USA Today:

This is a new low for Andy Dick.

The often legally troubled comic started an all-out war with Howard Stern this week, launching into an antisemitic rant while a guest on the “Greg Fitzsimmons Show” Tuesday. A shocked Stern fired back hard on his Sirius satellite radio show.

So what exactly did Dick say? You won’t believe what came out of his mouth.

On Fitzsimmons’ show, Dick spewed that the radio legend was a “shallow, money-grubbing Jew” with a “big fat hook nose.”

Where’s all this coming from? That’s exactly what Stern asked on his show, sounding disappointed and angry when he replayed the shocking interview on his own show.

“Wow. Woweee,” he said. “This is bad, bad for society.”

The radio host played more of Dick’s interview, during which Dick went off on Stern for not going to bat for him when his own Sirius show was canceled years back.

“Legally troubled” is an interesting way to describe a man currently being prosecuted for felony sexual abuse. 

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If you’ve been reading Righteous Indignation, you know Big Hollywood’s blogfather Andrew Breitbart accurately diagnoses the Achilles heel of conservatives in America as culture. For decades, we’ve been stuck in a rut when it comes to pop culture, journalism, academia, etc. We’ve been disengaged, and the times when we do engage, we’re reactive and imitative rather than proactive and compelling. So today, I’d like to highlight someone who is reversing that trend– a conservative pioneer in entertainment who’s self-made and independent, a man who’s broadening the conservative presence on radio past mere political talk, a man with a taco-loving dog named Hoogie. That man is Louis Fowler, and he needs  your support this very day– possibly this very minute!

Louis and his son Hoogie.

When Big Hollywood profiled my music back in November of last year, I got an email from Louis (I thought he was using a stage name). He asked if he could play a song of mine on his radio show “Damaged Hearing”, a 2-hour weekly program on a community radio station in Fort Collins, CO. I hadn’t seen a dime of music sales yet, so purely in the interest of my own vanity, I agreed and sent him an mp3. I tuned in to the station’s live stream while at work, and for the next two hours, I found myself confused, caught off guard. Where was the amateurism? Where was my embarrassment? Why did he know so much about pop culture? He had told me he was a conservative! This wasn’t all an elaborate ruse by an Obama plant, was it?

It was the day of the midterm election; he went through a playlist of politically-themed rock without any obvious, overplayed choices (except me, of course) and plenty of deep cuts, and he launched into a monologue sardonically tweaking Obama and his supporters. He joked about Obama’s birth certificate, not for the easy joke of mocking birthers, but to mock bubble-dwelling progressives who believe that every Republican is and always has been a birther. This wasn’t just conservative comedy– this was conservative comedy that was as funny as anything I was going to hear on late-night talk shows; it was brash, subversive, and unpredictable.  I broke out laughing at my desk and ended up posting a few comments on the Facebook thread he creates for every show.  I didn’t quite understand exactly what I had just experienced, but I knew I’d be back for more.

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As a follow-up to my debut piece, Conservative Culture Warriors Unite at BigDawg Music Mafia, I wanted to write another piece to let you all know that we’re really heating things up on the culture war front at BigDawg Music Mafia.  Since launching the free social networking site for conservative arts & entertainment last Fall, we’ve attracted some seriously talented artists with minimal National press prior to BIGDawg Music Mafia  (represented by yours truly) being added to the BIGHollywood Contributors roster (thank you, John Nolte),  a guest appearance on Breitbart.tv’s The Stage Right Show, and mentions on Foxnews.com and CNN.com.  Since then, we’ve seen a BIG surge in membership and daily traffic at our site.  This bodes well for conservative culture warriors who refuse to sit idly by as so many liberals in the entertainment industry continue to saturate our airwaves and movie screens with their radical, Marxist agenda.  “That’s right, I said it!” (Mark Levin-ism…love that guy!).  The word is most definitely getting out…

The beauty of having a central gathering place online is the great networking and collaborations taking place.  Case in point, one of our gifted members, Joe Dan Gorman, who has some great, hard-hitting conservative messages in his songs and videos (a couple of which YouTube has banned – “You(Tube) can’t handle the truth!”…this will be a topic for another day), recently wrote and produced a new music video entitled We Will Not Submit and invited some of our members to join him in recording some back-up vocals for the song and taking part in his video, and it is already getting tons of great reviews and being aired on conservative internet and AM/FM radio stations across the country.

