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Showing Original Post only (View all)NPR just flat out LIED. [View all]
I was in the car, tuned in to NPR, just because there's nothing else to listen to. The top of the hour news came on and there was a 30 second news story about Iran. The main point of the story (about Israel killing their nuke scientists in a car bomb) is unrelated to this post, but at the end it said (quoting from memory, but it's still pretty fresh in my mind):
"Iran says it's developing nuclear technology for energy purposes, but the US and its allies believe it is developing a nuclear weapons program."
Now the TRUTH is that Leon Panetta, our Defense Secretary, said as little as a week ago on CBS Face the Nation:
"Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No."
and...
Panetta admitted that despite all the rhetoric, Iran is not pursuing the ability to split atoms with weapons, saying it is instead pursuing a nuclear capability. That capability falls in line with what Iran has said for years: that it is developing nuclear energy facilities, not nuclear weapons.
and...
Panetta admitted that despite all the rhetoric, Iran is not pursuing the ability to split atoms with weapons, saying it is instead pursuing a nuclear capability. That capability falls in line with what Iran has said for years: that it is developing nuclear energy facilities, not nuclear weapons.
Now we can argue about whether or not Iran is trying to develop this or that. But when the Secretary of Defense says that he does not believe they are developing a weapon, it is a flat out LIE to report in the news that the US believes they are.
Shame on NPR. Just taking the same old bullshit propaganda news feed all the other MSM is being fed and regurgitating it to us blind sheep.
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Do you mean the republicans that threatened to de-fund NPR if they didn't get their ass in line?
tularetom
Jan 2012
#4
It's called splitting hairs finer than atoms. The npr story says "program", Panetta says "weapons"
leveymg
Jan 2012
#5
you are right, of course. the PNAC types are vampires to the core of their being.
marasinghe
Jan 2012
#47
So liberals can't distinguish between what they know is bs on FOX and NPR's rw propaganda?
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2012
#42
sorry; running decent arts programs on NPR & PBS, doesn't make 'em into objective news sources.
marasinghe
Jan 2012
#48
Iran has very little uranium, though. North Korea at least has millions of tonnes of reserves.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#37
NPR gets about 2% funding from US, and that's about how much of them you can believe.
Festivito
Jan 2012
#29
NPR has been a part of the propaganda network for the better part of a decade
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#33