If you mirror the priorities of the Left, then you can do whatever you want. As long as you’re not caught on camera, you’re fine. If you look at the disparate consequences for public figures ranging from people like Russell Brand to people like Howard Stern, the public consequences are quite disparate.
Russell Brand has been accused by four separate women of actions ranging from sexual assault to rape to sexual harassment. Whether the allegations are true or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know is that at this moment, they’re just allegations. There has been no actual criminal indictment brought against him. He’s certainly not been convicted of anything. But YouTube has suspended Brand from making any money on its platform only days after that report broke from Channel 4 and BBC, outlets that used to pay Brand while he was in the midst of his most flagrantly vile behavior.
So if there are serious allegations made against you of any sort, all of your videos immediately get demonetized. (Which is going to be very bad news for a significant number of actors and half the rappers on the block.) That’s a horrible standard. You’ve now created a massive incentive structure for people to make allegations against people, true or false, in order to destroy their careers.
I’m not saying the women who have made allegations about Brand are lying. I don’t know whether they are or not. I do know, at this point, I have no idea how YouTube could possibly uphold such a standard. Does it have something to do with the fact that Brand is a heterodox political thinker, somebody who says things YouTube doesn’t like very much?
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Then there’s Howard Stern. Stern has been making headlines the last couple of days by pushing very loudly to the Left. He spent virtually my entire life — from the time I was a teenager — being an absolute deviant and a degraded person beyond all measure. The kinds of behavior that Stern has regularly engaged in publicly throughout his career are nothing short of disgusting. They are disreputable. They are vile toward women; he had women in his studio sit on vibrators so he could record their reactions and blast them out to millions of people in his audience.
But now, Stern is apparently one of our moral exemplars. Over the last couple of days, he ripped into Lauren Boebert, who engaged in what I think is disgusting behavior; he referred to her in vile ways.
How is Howard Stern able to get away with all this? He gets away with it because he mirrors the political priorities of the Left. You be as gross as you want to be so long as you mirror the political priorities of the Left. Stern has discovered the magic elixir that wipes away all of your past and present sins, and that is to be far enough to the Left. He’s saying all the nostrums everybody on the Left really wants to hear, and that means it’s fine for him to do all this.
So why is this important?
Because when you have a class of people who are immunized by their association with certain Left-wing causes, it incentivizes bad behavior by those people. It also creates a massive double standard: If you are heterodox, you can expect to be targeted, but if you are orthodox in your practice of leftism, you can expect you’re going to be given an enormous amount of breathing room.
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Russell Brand Gets Pilloried For His Behavior. Howard Stern Gets Celebrated For His. Guess Why.

