It’s so bizarre when the “go woke, go broke” crowd comes for Howard Stern, because Stern has been this version of himself for the better part of two decades or even longer. He doesn’t proclaim himself to be the most liberal guy around and that’s actually his power – he still comes across like a regular guy from Queens with regular-guy opinions on politics and culture. It’s the right-wing which has gone so far to the extreme that they freak out over Stern’s relatively moderate opinions. Well, the MAGA crowd is once again screaming, crying and throwing up over Stern. He spoke about it this week:
Howard Stern is “woke” and proud. The radio host confronted his critics this week on his SiriusXM radio show (via Mediaite) when he caught wind of claims that he’s “not good anymore” because he’s “woke.”
“By the way, I kind of take that as a compliment, that I’m woke,” Stern fired back. “I’ll tell you how I feel about it. To me the opposite of woke, is being asleep. And if woke means I can’t get behind 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–king want.”
“I’m not for stupidity, you know,” he continued. “I ran out Friday morning. I was over at CVS. Thank you, CVS. I went over there 9 a.m. and got myself that new vaccine for COVID. F–king science. This f–king country is so great… I am woke, motherf–ker, and I love it. I want to be awake. I want to read legitimate news sources. Here’s how woke I am. I believe the election was not rigged. I am woke. I think that’s a compliment.”
Stern noted that “guys on the internet” who claim they are not woke “seem to be really angry, super against gay people — especially transgender.”
“Am I for kids being able to read about anything in school? Yeah, I am. I don’t give a sh-t what kids read,” he added. “Give me vaccines, man. I’m all for it… I like being woke, if that’s what woke means.”
Yeah… maybe I’m totally out of the loop on the political reality on the ground, but I think most people feel some version of this – IDGAF what books are taught in schools, mind your business on transgender folks and get your vaccines. Those are majority opinions, it’s just that the wingnut minority is so loud and wrong.
Stern also clapped back at Bill Maher, who recently criticized Stern for… loving his second wife Beth. It was the most random attack ever by Maher and Stern told him to shut his mouth and stop being a sexist pig.
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I was never a Stern fan but over the years he has said things that I also believe. I agree with everything that he says in this article. Will also be going to CVS for my new Covid booster and my flu shot. Woke and proud of it.
Being anti black women is woke now ? Wow the woke bar is low
Robin Quivers his co-host for the last 40 years laughs at this comment.
Him having a Black female co worker means he can’t harbor biases and prejudice towards Black women.
howard has always been racist.he got robin so that he could be even more racist.they will pretend they cant see it because they are just as racist as he is
I’ve been a Stern fan for decades and like most people, he’s grown and learned from past mistakes. He doesn’t always get it right but he sees through most of the bs and hypocrisy and wants people to be able to just live their lives. And he’s still the best interviewer around- great interview this week with Paul Simon.
Been a fan of his for 30 years. He’s made missteps along the way but he’s always been a genuinely thoughtful, empathetic guy. I still remember when fans harassed him nonstop for backing Kerry over GW Bush in ’03. He devoted SO much of his show to that election. Everyone complained that he was getting “too political” and he didn’t GAF. I know he will forever remain a controversial figure but I just have so much love for Stern.
I’m with you Kitten. As much as I’ve wanted to hate him a few times, I do appreciate his lack of airs and utter honesty about himself.
I’ve never been a fan, but Stern has shown that he can grow and evolve along with society. A lot of men, like Elon Musk for example, feel disrespected when they don’t understand changing norms so they lean in hard into MAGA because it doesn’t require any self examination or growth. Bill Maher is on the road to MAGA for this very reason.
I wouldn’t call racism “missteps.” that guy was racist af to latinos. That was enough to make me never listen to his racists @ss ever again
I’ve been a Howard Stern fan for 3 decades (so that’s since high school for me – and the world was different in the 90s). I’m a huge Robin Quivers fan, too. Howard Stern is a world class water color artist. His wife, Beth, is a bedrock of pet rescue in the tri-state area. I really kind of wish Howard would get into politics because I think he could get some legit numbers behind him.
My college bf, a guy from south Jersey, loved stern in the early 90s. I hated that stern. I saw his movie, though (bc my next bf also liked him) and then I loved him through the next couple decades. But I stopped listening to him after trump got elected bc a lot of the guys who liked early stern were trump voters. I think early stern did agitate the same hordes who like trump and so I couldn’t stomach him after trump got elected, even though this woke Stern is different than he was in the early 90s.
