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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Where the Imus stuff started

TMZ.com takes a look at Imus contemporary Howard Stern's most disgusting comments. Coming in at number four are Stern's comments about the Columbine massacre.

So for all the conservatives who wish to talk about free speech, here's some for them. They should be sure to post in comments exactly which companies they think should support this kind of talk with dollars, realizing that Stern started this genre and it led to the likes of Rush Lumpenbaugh and Michael Savage. Fun stuff.
April 21, 1999, the day after the Columbine High School massacre; commenting on the mass murders, Stern said on his show, 'There were some really good-looking girls running with their hands over their heads. Did those kids try to have sex with any of those good-looking girls? They didn't even do that? At least if you're going to kill yourself and kill the kids, why wouldn't you have some sex? If I was going to kill some people, I'd take them out with sex.' Stern's comments led to widespread public outrage, and the Colorado State Legislature issued an official censure against Stern.
Hey, yeah, clubby locker room media sickos, that's really freaking funny. I would find that so funny if my daughter were at that school.

The media is diseased, and it has been for a very long time. They don't represent American values any longer.

We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it any more.

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