Dave Portnoy doesn’t want to hear from Howard Stern anymore. The Barstool Sports founder stuck up for podcast pioneer and powerhouse Joe Rogan recently after Stern mocked Rogan for taking Invermectin instead of just getting the Covid vaccine.
As Portnoy sees it, the King of All Media is no longer the dangerous outsider he used to be. Now, he has become more of a moralist and nag.
“From a side, he seems like he’s sort of become hypocritical,” Portnoy said on the latest episode of the Barstool podcast The Dave Portnoy Show with Eddie & Co. “He seems like somebody who slung it and would do anything and he’s quick now to wag his finger at you. He almost seems like he’d be wagging his finger at his younger self.”
Howard Stern took delight in roasting anti-vax talk radio hosts that ended up dying from Covid last month saying “F*** them, f*** their freedom”.
While the language has gotten more raw since Stern moved to satellite radio in 2006, it is clear that many of the bits that many of his long time fans remember and were recreated for the movie Private Parts are a thing of the past. Maybe that makes Stern a hypocrite. Maybe it just means he realizes at 67, he can’t do the same show he did at 47.
Eddie Farrar, Portnoy’s co-host, laments that Howard Stern is not as politically incorrect as he was in the 90s and early 2000s.
“He went that route and I think people were very upset because he could have been the one leading the charge against the whole PC bullsh*t,” he said.
Whether or not advocating for people to take the Covid vaccine is politically correct can be debated. Cheering the deaths of people who didn’t certainly is not.
