tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post207046855047039139..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: The One That Got AwayMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-8633909874876152982006-11-15T12:06:00.000-06:002006-11-15T12:06:00.000-06:00What NPR seems to have perfected with its intervie...What NPR seems to have perfected with its interviews of prominent types like Perle is a kind of draining away of every last hint of journalistic standards and to model the whole interview on what one might overhear between two very chummy friends at a Georgetown cocktail party.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-34659182822302216782006-11-14T12:08:00.000-06:002006-11-14T12:08:00.000-06:00Thank you so much for discussing the Perle intervi...Thank you so much for discussing the Perle interview. Listening to this on Sunday morning made me positively cranky at how little it resembled anything like journalism. <br /><br />I, too, was frustrated at the very meek response to this Perle statement: "I don’t believe it’s correct to say his ties to terrorists have been discredited. There were numerous links between Iraqi inteligence and various terrorist organizations including al-Qaeda; those have been documented. And I frequently hear people say that there’s no evidence. It’s simply wrong; I’ve seen the evidence." Well, show it to us.<br /><br />I don't pledge to them because my needs aren't being met.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-51683535441813805692006-11-13T12:42:00.000-06:002006-11-13T12:42:00.000-06:00Thank you for giving a brief synopsis of this stor...Thank you for giving a brief synopsis of this story - I was so apoplectic about NPR having Perle on as if he is some sort of pundit or "elder statesman" that I couldn't stop yelling at the radio. Seabrook was soooo lame, I can't believe some producer or manager at NPR doesn't send her back to making copies for the big kids that work there. I think if she ever got the opportunity to interview Osama bin Laden she would spend the time asking him questions like," So, now that you are a respected political figure in the world, what would you suggest we do to further your agenda?". She might follow that up with a question about the color of the drapes at his Tora Bora cave.<br /> The very fact that she kept letting Perle flap his lie hole with out at least minimally asking him to account for his responsibility for the Iraq failures is unforgivable!Karl Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02910182699373349788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-43746090291556947792006-11-13T10:56:00.000-06:002006-11-13T10:56:00.000-06:00Thanks for aiming the spotlight of odiousness back...Thanks for aiming the spotlight of odiousness back on one of the principal players in our current folly: 'Dark Prince' Richard Perle. Only Paul Wolfowitz and Bill 'Howdy Doody' Kristol inspire more outrage and disgust in this child's world view of current events. Perle is the sort of unadulterated creep who means to triumph every step of the way, and his high-toned vanity demands that he keeps his stained hands in the media circuit, in order to flaunt his status as exemplary neo-con. Here is Perle on NPR, his old intact self: gentlemanly, soft-spoken, faux-sophisticated, reasonable-sounding but firm, the perfect interviewee for an awe-struck NatPubRad nerd. In short, Richard easily wins over tinker-toy 'journalists' such as Seabrook, not only with his oily grace, but by stonewalling in the most civil tones imaginable. And now that he's distancing himself from the Bush Machine, he can strut and pose in new ways that will always leave NPR types with a feeling that they have been massaged rather than having experienced yet another mind-f*#k by one of the great masters of that art.<br /><br />Perle as war profiteer? Absolutely. Check out Bob Greenwald's documentary 'Iraq For Sale', free viewing on Google Video.<br /><br />Andrea Seabrook is yet another one of those NPR babes that seems to be smiling with self-satisfaction whenever she's blabbing. There are few things worse in radio than self-loving on-air talent. Rush Limbaugh ain't the only one in town to pull that trip.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-61681980996544413772006-11-13T10:00:00.000-06:002006-11-13T10:00:00.000-06:00Perle is also an arms dealer, he makes money direc...Perle is also an arms dealer, he makes money directly from conflict. I wouldn't be surprised if he made money on the interview. There was a time when he charged for such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com