Stern: And doesn't it bother anyone that he's (well, his radio stations) being fined for something that was aired a year ago?? Doesn't this just have the whiff of ex post facto about it? What's worse, is that Clear Channel has all but admitted to that, isn't complaining about it, and in fact is punishing the victim.

Stern said on his show recently that the reason these things never get to a trial is because once the station indicates it wants to fight, all of a sudden, its parent company can't get any more licenses as their applications get put into "review" or "lost". It's insidious and completely foreign to this country's ideals, but hey, it's only Howard Stern, so why worry?