WTF???!!!! National Public Radio is giving that consummate

[COLGATE4]

asshole Andrew Not-too-Britebart a whole hour today on "All Things Considered" so he can 'dispel the myths created by all the Left Wing Media"
:puke: What in the hell is wrong with NPR??? It's bad enough listening to Mara Liasson nuzzle all the Neocons weekly, but now NPR radio is taking a hard shift to the right???

[Warpy]

1. Bush cronies got appointed to top positions there

and have yet to be dumped. Expect it to be No Position but Republican until they are gone.

[SpiralHawk]

40. NPR is just another corporate republicon propaganda catapult

at this stage of things. They lost their honor and their cred a few years back...It's sickening, I know...

[Warpy]

42. During Stupid 2005 "kill Social Security" media blitz

I woke up one morning to one GOP drone after another telling us how great it was going to be to put Grandma out on the street so the stock market could grab more money and following up with the master of ooze, Ken Mehlman. I'm lucky the radio survived it, but it's a Sony and nearly indestructible. I then tuned to the classical station in town.

Well, that station has gone under so I've had to switch back to an NPR college station since the balance is Clear Channel, bible and C&W. I have actually awakened yelling "BULLSHIT!" and it's not a very nice way to wake up.

I guess I'll just have to use the alarm from now on.

[county worker]

2. you can give them feedback

[stubtoe]

8. but they don't listen.

[KansDem]

3. I gave up on NPR when Cokie Roberts "reported" on the "Bush Charm Offensive" during 2000

She came on during "Campaign 2000" with a report on the Bush charm offensive, and how he'd use it to get things done in DC, and how he liked to give out nicknames, etc.etc.etc.

I believe her main phrase was, "He's charming, oh, so charming!" :puke:

[leeroysphitz]

27. I quit during the run up to the gulf war when Neal Conan would go out of his way to stifle

anti-war opinions and quash any real debate.

Fuck I hate Neal Conan.

[Orrex]

4. That's fucked up, especially following Horowitz's attack-eulogy on Zinn

When is Andy supposed to be on? At a glance, I didn't see him mentioned on npr.org, and I'm not near a radio at the moment.


Gots to love me some left-wing media.

[gkhouston]

5. He needs an hour? Why not simply hold up a sign saying, "We've fallen and we can't get up!" n/t

[QC]

6. Nice Polite Republicans

[tularetom]

7. NPR is jumping backwards through their own assholes trying to placate wingnuts

But it'll never work. They are convinced the network is a bunch of commies and will never turn it on.

I think it's time to put NPR out of its misery.

[corkhead]

15. Kill NPR then the terriorists, I mean Republicons, win.

As usual, the Republicon tactic of running something in the government poorly to "Prove" that government doesn't work

[glitch]

22. You said it.

The appointees need to be replaced by professional journalists. There should be plenty to choose from...Might I recommend David Brancaccio? I would LOVE to be able to listen to NPR again.

[quiet.american]

9. What "left wing media"? nt

[leftstreet]

10. +1

[Echo In Light]

31. Prominent conservatives admit to creating the "liberal" media mythology

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=%22liberal%22+media&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=

[EFerrari]

11. That racist, lying, ignorant jerk?

That was the sound of NPR swirling down the toilet.

[cbayer]

12. Where did you get this information? I don't see anything about it on their site.

:shrug:

[DebbieCDC]

18. It was publicized this morning on air

[cbayer]

28. OK, I found that they are doing a piece on him, but it sure doesn't look like an hour

and it looks like it is going to be critical.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123268291

Maybe I am confused.

:shrug:

[Green_Lantern]

32. well they mentioned a right-winger..

Thus they are right-wing :sarcasm:

[WhiteTara]

13. it's now National Petroleum Radio

didn't you know? There was a purge a few years ago and only neocons can work there. This is not a joke.

[glinda]

14. right wing talking point lies do not constitute "facts" and "balance". NPR is in trouble.

