HOWARDS TURN-Catholic League Promising Full Scale Boycott of Proposed CBS/Howard Stern Late Show

New York Post ^ | March 7, 2002 | Richard Johnson

[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."

[ventana]

No, nofriend, if you want to live in a town where the laundry is strung up and down mainstreet, litter is allowed to tumble down the road, and prostitutes lean up against signposts advertising nudie bars which compete with the Post Office's flag for airspace, then charter a town like that and live there. I bet you don't want that kind of a town, though. Well, the FCC controls the public airwaves through my tax dollars, and I don't want Howard Stern garbage polluting the frequency. Donohue's free to voice his concern. Not letting him do so would be true censorship. If folks want to see Howard Stern, go to the Bottom Line and watch a show there. Or get it pay per view. V's wife.

[GoreIsLove]

Saw the replay. Strip searched for security percautions. I just believe that there was a level of decorem involved that used to be observed. Johnny Carson wouldn't strip down to his boxers for a joke. Neither would Letterman.

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.

[BlackElk]

How Catholic? Have you any way of knowing?

[Stone Mountain]

What about Dr. Laura's tv show? The sodomites got her shut down.

Actually, the protests turned out to be good for her ratings initially. Her show died because nobody came back to watch it...

[GoreIsLove]

I don't want Howard Stern garbage polluting the frequency

How is that not censorship?

[Askel5]

Johnny Carson and Steve Allen.

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.

[Askel5]

How is that not censorship?

How is Stern not an obscenity?

[dead]

Johnny Carson wouldn't strip down to his boxers for a joke.

How about a loin cloth?

[dead]

How Catholic?

Colossally Catholic.

[Hail Caesar]

I agree with you, grumpster-dumpster.

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.

[AshleyMontagu]

Here's an old clip from the Catholic League website about Stern. It shows the pathetic weakness of one who always mocks but can't take it when someone hits at them.

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 they’re 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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[laureldrive]

Look, Im a Catholic and all, but Donahue has just got to chill out. """"

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.

[FourtySeven]

But, you called her hypocritical. Why do you say this?

Because she is. She criticizes her callers for:

Being divorced, when she's been divorced, twice

Having 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".

[SamAdams76]

You took the words right out of my mouth. I think Howard Stern is repulsive too but the Catholic Church really needs to get their own house in order before they waste time going after washed-up shock-jocks doing shows on a dying television network that is rapidly becoming irrelevant. I'm not a Catholic basher but the practice of shuffling pedophiles around different parishes in the hopes that the problem would just "go away" is just inexcusable and reprehensible. The Catholic Church has zero moral authority until they clean the mess up (and the heads of a few cardinals and bishops roll).

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.

[AshleyMontagu]

FYI #51

[ventana]

It's a public forum and has to survive the scrutiny of standards. We have standards in everything, if that is synonymous with censorship, well, then, I am not afraid of that word. That's like being afraid of the over-used word: racist. Ooohh. Scary. Except most accused of racism aren't. It's just a ploy word used by the opposition to defang one's argument. And also often used when one is arguing in favor of standards.

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.

[GoreIsLove]

One man's obscenity is another man's fine art. The free market has decided that Howard Stern is not an obscenity.

[GoreIsLove]

I stand corrected.

[GoreIsLove]

So by your logic it was right for Homosexual groups to go after Dr. Laura and get her show cancelled. Or it's right for Cal students to shout down David Horowitz. Or UNC students to block Clarence Thomas from speaking at their law school.

[Askel5]

Hey, thanks.

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.