Stern got away with more shit than Sam Hyde.
it was a different time. "If my sex offends republicans than it must be a good thing"
the same hatred of republcans was there in pop culture as it was today only the republicans were the usual morality police, thats why the writer of the comic The Boys was based on never considered that maybe people would be fans of The Seven or even Homelander, whereas it seems like the tv show's creator is a whiny israeli kike who is obsessed with belittling anyone that enjoys the only character that seems to grow throughout the series.
Everything from Marilyn Manson's schtick to outright racism was fine because a friend of the Bush family would try and rile up Christians to pray for your cancelation. Dick seems to forget a huge reason for his rise was because of a "turnabout is fairplay" vibe a lot of the right had in the mid 2010s when the Dems were finger wagging and no one was more of a SJW nag than Maddox himself.
Its also why Dick's "most viral" material of the past 5 years was him counter-protesting the Chapelle netflix protesters. mocking the left has way less people in the field vs mocking the right. its also why once Dick went on his cuties crusade his support fucking vanished hard, you could throw a rock in LA and hit a dozen people with the same "look at all these weirdo christians whining about a netflix film with young girls twerking" hot take he went from Mocking Maddox to becoming something worse than Maddox.
Plus beyond all that shit, Stern had the backing of a huge company, as much as he was counter-culture, he had an entire billion dollar radio network bankrolling his antics and making sure even if someone was offended enough to sue stern they'd get a settlement and NDA.
Opie and Anthony had employees arrested multiple times but it wasn't that big of a deal because the company handled all that shit and kept it under wraps. non of us are Stern obsessive enough to recall but i'm sure in the first 30 years Stern had to have had one of the retards or fans or employees arrested for doing some dumb bullshit.