David Lee Roth Replaced Howard Stern in the Dallas Area Radio: My thoughts
Being a Van Halen fan, going back to the late seventies when they started, I’ve always enjoyed the clownish wit of David Lee Roth. He has caused me to belly laugh more than a time or two. Since Roth replaced Stern – who I could never tolerate for very long – on free radio I’ve been tuning in the last couple of mornings. This rock and roll jester is entertaining and always was. The radio world has finally put the former mouthpiece of Van Halen in a slot where he can flourish again and radio people will make money. Of course I doubt he’ll be as successful as Stern in that slot. Roth clearly has a superior IQ and is quicker-witted than Stern. Where Stern is just simply outrageous and sometimes very funny, Roth is very funny a lot and sometimes outrageous. Roth still seems lost a little but I expect that to be normal in the first few months.
 
I can’t comment on Stern’s politics because I so hated the show I tuned out long ago. I’ve only heard little blips here and there. But, listening to Roth the last two mornings he is, not surprisingly, far left and ‘liberal’. He stated this himself. Though Roth is a funny man, like Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg etc. he is trapped in the life he’s led for years. He himself says he’s the drunken sailor who won the lotto. People like him get thrust into fame. When they sustain that recognition they are constantly working to promote themselves and stay on top of every little mountain all the way down and all the way. They know nothing, nothing about politics or philosophy. But, they bank on their fame and unwittingly promulgate falseness and lies they’ve never examined …and the band marches on. But, since ‘liberal’ and leftist ideas are so prevalent in the culture and among the celebrity intelligentsia (wow is that an oxymoron!) these jesters, singers and actors think they’re enlightened. They think they’re lofty non-conformist when they’re simply parroting the other mouthpieces equally ignorant and brainwashed and living the life of the roman emperor Caligula. Meanwhile the goo-goo eyed followers of Stern and the Roth-like take wit as wisdom and the deception continues and cultural divide widens.
 
Dennis Prager dwarfs the intellect of David Lee Roth but you’ll never see a debate on Roth’s show about politics and of course Roth is simply an entertainer whereas Prager is informative, grand fatherly and sage-like and entertaining. That would be my dream, to see Prager slay my old sacred cow David Lee Roth. But, that’ll never happen.
 
However, there’s a possibility that Terrible Ted Nugent and David Lee Roth would cross paths. That would be a thing to behold; two motor mouths, one right, one left, slugging it out. David Lee Roth might be funnier but The Nuge would eat his lunch philosophically. It’s good to laugh, but if all you do is laugh (play the fiddle like Nero) then someday they’ll be nothing to laugh about. Stern and Roth are ultimately hollow men and civilization will die with a whimper if men like these rule the cultural landscape. Men like this play on the playground men like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Ronald Reagan, build, defend and fertilized. Roth and Stern are pretty weeds.