{"id":2040024,"date":"2023-09-21T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/howard-stern-2-0-why-the-notorious-shock-jock-had-no-choice-but-to-go-woke\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:59:45","slug":"howard-stern-2-0-why-the-notorious-shock-jock-had-no-choice-but-to-go-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/howard-stern-2-0-why-the-notorious-shock-jock-had-no-choice-but-to-go-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Stern&#8217;s transformation into a woke personality was inevitable."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhoward-stern-2-0-why-the-notorious-shock-jock-had-no-choice-but-to-go-woke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2040024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Howard \u200dStern&#8217;s \u200cStunning \u200dTransformation: From Radio Rebel to Woke Scold<\/h2>\n<p>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\">\u201cF*** their freedom\u201d<\/a> to anyone who \u200cdidn\u2019t take \u2064the COVID vaccine. Radio\u2019s legendary bad boy took the \u200bgovernment\u2019s side, casting liberty in the \u2064circular file.<\/p>\n<p>Fans figured the man who famously fought the FCC to tell fart jokes\u2064 on his terms \u2064couldn\u2019t sink any lower. Think again.<\/p>\n<p>Stern recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1813-how-howard-stern-avoided-cancellation-member-exclusive\">came out of the closet as woke<\/a>, a descriptor that completes his transformation from radio rebel to progressive \u200cscold.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cTo me, the opposite of woke\u200d is being asleep \u2026and if woke means I can\u2019t get behind [former President Trump], which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or I\u2019m for the vaccine \u2014 \u2063dude, call me woke as you f\u2014ing want\u200d \u2026 I am woke, motherf\u2014er. And I love it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a stunning about-face given his decades of raucous radio and ability to capture the Id of the nation. And\u2062 he had\u2064 no other option, at least if he wanted to keep cashing those sweet \u2064SiriusXM checks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_623685\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-623685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stern\u2019s transformation didn\u2019t happen overnight. The talk show titan slowly \u2062let go of \u200dhis sexually outrageous banter, a shift that \u2063coincided with growing older. Even hardcore Stern fans \u2062might flinch at the 60-something star (he\u2019s 69 now) \u2064ogling girls young enough to be his granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone grows up. \u2062Even the\u2062 so-called King of All Media (a name he gave himself, and \u200cit more or less stuck).<\/p>\n<p>He mended\u2064 fences with \u2062longtime\u200d frenemies\u200c like Rosie O\u2019Donnell and \u2064Kathie\u200d Lee Gifford and shared how\u2062 extensive therapy allowed him to\u2063 evolve.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster doubled down on his signature interviews, leaning\u200b into satellite radio\u2019s ability\u200b to broadcast\u200b indefinitely without \u200da commercial\u2063 break.<\/p>\n<p>The new, improved Howie had some perks, including a second look from the mainstream\u2062 media.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_623695\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-623695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Except Stern started to like it when \u2064the\u2063 media\u200b 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, \u2064\u201cHoward Stern Comes Again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He began hobnobbing with celebrities, not\u200d berating them from his\u200c SiriusXM perch.<\/p>\n<p>Other elements of his broadcast \u2064persona morphed as well. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/howard-stern-2-0-why-the-notorious-shock-jock-had-no-choice-but-to-go-woke\/\" title=\"Howard Stern's transformation into a woke personality was inevitable.\">politically ambiguous nature shifted<\/a> to the Left, becoming both\u200b predictable \u2064and erratic. He \u2064fawned over both Hillary Clinton and \u2062New \u2063York Gov. Andrew\u2064 Cuomo,\u200b figures\u2062 with closets chock full of skeletons.<\/p>\n<p>The old, \u2064straight-shooting Stern became a\u2064 watered-down Rachel Maddow, subservient to liberal power.\u200c Suffice\u2063 it to say he rages against former \u2064President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he once\u200b regularly invited him into his studio for ribald \u200cchats.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part of Stern\u200b 2.0? The man \u2062who fought for \u200bfree speech suddenly went silent as Cancel Culture roared into the public\u2019s consciousness. Few were better positioned to address the issue, at least on paper.