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04/24/2004: "Cranking Fidel"

The FCC concluded Friday that WXDJ-FM in Miami should be fined $4000 for airing a crank call made to Cuban President Fidel Castro. The FCC rejected the station's claim that a rule requiring people to be notified before their voices are used does not apply to people in Cuba. Does the FCC blow or what? Click more.. below.

The Spanish-speaking hosts of the morning show, Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos, used snippets of an earlier prank involving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to move the call from a receptionist up the chain to Castro in a five-minute broadcast June 17 of last year. Los Dos Amigo's fed pleasantries to Castro before losing their Latin composure and calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after Castro denounced the callers with a stream of vulgarities.

I don't know about you, but I think this sort of treatment is exactly what the puffed-up, strutting, uniform-wearing, mini-dictators of the world have coming. How many island potentates and Third World strongmen deserve the respect of anyone outside the range of their AK-47s, much less the protection of the FCC? Where's your sense of humor guys?

Hey, if we have to be so uptight about the airwaves, how about ordering high-tech military equipment for delivery to these clowns like you might order pizzas to be delivered to your ex-wife's house? Who would jump your shit then, the FBI or the CIA? Would you get a fine or just be sent to anger management class? I don't know, maybe the powers that be would just laugh. Certainly deflating an over-inflated bad guy is fun and, who knows, it might catch on and put some of them out of business.

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