Parody Singer protests Feliciano "Feliz Navidad"

NEW YORK - The Grammy winner Jose Feliciano has an excuse for a pair of radio producers accused of trashing the spirit of Christmas with his popular song will leave, "Feliz Navidad," a musical parody of racism on undocumented immigrants. Feliciano has issued a statement Wednesday saying he was "shocked by the words" and the song was never supposed to be "a vehicle for a political platform of racism and hatred will be granted." "When I wrote and composed" Feliz Navidad "I decided in English and Spanish in order to create a bridge between two major cultures during the period of the year in which we hope to sing, that goodwill toward all," Puerto Rico — singer born. The parody, entitled "The Illegal Alien The Christmas Song" was created and sent by radio producer and writer Matt Fox and AJ Rice, and was in mid-December on the website of Human Events in Washington, DC-based conservative weekly publication founded in 1944. Website Editor Jed Babbin has apologized Monday and said the song would be removed from the site. The link to the page of the song no longer available until Thursday. "We regret any offense that Mr. Feliciano may have taken this travesty," Babbin said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. A part of the parody, sung in English, Riffed said at the stereotype of Latino immigrants as heavy drinkers while another, "illegals" were on the plague "dissemination." In Lares, Puerto Rico, born 1945, Feliciano was in New York City and wrote: "Feliz Navidad" in 1970. It is one of the most popular Christmas songs in the world.