WNCI/Columbus Apologizes for Airing Mexican Parody - Ohio

Clear Channel’s WNCI-FM/Columbus, OH, has apologized for airing a parody song considered offensive by some Hispanic listeners. The CHR outlet posted an apology on its web site with a promise not to air the song again. “WNCI values our listener community enormously,” stated the posting. “We apologize to anyone offended by the content.”

The song, written and performed by morning zoo co-host Dave Kaelin (Dave & Jimmy) and called a “Bunch of Mexicans” (to the tune of David Bowie’s “Young Americans”), is about a group of 14 Mexicans misunderstanding orders at a fast-food restaurant, working as landscapers, traveling in “packs” and evading immigration authorities reports the Columbus Dispatch.”*

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