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Independent UK ^ | 6/17/03 | Andrew Gumbel

[TheAngryClam]

When did Howard Stern become a right wing crazy?

[BerniesFriend]

where was the barf alert..i mean savage isn't my favorite personality..but he does NOT represent all conservatives..

[Humidston]

>>the Howard Sterns and the other tub-thumping right-wing crazies.<<

Howard Stern a right-winger? HA!

And FSTV is Commie TV, pure and simple.

[ladyinred]

Why, why , why, does anyone who is not a leftie have to be a crazy? It seems to me the real nuts ones are on the other side folks! Howard Stern is a conservative in his real life, but as a talk show host, he is crazy.

[Drango]

NPR is liberal radio.

[martin_fierro]

Is the author of this tripe Bryant's boy?

[Common Tator]

What a misguided bunch of idiots. When Rush Limbaugh went on the air there were no other Conservative shows on the air. What came before Rush what came after was and thing except conservative talk radio. In many cases Rush went on for three hours on a station that had country music before and after Rush.

There was no talk radio, so Rush was preceded and was followed by every kind of programming except conservative talk radio.

But did not matter... when Rush came on the audience went way up, and when Rush went off the audience went way back down.

With the lefties radio talk show tries, the result has been universal... What was on before the lefties and what was on after the lefties drew more audience than the lefties.

All lefties all the time will produce a small audience.

[TomGuy]

I hear Janeane Garofalo might have an opening from her un-busy schedule. She might be interested. She is certainly left-wing. As for carismatic, as for audience pulling-power, well 1 out 3 is about as good as you're gonna get.

[isthisnickcool]

How silly. Radio is LISTENER driven. This makes it sound as if radio is HOST driven*.

*Overall, it's ADVERTISER driven....

[DPB101]

Janeane Garofalo does have the face for radio.

[LanPB01]

I would classify Howard as being right wing on some issues. He's a strong supporter of law and order, and is a firm backer in the war on terror.

Clearly, he's no social conservative, though. I'd say he tends to be more of a libertarian.

[Paleo Conservative]

When did Howard Stern become a right wing crazy?

You have to remember his favorite "journalist" to quote in this article was Eric Alterman. It is understandable that someone who thinks Eric Atermnan is middle of the road or fashionably center-left could mistake Howard Stern as being right wing.

[Free Vulcan]

Mr. Gumbel obviously defines the universe from his ideology, not the other way around. Man, wish I could live in his world, by simply proclaiming something to be so, it therefore becomes reality. Look at me ma, I'm Superman!

Gee, that was fun.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Wanted: a mould-breaking, iconoclastic American talk-radio host who, unlike just about every other mould-breaking, iconoclastic talk-radio host on the US airwaves, also happens to be left-wing. This host should have the charisma and audience-pulling power to be as popular as the Rush Limbaughs, the Howard Sterns and the other tub-thumping right-wing crazies.

Oh, and a sense of humour wouldn't do any harm, either.

Why don't you ask for the recipe to make gold from lead or maybe diamonds from water.

[Bogey78O]

This guy never heard of Mike Malloy.

During the war he said we ought to flay the skin off of "those war mongering right wingers" and their children so they'll get a taste of what they want to do to the children of Iraq.

I'm paraphrasing mind you since I didn't have a pen and paper set nearby.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"This host should have the charisma and audience-pulling power to be as popular as the Rush Limbaughs, the Howard Sterns and the other tub-thumping right-wing crazies."

First paragraph and the character assasination begins. A prime example of Journalism at its finest.

[Richard Kimball]

Well, I thought about refuting him point by point, but this is a guy who thinks Jim Hightower is funny. No point in going beyond that.

[Lancey Howard]

In order to be successful, a radio show needs listeners.
Why would the Democrat base, society's parasites, be interested in the complexities and nuances of public policy? All they care about is free stuff. They don't much care how their Democrat politicians go about confiscating other people's money in order to pay for the free stuff. They don't have a clue about any of it and what's more, they really don't give a rat's behind.
Why would they care about a stinking radio show?

[Moose4]

Clearly, he's no social conservative, though. I'd say he tends to be more of a libertarian.

When he ran for Governor of New York a while back, Stern ran as the nominee of the Libertarian Party. I don't get his show anymore so I don't know if he still considers himself a big-L Libertarian or not.

}:-)4