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Title: An Immigrant Segment by Radio’s ‘Jersey Guys’ Draws Fire
Source:
NY Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/n ... 90&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Published: Mar 23, 2007
Author: Some Leftist Scumbag
Post Date: 2007-03-24 08:21:12 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 120
Comments: 7
NEWARK, March 22 — Craig Carton and Ray Rossi think mental illness is hilarious and Asian-Americans are best mocked with sing-song Chinese accents. The men, hosts of an afternoon radio show called “The Jersey Guys” that is heard here on WKXW (101.5 FM), favor adjectives for politicians that have to be bleeped out. Two weeks ago, Mr. Carton and Mr. Rossi started “Operation Rat a Rat/La Cucha Gotcha,” a listener-participation game that encourages people to turn in friends, neighbors and “anyone suspicious” to immigration authorities. They introduced the segment with mariachi music and set the campaign to end on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo), a well-known Mexican holiday. At the risk of stating the obvious, the phrase “La Cucha Gotcha” is meant to evoke the Spanish word for cockroach. Here in New Jersey, where 15 percent of the population is Hispanic, reaction to the show has not exactly been positive. At a news conference Thursday, Hispanic elected officials and others condemned the campaign as “dehumanizing,” “poisonous” and “idiotic,” threatening boycotts of the show’s advertisers unless the Jersey Guys apologize. “Scapegoating and stereotyping Latinos does nothing but give bigoted individuals a platform to make ethnic slurs and racist comments,” said Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo of Newark, calling the campaign a “publicity stunt” that could incite violence against Hispanics. But anyone expecting an apology was sorely disappointed when Mr. Carton and Mr. Rossi held an on-air news conference a few hours after Mr. Caraballo’s comments. Seeking to profit from the recently ignited firestorm, the Jersey Guys gathered a corps of journalists, most of them Hispanic, in their Trenton studios and gleefully refused to back down. They insisted that the campaign was not anti-Hispanic and that the phrase “La Cucha Gotcha” was inoffensive, likening the song “La Cucaracha” to a lullaby or a patriotic standard like “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” After calling Assemblyman Caraballo a “pathetic liar,” Mr. Carton repeated his call to deport every illegal immigrant in the country. “If you’re here illegally, you are breaking the law — no better, no worse than the guy who robs the liquor store or the guy who waits to case your house out and robs you of your belongings,” he said. “You are a criminal.” He went on to blame illegal immigrants for the state’s high property taxes, problems with uninsured drivers and violent crime. He also hinted that illegal immigrants were more likely to become terrorists. “Our country is at war right now, and it’s very important that we protect our kids, and one of the ways you can protect them is to not let undocumented immigrants into this country,” he said. This is not the pair’s first foray into public eye-poking. Two years ago, the Jersey Guys infuriated Gov. Richard J. Codey by making fun of his wife’s bout with depression. A few months later they made a few enemies in the state’s sizable Asian-American community by mocking Chinese people and saying that foreigners should not be allowed to dictate the outcome of an “American election.” They later apologized for their remarks about Asians, saying that they were just entertainers and that no one should take them seriously. This time, however, the men say their campaign against illegal immigrants is anything but showmanship. “This operation is not a game, not a contest,” Mr. Carton said. “Our goal is to make New Jersey and the United States of America safer places to live.” Judging from the cascade of congratulatory calls, the men have tapped into an angry vein in the state, where, according to 2005 census figures, 20 percent of all residents are foreign born, the third highest rate in the country. “This is an invasion,” said one caller, Carmen Perez, who said she had come to this country as a 3-year-old. “I would deport most of them.” Considering the Jersey Guys’ lack of contrition and the anger among Latino advocates, “La Cucha Gotcha” is likely to spark an even larger backlash. That may or may not be a bad thing for the station, which, like the entire broadcast radio industry, has been struggling to compete against the twin scourges of electronic music downloads and satellite radio. Eric Johnson, the station’s program director, declined to comment, saying he wanted to give the last word to the Jersey Guys. But Jack Plunkett, an analyst who follows broadcast radio, said the station might want to check out recent marketing data indicating that Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in the country, with spending power of $700 billion a year, a figure that is expected to triple by 2010. “These guys might not realize it,” he said, “but they could be shooting themselves in the foot.”
Poster Comment: This radio station is actually pretty good afa ILLEGALS, big LOCAL govt. and high taxes. The NY Times is one of many outlets who intentionally blur the lines between illegal aliens and immigrants - much to the delight of many feckless whites.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
so it's about corporate rule.. this country is so doomed..
