CNN Poll: Do you support Clear Channel's decision to pull Howard Stern off

Do you support Clear Channel's decision to pull Howard Stern off the air?

Currently,
51% Yes
49% No

http://www.cnn.com

the same.

He's a jerk, but extremely useful at the moment.

level. Stern and Clear Channel are on two different extremes of unlikeable. As far as I'm concerned, they're hurting each other. Clear Channel certainly has outed itself with this move and is showing itself as a pro-conservative right-wing tool.

In the end, however, where I don't care about Stern's personal pain, I realize that one must hold their nose and defend his rights, so I'm glad that there is still another radio station willing to carry him.

For what it's worth you guys, before AirAmericaRadio came on, Howard was the ONLY radio I've listened to in the last 15 years or so.

Before the internet came along, Howard was the first human voice in the corporate media. Check out www.cluetrain.com for a definition of "human" versus "corporate" in this sense.

Why do so many people fail to "get" that? Why do so many people think a guy who loves to ogle women's bodies is misogynist? Why do so many people think a guy who uses the word "homo" is anti-gay or a guy who uses the word "nigger" is racist?

PC liberals are one of the biggest problems on the left.

They water down our message (which used to be: "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.")

They're boring and school-marmish and Liebermanish.

They're tone-deaf. (All of Howard's supposed misogyny, homophobia and racism is satire. The tone-deaf can't recognize satire unless it's accompanied by a laugh track.)

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I remember when the drag queen Shirley Q. Liquor came to New York for the first time. I had all her MP3s and and had played them to countless black friends (mostly gay) who loved her. ("She" is actually a white guy, who affects the southern drawl of a lovable black welfare mother of 19 children.)

When Shirley Q played at a gay club in NYC, she was SHUT DOWN her second night by various dead-serious gay-black community political groups from Brooklyn.

I don't know, maybe I'm the tone-deaf one here. But I do remember there was ONE person who totally agreed with me on that one - RuPaul wrote an impassioned letter to a gay paper defending Shirley Q.

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To all the so-called "liberals" who are happy to see our government testing the waters by harassing one slightly raunchy DJ who dared to attack Bush: wouldn't a better solution be the knob on your radio dial?

Heck, I'm gay, but I wouldn't advocate someone going after Reverend Phelps even. Let the guy stand on the street corner with his placard.

This is a bushco distortion agency that has it's sights on owning every radio station and every performance venue in the U.S. Stern should have never coddled these fucks in the first place.

I followed the link, and all I got was "Should Madonna play a Sunday show in Ireland despite objections from some Christians?"