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Speaking of Bush already seeming to have uncanny bad luck and maybe even be hexed already:
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the following is from a terrific and very funny poster who posts over on www.comicscommunity.com very often by the name of ahbay. All commentary here is (c) 2004 ahbay khosla.
look at this-- http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/12/stern/index.html:
The pioneering shock jock, "the man who launched the raunch," as the Los Angeles Times once put it, has emerged almost overnight as the most influential Bush critic in all of American broadcasting, as he rails against the president hour after hour, day after day to a weekly audience of 8 million listeners. Never before has a Republican president come under such withering attack from a radio talk-show host with the influence and national reach Stern has.
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"Our research shows many, many people in the 30- to 40-year-old range who were Bush supporters are rethinking that position and turning away from Bush because of what Howard Stern has been saying," says Harrison.
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"Overnight, Stern's probably increased by an important percentage the amount of talk-radio airtime that is not right-wing," notes Martin Kaplan, associate dean of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications.
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"Karl Rove and the White House would have to be brain-dead to not know they have a problem here," says Goyette.
There are early signs that Bush supporters are indeed nervous about Stern's crusade. This week Limbaugh wrote a newspaper Op-Ed column dismissing Stern's claims against Bush as coming from "the left-wing fringe." (Stern returned fire, labeling Limbaugh a Bush "lackey.")
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here's the good part:
Stern's torrent of Bush barbs came in the wake of Clear Channel Communications' move in late February to pull Stern off six of its stations, condemning his program as "vulgar, offensive and insulting." Following the controversial Super Bowl halftime show featuring Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson, Clear Channel, like most major broadcasters, was under scrutiny over allegations it broadcast indecency. Clear Channel's radio chief was scheduled to testify before Congress where he was sure to face hostile questioning. On the eve of that congressional appearance, Clear Channel, which had never raised serious concerns about Stern's show before, suspended the program from its radio outlets.
my god- janet jackson's titty might save civilization!!!
Approximately 8 million listeners tune in each week. And at any given moment during his four-hour program roughly 1.4 million people are tuned in. By way of comparison, that's more than the number of morning viewers at any given time watching Fox News, CNN and MSBNC -- combined.
... wow.
what a WONDERFUL country this would be- and I SERIOUSLY don't mean this in any sort of ironic way- that after lie after lie, after getting the country into a fucked up war/occupatoin based on manufactured propaganda, destroying the environment, mishandling the war on terror, appointing religious freaks everywhere they can...
what a wonderful country this would be if trying to fuck up the howard stern show was the thing to finally bring those fucking criminals down.
i wouldn't believe it if it was in a movie, you know?
-- ahbay
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