California Assembly Speaker: Conservative Talkers Are Terrorists By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) June 27, 2009 - 14:34 ET Conservative talk radio hosts are terrorists. So said the Speaker of California's Assembly in an interview published at the Los Angeles Times Saturday. As amazing as it may seem, this was Karen Bass's (D-LA) response to the question, "How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work?" (h/t NBer Gary Hall):