Sunday, May 13, 2007

From the 'Dog House' to the outhouse


Well, that took entirely too long.

Nevertheless, "The Dog House with JV and Elvis" has left the building, capping off an indefinite suspension with a pink slip in the wake of Asian-Americans' anger over the duo's on-air slurs.

Says the New York Daily News:

The Don Imus effect took down more shock jocks yesterday after an Asian-mocking joke left CBS radio execs with another hole in their schedule.

CBS confirmed "The Dog House with JV and Elvis" show was canned permanently after an on-air prank call three weeks ago ordered "slimp flied lice" from a Chinese restaurant.

The show's on-air hosts, Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, were suspended as CBS decided their future.

"'The Dog House with JV and Elvis' will no longer be broadcast," said CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo.

"In the wake of the Imus case, it would have been maddening to the community if these idiots did not get fired," said Queens City Councilman John Liu.
ON THE OTHER HAND, no one -- either at CBS Radio or at XM satellite radio -- is showing any signs of pulling off a similar hatchet job against Big Media depravity's poster children, Opie and Anthony, following a crude segment focused on musings about raping Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and First Lady Laura Bush.

The segment aired on the XM-only portion of their morning show Wednesday, and the pair issued a lame apology Friday.

Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap. . . .

That's the sound of foot-tapping impatience as we wait for the pool man to remove a couple of turds from the radio waters, then do whatever he does to make it safe for the rest of us to go back in.

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