(KRON) — Howard Stern, the long-standing shock jock interviewer and self-proclaimed “King of All Media”, announced in a social media post that he will chat with presidential hopeful and Oakland native Vice President Kamala Harris in a live one-on-one interview. Stern’s sit-down with VP Harris is scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT and will […]
I haven’t listened in years, but even a decade-plus ago, you could tell he was desperate to be taken seriously as an interviewer.
Now, to be fair, with the right subject he could weave together empty-headed sex and gossip questions he knew would never get a real answer with questions that were probing but felt less invasive by comparison, and then use that to get some interesting answers. Any modestly savvy interviewee would know this was the schtick, though, and reveal exactly as much as they wanted, but even then it made it a safe place to “off brand” a bit.
I don’t know how many of the accoutrements of peak Howard Stern are still around, but I presume this is still a move by Harris to whittle a couple of points off Trump’s lead among white men in Pennsylvania, but with a host who is WAY over any fondness for Donald Trump.