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I guess what shocks me is how many people who call themselves conservatives want the government - the federal government, no less - to save them from Howard Stern. We have a free market that is perfectly capable of dealing with the Howard Sterns of the world - let it work. If people are offended by his antics, they will stop listening to him and his show will disappear. If he thrives, well, the free market has spoken.

Does it strike you as ironic that conservatives as a group claim to loath letting the government take away personal freedoms, and are the first to complain about unelected judges legislating from the bench and that there are those among us - on *free republic* - who would be perfectly happy to allow bureaucrats in the FCC tell us what is obscene? Use the off button - complain to his sponsors or whoever syndicates him, but don't let the government do this for you: if the government can do this for you, it will eventually do it *to* you.

Use the off button - complain to his sponsors or whoever syndicates him, but don't let the government do this for you: if the government can do this for you, it will eventually do it *to* you

Actually people did complain. And since Howard is on public airwaves, the most logical place to complain is to the FCC.

This is just my opinion, but I really don't see Howard Stern as supermartyr for the cause of free speech.

I guess what shocks me is how many people who call themselves conservatives want the government - the federal government, no less - to save them from Howard Stern.

I know what suprises me is how many people who call themselves conservative want their porn supplied by public means.

We have a free market that is perfectly capable of dealing with the Howard Sterns of the world - let it work. If people are offended by his antics, they will stop listening to him and his show will disappear. If he thrives, well, the free market has spoken.

The public airwaves are not owned by Stern and are not for him to sell at his sole discretion. Let Stern take his pornography talents to a private media that is free market.