Does Howard Read The Malcontent?

A few days ago, I posted about how my opinion of Rosie O'Donnell has been quickly changing for the better.  This morning, Howard Stern followed suit on his Sirius satellite radio show.

A transcript follows after the jump ...

HOWARD STERN:  I gotta tell you, I watched that Rosie O'Donnell on HBO, that lesbian cruise –

ARTIE LANGE: The cruise?  Was it any good?

HOWARD:  – the gay cruise.  I gotta tell you something, man, I'm digging her more and more.  Like, she's a pretty good woman, actually.  I didn't like her when she was in the closet.

ROBIN QUIVERS: I didn't like the "fake" Rosie.

HOWARD: I didn't.  But boy oh boy, what she's doing is fairly terrific.  I mean –

ARTIE: What does she do?

HOWARD: Like, she took all – you know, really it's quite touching, the special, if you see it on HBO.  She and her girlfriend –

ROBIN: Her wife.

HOWARD: Her wife.  Excuse me.

ARTIE: Yeah, now they got married.

HOWARD: That's still a little weird for me.  But anyway, they got married and they adopt these kids.  Half of them are, you know, born into crack families and all this stuff.  And you got these gay couples who badly want kids, and then you got the religious nuts all saying they shouldn't be able to adopt kids.  But meanwhile, when they adopt – these kids have so much love in their lives.  And they're so happy and you see one of the kids was, like, born addicted to crack, and then you see this happy smiling kid.  Did you see the special?

ROBIN: I haven't seen it yet.  I taped it.  I haven't seen it.

HOWARD:  It's amazing, you know, and nobody cares about race, you got, you know, black kids, Chinese kids, whatever the hell the kid is, they don't care. 

ROBIN: Whatever's available.  [laughs]

HOWARD: Whatever's available they take.  And they're good parents!

ROBIN:  Not like these heterosexual people who have, you know, real, uh, you know, it has to look like me!  [laughs]

HOWARD: Right.  It's so, like, kind of beautiful, and she put together this cruise where they could all be together and not feel so abnormal all the time and be goofed on, and I thought it was great.  You know, I really, I gotta hand it to the broad.  She did a good job, and she did a good thing for people.  You know.  And at one point, they pull into, like, The Bahamas, and there's a religious group protesting them, and – it's pretty upsetting.

ROBIN: Yeah, can you imagine? 

HOWARD: – in front of little children.  It was really weird.

ROBIN: You're just trying to take your kids for a little swim and there's people protesting you.

HOWARD: Yeah.

ARTIE: Yeah, what negative energy that is.

HOWARD: But Rosie –

ARTIE: People have energy to do that.

HOWARD: Yeah, it's insane.  But Rosie was like very, very cool about it, and you see her working with these kids, and it was, you know, hey – you can goof on her all you want, but she's doing more than most.  She's doing something for people.  You know.

Comments

[Tommy]

Wow - Mal to turn Howard around like that? I did not think he liked anybody. Robbie, should just apologize to her, right now.

[Robbie]

LOL, I didn't say anything bad about her!

I just said the documentary was carefully crafted propaganda. But it was good propoganda for a good cause. Ain't nothin wrong with that.

[Tommy]

Yah . . uh, huh . . .

[Robbie]

Tommy, you're cranky today. Somethin you wanna tell us, guy?

[Tommy]

Yes, Robbie, You're so cute . . . get rid of that Podsnik guy.;)

[el polacko]

i'm glad howard enjoyed the show. for all the fag jokes, he's always been very gay-supportive...which is more than can be said for rosie. she went from super-closeted tom cruise-lovin' str8 chick to "single" adoptive supermom to SUPERGAY adoptive supermom and self-appointed spokesperson for ALL things gay who stormed into frisco to steal the spotlight and be married.
it's 'nice' that she spends some of her money doing 'nice' things for 'nice' people, but the docu was a cloying, preachy ad for her 'rosie tours' venture. if she had spent more time reading instead of composing insipid 'poetry' for her website, she would have know that gay folks are not welcome in the carribean and avoided putting the kiddies in the position of being yelled at and threatened by the crazies down there. she needs to give the whole 'professional lesbian' thing a rest.. how can i miss her if she won't go away ??

[John]

Wow. Do you even listen to Howard?

Don't flatter yourself: He's been very complimentary of Rosie over the past year. He was even the first person in the media to mention her blog, and that he reads it, in March 2005.

He's been saying many supportive things about her in the past year -- he even wanted her on his first day of his Sirius show.

[Malcontent]

John: He said he wanted her on his first day on his Sirius show because it was intended to be a roast of Howard. He wanted to bring on all the people that he thinks genuinely hate him, like Rosie, Kathie Lee, etc. etc. And he read her blog to totally goof on it -- its simplistic poems, its narcissism, and so forth. So his turnabout on her is more recent.

Do you honestly think I'm trying to flatter myself? It's called "mock self-importance." Every blog worth its salt does it.

And for the record, yes, I listen to Howard every day: Roughly two hours a day when he was on "testicle" radio, almost every day for about 12 years, and with my S50, I catch probably about 75 to 80 percent of every one of his shows.

[Patrick]

How is the film propaganda? I watched it and it seemed rather passive. It's airing a pay cable channel. And won't most people who actually watch a documentary about Rosie's gay cruise be her fans, gay people, and their friends? It's not like they're playing the film in high schools or churches, or that the film is part of some sort of campaign. You make it sound like it's part of some plan, and I didn't get that.

[Matt Cox]

Rosie and Galpal are not married.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/31/mass_can_bar_marriage_for_nonresident_gay_couples/

[Matt Cox]

Mass. can bar marriage for nonresident gay couples
By Jonathan Saltzman,
Boston Globe Staff
March 31, 2006

SJC rules that home state's laws prevail

The state's highest court ruled yesterday that Governor Mitt Romney and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly had the authority to use a 1913 state law to block out-of-state gay couples from marrying here after same-sex marriage became legal in 2004.

[Malcontent]

They got married in San Francisco during that short period when the Mayor decided the law was what he said it was. Actually, he's still saying that, but others with more authority than he intervened.