Thursday, FNC host Tucker Carlson slammed SiriusXM host Howard Stern, who he acknowledged was one of the greatest radio hosts of all time.

However, Carlson said given Stern’s tack about COVID-19, he had become a coward, which has led “hatred” to overtake him.

“Howard Stern, by any measure, is one of the great radio hosts of all time,” he said. “He has made a huge amount of money for doing what he does, but there’s a reason for it. He is incredibly brave. Vulgar, yes, but truly talented. But above all, courageous. Defended free speech, was fired for it repeatedly, used his platform to fight government censorship, gave the finger to the man. There are a lot of things impressive about Howard Stern. That briefly allowed him to be creative, but not anymore. Maybe it was the coronavirus that broke him, hormonal changes in middle age. He is now a coward. His broadcast is about cowardice, amplifying his fears about corona over the air. Attacking, more precisely, attacking anybody else who has decided to live life as a free person.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/20/tucker-carlson-howard-stern-now-a-coward-quivering-mass-of-neuroses-and-hatred/

December 2020

Howard Stern brushed off criticism from former show members who spoke to The Post last week, telling his radio audience that he didn’t care.

“The New York Post wrote an article that I’m a scumbag,” Stern said Tuesday, scoffing at the piece.

“I swear to you, I don’t spend a minute worrying about it. I couldn’t give a f–k what people think about me,” he continued. “You don’t like me, you don’t wanna work for me. Go f–k yourself. I don’t care. I, at the end of the night, sleep fine.”

In an exposé by The Post, former longtime show hands unloaded on the shock jock, accusing him of being a cruel penny-pincher who, among others things, forced his longtime show engineer Scott Salem to beg for money on a GoFundMe to pay for medical bills as his wife died of cancer.

“This has really bothered me. It’s ­really sad. His wife ends up dying. Howard doesn’t even go downstairs and offer Scott his condolences,” John “Stuttering John” Melendez, a former “Tonight Show” announcer who worked with Stern from 1988 to 2004, told The Post. “Everyone falls from grace with Howard.”

Stern hasn’t always been so sanguine about criticism from his former staff. After a critical Facebook post from Melendez in 2009, Stern laced into his former employee, deriding him on air as a “backstabbing c–t.”

https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/howard-stern-responds-to-staff-criticism-go-f-k-yourself/

The range of descriptions of the most popular morning deejay in Manhattan doesn’t stop there. Nowadays, he’s also the sneering champion of First Amendment rights.

Howard Stern, the 33-year-old clever, angry cynic who holds court each morning over WXRK-FM, became the focus of national attention last spring when the Federal Communications Commission singled him out as the very incarnation of broadcast indecency.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-19-ca-872-story.html

May 2012

May 14, 2012 — – intro: Tonight, Howard Stern appears in a place many people thought they'd never see him: National primetime broadcast television.

The legendary shock jock begins his reign as a judge of "America's Got Talent" this evening, and already, critics are up in arms. The Parents Television Council, the watchdog group that bemoans any suggestion of sex or profanity on TV, sent a letter to 91 companies that have bought commerical time during the NBC competition in the past, advising them to spend their money elsewhere because of Stern's "reputation for sleaze and misogyny."

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/howard-sterns-outrageous-offenses/story?id=16327309

https://youtu.be/VjTy8cKrwRQ

2004

Howard Stern is facing the big guns.

The shock jock took on Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell on Tuesday morning when Stern called a radio show on which Powell was a guest. Now, Powell’s father, Secretary of State Colin Powell, is stepping into the feud, dismissing Stern’s comments to the FCC chairman that “your father got you your job.”

https://people.com/celebrity/now-its-howard-stern-vs-colin-powell/

2004

https://indypendent.org/2004/04/the-passion-of-howard-stern-a-modern-day-jesus/