STERN IN BIG BLAST AT BUSH

New York Post ^ | 2/28/04 | JOHN MAINELLI

[imfleck]

According to Howard Stern, it doesn't matter if he were to get pulled out of all the markets and shown the door. His contract is guaranteed.

He recently signed (in the past couple of years) a five year deal so I suppose he's got a couple/few years left. He's been making overtures that he's leaving the radio business as soon as this contract is over, but he's been saying that for the past few contracts.

He is, however, further extending his reach into television. He's signed with ABC News to do a prime time interview (ala Barbara Walters) sometime this spring.

He hasn't been fined lately, although I'm sure with America's new found morality he will be shortly.

I would hate to be ridiculed for listening to Howard Stern. I laugh at some of the stuff he says and when he's too over-the-edge I tune him out.

[SW6906]

You cite the Arbitron ratings that he is #1 in every market he has entered.

Is that #1 in total number of listeners over all other programs at any time of the day, or just #1 in his target demographic (like 13-24 year-olds), or just number one in his time slot, or just #1 in his category of radio (shock jock vs. news-talk radio)?

If it is #1 in total number of listeners over all other programs at any time of the day, I'd be impressed. If it is #1 in the shock jock category with 13-24 year olds, that is not that impressive. Does Rush have more listeners on a given day?

[imfleck]

He didn't say anything that was cause for "bleeping." It was a caller.

[imfleck]

I'm certainly not into beastiality or necrophilia nor am I a freak. I'm amused at some of his work.

I would rather you not insult me.

[SW6906]

You're supposed to bleep the callers and Stern regularly does. Why didn't he this time? Hmmmmmm........

[SW6906]

Yeah, I've never heard him promote beastiality or necrophilia.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Real good Stern .. blame everyone else for your own actions

Hey Stern .. did President Bush force you to do a show on having sex with a dead corpse?

Did President Bush force you to tell prostitutes to go down to the WTC after 9/11?

Did President Bush force you to describe in detail to your audience of what sex acts a couple midgets did to strippers?

Sorry Mr. Stern ... the fact is .. you are a pervert who gets your jollies off on the air waves and you were called on it

Hey Howie .. how about you take responsibility for your own actions?

Wow. I knew he was a sick pig, but these examples are disgusting. How far we have fallen that anyone would call taking this pig off of the air "censorship".

[onyx]

How could I have insulted you until you came forward with your personal information? The thread is about an obnoxious cretin. That you listen to him and find him amusing says what about you?

[imfleck]

That's the point, you shouldn't care about what he says. as a matter of fact, you should care as much about what he says about as much as you should care about what someone like Larry Elder says.

They're both "talking heads" and only appeal to those who listen to them consistently.

[Benrand]

I used to find Stern really funny, i was addicted to his humor, the clean sometimes ribald humor with Billy West and Jackie, it was damn funny...but he's just gone totally crazy with masturbating in the stuido, vomit crap, incest, anal stuff.

What in the hell is so funny about that? Nothing. He's lost it and isn't funny, just pathetic in the same way that guy who picked his nose and ate it back in grade school was.

[onyx]

POST #12

To: kattracks

Real good Stern .. blame everyone else for your own actions

Hey Stern .. did President Bush force you to do a show on having sex with a dead corpse?

Did President Bush force you to tell prostitutes to go down to the WTC after 9/11?

Did President Bush force you to describe in detail to your audience of what sex acts a couple midgets did to strippers?

Sorry Mr. Stern ... the fact is .. you are a pervert who gets your jollies off on the air waves and you were called on it

Hey Howie .. how about you take responsibility for your own actions?

12 posted on 02/28/2004 12:44:57 AM PST by Mo1 (THE CUSTER CONSERVATIVES: "Not Smart... But Principled, Dammit!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

[swampfox98]

Between Stern's filthy ranting and gay marriage going wild, I'd say Bush will be voted in overwhelmingly. Last night, Michael Savage was begging people to vote for Bush. If only Bush would put a stop to illegal immigration the world would be his.

[imfleck]

This is EXACTLY what Howard Stern, and others like him, have been saying for years. If people don't like him they should tune him out.

No one has to listen to his immature, questionable show. Well, I suppose the religious fanatics need to listen to his immature, questionable show so that they can be the sole judges of all that is moral, but I'm pretty sure no one else HAS to listen to him. You know what? Turn the station. There are tons of other things on the radio.

[peter the great]

When he was on WNBC back in the 80's, I got the feeling that he was a closet conservative. He did the Vigil for the Vigilante Bernard Getz, lots of song paradies about Khadafi and valuable insight into the news, that confirmed my suspicions. He was always living on the edge, he would rip his boss apart which was hilarious and he would say the things that most of us would think but would never say. When he changed stations all of that changed not to mention Presidential Administrations what he does not realize is that the country is as conservative as it is and that is how I would persuade him to change.

[SW6906]

Well, I used to listen somewhat regularly, but haven't as of late - it was all getting to seem repetitive, as others have pointed out. I missed those shows apparently and from what I can recall, I never heard things as over-the-top as recommending or celebrating bestiality (besides joking about it maybe), let alone necrophilia.

The suits have every right to control what they put on their stations.

[Agnes Heep]

Here's Stern, and everyone like him, in a nutshell:

WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time. When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one that ever was; and so he went on abragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expectations up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ringstreaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow. And -- but never mind the rest of his outfit; it was just wild, but it was awful funny. The people most killed themselves laughing; and when the king got done capering and capered off behind the scenes, they roared and clapped and stormed and hawhawed till he come back and done it over again, and after that they made him do it another time. Well, it would make a cow laugh to see the shines that old idiot cut.

Then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people, and says the great tragedy will be performed only two nights more, on accounts of pressing London engagements, where the seats is all sold already for it in Drury Lane; and then he makes them another bow, and says if he has succeeded in pleasing them and instructing them, he will be deeply obleeged if they will mention it to their friends and get them to come and see it.

Twenty people sings out:

"What, is it over? Is that ALL?"

The duke says yes. Then there was a fine time. Everybody sings out, "Sold!" and rose up mad, and was a-going for that stage and them tragedians.

[imfleck]

The radio folks, the ones you call "corporate entertainment" only care about the Arbitron ratings. In his time slot, in his markets, he's consistently number one.

As easily as you can say that the majority of Americans don't like his show, I can just as easily say that the majority of Americans love his show. Neither one of us has the numbers to back up our points.

[The Westerner]

Thank you for being a voice of principle.

Let no freedom of speech be abridged.

Not Howard's. Not Rush's. Not Jim Robinson's. Not mine.

Without freedom of speech, America is dead.

If Bush is somehow responsible for this, in the same way he was responsible for signing the CFR when he could have vetoed it, he does not believe freedom of speech should not be abridged. Therefore, he is a danger to the Republic.

[imfleck]

It says that I'm amused by some of the things he says.

[traumer]

It's call FREE SPEECH.

If you don't like his show - don't tune in. The same goes for TV, movies etc.
Howard may be over the edge but he is excercising a FREE SPEECH....