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Howard Sterns Lashes Out at Bush, FCC and Clear Channel

HeadlineMar 08, 2004

Radio host Howard Stern is predicting his show may be pulled off the airwaves as early as this week because he has begun openly criticizing President Bush. Stern said last week “My days here are numbered because I dared to speak out against the Bush administration and say that the religious agenda of George W. Bush concerning stem cell research and gay marriage is wrong. And that what he is doing with the FCC is pushing this religious agenda.” Radio giant Clear Channel recently pulled Stern off its stations and now the Federal Communications Commission is threatening to levy a major indecency fine on the program. Stern said the criticism from Clear Channel and the FCC began when he started criticizing the Bush administration. Stern said “There’s a religious agenda. They are winning. They control the media. Clear Channel, Fox , all of them, all part of the religious right. We’ve lost. We’ve lost our airwaves. We’ve lost our freedoms. We will be a religious state within 20 years.”

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