Howard Stern calls Democrats “communists”!
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Stern on XM/Sirius
Merger:
Satellite radio talk show
‘I Will Never Vote
For a Democrat Again’
Satellite radio talk show
star cites
‘gangsterism,’ ‘communism’
for holding up deal.
by Jeff Poor
Business and Media Institute
Sirius Satellite Radio host Howard Stern
supports the merger of his network with XM Satelitte Radio and is fuming at Democratic opposition on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) panel.
After FCC commissioners announced they have reached a deal to approve the merger of Sirius
(NASDAQ:SIRI) and XM (NASDAQ:XMSR),
Stern ranted about Democrats’
‘gangsterism’ and ‘communism’
and the obstacles to the merger.
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Stern described a phone conversation he had with his agent, who he described as a “liberal Democrat kind of guy.”
“I go, ‘That’s it!’” Stern said.
“[I] go, ‘You know what Don,
I’ve voted Republican and I’ve voted Democrat.
I have vowed I will never vote for a Democrat again.
I don’t give a [expletive] – no matter who they are.
I don’t care if God becomes a Democrat.’
I said, ‘I backed Hillary Clinton,
I backed Al Gore,
I backed John Kerry.
I am done with them.’”
Stern took it a step even further and called
Democrats on the FCC “communists”
and referred to their tactics as “gangsterism.”
“The fact that these Democrats
on the FCC are communists,”
Stern said.
“They’re for communism.
They don’t want to see companies –
this is gangsterism.
I said, ‘This is crazy.’”
The FCC commission panel is a five member group made up of three Republicans and two Democrats.
The Democrats include Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps.
The Republicans include FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Robert McDowell and Deborah Taylor Tate.
Tate had been the swing vote on the proposed merger
and on July 24th The Wall Street Journal reported she
would vote in favor of the merger.
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