Stern Feels Bush-Whacked End Is Near

FMQB ^ | 3/03/04

[Hardastarboard]

I've heard Howard Stern, and he's a boring, mediocre talent (although oddly enough, I agree with his politics every now and then). I'm surprised the market place hasn't turned him back out on the street before now. He's like William Shatner - he should be falling to his knees thanking whatever God he worships that he made it as far as he did with what he had.

[palmer]

Million Moron March

Whadda we want? Duh! When do we want it? Duh!

[Aeronaut]

Do the honorable thing Howie - retire before they can give you the boot!

[marty60]

HS is probably the main reason that we are innundated with filth on TV and Radio. The FCC should have stopped this stuff 15 yrs ago. His JR High antics have made him rich, but destroyed any sense of decency by the media.

[Taxman]

Don't let the doorknob hit you on the a$$ on your way out, Howard.

Good Riddance!

[Biblebelter]

The guy gives me the creeps.

[Keith in Iowa]

WGAS What Howard Stern thinks? He't a total waste of resources.

[Brytani]

I thought the million moron march was the Democratic Convention....

[mylife]

Hey Howie....Buh Bye!

[lentulusgracchus]

Whadda we want? Duh! When do we want it? Duh!

LOL!

BTTT

[MEG33]

I saw him on TV and was repulsed...really repulsed.He was a cross between a 13yr old just discovering the opposite sex and a dirty old man.Dirty old man was the lingering impression..Shudder.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Howard used to like to play the "everyman", but in reality he's just another whining celebrity limousine liberal. He's strayed occasionally, but at his core that's what he is. (At this point, if he didn't watch his diet, he'd be Michael Moore.)

[mylife]

Its a shame that a guy like Stern is so widely known while at the same time really wonderful minds like Mark Steyn's are relatively unknown to the masses.

Down with Stern! Up with Steyn!!

[garbanzo]

What really gets me about all of this is that the people who agitate for Stern's removal won't listen to the boring radio that will be left in the wake of it. It's like the kooks who get on homeowner's association's boards, pass all sorts of kooky rules and then move out the neighborhood.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Stern isn't going anywhere. He might have to clean up his act, but he is not going off the air.

[laredo44]

although oddly enough, I agree with his politics every now and then

When Howard was married his politics tended to those of a husband and father. Since his divorce he's changed. I've haven't listened to him regularly for more than 15 years. When I did, I found some of his show burst out laughing funny. Some stuff bored or bothered me. But I figured that was the nature of cutting edge -- sometimes you step over the line. I doubt I could listen to his show now.

[Captiva]

Really? Ask Governors Whitman & Patacki, and his advertisers.

Go Big 10!

[Archangelsk]

HS is probably the main reason that we are innundated with filth on TV and Radio.

I humbly disagree: the reason we have such raunch is because there's a market for it and, in accordance with Smith's invisible hand, it gets filled.

The FCC should have stopped this stuff 15 yrs ago.

I guess all the conservatives - not the neocons - are right, George W. Bush and his supporters are the most liberal, big government element since Roosevelt and his minions.

[stevem]

Several years ago I listened to one of Stern's shows to see about all the excitement. I should say I listened to part of it because he was classless. One evening when I was channel surfing late night TV, I stopped by Stern's show which, I guess, they tape while he is live on the radio, then broadcast on cable TV - sort of his version of the "ditto cam." I actually became hypnotized by how degrading Howard Stern is i.e. he degrades his listeners/viewers. I became overwhelmed with admiration, almost wonder, as to how someone could become that successful by degrading his customers. Wow!

Anyway, I have never watched it again. Neither have I ever listened again, except once or twice when I was trapped in someone else's lair while another person listened on his or her radio...the other must have been hooked on being degraded.

Still, Stern is but the leading edge of what you see day by day on prime time network TV. I don't watch it much any more, but what I have seen makes me think class and decency are simple anachronisms. If you eliminate the overt sex from the comedies, my guess is they would require about 28.5 minutes of commercials in every half hour. The dramas, on the other hand, have evolved into such poorly written fare as to be wonderments all their own.

I still like watching reruns of shows from the 50's and 60's. It occurred to me that the heros of those days didn't require the coarse language to convey anger or hurt or any other emotion, for that matter. I guess those folks must have had better writers and been better actors in those days.