Yep, open borders is a form of national-cultural suicide. I understand why Hispanics would rejoice in our demise, but I can't forgive the gutless whites who seem to brush off the ramifications as if it’s nothing.
I'm close enough to pull 101.5 in, and it's also broadcast on a DE freq a night so I can pick it up on two stations. Yes, Jim Gearhart gives the state politicians and auto insurance company crooks much grief, but did you ever notice that 101.5 never criticizes the feds or the imperialist wars in which they've involved us? Also, this time last year there was a story about a group of "middle eastern looking men" who were arrested at a football game for congregating and praying. One of the spectators spotted them and called police, and the people were arrested for the crime of looking like middle easterners. Carlton (who is Jewish, BTW) and Rossi defended the arrests because the "suspects" were congregating near a ventilation duct in the sports arena, and of course there was wild-eyed speculation about how they could have released poison or bio agents and caused mayhem. No one mentioned whether or not the duct was a supply or intake, or that it would only take one person to release an agent and congregating would be the last thing real terrorists would likely do, but these things don't matter when attempting to justify mistreatment of "targeted individuals". I'm sure if I called and got through to "The Jersey Guys" and I suggested that the five dancing Israelis are evidence that there are too many Mossad operatives overstaying their visas and working for phony front moving companies they'd cut me off and insult me viciously. When the station first came to my attention about ten years ago I was pleased to hear them go after crooked politicians, liberal judges, toll takers who clear 100 grand a year and so on, but, do you think these two EVER mention the former governor who tried to put his gay lover, an Israeli in charge of NJ's Department Of Homeland Security? Or, do you think they ever mention the multi million dollar lawsuit that the Israeli filed (from Israel-he doesn't want to be interviewed and then subject to arrest by the FBI) against the governor and the state claiming he was sexually harassed and coerced into a relationship with the governor? (He was betting the state would settle to avoid public exposure of the details of the men having sex in govt buildings on govt time, as well as the governor's promises during the "throes of passion". ("I'll put you on the payroll because you go so deep inside me, OMG!" He dropped the suit when the governor resigned.) The FBI notified Gov. James E. McGreevey that his pick for NJ HS director had not passed a background check, and the agency was flabbergasted that the governor would not retreat from his selection or explain his reasons (the FBI was concerned that sharing intel with NJ may be sharing it with Israel or G_d knows who else) and because the state and national media had apparently agreed to insulate the married-with-children governor and not to out him, the people knew nothing about this until the two lover boys broke up and the Israeli outed the governor and force him to resign. Ordinarily this type of scandal would be perfect for The Jersey Guys, but they've never touched it. Nor will they say anything critical of the war for Eretz Israel. When one considers that New Jersey supplied most of the new commissars who took over The Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution it should come as no surprise to anyone that this so called gadfly radio station would have one sacred cow that they worship and never mention except in carefully scripted fawning sympathy stories. (i.e. NJ synagogues will get Homeland Security money for added security. Hurray!) And, when you also consider the extent of Jewish influence in the state then you should have no trouble believing that Carlton and Rossi are allowed on the air and protected because they serve a purpose. Right? Well, the same may be said about Hal Turner. Believe me, if the powers that be didn't want him there he wouldn't be. Think about that before you join his mailing list. FOOTNOTE: Wikipedia has no entry for Gov. James E. McGreevey but they have complete histories for his lover Golan Cipel, for Hal Turner and The Jersey Guys! Imagine that!
I always wonder about why Hispanics would revel in our demise. Do they not realize that when we go down, they go down twice as hard and that armed Americans are likely to just "take care of business" when things get to that point? Seems they need to learn the story of the man who killed the goose that laid the golden egg....
Press 1 to proceed in English. Press 2 for Deportation.
Those anti-whites base their assumptions on two things when whites become a minority: 1. America will remain a "democracy" 2. they will be voted in
We became a "democracy" at precisely the same point we became a Judeo-Christian country. Following a few point years after the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the ADL (same year).
that's such a stupid argument. these "hispanics" are costing us a whole hell of a lot more than they're spending and you notice this idiot doesn't make a distinction between illegal and legal.
But Jack Plunkett, an analyst who follows broadcast radio, said the station might want to check out recent marketing data indicating that Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in the country, with spending power of $700 billion a year, a figure that is expected to triple by 2010. “These guys might not realize it,” he said, “but they could be shooting themselves in the foot.”
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#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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#6. To: blackeagle (#5)
1. America will remain a "democracy"
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
But Jack Plunkett, an analyst who follows broadcast radio, said the station might want to check out recent marketing data indicating that Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in the country, with spending power of $700 billion a year, a figure that is expected to triple by 2010.
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