The shock jock imitates Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas by wearing a prosthetic nose, prosthetic lips and an Afro wig. (via toofab)
Although this is in poor taste, he's imitating someone that did that. Context matters. Still, this is shit-tons racist and inappropriate... but it's Howard Stern doing a racist bit. It's not Howard Stern being racist. Many online users denounced Stern, as one Twitter user posted,"Wow. I knew that @howardstern was a pig, but this is so blatantly disgusting. I've never seen this before. I hope people will retweet this far and wide and expose him and his own hypocrisy.
However, some fans argued that he only used the derogatory term when he was playing a character or when he was explaining how the word was used among the Black community. One follower posted about the New Year's Eve skit, saying,"Although this is in poor taste, he's imitating someone that did that. Context matters. Still, this is s--t-tons racist and inappropriate... but it's Howard Stern doing a racist bit. It's not Howard Stern being racist. "he doesn't believe Stern is racist and that Stern"never used that language off-air.
As the show was pay-per-view and not under FCC restrictions, Grillo said the production felt like they should"push the limits."
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