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Satire
Popular radio blowhard Gale Farzen found himself in yet more hot water with regulators on Tuesday following his latest rant against Muslims on his Monday afternoon call-in show. On the show, the popular host fulminated against ISIS, but before long turned his attention to Muslims living in the United States. The rant reportedly degenerated into an incoherent string of expletives after one caller in particular urged him to calm down and think rationally about the issue. Farzen, the thrice-divorced promoter of family values, attributed his loss of composure, in which he called the caller "a ****" and said they should "lock the **** up and throw away the **** key," on a bad mixture of alcohol and prescription painkillers.
The expletives, whoever, did not go unnoticed by regulators, who are expected to fine the red-face, portly, anti-bike land crusader. Nancy Simpson, spokeswoman for the FCC, said in a statement "We received over 100 calls from concerned citizens reporting the use of obscene and abuse language on air by a host of a nationally-syndicated call-in show. While we respect that the host is entitled to his First Amendment rights, we also have a mandate to prohibit obscene speech on the public airwaves, and that is something we are investigating at present."
Farzen has run afoul of regulators numerous times in the past, and just recently threatened to pull...
In the show, the host repeatedly insisted that the do-nothings in Congress need to round up all the Muslims and kick them out of America. This was followed by a non-sequitur about building a wall, which the host insisted should be done as soon as humanly possible. The host has long held similar views, defending the need to keep America safe from foreign influence, in order to preserve American values.
When Sun-Times reporters attempted to contact the host regarding this story, he was on air engaged in some sort of rant about safe spaces on college campuses.
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