Could Stern help sway the election Kerry's way?

This commentator at the Boston Globe seems to think so. "Since the FCC crackdown on media 'indecency' in the wake of Janet Jackson's Nipplegate incident, Stern has transformed his morning variety show into a rabidly anti-Bush talk forum. Every weekday, he has been devoting hours of his broadcast (locally on WBCN-FM, 104.1) to impassioned criticism of President Bush and support of Senator John Kerry. Railing tirelessly against the president, Stern has been attacking Bush's yoking together of church and state, the legitimacy of his National Guard service, his use of Sept. 11 imagery in his campaign ads, his stances regarding First Amendment rights, his handling of Iraq, and his stands on gay marriage and stem-cell research. 'Join me and friends of this show who are outraged,' Stern said on the air last Friday. 'Vote out every Republican you can find.' He has also been urging his listeners to send money to Kerry's campaign, calling him 'a good man' and praising his record in Vietnam as well as his later criticism of the Vietnam War." "With all the talk of liberal talk radio," says Michael Harrison, the editor and publisher of Talkers magazine, "we're seeing emerging from the ranks of `shock jocks' one of the most potent and articulate liberal talkers we've seen in years."