Howard Stern
What he said on-air the day after the Columbine shooting
Not dissimilar to how the terror attacks on 9/11 darkened our nation, the attack at the hands of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -infamous both - on the students of Columbine High School also changed our nation, frighteningly ushering in the era of “school shootings” that have persisted unabated - indeed increased - since that fateful event on 20 April 1999. In only a few minutes time, 12 students and a teacher lay dead, 21 others were physically injured by a 17 and 18 year old who discovered their capacities for both hatred and harm.
Students, teachers, and school administrators everywhere, along with parents, family, and friends - in other words, everyone - suffered psychological and emotional pain, baffled that two teenagers would (or even could) conspire to shoot up their own high school.
At the time, this was truly, actually “unthinkable.”
As someone who remembers the event vividly, and as a high school teacher at the time, I can assure anyone reading who is too young to grasp this, that what happened at Columbine High School penetrated us all to our bones. This type of evil was novel, unknown, unexplainable.
A psychosis we’d all never imagined now threatened every child in the country, and indeed, that’s exactly what has come to pass.
I’ve learned only today that one prominent and influential person at the time not only imagined such horror, but embellished it and literally profited off of it in a way so repulsive and disgusting - so evil - that it causes me to shudder. It’s a person I know of quite well… we all know of him.
Here is radio personality Howard Stern on-air the day after the killings - 21 April 1999 - in a conversation with a Colorado man calling into his show:
Caller: How’s it going?
Stern: All right.
Caller: Is this Howard?
Stern: Yeah
Caller: Oh man, I live like a mile and a half from the school, man. Have a couple friends that were there, I talked to them yesterday.
Stern: What’d they say?
Caller: They said that it was just a bunch of chaos and shooting.
Stern: A bunch of good looking girls go to that school. That guy was right, the guy who called in; he was a little too excited, but... There was like really good looking girls running out of there with their hands over their heads. Did those kids try to have sex with any of the good looking girls? They didn’t even do that. At least if you’re going to go kill yourself and kill all the kids, why wouldn’t you have some sex? I mean, if you’re going to kill some people, I’d take them out with some sex.
Stern’s sidekick: I guess they were getting a rush from what they were doing. (chuckling)
Stern: These guys were really against the good looking girls ‘cause the good looking girls wouldn’t pay attention to ‘em? Like, the good looking girls would be begging them to live, and they would go ‘You don’t have to beg ‘cause you’re going to be dead in a minute.’
Sidekick: (mockingly) Don’t cry!
Stern: (mockingly) Don’t cry…. yes.
Howard Stern was 45 years old when he said this to a vast radio audience on a nationally syndicated show. In 2006, after being syndicated from 1986 to 2005, Stern moved to Sirius XM Radio for a reported contract worth half a billion dollars.
Yet, the day after lives were destroyed in the nation’s first horrific act of school violence, Stern suggested the killers should have raped the “good looking girls” before murdering them.
Howard Stern has never been “cancelled” for this filth, indeed, he now boasts as being “woke.” A man worth almost a billion dollars encouraged rape and murder of school children.
Because in the society made by the likes of Howard Stern, filth pays, and pays very nicely.
The parents of the dead children of Columbine have not sued Stern, as the parents of Sandy Hook sued Alex Jones for Jones’ mere denial of the facts of the event. Jones - ordered to pay billions - has recanted; Stern has never been forced to revisit his comments.
Such is the world Howard Stern has made.
We often wonder and ask “How has society become so course, so raw, so ugly? How has it all come to this, that we’re cruel and uncaring to one another, that we demonize each other? How have school shootings become so common?”
I suggest that one individual stands out above the rest in taking our society to a dark place, to a condition of degeneracy, of risk, of threat, of pain.
Howard Stern, wealthy as you have become in this life spewing hatred and disgust, may you rot in Hell for eternity, you miserable beast of a man.
Stunning to witness. He’s as edgy as a butter knife. 😏