(For non-haters) Howard Stern says Edwards is starting to look very good

[Bombtrack]

He said he's really getting sick of the right wing. The environment, the defecit, the separation of church and state being hurt.

He said the Janet Jackson incident pushed him over the edge with how the conservatives are freaking out over nothing and Michael Powel etc(he's always hated the FCC)

He said he didn't know anything about Edwards but he read a Rolling Stone article about him and he really thought he looked good.

Of course the anti-Stern responses to this will be inevitable, but as someone who listens to him daily he's been extremely fair when commenting on all the democrats. He's said Kerry always looked good. He stood up for Dean about the "scream" saying it was silly that people were making a big deal even though it was funny, and he's always said that Dean was smart and a good speaker even if he disagrees with him about the war.

The only candidates he doesn't like are Joe Lieberman and Al Sharpton. He really dislikes both of them.

I thought the Edwards camp might want to know about this as every little bit might help. Just as long as you don't brag about it to the NOW democrats(The ones who've tried to get him kicked off the air)

Stern also had John Bon Jovi on, who I didn't know was a dem, but Howard asked him since he's "a big democrat" who he's backing, and John said that he was undecided. When Howards brought up Edwards(he had talked about him earlier in the show) Bon Jovi said that he liked Edwards too and that his optimism has really worked. Bon Jovi also said that he had met Clark and really thought he'd make a good president.

[maddezmom]

1. Stern is for Edwards and Imus is for Kerry

wonder what radio personalities will come out for Clark, Dean, Kucinich, and Sharpton? :)

[Bombtrack]

3. every other person with any audience is a right-winger

Imus leans to the right as it is.

[maddezmom]

5. Randi Rhodes likes Dean n/t

[DaisyUCSB]

9. Who's that? Does he have a national show?

Never heard of that person

[KamaAina]

13. Alas, *she* does not

Randi with an 'i': female

She has (according to reports) a kick-a$$ local show in, of all places, West Palm Beach, Fla. (the "Graveyard of Democracy") There is, I believe, an Internet audio stream as well.

Supposedly her ratings in that market are two to three times higher than those of a certain other Palm Beach resident who eats about ninety OxyContin pills a day...

[KensPen]

2. Glad to see Stern seeing beyond the "Terror Alerts"

he was letting fear feed Bush's mass hypnosis about impotent Democrat leadership.

[Bombtrack]

4. he's just a social liberal who thought regime change was right

and we can't forfit all the people with those views(alot of which there are) if we're going to win the election.

Howard is such a New York institution, he took 9-11 particularly personal, and obviously believed in the "show the muslim world we're serious" theory.

[Jack_Dawson]

6. What does Howie say about Clark?

[Bombtrack]

8. He obviously doesn't know anything about him

When Bon Jovi said that he had met Clark, Stern said, jokingly, "what's he like, cut your hair Bon Jovi!" in an authoritarian voice. He probably just hasn't learned about him because the media is ignoring Clark, so because Howard is only a casual observer of politics, he hasn't really picked up on him.

[returnable]

22. Bon Jovi & Clark

There's an article in this month's ATLANTIC about celebrity endorsements. Bon Jovi gets mentioned, as he was a prominent Gore backer.

I guess the Clark folks actually reached out to him. The article mentions that Team Jovi was upset that the Clark folks seemed to take his support for granted, but didn't go into detail.

[Bombtrack]

24. dumb move if that's true

who knows

[returnable]

25. If only Clark had tabbed "Slippery When Wet" as his fave rave...

...instead of Journey's "Greatest Hits" :hi:

[NewJeffCT]

7. I stopped listening to Stern

I stopped listening to him when he wouldn't listen to any dissent or reason regarding the Iraq War (which eventually led me to DU)... but, if he's starting to be open-minded again, I may have to tune in again.

[mmonk]

10. Stern must not know

Edwards' environmental record since he mentioned the environment.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. Most folks aren't single-issue voters.

They look at the total candidate.

[mmonk]

18. He mentioned he was tired of them hurting the environment

as one of the reasons Edwards seemed to be attractive for him. Logic would follow if it's a concern of his, he must not know his record.

[Cuban_Liberal]

23. Edwards is not Chernobyl, Dow Chemical, etc., all rolled into one.

Edwards' record is fine on the environment.

[mmonk]

27. That's a little over-reaching (insinuating I meant awful)

His rating with the League of Conservation Voters is 76%. Not awful but not attractive if its a main issue for the particular voter looking for a protect the environment candidate.

[stickdog]

11. Imus likes Kerry and Stern likes Edwards.

Why aren't these jocks shocking me?

[blm]

15. Were you upset when Stern was liking Dean for months?

Nope. It served its purpose then for you.

[stickdog]

17. I didn't know Stern liked Dean.

Does that shock you?

[Bombtrack]

19. they're both from long island

and they both think very highly of them selves

[question everything]

12. I would expect him to be a target for RWers

Never listened to his (or to any other) show but I think that he likes to talk about sexual matters that would cause Ashcroft and co. to wish he were closed. Is this correct?

[DaisyUCSB]

16. yeah, Howard has a very European attitude towards sex

he doesn't talk about and do things involving sex as much as most people think he does. Most of his show is just about opinions and goofing on things and people that are either in the news or in the entertainment world

But on his TV show they pretty much show all of the things that will get as many male viewers as possible(T & A, T & A, and more T & A)

So yeah he's public enemy #1 of both the religious right(for both his sex-stuff and his agnostism/hard and hard pro-choice and anti-relion stances) as well as alot of the so-called "feminaze" left.

I guess my generation of women is less uptight than those who've come before because I like the radio show as much as my boyfriend

[IndianaGreen]

20. I hate Howard Stern, but...

John Edwards is a very good campaigner, and has a good message.

[D G]

21. Looks like something positive came from the "JANET" incident. n/t

[knight_of_the_star]

26. Ok...

I have a VERY hard time taking that guy seriously.

[nomaco-10]

28. If Howard Stern says so.....

then I'm gonna change my whole dem philosophy, after all, Howard Stern is the last mind speak on democratic issues.
I'm just sitting here wondering, why didn't WHOREad STERN tell me who to vote for sooner, I could have bypassed alot of unpleasantness on GDprimary2004 to begin with, and if he and all the end all experts would have told me we should have backed an Edwards/Bon Jovi ticket in the first place, I could have saved myself alot of trouble. Where is the common sense and the democratic voice of reason when we need it, dammit, I should have been pushing a Howard Dean/Janet Jackson ticket or the ever popular electability team of John Kerry and Michael Moore, why didn't anybody tell me???????

[jpgpenn]

29. Have Stern crawl back under the rock ...

he came out from under!

[MrSlayer]

30. Stern is hilarious but his pro-Bush position has made me sick.

He's been supporting Bush all through this thing and continues to perpetuate the lies about WMD. I love his show and have been listening since 1986 but when he talks about Dubya's war in a positive way it sickens me.

[genius]

31. I like Edwards but Stern is an idiot.

Maybe Stern will pull in the dummy vote for Edwards.

[ArtieBoy]

32. Bite the hand

Great idea, guys. Snub a huge media supporter of a Democratic candidate. We constantly complain that we can't get a word in edgewise on the airwaves, then when a guy with one of the largest audiences in radio speaks in our favor, we slam him. When Democrats act like this, I start to wonder if we don't deserve to lose.