What do Howard Stern, Dr. Fauci, Pres. Biden and Speaker Pelosi have in common? Reverse psychology?

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The answer to my title question is that a Breitbart writer says that these Democrats use “reverse psychology” to kill Trump voters.

www.breitbart.com/… Veteran shock jock Howard Stern, now 67, has grown increasingly fed up with far-right anti-vaxxers, noting all the MAGA radio hosts who railed against COVID-19 vaccines before dying from COVID-19. And Breitbart News’ John Nolte has come up with a very imaginative conspiracy theory, claiming that Stern — along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — is using “reverse psychology” in the hope of keeping “Trump supporters” unvaccinated. This conspiracy theory, reporter Matt Gertz stresses in Media Matters, shows the ridiculous and “toxic” lengths Nolte will go to in order to vilify political opponents. Nolte believes that Stern and others are railing against unvaccinated supporters of former President Donald Trump because they hope that they will be offended, express their displeasure by remaining unvaccinated, get sick with COVID-19 and die from it. Even by Breitbart standards, that conspiracy theory is, Gertz writes, “far-fetched.”

Mr. Stern happens to be the subject of another Covid related Salon article this morning:

Howard Stern to anti-vaxxers: “In my America, all hospitals would be closed to you”

Now, if you don’t get it, in my America, all hospitals would be closed to you. You’re going to go home and die. That is what you should get. Absolutely."

“When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated? Fk ’em. Fk their freedom. I want my freedom to live,” he said, per CNN . “I want to get out of the house already. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures. This is bulls**t.”

The term reverse psychology is often thrown around and most people with at least half a functioning pre-frontal cortex understand that it means that it is advocating for the opposite of what outcome that is really wanted in order to persuade others to choose to engage in the behavior that is truly desired. You can read more about how reverse psychology is supposed to work here.

As far as the notion that Democratic Party officials like President Biden and House Speaker Pelosi, and government officials like Dr. Fauci have a strategic plan to advocate for vaccination (as well as wearing masks and practicing social distancing) because they know there is a large cohort of people, mostly Trump supporting Republicans, who will do, or not do, the opposite of what they recommend so they will get severe cases of Covid is ludicrous.

Buzzfeed put together 24 of the dumbest things anti-vaxxers believe. Here are a few of the choice examples:

Buzzfeed did miss the beliefs on their list that the vaccines contain microchips that can spy on you or make you magnetic (see Why the Covid vaccines can’t contain a tracking microchip or make you magnetic.)

They also miss the more sophisticated and plausible contention that there is a Democratic plan to use reverse psychology to eliminate a segment voters before the next two national elections.

Oddly, this would make more sense than the other wacky beliefs except for one thing. This is that it benefits the Democrats if more currently vax resistant people get vaccinated and take sensible Covid precautions so by the time the mid-term elections come along the pandemic will have peaked and life for most Americans will have returned to a semblance of normalcy. This would be something very positive Democrats could campaign on.

⚡Howard Stern Says US Hospitals Should Not Admit People Who Aren’t Vaccinated for COVID-19

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American radio and TV personality Howard Stern on the January 19 episode of his Sirius XM radio show ‘The Howard Stern Show’ said that US hospitals should not admit patients who are unvaccinated against COVID-19.

Is Marfan Mike Dead Or Still Alive? Official Wackpacker for Howard Stern Show Death Hoax Explained!

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Since morning, a name has been circulating on social media and people want to know that who was the person. According to the recent reports, Marfan Mike, who was also known as Wolf Packer revealed that he lost the power to talk for months on end. He was forced to relearn how to walk and flatlined twice.

Due to this ability, he got the attention of many people around the world and everyone wanted to know what did happen to him? Did he still alive or not? He was recovering from his ability thankfully but unfortunately, the moment came just for a few times.

Is Marfan Mike Dead Or Still Alive?

According to the sources, Marfan Mike has been reported died in the hospital due to Marfan Syndrome which is a kind of disease that happens to some few in the world. Marfan Mike was one of the unluckiest men who became prey to this disease.

Unfortunately, Mike did not survive due to this disease and lost his life in the hospital. For the last few days, the news of his sudden demise has been circulating on social media.

Let us tell you that Marfan’s Syndrome is a genetic disorder that can impact the connective tissues of a human body supporting the body and organs.

Due to this disorder, it could damage the blood vessels. heart, lugs, and even bones of the hips and rib cage of a human body. He was recovering but unable to use his left hand. In a Howard show, he told that he has a job in customer service and living with his mother at home.

