Canadian conservative radio host and columnist Michael Coren got himself fired after upsetting listeners by staging an apparently too-real sounding fake phone call with a supposedly fat American (from New Jersey).

Yesterday Coren said he feels “rather liberated (to have) my evenings back.”

“It does sadden me, however, that the sort of people who routinely blame starvation in Africa and Asia on the victims become so upset over the mockery of an obviously staged obese American,” Coren said.

“This is the hypocrisy that I was trying to expose. It seems I succeeded. It was also just very, very funny! If only the professionally offended would become so upset over the homeless, the war in Iraq and general injustice.”

This is what they call a conservative in Canada? Damn, we gotta get us some of those.