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Instead, the swing voters in this year’s elections will be lured by one of their own; that is, the voice that should agitate the incumbents of Capitol Hill and the White House—and perhaps already has—is none other than Howard Stern??s. Not a political commentator by trade, but with (until recently) an extraordinarily wide audience of 16 million, Stern has remarkable political power. Because his bias is neither consistently conservative nor consistently liberal, he enjoys a level of political credibility that more dogmatically motivated hosts can never hope...
...Stern??s talk is many things—vulgar, offensive and sometimes disparaging of other cultures—but one thing it’s not, is out of touch. Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the substance of his political comments has fluctuated in sync with the Bush administration’s approval ratings. In the fall of 2001 and the winter of 2002, he alternated fervent celebrations of the courageous rescue workers who gave their lives with crude, reproachful generalizations directed at the loathed “towel-heads...
...years the King of All Media galvanized a considerable audience of political dummies in the president’s support. But their differences on fundamental peacetime social issues like abortion, gay marriage and, most powerfully, freedom of expression now threaten to loosen the hold Bush has likely had on Stern??s audience, made up of the same ordinary people whom the administration has always sought to attract...
...Baghdad, Stern??s day began at 6 a.m. with a “shitty meal.” After that, he began the real work of the day: making small talk with the thousands of servicemen stationed at the base. From computer technicians to ground troops, the Sterns engaged in light, getting-to-know-you type conversations, “nothing too political, too technical.” Out of all the departments Stern visited, he was most intrigued by the Special Forces. “Their job just seems really fun, like an action movie...
...cloud of smoke and then I’d hear the explosion,” Stern says. He was ultimately responsible for nine such bombings. Although being a student is a far cry from occupying a country, bits of Baghdad have been seeping into Stern??s life at Harvard. Even in his VES class, Stern can’t seem to get Iraq out of his mind. “For class we’re supposed to be doing a sculpture and somehow Saddam’s face just gets incorporated into...