Radio host Howard Stern tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that he was shocked to receive a phone call from then-candidate Donald Trump when he was about to go on stage to be endorsed by Sarah Palin.
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Howard Stern to anti-vaxxers: 'You had the cure and you wouldn't take it'
By Marianne Garvey, CNN

Howard Stern is over the Covid-19 pandemic and is taking on anti-vaxxers who refuse to get the shot.

Speaking on his SiriusXM satellite radio show about the recent deaths of several anti-vaxxer radio hosts, Stern said people who won't get vaccinated are "idiots" and called for vaccinations to be mandatory.

"When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it's mandatory to get vaccinated? F--- 'em. F--- their freedom. I want my freedom to live," he said. "I want to get out of the house already. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures. This is bull----."

Stern, who is vaccinated, is also frustrated over Covid patients who chose not to get vaccinated causing hospitals to be overwhelmed.

"If you have a heart attack or any kind of problem, you can't even get into the E.R. And I'm really of mind to say, 'Look, if you didn't get vaccinated and you got Covid, you don't get into a hospital.'"
For emphasis, he added, "You had the cure and you wouldn't take it."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/entert...
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Howard Stern responds to controversy over resurfaced blackface performance
By Chloe Melas, CNN

Howard Stern is speaking out after a television special from 1993 resurfaced in which the radio host appears in blackface and repeatedly used racist language.

Stern addressed the controversial performance on his SiriusXM show Monday.

"The sh*t I did was f***ing crazy," Stern said. "I'll be the first to admit. I won't go back and watch those old shows; it's like, who is that guy? But that was my shtick, that's what I did and I own it. I don't think I got embraced by Nazi groups and hate groups. They seemed to think I was against them too. Everybody had a bone to pick with me."

The offensive sketch is from a pay-per-view New Year's Eve special in which Stern and his longtime co-host, Robin Quivers satirized a Friar's Club Roast of Whoopi Goldberg in 1993 where Ted Danson, who was then dating Goldberg, had dressed in blackface.

Danson received widespread criticism at the time, but the Associated Press reported that Goldberg and some other African-American celebrities also came to his defense.

Danson reflected on the incident in a 2009 interview with NPR, calling it "a graceless moment in my life."

CNN has contacted Danson's representative for comment.

Stern, 66, went on to say that if he had a chance to do it all over again he wouldn't have worn blackface.

Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/entert...