Ben Shapiro

Howard Stern

Opinion

Readers Pass

Russell Brand

Sexual Harassment

If you decided one day to go on YouTube looking for old Howard Stern clips, you&#8217;d have a lot of edgy, politically incorrect content to choose from. Stern&#8217;s many segments with an intellectually disabled dwarf comedian named Beetlejuice, for example, aren&#8217;t hard to find. There&#8217;s also a bunch of compilations of people fighting on Stern&#8217;s set, in the style of Jerry Springer, usually over money or adultery. There&#8217;s enough degeneracy to last you weeks, if for some reason you were inclined to watch it.
But there is some recurring Howard Stern content that&#8217;s not so easy to view, because by and large, it&#8217;s been scrubbed from most major video-sharing sites. The segments I&#8217;m talking about involve Stern speaking about his sexual attraction to children, specifically Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Again and again, for several years, Stern described the Olsen twins as sexually attractive. &#8220;They&#8217;re so amazingly hot,&#8221; Stern says in one of the segments, referring to the underage girls. In several cases, Stern brings up the girls unprompted, leading to awkward moments with his co-hosts.
Because it&#8217;s not possible to truly eliminate any content from the internet, you can still find this footage if you know where to look. A small handful of anonymous accounts have defied corporate censors and uploaded some of Stern&#8217;s many disturbing comments about children he finds sexually attractive. Here&#8217;s one example, where Stern laments that the girls, in his estimation, aren&#8217;t as attractive as they were when they were 13-years-old:
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Stern show with call in talking about not liking how they look anymore, preferred how they looked when they were 13/14. Disappointed because they were counting down to 18th birthday to have sex with them. <a href="https://t.co/JUyfOjS6rZ">pic.twitter.com/JUyfOjS6rZ</a>
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There are many more clips like this that we could play. Some are even more disturbing than the one you just heard. This is a grown man, in his 40s at the time, repeatedly sexualizing children who are barely teenagers. Many people have had their lives destroyed and been reduced to groveling apologies for saying things that are not even a tenth as bad as what Stern says there. And that wasn’t even a tenth as bad as other things Stern said.
These clips were nauseating and creepy when he made them and they&#8217;re nauseating and creepy now. There was never a point in American history where it was acceptable to sexualize children like this. But for years, Howard Stern continued doing just that, right out in the open. No one stopped him. He didn&#8217;t seem ashamed of it at all. He tracked the Olsen twins from puberty to adulthood, commenting on their sex appeal, as he perceived it, at every turn.
But somewhere along the line, Howard Stern and his team decided that he had to stop talking about the Olsen twins. And more than that, someone decided that all of Stern&#8217;s past comments about the Olsen twins needed to be purged from the internet. All the other degenerate segments could stay online but the stuff where he lusts after young children — well that had to go. It was different from all of his other smut. It was just too damning.
With that evidence (mostly) expunged from the internet, Stern has embraced pretty much every agenda item of the Fortune 500. He is now officially a woke hall monitor, by his own admission. In fact this week Stern proudly identified as &#8220;woke.&#8221; Listen:
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As part of his new &#8220;woke&#8221; persona, Stern attacked Lauren Boebert for her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeberts-estranged-husband-posts-statement-after-theater-incident-i-was-unfaithful-to-lauren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inappropriate behavior</a> in a theater a few days ago. This is the guy who spent the first three decades of his career being a creepy, degenerate sex fiend. Now he&#8217;s playing the prude. He&#8217;s become a pathetic, old washed-up school marm but he&#8217;s now shielded by his new woke identity. He is immune from accusations of hypocrisy, just like he&#8217;s immune from accusations of being a dirty old man attracted to children.
It&#8217;s a revealing transformation, if only because it shows how little daylight there is between woke hall monitors and depraved pedophilic scumbags. Depraved pedophilic scumbags and woke hall monitors are not two destinations on opposite ends of the spectrum. They&#8217;re in the same neighborhood and there&#8217;s a lot of overlap. And they know it. Howard Stern knows it, which is why he&#8217;s sensitive about all those clips of him salivating over 13-year-old girls.
There are other old clips that are inconvenient for Stern, too, of course — clips that are particularly relevant after what&#8217;s just happened to Alex Jones. Jones, you&#8217;ll recall, was just ordered to pay something like a billion dollars to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. It bankrupted him. Of course Jones was wrong in what he said about Sandy Hook; he admits that. But as far as we know, Howard Stern has never apologized for his decision to mock the victims of the Columbine school shooting. In fact, Stern didn&#8217;t simply mock these victims, he said their killers should have raped them first, before executing them. Listen:
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This was Howard Stern the day after Columbine.
Yikes. <a href="https://t.co/rPVMjCTF4q">https://t.co/rPVMjCTF4q</a> <a href="https://t.co/WanI7f5Pv6">pic.twitter.com/WanI7f5Pv6</a>
&mdash; ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1704323051427402184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s pretty much the most vile thing a human being could possibly say. I personally give people a lot of leeway for “jokes” made years ago, in a different time, when people weren’t as sensitive and edgy humor wasn’t as edgy. But this is way beyond the bounds of what would have been considered remotely acceptable even in the ’90s. This is, again, perhaps the worst thing I’ve ever heard anyone say, ever. He is not only joking about a school shooting right after it happened — a day later — but lusting after the survivors and saying that the shooters should have raped their victims. And keep in mind that said all of this when he was a grown man in his mid 40s. But Howard Stern has never been banned from every social media platform for these comments. He wasn&#8217;t ordered to pay a billion dollars. He didn&#8217;t have to pay anything.
That&#8217;s because, fortunately for Stern, he mocked the Columbine victims prior to this new era of woke enlightenment, where free speech is illegal as long as it&#8217;s sufficiently offensive. And now, just to cover his bases, Stern has completed his transition into the cult of wokeness soon enough to protect himself against cancellation. Now they&#8217;re not going to come after him because he&#8217;s on their team.
Meanwhile, Russell Brand is being demonetized based on accusations alone. Unlike Howard Stern, Russell Brand never publicly expressed his sexual attraction to 13-year-old girls. But he has expressed skepticism about big pharma and the war in Ukraine. And for that reason, this week a &#8220;culture committee&#8221; in the UK parliament sent Rumble a letter requesting that they demonetize Russell Brand. The letter reads: &#8220;I am writing concerning the serious allegations regarding Russell Brand &#8230; We would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr Brand’s ability to earn money on the platform.&#8221;
In the most passive-aggressive fashion imaginable, the U.K. parliament also sent a similar letter to TikTok: &#8220;We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr Brand is able to monetise his TikTok posts, including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him, and what the platform is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the platform to undermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behavior.&#8221;
Let&#8217;s take stock of what we&#8217;re seeing here. This is the government of the U.K. effectively telling multiple social media platforms to demonetize one of the most influential commentators on the planet, solely on the basis of unproven allegations. There is no plausible deniability here; they&#8217;re being pretty much as explicit as they can possibly be. Before the Twitter files came out, this would have been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. You weren&#8217;t allowed to think that governments were colluding with big tech to censor unapproved voices. Now the government is just coming out and admitting that&#8217;s exactly what it&#8217;s doing. This isn&#8217;t just happening in the U.K.; the Biden administration does it too.
Unlike its competitor YouTube, Rumble emphatically rejected the request from the U.K. government, to their credit. But YouTube is the far bigger platform, and their decision to instantaneously demonetize Russell Brand sets a very worrying precedent. It&#8217;s also totally incoherent. As Elijah Schaffer points out, Cardi B is currently fully monetized on YouTube. This is in spite of the fact that she openly admitted to drugging and robbing men. It&#8217;s on tape. Watch:
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Cardi B confessed — bragged about — violent felonies. Her history as a confessed date rapist has not precluded her from major corporate sponsorships or monetization on YouTube. &#8220;Double standard&#8221; isn&#8217;t the right term for this. It&#8217;s really one standard: if you&#8217;re useful to the Left, you can essentially do what you want. That&#8217;s the standard, consistently applied. No one can really deny that anymore. This is not an arbitrary application of shifting sets of standards. This, again, is one standard. Leftists are immune. That’s the rule.
With that in mind, what&#8217;s the appropriate response? Pointing out hypocrisy isn&#8217;t going to do anything. We&#8217;ve learned that much over the past few years. What&#8217;s needed is some courage. We need more of what Rumble is doing. Rumble knows that Russell Brand might actually be guilty of what he&#8217;s accused of doing. After all, he was an admitted sex-addicted degenerate back when these crimes supposedly occurred. It certainly isn&#8217;t outside of the realm of possibility that he did treat the women the way he&#8217;s accused of treating them.
But the leadership of Rumble understands that it makes no sense to un-person Russell Brand based on mere allegations, when we know for a fact that Brand&#8217;s critics are entirely motivated by politics. They want to mete out punishments only to enemies of the regime while its allies and lackeys are given exemptions. Kowtowing to these wannabe strongmen is not a smart or sustainable strategy. All we can really do now is ignore everything that the system says and assume, for all intents and purposes, that everyone they demonize is innocent. If we&#8217;re being honest, that&#8217;s not always going to be true. Sometimes we will be wrong, and we will defend people who are guilty. 
Sometimes the system will say something true or villainize someone who actually is a villain. But they lie so often about so many things and are so blatantly driven by ideology and narrative and are so wildly dishonest all the time, that we have to ignore them completely at this point. By defending and promoting the most odious among us — by embracing ghouls like Howard Stern and Cardi B — they&#8217;ve left us no choice.
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Howard Stern Enjoys Immunity While Russell Brand’s Career Is Destroyed

