Posted on 03/11/2004 7:03:02 PM PST by GulliverSwift
The Howard Stern saga continues. Although Infinity is saying they will stand by their man, Stern is threatening to quit anyway if President Bush signs new indecency legislation into law. On this morning's show, Congressman Gary Ackerman called in to discuss the bill and assure Stern that he would not sign it. Ackerman said the vote on the bill is happening today, and that he feels it will easily pass through the right wing-controlled House but that the Senate may veto it. (The bill passed in the House this afternoon, see separate story.) Stern replied by saying that if Bush signs the bill, he will resign as soon as it becomes a law. In fact, he went as far as to say that he's so tired of getting censored every morning that he may resign anyway, even if the bill isn't signed by Bush. Stern lamented that he just wants to do comedy his way, and radio has become too much of a battle.
While he could just be saying that out of anger and frustration, Stern reiterated that FCC sources have told him that Chairman Michael Powell wants him off the air, whether it be now or after the next presidential election, and he dared Powell to issue his indecency fines now instead of waiting until after the election. He also made the point that he believes his suspension by Clear Channel was directly related to him denouncing President Bush in the past few months, rather than specific incidents of indecency.
While Infinity is insisting that Stern won't be gone anytime soon, he said on the air today he has not ruled out the idea of going to satellite radio. However, he feels that satellite companies are not prepared to quickly manufacture the number of radios that would be needed to accommodate all of his fans that would want to buy them, should he decide to make that move. Stern believes that only about 50,000 receivers are ready to go and the demand could be up to 5 million, and that they don't have the technology to roll out the equipment fast enough.
However, an Infinity source told Radio Business Report that the satellite move won't happen. "He's not going to satellite," said the source. "First of all, he can't. He's under contract with us for two more years. So it's not even an issue... we're going to defend him."
PS: I am all for FCC having rules to enforce but those rules should come from congress, be written in law and be defined. The FCC can declare anything ot wants as indecent without recourse of a court of law review of the fine.
Of course they committed crimes, and the statute of limitations hasn't expired of most of them.
The current DOJ is too busy prosecuting gun crimes (a 69% increase) and peaceful protestors to go after a real crook like Klinton.
That would be "Anal Ring Toss". Artie Lang is the current reigning "Lord of the Anal Ring Toss".
It's going to be an event in the next summer Olympics.
I'm sure the people that do the Emmys are totally agreed that awards are in order.
No, they usually award brilliant shows like "Will & Grace" or "Friends"
So politicians that actually commit adultery, do drugs, etc.... are going to be able to 'police' media which only fakes doing the same?
Stern is nothing but radio pornography. There's just no way to defend anything about this freak's show.
I don't watch or listen to his show, and the few times I've heard it, I immediately dismissed it as the 'bread and circuses' that it is.
If others want to listen, that is their right.
I don't subscribe to your religion. Sorry dude!
Illogical nonsense.
I can choose not to watch but have absolutely no control over the countless masses who choose otherwise. And the immorality bred by this kind of filth will manifest itself in a variety of ways in society. Much of which is criminal or otherwise destructive to family life. Stern's garbage is good for nobody.
The unalienable right to the expression of porn on property that's not yours.
Cool.
And your problem with that is?
And the immorality bred by this kind of filth will manifest itself in a variety of ways in society.
"Immorality" was around long before Stern's show. His show is merely a symptom of it, not the cause.
Like I said before, if parents would raise their kids right, then no sane kid would watch or adhere to his show.
But it's easier for parents to ask the gov't to do something than it is to raise their children right.
That would that fat ass Eric Cartman
According to marksfriggin.com, a Howard fan site, not only did Stern say in the past week that Bush has not made America safer, and criticized him for his handling of the War on Terror, but he got on him for reading to schoolchildren on 9/11, supposedly getting the bin Laden family out of the country that day, and even his SAT scores. He also had Margaret Cho on to bash Bush. In short, Stern has become the new Michael Moore.
PS: I am all for FCC having rules to enforce but those rules should come from congress, be written in law and be defined. The FCC can declare anything ot wants as indecent without recourse of a court of law review of the fine.
Fair enough.
That could be Stern on the '92 MTV Video Music Awards or The Artist Formerly Known as Prince during his chartruese yellow period.
Or it could be a ton a male pornography actors.
If it's not one thing they want to control, it's something else.
They will scream bloody murder when it happens to them.
Yep. They want an open-ended law that will be applied only to their enemies, but never to themselves. Where has that been tried before in the 20th century?
government cannot be trusted with the power it already has accumulated, but they just are addicted to giving it more and more
As Washington put it: "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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