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There is growing skepticism that the Mexican government has the right people. We have also heard from reliable sources that the murder was done in retaliation for a stopped drug load the week prior, when they tried to run a truck through the border fence. See : Saturday, July 18, 2009 Campo Minutemen Thwart Drug Smugglers: http://www.campominutemen.com/reports/2009_07_01_archive.aspx Which means someone illegally entered the United States, assassinated an officer of the Federal Government and Obama has said nothing. He sent the Navy Seals to kill pirates in order to save Americans and Bill Clinton to North Korea to have Journalists, but...

I just heard now on KFI that John and Ken will interview Birch Jackson of Fact Check in reagrds to birther's

Not only does the City Council rake in nearly $180,000 a year, but they use taxpayer money for eight free cars per council member, and each of them employs a huge personal staff of 19 to 25 people. That's about 320 employees, costing Angelenos millions of dollars to support. Compare that figure to the White House Office Staff of 480. Yesterday, as City Hall squabbled over its groaning $530 million budget deficit, the City Council came under attack in the Daily News from Antonio Villaraigosa's spokesman Matt Szabo, who accused the 15 council members, even at a time like this,...

Listen to John and Ken savor victory over those who have been destroying California with runaway spending. Props 1A through 1E were trounced big time. We have had enough. The state needs to do a Chapter 9 and gets its house in order. LISTEN ONLINE TO JOHN AND KEN ON KFI They played a clip of a previous Arnold statement in which he was celebrating with peppermint Schnaps. They celebrated and drank it on the air last night. Ken drank some more this morning.

CORONASeveral thousand people turned out at a rally Saturday hosted by KFI's “The John and Ken Show” to protest proposed state tax increases. Show co-host Ken Chiampou said he and co-host John Kobylt were giving the crowd an opportunity to voice its anger and opposition to six ballot propositions that, if passed, would raise taxes. “If you've seen the polls, people are really, really angry at Sacramento,” Chiampou said. “We're in a recession. Who in the world would talk about raising taxes?” Chiampou and Kobylt estimated the crowd at 5,000; an estimated 8,000 gathered at a similar rally in March...

CORONA – Several thousand people turned out at a rally Saturday hosted by KFI's "The John and Ken Show" to protest proposed state tax increases. Show co-host Ken Chiampou said he and his co-host, John Kobylt, were giving the crowd an opportunity to voice its anger and opposition to six ballot propositions that, if passed, would raise taxes.

From Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is concerned the public may be confused about Proposition 1A ... That's because the Republican right, he asserts, is being "disingenuous" in spinning 1A as a tax increase. "Explain it a little bit simpler," he urges in a phone chat. ... "We should just simply describe 1A as a measure that will fix the broken budget system once and for all so that you never have to make those severe cuts again ... And you never have to go back to the people for tax increases again. That's it." ... "It's not fair, really,...

California Republican lawmaker says “Tea parties” are radio stunts that don’t solve real problems. Today may be “tax day”, April 15, but State Senator Abe Maldonado looks at the kind of headline-grabbing stunts being egged on by KFI, L.A.’s John & Ken and says “It’s crazy. While my state melts and burns, these folks are making money selling ads. All they care about is money in their pocket.” The KFI (640) duo’s latest effort is to agitate for the recall of one of the six GOP state legislators who voted to pass the current state budget. Maldonado says (in a...

Republican State Senator Abel Maldonado isn't mincing words: he says that "hyper-partisan" events like Tea Parties and recall rallies being pushed by radio stars like KFI's John & Ken are a glaring example of a disturbing trend -- a rise in entertainment-driven, ratings-driven political gimmicks that don't provide real solutions for voters. "It's crazy. While my state melts and burns, these folks are making money selling ads,'' Maldonado told the Chronicle. "All they care about is money in their pocket.'' Maldonado last week launched his efforts with the Reform for Change Committee, to push for Prop. 1F -- which would...

We hate the media in general, but we love afternoon talk show hosts John & Ken of KFI radio in Los Angeles. And if the media ignores their popular tax revolt movement, we’ll give them a hand.

FULLERTON, Calif. (CNS) -- An estimated 8,000 people gathered in the parking lot at the Slidebar Cafe Saturday to protest a May 19 ballot measure that would increase the state's "rainy day fund" and extend tax increases used to help close California's $40 billion deficit for one to two years, according to the Orange County Register. The three-hour rally was the first in a series to be hosted by KFI-AM (640) talk show personalities John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou to defeat Proposition 1A , Kobylt said. The pair, known on the air as John and Ken, broadcast live during the...

