Word: sterne
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Photographer Larry Birkhead's DNA beat out the laggardly genes of lawyer Howard K. Stern to win paternity of late maybe-billionaire Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn. Reported TMZ.COM: "Stern said Birkhead was welcome to come to the house and spend as much time with Dannielynn as he wanted." SCORE...
...Then there's personality, or at least persona. Compared with Imus, for instance, his rival Howard Stern may be offensive, but he's also self-deprecating, making fun of his own satyrism, looks and even manly endowment. Imus doesn't take it nearly as well as he dishes it out. His shtick is all cowboy-hatted swagger, and his insults set him up as superior to his targets and the alpha dog to his supplicant guests...
...Howard Stern is trying to kill American Idol by supporting votefortheworst.com an anti-A.I. site that ballot-stuffs for increasingly improbable contender (and "ponyhawk" aficionado) Sanjaya Malakar. The NEW YORK POST calls for calm: "Even if he survives ... he's no music star. But his hair--his hair will last forever." SCORE...
...site, the fact that it gets nearly a fifth as many online visits gives it the strength to sway a vote. Vote for the Worst is gaining strength, with over a 50% growth since last season, which can be attributed largely to the self-proclaimed "King of All Media." Stern has been urging the listeners of his popular radio show to go on the site and vote for Sanjaya Malakar. According to Hitwise data, at times over 8% of all visits to the Vote for the Worst site originated from HowardStern.com. And this counts only direct traffic from one site...
From modest recants--Oprah Winfrey on James Frey, NBA commissioner David Stern on leather balls, Rupert Murdoch on global warming--to full-on ideological 180s, reappraisal is in the air. The view long held by social psychologists that people very rarely change their beliefs seems itself in need of revision...