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...that speech! "To me," says Tradup, "shock talk is Howard Stern. Period. It's for 12-year-olds who get excited when they hear the word penis." Stern, natch, considers himself a political commentator and motivator. So does George Pataki; supported by Stern, he unseated New York Governor Mario Cuomo and saved an honored seat at his inauguration for Stern. But Howard, whose mixture of sex, politics and humongous self-pity has made him the morning star across the country, takes consolation in his popularity. "I know what my fans like," he said on the air last week. "Penis! Vagina...
...crying "Enough!"? If 1994's electoral trend continues, there may soon be few demons left to bitch about. And as Grant misses "those nice days when I was the only conservative on the scene," many radio rightists betray a truculent nostalgia for the old foes who became their roadkill: Cuomo, Howard Metzenbaum and the man from Arkansas who roams the White House like the Ghost of Clinton Past...
...they can talk up a storm. Now that all these victims but the President are at liberty, perhaps they could get behind the microphones and stir up a true debate between the right and the center-left. Or at least one hell of a shouting match. "This is Mario Cuomo, here to mix it up with the violent majority. Let's go to the phones...
...farewell speech as Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo said that many politicians had given up on the idea that political leaders should serve as shepherds, not merely parrots of public opinion who appeal to the lowest common denominator. The Contract is representative of this perverse brand of populism--promising the impossible to placate voters, and offering scapegoats for their frustration...
Former presidential fence-sitter and soon-to-be ex-governor Mario Cuomo blasted the new Republican agenda -- and the voters who supported it -- with an impassioned apologia for a lifetime of liberalism. "Politicians used to think of themselves as shepherds. That's all over now," the Democrat told a full house at the National Press Club in Washington today, in what may be looked back on as his last important address as a major political figure. "Now the politicians are following the sheep: Read the polls! They'll tell you where to go to pasture!" Cuomo, who was defeated last...