They're revolting. Families with children, bikers, seniors, pirates - by the thousands descended on a Fullerton bar Saturday to join talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI in protesting tax increases recently approved in Sacramento. Police estimated that some 8,000 people came to the Slidebar Café in downtown Fullerton to listen to The John & Ken Show. "I expected a lot and it was way more than I expected," said co-host John Kobylt. The talk show hosts put forward an ambitious goal for their Tax Revolt 2009 live broadcast that ran for more than three hours. "The...

Make your voice heard! 2009 Tax Revolt is on! Join John and Ken Saturday March 7, from 3-6PM Doors open at 3, live broadcast 4-6 The Slidebar Café 122 East Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton CA 92832 714-871-2233 The Slidebar Café is located in the Fullerton Transportation Center. Take your car, take the train or take the bus. Whatever you do take the time to come out and be heard! Plenty of free parking Go to the link for directions.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's octuplets mom, already jobless and receiving food stamps, has gone into hiding with her six older children because of death threats, her spokesman said on Wednesday. Nadya Suleman, 33, has come under mounting public ridicule for expanding her already large family via fertility treatments that led to the January 26 birth of six boys and two girls at a Los Angeles-area hospital. That criticism has mushroomed as it was reported that she was divorced, living with her parents, unemployed for several years, receiving disability checks for three of her children -- one of whom is...

(snip) The Republican governor took a lashing from the popular conservative Los Angeles duo as they pressed him on his proposal to raise the state sales tax by one cent. ... Schwarzenegger tried to defend new taxes as necessary because the state was still paying off debts incurred by predecessor Gov. Gray Davis. But the hosts pressed further and suggested that Schwarzenegger abandoned his original mission of fixing the state's fiscal situation in order to pursue environmental goals. That seemed to upset the governor, who maintained that his environmental policies had nothing to do with the state budget. "This is...

SAN FRANCISCO -- About a dozen members of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the U.S.-Mexican border in an effort to keep illegal immigrants out, stood on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall today to decry the city's sanctuary policy and demand that Mayor Gavin Newsom resign. They waved signs calling Newsom, District Attorney Kamala Harris and William Siffermann, head of the city's Juvenile Probation Department, "accessories to murder" for the city's now-reversed policy of not turning over illegal immigrant youths arrested for felonies to federal authorities for possible deportation. One Salvadoran immigrant who benefited from the policy, Edwin...

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This website is dedicated to telling the totally true story of John Ziegler's experience at KFI in Los Angeles. John realizes that the creation of this website probably ends any chance that he will ever again hit the highest levels of talk radio and may very well end his talk radio career totally. But he is at peace with that potential consequence because he feels there are certain truths that are worth the risk to tell, especially when you are really the only person in the world in a position to do so. This website is devoted to one of...

JOHN AND KEN ONLINE John and Ken just said that a source on the scene in D.C. told them that before Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl cast their latest vote, they checked with Ted Kennedy. Listen and comment on the show.

ANGELES (Reuters) - Karl Rove, U.S. President George W. Bush's senior political advisor, on Tuesday took the administration's message on immigration reform to Latino leaders, saying the country was approaching a "critical moment" in the debate. >br> Speaking at the annual convention of leading Latino civic group the National Council of La Raza, Rove said Bush would work with Republicans and Democrats in coming weeks to push through reform legislation that has bitterly divided Congress, the Republican Party and the nation. "We face a critical moment in our immigration debate, a moment when our nation will make an important decision...

White House adviser Karl Rove is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the annual conference of the federally funded, left-wing, open-borders-advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza. If he does not want his speech to look like an act of appeasement, he should confront La Raza on its opposition to commonsense policies designed to secure both U.S. borders and U.S. pocketbooks. La Raza, which means “The Race” in Spanish, has denounced as “horrendous” and “appalling” the House immigration bill passed in December, which was sponsored by Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) and supported by the overwhelming majority of House Republicans....

LOS ANGELES - Former President Bill Clinton praised President Bush on Saturday for supporting reforms that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to seek citizenship but said the debate in Congress is being fomented by Republicans who want to divide America. "I'm proud of him for doing it and I thanked him for doing it," he said of Bush during a "Cafe con Clinton" breakfast speech to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights advocacy group. Clinton said Bush's roots in Texas — which has one of the nation's largest Hispanic...

SACRAMENTO — State intelligence reports released Thursday by the Schwarzenegger administration include material suggesting that the governor's anti-terrorism operation was interested in the actions of the Minuteman volunteer border patrol group. The reports also include a cryptic reference to "suspicious conversations at a mosque" in San Diego. TState officials released more than 80 intelligence reports prepared for the state Office of Homeland Security, in response to The Times' disclosure that two reports carried information about domestic political protests ranging from antiwar gatherings to protect-the-seals rallies. Large sections of the reports shown to reporters had been removed. The homeland security office...

LAST WEEK, IT LOOKED as if Sacramento might use a fraction of this year's multibillion-dollar budget surplus to expand health coverage for more kids in California. But in their final budget negotiations, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature decided that it was better to cave to a small group of vocal Republicans who believe that sick 3-year-olds should be punished for their parents' actions.

