Angry at Bush, shock jock Stern boosting Kerry

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Jun. 11, 2004


Angry at Bush, shock jock Stern boosting Kerry

Changing topics from sex to politics, radio show host Howard Stern is boosting Democrats' hopes.

BY STEVEN THOMMA
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WASHINGTON - Forget Al Franken. Democrats have a new champion on talk radio who they hope will counter the likes of conservative icons Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. It's shock jock Howard Stern.

Known more for crude talk of sex and lewd acts than politics or public policy, Stern has launched an on-air crusade he calls a ''jihad'' to defeat President Bush. He blames Bush for a government crackdown on his use of obscenity on the air.

And he's having an impact, apparently boosting the prospects of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, according to a new Democratic poll released Thursday. That was welcome news to Democrats who have ached for a liberal voice on talk radio and watched in frustration as former comic Franken struggled with a new program that has limited airplay.
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Stern is going after Bush with near-obsessive zeal, a notable development in a medium in which 20 of the top 27 talk-show hosts are conservatives, including the top-rated Limbaugh and Hannity.

Stern's website preaches the virtues of freedom of speech and includes or links to numerous articles, some obscene, criticizing or ridiculing Bush. On the air, he spends more and more time urging his listeners to vote against Bush.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8894501.htm?ERIGHTS=7443428400023905723miami:&KRD_RM=3mkmlmmlnkjppmjjjjjjjjjsko
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[saracat]

1. Go Howard!

This will get us the redneck vote!

[Kolesar]

2. and he has a better website than the DNC!

http://www.howardstern.com/bush.html

[rumguy]

3. What's up with the use of the word 'obscene' in the article...?

They aren't charging Howard with 'obscenity' - it's called indecency, those are two different things...

And then "Stern's website preaches the virtues of freedom of speech and includes or links to numerous articles, some obscene..."

[Misunderestimator]

4. Cool... He links to Truthout.org on the site... n/t

[seemslikeadream]

6. "OBSCENE" I'LL SHOW YOU OBSCENE! Moon crowned in Senate

Moon crowned in Senate building (no hoax)

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.ht...





http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=131

Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah – with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building?

Some of the guest list:

Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon's movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner.

But Section 9 of the Constitution forbids giving out titles of nobility, setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites. They included conservatives, the traditional fans of Moon's newspaper: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA.), Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Republican strategy god Charlie Black, whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. But there were also liberal House Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Davis. Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) later told the Memphis Flyer that he'd been erroneously listed on the program, but had never heard of the event, which was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation.

[Joanne98]

8. This should have it's own thread

Was he really crowned the messiah? If the fundies knew they would go nuts.

[seemslikeadream]

10. Don't you know the fundies love him?

Moon has loaned Jerry Falwell millions of dollars and there's plenty more stuff. I'm waiting for a news story about Moon so I can place this in it!

[seemslikeadream]

11. Here ya go -- Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right

On Jan. 28, 1995, a beaming Rev. Jerry Falwell told his Good Time Gospel Hour congregation news that seemed heaven sent. The televangelist hailed two Virginia businessmen as financial saviors of debt-ridden Liberty University, the fundamentalist Christian school that Falwell had made the crown jewel of his Religious Right empire.

"They had to borrow money, hock their houses, hock everything," enthused Falwell. "Thank God for friends like Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas." Falwell's congregation rose as one to applaud. The star of the moment was Daniel Reber, who was standing behind Falwell. Thomas was not present.

Reber and Thomas earned Falwell's public gratitude by excusing the Lynchburg, Va., school of about one-half of its $73 million debt. In the late 1980s, that flood of red ink had forced Falwell to abandon his Moral Majority political organization and nearly drowned Liberty University in bankruptcy.

Reber and Thomas came to Falwell's rescue in the nick of time. Their non-profit Christian Heritage Foundation of Forest, Va., snapped up a big chunk of Liberty's debt for $2.5 million, a fraction of its face value. Thousands of small religious investors who had bought church construction bonds through a Texas company were the big losers. But Falwell shed no tears. He told local reporters that the moment was "the greatest single day of financial advantage" in the school's history.

Left unmentioned in the happy sermon was the identity of the bigger guardian angel who had been protecting Falwell's financial interests -- from a distance and without publicity. That secret benefactor was the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed South Korean messiah who is controversial with many fundamentalist Christians because of his bizarre Biblical interpretations and his brainwashing tactics that have torn thousands of young people from their families. Moon also has grown harshly anti-American in recent years


more lots lots more
http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry1.htm


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic...

[seemslikeadream]

12. corrected url

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html

[number6]

18. the Moonie Fawelsmell Bush Christain Fundie cabal

:puke::evilgrin::smoke:

[Beetwasher]

7. Not Only That, But They Make It Seem As If It's A Matter of Fact

That he IS obscene. Look at this sentence:

"He blames Bush for a government crackdown on his use of obscenity on the air."

That's a pretty fucking twisted leap there. Howard doesn't think what he does is obscene, nor do I. That's the whole point. This sentence assumes what Howard does IS obscene.

[rumguy]

19. exactly - it is a fucked up article

Legally, Stern's show doesn't even come close to obscenty, which is a FELONY and could get you thrown behind bars...

[trogdor]

5. Well, that's what they get.

Howie can't talk about nude mud wrestling lesbians anymore, and he has to talk about something...lemme see...POLITICS! That's the ticket! Who's the fattest, juiciest target in politics...um...oh yeah...George W. Bush, that's who!

So there you have it.

[sadiesworld]

9. Didn't I hear that the "struggling" Franken is beating pigboy in

some markets?

:puke:

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. i'm with you.......

some of these media outlets never miss an opportunity to take a swipe at a.a.r. and you're right, he is definitely beating limpnuts in some markets.

[cliss]

13. ...hell hath no fury

like a DJ scorned. Good for Howard! While I really don't care for him, I will confess that I turn to his program a few times during my morning commute to work.

I just want to hear him blast Bush and Cheney. He doesn't do it all the time (he says it will bore people --not me!!!).

But I have to admit: his show is raunchy crude, but funny too. Robin is too good for him.

Now I've read that his listenership is 15 million people nationwide. That's not a small number. That's like an entire state (definitely more than Oregon with a puny 3 million).

[nodehopper]

15. politics makes strange bedfellows....still, AWESOME.

[KelleyKramer]

16. Franken #1 in New York market.. is 'struggling' ???

In his first month on the air Al Franken beat Rush in the New York ratings.

And according to Franken.. He is crushing Rush in the 18-35 yr old demographic.

How can being Number ONE mean that you are 'struggling' ???

More bullshit and lies from the corporate media!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

17. Thank You Howard!!!!!