tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post3382468932838653816..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Q TipsMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-43060737678882541892009-10-09T18:34:10.527-05:002009-10-09T18:34:10.527-05:00NPR is getting more erotically charged over Obama&...NPR is getting more erotically charged over Obama's Nobel Peace Prize than they were over the Obama Olympics flop. MeeShill Norris is positively seductive, smokily inviting us into her boudoir of Doubt About Obama's Worthiness. Missy's there, too, just to make sure. <br /><br />(Personally, I can only hope the Peace Prize will somehow aid in moving the Afghanistan debacle towards some kind of rapid wind-down.)<br /><br />And Our Lady of Lourdes Garcia ambitiously pretends to cover the Middle Eastern reaction to the news, breathily telling us that Palestinians on the street do not think that Obama deserves the Nobel. Now really, can you imagine ANY Palestinian on the street putting ANY faith in ANYONE to successfully solve their ongoing hellish life?<br /><br />Whatever anybody feels about the Prez getting the Nobel, NPR plainly advertises a dubiousness in their tone - even a disdain. No doubt they will entertain conspiracy theories as to how it all came about. It's all very Foxy and smug, in the great NPR tradition.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-76963311859364818682009-10-09T12:17:29.878-05:002009-10-09T12:17:29.878-05:00"innocuous concepts that can be qualmlessly d..."<i>innocuous concepts that can be qualmlessly digested with one's morning latte</i>"<br /><br> "Qualmless" is a great word for the way people are being indoctrinated by this VOA claptrap.<br />My NPR listening episodes are marked by sudden attacks of illness, faintness and nausea.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-19964631021555374362009-10-09T12:04:41.243-05:002009-10-09T12:04:41.243-05:00In comment above
"there are opportune moment...In comment above<br /><br />"there are opportune moments to air stories that will have minimal impact on corporate donations.'<br /><br />should be <br /><br />"there are opportune moments to air stories <b>so that they will</b> have minimal impact on corporate donations."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-61841788678207761522009-10-09T12:02:49.057-05:002009-10-09T12:02:49.057-05:00I should use it to congratulate NPR on a truly exc...I should use it to congratulate NPR on a truly excellent piece."<br /><br />First, NPR should not be congratulated.<br /><br />The author of the piece should.<br /><br />Second, good pieces appear on NPR from time to time DESPITE not because of NPR management and NPR official policy, and only then because they are deemed "safe".<br /><br />In other words, you hear about the conductor but no reference is made to the fact of who made his career possible. <br /><br />On the health care issue, no mention is made in the referenced piece about the obvious FACT that single payer would be (by far) the best way to prevent the kind of unnecessary procedures and tests that have made health care so expensive in this country.<br /><br />Also, timing is often key with these pieces. <br /><br />Why is NPR just now getting around to airing a piece about what's wrong with the health care system essentially AFTER the fix is in? (after Prez and Congress have already ruled out single payer as an option)<br /><br />With NPR, you really have to watch what they DON'T say as much (if not more than0 what they do say.<br /><br />You also have to ask yourself :why is NPR airing this now as opposed to six months or a year ago?<br /><br />NPR is shrewd about their timing. they realize that you can only omit the obvious so long before people start to realize what is going on. At the same time, they realize that there are opportune moments to air stories that will have minimal impact on corporate donations.<br /><br />So, for example, on Iraqi WMD (not!!) they waited around until all the other mainstream, media were admitting that "everyone missed the fact that Iraq had no WMD, don't blame us!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-78547314880117892062009-10-09T10:52:49.209-05:002009-10-09T10:52:49.209-05:00Typo:
For 'blacklists NPR is most respects...Typo:<br /><br />For 'blacklists NPR is most respects'<br /><br />Read:<br /><br />'blacklists NPR in most respects'<br /><br />And now, back to our show...Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-37790846484194204752009-10-09T10:51:26.014-05:002009-10-09T10:51:26.014-05:00"Seems only fair, since I am never loath to b..."Seems only fair, since I am never loath to bitch in this space, that I should use it to congratulate NPR on a truly excellent piece."<br /><br />David, many of us here have not shirked from praising NPR when praise is due. It's just that it doesn't happen often enough, especially when the big issues of the day are 'considered'. Just the whole Torture issue alone blacklists NPR is most respects, if you ask me.