March 20, 2004
Awaking a Sleeping Giant: 2004
The FCC assault against Howard Stern may bring out the much hyped and sought after “non-voter” in larger numbers this year than Ralph Nader could ever dream of doing. And in large enough numbers to be a deciding factor in this race. I’m not a big Stern fan — most of his stuff is usually too juvenile or personally offensive in one way or another. But I’ve also found myself laughing out loud as I drive to work with him — so I occassionally tune in.
For the past few weeks, however, I’ve been tuning in every day to hear his latest tirade against the religious right and the puppets (Bush and others) that have infiltrated our government. This isn’t the disgruntled rantings of someone with his own agenda. Call me naive, but I believe Stern when he says he’d rather have nothing to do with politics. He has become concrete proof — not theory or speculation — that something “scary” is happening in this country with the intrusion of religious belief systems into public policy. Old school politicians are likely to write Stern off — but his message is reaching people who otherwise believe election results don’t really matter. Stern is saying loud and clear, in direct contradiction to Nader, that there is a difference — a significant one — between the Republican and the Democrat this year.
Posted by 9thwave at March 20, 2004 09:26 PMI highly doubt that Howard Stern, between playing butt-bongo and talking about what he did with his pee-pee the night before, is going to come riding to John Kerry’s rescue in shining armor.
Maybe Kerry should choose him for VP?
Posted by: Martin at March 20, 2004 10:57 PMMartin, despite Stern’s low grade humor he is not a dumb man. He brings up points that I find troublesome as well despite our supposedly secular government.
I just with 9thwave wrote more on this.
Posted by: Adam at March 21, 2004 01:42 AMI’m glad that Stern is telling people to vote
Bush out of office. But I still couldn’t care
less about his dumb show. And his reasons for
attacking Bush - the ones he states himself - are
so nakedly in his own self-interest, too.