Illegal Aliens: A Few Myths to Keep in Mind . . . Mexico City. Last Tuesday the Pew Hispanic Center announced that 41 percent of Mexicans surveyed in February and 46 percent questioned in May stated they would live in the United States if given "the means and opportunity." Indeed, two out of 10 people interviewed said they were prepared to enter the U.S. illegally. These figures could have amazing consequences because our Spanish- speaking neighbor has a population of nearly 106 million inhabitants.

Bringing San Diego to the forefront of the immigration debate, House Republicans will hold field hearings on the issue Wednesday at an Imperial Beach border patrol station. Two opposing immigration bills from the House and Senate will head for negotiations after the hearings senators and representatives are holding across the country this summer. San Diego area representatives have been heavily involved in the debate, some authoring sections of the House bill. Measures proposed in the House bill, H.R. 4437, include: making illegal presence in the country a felony, building 698 miles of fencing along the border, requiring employers to use...

Mexican politicians continuously demand more visas for their citizens, an expanded guest-worker program, and "regularization" of illegal aliens living north of the Rio Grande. While neglecting to mention that the United States admits nearly one million legal newcomers each year, they also fail to publicize: (1) the extremely high salaries they receive, often—in the case of federal and state legislators—more than their counterparts in developed nations that have substantially longer annual sessions, (2) the generous stipends that they grant themselves, including year-end aguinaldos and end-of-term bonuses of tens of thousands of dollars known as bonos de marcha, and (3) the...

LOS ANGELES - A potentially powerful expatriate voting bloc likely will have little effect on Mexico's presidential race because of the illegal status of many who live in the United States. Thousands of Mexican expatriates streamed into border towns Sunday to vote in their homeland's elections and others were allowed to cast absentee ballots for the first time. Still, many more were disenfranchised by their fear of crossing the border as undocumented residents. "I really wanted to vote, but I don't have papers so I couldn't go to Mexico" to get a voter card, said Adriana Lopez, 27, a housewife...

The reason why Mexico is having chilly relations with the United States because we are importing Mexico's poor and the American tapayer is paying for them. Mexico refused to do nothing about the corruption that is pervasive in all levels of government. There is a massive crime wave being committed more and more by Mexican nationals against American citizens. Could this also be another reason why there is a chill between Mexico and the United States?The author of the piece does not touch this.

Story on the House of Representatives start on hearings on immigrants. The fur will fly on this one.

What are Hispanic groups and the Democratic Party have to fear about the upcoming immigration hearings by the GOP?What are they hiding?I thought that they would be glad that they are finally to air their views in the public.

In the spirit of Liberation Theology, the USCCB released a news press release yesterday, stating they will continue their drive for passage of CIRA. This means they support of unrestricted illegal immigration to the United States despite the costs to taxpayers.The bishops are continuing their drive even though CIRA is vastly unpopular with the American people and a vast majority of Catholics. This news release has not been widely disseminated and everyone here gets a first look.

I am posting this article because very few people know that the Catholic Church is going out of their way to make sure CIRA is the law of the land. The church has supported illegal immigration for many years and they have been active in getting CIRA passed. I also publishing this article in the hopes that the many Catholics who support the House of Representatives would know what their church is doing on the illegal immigration issue in the United States. I really do not think that Roman Catholics know the churches position on this matter.I know that there...

Guys this is a propaganda piece from the California Charter Schools Association in support of Marcus Aguilar and his school. It was released on June 7, 2006 and it flew under the radar. Since I like taking news that have been thrown in the garbage, I thought I would share it with you. What is interesting is the press release are filled with lies and it tries to promote Mr. Aguilar and the make up of the school itself. This "press release also tries to blame us(even though it does not name us) for the dissiminating bad information and inflammantory...

There is an organization that actually tracks people who hire illegal aliens. They track corporations and people in all 50 states. It was recently featured in LA based program hosted by "John and Ken". These hosts have been estremely active in the immigration debate because it affects residents of Southern Calfornia. They also take photographs of the owners the companies that hire illegal immigrants. Their website: www.WeHireAliens.org

ORIGINAL THREAD John and Ken have just read an email that was received by a KFI listener from KTTV. Apparently, KTTV has been bombarded with complaints about the racist comments made by newscaster Tony Valdez --- "You took this country. You killed people to take this country for yourselves." According to the email, Valdez will apologize on his Sunday television show. In Los Angeles, it is at 9am on channel 11 following FOX NEWS SUNDAY. After posting the number, I have a feeling that many FReepers made complaints. I left a message on Valdez's machine demanding an apology and...