<br /><br />On the other hand, I heard a perfectly reasonable profile of the new conductor of the LA Philharmonic this morning. He is a Venezuelan, and there wasn't one politicized reference. On the other hand, Chavez' support of cultural programs in Ven. made this fellow's career possible. Considering NPR's open hostility/smugness about Chavez, there's quite an irony there.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-25382229983517651852009-10-09T08:02:19.352-05:002009-10-09T08:02:19.352-05:00NPR's present role is to transform ideas that ...NPR's present role is to transform ideas that were once considered repellent into pleasant, innocuous concepts that can be qualmlessly digested with one's morning latte"<br /><br />Indeed.<br /><br />The folks at NPR have basically become <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window" rel="nofollow">"Overton window"</a> shifters.<br /><br />From the above wikipedia article: <br />"Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique relies on people promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous "outer fringe" ideas. That makes those old fringe ideas look less extreme, and thereby acceptable. The idea is that priming the public with fringe ideas intended to be and remain unacceptable, will make the real target ideas seem more acceptable by comparison."<br /><br />If you talk enough about the possibility of killing people as an alternative to detention, then detaining them indefinitely seems downright cushy by comparison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-71909150892462641892009-10-09T06:11:16.799-05:002009-10-09T06:11:16.799-05:00I was amazed by Ari Shapiro's report on the Ob...I was amazed by Ari Shapiro's report on the Obama administration's deliberations over its detainee policy on Thursday's ATC; it strengthened my conviction that NPR's present role is to transform ideas that were once considered repellent into pleasant, innocuous concepts that can be qualmlessly digested with one's morning latte. This was apparently the first of a two-part series; one can only hope that the second part will rely less heavily on Bushies and detention-friendly law professors and perhaps acknowledge that one of the main problems with indefinite detention is that it might, um, conflict with what our constitution says. Remember that little document? Shapiro's report, if I remember correctly, was followed by another piece of pro-escalation hucksterism by Mary Louise Kelly, who appears to be so beholden to her Pentagon sources that "DOD spokesperson" would serve as a more accurate job title for her than "reporter."a.m.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-18528832088765590302009-10-08T22:09:25.297-05:002009-10-08T22:09:25.297-05:00The one thing that piece lacks is an assessment of...The one thing that piece lacks is an assessment of how the various health care plans that have been proposed might address the problems associated with fee-for-service problem.<br /><br />The way i see it, single payer is ideally suited to deal with the problem of too many tests and too many operations and other procedures because it would involve a single data-base that could be used to track all that stuff -- and presumably facilitate refusal to pay doctors who were clearly abusing the system (doctors would change their behaviors accordingly if they were not getting paid!)<br /><br />But of course, for NPR even the mention of "Single payer" is torture. kind of like the mention of "torture".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-87521511329236155032009-10-08T19:33:08.266-05:002009-10-08T19:33:08.266-05:00Seems only fair, since I am never loath to bitch i...Seems only fair, since I am never loath to bitch in this space, that I should use it to congratulate NPR on a truly excellent piece.<br /><br />On Tuesday's ATC, Alix Spiegel did twenty-minutes on the effects of fee-for-service medicine on the treatment choices made by doctors. It took the basic argument made by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker last June, and expanded it using the impeccable research of Jack Wennberg and his colleagues at Dartmouth.<br /><br />Deal with this problem, then reclaim the $400 billion lost to private insurance overhead, and we could cut our $2.5 trillion annual health care bill <b><i>in half</i></b>.<br /><br />Check it out!<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113571111Radical Sensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899975282716170639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-73185705953650065912009-10-08T19:19:37.115-05:002009-10-08T19:19:37.115-05:00For Alicia Shepard and Vivian Schiller and everyon...For Alicia Shepard and Vivian Schiller and everyone else at NPR who has such trouble saying the "T" word:<br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/emptywheel" rel="nofollow">"Kaplan SAT Prep: RT @JamilSmith Torture is to "harsh interrogation" as slavery is to "involuntary help".