Is Howard Stern a Republican???

Howard Stern is at his best when he loses his temper, or when a caller or guest catches him somewhat off guard and he says something he normally wouldn’t.

There were a number of such revelations on a recent show honoring Stern sidekick, co-host and announcer Robin Quivers. The occasion was her birthday.

The first outburst came when a caller pointed out to Stern that the term “crap” had been edited out of a local broadcast.

Stern went ballistic. How dare they censor him, it’s okay to say “crap,” yada, yada, yada, he complained. He worked himself into a frenzy, saying he is simply unable to grasp why he is so closely monitored.

Then came the revelation. “The only reason I’m still here… is to get back the money my divorce is costing me!” he blurted into the microphone.

Interesting. The problem with that explanation, however, is that it tends to confirm that all the talk about not returning (in the midst of contract negotiations), the claims that he had told all the “Howard Stern Radio Program” staffers to seek other employment, were indeed a hoax. It’s not good when the guy who tells it like it is… doesn’t, particularly when it’s his turn at bat.

Howard’s rant went on much longer. He had a laundry list of complaints, including what he feels are his employers unethical promotion and support of other radio shows that are blatant rip-offs of his own.

Then Stern really got down to business. “Instead of worrying about what I say, why doesn’t someone around here worry about the ‘religious right’ trying to get our show off the air!”

The “religious right”? I thought it was the secular left that is so determined to remove Stern from the radio airwaves. A group headed by the (late) entertainer Steve Allen; about as distant as one can be from the religious right, specifically targeted Stern for boycott/removal from the airwaves, deeming his program “hate speech.”

Joining Allen were a number of entertainment industry liberals (good luck trying to find someone in show business who’s a Republican or conservative, Republicans are banned from the that business, and if you don’t think so, ask yourself when was the last time you saw a movie or television program with a conservative viewpoint), still active in the move to nuke Stern off the air and similar “shock jocks.”

And yet, the fact that these folks are liberal Democrats, for some reason, doesn’t seem to disturb Stern and company.

Think of our last presidential election. Which candidate(s) expressed disapproval of Howard Stern? You might think it was the obviously more conservative George Bush.

Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, taking a cue from their Hollywood supporters, specifically mentioned Stern as a prime candidate for removal from the airwaves. And who can forget Tipper Gore’s failed vendetta against rock ‘n roll, complaining that it contained “evil messages” and all that backward masking nonsense.

I doubt that President Bush is a Stern admirer, particularly in view of the outlandish and retarded things Stern and Robin say about him (we’ll get to that in a bit). Amazing, however, the more Democrats criticize Stern and call for an end to his program, the more Howard deludes himself into thinking that it’s conservatives and big bad Republicans who have it in for him.

I simply don’t understand Stern’s preoccupation with the “religious right.” What can he be thinking? That religious people aren’t entitled to express their opinions, only atheists?

Getting back to Robin’s birthday show (she’s… oh, we won’t say how old she is).

At one point they played one of Robin’s intros that could be called “Robin’s Hooters.”

In fact, it’s the Hallelujah Chorus from Handle’s “Messiah.” So instead of “hall-le-lu-ya,” we get “Rob-in’s-hoo-ters.”

I thought it was a harmless, funny bit, obviously not meant to be taken seriously.

What if I didn’t? What if I said, “Listen, I’m a deeply religious person, that’s religious music, and I take offense at you turning it into a joke.”

Would that be wrong? Howard and Robin seem to think so. And what if I wrote to Stern’s sponsors and said, “Look, no offense, but Stern’s program, in my view, constantly makes fun of organized religion, the pope, etc. and I think that’s inappropriate. I see no reason for your company to support such a show, and if you continue to do so, I will have to consider taking my business elsewhere.”

Would that be out of line? Of course not. And Howard Stern, of all people, should know that everyone’s entitled to an opinion, including the opinion that he shouldn’t be on the air.

It’s a viewpoint I strongly disagree with, but it’s genuinely puzzling that Stern thinks it’s a terrible crime for religious folks and conservatives to complain to sponsors about him, but that non-religious liberals who not only complain to sponsors, but also petition the government to get rid of him, that that, somehow, is a lesser offense.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, takes us into the bizarre world of Howard and Robin’s strange political brew. What did Republicans do to so thoroughly piss them both off?

Robin’s birthday program was no different from many recent and past programs, just more of Howard and Robin talking ess about President Bush. They can’t come up with a single thing Bush has done wrong, but they can’t stand him, he’s a Republican.

Except for one thing. The government official Howard Stern admires most is New York City Mayor Rudolph Giulianni. The government official Howard Stern admires second most is New York Governor George Pataki.

Anyone who listens to the program knows Stern is a strict believer in capital punishment. Robin equivocates on the subject, though she, too, seems to favor it. Which of the two mainstream political parties is pro capital punishment? The Republican Party.

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How do Howard and Robin feel about the government getting involved in things? Do they want less government or more? Clearly, they want less. This, too, is a Republican, not a Democrat concept.

