Posted on 03/07/2002 7:51:58 AM PST by codebreaker
If there's anything to reports that CBS might replace David Letterman with Howard Stern if Letterman jumps to ABC, Stern's critics will be ready with a full-scale boycott.
The (self syled-ed.) King of All Media-whose radio show propelled Mel Karmazin into the vice chairmanship of Viacom/CBS-has often boasted he could dominate late night TV.
But Catholic League president William Donohue thunders, "CBS is out of its mind if it thinks it can get away with moving Howard Stern into the Letterman slot without a fight."
Donohue who plans to target one advertiser at a time, said, "No one in the entertainment business has angered more Americans than Howard Stern."
Carson came out of that 60's/70's Rat Pack, Ring a Ding Ding era where certain activity wasn't touched. Sure they'd get sh-tfaced on Carson's show, or anywhere in public, but they stayed away from that type of humor.
But that's why there'll never be another Carson, different era.
How is that not censorship?
Spent my childhood looking forward to being a grown-up one day and enjoying grown-up things.
Thanks to the infantile, peurile, self-centered perpetual adolescents at the tail-end of the baby boom, it was for naught.
I can get better "adult entertainment" and wit off a stall door in some sports stadium.
How is Stern not an obscenity?
Johnny Carson wouldn't strip down to his boxers for a joke.
How about a loin cloth?
How Catholic?
Colossally Catholic.
Also, maybe if the Catholic Church wouldn't spend so much time and money taking care of pregnant women, their babies, the poor, and even, sodomites with AIDs, it could spend more time ridding our culture of polutants like Howard Stern and his ilk.
This may be a good opportunity to do just that. It's long overdue for that SCUMBAG, AS*HOLE Stern and his shills to take a fall, his circle jerk supporters notwithstanding.
HOWARD STERN DISCOVERS BIGOTRY:
"we noted the umbrage that Stern took when he was made the victim of an anti-Semitic remark. It was reported to Stern that a media executive said that the reason Stern wears dark sunglasses is because "he wants to hide his beady Jew eyes cause theyre a window into his insecurity." Stern complained publicly that no one investigated this incident further, other than the TV show, Hard Copy."
Also, Stern has always hid behind the lie that he is half-Catholic/half-Jewish. This gives him cover for the hateful anti-Catholic garbage he spews:
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Your post proves what I've thought for some time: Many if not most Catholics are too wimpy or lazy to care or respond when their religion is belittled and p-ss-d on by the media. Donahue looks like a crank because he's out there alone - - where are the bishops and the other laity? Snoozing, apparently.
I'm not a Catholic, and I used to be amazed at how much anti-Catholic venom is spewed by movies and TV. Given the large numbers of Catholics in this country, I thought to myself, why do the media moguls risk the wrath of such a major portion of the population? I stopped asking this question some years ago when I concluded the same thing that the media must have concluded - the Catholic church is about as much to be feared as a wet towel. Indeed, many of its priests shake hands with all the firmness of a wet towel. When parishioners are preached at week after week by wimpy priests (many of them gay) many it's not surprising the Catholic laity is so passive while their religion gets pummeled by the media.
At least you can say for protestant evangelical leaders such as Falwell and Robertson and Dobson - they fight back like men.
Because she is. She criticizes her callers for:
Being divorced, when she's been divorced, twiceHaving poor relations with their parents, when she hasn't spoken to her own mother in years
Engaging in, or viewing pornographic material, when she herself posed nude when she was younger (thank God!)
Shall I go on?
Everyone has "skeletons in their closet", but to listen to her, you'd think she was the second coming of Christ, for all her "sinlessness".
Getting back to ABC and Howard, this is the act of a dying network. Nobody under the age of 35 bothers with network television anymore and the attempt to hire Howard Stern is a desperate gambit to bring some of that younger audience back into the fold. It remains to be seen whether it works or not but in a few years, the television networks are going to be indiscernible from other channels in the cable wasteland like MTV, A&E, and Nickelodeon.
I predict that in five years, there will be no more nightly network news broadcasts. Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw. FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC is where the vast majority of TV viewers go for their news today and the major networks will soon have no choice but to ditch their costly and unprofitable news shows and switch to syndicated programming instead - if they survive at all.
Is a red light at a traffic intersection an impingement on your freedom? Or a standard employed to prevent chaos, and to create order on the public freeways. (I agree that on your private property you can drive in circles all day if you care to). V's wife.
Nothing like having the utterly desensitized (who can catch more flesh for free elsewhere) tell you how the Hooter's sexualized mentality doesn't hurt anyone.
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