[liberallarry]

Those who think Stern is simply a fool or a pornographer will have to eat crow. He's smart and he's influential and he's courageous. That doesn't mean he's right. It means he's a formidable opponent.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Those who think Stern is simply a fool or a pornographer will have to eat crow. He's smart and he's influential and he's courageous. That doesn't mean he's right. It means he's a formidable opponent.

Stern is on his way out. Only teenagers and people who never grew up waste their time listening to him. Grown-ups have moved on. It's a wonder he hasn't put family members on to strip on his show.

[Thoro]

Those who think Stern is simply a fool or a pornographer will have to eat crow. He's smart and he's influential and he's courageous. That doesn't mean he's right. It means he's a formidable opponent.

Howard is no fool, but he's hardly courageous. Everything Howard says or does is done with ratings in mind. He feels this anti-Bush and martyr bit will increase ratings, and therefore income.

Howard is a simple whore for ratings. He has no core. Anyone with a memory should realize that Howard's been recycling this martyr bit for the last 15 years. This anti-Bush nonsense is just the lastest incarnation of it.

[MEGoody]

"He's smart and he's influential and he's courageous."

If he's smart, he sure doesn't show it.

I'm sure he influences some people, but probably very few people that actually vote.

Courageous? No, just a loud mouth with a huge ego.

[Charles Martel]

He's smart and he's influential and he's courageous. That doesn't mean he's right. It means he's a formidable opponent.

Courageous? That's a stretch. He's objecting to broadcasting changes which threaten his particular niche in the market. If he wants to fight censorship, he'd be well-advised to organize and seek a Congressional hearing on the matter. Stern could become sort of the anti-Tipper, which would probably win him more friends than his current approach.

Ranting on the air and blaming the President for matters which are not decided in the Oval Office is plain old smear politics and is easily seen as such. He won't win many new fans with his agitprop - and his current fans are more interested in mindless, crude entertainment than they are political activism.

"Fartman the Formidable"