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Stern has become obsessed and bitter about Bush lately. Not so long ago, he was essentially a Bush supporter, especially over Iraq and terrorism. Looks to me like he wants to hang it up and, true to his life-long paranoia, wants to go out looking like a martyr for free speech. The other problem for Howard is that now he is a 50 year old man still trying to milk laughs out of hanging with the guys at Scores or having fun with strippers. He has become the one thing he no doubt dreaded most -- a pathetic middle-aged man still trapped in adolescence who is no longer cutting edge. He is close to the time when he will be the object of the same kinds of cruel and demeaning questions his minions used to direct to aging comics and athletes.

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He has become the one thing he no doubt dreaded most -- a pathetic middle-aged man still trapped in adolescence who is no longer cutting edge. He is close to the time when he will be the object of the same kinds of cruel and demeaning questions his minions used to direct to aging comics and athletes.

You got that right. There was a good article on Slate, of all places, about this. It was saying that Imus had a second act of his career after getting off drugs, and changed his show. Howard's still doing the same thing he was 15 years ago. It's just sad.