There’s the Congressman Condit issue. In fact, on this program, the “congressman” called in to say happy birthday to Robin and also asked if she knew where he could obtain chemicals to “make a body decompose quickly.”

Both Stern and Robin have left no doubt they believe there is a distinct possibility that the real Condit had Chandra Levy murdered. Do they sound like Democrats to you?

And what about taxes? Do they feel taxes are excessive? Yes, they do. Would that tend to put them in the Democrat or Republican camp? It’s a rhetorical question.

(In fact, isn’t it amazing, that, for lack of a better way of saying it, the “liberal media” has all but ignored the tax refund President Bush gave us. Ted Turner and Dan Rather don’t want it mentioned since to do so might “help” Republicans.

Most people, myself included, had good use for this revolutionary gift to the American people. The car needed a new starter that wasn’t in the budget. Thanks to President Bush, the starter was no problem.

Notice there have been virtually no stories in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times on the return of billions of unnecessary taxation dollars to the American people.

Amazingly, there are no polls on the subject – not a single polling organization decided that this subject is worthy of discussion – but there were always plenty of media polls insisting that the American people “aren’t interested” in tax relief. And naturally, there are no shortage of polls insisting that Hillary Clinton’s popularity is on the rise, never mind that she’s little more than a career criminal with a law degree.

No feature stories interviewing people about what use they’ve put their tax refunds to. No reporters in the street asking people in shopping malls if part of the reason they came out is because of a tax refund.

No questions for anyone on whether the tax refund will help with tuition or allow a much- needed vacation that otherwise wasn’t going to happen. And you definitely won’t hear Andy Rooney doing a piece on the subject. Nope. “If it might help Republicans we don’t report it” is essentially the liberal media’s motto.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine how much attention this subject would have gotten had the tax refund been a Democrat concept? Endless, breathless, chatty pieces on what a great job the Democrats had done.)

Since Stern spends a significant amount of time complaining about what everything costs, and Robin, at times, does the same… do you think they were in favor of the tax refund? Obviously they were, and that doesn’t exactly make them Democrats.

And yet, the peculiar, annoying and utterly unfounded attacks on Bush continue. Stern said something embarrassingly stupid, and it’s surprising that someone as intelligent and talented as he is would fall into this media trap.

What’s the media’s latest anti-Bush propaganda? President Bush doesn’t really want to be president.

Stern actually said that, and Robin immediately chimed in to second the motion.

They both sounded so retarded. And I say that as someone who generally enjoys the program very much.

And the discussion droned on. Oh, Bush is on vacation, he doesn’t like being in Washington.

Of course, it was perfectly okay for President Clinton, after complaining about the “excessive traveling” of past presidents, to log more miles on Air Force One than the past three presidents combined. But it’s wrong if President Bush takes a vacation at his ranch, rather than stay at luxury hotels throughout the world.

Most of President Clinton’s trips were a useless and unnecessary rip-off of taxpayers (that would be you and me).

Oh, Bush just likes to play golf, Howard and Robin said.

Play golf? I thought President Clinton was playing golf every five minutes. And every third day Clinton seemed to be at some Democratic fundraiser – outside of Washington D.C.

I just can’t grasp these attacks on President Bush. Weren’t Howard and Robin living in the states during Clinton’s eight embarrassing years?

President Bush didn’t defraud elderly investors at an Arkansas thrift. He didn’t fire a bunch of perfectly good, competent people in the White House Travel Office so he could give the jobs to friends of his. He didn’t openly and repeatedly defy the United States Supreme Court (which repeatedly, once by a 9-0 decision, ordered that the Paula Corbin Jones lawsuit against Clinton go forward).

Nor did President Bush loot the White House, nor did President Bush have a pardons-for-big-bucks garage sale on the White House lawn.

I’d love for one person to explain what it is that President Bush has done wrong.

How about the China spy plane matter? Didn’t President Bush handle it well? Wasn’t it great to see our men and women in uniform come home safe and sound? You know our military folks – the people Democrats and their media colleagues worked so hard to keep from voting during the last presidential election… since the Dems knew, as did Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, that all but a few of those votes would go Republican.

What’s the latest? Hillary “Two-Bit Hustler” Clinton’s claim that President Bush has “undone everything we accomplished.”

Right. In other words, if the economy sucks at the moment, it must be the fault of President Bush.

(Don’t even get me started on Hillary’s “If anything good happened while my husband was president, I was actually behind it, and if anything bad happened, I know nothing about it” approach to politics.)

Except for one thing. The economy started to tank well before President Bush took office. And President Bush chose the same man President Clinton wanted to guide the Federal Reserve and therefore the economy – Alan Greenspan.

Sorry Hillary, your desperate and pathetic propaganda doesn’t wash and won’t work.

How about Stern’s never-ending feud with Rosie “No One Should Be Allowed To Own Guns But Me” O’Donnell? Again, Stern clearly believes in the right to bear arms, as does Robin. Yet another Republican viewpoint.

Someone needs to sit down with Howard and Robin and explain something that’s obvious to anyone who listens to the show – most of their views seem to be Republican. Most of the politicians they admire seem to be Republicans – and that makes them… you guessed it, Republicans.

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