Marfan Mike Death Hoax

He was also famous among people as Wolf Mike in the Howard Stern Show. He was also welcomed into the Wack Pack. As per the resident Wack Pack handler, Shuli Egar, the absence of Mike was primarily due to health issues. He was checked with these symptoms in early of 2019.

According to the reports, he also went into a coma for nearly a year due to Marfan Syndrome. At that time, the doctors said that they almost lost Mike due to his condition. He was a member of The Howard Stern Show, an American entertainment talk radio show.

Talking to Mike, he shared his experience with others and said that it seems that he had got a new life. He told in the show that he was feeling grateful and better. The Host said that he was just happy to see Mike alive and he didn’t want to lose another friend from Wack Packer. He will be always remembered by his loved ones.

The Jamie Lynn Spears Interview and the State of Call Her Daddy

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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Getty Images and Spotify

When Jamie Lynn Spears looked to promote her memoir, Things I Should Have Said, possibly cognizant of how it would exacerbate tensions with sister Britney Spears, she limited press appearances not only to the usual heavyweights like Good Morning America and Nightline, but to Call Her Daddy, the wildly popular Spotify podcast hosted by Alexandra Cooper. For a show that started as a risqué Barstool Sports chat-cast about sex and relationships, landing an extensive interview with Jamie Lynn was a potentially defining event, one that underscored everything Cooper had been intent on achieving since her acrimonious split from founding co-host Sofia Franklyn and Dave Portnoy’s scandal-rich company. “I feel like it’s almost just beginning,” she told Refinery29 shortly after her blockbuster $60 million exclusive licensing deal with Spotify was made public last summer. “I have so much more to prove now. I want to be the biggest podcast in the world.” Booking someone intimately attached to one of the most prominent culture stories right now undoubtedly feeds into that goal, exponentially so if that someone comes shrouded with significant controversy. Why Jamie Lynn chose Call Her Daddy to tell her piece of the story is the bigger question.

The interview rollout wasn’t smooth. Billed as a two-parter with an on-camera component (a first for the show since moving to Spotify), the opening installment was published on Tuesday, January 18. Shortly after it dropped, reports went public that Britney’s legal team had sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Jamie Lynn stop mentioning the singer, recently liberated from her conservatorship, during her press stops for the memoir. “Although Britney has not read and does not intend to read your book, she and millions of her fans were shocked to see how you have exploited her for monetary gain,” wrote Britney’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, in the letter. The second installment, originally scheduled to come out the next day, January 19, missed its intended deadline, and after a series of sporadic updates posted on Cooper’s Instagram Stories, the episode was finally released a day later, January 20. Not that the delay mattered for Cooper and Call Her Daddy, of course. More suspense yields more attention, and whatever the shape of the rollout, the episodes drove a lot of attention.

Listening to the interview, it’s hard to perceive Cooper’s handling of Jamie Lynn as anything but fundamentally accommodating. Cooper’s style as an interlocutor tends to favor making her guests feel as comfortable as possible in order to draw out the conversation, but given the charged and hypersensitive “she said, she said” nature of the Jamie Lynn–Britney story, the method can be problematic within context. Indeed, you wouldn’t be faulted for feeling like the younger Spears sister was given a platform to lay out her narrative essentially unchallenged. Throughout the interview, Cooper not only comes off as sympathetic but very much in support of Jamie Lynn. There is, of course, value in hearing her side of the story; the question is verification.

The second installment contained a follow-up conversation between Cooper and Jamie Lynn, which we’re told was conducted on January 18, after the latter’s appearance on Good Morning America. (The timeline probably explains the delay; audio editing takes time.) That additional interview builds up to a set-piece revelation centered on screenshots of extensive text messages Jamie Lynn allegedly sent to Britney in November 2020. The screenshots, which were later shared on social media, were ostensibly meant to indicate the former’s intent to help her sister end the conservatorship, a point of some dispute in this sprawling saga. It’s unclear if Cooper and her team at Spotify subjected the alleged text messages to any verification process; nothing of the sort was communicated to us at any point in the episode. Vulture reached out for comment on this matter. Furthermore, whether or not Britney was asked to appear on the show or given the chance to review Jamie Lynn’s claims (Vulture has also reached out to Britney’s lawyer for comment), those following the story are likely aware she hasn’t spoken to any press in years, generally preferring to address claims made about her through her social media accounts. It remains to be seen if the text message revelation, and the interview more broadly, will amount to anything in terms of progression between the two sisters, but regardless, this spectacle seems poised to vault Call Her Daddy, recently listed as the second-most-streamed podcast on Spotify in 2021, into an even higher strata of public profile.

