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Portland, Ore., talk radio station KXL-FM had to take down its "We love you long time" billboard—placed in Chinatown, no less—after complaints that it played on racist stereotypes about Asian women. The phrase was made famous by a Vietnamese prostitute in Full Metal Jacket and has been a calling card for bad jokes about similar topics ever since, so there's some precedent to this accusation. KXL's marketing director Randi P'Pool claims the ad was only referencing a famous rap song, but it's a conservative talk-radio station, so that's pretty unlikely.
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