Are these people trying to get fired?

exigent · #1 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 12:11 PM

Just days after Imus gets fired. Two NYC radio personalities prank call a chinese restaurant and play to several chinese stereotypes.

Something is seriously wrong with our society if Imus gets fired for making a racial joke and these guys don't

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NEW YORK A pair of radio shock jocks who began their careers in the Bay Area find themselves again in hot water over a prank phone call broadcast that offended Asian Americans.

Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, hosts of "The Dog House With JV and Elvis," a show that aired on radio station WFNY in New York, have been taken off the air after protests from the Chinese-American community.

WFNY is owned by CBS Radio, which fired Don Imus earlier this month for his comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team on another CBS-owned radio station.

In the WFNY prank call broadcast, a caller is heard speaking on the phone apparently to workers at a Chinese restaurant.

The caller says, "Chinese man, tell me about your tiny egg roll" and is heard placing an order for "very large slimp flied lice."

Ben Fong-Torres is the radio critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He called for JV and Elvis to be fired and added that it wouldn't be the first time for the duo. They were fired from San Francisco radio station KYLD (94.9 FM) in 2005 for what were characterized as sexist comments.

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_113200845.html

JavaBlack · #2 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 12:16 PM

But there is no huge lobby organization to stand up for the Chinese. Don't expect Al Sharpton to do it. Or Jesse Jackson. Certainly not the NAACP or the Jewish Anti-Defamation League or the Muslim Anti-Defamation League. No, I'm afraid not even the homosexual anti-defamation groups will stand up for them. Sorry, Chinese, you're on your own.

exigent · #3 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 12:18 PM

So racism only exists if there is publicity? Unless it can be represented, it will go unchallenged?

Besides they're crafty, they can fend for themselves just fine, it is if they let it bother them THAT much.

Force-of-the-Truth · #4 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 12:18 PM

Take out the trash and fire the racists. Yes, they do have free speech, but firing them is part of the free market.

JavaBlack · #5 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by exigent";p=&quot

So racism only exists if there is publicity? Unless it can be represented, it will go unchallenged?

That's the way it is. No representation means no threat means more of the same. It's sad that the groups do not take the "they came for the communists but I am not a communist so I said nothing... blah blah blah... Now there is no one else to say something for me" mentality... equally sad that getting people fired is their focus rather than bringing up honest discussion on the issue.

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Originally Posted by Force-of-the-Truth";p=&quot

Take out the trash and fire the racists. Yes, they do have free speech, but firing them is part of the free market.

It's not if there is no threat of bad publicity.

exigent · #6 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 01:05 PM

Even though it was a local, non-syndicated show, this will prove a double-standard definately exists if these guys dont get fired. Maybe Sharpton and Jackson should get involved, even though they represent an entirely different group--racism is racism. By them not getting involved is them saying that some forms of racism are fine, so long as those forms arent anti-black.

Local asian-american and chinese american advocacy groups ARE getting involved, and it has been getting a lot of publicity for a local radio station.

JavaBlack · #7 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 01:10 PM

The fact that it is local might give the big national groups a little bit of an excuse for not getting involved in this particular thing. They don't see everything.
Stuff like this happens all over the place. Frankly I feel Imus was quite tame compared to stuff I've heard on local radio talk.

I guess another sad thing is just about our society in general. Why has our humor degenerated into basically being as nasty as possible to different groups of people... Is this some psycho-reaction to PC or are people just being raised meaner?
I really don't see what's so (*)(*)(*)(*) funny about any of this crap or why it is so popular. It's not a very intelligent type of humor (quite the opposite actually) but boy does it sell... Perhaps it's not PC or meanness. Maybe people are just dumb.

raytri · #8 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 02:58 PM

What part of "shock jock" is unclear?

Fire them, don't fire them; either is fine. They're juvenile pigs either way.

I'd like to see them fired because it would be evidence that there are some levels we won't sink to as paid broadcasters. But I'm not going to demand it.

The12thMan · #9 (**permalink**) 04-25-2007, 10:44 PM

The first time I heard the "flied lice" gag was on Saturday Night Live many years ago. It was funny. Then Uncle Benny said this in Lethal Weapon 4 "Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick." Calling for firing is just ridiculous. Rosie O'Donnell made fun of Asians and kept her job. Sheesh.

"Three white guys of normal height with no discernable ethnic, geographical or religious affiliation walk into a bar...."

JavaBlack · #10 (**permalink**) 04-26-2007, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by raytri";p=&quot

I'd like to see them fired because it would be evidence that there are some levels we won't sink to as paid broadcasters. But I'm not going to demand it.

I'd see it as evidence that we aren't turning more and more retarded as time goes by... But Will Ferrel movies should have already convnced me that the opposite is true.
Smart people shouldn't reproduce... It's just hell for their kids.

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