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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 his show from the airwaves and go to satellite if the regulators "didn't stop treadin' on me." In 2004, Farzen was fined $5,000 by the FCC for using a slur on air, and in 2006 police were called to his mistress' home outside Los Angeles after protestors picketed in response to comments he made about gay marriage.

Audio clips of the show have been deleted from the host's website, but have been making the rounds on Twitter. 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.

* There are a couple of major satirical elements. First, satire is at its most effective when it addresses the issues of the day. The audience needs to understand the basic elements of the narrative inherently, because the satire will turn some of those elements on their head for the story. The subjects here are immediately recognizable to anybody with even a passing familiarity with certain talk shows and certain political candidates. The ending is of course where the irony is laid out, asking the audience to consider the hypocrisy of people who proudly want to kick people out of America who are different than them so that they can feel safer are the same people who mock college students who seek safe spaces on campus.