I lost all respect for Stern over the last three weeks because he refuses to address the fact that Opie & Anthony are tearing him a new cornhole every day. And the worst part is, they are 100% right about everything they say.
I thought the one thing that would guarantee he'd say something is when they went after his daugther. He's even letting them get away with using soundbites of her from the Kabbalah performance (My Vah-ginah!!!)
What a #### he's become! I guess he realizes this isn't Mark & Brian or John DeBella. O&A fight just as dirty and like I said before, they have the fanbase to combat Stern.
When are you o & a dweebs going to realize that they are insignificant in the Stern world. They dont have the fanbase to rival Stern, they will never come close, status-wise, and thats the end of the story. You people have to get over your obsession.
First of all, I'm not an "O&A dweeb". I happen to be a fan of both shows.I understood when Stern kept quiet on Infinity about O&A because he couldn't rip into them they way they crap on him. So I was really looking forward to him going over to Sirius and fighting the biggest war he has faced since the name "Don Imus" meant something.
In the near month between Howard's final day and January 9, O&A went off on Stern, pointing out his MANY hypocricies, spinjobs, and flatout lies. When they went after his daughter, I thought for sure the gloves would come off and we would be privy to two fantastic radio shows.
Instead, Stern mentioned O&A once to laughingly suggest he "felt sorry for them" for having a "handful of fans" (it was a small group in his mind but in actuality thousands of O&A "pests") trying to disrupt his show. That was it. Yet, former cronie Chauncy Hayden says something about him and he won't shut up about him for two days. Why? Because Hayden isn't a threat and Stern can take him on with little to no backlash.
If you don't think Howard is scared, why not look at the facts?
--Claims that O&A are more "Stern imitators". The fact is the show is fresher than anything he's ever done. Anthony is hilarious on the fly and one of the best impressionists out there. Opie is an instigator and button pusher, but they are a fantastic team. Add in Jim Norton, a filthy but hilarious comic and input by two underrated comics, Patrice O'Neal & Bill Burr, and what you get is 4 hours of solid entertainment EVERY day.
--Howard tries to take credit for everything, including the WOW promotion which he claims he started in his DC days. Amazingly, nobody can back up that story for Howard, not even his biggest fans.
--Howard says Sirius is leaving XM in the dust. XM has 6 million subscribers, support from investment banks, and valuable deals with automakers. They also aren't in the hole for over 1/2 billion for one talent. Sirius has 3 million and are paying out the B-hind for Stern and NFL. Sirius is definitely growing, but XM isn't exactly running scared. Plus, XM's technology is at least two years ahead of Sirius. They STILL haven't grasped the concept of a portable system yet!
--Howard claims that both Sirius & XM wanted him and were willing to not sign O&A if he went with them. That was a flat out lie. O&A had their choice of satellite companies and went with XM.
--Howard's biggest lie to date: He would never stop anyone from getting a job, even his enemies. He not only was instrumental in getting O&A fired the second time, the gag order he had on them neutered them from taking another job until the Infinity contract ended. This of course leans to more Stern spin action: His sudden love for Bubba the Love Sponge. O&A have tape of Stern saying "I don't want to work with imitators like "Bubba the Love Sponge". I don't even want to be in the same industry as a "Bubba the Love Sponge"."
And I can handle all of the lies and hypocricies, if Stern would show the Stern of old and battle these two instead of letting them absolutely own him six ways to Sunday. He knows he's outmatched. He knows they have the better, funnier show. And he knows he can't go on the attack on them like he did DeBella, Imus, and Mark & Brian because O&A's fanbase is bigger than the haters would ever want to admit.
I'm loving O&A's frequent attacks on Stern. It's great radio, made even funnier by Anthony's constant "HOO HOO, tell em Fred" remarks. I feel sorry for you Sirius Stern fans that are deprived of the same great radio in favor of hackneyed bits, and lame feuds with people nobody cares about (I read Marksfriggin's recaps; three days whining about Rachel Hunter and an anti-climactic "revelations" bit that dragged on and offered ZERO intrigue?)
If Howard wants to prove he's truly back, he's going to have to be a man, defend his daughter, and for once in his life, admit he's not #1 but will do what he can to get there.
Dude, I havent laughed that hard in a long time. Talk about a volcano erupting, damn.
considering he has been on Sirius for three weeks. The last quarter of last year Sirius out sold ** at a 1.1 mil to 900K clip. I would bet that a higher percent of the Sirius listeners listen to him than the percent of ** listeners do to Dopie and Fagthony.
epeding on your age, ask your mother or grandma who Howard Stern is. Then try O&A.
