Phony phone call dupes Castro, sparks a tirade

Washington Times ^ | 6/19/03 | Tom Carter

[kattracks]

Cuba's Fidel Castro sprayed South Florida with a barrage of unprintable expletives yesterday after discovering that he was having a live radio conversation with two disc jockeys from that area who had called pretending to be Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's aides.

[Justice]

Classic!

[Southack]

"The Cuban leader hurled profanities at Mr. Santos and his mother and questioned her marital status at the time of Mr. Santos' birth. Mr. Castro also questioned the disc jockey's sexual orientation."

Oh, Castro did more than just question it. Castro called one of the DJ's "unos Maric" or "maricones", which means "faggot" in Spanish.

In other words, Castro just threw out the entire socialist Revolution. One can't be very "progressive" if one is anti-gay, after all.

And Castro has now been exposed as a gay-bashing homophobe by these two heroic DJ's.

Gee, think anyone on the Left will dare criticize their hero Castro for being anti-gay?!

[JohnHuang2]

"Gee, think anyone on the Left will dare criticize their hero Castro for being anti-gay?!"

Nah, they'll probably simply deny it was "Dr" Castro's voice. Probably some "right-wing" "neo-con" trying to make poor Fidel look bad.

[SkyPilot]

John / Meek--this should be deserving of your Ping lists--I bet some ingenious Freeper will have the RealAudio link on this thread by afternoon.

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning, amigo. Mega ping coming up...

[JohnHuang2]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The assassin.

[KneelBeforeZod]

the radio station these guys are from has an audio link.

probably works best if you understand spanish though

[Elle Bee]

"Gee, think anyone on the Left will dare criticize their hero Castro for being anti-gay?!"

No, they will just trot out Raoul

.

[KneelBeforeZod]

[weegee]

They had already made a fake call as Castro to Venesula. Then there were the DJs who called Chirac in France and claimed to be Jerry Lewis (Lewis wasn't happy).

How long before the FCC formulates a law against making prank calls to foreign world dictators/leaders?

[MeekOneGOP]

A rare photo of Danny Boy:

[SkyPilot]

"Teww me El Commandante, if you wure going to tortouwe us and hang us fwrom a twee, what kind of twee would woo use?"

[MeekOneGOP]

What a hoot !

Phony phone call dupes Castro, sparks a tirade

Excerpt:

Cuba's Fidel Castro sprayed South Florida with a barrage of unprintable expletives yesterday after discovering that he was having a live radio conversation with two disc jockeys from that area who had called pretending to be Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's aides.

While on the air, Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero of the WXDJ-FM Spanish-language station in Coral Gables persuaded Mr. Castro to help track down a lost briefcase that contained sensitive documents.

The two, who have gained international notoriety by using ruses to ring up Latin American presidents and South Florida dignitaries, used pre-recorded phrases that can be replayed at the touch of a button to engage Mr. Castro in a four-minute conversation.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest or Florida ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[drlevy88]

How long before the FCC formulates a law against making prank calls to foreign world dictators/leaders?

The earlier Chirac prank had, I heard, gotten the radio station in dutch with the FCC, because the rules forbid broadcasting the voice of a telephoned party, or even recording his voice to play later, without his prior permission. I don't know how that turned out; maybe they decided the rule doesn't apply when the telephoned party is not in the USA.

[SkyPilot]

"Was it good for you too?"

[cherry_bomb88]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PJ-Comix]

the radio station these guys are from has an audio link.

Huh? I went to El Zol website and found no audio link. If you know of one, please post it here.

[Fudd]

It took a little searching. Look for Chavez te llama