I’ll let Greg Gutfeld get you started here:
Yeah, I’ve got him on my satellite radio but I never and I do mean never stop to listen to any of it. There’s a reason for that…. The very same reason that I don’t drink out of the toilet.
Remember, I did morning radio myself for a number of years. I have never found anything admirable about Howard Stern.
But there’s a larger point to be made here about his behavior and his commentary on covid-19. Specifically, his disappearance for a couple of years there, and his shift from freedom fighter to authoritarian, coincides. That’s a pretty typical situation when someone is isolated for an extended period of time as many Americans were, particularly those who are hiding in their houses. Alas!, that many still are.
Howard Stern turns out to be a fine example… not as a freedom loving american, not as an upright individual, but one who locked himself into his multi-million dollar beach house for a couple of years and as someone who as a result of his self-imposed isolation is now content to let government run his life …along with yours and mine.
The man should have just dried up and blown away when he got canned at the long since defunct 660/WNBC. That was what, around 40 years ago?
I believe it was George Carlin who used to say if you get some idiot to nail two things together that nobody else is nailing together, some schmuck will buy it. I suspect that was the philosophy that XM used when they tossed him a life preserver back in those days, and the only reason we still have to put up with his presence in the business. This was not about talent, it was a matter of filling up satellite channels with something, anything.
These days it’s not talent that keeps him on the air, it’s certainly not that he’s exemplary of anything positive, he’s still there because of momentum. Nothing more.