From the NY Times:

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.

Oh yay. The Asian groups see Imus get fired and want to get some of their own firing on. Must be great to be jealous of Sharpton and Jackson. Of course, they haven’t let the Imus incident’s end result escape them:

In an interview today before the suspensions were announced, Vicki Shu Smolin, president of the organization’s New York City chapter, said she was mystified that CBS would allow the call to be broadcast in the first place and then would permit it to be replayed in the aftermath of the Imus incident. (“The Dog House” has been waging a broad campaign in support of Mr. Imus both on the show and on its Web site.)

“I just see plain ignorance in the CBS management — of the community, of who we are, of what we’re all about,” Ms. Shu Smolin said. “If they don’t fire the D.J.’s, it will be a double standard.”

She promised to rip a page from the playbook of the Rev. Al Sharpton, who led the charge for Mr. Imus’s dismissal, by staging protests of CBS Radio and boycotting advertisers on WFNY.

So now any DJ who says anything that might be considered offensive must be fired or the station faces the daunting prospect of being called a hypocrite!

Like that situation CBS? You’d better get used to it, because it’s one you created! My good friend Gregg Henson, former radio jock in Philly and Detroit, isn’t impressed with the snivelling cowards CBS has become:

CBS is ruined as a radio company. They have lost their soul, when Mel Karmazin was in charge he defended Talent and the right to attempt humor. Since his departure to Sirius, CBS is an empty shell of its former self. Remember, this was the company that was once know for developing talent, sadly they are simply beholden to the stockholders and special interest groups. Watch this story closely, soon you will not be able to say anything that could be construed as offensive. Big media and big business don’t think we are adult enough to handle edgy humor.

It started with the firing of Opie and Anthony for the Sex for Sam stunt in 2004. CBS backed down and chickened out.

It’s been downhill ever since and apparently, CBS hasn’t realized that they opened the floodgates on their own back then, propped them open with Imus, and now they have to face the fact that they have to fire JV and Elvis or else they will have to wear the hypocrite badge.

Should be interesting to see what plays out, but I’m with Gregg here. JV and Elvis are done.

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