Howard Stern Enjoys Immunity While Russell Brand's Career Is Destroyed

Cancel Culture

Sexually explicit

Woke Culture

Longtime Howard Stern listeners grimaced when the shock jock cried, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-your-freedom-howard-stern-latest-celeb-to-blast-unvaccinated-say-hospitals-shouldnt-treat-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“F*** their freedom”</a> to anyone who didn’t take the COVID vaccine. Radio’s legendary bad boy took the government’s side, casting liberty in the circular file.
Fans figured the man who famously fought the FCC to tell fart jokes on his terms couldn’t sink any lower. Think again.
Stern recently came out of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1813-how-howard-stern-avoided-cancellation-member-exclusive">closet as woke</a>, a descriptor that completes his transformation from radio rebel to progressive scold.
<blockquote>“To me, the opposite of woke is being asleep …and if woke means I can’t get behind [former President Trump], which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or I’m for the vaccine — dude, call me woke as you f&#8212;ing want … I am woke, motherf&#8212;er. And I love it.”</blockquote>
It’s a stunning about-face given his decades of raucous radio and ability to capture the Id of the nation. And he had no other option, at least if he wanted to keep cashing those sweet SiriusXM checks.
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Stern’s transformation didn’t happen overnight. The talk show titan slowly let go of his sexually outrageous banter, a shift that coincided with growing older. Even hardcore Stern fans might flinch at the 60-something star (he’s 69 now) ogling girls young enough to be his granddaughter.
Everyone grows up. Even the so-called King of All Media (a name he gave himself, and it more or less stuck).
He mended fences with longtime frenemies like Rosie O’Donnell and Kathie Lee Gifford and shared how extensive therapy allowed him to evolve.
The broadcaster doubled down on his signature interviews, leaning into satellite radio’s ability to broadcast indefinitely without a commercial break.
The new, improved Howie had some perks, including a second look from the mainstream media.
Reporters loathed Stern for years, incorrectly predicting his career implosion and framing stories about him in the most negative light possible. He raged against the press portrait on air, but he seemed to draw strength from his enemies.
It was Stern against the world, and his listeners had his back.
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Except Stern started to like it when the media reconsidered his work and legacy. He earned sympathetic notices after opening up about both therapy and a cancer scare. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/howard-stern-reveals-cancer-scare-trump-regrets-details-a-dishy-new-book-1208773/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The press even feted him</a> when he produced a tome of his best celebrity interviews, “Howard Stern Comes Again.”
He began hobnobbing with celebrities, not berating them from his SiriusXM perch.
Other elements of his broadcast persona morphed as well. His politically ambiguous nature shifted to the Left, becoming both predictable and erratic. He fawned over both Hillary Clinton and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, figures with closets chock full of skeletons.
The old, straight-shooting Stern became a watered-down Rachel Maddow, subservient to liberal power. Suffice it to say he rages against former President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he once regularly invited him into his studio for ribald chats.
The worst part of Stern 2.0? The man who fought for free speech suddenly went silent as Cancel Culture roared into the public’s consciousness. Few were better positioned to address the issue, at least on paper.
Stern had his satellite radio perch, which gave him more freedom than most broadcasters have. He knew the cultural landscape well, having fought to say what he wanted, when he wanted <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4695519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during the 1990s</a>.
And few talk show hosts knew the comedic mindset better than Stern. He worked for decades alongside comic firecrackers like Artie Lange and Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling. Plus, every significant comedian passed through Stern’s studio over the years, including Jerry Seinfeld, Conan O’Brien, and more.
There’s a catch, though.
Stern’s radio career teems with “problematic” material. Skit after skit. Song parody after song parody. Stern dressed in blackface, used racially insensitive words (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXPVw9R9bg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even the “n-word”)</a>, and embraced minority stereotypes for yuks.
Day after day. Month after month. Year after year.
And that doesn’t hint at his decades of objectifying women, aggressively coaxing them to remove their clothes in-studio and reveal their most intimate feelings.
All of it on air to titillate the listener and, to use the Left’s language, strip women of their agency. Literally and figuratively.
The mob swiftly came for stars with far less offensive legacies.
Kevin Hart lost the Oscar hosting gig for a single monologue deemed homophobic. “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon did an on-air struggle session after his 20-year-old blackface sketch resurfaced following the George Floyd protests.
Stern trumps them all.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Homeless Jeopardy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Lesbian Dial-a-Date</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Black Jeopardy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Guess Who’s the Jew (with Kurt Waldheim, Jr.)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Regular treks to “The Homo Room” with Out of the Closet Stern </li>
</ul>
Any single sketch could get him canceled, let alone an entire career full of inappropriate material.
The <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/howard-stern-blackface-trump-bullying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke mob knocked on Stern’s studio door</a> three years ago, weeks after Floyd’s death. Stern confessed to his thought crimes, claimed he renounced his old material and, shrewdly, blamed Donald Trump, Jr. for pushing the old material to the surface.
Next, he brought up his new, woke bona fides.
<blockquote>“I’m not a hater … I’m excited about gay rights, telling you not to beat up gay people. I’m excited about the changes that are coming out of Black Lives Matter. I think real change might be in the air,” he said before one more odd Trump attack. “If you solve the pandemic, then we can review all my old shows.”</blockquote>
And it worked.
The mob moved on to other targets. They haven&#8217;t gone after him since, and likely never will. The woke mob turns on fellow wokesters last.
Stern still could resist the woke siren song, the cultural movement that essentially devalues his legacy. He could renounce traditional media and go rogue, broadcasting via freer speech platforms like Rumble or follow Joe Rogan to the podcasting realm.
He’d make much less money there, though, and the media’s love for him would evaporate in a New York minute.
Stern made a calculated choice and went woke instead, shattering his legend in the process. 

