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To be clear, everything contained in this petition is not true.  Ms. Stevens attributing outrageous racist staements and physical threats to me is disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can prove without any doubt the allegations made in this petition are flase.  First, Ms. Stevens claims that she was called on the air at 5:08 a.m. on 2\/10.  We are not even on the air until 6 a.m. Eastern time.  We have phone records and eye witnesses that account for my every movement that day from 4:50 a.m. forward.  No call was made to Ms. Stevens at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be pursuing all legal remedies available to us in the State of Florida to fight these deliberately malicious allegations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bubba the Love Sponge Responds to Awesome Kong Lawsuit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bubba the Love Sponge issued the following statement in reference to news that Awesome Kong has filed a lawsuit against him for making a threatening phone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/02\/25\/bubba-the-love-sponge-responds-to-awesome-kong-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bubba the Love Sponge Responds to Awesome Kong Lawsuit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bubba the Love Sponge issued the following statement in reference to news that Awesome Kong has filed a lawsuit against him for making a threatening phone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/02\/25\/bubba-the-love-sponge-responds-to-awesome-kong-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-02-25T20:12:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/02\/25\/bubba-the-love-sponge-responds-to-awesome-kong-lawsuit\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/02\/25\/bubba-the-love-sponge-responds-to-awesome-kong-lawsuit\/\",\"name\":\"Bubba the Love Sponge Responds to Awesome Kong Lawsuit\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-02-25T20:12:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-02-25T20:12:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Bubba the Love Sponge issued the following statement in reference to news that Awesome Kong has filed a lawsuit against him for making a threatening phone\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/02\/25\/bubba-the-love-sponge-responds-to-awesome-kong-lawsuit\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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