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Other recent collaborations include  AlfonZo Rachel, Nate Smoove, and Rufus Troutman on their latest song, Government Not the Answer.  Bobby Powers and Party Time, my songmate, BigDawg, and I recently collaborated on Freedom Reigns and performed an acoustic version at our CPAC Liberty Fest.  Several other cool collaborations are currently underway between members of our site – something BigDawg and I are thrilled to see.

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It’s time for the King of All Media to relinquish his throne.

This New York native followed Howard Stern from his early days at W-NNNN-BC all the way to his current perch atop SiriusXM Satellite Radio. But it becomes more clear every day his best broadcasts are behind him. He’s done all he can to promote satellite radio, and his impact on the culture, much to the dismay of social conservatives, is secure. The longer he lingers, the more his legacy fades. Stern may have precious little in common with “The Tonight Show” legend Johnny Carson, but the silver-haired talker knew how to exit show business gracefully – near the top of his game.

It’s odd that a man who talks about lesbians, sodomy and bodily excretions can stain his own career simply by talking, but that’s what’s happening on the days Stern is heard live via satellite. Being King must have its perks, since in addition to taking every Friday off Stern’s current vacation schedule would make Carson blush.

The modern version of “The Howard Stern Show” reveals a performer far more concerned with navel gazing than skewering sacred cows. When Stern savages a subject now, it’s more often because he or she dared to cross his path. Today’s Stern seems disinterested in lampooning the powerful. Yes, he still swats Oprah Winfrey whenever the chance appears, but he barely lays a glove on a vulnerable president or the stars in his expanding inner circle.

The young Stern gained our trust because he was one of us, a workaday father and husband who understood what it’s like to sit in traffic, deal with inept co-workers and field complaints from an irate spouse. The modern Stern is part of the media power structure, and he knows it. That air of entitlement seeps into every monologue, distancing himself from us in ways that can’t be mended. (more…)

So Laura Schlessinger is quitting radio, in order to regain her First Amendment Rights. This, after using the N-word repeatedly while arguing with a black woman on her show. Schlessinger apologized, but now says she’s leaving.

Now I don’t get this. How can someone who made millions speaking her mind, now say she’s quitting, so she can speak her mind? Bottom line: you can’t get a better gig for exercising your freedom of speech – than getting a fat check every time you exercise it! For me, it’s like getting paid to shop for unicorn figurines!

So that’s kinda stupid.

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So, if you watched Red Eye last night, you heard us mentioning a poll, reporting that roughly six out of ten Americans have lost faith in our Commander in Chief.

Here’s liberal radio host Bill Press explaining that result.

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And that’s the left, in a nutshell: “When our stupid ideas fail, it’s not our fault, it’s yours.”

Or: it’s not Obama, it’s you.

Yes, damn you America for expecting competence from your leaders! Damn you America for not embracing 10 percent unemployment! Damn you America for speaking your mind about health care, when you should have just shut up! And damn you America for being so hard on our Adorable-in-chief! (more…)

[Rosie] O’Donnell said she wanted to “build on what Oprah began and excelled at for 25 years, in my own style and with new adaptations and ideas.”

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[Rosie] O’Donnell said she wanted to “build on what Oprah began and excelled at for 25 years, in my own style and with new adaptations and ideas.”

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More here.

Remember when Rosie O’Donnell was called the Queen of Nice and Janeane Garofalo was actually a fairly compelling movie actress? It’s as though they had a special operation to have their class removed … if they ever had any.   (more…)

First it was the National Hispanic Media Coalition calling on the FCC to probe what it feels is hate speech by conservative talk radio hosts.  The group claims it isolated 334 incidents of hate speech by John & Ken of KFI, Los Angeles, Michael Savage, and Lou Dobbs in eighty minutes of tape.

Then it was minority groups petitioning the FCC to investigate the new radio ratings system called the Portable People Meter because they feel it under represents the ratings on urban radio stations and is unfair.  The meter can’t lie and registers in real time what radio stations those who wear the device are hearing.  Make sure all groups are fairly represented and all should be fine.  (more…)