[spanone]

16. Now Promoting Republicans

[DebbieCDC]

17. NPR is a shadow of its former self

Look who's on their payroll: Cokie Roberts, Juan Williams, Mara Eliason. Need I say more?

[Stinky The Clown]

19. NPR is a right wing cesspool that retains its left wing veneer and sound.

They continue to sound like the 1998 SNL spoof with Molly Shannon, Alec Baldwin and Ana Gasteyer doing that discussion of Schwetty Balls. The material is hilarious, but they also capture perfectly that sort of old fashioned "FM sound" of early talk radio that NPR used to do all the time.

Listen here ...... worth the listen again and again. (There might be a commercial, suffer through it if there is. The clip is worth it). Hilarious.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/nprs-delicious-dish-schweddy-balls/2846/

[newtothegame]

20. haha NPR taking a hard shift to the right?

Is this post serious??

[Moochy]

38. Do you listen to Morning Edition or All Things Considered on a regular basis?

[WCGreen]

21. Folks it is the NATIONAL public radio....

Let him talk. It will just reinforce the low standing that conservatives have with the listeners to the shows...

[glitch]

24. Oh, no wonder they gave Howard Zinn and Michael Parenti their own hours to schmooze

from time to time. I did wonder.

[WCGreen]

29. I remember Terry Gross interviewing Howard Zinn a while back...

[glitch]

35. Of course you do... because the body of Howard Zinn's work equates to the volume of Brietbart's.

Pull the other one.

[proud patriot]

23. You should listen to Democracy Now

[glitch]

26. +everybody should.

And if you have access to it, Pacfica radio stations or online. http://www.pacifica.org/

[dem629]

25. Yes! Only one side should be heard!

I mean, we should never air the views of people we disagree with (or whom we believe to be lying) so we can knock down their arguments.

SILENCE! SILENCE!

:eyes:

[Moochy]

39. Yes that's exactly what the OP is asking for.

You killed that strawman, dead!

[Green_Lantern]

30. he wasn't given an hour...

And it was a story about James O'Keefe being a protege of Breitbart. It highlighted criticisms against Breitbart for his connection to O'Keefe.

How in the world is this right-wing?

[cbayer]

33. Perhaps the station advertising this gave out all this misleading information? At any rate,

it is nothing like this OP portrays.

:shrug:

[Green_Lantern]

34. I guess so...

I think npr is pretty objective.

[Moochy]

37. 'Pretty objective' relative to Fox

Are NPR's flagship programs 'pretty objective' relative to the NPR of eight years ago? Not so much. It has always been a haven for sneering libertarians, but as soon as Voice of America chief Propagandist took over under Bush, things got much worse.

Granted it's 10x better than commercial radio for filling the time, but All Things Considered and Morning Edition are biased toward inside the beltway centrist and right leaning views.

[Green_Lantern]

44. I'm not sure about that...

I don't ever get the impression either programs are right-wing biased.

[Moochy]

45. Juan Williams provides their Fair and Balanced Presidential Analysis

[lib2DaBone]

36. Just as bad as nighlty news with Judy Woodruff on PBS TV...

3rd string empty-calorie news coverage.. a waste of time...

The only one decent one left is Bill Moyers and I think his show is ending..

[sendero]

41. NPR sucks...

... they went to the dark side around 2001.

I still listen, mostly to note the blatant propaganda and careful lies of omission they engage in regularly.

Yeah, they are better than Fox but nonetheless I'm not paying for propaganda. I stopped sending them money after 17 years in 2002 after an interview with Colin Powell in which Colin knew he was lying, the interviewer knew he was lying but nonetheless the absurd lies he told went unexamined and unrebutted.

Fuck NPR.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

43. We lost NPR years ago

they lost me as a listener around the same time.

[Green_Lantern]

46. ok I heard the story...

And it pretty much so gave him a platform to push his views and trash the media. He even got away with claiming credit for starting Huffington Pot and saying James O'Keefe was framed.

[Hawkowl]

47. Public radio can fuck off

This is why I do not donate any $ during their ridiculous pledge drives. Complete and utter right wing biased crap.