Personally I feel this was a little insensitive, but is it a racial thing? Would it be offensive if these two white radio jocks were talking about someone like Amy Whinehouse, not Whitney Houston an African American icon!
According to the NY Daily News:
A Los Angeles talk radio team has been suspended for 10 days for referring to the late Whitney Houston as a “crack ho.”
John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, known as John and Ken on KFI in Los Angeles, apologized for the comments, and said they accepted the suspension.
During an on-air discussion in the wake of Houston’s death last Saturday, Kobylt said, “At some point you’re just sick of it all, and so is everybody else in the industry. All her friends and hangers-on; everybody who knew had to deal with her.
“It’s like, ‘Ah Jesus . . . here comes the crack ho again, what’s she gonna do? Ah, look at that — she’s doin’ handstands next to the pool. Very good, crack ho . . . ‘ After a while, everybody’s exhausted. And then you find out she’s dead. It’s like, ‘Really? Took this long?’ ”
The station issued a statement calling the statements “insensitive and inappropriate. . . . KFI management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind.”
Kobylt, in a statement, said, “We made a mistake. We used language that was inappropriate and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston.”
KFI says they will return to the air Feb. 27.
SOURCE: NY DAILY NEWS
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