In March 2012, a Tampa shock jock called Bubba the Love Sponge announced he was going to “deep fat fry” a Koran as a stunt.
Tampa socialite Jill Kelley wrote the city’s mayor saying that then CIA Director David Petraeus and the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, had asked her about “getting this dealt with.”
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn responded that the city was “working on it,” according to email correspondence released by his office this week.
Buckhorn also wrote “This Bubba the Love Sponge is a complete moron.”
“OK keep me in the loop,” Kelley wrote. “Gen Allen will be calling me from Afghanistan at 1 p.m on this — and our next step,” she said.
Bubba the Love Sponge never followed through on the inflammatory move, but he was reportedly part of a crowd outside Kelley’s Tampa mansion on Friday.
Displeased over being called a “moron,” the DJ drove his truck in front of the Kelley house for a half-hour, pumping a parody to the tune of Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus” with the lyrics changed to “Petraeus.”
He also has sights set on Buckhorn.
“I will make it my mission to destroy this guy. I am his political death sentence,” the DJ toldthe Tampa Bay Times.
He also credited Kelley’s role in getting him to stand down on the Koran burning.
“Probably she did get Intel to have me stop it, and that’s the problem itself,” he told the newspaper.