{"id":156,"date":"2004-10-26T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=156"},"modified":"2004-10-26T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T00:26:12","slug":"powell-and-the-unlikely-interviewer-hoohoohoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Powell and the unlikely interviewer.  Hoohoohoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s risky business for FCC chairman Michael Powell to go on the air and talk about what he does, especially when callers can quiz him, and one of those callers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmqb.com\/Article.asp?id=45951\">happen to be sworm enemy, Howard Stern<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m no fan of Stern.  Fact is, I hate his guts.  He&#8217;s a lowlife paranoid hypocrite who hasn&#8217;t come up with any new material to keep his listeners, and I got bored with him back in &#8217;96.  Late last year, Stern derided satellite radio as being the place &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmxp.com\/viewtopic.php?p=1224&#038;highlight=\">where all the washed up DJs go<\/a>,&#8221; but then began <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6209126\/\">whoring himself<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirius.com\">Sirius<\/a> when his job was on the line, conveniently forgetting his earlier wash-up comments in favor of his &#8220;I&#8217;m going to revolutionize satellite radio&#8221; comments. <\/p>\n<p>While he does bring up good points in his his verbal spar with Powell, I can only assume it&#8217;s a publicity stunt orchestrated by Stern to keep his name and face fresh.  He has a a long time in which to keep this act up though, as his Sirius contract doesn&#8217;t take effect for another 19 months.  And besides, more-successful-rival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmradio.com\/programming\/channel_page.jsp?ch=202\">XM Radio has their wittier, fresher shock jocks on today<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stern Interviews Michael Powell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}