</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-18713490025195559722009-10-08T17:15:13.348-05:002009-10-08T17:15:13.348-05:00Wow. An entire report by Ari Shapiro about the det...Wow. An entire report by Ari Shapiro about the detention problem without once mentioning the option of following the rule of law. Disgusting!Cougarhutchhttp://www.somewhereoutwest.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-91122087583296256342009-10-08T13:36:39.836-05:002009-10-08T13:36:39.836-05:00cutting off your nose to spite your facecutting off your nose to spite your facelarry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-41096644027344320152009-10-08T12:51:07.418-05:002009-10-08T12:51:07.418-05:00The only way to have a statistical presence in sho...<i>The only way to have a statistical presence in showing disappointment with the dems, while not inadvertently supporting the repukes, is to vote 3rd party"</i><br /><br />yeh, but after his <a href="http://www.jameslavin.com/articles/2009/06/29/please-retire-chris-dodd-from-the-senate-part-2" rel="nofollow">taking millions of dollars in campaign contributions from wall Street</a>, voting to repeal Glass-Steagall and recent lying about his role in banker bonuses, I REALLY want Dodd out and i am willing to make a sacrifice to make that happen (including voting for his Republican opponent, who can not be worse than Dodd)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-91499928235285816552009-10-08T12:02:36.117-05:002009-10-08T12:02:36.117-05:00And when the repukes make gains in the house and s...And when the repukes make gains in the house and senate in 2010, the 'story' will be that the voters were tired of the liberalism of the dems. Unless one votes 3rd party, a vote for a repuke will be used to statistically 'prove' that dem liberalism was to blame. You think anyone in teevee-land is gonna challenge that interpretation? The only way to have a statistical presence in showing disappointment with the dems, while not inadvertently supporting the repukes, is to vote 3rd party (at least until they're outlawed). A vote for a dem or a repuke is only a vote for who is on the top line of the 'campaign contribution' check.larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-15856371089977069022009-10-08T10:37:01.845-05:002009-10-08T10:37:01.845-05:00@Anonymous said...
RE: Barabara Lee
I used to hav...@Anonymous said...<br />RE: Barabara Lee<br /><br />I used to have Rosa (the pollster's wife-- Rahm currently resides in her husband's DC house) but redistricting gave me Shays (good riddance) and now Himes. Jim was a VP at Goldman Sachs who worked in the Latin America division. Same as it ever was. How long before he sponsors a resolution to restore Zelaya to power?Jay Schiavonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04575283403103183391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-11677499526235023212009-10-08T09:36:09.748-05:002009-10-08T09:36:09.748-05:00Greenspan and Squidward even look the same (like t...<a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/01/business/economy/01-economix-greenspan/blogSpan.jpg" rel="nofollow">Greenspan</a> and <a href="http://www.funbumperstickers.com/images/squidward.gif" rel="nofollow">Squidward</a> even look the same (like the lamebrained goofballs that they both are)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-43653574016497428542009-10-08T08:28:36.371-05:002009-10-08T08:28:36.371-05:00RE: Barabara Lee
Along with Dennis Kucinich, Lynn...RE: Barabara Lee<br /><br />Along with Dennis Kucinich, Lynn Woolsey, John Conyers, Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold and a few others, Barbara Lee is one of the few real progressives left in Congress.<br /><br />My own Rep (Rosa Delauro) and Senators (Dodd and Blabberman) are a joke.<br /><br />Delauro votes pretty much the way her pal Pelosi wants her to (ostensibly because she feels a "special connection" with Pelosi, who is also an Italian American woman), Dodd is in the banker's back pocket and Blubberman, well, I can't even say what he is here lest I offend Karl Rove.<br /><br />Incidentally, Dodd is actually behind in his race for re-election and I can say with certainty that i will vote against him (yes, that means voting for his Republican opponent). Dodd makes me sick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-33038520143257338102009-10-08T00:23:31.461-05:002009-10-08T00:23:31.461-05:00Squidward is perfect for Alan Greenspiper. He'...Squidward is perfect for Alan Greenspiper. He's just a snake charmer hired by Wall St. and boy were the MSM charmed! I love the clarinet, but Greenspan's wordsmithing probably came from someone like William Safire (rest in Nattering Nabob Negative peace?)