New York Station Faces Outrage With Tsunami Parody

A New York radio station is facing public outrage for airing a song that shockingly mocked the hundreds of thousands victims of the South Asian tsunami.

The radio station, Hot 97 (WQHT), was forced to air an apology after the insulting song - lyrics of which included racial epithets aimed at Asians - was played for four days last week by morning DJ Miss Jones.

The song, sung to the melody of "We are the World", was played several times since Jan. 18 until it was halted Friday amid complaints. The station repeatedly aired the vocal rendition with the following lyrics "Then the next thing I knew, a wave 20 feet high came and washed your whole country away.. And all at once, you can hear the screaming chinks.. And no one was saved from the wave.. There were Africans drowning, little Chinamen swept away.. You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you bitches, swim.'". It continues, "So now you're screwed, it's the Tsunami .. you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy .. I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head .. and now the children will be sold to child slavery".

Before one airing of the song, the station's news reader, Miss Info, who is of Asian descent, objected to the song and openly voiced it, only to be attacked by Miss Jones and her cohorts. At one point, Miss Jones replied: "I know you feel you're superior because you're Asian, but you're not".

We have a clip of the on-air argument and the obscene song, you can download it here.

Due to the public outrage, the entire morning show team has finally been suspended.

Other Tsunami Trivializing

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) featured a Tsunami Game on their website until it was recently pulled. The game, which debuted on FEMA's kids' Web site in 1998, asked players to guide a car, a starfish, a surfboard and other beach objects back to their proper places after they were scattered by a tsunami.

"A tsunami has just hit FEMA Beach and has rearranged a few things," the game directed. "Please put the 9 objects back where they belong to see the cyber-prize!"

FEMA spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said the game was first scrubbed from the award-winning kids' site immediately after the Dec. 26 tsunami but the agency later restored it after hearing complaints from teachers and educators who missed it, she said. It was being removed for good Friday because of "the current environment", she said.

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There had also been a number of mass e-mails sent out in an attempt to steal money using the tragedy, many of them versions of the so-called Nigerian Letter scam, to which readers were invited to reply with their details, asking for help in order to transfer large sums of money and receive a cut themselves.

One said to be from a wealthy Thai merchant suffering from a fatal disease who has lost his family in the tsunami disaster and needed someone to collect millions of U.S. dollars from a European security firm to distribute it to charities.

"I need a God-fearing and trustworthy person that will be able to travel to Europe, to collect this deposit from the security company", the mail read.

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Makers of a recent virus also expoilted the tragedy to spread a malicious virus: "Duping innocent users into believing that they may be helping the tsunami disaster aid efforts shows hackers stooping to a new low," Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said in a statement.

The email contained the subject line: "Tsunami donations! Please help". A text message urged the unsuspecting recipient to: "view the attachment below! We need you!" and included an attachment, "tsunami.exe".

Another worm earlier this month propagated the message that the tsunami was God's revenge on "people who did bad on earth".

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