O&A Suspended for 30 Days

[GonzoStyle]

I agree with Galt and almost every point Howard made. I been saying it since the Imus thing, O&A fans and people in general are fuckin stupid and have no inkling of their history or this countries history. This is as much a freedom of speech issue as it is a roe v wade issue. Their freedom of speech, nor imus's nor jv & elvis, were impeded or restricted. Lenny Bruce, his freedom of speech was restricted and he was prosecuted and arrested for it. The 1st ammendment states that the government wont make any laws which infringe on the peoples freedom of speech. There was no legal issue here period, it was strictly a corporate decision. Yet post after post everywhere, all these little O&A army movements and groups are just yelling about freedom of speech and thats the really sad thing here, no one seems to have clue what it means nor what it really means to have your civil liberties attacked.

Howard is correct, its a business decision and XM felt that it was in their best interests to make this decision, no matter how many drops in subscriptions they may get. They're a major corporation, they are not O&A fans so they dont act on impulse and smash their XM units cause of a rumor from wackbag.

Plus this is basically the best thing that coulda happened to them. 1st off maybe it will refresh their show a bit, not having to do back to back shows on 92.3 and XM. Plus its a fuckin paid suspension... thats IS a vacation!!! Lastly and more importantly, it gets their name in the papers and maybe sparks some interest in them and their product.

Because face the fact that O&A simply arent as popular as they think they are. Outside of a few north east states, no one knows them. Hate him or love him or dont care, the vast majority of the population knows who howard stern is. O&A as bad as they wanna compare themselves to him, will never be him. It reminds me of an HBO movie years back about how Letterman & Leno were battling over the tonight show and in the end they realized that its the time slot and no matter how hard they tried, they'd never actually be Carson, just because you got his time slot didnt mean you'd become him. Just because O&A got Howards time slot, they didnt become howard and they never will. No one is gonna flock to buy the O&A biography, no one is gonna break down theater doors to see the O&A movie (lets not forget the XFL). In the end its funny cause its true, the O&A army is basically 30 people. Think of every little boycott and demonstration they had in their names and its like 4 people.