When Debate Goes to the Dogs
It’s never easy to match radio hosts John and Ken at KFI radio when it comes to matters of juvenile poor taste but, by golly, a group of Los Angeles community activists is going to try.
You’ll recall that Ken and John are the radio hosts who threw a hissy fit after the city council settled a racial harassment suit filed by a firefighter whose colleagues laced his dinner with dog food for $2.7 million.
Rushing to the defense of misunderstood good ole boys everywhere, they urged their listeners to send cans of dog food to the city council.
The thinking behind this, apparently, was that as the Los Angeles Fire Department and the city itself struggle with a sense of intensifying racial polarization, 3-D insults that city leaders could hold in their own hands would be a big help.
Now some black leaders are tossing out more historic methods of protest and resorting to a time-honored method of retaliation favored by 6 year olds: tit-for-tat.
They’re launching a campaign of their own—asking African Americans to return the insult by mailing cans of dog food to Ken and John.
“The dog food campaign is the community’s way of telling KFI that we will no longer tolerate racial abuse under the guise of free speech and to grab ratings,” said Lita Herron, President of the Youth Advocacy Coalition.
So there. Take that. And as the kids used to say:
“I’m rubber and you’re glue. Everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.”
I think you've summed it up pretty well.
Posted by: Tim McGarry | December 07, 2006 at 09:37 AM
For those who missed the message it was a "Return (their vulgar message) to Sender" not tit-for-tat. They however invited us to send them sheets. What would have been the appropriate response for that? We were "Kramer'ed" (sorry Jerry) just short of using the n-word and we want it exposed.
(previewing this message did not reveal all, will be interesting to see what is done to the final post)
Posted by: Lita Herron | December 07, 2006 at 11:53 AM
Don't you think it's appropriate to throw a hissy fit when 2.7 million dollars is being thrown away on what was a bad prank, at the most? Or do you not care about taxpayer money going to people filing frivilous claims?
You seem to have a problem with John and Ken's passion. Why is it good to have passion if you're on the left, but bad if you're on the right?
Posted by: David Prater | December 07, 2006 at 01:21 PM
The black leaders in the community need to stop rallying behind anyone who screams "Racism". Tennie Pierce was a practical joker who called himself the "Big Dog". The day before the dog food incident, he taunted fellow firefighetrs at a volleyball game by saying, "Feed the Big Dog". So the prank was feeding him dog food, of which he ate two bites. John and Ken are prtotecting out tax money-two bites of dog food does not warrnt any amount of money when the recipient is a proven prankster who poses for photos with naked men being hazed and wearing "Oy Vey I'm gay" signs. John and Ken are my heroes.
Black leaders need to focus on real racism. Supporting bitter pranksters only diminshes the threat of real racism when it occurs.
Posted by: Norman Dostal | December 07, 2006 at 05:04 PM