The new Howard Stern on the old one: ‘I don’t know who that guy is’
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The bold new strategy in the fight against abortion rights
For years, antiabortion advocates have tried to chip away at Roe v. Wade incrementally. They pushed legislatures to impose waiting periods and mandate hallway widths in clinics and generally make it more onerous for abortion clinics to operate and for women to access the procedure.
Now, the pretense is being thrown out as states such as Georgia and Missouri impose much more restrictive bans. In Alabama, a law passed that outlawed the procedure almost entirely, without exceptions for rape or incest.
Aaron Blake is a senior political reporter for The Fix. He explains the thinking behind their strategy — and how it could backfire.
- In Alabama, the GOP goes big on overturning Roe v. Wade. It could regret it.
- States racing to overturn Roe v. Wade look to a Supreme Court that prefers gradual change
- Governor signs Alabama abortion ban that has galvanized support on both sides, setting up a lengthy fight
The new Howard Stern says the old Howard Stern makes him ‘cringe’
Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed “King of All Media,” was mostly known for mocking everyone and objectifying women on his TV and radio shows. But, he told The Post’s Geoff Edgers, that’s all behind him now.
“I tried to watch some of my old Letterman [appearances],” Stern said during an interview at his SiriusXM radio studio. “I couldn’t get through two minutes of it. It’s just not me. I don’t know who that guy is.”
In a new book, “Howard Stern Comes Again,” Stern hopes marks his evolution from an impatient and often nasty blabbermouth to a master conversationalist.
The art world is out of touch
A rabbit sculpture by Jeff Koons just sold for $91.1 million — a record breaking figure. When an artwork fetches that kind of price at auction, the first question everyone silently asks is: “Could it really be worth that?”
“The first and best answer, obviously, is no,” says Post art critic Sebastian Smee. He sees the sale as evidence that the art world is increasingly untethered from reality.
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:04.0 | It's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post. |
| 0:08.0 | Post is Sarah Kaplan. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, this is Elias Adi with the Washington Post. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Post for Ports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:16.0 | It's Friday, May 17th. |
| 0:21.0 | Today, why anti-abortion Republicans are changing tactics? |
| 0:26.0 | Howard Stern reinvents himself and a new record in a fast inflating art market. |
| 0:36.0 | Pretty much what we've seen from the Republican Party ever since they gained a lot of control in the states in the 2010 election was a gradual kind of attempt to chip away at abortion regulations in states. |
| 0:49.0 | Aaron Blake is a senior political reporter for the fix. |
| 0:53.0 | They've added restrictions. |
| 0:54.0 | They've tried to make it more difficult for abortion providers to operate in their states, require more things like hospital admitting privileges. |
| 1:02.0 | They've tried to shrink the window in which people can get abortions. |
| 1:06.0 | It's been a much more incremental approach to trying to scale back the availability and the lawfulness of abortion in this country. |
| 1:16.0 | But now, with new laws to dramatically limit access to abortions in accident states like Alabama and Georgia, the legal efforts to dismantle Roe v Wade have started to change. |
| 1:30.0 | There have been many different attempts in conservative states that are run by Republicans over the years. |
| 1:36.0 | They've gradually gotten slightly bolder over that time, but we also haven't seen anything nearly so bold as what we're seeing in these recent weeks from Georgia and Alabama. |
| 1:46.0 | And that is all part of an attempt to get their case to the Supreme Court? |
| 1:51.0 | Yes, I think what we're seeing in Georgia and especially in Alabama is not so much an effort to get these laws implemented in these states so much as an effort to go so far that the Supreme Court may have been able to do so. |
| 2:05.0 | They have no choice but to take this up eventually. |
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