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Is America ready for another flap over racist content on the radio?

You say you'd rather have a few unnecessary root canals?

According to state- run Chinese television network CCTV, Asian- Americans are furious with FREE- FM / New York hot talkers JV & Elvis over a recent skit they claim was racist. If the story proves accurate, it could create new headaches for CBS, at the worst time one could imagine.

In a report airing today in China, CCTV contends JV & Elvis demeaned Asians with derogatory slurs:

Chinese Americans outraged by CBS radio

Source: Xinhuanet | 04-23-2007 16:24

The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) on Sunday expressed outrage over a recent CBS radio segment, which it described as "racist, vulgar and sexist."

The Dog House with JV & Elvis is a radio talk show airing in NYC.

WFNY 92.3 Free FM, which is part of CBS Radio, aired twice a segment of a talk show involving a prank call to a Chinese restaurant.

In a press release, the OCA called for an immediate apology from the hosts of the segment, JV & Elvis, their producer and the station.

The leading Chinese American group also demanded the immediate firing of JV & Elvis and their show's producer.

In the segment, the caller began by telling the first restaurant employee, "I would like some Asian food, son of a bitch" as well as to the second employee, "I would love to have lots of Asian food, son of a bitch."

The caller then told the restaurant's female employee, "Should I come to your restaurant so I can see you naked? " and continued, "That way, I can see your hot Asian spicy ass." As the caller went on, he told another employee that he would like some "flied lice," but not "some old dung" and indicated that "I am training in Kung Fu, bitch" before ending with "Tell that hot Asian girl answering the telephone, I'd like to tap her ass."

OCA-New York President Vicki Shu Smolin said that what is especially disturbing to the Asian American community is that even after CBS fired Don Imus for referring to the Scarlet Knights, the Rutgers University women's basketball team, as "nappy-headed hos" on April 4, one day before the segment was first aired, JV & Elvis aired it again on April 19.

It is apparent that not only did JV & Elvis not learn anything from the Don Imus scandal, but CBS and CBS Radio decided that Asian Americans are easy prey for racist radio broadcast, he said.

John Tandana, executive vice president of OCA-Long Island, said:" Once again, radio has tried to gain ratings to the detriment of Asian Americans. The segment lasted over six minutes, the entire time, casting Asian Americans and women in a demeaning manner. We will not allow talk radio to spread stereotypes that hurt our community."

Here's the big question: is this report accurate? With FREE FM's ratings at rock- bottom and CBS Radio's "hot- talk" or "guy talk" format a nationwide disaster, it's hard to believe many heard the show.

Upon further review, your Radio Equalizer found this audio excerpt from the show in question. Unfortunately, it does back the Chinese government's claims.

However, it appears the skit may have first aired earlier in the year, but was re-run in the last few days, likely leading to the new controversy. Here, listeners react with their own racist comments.

In the wake of the recent Imus meltdown, how could anyone be so stupid?

And here's the big question: do we have different tolerance levels for racism targeted at Asians versus African- Americans? Over the next few days, the reaction to this latest incident will provide an easy answer.


UPDATE: Have JV & Elvis just been suspended by CBS?


UPDATE: From tomorrow's New York Times:

CBS Radio Show Hosts Suspended After Prank Call


By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: April 24, 2007

CBS Radio suspended two hosts from an FM station in New York City today after an Asian-American advocacy organization complained about the broadcast of a six-minute prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant that was peppered with ethnic and sexual slurs.

The call was first played on “The Dog House With JV and Elvis,” a midmorning show on WFNY, on April 5, the day after Don Imus made his comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on WFAN, another CBS-owned station. The call was then replayed on “The Dog House” on Thursday, a week after Mr. Imus was fired by CBS Radio.

In the skit, a series of apparently unsuspecting employees of a Chinese restaurant are berated by a caller who tells one woman he would like to “come to your restaurant” to see her naked, especially a part of her body he refers to as “hot, Asian, spicy.” The caller also attempts to order “flied lice,” brags of his prowess in kung fu and repeatedly curses at several employees.

In a statement on Sunday, the four New York-area chapters of the Organization of Chinese Americans, an advocacy group, demanded an apology from the show’s two hosts and from CBS Radio, and called for the firing of the hosts and their producer.

UPDATE: Other than the New York Times piece published late Monday, this story has so far been slow to catch on in the media. The obvious point is this: where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson this time around? Do they have a selective view of racism?

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