<\/p>\n<p>Stern had his satellite radio perch, which gave him more freedom\u200b than most broadcasters have. He \u200dknew the cultural landscape well, having fought\u200c to say\u200c what he wanted, when he wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna4695519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during the 1990s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And \u200cfew talk\u2063 show hosts\u2064 knew the comedic mindset better than Stern. He worked \u2063for decades\u200c alongside comic firecrackers like Artie Lange \u200band\u2063 Jackie \u201cThe Joke Man\u201d\u2063 Martling. Plus, every \u200csignificant comedian passed through\u200d Stern\u2019s studio over the years, including Jerry Seinfeld, Conan O\u2019Brien, and more.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a catch, though.<\/p>\n<p>Stern\u2019s radio career teems\u2063 with \u201cproblematic\u201d material. Skit after skit. \u2062Song parody after song parody. Stern dressed in blackface, used \u2062racially insensitive words (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fRXPVw9R9bg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even the \u201cn-word\u201d)<\/a>, and embraced minority\u2064 stereotypes for yuks.<\/p>\n<p>Day after day. Month\u2062 after month. Year after year.<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn\u2019t hint at his decades of objectifying \u2064women, aggressively coaxing them to remove their clothes in-studio\u2063 and reveal their most intimate feelings.<\/p>\n<p>All of it on air\u200c to titillate the listener and, to use the Left\u2019s language, strip women of their agency. Literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>The mob swiftly came for\u2062 stars with far less offensive \u200clegacies.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hart lost the Oscar hosting gig\u200d for a single monologue deemed homophobic. \u201cThe Tonight\u2063 Show\u201d host Jimmy Fallon did an on-air struggle session after his 20-year-old blackface sketch resurfaced following the George Floyd protests.<\/p>\n<p>Stern trumps them all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homeless \u200cJeopardy<\/li>\n<li>Lesbian Dial-a-Date<\/li>\n<li>Black Jeopardy<\/li>\n<li>Guess Who\u2019s \u200dthe Jew (with\u2062 Kurt Waldheim, Jr.)<\/li>\n<li>Regular treks to \u201cThe\u200b Homo Room\u201d \u2062with Out of the Closet Stern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any single sketch could get\u2063 him canceled, \u2063let alone an entire career \u200bfull of \u2062inappropriate material.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/howard-stern-blackface-trump-bullying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke mob knocked \u200con Stern\u2019s \u2062studio door<\/a> three years ago, weeks\u200b after Floyd\u2019s death. Stern confessed \u200bto his thought crimes, claimed he renounced his\u2064 old material and, shrewdly, blamed\u2063 Donald Trump, Jr. for pushing the old material\u200b to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Next, he brought up his new, woke bona fides.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not a hater \u2026\u200c I\u2019m excited about gay rights, telling you not to beat\u2062 up gay people. I\u2019m excited about the changes that are coming out of Black \u2064Lives Matter. I think real change might be in the air,\u201d he said before one more odd Trump attack. \u201cIf you \u200bsolve the pandemic, then we\u2063 can review \u2062all my old shows.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And it worked.<\/p>\n<p>The mob moved on to other targets. They haven\u2019t gone after him \u2062since, and likely never will. The\u200b woke mob \u200dturns on fellow wokesters\u200b last.<\/p>\n<p>Stern still could resist the woke siren song, the cultural movement that essentially devalues\u2063 his\u2062 legacy. \u2062He\u2063 could renounce traditional media and go rogue, broadcasting\u2063 via freer speech platforms \u2063like Rumble or follow Joe Rogan to the podcasting realm.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d \u2063make much less money there, though, and the media\u2019s love for him would evaporate in a New\u200b York minute.<\/p>\n<p>Stern made a calculated choice and went woke instead, shattering\u2062 his legend in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Christian Toto \u2062is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-of-new-pro-life-movie-says-pro-choice-screen-actors-guild-attempted-to-crush-their-production\/\" title=\"Star Of New Pro-Life Movie Says Pro-Choice Screen Actors Guild Attempted To Crush Their Production\">award-winning journalist<\/a>, movie critic and editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HollywoodInToto.com<\/a>. He previously served as \u2063associate editor with Breitbart \u200cNews\u2019 Big Hollywood. Follow him \u200bat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollywoodInToto?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HollywoodInToto<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are those of \u200dthe author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily\u200d Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p> Et=&#8221;_blank&#8221; \u200crel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>Hollywood \u200bin Toto<\/a> blog recently featured a \u200dpiece \u2064titled &#8220;How Howard Stern Avoided Cancellation,&#8221; acknowledging the shock jock&#8217;s \u2062controversial history while questioning why he seemingly remains untouchable by Cancel\u200b Culture.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 answer, it seems,\u200c lies in Stern&#8217;s\u2063 successful transformation from radio \u2063rebel to woke\u2062 scold. By<\/p>\n<h2> How has Howard\u200c Stern successfully avoided cancellation in the face of\u200d Cancel Culture despite his controversial history?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Howard Stern \u200bhas \u2064managed to\u200d avoid cancellation in the face of Cancel \u200dCulture due to various factors:<\/p>\n<p>1. Legacy \u200cand Longevity: Howard Stern has been in the entertainment \u2063industry for over four decades. He built a loyal fan base during his time as a radio host, which has carried over to his current show on satellite radio. This\u200d established fan base provides a strong foundation of support that helps shield him \u2062from cancellation attempts.<\/p>\n<p>2. Adaptability and Evolution: Over the years, Stern has shown a willingness to adapt and evolve his \u200cstyle. While he has\u200c a controversial past, he has made efforts to distance himself from some of his earlier shock-jock persona. He has focused on evolving his show by bringing in \u200da \u2064wider range of guests, discussing\u200c more diverse topics, and adopting a more nuanced and \u2064thoughtful approach to\u2064 conversation.<\/p>\n<p>3. Paid Subscription Model: Stern&#8217;s show currently airs on \u200cSiriusXM,\u2063 a\u200c satellite \u2064radio platform that operates on \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-sense-of-entrapment-companies-deal-with-worries-of-sexual-harassment-in-virtual-reality-world\/\" title=\"\u2018A Sense Of Entrapment\u2019: Companies Deal With Worries Of Sexual Harassment In Virtual Reality World\">subscription-based model<\/a>. This means that listeners actively choose to\u2063 pay for and listen to his show, creating a more dedicated and receptive audience. This subscription-based model makes it more difficult for cancel \u200bculture campaigns to have a significant impact on his show.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u200cFreedom \u2064of \u200bSpeech and Satire: Stern&#8217;s controversial history has often been attributed to his utilization of free speech and satire. He\u200b often \u200cpushes \u200bboundaries and engages in provocative\u2062 discussions, \u2062but those who support\u2063 him argue that his content should be seen in the context of satire and entertainment rather \u200bthan literal \u2063endorsements or actions.<\/p>\n<p>5. Personal Brand and Celebrity Status:\u200b Stern&#8217;s personal brand and celebrity\u200c status have played a significant role in his survival. He has built an image as a trailblazing and influential\u2064 figure in the radio \u200dindustry. His influence and popularity have \u200callowed him to maintain \u2062a significant amount of independence and \u2063creative control over his show, making \u200bit harder for cancel culture efforts to impact \u2063him.<\/p>\n<p>6. Avoiding Mainstream Outlets: By broadcasting \u200don satellite radio, Stern \u2063is somewhat\u200d insulated from the \u200bscrutiny and potential backlash he might face from more mainstream media outlets. He has built a dedicated platform that is less likely to bow to external pressures,\u200d making it more challenging for cancel\u200b culture to gain traction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that cancel culture is a complex\u200b and evolving phenomenon, and no individual or entity is completely immune to it. While Howard Stern has been successful so far, \u2063it&#8217;s difficult to predict \u2062how the \u200clandscape \u2062may\u200b change in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Howard Stern fans winced as the shock jock dismissed non-vaccinated individuals, exclaiming, &#8220;Screw their freedom.&#8221; The radio rebel, known for battling the FCC to share crude humor, shocked supporters by siding with the government and disregarding personal liberty. 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