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Slate's David Edelstein calls it "the shrewdest piece of spin doctoring since Triumph of the Will ." (The Private Parts site includes assorted Howard Stern games, stills, and clips.)
The act has more than a bit of camp about it--America attends to the stern judgments of a male socialite.
There are Comedy Central's unashamedly foul South Park ; Howard Stern and Jerry Springer; and Pamela Anderson, who could undergo a million makeovers like the one she just received and still be the star of The Video.
The LAT notes that Regan tried and failed to land the Lewinsky book, but didn't mention that Regan's commitment to asceticism and deep contemplation included publishing Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.
The brutally funny Steve Stern ( Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven , Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground , A Plague of Dreamers ) does this by inventing a shtetl that out-Singers Singer in its weirdness and filth and then putting it in pre-World War II Memphis, Tenn.