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To: melstew
I am not a Stern fan--although I would prefer listening to him over Rush because he is at least intellectually honest and less of a blow hard.

I don't police grammar, but calling Stern more intellectually honest than Rush is incomprehensible! What does this mean? How intellectual is it for Stern to reveal his personal behavior when it just reveals his proclivity for sex and bowel movements? And if Stern's show was about honesty, how many listeners were fooled when he pledged his love to his former wife Alison?

As for Stern, the blow hard, he may attempt to present himself as self effacing, but he has undermined those who wish to compete with him behind the scenes. He certainly wasn't forth coming on how he clamped down on Opie and Anthony before they left the public airwaves. Furthermore, Stern has stated how much he hates lawyers, yet he is the first to use lawyers to go after former employees who he thinks "ripped" him off. In fact, I recall in the mid 90s, Stern used his lawyers to shutdown fan web sites because they were rebroadcasting material from his show. I know. Rush has his own cadre of lawyers as well.

But IMO, Rush's program is not really about Rush. It's about ideas I support, and about promoting those ideas in contrast to what is reported by liberals. Rush has certainly made more of an impact on US politics than Stern could ever imagine, and therefore, he'll be long remembered after a tool like Stern.

35 posted on 01/28/2005 10:38:53 AM PST by entheos
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