And John and Ken of LA afternoon drivetime radio must be a bit, uh, disappointed.
They had targeted Dreier (Rep.) as a “political human sacrifice” because of his supposedly poor record on fighting illegal immigration, a big issue in California. John and Ken pride themselves on their “political independence”, having also fought in the battle to unseat former Governor Gray Davis.
The story was like this: since Republicans don’t do any better at stopping illegal immigration than Dems, why should we vote for them just because we hope they will? So John and Ken tried to get Republicans to vote against Dreier, just to “send a message” that poor performance on the issue would no longer be tolerated.
What John and Ken don’t get: the major media is a MUCH larger problem than the politicians in this arena. The vast majority of news coverage is sympathetic to illegals, not to those who are hurt by the illegals being here.
J&K made much of the fact that Dreier stopped coming on their show to be assaulted by them.
I’ll be really impressed when they get the editors of the LA Times and network news shows to come on for hour long to segments to be grilled on their news coverage re: illegals.
In the meantime, Dreier proved that such stunts don’t work, by winning handily with an 11% margin over his nearest opponent., 54% to 43%. Hopefully, J&K will eat some humble pie on air, and then invite the major news bottleneck guardians to come on and talk about the issue. I doubt they’ll get a lot of response from them, though….
John and Ken are right that the Republicans talk a lot more than they act on the issue. They need to use their clout (of which they do have a little, in spite of failing here) to attach the real problem.
