February 28, 2004 -- Besieged shock jock Howard Stern taunted his government critics yesterday by skipping his usual congressional and FCC attacks and tearing right into the top guy - President Bush.
Stern also said he fears his "suspension" last Wednesday by radio behemoth Clear Channel has turned into a firing.

"I might be taken off all the stations very soon, and my last words to you are 'G.W.B.,' " Stern told listeners yesterday.

"Get him out of office. I'm tellin' you, man, he's in dangerous territory [with] a religious agenda and you gotta vote him out - anyone but Bush," Stern railed.

Stern, whose raunchy wake-up show was yanked from six Clear Channel stations until, according to the company, they are "assured [it] will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting," said he fears he's history.

"It doesn't sound like I'm going to be asked back," Stern said, after playing an ominous quote from Clear Channel's CEO's testimony to a congressional indecency panel Thursday:

"The Bubbas of the world and the Howard Sterns of the world are the exception rather than the rule, and they will no longer have a platform on our stations," said John Hogan, who fired Florida's even-rowdier "Bubba the Love Sponge" on the eve of the hearings.



Hogan told committee members he was "ashamed" of both shows.

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The latest hubbub about the Clear Channel flap is how Clear Channel cut Stern IMMEDIATELY after:

a) Stern started using profanity and sexual references on the radio
b) The FCC first warned that they were getting serious about cracking down on decency standard violations
c) The FCC first fined radio stations for Howard Stern's trangressions
d) Howard Stern started bashing the Bush Administration after years of supporting it

Wanna guess which one is most accurate?