believe it is John and Ken's intent to incite these verbal assaults and threats."

This month, the Korean American Community Lawyers Assn. also wrote to the station to complain about racist comments against Asians made by host Bill Handel during the "Handel on the Law" show, including one segment in which he said "Korean people hate Filipinos when you're spending money there and they love you when you're cooking up your dog."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-john-and-ken-20110930,0,6290281.story

[GSLevel9]

1. You're talking about the #1 rated "afternoon drive" radio program in the state...

Good luck, lol

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. I'm all for any attempt to get them off the air.

[Pigheaded]

2. First amendment and all that

Even though I disagree with those jerks.

PH

[kestrel91316]

5. Free market and all that.........

People can and should boycott companies that advertise on racist shows.

[Throd]

7. Tuning knob on car radio and all that...

[Champion Jack]

3. They have been assholes for as long as they've been on the air

[Initech]

4. I quit listening to those assholes a long time ago.

[savalez]

6. A very long time ago,

before I knew better, I listened to their show and remember hearing John say that if he were drunk driving and killed a pedestrian he would flee the seen. He argued that it would be the right thing to do because otherwise he would go to jail and would not be able to provide for his family. Twisted logic but what else can you expect from him. I stopped listening after that.

[KamaAina]

8. They referred to one of our local assemblymembers as the chair of the "parasite committee"

by which they meant the Human Services Committee. :eyes:

[Taverner]

10. It's about time these racist ass-hats got off the air

Hate radio at its worst

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. yep.

[zappaman]

11. Big douchebags.

In fact, they give douchebags a bad name.