I wouldn't have had any idea what Stern's schtick was except that we were over at my hubby's cousin home last month, and "Private Parts" was on HBO. We were all in the room with the television, so I saw nearly all of it. Yikes. I'd never heard him before. I saw a few minutes of his abuse of the mentally retarded on the Entertainment channel last week, and I must say, I was appalled and sickened. I've seen and heard all I need to see and hear of Stern.
In some ways,case in point Howard Stern, they have a real point. When you milk and market something for a long time, it can become amoral or Late Capitalism.
That guy is a marketing brand in search for an audience which has become increasingly stupid, male, white and young. Come to think of it, Stern is a very good example of Postmodernism trying to gets its nastyness past the nose of the general public.
He is a shill for porn. His mentor and patron, Mel Karmazan is gone.