Am I in opposite-world?

[Dookus]

I cruise the site and now I see that Howard Stern and Lou Dobbs are left wing heros, and John Kerry and John Edwards are right-wing corporate stooges.

*clicks heels three times, chanting "there's no place like home"*

[Maddy McCall]

1. Amazing, isn't it...

and those posters are the ones who will lecture you and me on principle and backbone.

:eyes:

*whispers to Dook* "DU ought to card new members at the door." ;-)

[Dookus]

2. You are exactly right

There are people in GD now defending Howard Stern for letting a caller say "Have you ever fucked a nigger chick? What do they smell like? Watermelons?"

They're defending it because he also criticized Bush today. Sigh

[cally]

5. That's horrible..

Please tell me you made that up. I hate radio talk show hosts.

[Dookus]

6. I did not make that up

Stern did not say it, though. A caller to his show did. Now Clear Channel is suspending him. But if you go to GD, you'll see the vast majority of people defending him and saying that he's being suspended because he dissed Bush. It's disgusting.


As I said there, sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still an asshole.

[Maddy McCall]

7. Linky for you:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1162615

;-) Please post to kick it...the principled and backboned segment of DUers seem to be ignoring it. :-)

[absyntheNsugar]

3. HA HA

I never thought of it that way....

[HEyHEY]

4. No

Now did I mean no as in yes or no as in no....... I JUST BLEW YOUR MIND!

[Dookus]

8. fuck it

I give up


Over 130 posts in that thread and I'm the ONLY one saying he deserved to be suspended.

I'm sick of DU'ers today and their stunning lack of intellectual honesty. If you hate Bush, you're good, unless you're running for President as a Democrat, in which case you still suck. How the hell ANYBODY can defend "Have you ever fucked a nigger chick? What do they smell like? Watermelon?" on a progressive board is beyond my meager powers of comprehension.

[KCDem]

9. you're right, Dookus

Stern's a disgusting son-of-a-bitch. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" only goes so far.

[Dookus]

15. Thanks KCDem

it's sad I have to come to the lounge to find some decent people.

I should never leave. Excuse me while I set up a cot in the corner... over there, near Arwalden's duck pen.

[DrWeird]

10. But he didn't say it, right?

That was a disruptive caller, wasn't it? I mean I didn't read the transcripts, but nutjobs get through the delay, just ask Rush.

That said, if he actually said it, fuck him.

[Dookus]

11. No it wasn't Stern

it was a caller.

But I guarantee if a caller said something equally offensive on Rush's show, we'd all be clamoring for his head.

The double-standard is what bugs the shit out of me. All of a sudden Stern is a left-wing hero because he dissed Bush, and now he's a victim of the big-bad media conglomerates, being punished for attacking Bush. That is bullshit. First, Stern is no liberal, and second, ANYBODY would be suspended for letting that shit get on the air.

[OneBlueSky]

12. hey, I'm with you . . .

Howard Stern should have been suspended years ago just for being a no-talent adolescent slob . . . I couldn't stand the guy when I first heard him, I can't stand him now, and this is certainly no loss to quality broadcasting . . . good riddance, Howie . . .

[Maddy McCall]

13. Earth to Dookus... ;-)

I agree with you. :-)

I think the tinfoil hatters are wrong on this one...blatantly wrong.

I'm withya buddy. :-)

[Dookus]

14. thanks

but jebus! I'm the ONLY one in that thread saying so. And now I'm being jumped on all over for it.

[Armand]

16. Stern is a racist son of a bitch.

Thank God he's done.