Bernie Sanders

SheilaT

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30. I sometimes listen to Diane Rehm,

Fri Aug 14, 2015, 02:32 PM

Aug 2015

and all too often she does not seem to listen to what someone is actually saying. She misunderstands what's just been said, maybe because she's concentrating too hard on what she is going to say next. She gets it wrong at times, and that shouldn't be happening.

She also tends very much to the conservative side of things, except that her version of conservative is what tea partiers think is liberal.

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Diane Rehm needs a keeper [View all] Demeter Aug 2015 OP

I find it hard to imagine that Diane Rehm is even capable of dirty tricks. Skinner Aug 2015 #1

As a regular listener, how many slip ups this egregious have you heard her make merrily Aug 2015 #2

I have no clue what the new one is because you didn't provide any detail. Skinner Aug 2015 #3

I'm not the OP and, as I said, I'm not a listener. merrily Aug 2015 #4

That's a shame. Skinner Aug 2015 #5

Although not when it comes to Bernie, apparently. Comments from facebook and not fact checked? merrily Aug 2015 #6

She blew it on that one. Skinner Aug 2015 #8

Maybe, maybe not. If she did make a second "mistake" as to Bernie after merrily Aug 2015 #12

I understand I'm not going to convince you otherwise. Skinner Aug 2015 #16

Not so. My diner rule amply allows for me to be convinced otherwise. merrily Aug 2015 #18

Ok. (nt) Skinner Aug 2015 #19

OK. merrily Aug 2015 #20

Anyone can make a mistake. However, I have a diner rule. merrily Aug 2015 #9

Indeed. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #38

Hard to argue with my diner rule, isn't it? I love it. merrily Sep 2015 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author merrily May 2016 #41

This has happened at my grocery store EVERY time I visit, for at LEAST a decade. closeupready May 2016 #40

She systematically excluded any discussion of single-payer from her show until it was too late. appal_jack Aug 2015 #21

I agree that she is sometimes biased. Skinner Aug 2015 #23

Seems to me she employs both, at different times. appal_jack Aug 2015 #25

Rehm found mention on her show of single payer unacceptable during 2009? merrily Aug 2015 #31

Do you mind elaborating a bit, Demeter? merrily Aug 2015 #7

She stated that Bernie riposted "All Lives Matter" Demeter Aug 2015 #10

Hillary also said "All lives matter." Did Ms. Rehm happen to mention anyone using that term besides merrily Aug 2015 #13

I'm sorry, I didn't pay any attention to anyone but Bernie Demeter Aug 2015 #14

That's a biggie. afaic. nt senz Aug 2015 #35

Susan Page of USA Today repeated the mistake on an MSNBC panel on appalachiablue Aug 2015 #37

Please tell us what she said -- I remember that outrageous statement about his Nay Aug 2015 #11

Yes, Rehm did insist after Bernie denied it, allegedly based on a comment on Facebook! merrily Aug 2015 #15

I stopped listening to NPR because of her. Cosmic Kitten Aug 2015 #17

I liked her a lot when I lived in middle Missouri during the Bush years. It was Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #24

It is relative. Cosmic Kitten Aug 2015 #27

I listened to her on WAMU in DC before she went national deutsey Aug 2015 #29

That is the whole problem, she is now a beltway person. Rachel is almost there also. LiberalArkie Aug 2015 #34

Seems as though everything Democratic seemed different during the Bush years. merrily Aug 2015 #32

She's on National Petroleum Radio RoccoR5955 Aug 2015 #22

+1 People who still consider NPR "liberal" exist in a time warp. n/t RufusTFirefly Aug 2015 #28

Isn't she the one who made the anti-Semite remarks? bluestateguy Aug 2015 #26

I sometimes listen to Diane Rehm, SheilaT Aug 2015 #30

Never listen to NPR. Boycott them like I do. They are nothing but a propaganda mechanism. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #33

Let her hear about it. senz Aug 2015 #36