Things are really sliding for the Bush PR campaign, especially when people as varied as the Howard Stern, and John McCain, and Michael Feldman (a different bunch from those Michael Moore spoke of at the 2003 Oscars) take pot-shots against the present administration’s policies.

Speaking of ABC, The New York Observer reports that the station has been contemplating a John Kerry interview, with Howard Stern on the other side of the Mike. The Kerry campaign has apparently declined.

Perhaps Kerry doesn’t need Stern at this time. (Rumsfeld is radioactive enough to make most of Kerry’s weaknesses disappear from the day’s news line up.) But it appears that Stern is the equivalent of a one-man anti-Bush campaign.

As Jeff Jarvis writes in The Nation this week, in an article titled F*cked by the F*CC Stern’s attack on the religious right, has become “the liberal talk-show star the left has been dying to hear.” He cites MTV News as saying Stern, rather than Ralph Nader, could be a big influence on the election.