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Celebrity Sightings In New York City – May 09, 2019

Howard Stern 2.0: Why The Notorious Shock Jock Had No Choice But To Go Woke

Celebrities

Covid vaccine

Wokeness

No late-night shows, celebrity profiles or awards show gatherings. Major 2023 releases like “Dune 2” could be bumped to 2024, much like the fate of “Kraven the Hunter” and the “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” sequel.
The earth continues to spin, and most people have bigger issues on their minds. Inflation. Gas prices. Their nation turning into a banana republic in real time.
Dueling Hollywood strikes have shut down La La Land, and there’s little panic across the American heartland.
Does anyone outside of the Hollywood area code care?
Stars like <a href="https://people.com/billy-porter-has-to-sell-home-due-to-strike-7574247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billy Porter are downsizing</a> while audiences e-watch “The Office” to savor life in the pre-woke era. The writers put away their pens on May 2, with actors joining their strike on July 14. The Hollywood machinery ground to a halt, with only projects birthed outside the traditional gatekeepers moving forward.
Few predict a swift resolution to either strike, and even if the writers end their walkout first they’ll have no one to read their lines.
It’s hard to escape a palpable yawn to all of the above. 
Wait. Don’t audiences love celebrities, follow their every move and listen with rapt attention when they speak? Once upon a time, of course. And they still do, to an extent, but one side of this cultural bromance has been behaving too badly to keep the relationship afloat.
Part of the issue is pragmatic in nature.
Audiences have endless content to explore on a gaggle of streaming platforms, including free options like Pluto TV and Tubi. Video games have never been so sophisticated and engaging. YouTube shares killer podcasts, feisty comic sketches and original fare made for a fraction of what it might cost Hollywood, Inc. to produce.
Who needs the Food Network when you can watch Sam the Cooking Guy’s videos with slick production values and a fraction of the commercial load? Miss “Saturday Night Live?” Try sketches from Ryan Long, Kyle Dunnigan and J.P. Sears instead. They’re waiting for you at the click of a mouse, and they pack a better satirical bite than anything from the NBC showcase.
Much of the independent content being made is 100% woke-free. Another bonus.
Hollywood’s PR problem expands beyond those content alternatives.
The industry has been insulting large swathes of the public for some time now. The problem intensifies during election cycles, but the attacks never fully stop even after all the votes have been counted.
Both <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSBl1JWIlI&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodintoto.com%2F&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conan O’Brien</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0pO9VG1J8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”</a>’ compared President Donald Trump’s fans to Nazis in recent years. 
“Please watch our shows and movies. Oh, and by the way, we hate you and your political choices.” That’s just a microscopic look at a larger, more disturbing trend in Hollywood. 
The recent pandemic the bond between audience and artist even more tenuous.
We saw celebrity hypocrisy on full blast via events like the 2021 Met Gala where the stars roamed the halls sans masks while “the help” had <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989583/Social-media-rages-hypocrtical-Met-Gala-listers-AOC-NOT-wearing-masks.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their faces covered in cloth</a>. TV shows featured talk show hosts addressing fully masked audiences without a flicker of guilt or shame.
It got worse when some of those talkers <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/colbert-trump-coronavirus-protestors-985703/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked everyday Americans</a> for protesting what we now know were cruel, ineffective lockdowns that damaged their businesses.
Sometimes permanently.
Other stars slammed anyone who didn’t get their government-approved COVID-19 vaccine, ignoring factors like natural immunity and medical autonomy along the way.
<a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/backwoodsaltar/howard-stern-tears-into-anti-vaxxers-fuck-their-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Howard Stern</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/opinion-those-who-say-screw-your-freedom-dont-understand-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> separately cursed America’s freedoms along the way. Only the “Terminator” star <a href="https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-bodybuilding-news-years-after-screw-your-freedom-statement-arnold-schwarzenegger-issues-public-apology-im-sorry-for-saying-those-words/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized for his words</a>. <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/08/jimmy-kimmel-says-unvaxxed-americans-dont-deserve-icu-beds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel suggested</a> unvaccinated Americans shouldn’t be treated at local hospitals.
Was he kidding? Hard to tell given the rhetoric flowing from La La Land.
More discerning consumers read all about unvaccinated actors finding themselves unemployed. Broadway and TV actor Clifton Duncan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNwyaE6b2IA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left the business for that reason</a>, earning a new fan base by calling out the creative community’s draconian measures.
We still have plenty of rock-solid reasons to care about the dueling strikes. Most actors can barely make a living these days, working from gig to gig just to keep their finances afloat. For every Clooney, Streep, or Jordan there are hundreds of actors whose names we’ll never know hoping for their big break. Some may never get it.
This is doubly true for many Hollywood scribes who toil in near complete anonymity.
The current system should reflect the massive technological shifts happening behind Hollywood’s golden walls. Streamers also should be more transparent about how many people watch their shows … and share that information with the stars and scribes who make it all possible.
You can hate Hollywood’s political leanings and understand the system feels rigged or their collective fear over AI’s potential.
Plus, the studios are likely playing hardball while their executives enjoy lavish salaries and lifestyles.
Eventually, we will run low in fresh content and will crave something new beyond Michael Scott’s “Office” shenanigans.
Hollywood strikers have yet another PR problem on their hands. The culture feels a growing divide between the “elites” – the experts who share misinformation while blocking opposing views – and regular Americans who see celebrities as part of that exasperating group.
Hollywood&#8217;s combination of nasty politics and pandemic-era hate makes it darn near impossible to root for either side. 

Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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This would be why they call him a &#8220;shock jock.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/too-much-for-me-howard-stern-recalls-exhausting-first-time-leaving-his-bunker-in-2-years-for-fear-of-catching-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Howard Stern</a> made the absurdly dire prediction Monday that a victory by former NFL legend Herschel Walker over incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-atlanta-based-pollster-predicts-outright-win-for-herschel-walker-still-possible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia Senate race</a> would trigger  &#8220;another civil war.&#8221; Stern, who made his name with low-brow humor long before he ever ventured into political prognostications, made the over-the-top claim on the <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/howard-stern-goes-off-on-georgia-voters-considering-mental-case-herschel-walker-how-the-fck-can-you-elect-that-guy/">Sirius XM</a> &#8220;The Howard Stern Show&#8221; podcast. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/howard-stern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stern</a> and co-host Robin Quivers were discussing the GOP candidate when Stern launched into a profane tirade.
&#8220;Some of these candidates that people are actually, &#8212; f***ing Herschel Walker!&#8221; the podcast host said. &#8220;Holy f***. They&#8217;re saying he&#8217;s going to win in Georgia. Are you f***ing dummies?&#8221;
WATCH:
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“How the fu*k could you elect that guy?!” Howard Stern goes ballistic over Herschel Walker possibly being elected. (Via Mediaite and SiriusXM) <a href="https://t.co/jBjNtOeQQC">pic.twitter.com/jBjNtOeQQC</a>
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&#8220;They always talk about another civil war,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think there is going to be one. I mean, how the f*** could you elect that guy? You got to be outta your f***ing skull.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what party, what you believe, what you think would be good for America,&#8221; Stern continued. &#8220;Would you really vote for this f***ing — I don&#8217;t know what the f*** he is. I was going to say mental case but I don&#8217;t even know if that&#8217;s fair to mental cases.&#8221;
Stern&#8217;s attack on Walker included no discussion of the African American football great&#8217;s politics, but be borrowed a line from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-calling-for-americans-to-unite-demonizes-republicans-as-a-threat-to-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> speech last week, saying &#8220;democracy&#8221; itself is on the ballot Tuesday.
&#8220;I love this country,&#8221; the host shared. &#8220;I love what it stands for. I know the history of the world. I&#8217;ve seen what happens when people who are authoritarians — who want to control the vote, fix the vote, and then eventually eliminate the vote — I know what that means and I know the kind of society you’d be in.&#8221;
He continued with dark warnings about democracy slipping away, in an apparent reaction to former President Trump&#8217;s ongoing claims the 2020 election was rigged.
&#8220;You have no idea what you have &#8217;til it&#8217;s gone,&#8221; Stern continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to suggest to you that the things you enjoy about this country, the freedoms, they will all be gone when you elect someone who says, &#8216;I don&#8217;t believe the vote. F— you. We&#8217;re going and we&#8217;re taking over.&#8217; That&#8217;s how Hitler came to power.&#8221;
The latest polls prior to Election Day had Walker up by a narrow margin in a field that includes third-party candidates. But if neither he nor Warnock tops 50%, the two will square off in a runoff.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/howard-stern">Howard Stern</a> finally left home for the first time since the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> pandemic began, and he’s still stressed about the adventure.
The 68-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">shock jock</a> is also a self-professed germaphobe, which made him especially cautious when it came to COVID. He’s been hiding out in his “bunker” for the past two years but was finally spotted out at the restaurant Laser Wolf in Brooklyn&#8217;s Williamsburg neighborhood over the weekend with a bunch of other celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, Jon Hamm, Justin Theroux, and Jason Bateman, Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/10/03/germaphobe-howard-stern-goes-out-to-dinner-for-first-time-since-2020">reported</a>. He was reportedly mask free at the table.
Stern discussed the experience of going out for the first time in so long on the Monday episode of his radio show, which he’s been recording from home all along. 
“I really had an exhausting weekend, emotionally, physically,” he explained. “For the first time in two years I ventured out of the house.”
As for the overall experience, he said, “It was too much for me. It was too much. I haven’t been out in two years.”
Stern said it was Kimmel who’s been urging him to come out and socialize. He extended the dinner invitation to the radio host and his wife, Beth Ostrosky, who has been quarantining with him. She wanted to go but he did not.
“I said to my wife, ‘I don’t want to go, I’m in a panic, I don’t want to get COVID,&#8217;” Stern told the audience. He and Ostrosky are both vaccinated, he said, but that didn’t affect his decision. 
“I know our president has told us the pandemic is over and everyone is walking around without masks … I still just don’t want to get COVID.&#8221;
The so-called &#8220;King of All Media&#8221; joked in the past that anyone stopping by his house first had to get tested for COVID and either way had to wear hazmat suits. Kimmel said that when he stayed with Stern for a few days over the summer, he and his wife had to present two negative tests, the publication reported.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host said, “We’re worried that we’re going to lose you from society because the longer this goes on, the more comfortable you get in that little world. And then it’s harder and harder to get out of it … it’s unhealthy.”
“F*** it, I’m being a p****, I know,” Stern agreed, before saying dinner with friends was an option he’d consider.
“For me, [COVID] is still going on and I haven’t left my house. I can’t figure out how to integrate myself,” Stern said in November 2021. “I’ve been locked up so long and I haven’t gotten COVID. I’m afraid I’ll be the one a**hole who gets COVID and I’ll die. Even though people don’t seem to be dying that much [anymore].”