He’s always been the same, consistent person politically and socially–he just got older and slowed down like all of us. It’s ironic because so many men loved his show because of all the porn stars but honestly, Stern was one of the first public figures to treat sex workers like human beings. He endeared himself to that entire community by simply talking to them like they’re actual people.
I don’t understand. You quit listening to him after Trump got elected, even though he does not support Trump in any way and is very clear about that? Because some of his listeners might like Trump?
“Robin! Bush is a good president! You know what would make him a great president? If he stopped listening to these anti abortion nudniks!”
That was a throwaway rant about the first Bush in the late 80s/early 90s, not W. Stern is a blowhard but he is a consistent one, he side eyed all of the conservative right even as those same conservative listeners lapped up his trashy jokes.
Stern irks me – he definitely has issues with Black women (see his obsession with Oprah – and other famous Black women- and how much money she has) but I agree with him on these points.
For some context, he’s bothered by Oprah when she signed a huge deal with Sirius XM and then wasn’t on any of the shows consistently. He 10000% admits he is jealous of her.
Also, his co-host for the last 40 or so years, Robin Quivers is a black woman.
Please stop holding up Robin as evidence that Stern has no racist thoughts/tendencies. There are receipts going back YEARS which suggests otherwise. It has long been observed that there are even those who are married to Black people and even share children with Black people who still cherish racist opinions and behaviors.
Being friends/lovers/employers of Black people is no proof of a lack of problematic thinking regarding them.
I dated someone who loved listening to Stern in the early 90s and promised I’d listen. I listened once and thought he was a pig. I tried again and found he had some intelligent opinions, mostly when commenting on the news, but that didn’t turn me into a follower. Too much dreck. I enjoyed the heck out of his movie though!
Now, I really enjoy clips of his interviews on Instagram. I mean really enjoy. He’s a great interviewer.
I guess I’m the only one who still finds him sexist and juvenile. It’s great that he has reasonable views on the vaccine and being prochoice, but as mentioned in the article, those are mainstream views. He is by no means “woke.”
My housemate listens to him in the car and it’s disgusting 99% of the time. He still caters to his gross fans and spews piles of garbage about BJs, facials, and anal. He has robot voice “callers” (which he no doubt writes the material for) saying antisemitic and sexist crap. He makes a faint protest, “whoa whoa whoa, I’m going to have to cut you off” but then lets it go on and on. It’s incredibly cringe.
If that’s what woke means these days, that’s just sad. I massively sideeye the housemate for listening to him and thinking it’s funny. It’s not funny. What is he, 12? I would never date a Stern fan. Yucko.
“he still comes across like a regular guy from Queens”
This is why the right-wing crazies are so triggered by him. He’s an old white dude who comes across like a regular guy with moderately liberal views rather than a wealthy coastal elite socialist. They are afraid of him because he can appeal to the people (especially the men) who are swing voters, who don’t like extremist right views but aren’t super progressive.
Howard is polarizing, the left thinks he is too conservative and the right thinks he is too progressive.
But I will always appreciate how vocal he was about getting the Covid vaccinations. He swayed a lot of his fans who were listening to disinformation.
He had Dr. David Agus on the show many times early in the pandemic. To help clarify and answer questions about the illness and the safety of the vaccine.
Being “woke” IS a compliment!………only MAGAts buy into the opposite world the repubs create.
Signed,
Proud to be woke.
In the same way the right has turned “liberal” Into a dirty word. What’s wrong with being liberal?
I love stern so much. He is a real-life “Snape”
I used to hate him back in the day. I started liking him when I found out that he gets into rescuing cats as much as his wife does. I really started liking him when he backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Listen to her interview with him after the election. It is so interesting.
I may not have been a fan of Stern in my earlier years . But love his stance against Trump and love this quote 😊
If anything thinks “go woke go broke applies to Howard Stern” they clearly haven’t seen his Sirius XM pay packages. But yeah, this is pretty much who he’s always been.
I do love the irony of the fact that 20 years ago progressives hated him for being an a**hole and now MAGA right wingers hate him because he’s not enough of an a**hole……