Posted on 04/15/2006 4:44:07 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A San Francisco radio talk show team was fired over the weekend after offering on air a reward to have Penn Jillette killed for making inflammatory comments about Mother Teresa.
CBS affiliate KIFR-FM 106.9 fired host John London, his producer Dennis Cruz and sports reporter Chris Townsend for comments during a two-hour rant April 4, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
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No but here's another story. The station is owned by CBS and London says he was being sarcastic.
>>Talk show host John London was fired by KIFR/San Francisco "Free FM" over the weekend after offering cash to have comedian Penn Jillette killed. London, his producer Dennis Cruz and sports reporter Chris Townsend were all suspended on Friday, and then fired by the CBS Radio station over the weekend. London said his offer was an "obviously sarcastic" response to a radio show that Jillette did attacking Mother Teresa and calling her a fraud, according to the Mercury News.<<
http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=200316
The names of John London and Chris Townsend are pretty familiar to me--they used to be on KNBR (680 AM) for a number of years.
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