It’s interesting to consider Jamie Lynn’s appearance on Call Her Daddy against the context of Cooper’s ongoing effort to reshape the podcast’s identity. Throughout the past few months, the show appears to have made a conscious effort to move on from its raunchier origins — which had forged a strong following over the years for the liberatory thrills of its frank and free-flowing sex-positive nature — toward something resembling a kind of neo-girlboss Howard Stern for the next generation. That expanded ambition is spelled out explicitly in the podcast’s revamped and buzzword-heavy show description:

Call Her Daddy started as a podcast and evolved into a global movement. Alex Cooper bulldozed a lane of her own, spitting in the face of misogyny and putting a modern twist on feminism. The woman-led empire produces raw, relevant, and provocative conversations that promote sexual liberty and personal empowerment while stripping away any barriers of judgment.

This transitional effort can be further detected in the recent string of guest bookings, which have included Emily Ratajkowski, Esther Perel, and Amanda Knox, seemingly moving the emphasis away from earlier guests, who were mostly influencers, reality stars, and comedians (Alexis Ren, Heidi Montag, and Chelsea Handler, respectively). But sitting down with Jamie Lynn in the middle of her maelstrom marks the biggest get for the operation thus far, even if Cooper’s role as an interviewer in the volatile situation was left wanting. After all, from a profile-building standpoint, the achievement with this booking isn’t really the interview but the access itself, and what that access says about the power of Call Her Daddy’s platform today.

The question, however, lies with the nature of that platform, and, more important, how Call Her Daddy’s following — the “Daddy Gang,” in the show’s parlance — ultimately perceives it, and the extent to which they’ll go along for the ride. The podcast’s official subreddit, though obviously limited in its capacity to represent how an entire fandom feels, is at present rich with criticism about Cooper’s soft handling of Jamie Lynn, characterized and believed by some as being complicit in Britney’s structural abuse. This type of dissatisfaction doesn’t appear to be particularly new either; some in the community have expressed frustration with Cooper previously giving a platform to Colton Underwood, the former Bachelor who was then on a promotional tour for his coming-out Netflix reality doc, but who faced accusations of stalking and harassment by his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Randolph. Indeed, the subreddit, made up of Cooper’s once most dedicated fans, seems to have largely turned on the show more generally, though it’s hard to tell to what extent this is an expression of the hangover from the civil war that broke out when the situation around Cooper, Franklyn, and Barstool Sports originally descended into chaos.

In any case, there’s a salient unifying critique that can be discerned from all the grumbles about Cooper’s interview and the podcast’s post-Spotify deal trajectory more broadly. Those grumbles point to a general concern that, in her march toward empire, Cooper would be willing to make trade-offs for access that would render Call Her Daddy a platform where people with severe moral baggage to launder can do so with ease. For listeners who got into the show for its women-centric realness — “It’s interesting to hear sex talked about in such an honest way from a women’s perspective. It was refreshing,” is how a longtime fan described their affinity to the New York Times — this critique needles at what could be the show’s fatal flaw. It fosters suspicion that if there remains a feminist politics to appraise from Call Her Daddy these days, it’s probably just the politics of fame.

Martha Stewart dumped Sir Anthony Hopkins over Hannibal Lecter

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No one person should be able to effortlessly entertain as Martha Stewart consistently does, but alas, the iconic entrepreneur and pop culture staple remains full of surprises.

Stewart, 80, visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week and played a game of “Two Truths and a Lie.” As a result, she revealed that she once dated Sir Anthony Hopkins but dumped him because she “couldn’t stop thinking of him as Hannibal Lecter.”

“I have a big, scary house in Maine that’s way by itself on 100 acres in the forest, and I couldn’t even imagine taking Anthony Hopkins there,” Stewart explained with a laugh. “I couldn’t because all I could think of was him eating … you know.”

For the uninitiated, Hannibal Lecter is a fictional serial killer who ate his victims. The character originated in Thomas Harris’ novels, beginning with Red Dragon in 1981, and then Hopkins in horror films The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (‘02).

Hopkins won best actor at the 1992 Oscars for Silence of the Lambs, and more recently, the 84-year-old made history at last year’s Academy Awards by winning best actor for his role in The Father.

This is far from the first time Stewart has discussed dating Hopkins.

“Do you want someone eating your brain while you are sitting in your beautiful dining room in Maine?” Stewart told Howard Stern way back in 2006 (h/t The New York Post). “I would have probably had a very nice relationship with Anthony Hopkins but I couldn’t get past the Lecter thing.”

And she expressed the sentiment again with Meredith Vieira in 2014: