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The Fall of Howard Stern


               
2020 Jan 7, 10:43am   6,551 views  54 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   follow (13)  

From the shock jock who stood up for free speech, law and order, and great looking babes. From Breast Feed The World to Saving Latin Asses.

Really great story about how Stern used to be the Loudmouthed Hero of the New York Working Man-Commuter, railing against stuck up assholes, bad roads, and Dinkins style Liberal Criminal Coddling. Used. Before he married a hot model and got a slot on America's Got Talent.

By the 2010s, he dumps long time pals Trump, Gottfried, and Dee Snider. His third biography, mostly centered around his more tame era of the past decade, makes the outrageous claim that the guy who ran for Libertarian Governor of NY in 1994, who mocked Dinkins daily and lauded Koch and Guiliani, “As my listeners know, I don’t like talking about my political beliefs on the air.”

He's even gone so far as to sanitize his old classic Broadcasts.

He disowns his former “hard-ass pose,” which he diagnoses as having “provided an almost impenetrable shell that protected me from feeling need.” He even asks readers to do him a favor and throw out their copies of his first two books. In promotional interviews for Howard Stern Comes Again—the incredible number of which seemed to belie his claim that he’d found humility—he repeated this spiel. He once squeezed laughs out of his narcissism; his narcissism now takes the form of tiresome bragging about having purportedly surmounted it.

In any event, this latest round of interviews made for a sad spectacle. A great entertainer was disowning the best part of his oeuvre; a former rebel leader was bowing to the king to win favor at court; a master at skewering high-level hypocrisy had gone over to the other side. “You’ve gone from filth merchant to talk of the town,” Jimmy Kimmel told him in October. Stern’s opening commentaries on the interviews in his new book seem designed to make old fans wince: he considers Madonna “a kindred spirit,” calls Stephen Colbert “very evolved and emotionally connected,” praises Rosie O’Donnell for her “wisdom and graciousness,” applauds Lena Dunham for her “wisdom” and “understanding,” and touts Gwyneth Paltrow’s “humanity.” When Amy Schumer recalls the time her boyfriend touched her without explicit permission and hesitates to call it rape, Stern insists that it was, and concludes by saying, “I want to apologize for all men.” He even manages to work in a sympathetic word for Christine Blasey Ford. And the references to his own “personal growth” keep on coming. After a while, he sounds like someone who’s joined a cult.



We can remember him at his peak, at least.

https://www.city-journal.org/howard-stern#.XhTDd6je_Ks.twitter

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42   GNL   2024 Nov 26, 8:04am  

WookieMan says


Robin is a weak female to put up with his shit for decades as well.

$$$$$

She's worth about $75,000,000
43   WookieMan   2024 Nov 26, 8:15am  

GNL says

WookieMan says

Robin is a weak female to put up with his shit for decades as well.

$$$$$

She's worth about $75,000,000

Again, not a dig on you, but who the hell knows her worth? No one. Maybe it's leaked from the people that cut the check, but this isn't sports with a salary cap. And who knows how she spent her money.

Also, powerful women isn't about money either. You're in the RE game. You know them when you see them. Robin was an early DEI hire that made his antics okay. Black and female. She was/is a pawn for him to make a billion. She got workplace cucked.
44   Ceffer   2024 Nov 26, 10:56am  

Celebrity fortunes tend to be exaggerated to the max for effect, like the fake coined billionaires. They can be unzipped rather quickly, it seems, so most of it is lifestyle promotion while they hold the public's attention.

I still remember Ed McMahon being promoted by Johnny Carson as being some kind of ultra wealthy guy. He went bankrupt in his old age and lost his shirt before dying, and one wonders how such things happen. One thing, he had a lavishly spendthrift wife.
45   GNL   2024 Nov 26, 3:36pm  

WookieMan says


GNL says


WookieMan says

Robin is a weak female to put up with his shit for decades as well.

$$$$$

She's worth about $75,000,000

Again, not a dig on you, but who the hell knows her worth? No one. Maybe it's leaked from the people that cut the check, but this isn't sports with a salary cap. And who knows how she spent her money.

Also, powerful women isn't about money either. You're in the RE game. You know them when you see them. Robin was an early DEI hire that made his antics okay. Black and female. She was/is a pawn for him to make a billion. She got workplace cucked.


