{"id":1428,"date":"2005-04-27T00:37:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T05:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1428"},"modified":"2005-07-13T20:10:01","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T01:10:01","slug":"here_we_go_agai_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/here_we_go_agai_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jerseyguys.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/Jerseyguys.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"172\" align=\"right\" hspace=20 vspace=10\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Honestly I&#8217;m soooo tired of the following topic.  I know that I should be completely jaded by such things already, but I like to think that they can still bring out the fight in me.   The same mob mentality over the radiowaves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000893.html\" target=\"_blank\">that we have seen in the past<\/a> has happened once again.  SM tipster &#8220;Ayyner&#8221; alerts us to yet another racist outburst by some East Coast on-air personalities.  The following is a partial transcript (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/TranscripttheJerseyGuys.pdf\">a longer transcript here<\/a>) of the <em>Jersey Guys Radio Show<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj1015.com\" target=\"_blank\">NJ 105.1 FM<\/a>.  <em>The Jersey Guys<\/em> are Craig Carton and Ray Rossi.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>[Caller]: You just said it all, the last couple of \u00c2\u2026 callers, I guess they don\u00c2\u2019t know that\nthey live in America and we\u00c2\u2019re being overrun. I had just moved out of Edison because\nof what has happened in the past 10 years\u00c2\u2026 Orientals are all along, the whole complete\nroute 27. And Indians have taken over Edison in north and all over.\n<br>\n<br>\n[Carton]: Damn Orientals and Indians.\n<br>\n<br>\n[Caller]: I..i moved out..36 years I\u00c2\u2019ve lived in Edison\n<br>\n<br>\n[Carton]: And what was the biggest problem you had with the Orientals and the Indians ?\n<br>\n<br>\n[Caller]: I can\u00c2\u2019t handle them! There\u00c2\u2019s no American people anymore.\n<br>\n<br>\n[Carton]: Eh..\n<br>\n<br>\n[Caller]: There shoving us the hell out!\n<br>\n<br>\n[Carton]: It\u00c2\u2019s like you\u00c2\u2019re a foreigner in your own country isn\u00c2\u2019t it?<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>In my opinion the above excerpt is rather tame compared to the rest.  Their ignorant invective seems to be particularly focused on East Asians.  Unlike previous on-air incidents, this seems to have occurred in the middle of a &#8220;political discussion&#8221; instead of one meant to be funny. Specifically, the conversation centered around the upcoming race for mayor of Edison, NJ.  The discussion basically degenerated into Carton bashing liberals who he thinks care too much about getting minority votes.  You should be concerned with the majority (&#8220;me&#8221;) to paraphrase Carton.  According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050415\/NEWS01\/504150399\/1004\/COMMUNITY\">to an article<\/a> from a few weeks ago this duo has a large audience.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Touted as the most listened to FM talk show, the afternoon program commands nearly 1 million listeners a week, said Ray Handel, director of marketing and promotions for the station.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Of course this is really nothing new. Limbaugh gets away with this kind of crap all the time but is clever enough to not be so blatant.  If you can&#8217;t even be clever enough to veil your racism [sarcasm] you deserve to be smacked off the airways.  In any case, we&#8217;ve been informed that &#8220;South Asian legal organizations are coming together again to craft a concerted response.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Update (4\/27\/05): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/search\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-0\/111458008975470.xml?starledger?nmx\" target=\"_blank\">The reaction<\/a>.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly I&#8217;m soooo tired of the following topic. I know that I should be completely jaded by such things already, but I like to think that they can still bring out the fight in me. The same mob mentality over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/here_we_go_agai_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}