By Nicholas Stix
My title exaggerates only slightly. Increasingly, white men are being imprisoned merely for offending blacks.
Previously, on both Whitney Houston, and white men who have been jailed for offending blacks, at WEJB/NSU:
“O Canada!—Modern Show Trials”;
“Report from Occupied America: Free the Mizzou Two!;
“There’s Your Dialogue on Race: Three White Louisiana Men Convicted of a Hate Crime for Hanging a Dead Raccoon from a Flag Pole”;
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”; and
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston.”]
Radio Hosts Suspended After Calling Whitney Houston “Crack Ho,” “Bag Lady”
February 17, 2012 9:20 a.m.
CBS Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBS) – Two of the Southland’s most outspoken radio personalities will go silent all next week after making controversial remarks about the passing of Whitney Houston.
KFI AM 640 suspended John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of the “John and Ken Show,” for “making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston,” it said in a statement Thursday.
“Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind,” the station said.
According to audio posted online at UrbanInformer.com, the hosts called the late singer a “crack ho” who was “cracked out for 20 years” and left looking like a “bag lady” after she “blew through” her fortune.
The popular on-air duo even asked “It took this long?” when discussing her untimely death. [N.S.: “Untimely”?]
Kobylt said in statement that he and Chiampou “used language that was inappropriate” and they “sincerely apologize” to their listeners and to Houston’s family.
“We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision,” said Kobylt.
The hosts, who broadcast their show weekday afternoons, will return to the airwaves Feb. 27.
Kobylt and Chiampou often rail against taxes and illegal immigration. The National Hispanic Media Coalition said last year that it targeted the show’s advertisers to urge them to stop backing the program.
The group said the hosts promote hate speech and appealed to listeners to call and harass an advocate for immigrant rights about state legislation to give financial aid to illegal immigrant college students.
“A temporary suspension is not enough,” Alex Nogales, president and CEO of NHMC, said in a statement. “How many times do John and Ken get to spew their hate, apologize and then do it again after taking off a long weekend? KFI must permanently remove John and Ken from the air. Los Angeles deserves better.”
The pair will be off the air until Feb. 27.
2 comments:
wait a miniute houston was a crack ho so why are the mexicans and knee grows up set?
U are just stupid! There's no other way to put it! Whitney Houston's addiction was no different from millions of people in this world! I'm sure u have a member of your family addicted to something so stop passing judgement unless u are perfect! And that is not possible! Knee grows? o_O Wow! How creative coming from a crack-her! Ritz or townhouse? Lol.
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