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The LAT's Channel Island TV blog has a preview of what you'll see if you tune in to tonight's Late Show, where Howard Stern escalates his public pissing match with generously betoothed CBS CEO Les Moonves by lighting a flaming bag of excrement right on Moonves' network doorstep:

— "I believe you are working for one of the biggest jerks on the planet," Stern tells Letterman. "You've worked for jerks and bullies who hide behind their press agents. Les Moonves is a bully."

— Stern: "I'm not going to let Les Moonves do to me what he did to Dan Rather." He also suggests that Moonves fired former "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt.

— When Letterman brings up Moonves' success at CBS, Stern shoots back: "Don't defend him. He'll sue you next."

— Referring to Moonves' past acting career, Stern says: "CBS took a third-rate 'Love Boat' actor and made him CEO."

In Moonves' defense, if history had worked out differently and a first-rate Love Boat actor like Bernie "Doc" Koppell had ascended to the CBS throne instead, we doubt he would've had the balls to come after Stern like this. Next up: Moonves retaliates by sending a network page to kneecap Artie Lange.