Stern Tossed Overboard by CBS

Agape Press ^ | 2/7/02 | Ed Vitagliano

[newgeezer]

Fantastic!!

[antienvironmentalist]

I guess that the drunken dwarf was the main pull for the show. Once he goes, so goes the audience.

[isthisnickcool]

Good.

[Wolfie]

Stern sold another show to CBS.

[christine]

i never had the misfortune of seeing stern's cbs show. i do know that anything i've seen of his is more of the same ol' same old. i mean how many times can lesbians, strippers, and dwarves be entertaining? give it a rest, howard!

[North Coast Conservative]

Isn't this the way it is supposed to work? The free market in action?

In God We Trust.....Semper Fi

[Saundra Duffy]

It's about time. This guy is just getting sicker and sicker.

[steenkeenbadges]

Wow - Shock TV defeated by truth, justice and the American way. There's hope for us!

[truthkeeper]

GOOD.

[Enterprise]

My question though is, "Why did the show fail?" I know that conservatives would not bother with it, but why weren't the liberals flocking to it?

[usadave]

Good Riddance!!!

[bassmaner]

So you're all just so smug and satisfied that your attempts to muzzle Howard Stern succeeded? But I'll bet you're all still a little annoyed (and rightly so) about the successful leftist effort to get Dr. Laura's show yanked. And I'll bet many of you get really aggravated by the corporate shakedowns of the race-hustling revvvrunds.

So, the bottom line is that a right-wing brand of political correctness prevailed in the same way that leftist brand usually prevails. PC won the day, and CBS knuckled under and pulled the Stern show. Proof that, IMHO, social conservatives are hypocrites and no better than leftists in the haughty, smug, know-it-all way that they seek to impose their values on everyone else.

[MeekOneGOP]

Stern Tossed Overboard by CBS

Excerpt:

The man who once claimed to be the “King of All Media” had to endure the humiliation of having his Saturday night syndicated television show dumped by CBS -- because too few people were watching.

Howard Stern raised plenty of eyebrows when CBS Eyemark Entertainment gave the radio shock jock a national late-night platform for his vulgar and perverse brand of humor in the fall of 1998. Commenting early on, Stern promised that his show would have “a lot of nudity and lesbians,” “strippers” and “a lot of drunken dwarves.”

His show lived up to his prediction. After months of hype, Stern’s CBS show finally aired on August 22, 1998, with an hour full of strippers, lesbians kissing, nude women, and vulgar humor. But Bill Johnson, who was then director of the American Family Association of Michigan, did not sit idly by. Johnson headed up a campaign to convince advertisers on both Stern’s radio and television shows to reconsider their sponsorship. Many did, causing Stern to often rant on-air about AFA supporters -- whom he called “religious freaks,” “stupid people,” and “religious nuts” -- and AFA President Don Wildmon, whom he called “a maniac.”

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[Brad’s Gramma]

Get up on the wrong side of the bed, did you?

[counterrevolutionary]

That's capitalism. Don't like it, catch the next boat to Cuba.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

What a shame..........

R O T F L M A O!!!!

[bassmaner]

Isn't this the way it is supposed to work? The free market in action?

When sponsors are intimidated into pulling their spots from the Stern show (just like they were intimidated into pulling their spots from the Dr. Laura show) due to pressure from nattering political busybodies that have the ear of the FCC, is it truly a "free market"? I wonder.