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Button-pushing radio personality and upcoming cohost of America’s Got Talent Howard Stern, used One Million Moms threat to boycott JCPenney over its hiring of Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson, as a springboard for a 12-minute mini tirade on his Sirius XM radio show about social conservatives’ outdated and harmful stance toward LGBT rights.
Stern began his stump for equality saying that while he’s not a huge DeGeneres fan himself, he would stop at nothing to defend her as the JCPenney spokesperson. He went on to discuss David Letterman’s decidedly unfunny joke about Rosie O’Donnell that played on her being “fat and a lesbian,” all but calling what Letterman said bullying.
Calling antigay stances ridiculous and outmoded Stern demanded to know who, in this day and age, doesn’t personally have a friend or family member who is gay.
From there, Stern and cohost Robin Quivers discussed bullying, inspiring Stern to call antigay Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and former hopeful Michele Bachmann, “the worst people on the planet,” for spewing hate that feeds bullying and therefore lending to LGBT suicide.
“They make these kids so miserable they’re killing themselves,” Stern remarked. He went on to say that Santorum should be drummed out of the country and treated publicly derided as the lunatics they are.
Here is the audio from Stern’s show:
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