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‘Too Much For Me’: Howard Stern Recalls ‘Exhausting’ First Time Leaving His ‘Bunker’ In 2 Years For Fear Of Catching COVID

Howard Stern Recalls 'Exhausting' First Time Leaving His 'Bunker' In 2 Years For Fear Of Catching COVID

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Radio shock jock Howard Stern says actor Bradley Cooper has agreed to join his 2024 ticket when he runs for president.
Stern said on his SiriusXM show on Wednesday that after he announced his run two days before, Cooper texted his congratulations. That&#8217;s when Stern asked the “A Star Is Born” actor if he&#8217;d serve as his vice president.
“He said yes, so my search is over,&#8221; Stern said. “This guy is gonna bring in the female vote like you wouldn’t believe.&#8221;
Now, Stern, 68, is most likely joking. But he has dabbled in politics before. Back in 1994, Stern <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/05/nyregion/for-stern-it-s-balk-radio-he-ends-bid-for-governor.html">ran</a> for New York governor as a libertarian. But he bailed after being required to reveal his personal finances.
Stern <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-howard-stern-clarence-thomas-robin-quivers-20220627-zknf4aeypjfg7dpo57dwexknhq-story.html">blasted</a> Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday and vowed to run for president after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
&#8220;Party like it’s 1959,&#8221; Stern said on his SiriusXM show, mocking the 6-3 decision as being behind the times.
“I hope they roll it all the way back to slavery and then they slap him on a plantation,” said co-host Robin Quivers, who, like Thomas, is black.
Both hosts pointed out that Thomas, nominated by a Republican, is married to a white woman, which was illegal before the high court’s 1967 ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia.
“The whole mess we’re in with that lightweight, Clarence Thomas, who’s been sitting there like Darth Vader, dormant, waiting for other kooks to join the Supreme Court and waiting and waiting through the decades,” Stern said.
Stern said he might run for president to do away with the Electoral College, pointing out that Democrat Hillary Clinton got more popular votes in the 2016 presidential election than Donald Trump. He said that allowed Trump to appoint “deranged&#8221; Supreme Court justices that deliver rulings contrary to public majority opinion.
“This is Trump’s legacy. I hope he’s happy. Back-alley abortions,&#8221; Stern said. &#8220;The country is not bad. This Taliban government that has gotten in, is by the minority.” Again, he&#8217;s apparently unaware that Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress.
“Do you want to start regulating the bedroom?” Stern said Monday. “We were past all this and we still are.”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Howard Stern: Bradley Cooper Will Be My 2024 Running Mate

Radio Shock Jock Howard Stern: Actor Bradley Cooper Will Be My 2024 Running Mate

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Howard Stern works just 112 days a year and takes two-plus months off in the summer.
But the radio shock jock is apparently set to do a little extra work over the next few months.
On his Wednesday show on SiriusXM, his final one before his break, someone left the microphones on after Stern signed off. Stern&#8217;s hot mic caught him talking about a heady project.
“They’re going over the schedule with me, and it’s going to suck,” said Stern. His co-host, Robin Quivers, asked him if he was doing anything over the summer. &#8220;I told you, I’m going to do Doctor Doom. That’s the thing. But believe me, I’m f*cking miserable about it &#8230; I called Robert Downey, Jr. and I was asking him acting techniques.”
At the time Stern, Quivers and other staffers were talking, commercials and promos played over the top of their conversation, with snippets coming through from time to time.
Listen to the clip on Twitter below.
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Holy shit Stern had a hot mic for their postshow meeting running and I think leaked he will be doing Dr. Doom in an MCU movie?!?? <a href="https://t.co/fIzH1Z7KAJ">pic.twitter.com/fIzH1Z7KAJ</a>
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As the Twitter clip ends, Stern can be heard asking, “Do you have a number for Jon?” Was he talking about director Jon Favreau, who has worked with Marvel Studios and Disney?
But hang on. Stern has been doing radio for forty-plus years, and he accidentally leaves his microphone on during a post-show discussion that included big news? He&#8217;s a showman and knows how to push buttons, so it all may have been a stunt, a way to leak it all out quietly.
And what&#8217;s more, he didn&#8217;t say he&#8217;s playing Dr. Doom, just that he&#8217;s &#8220;going to do Doctor Doom.&#8221;
But there does appear to be such a movie in the works.
&#8220;A report a few days ago claimed that Marvel might have already cast the MCU’s Doctor Doom without revealing the actor’s name,&#8221; BGR <a href="https://bgr.com/entertainment/marvel-already-confirmed-doctor-doom-in-the-mcu-but-we-almost-missed-it/">wrote</a> on Monday. &#8220;Apparently, the suit has already been created and fitted, and Marvel might have shot some scenes featuring Doctor Doom and his bodyguards. If these rumors are accurate, Marvel has quietly filmed Doctor Doom scenes for &#8216;Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.&#8217; But the scenes were shot separately from the movie in an effort to keep the whole thing secret.&#8221;
&#8220;If everything pans out, Doctor Doom might appear in the MCU for the first time via a post-credits scene at the end of &#8216;Wakanda Forever.&#8217; That’s very much in line with massive MCU villains popping up in those highly popular tag scenes,&#8221; the report said.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Howard Stern Hot Mic: ‘I’m Going To Do Doctor Doom’ Over The Summer

