The Dog House Suspended

As of May 2nd, 2007, The Dog House is still off the airwaves. They are in best-of mode. Here is the original article. Below if the prank and you can voice your opinion on whether you thought this warranted a suspension.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

CBS Radio suspended two New York City radio hosts on Monday for their prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant that Asian American advocacy groups across the country decried as racist, sexist and vulgar.

"In my 20 years of civil rights work, I have rarely seen something as serious as this," said Frank Lee, president of the Organization for Justice and Equality, a Bay Area advocacy group that expressed outrage, along with the Organization of Chinese Americans in Washington, D.C., Bay Area politicians and others.

Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay of WFNY-FM, who go by the monikers "JV" and "Elvis" on their show The Dog House, placed a six-minute call Friday to a Chinese restaurant requesting "flied lice" and using sexually explicit language to proposition the waitress.

The station suspended the pair without pay and until further notice.

Vandergrift and Lay performed in the same show format on Bay Area radio stations starting in the early 1990s. In 2005, Clear Channel Communications fired the duo from Wild 94.9 after they made offensive remarks after an appearance by a local drum and bugle corps.

They filled in at KIFR, an FM station in San Francisco, before moving to New York.

Their suspension follows the firing of New York radio host Don Imus in mid-April after he made racist and sexist comments about Rutgers University's women's basketball team on his news and talk show.

HERE IS THE CLIP. YOU BE THE JUDGE:

Imus Situation

I was particularly disturbed about the entire Imus fiasco. I never listened to the man but if he was like any other type of shock jock, why should it even matter?

Howard Stern, Mancow, The Dog House...etc all make these types of comments every now and then in a joking way, so I don't know why all of a sudden it changed. It is a double-standard obviously because Imus, a white guy, makes these comments and gets grilled and fired in this case. However, if you are black, and use it in a rap song and degrade women song after song, it's ok.

When the tsunami hit, they made a parody on a New York station and it wasn't even funny. I am Asian and honestly I didn't care, but a lot of people sure did. I don't think the jock got fired for that and that was way more offensive. That was a planned segment where as Imus just sort of spur of the moment said it.

This sets a bad precedent because what the hell can we joke about anymore? Does anybody seriously think the Rutgers basketball team listened to Imus and for that matter, even know who Imus is?

I have a whole lot more to say to this, and you can listen to them this Saturday on the school radio station, or check out my other blog

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