Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark: Should Angry White Men Like 'John & Ken' Be Allowed to Have A Radio Station to Themselves in L.A?

You condescending piece of shit, moron.  The entire point of the John and Ken rant was to condemn all of Houston's ENABLERS. Idiot. NONE OF WHOM took any responsibility for their enabling of all of Houston's demons.

insensitive yes.TRUTH YES. HOW DO YOU DRAW THE LINE.why do we have to be PC WHEN WE KNOW THE TRUTH?

John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, these two loud mouth, bias and prejudicial idiots have been continually been given a pass for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about many others in addition to the late Whitney Houston! And KFI Management has enabled condoned, supported or tolerated statements over the radio of bias if not racial prejudice statements in the past! I used to listen to the d...ifferent viewpoints.... However, I now have boycotted listening to both the program and station and advocate that other responsible citizens do the same! So let’s send this message to Mr. Greg Ashlock, radio mgr and Ms. Robin Bertolucci, program Director that this type of insulting programming will have financial consequences! This lack of civility will no longer be given a pass! Regarding Mr. Kobylt statement, "We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision. We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston.” Really? Your “Cove-Your-Ass PC apology is both insincere and not accepted! This is just one of too many racially charged insults and it is time for both of you to go back to your hole in New Jersey with your evil prejudice beliefs! We, Californians, are tolerant but you have worn out your welcome! Message from a Native Californian.

But Dennis it's not a "little radio station" it's a 50,000 watt Class I station on the EAS network. If they were KTLK there would be less attention paid to them. Ironically it could free them as well, as Michael Savage got edgier when he was on KSFO than when he did nights at KGO years ago. The problem is that the J/K show will end up like Glenn Beck - highly rated but with crappy, low paying advertisers. Dr. Cunning, Dr. Manger, and Morgan Gold and none of the major advertisers like Verizon, Cadillac (just a couple years ago, Cadillac gave Kobylt free cars to use during the week), AT&T, etc. That's just bad for business - and not to mention the collateral damage should the Black community turn its fire on Clear Channel as a whole and Beyonce, Jay-Z, etc. stop appearing on Ryan Seacrest. Clear Channel did the right thing, and the minimally acceptable thing. One more outburst and just like Glenn Beck, you can go on the low rated station or on Internet radio.

Why aren't Los Angeles' hegemonic latino radio stations being pressured to have more asians, blacks, indians and whites amongst their on-air talent roster? 

It's better than listening to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.  At least Jon and Ken are informative.

It's not about "dumb white guys having a little AM radio station to call their own." 

We didn't ask KFI to hire Black people for the sake of hiring Black people.  C'mon, really?

We explained that there are qualified Blacks to fill open positions on-air, in the newsroom, and in support positions at KFI who are in line with their audience and brand.  There are Black conservative voices like Joe Hicks and Kevin Ross, both of whom had shows on KFI and spoke to KFI's target audience.  And surely even you know that you don't have to be white to read the news on-air or to be a producer or engineer.  There are talented Blacks who work in radio in of all these various capacities but seem to be pigeoned holed by Clear Channel and shoved into their "urban" stations, I.e. Hot 92.3 (Los Angeles).  No one wants to see KFI change its format and try to cater to all people.  That’s not why I listen to KFI from Bill Handel in the mornings to the Tim Conway Jr. show in the evenings.  If that's the case I could just turn on Pacifica's KPFK.  I like KFI's format, but I'm aware that when you have a work environment where there is no true diversity, slip-ups like John's "crack ho" statement are easy to make because let's face it, he has no Black co-workers or colleagues to help desensitize him to what most Blacks would find as being intolerable language.  I would have told John that crack hos are prostitutes who have sex for crack and that Whitney was addicted to cocaine--not crack—and since she wasn't a prostitute, the reference is just all wrong to begin with and to come up with an equally colorful and slightly less offensive description of the fallen pop icon minus the word ho.

In a world where it's harder and harder to find common ground between Black and whites, liberals and conservatives, etc. on anything--the fact that so many Blacks like myself listen to KFI and enjoy John and Ken as well as the hosts is a place to start building from, not running away.

KFI is the standard bearer for Clear Channel nationwide so if KFI can't meet its own diversity statement there's a serious problem.  

What you seem to be implying is that because KFI's target audience is white, all of the staff behind the scenes should be white as well.  

Ouch.

Short answer to your headline's question:  yes.  If we ban "angry white men," then comes liberal white men, conservative white men, then angry black men, and so on down the slippery slope.  If you don't like it, turn off the radio. I don't listen to John and Ken, nor do I listen to or watch Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, et al, who all say outrageous and inflammatory things for ratings.  Telling people to whom they listen or what they watch is fun and makes us feel artifically useful, but counterproductive.