Editor's Note: African-Americans who rallied for clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams must do the same for Clarence Ray Allen, a non-black, 76-year-old blind man just weeks away from execution, the writer says. LOS ANGELES--In the wee hours of the morning on Jan. 17, another man will be put to death by lethal injection in the State of California. This comes exactly 36 days after the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. But where are the protesters? With less than a month to go before the scheduled execution of a 76-year-old blind, deaf and wheelchair-confined man, there has been no public outcry...

LISTEN TO JOHN AND KEN ONLINE - 3PM PACIFIC Listen and comment. How surprised would you be if they discussed today's Tookie funeral?

Think the debate over Tookie Williams ended with his execution? Guess again. Issuing a public challenge, The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Earl Ofari Hutchinson and Jasmyne Cannick have accused KFI's John and Ken of racism. They insist proof is found in the pair's supposed reluctance to insist a white man on death row be quickly put to death: The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable’s Earl Ofari Hutchinson and Jasmyne Cannick have issued a public challenge to controversial radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the John and Ken Show of AM 640 KFI (Los Angeles) to prove that...

Is talk radio really just an entertainment medium, or do listeners expect bona fide activism from air personalities? In the past, I'd always believed it was about appealing to a segment of the radio audience and primarily reflecting that group's political viewpoints. It's now clear, however, that faced with an increasing number of new media choices, talk radio listeners want quite a lot more. Simply being entertaining, timely and compelling isn't enough: led by the blogosphere, there's a sense that if the Internet can hold Dan Rather accountable, why can't talk radio? Blogs have raised the bar and hosts are...

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LISTEN TO THE JOHN AND KEN SHOW ON KFI IN LOS ANGELES - start time is 3pm Pacific Gee, I wonder if they'll be talking Tookie today.

Looking for easy scapegoats after a series of violent "white" vs. "Arab" attacks in Australia, Islamic leaders and news media outlets have been quick to fault talk radio for fanning the flames. From the London Times: - Yesterday, Islamic leaders blamed the trouble on influential talk radio hosts who had whipped up racial tensions in the wake of last weekend’s attack on the lifesavers, who epitomise Australia’s white traditions and Anglo-Saxon roots. From The Mercury in South Africa: - The President of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, Keysar Trad, said the violence was "bound to happen" after callers to...

JOHN AND KEN on KFI live from San Quentin -- OFFICIAL TOOKIE WILLIAMS countdown thread KFI's John and Ken begin their special broadcast from San Quentin today at 3pm Pacific. KFI will broadcast the event until 1am on Tuesday morning. If this monster really cares about kids, he will admit what he did, apologize to the families, apologize to supporters of whom he has made fools, and tell kids this is how they will end up if they take someone's life. 3PM PACIFIC - listen online to John and Ken broadcasting from outside San Quentin ***TOOKIE COUNTDOWN CLOCK*** SAN QUENTIN...

Okay, folks, once again we gather at the computer to have fun with the TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR on KFI in Los Angeles. John and Ken will provide the fireworks. LISTEN ONLINE

Pursuant to the L.A. County's recent presentation of arguments in the Tookie Williams case, the following are their crime statistics for gang-related crimes in the city of Los Angeles in 2004. HOMICIDES: 291 ATTEMPTED HOMICIDES: 717 FELONY ASSAULTS: 2,616 ATTACKS ON POLICE: 61 ROBBERIES: 2,308 KIDNAPPINGS: 44 RAPES: 36 WITNESS INTIMIDATION: 754 ACTS OF EXTORTION: 20 CARJACKINGS: 188 It must be noted that these are only those crimes where victims were brave enough to contact the police and in just the city of Los Angeles. The actual number of crimes is likely significantly higher. The quadruple murderer (probably more), the...

JOIN THE FUN - 5pm PACIFIC KFI 640: LISTEN ONLINE TO JOHN AND KEN'S FAMOUS "TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR" -- 5pm Pacific Yes, Tookie Williams no longer needs to worry about expiration dates on dairy products. I don't believe he will do it, but if Arnold grants clemency, look for Saddam Hussein to start writing children's books.

LISTEN TO JOHN AND KEN ONLINE AT 5PM PACIFIC --- THE FAMOUS "TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR" The "community" is really upset with John and Ken and their TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR. It is driving them absolutely insane. John and Ken will broadcast their show on Dec. 12 from outside San Quentin. I understand that John Ziegler will be there. Zig has the 7-10 shift. Unfortunately, George Noory is on KFI at 10pm. I doubt that he will broadcast the execution on COAST TO COAST. That's okay. Maybe he can have on Major Ed Dames to remote view or a...

Sorry for being late, gang. Tonight only, the TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR on John and Ken is at 6pm. See you here soon for the fun and discussion. LISTEN TO THE JOHN AND KEN "TOOKIE MUST DIE HOUR" ONLINE - today it's 6pm instead of the normal 5pm hour