I'm only mentioning it just to show that he and her were popular enough to make it big and for that kind of dough, tons of women would gladly do what she did. All she did mostly was laugh at his antics.
46   porkchopXpress   2024 Nov 26, 4:48pm  

gabbar says

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was even shocked back then when I saw Carver on TV while in school, as I thought it was an act at first and not real , like when Howard Stern gave Carver an award and the first thing Carver said was "The Joos control the N*ggers"

Howard Stern was the Joe Rogan of shock. His show had worldwide potential. Back in the day, I used to think that Howard Stern was a legend. No one had characters like Daniel Carver or Beetle Juice. He would have outrageous contests (like mom-daughter stripping contest). He would ask female interviewers about what was going on there (meaning vagina)!. Now he has turned into a bitch.

Lord of the Anal Rings was a crowd favorite
47   Booger   2025 Aug 9, 9:28am  

Stern's show just got cancelled (or not renewed).
48   mell   2025 Aug 9, 10:09am  

GNL says

I'm only mentioning it just to show that he and her were popular enough to make it big and for that kind of dough, tons of women would gladly do what she did. All she did mostly was laugh at his antics.

Agreed. There's nothing weak about being a moneymaker's sidekick and be set for life after a few years of work. She may not be talented but she's smart
49   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2025 Aug 9, 2:12pm  

So I used to be a rabid listener. From the days of his channel 9 tv show where I was first introduced. So early/mid 90’s. Like most, his show slowly got worse and my listening became more irregular. After he went to Sirius I stopped listening and obv even clips on YouTube became unwatchable as he went woke.

But, and there’s a really good lesson here. Basically if you are making a large enough amount of money, you never ever bitch that the other guy makes more. Ever. Never go with the outlier. Robin is worth appx $75 million. Sterns contract was massive. Baby Booey and Fred are in the $10-20 million range. Everyone in the inner circle got lotto money if they stayed for the whole ride. You know who didn’t? Joke man Jackie Martling. He bitched about his substantial pay. A lot. For years. He thought he was indispensible(only Stern was indispensable). So he walked when his demands weren’t met. He’s a bum and not worth much. The show got better when Artie came in and Fred took over the writing. Artie was a loser like Jackie, but he was empathetic and lovable. All Jackie had to do was shut up, sit in a chair for another 25 years, and collect wads of cash. And he couldn’t do it. He utterly failed.

I work a govt job….civil service. I have been there closing in on 30 years. I still bust my ass. I don’t make a dime more than the next guy who is doing nothing. I do good enough. If the other guy got promoted I might complain to my friends or curse like a mad man to my wife. But in person? Nope. It’s all congrats Mr. Donothing, let me know what I can do to support you. Because I have it good regardless. It’s irrelevant that someone undeserving gets something. Sometimes politicians do stupid stuff that affects my job. Yes I bitch and complain some. But I still do the work even if it’s pointless. That’s what I’m being paid to do.

Jackie Martlings life is worse for failing to shut his yap. Fred, Gary, and Robin are multimillionaires because they did. That Stern is worth hundreds of millions is irrelevant.
52   GNL   2025 Aug 12, 5:01am  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

If the other guy got promoted I might complain to my friends or curse like a mad man to my wife. But in person? Nope. It’s all congrats Mr. Donothing, let me know what I can do to support you. Because I have it good regardless. It’s irrelevant that someone undeserving gets something.

I agree and DO NOT agree at the same time. If it's just more money, maybe but, undeserving promotions destroy. I don't want to sound hyperbolic but, yes, destroy.
53   WookieMan   2025 Aug 12, 8:26am  

Booger says





Legit didn't know he still had a show. As I've said never liked the guy even when he was supposedly in his "prime" in the 90's. Always though he was an idiot.
54   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2025 Aug 12, 9:09am  

GNL says

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says


If the other guy got promoted I might complain to my friends or curse like a mad man to my wife. But in person? Nope. It’s all congrats Mr. Donothing, let me know what I can do to support you. Because I have it good regardless. It’s irrelevant that someone undeserving gets something.

I agree and DO NOT agree at the same time. If it's just more money, maybe but, undeserving promotions destroy. I don't want to sound hyperbolic but, yes, destroy.


The issue is there’s nothing I can do about it. Under those circumstances I can make lemonade or I can wallow in the sour. I’m really good at making lemonade.

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