Stern Says Trump’s Hot Mic Comments Were Definitely Not ‘Locker Room Talk'

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

Shock jock Howard Stern on Monday refuted his friend Donald Trump’s claim that his leaked comments about grabbing women’s genitals were just “locker room talk.”

“I have never been in the room when someone has said, 'Grab them by the pussy," Stern said on his Sirius satellite radio show, quoting Trump’s own words caught on a hot mic during a 2005 “Access Hollywood” appearance. "No one's ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, 'Hey I'm going to invade someone's space.'"

Though Stern built his own reputation on raunchy interviews grilling celebrities about their sex lives, he said there was a line between lewdly describing women’s bodies and boasting about sexual assault.

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“I fully knew what I was doing when I interviewed Trump. I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex,” Stern said. “I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of 1 to 10. These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience.”

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[jberryhill]

1. When you have offended Howard Stern, that's an accomplishment

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Private Parts

[edbermac]

3. I blame Baba Booey for egging Donald on like that.

[NewJeffCT]

4. When guys talk about women in locker rooms

it's a complete 180 from Trump's comment about grabbing them. It's usually, "She couldn't keep her hands off of me" or that sort of thing, which is likely an exaggeration, but it's almost the complete opposite of forcing yourself on a woman.

[cstanleytech]

5. Unless of course the locker room one full of Donald Trump clones *shudder*

[keithbvadu2]

19. The only locker rooms with this kind of talk are republican locker rooms.

No one else seems to accept this as "locker room talk".

[cstanleytech]

20. As I said a bunch of Donald Trump clones. nt

[treestar]

23. And even just that shows no respect

None of us want to be talked about like that. Even without the assault trumps entire attitude is disgusting. We are people not things.

[NewJeffCT]

24. that typically stops

once guys graduate from high school

[ProfessorGAC]

26. I Concur

I was in locker rooms in GS, HS, College, at the "Y", and at the fitness center that was near where i used to live. I didn't even hear in high school, but the bus rides to and from games and track meets, i did hear it. IN HIGH SCHOOL!
In college, guys might talk about some woman on campus, but it was usually just benign stuff about how cute someone thought she was.
At the Y and at the club (as an adult) never hear any such thing. Not once.

[TrogL]

6. Yesterday I listened to Michael Smerconish...

...running a clip from the Stern show running a clip of Michael's show running a clip of a Stern superfan running a clip of Trump...

[JI7]

7. isn't it something seeing all these right wing religious

assholes who always preached family values and attacked gays and other groups defend trump with the locker room talk excuse ?

Even stern isn't defending this shit.

[dalton99]

8. But Malaria speaks the truth

[Thinkingabout]

9. It is interesting Trump made the statement it was okay with Melania and

Now she is defending his actions by saying he was egged on by Biĺly Bush. I know if is hard to see through dollar bills but she can't be this blind. Trump admitted sexual assault and now there are those coming forward saying they are victims. If the Clinton campaign set this up they are brilliant to have the foresight to get the tape years ago because they knew Trump would be running for president.

[kimbutgar]

10. Do you think Mekania had a choice to say otherwise?

You just know she was forced to defend the orange cretin or those shopping trips to those fifth avenue stores were over.

[Thinkingabout]

11. Now we can say Melanie wasn't free to speak her mind, not so with Mrs Khan

[Frank Cannon]

27. I'm sure Melanoma has divorce papers written up already.

For delivery November 9, with a restraining order. I wouldn't want to be in the Trump house on that day.

[wordpix]

13. the audio is evidence that Billy B was not egging on The Lurker

DonCon was freely running his mouth. That is clear.

[Thinkingabout]

14. You are right, Trump was coaching Billy Bush.

[Madam45for2923]

15. Agree! BB sounded in awe of trump!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Billy Bush gets sacked from NBC for participating in a crude conversation.

But Trump, who was the "star" of that conversation, still gets to keep running for president with 40% of the voters supporting him and very few GOP leaders have the stones to unendorse him.

What's wrong with this picture?

[KittyWampus]

12. As other DU'ers have said- there's a method to Stern's own brand of "madness"

He's very intelligent and knows what he's doing.

[cbdo2007]

16. Hit 'em with the Hine!!

[no_hypocrisy]

18. Hey Melania, if Billy Bush "egged on" your husband, then

so did Howard Stern, who actually didn't.

[alphafemale]

21. Yeah. For all his Shock stuff. Stern is actually a very kind, decent man.

That has become more apparent as time has gone on.

[RobinA]

25. Your Definition

of a decent man is clearly different than is mine.

And aside from his "decency," Stern has single-handed made the kind of talk Trump was indulging in OK for public consumption.

[Skittles]

22. thank you Mr. Stern

I'm pretty sure that with most raunchy guy talk, consent is a given