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.
My top four guys on AM talk (in no particular order) are Hewitt, Limbaugh, Medved, and Elder... and they're ALL WRONG on the reconquista.
Weird.
I'm liking Hannity now that he's down here, but haven't nailed his position on the colonistas. He's east of the Mississippi, so he's probably wrong, too.
BTW, I gotta fess, I've only been SoCal myself since '87, but before that I was San Jose born and raised. Many of the same problems there, five years behind the L.A. curve.