LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles radio station has pulled two popular talk radio hosts off the air for comments they made about Whitney Houston.

KFI AM 640 suspended John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of the "John and Ken Show," for "making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston," it said in a statement Thursday.

"Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind," the station said.

According to audio posted online at UrbanInformer.com, the hosts called the late singer a "crack ho" and said she was "cracked out for 20 years."

Kobylt said in statement that he and Chiampou "used language that was inappropriate" and they "sincerely apologize" to their listeners and to Houston's family.

"We made a mistake, and we accept the station's decision," said Kobylt.

The hosts, who broadcast their show weekday afternoons, will return to the airwaves Feb. 27.

Kobylt and Chiampou often rail against taxes and illegal immigration. The National Hispanic Media Coalition said last year that it targeted the show's advertisers to urge them to stop backing the program.

The group said the hosts promote hate speech and appealed to listeners to call and harass an advocate for immigrant rights about state legislation to give financial aid to illegal immigrant college students.

"A temporary suspension is not enough," Alex Nogales, president and CEO of NHMC, said in a statement. "How many times do John and Ken get to spew their hate, apologize and then do it again after taking off a long weekend? KFI must permanently remove John and Ken from the air. Los Angeles deserves better."

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2012/02/17/la_radio_hosts_suspended_for_houston_comments/

Wow, they got suspended for being honest? They were 100% right, she spent the last 20 years sucking the glass dic.

So much for freedom of speech.

Na, they didn't get suspended for telling the truth otherwise a lot of personalities from that station would be suspended. They got suspended for poking at a popular figure who just died.

Lots of hosts referred to her drug habits without a problem. The problem for John and Ken was it was too insensitive a terminology and too soon.

I'm sick of hearing about Whitney Houston, its not like she was Ozzy or Lemmy! She didn't write any of the songs she recorded and was talentless when it came to musicianship.

So honesty is now incensitive? That's stupid. She ruined her life and is a perfect teaching points for kids and it shoud be sugar coated.

She did have singing talent, even if all she did was to remakes of other peoples songs.

she doesnt need to be ozzy or lemmy,, she actually had an incredible VOCAL talent, vocal range, and soul to her music,,,,

its their employers call,, freedom of speech refers to the laws of the land, not the policies of an employer

and HO has nothing to do with drug use,, so the terminology was very insensitive,,,

She was a ho, she bounced from guy to guy and probably traded sex for drugs since she was practically broke later in life and couldn't afford the high price of the high she was chasing.

Even though her biggest hits were just remakes of someone elses original hit.

Ignorance on display as thought it were fact. Sad really. I do not condone drug use, although I certainly do not condemn marijuana, which as far as I'm aware is the only illegal drug habit that she admitted to having.

What is sad, in my opinion, is that Whitney's mistakes are the only things being used to measure her worth by many in the media and here on this site as well. Even sadder is the notion that what those mistakes actually were is nothing short of conjecture.

If Whitney constitutes being such a bad person and what not simply because she made mistakes despite the fact that throughout her life she readily gave millions to different charities in order to help less fortunate people, then what does that tell us about the value system of those drawing such conclusions? I mean, her goodness helped millions, her talent helped millions, whereas her mistakes hurt herself and perhaps those closest to her.

They're not the one's complaining about it though, are they?

Really? Right here she admits to Alcohol, Prescription Drugs Abuse, Marijuana(Which is illegal and a gateway drug BTW), and Cocaine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV5UL4CjA

BTW marijuana isn't a gateway drug, alcohol is a gateway drug.

Yep. I listen to them almost every day. They definitely tread closely to the line most of the time. I couldn't care less about Ms. Houston, but they did go too far.

Right on!

Freedom of speech means if you own a newspaper you can print what you want but John Q Public can't print stuff they want IN YOUR PAPER.

ALSO if you own a radio station, you have the say so on what gets broadcast over the air.

DUH!!!!

Lpdon you don't have a clue what freedom of speech means.

It does not mean you can use your employer's radio station to libel a celebrity. She did not do "crack" and she was not a "ho." She most likely simply abused prescription drugs.

Being guaranteed a microphone at a 50,000 watt radio station to prove you're an insensitive clod isn't a First Amendment right.

-Kerry O.

Watch the video, she admits to a lot more then just Rx drugs.

Except when it's accurate and it spikes ratings.

It doesn't matter how she died. The radio station had every right to suspend John and Ken.

For someone who doesn't think Ms. Houston should be getting so much attention, you sure do post a lot about her, Lp.

Freedom of speech? Employers make the rules. If you piss off your employer and don't follow their rules, you'll get in trouble for it. Anyone who has a job should know that.

I'm not interested in watching the stupid video. It does not excuse someone calling her a "crack ho" on a radio station.

I would have fired them too. Its simply rude, disrespectful and libelous.

And "freedom of speech" has nothing to do with it.