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It's funny to see throughout this thread how the voices of decency and conservatism result to ad hominum attacks and infantile name calling, while at the same time bemoaning adolescent behavior more suited to the locker room.

This coming from someone with a Stern-centric name.

I can't really tell if you're trying to be funny there, but I suspect that you are serious and have provided another example for my earlier post.

The government has always had the right to "censor" content in media, and that's why the Supreme Court in 1915 declared motion pictures (read: films and what would be tv and radio) DID NOT have First Amendment protections.

Again, this is because it is difficult to rebut or respond to smut or immoral behavior in media unless you are a billionaire.

Again, this is why the first media moguls at the Hollywood Studios hired a Republican lobbyist to smooth over their cause with Congress after a series of scandals in the 1920's with Hollywood stars. (Fatty Arbuckle was their biggest problem). The studios were scared stiff of the government's power over them.

The studios VOLUNTARILY hired, staffed and submitted their content, from publicity to final cut, to their own men at the Production Code offices in Hollywood.

The result of this "self-censorship" by the studios? Only the Golden Age in Hollywood, radio, and music in America.

Clear Channel is acting in an appropriate manner, by SELF REGULATING before the Government steps in. The Government holds their licenses, after all.

Maybe now some people with real talent, not dirty old men peddling anal sex, incest, lesbianism, voyeurism, masturbation, etc., will be given Stern's time slots.

Again, I'd just like to see Stern without the black-dyed Tiny Tim hair, in a short cut with his real gray hair showing and glasses.

Put him in a trench coat with that haircut and I don't think many people would be willing to tune in.

Nor do I think many porn queens would willingly strip and pose for him as he slobbers all over the mic because he'd look too much like your stereotyped

DIRTY OLD MAN.

Bye Howard! It's been real degrading knowin' ya.