Howard Stern Reveals On Hot Mic That He's Involved With A ‘Doctor Doom’ Marvel Project

Radio shock jock Howard Stern on Monday <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-howard-stern-clarence-thomas-robin-quivers-20220627-zknf4aeypjfg7dpo57dwexknhq-story.html">blasted</a> Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and even threatened to run for president after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
&#8220;Party like it’s 1959,&#8221; Stern said on his SiriusXM show, mocking the 6-3 decision as being behind the times.
“I hope they roll it all the way back to slavery and then they slap him on a plantation,” said co-host Robin Quivers, who, like Thomas, is black.
Both hosts pointed out that Thomas, nominated by a Republican, is married to a white woman, which was illegal before the high court’s 1967 ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia.
“The whole mess we’re in with that lightweight, Clarence Thomas, who’s been sitting there like Darth Vader, dormant, waiting for other kooks to join the Supreme Court and waiting and waiting through the decades,” Stern said.
Stern, 68, joked he might run for president to do away with the Electoral College, pointing out that Democrat Hillary Clinton got more popular votes in the 2016 presidential election than Donald Trump. He said that allowed Trump to appoint “deranged&#8221; Supreme Court justices that deliver rulings contrary to majority opinions.
“This is Trump’s legacy. I hope he’s happy. Back-alley abortions,&#8221; Stern said. &#8220;The country is not bad. This Taliban government that has gotten in, is by the minority.” Again, he&#8217;s apparently unaware that Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress.
“Do you want to start regulating the bedroom?” Stern said Monday. “We were past all this and we still are.”
It&#8217;s not the first time Stern has floated a presidential run (which seems unlikely, as he now complains endlessly about working 112 days a year).
Last November, he said he may do his “civic duty” and challenge  Trump for the presidency in 2024.
“&#8217;I think I’m going to run for president,&#8217; he said with just the slightest hint of seriousness,&#8221; the Daily News <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-howard-stern-run-for-president-against-trump-20211109-afv2ahs7wvef7k6szwjmfgs3lu-story.html">reported</a> at the time.
Quivers immediately backed his faux run.
“If Trump decided to run again, you have to run against him. That’s my plan,” she said. “That’s what’s going to have to happen. We can’t leave it to the Democrats.”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Howard Stern Bashes Clarence Thomas, Says He Might Run For President

Howard Stern Bashes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Says He Might Run For President

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Rapper <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/snoop-dogg-endorses-pro-cop-former-republican-rick-caruso-in-l-a-mayor-race/">Snoop Dogg</a> announced via Twitter that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pretty-bleak-international-economic-organization-issues-new-warning-about-soaring-inflation-famine/">inflation</a> was getting so bad that even his full-time blunt-roller had <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/snoop-dogg-gives-full-time-blunt-roller-raise-inflation">gotten a raise</a>.
The artist was responding to a tweet from @uberfacts — billed as &#8220;the most unimportant things you&#8217;ll never need to know&#8221; — that revealed such a job actually existed.
&#8220;Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller who makes between $40,000 and $50,000 a year,&#8221; the tweet read.
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Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller who makes between $40,000 and $50,000 a year
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But Snoop Dogg apparently wanted to make sure everyone knew he was doing right by his staff during trying economic times, so he fired off a tweet of his own.
&#8220;Inflation!&#8221; he said. &#8220;Their salary went up!&#8221;
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Inflation. Their salary went up!! <a href="https://t.co/BCtOVHMN4W">https://t.co/BCtOVHMN4W</a>
&mdash; Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) <a href="https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg/status/1534194384366759936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The rapper first mentioned the fact that he had a professional blunt roller on his staff during an interview with veteran shock jock and Sirius XM host Howard Stern.
&#8220;That motherf***er is like Lurch from &#8216;The Addams Family,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;‘You rang?’ That motherf***er’s timing is impeccable.&#8221;
Actor Seth Rogen — also well&#8217; known for his own enthusiasm for the occasional blunt — appeared alongside the artist and confirmed that professional blunt rollers did, in fact, exist.
When Stern pressed for more information, asking whether Snoop Dogg really did officially employ someone whose sole purpose was making sure he was never lacking in the blunt department — and the rapper obliged.
&#8220;That’s his J-O-B—his occupation. On his resume, it says, &#8216;what do you do?&#8217; I’m a blunt roller. Professional — P-B-R, professional blunt roller,&#8221; Snoop Dogg confirmed.
&#8220;How does that come about, Snoop?&#8221; Stern asked.
&#8220;If you&#8217;re great at something that I need, I&#8217;m hiring you,&#8221; Snoop Dogg replied matter-of-factly, prompting laughter from Rogen and more questions from Stern.
&#8220;What kind of income can a guy make, rolling joints?&#8221; he asked, comparing a professional blunt roller to a professional wine steward — who <a href="https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/sommelier-salary/ca">might make</a> between $52,000 and $83,000 annually. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s almost like a sommelier. How do you figure out a salary for this guy?&#8221;
That was when Snoop Dogg revealed that the going rate for the job was &#8220;somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 a year.&#8221;
Since that interview took place in 2019, however, inflation has certainly taken its toll. According to <a href="https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/2019?amount=40000">OfficialData.org</a>, inflation has risen by 13.08% since 2019. That means that if the rapper has been raising his blunt roller&#8217;s salary to keep pace with inflation, the new salary range would have to be between $45,230 and $56,500.
You can watch the Howard Stern interview below:
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Legendary singer Sheryl Crow wrote many songs about love, but she’s never been married.
The 60-year-old “All I Wanna Do” singer discussed how she felt relief over never making a permanent commitment to any man, despite getting close to walking down the aisle several times.
“I&#8217;m hot. Even at 60, I&#8217;m hot, right?&#8221; the mother of two said on a recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfm3fI60Wtk">episode</a> of “The Howard Stern Show.” She was making the appearance as part of a promotional tour for her new documentary, “Sheryl.”
&#8220;Honestly, I even scratch my head and go, &#8216;How did I get here without getting married?&#8217; &#8230; I almost did, three times,&#8221; Crow continued. She didn’t elaborate on who she got close with, but fans will remember she had serious relationships with Eric Clapton, Owen Wilson, and Lance Armstrong, among others.
&#8220;I go, &#8216;Thank God, thank you God. Thank you. I didn&#8217;t get married,'&#8221; she told Stern. 
&#8220;I got breast cancer at the end of one relationship, and it was horrible. But when I came through it, I was like, &#8216;You know what? I&#8217;d still be in that relationship had I not had breast cancer.&#8217; So in a weird way, I&#8217;m grateful. And you think you&#8217;re gonna be like, &#8216;Oh, F that guy,&#8217; or whatever, but by the time you get to that point you&#8217;ve moved on, and you don&#8217;t really care anymore.&#8221;
Crow promises to explore her love life deeper as part of the documentary “Sheryl,” which began streaming on Showtime Friday.
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During an <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/sheryl-crow-candid-highs-lows-career-life-documentary-84463620">interview</a> with Good Morning America, the single mom discussed why she was willing to do the documentary now. 
&#8220;Well, I just thought documentaries are … when I was growing up, they were about people who were already dead. And so I was like, ‘Do I really want to do it now? I feel like I’ve still got a lot of living years,&#8217;” she said.
&#8220;But, I have a really, really long career by today&#8217;s standards and a lot has changed, as we know. It was a necessary thing to do to tell that story … of 34 years of touring and playing and having a life.&#8221;
The musician admitted she’s usually more “private” but was willing to open up and tell her true story.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve just always been really private,&#8221; she told GMA. &#8220;And I think being my age now, it feels a little bit like a privilege and honor to be able to sit down and say, ‘People who are very visible and who are doing high-profile work, they’re still people at the end of the day.'&#8221;

