Nothing grows more tiresome than celebrities’ “I’m one of you,” and “speaking truth to power” bromides. Look at all the supposedly “renegade” celebrities who fell right in line for the COVID propaganda and tyranny. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It is being reported that Howard Stern will be off the air soon. That SiriusXM is cancelling his show after the end of this year.
Not that many will notice.
Stern has become the Bruce Springsteen of radio; more finely, he (like Springsteen) revealed himself to be another Fake Rebel, who played his audience for decades. Both of these men pretended to be outsiders who championed the ordinary guy, when in fact they used the ordinary guy to amass riches and celebrity while laughing – behind the ordinary man’s back – all the way to the bank.
Stern’s case is especially egregious. He became famous – back in the ’80s – by pretending to be politically incorrect. Especially interesting was the way he deftly avoided the trap that snared the Greaseman, who was for a time the most popular, listened-to “shock jock” in Washington, DC. The Greaseman’s career was destroyed when he made the mistake of apologizing for making “insensitive” jokes about Martin Luther King and a rap singer named Lauren Hill. He ought to have told The Offended to turn off the radio and (to be blunt) Fuck Off.
Instead he went on an embarrassing apology tour that did to his credibility what Trump’s statements about nothing-to-see-here have done to his.
Never forgave him and his staff for the treatment of beautiful Dana Plato from Different Strokes, she committed suicide by overdose one day after being on the show.
Listen to Stern? Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis.