Radio host Howard Stern, who was once known as a shock jock, defends himself for becoming woke by saying he actually likes being that way.
🎙️ Howard Stern embraces being called ‘Woke’ amid criticism
Howard Stern has responded to criticism labeling him as “woke” by embracing the term and taking it as a compliment. Stern explained that for him, “being awake” means being awake and aware of social issues, such as… pic.twitter.com/gpPVv45TjC
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Stern loves being awake
“I often hear that I’m not well anymore because I’m awake,” Stern said on Monday’s episode of his SiriusXM show, according to The New York Post. “I consider it a compliment that I’m awake. I’ll tell you what I think about it. For me, sleeping is the opposite of being awake. And if woke means I can’t support Trump, which I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender or that I’m for the vaccine, then call me woke whatever you want.”
Stern bizarrely linked wokeness to getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
‘I’m not for stupidity, you know. I ran away on Friday morning. I was at CVS. Thanks, CVS. I went there at 9am and bought that new Covid vaccine. Damn science. This damn country is so great,” Stern ranted. “I’m awake, motherfucker, and I’m loving it. I want to be awake. I want to read legitimate news sources. That’s how awake I am. I believe the elections were not rigged.”
Howard Stern is an established figure:
“I take that as a compliment that I’m awake. Call me awake all you want. I ran to CVS on Friday morning, thank you CVS, I went there at 9am and got that new vaccine for Covid.” pic.twitter.com/yVKWYJ45Y7
— Civil Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 20, 2023
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Stern’s past offensive comments
Stern may be woke these days, but he’s spent decades making offensive comments that would surely make his newly found woke colleagues want to cancel him. After the horrific mass shooting at Columbine High School, which left 15 people dead in 1999, Stern fantasized about sexually assaulting some of the teenage victims.
“There are a bunch of pretty girls going to that school,” he said on his radio program at the time. ‘There were some really pretty girls running out of there with their hands above their heads. Did those kids try to have sex with any of the pretty girls? They didn’t even do that. If you want to kill yourself and kill all the children, why not at least have sex?’
COVID broke Howard Stern and turned him into a woke recluse. But let’s not forget that he has always been a degenerate
The day after Columbine, he casually said on air that if he were one of the murderers, he would sexually assault the victims first.
Listen to the fragment unedited below 👇 pic.twitter.com/H4vPFKA5JS
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Stern is also known to have made racist comments in the past.
“The closest I came to love with a black woman was when I masturbated to a picture of Aunt Jemima on a pancake box. I did it right on her headscarf,” he said in 1992.
This resulted in Stern and his broadcaster being fined $600,000 by the FCC for indecency.
“The closest I came to making love to a black woman was when I masturbated to a picture of Aunt Jemima on a pancake box.”
-Howard Stern pic.twitter.com/pDQumbRYXq— TheraNosferatu (@PhawnKnutsen) January 24, 2020
In 2010, Stern fat-shamed black actress Gabourey Sidibe after seeing her Oscar-winning film Wonderful.
“This is the biggest, fat black girl I’ve ever seen,” he said at the time. “She’s huge. Everyone acts like she’s part of show business and that she’ll never be in another movie again.”
Then there was the time Stern wore blackface. What will Stern’s newly found woke colleagues think of this?
The real disrespectful and ignorant, Howard sternly in black faces. pic.twitter.com/FO3WZw1rN7
— Don Zalm (@dijoni) September 19, 2023
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Stern attacks Trump and his supporters
These days, however, Stern is as woke as can be, and he has one of the worst cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the media. He has spent much of the past few years bashing not only Trump, but everyone who voted for him.
“The strange thing about all this is that the people Trump despises the most love him the most,” Stern said in 2020, according to Deadline. “The people who overwhelmingly vote for Trump… He wouldn’t even let them into a damn hotel. He would be disgusted by them. Go to Mar-a-Lago and see if there are people who look like you. I’m talking to you in the audience.”
“I don’t hate Donald,” Stern continued. “I hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence.”
Howard Stern is an asshole. You hate the Trump voter? I have news for you: you are degenerating, the Trump voter has done more for this country than ever before. You sit behind a microphone and tell women they have nice tits.
What have you ever done that is important? https://t.co/7Py4aJUo8K
— ConservativeNationalist_1 (@Nationalist_KAG) May 13, 2020
It remains to be seen how the cancel culture crowd will respond to Stern’s past comments, offensive comments resurfacing.
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