Los Angeles hired gun con men, John and Ken of KFI AM 640 decided to bully a local School district that had to cancel a band's overnight trip to the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona due to monetary problems that John and Ken largely caused.
You see last Spring when Schwarzenegger's budget fixes were set to be on the June ballot (Props 1A through 1F), the evil duo spent hour after hour on one of the most powerful radio broadcast signal in Southern California (50,000 watts) urging listeners to vote against the fixes. They wanted to bankrupt the state and force massive cutbacks in needed state programs and public education. They prevailed. There were massive cutbacks including at the public school district they now are using hours of air time to spread false charges about.
When they are on the air, they allow no other point of view on their four hour afternoon daily broadcast which has the largest square mileage range of any station and a massive audience. According to Arbitron more than one and half million listen. Perfect set up for the bullies and cowards that John and Ken are. They control what is said, who says i,t and for how long. No equal time allowed. Not even unequal time for rebuttals. Bullies don't like fairness of any kind.
John and Ken used their massive gift of air time to organize a giant rally in Corona in Riverside against the budget fixes in the Spring of 2009. Thousands came. Some of their brain addled followers said things like, 'My daughter is in college and we need Cal Grant money to afford to keep her there, so we are voting against Prop 1A through 1F.'* Never considering that Cal Grant money comes from the state budget and if the Propositions were not passed, then there would not be enough money. Sure enough Cal Grants were drastically slashed when the props failed.
John and Ken did the job they were paid to do. They stirred their audience into frenzies of non thinking actions and chanting slogans.** Their foolish followers listened. They followed the instruction of the paid agitators and voted against the Props. They all hurt themselves and their families while making sure that those ricos, who pay John and Ken to tell the lies the ricos want the public to hear, do not have to pay their fair share of taxes for public education or services and benefits for the middle class and poor.
Now in rich irony, the hypocrites John and Ken heavily criticize, on the PUBLIC airwaves, a public school district that had to make cuts as a result of John and Ken being successful in their paid job as "opinion makers". They successfully moved their listeners to defeat the proposition fix.
The good folks at the public school district were inundated by calls and complaints from John and Ken listeners based on the the misinformation John and Ken crafted. Imagine how awful it must have been for some sweet phone receptionist at the district office. Hit by a broadside that she did not expect. How much school business was not finished that day? How much did that loss of effective time cost taxpayers? Wasted taxpayer monies, how could that be when the hired guns, John and Ken, tell us daily that they are on the taxpayers side? Do liars lie? Do conmen con?
Here is the URL of the article about the baseless attack that the radio bullies and conmen John and Ken perpetrated on an innocent public school district:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/swcounty/article_d3461199-2fa2-5ac5-8cde-c37b5c16a4f0.html
REGION: Sometimes no news is good news for school districts School districts deal with outside publicity By CRAIG SHULTZ - cshultz@californian.com | Posted: May 22, 2010 8:49 pm The Temecula Valley Unified School District was lambasted on the radio earlier this month after the Great Oak High School band pulled out of the Fiesta Bowl National Band Championships. The district said the withdrawal was financially driven, while KFI 640 AM's "The John and Ken" show questioned whether the school made a political decision based on Arizona's new immigration law.
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*From the article about the rally and its lame participants found here:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/05/16/news/californian/riverside/z15d6b5ab0a89e0e0882575b700672eaa.txt
Debbie Adams said the issue is personal for her because she is an English teacher who is trying to help put her daughter through college. Just recently, her daughter's state grant money was cut by 15 percent. "Where am I going to get that 15 percent?" she asked.
We know Cal Grants funds were drastically cut after the defeat of 1A through 1F. But don't you just wonder how much Debbie Adams English teacher salary was cut this year because the state did not have money to pay her full salary?
How ironic. The liars John and Ken can motivate folks to hurt themselves just by carefully conceived and delivered propaganda that is bought and paid for by the wealthy. Scary the power of disinformation.
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At one point during the rally, the crowd, cheered on by the radio show hosts, chanted in unison: "Liars, thieves and whores! Liars, thieves and whores! Liars, thieves and whores!"
The fools were chanting about the elected Democrats in the State Assembly and Senate in Sacramento. Those Democrats have been the only ones and I do me only ones that have tried to do anything to stop the giant cuts in school budgets.
The new breed of Republicans in the Assembly and State Senate just say no to every budget fix. They vote in 100% unison with no dissent, I am sad to say.
There was a time not long ago when the Republican Party consisted of mostly decent well educated folks. No more. The easily led mob demands that elected Republicans do whatever John and Ken, Rush Limbaugh, and FOX tell them to do. That well manipulated mob now controls the Republican Party, my party, the party of my father, grandfather, and great grandfather. How tragic!
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More about the massive propaganda machine that is KF-lie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFI
In the Spring 2006 quarter Arbitron rating, KFI was the most listened to radio station in Los Angeles, averaging approximately 1.5 million listeners during any given weekday. The station was the most listened to AM radio station as well as the most listened to news/talk radio station in the country, beating out WABC in New York City.
KFI is a talk radio station owned by Clear Channel Communications, the largest U.S. radio owner. KFI is a member of the Fox News Radio network and Fox News reporters appear on the statio
On Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 9:45 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, Jim and Mary Ghosoph were killed when their rented Cessna 182P single engine airplane, travelling from the El Monte Airport to Fullerton Municipal Airport, struck KFI's transmission tower, located in the City of La Mirada. KFI and Clear Channel Communications management responded by saying the tower was in compliance with FCC and FAA regulations and that it did not need to make any changes.
Read more about John and Ken here:
http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2009/03/unions-provide-american-dream.html
and here:
http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2009/05/kfi-am-640-john-and-ken-bully-and.html
and here:
http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2009/05/massive-pay-cut-for-vista-teachers-if.html
and here:
http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2009/05/baby-sitters-make-more-money-than.html
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