[Sabertooth]

Hewitt definitely has been slow on the learning curve on the colonistas. Even though he's now SoCal local, both he and Limbaugh suffer from an East of the Mississippi blindness about it. I really don't get it.

Medved's even worse. "Spot on" on just about everything but the colonistas. And he's from La Jolla!

[onyx]

Medved's from La Jolla? Gee, I remember a little brief-case carrying dweeb by his same name who lived in Point Loma.

[Pelham]

I agree with you, except that Hughie isn't, and never will be, a SoCal Local. He has a surface understanding of SoCal, but that's it. He never bothered to learn the territory when he came here- he just planted himself in the yuppie Fantasyland of Irvine, and used his Nixon Library connection to ensconce himself as the housepet "conservative" on KCET.

His interests were national and global, which is fine, but the twit has no understanding of the region he lives in. Those of us who have lived here since the 60s know the seismic demographic changes that have hit SoCal, and role that mass immigration has played in this. Any "local" knows this. What we have in Hugh is an ambitious politician who panders to the ethnic lobbies with an eye to his future political viability. Bill Clinton would approve.

As for Medved, you're "spot on". He also lived for many years in Santa Monica, and has no excuse. If it's all so great, why did he flee to the Pacific Northwest? Someone skewered him good last week on his "just give up, you can't change it" attitude on immigration. The caller wanted to know if Michael was still going to sing that tired song now that we know that many of the terrorists had overstayed, or otherwise violated the terms of their visas. Medved's attempt to weasel out of this predicament was pathetic. Apparently the words "I was wrong" aren't in his vocabulary.