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‘Thank You, God’: Sheryl Crow Claims She’s ‘Grateful’ She Never Got Married

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Veteran shock jock and Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern said Tuesday that if the Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade, unwanted babies should be allowed to live at the court and be raised by the justices who were instrumental in the reversal.
Stern <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/howard-stern-says-unwanted-babies-should-be-able-to-live-at-the-supreme-court-and-be-raised-by-justices-overturning-roe/">responded</a> Tuesday to the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-am-angry-elizabeth-warren-loses-it-over-leaked-supreme-court-draft-axing-roe/">leaked early opinion draft</a> — which Chief Justice Roberts <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/inside-job-roberts-launches-hunt-for-scotus-leaker-of-roe-reversal/">confirmed was authentic</a> — that indicated the court might be preparing to overturn both Roe and its successor, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
&#8220;I got the good news this morning about a women’s right to choose being overturned and I just was livid,&#8221; Stern began, arguing that if men got pregnant as a result of rape the conversation would be very different.
&#8220;This all started because of this f***ing Electoral College. I’ve got a real problem with this idea, the concept that the majority of the people in the United States do not get what they want,&#8221; Stern continued. &#8220;If guys got raped and pregnant, there’d be abortions available on every corner. Every street corner a different clinic that would take care of the problem.&#8221;
&#8220;They would be as plentiful as porta johns,&#8221; co-host Robin Quivers agreed. &#8220;Just go in, get your abortion, and come out.&#8221;
Stern went on to argue that the Court — specifically the conservative members who would likely be the ones driving the opinion if Roe and Casey were to be <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/conservatives-legal-experts-call-for-justices-to-release-roe-v-wade-decision/">overturned</a> — should be held responsible to care for the babies born into situations where they were not wanted.
&#8220;How women would vote for this agenda is beyond me. Who the hell wants to carry a baby that you do not want? And again, the people who carry these babies who don’t want them don’t raise these kids and then we’re stuck with them,&#8221; Stern said, claiming without evidence that pro-lifers did not give to charity or help unwanted kids in any way other than demanding that they be born.
&#8220;The people who are anti-abortion, they don’t give to charity, they don’t raise these kids. I don’t know who they think is going to raise them. Men were ready to tear this country down because we asked them to wear a mask, let alone have some baby they don’t want,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;How did we get to this point. How much more are we going to take?&#8221; Stern asked. &#8220;How much more of this bull***t that some hillbilly in South Dakota gets a more important vote cause he lives in South Dakota. Let me tell you something. Here’s what I say. All the unwanted children should be allowed to live at the Supreme Court building with those Justices and they should raise every one of those babies. That crackpot Clarence Thomas and that wife and all of them. They can raise those babies that they want.&#8221;

Howard Stern: If Roe Goes, Unwanted Babies Should Live At The Supreme Court With ‘That Crackpot Clarence Thomas’

Howard Stern: If Roe Goes, Unwanted Babies Should Live At The Supreme Court

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