[P-Marlowe]

John and Ken are personally responsible for getting rid of Gray Davis. Their tenacity on the recall petition was the driving force that led to the recall.

I don't agree with their usually liberal politics, but these guys are populist heroes. They don't take any cr@p from politicians. Republican or Democrat.

[BurbankKarl]

London Financial Times

OBSERVER: Homeland Security has been alerted

Financial Times; Jul 08, 2004

Asa Hutchinson, under-secretary at the Homeland Security Department, surely has a lot on his mind. Now he has to contend with the fall-out from John and Ken, the hosts of Los Angeles' most popular drive-time talk show, who told listeners to give him a piece of their mind.

Brimming with bile, they announced the White House had called to demand Hutchinson's phone number and e-mail address be removed from their KFI 640 station website.

Claiming they had been informed that "thousands" of messages were jamming the system and preventing Hutchinson from getting his job done, the hosts responded by repeating his contact details on air.

Hutchinson's first mistake, by their account, was to call off a series of sweeps by the Border Patrol - which had netted more than 400 undocumented immigrants in the LA area - and to propose that the patrolmen stick closer to the Mexican border. The duo had hailed the actions as a long-overdue counter to the flood of "illegal aliens", who, they have claimed ad nauseam, number 2m in southern California and cost taxpayers $5bn a year.

Hutchinson's second mistake was to imagine that a "swill-spewing spokeshole" (their generic term for all media officials) from the Bush administration would carry any weight with them. "We're terrified!" bawled John Kobylt, relishing the recognition. "It's John and Ken against the White House."

[doug from upland]

They also helped with THREE STRIKES. And, they got those attorneys shut down who were shaking down hundreds of businesses.

[Dane]

John and Ken are personally responsible for getting rid of Gray Davis. Their tenacity on the recall petition was the driving force that led to the recall.

I don't agree with their usually liberal politics, but these guys are populist heroes. They don't take any cr@p from politicians. Republican or Democrat

Then how come they aren't taking either Feinstein or Boxer to task, since they are medding in Homeland Security.

[truthkeeper]

They were in New Jersey before L.A. It's my understanding that they had a lot to do with the efforts to dump Jim Florio, which worked. I think they organized the toilet paper protest too.

[L.N. Smithee]

John and Ken are personally responsible for getting rid of Gray Davis. Their tenacity on the recall petition was the driving force that led to the recall.

Nonsense. Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan of KSFO (San Francisco) had the first recorded conversation on the air with Howard Kaloogian regarding circulating a recall Davis petition. John and Ken's efforts were later.