<br /> <br />Since the AfPak issue is so pivotal, it's interesting to consider the wonderland of paths from the banksters to the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. Through ABC, through NPR, through KBR and Raytheon/Cargill/Metlife and,, of course, back to Goldman/Sachs. <br /><br />I paraphrase Barabara Lee on DN this AM: <br /><br />We need to be honest about where we've been sending our tax dollars and certainly there has been corruption in Afghanistan. We're trying to pass health care for every man woman and child here. The best way to insure our national security interest is for Congress to exercise its Consitutional responsibility to declare war or not. It would be insane to declare war, so we should not. <br /><br />Those that don't believe our democracy should survive even during national security don't understand what the essence of true American democracy is.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-39489472579381038352009-10-07T22:33:44.027-05:002009-10-07T22:33:44.027-05:00As a group, the followers/worshipers of Ayn Rand a...As a group, the followers/worshipers of Ayn Rand are typically among the stupidest, most incompetent people on the planet.<br /><br />But they all fashion themselves as geniuses and do not hesitate to let everyone else know this at every opportunity.<br /><br />Greenspan fits that bill to a tee.<br /><br />He reminds me of Squidward in Sponge Bob Squarepants. Both play the clarinet and both think they are smarter/more talented than they actually are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-30683455833126021152009-10-07T18:56:34.124-05:002009-10-07T18:56:34.124-05:00Under reagan, greenschmuck engineered the cap on F...Under reagan, greenschmuck engineered the cap on FICA, resulting in the largest regressive tax increase in history. As Fed chairman, he consistently opposed raises in the minimum wage, pushed the bush tax cuts, and crammed down hard every time wages were seen as increasing. He pretty much only coniidered wage increases as inflationary. Greenschmuck is an ayn randian turd, and his wife is a creepy bitch. That npr would treat the handmaiden of the of the ultra-rich with such deference shows how wantonly wannabe they really are.larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-87371071947946668982009-10-07T17:13:59.202-05:002009-10-07T17:13:59.202-05:00Greenspan's Congressional testimony just after...Greenspan's Congressional testimony just after the meltdown was classic:<br /><br />"<b>I found a flaw</b>. I don't know how significant or permanent it is, but I've been very distressed by that fact."<br /><br />What a moron.<br /><br />People used to view him as a fincial genius but now he's just another hadbeen fool.<br /><br />He really should just shut up becasue every time he opens his mouth it makes him look more like a guy whose real interest is perpetuating the myth of himself as a fincial oracle.<br /><br />Greeenspan will go down in history as the guy who killed the American experiment in capitalism with his unregulated free-for all nonsense.<br /><br /><br />///Greenspan's testimony follows<br />"REP. HENRY WAXMAN: Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made?<br /><br />ALAN GREENSPAN: Well, remember that what an ideology is, is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to -- to exist, you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.<br /><br />And what I'm saying to you is, yes, I found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is, but I've been very distressed by that fact.<br /><br />REP. HENRY WAXMAN: You found a flaw in the reality...<br /><br />ALAN GREENSPAN: Flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works, so to speak. "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-36358805767313549622009-10-07T10:29:07.023-05:002009-10-07T10:29:07.023-05:00"Economist Who Could Not See an $8 Trillion H..."Economist Who Could Not See an $8 Trillion Housing Bubble Thinks That the Unemployment Rate Will Cross 10 Percent"<br /><br />Unfortunately, Alan Greenspan is almost certainly right this time. But given his incredibly bad track record, is there any reason that his forecasts should be news at this point?<br /><br />--Dean Baker<br /><br />The NYT and NPR STILL use Greenspan as a credible source.<br /><br />NPR IS PLANET MONKEY!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-74062840182720426372009-10-07T10:23:00.443-05:002009-10-07T10:23:00.443-05:00Planet Monkey See, Monkey Do!
NPR has been follow...Planet Monkey See, Monkey Do!<br /><br />NPR has been following the NYT and WaPo for so long, that to say their noses are shite brown is a fantastic understatement.<br /><br />If you read Dean Baker at American Prospect everyday, you will see how often he takes the NYT to task. And everyday that he does, he could just as easily attack NPR for the very same reason.<br /><br />Alan Greenspan in the NYT and then later on Planet Monkey is a classic case in point. I'll bet PM's alpha male, Adumb Davidson would be positively breathless while interviewing the Chief Defender of the Faith, Minister of Science and Head Orangutan, Dr. Zaius.<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/08/when_alan_greenspan_talks.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-33713034119366770602009-10-07T10:15:54.759-05:002009-10-07T10:15:54.759-05:00I bet what we say about alicia schleptard is alot ...I bet what we say about alicia schleptard is alot nicer than what the peons at npr say behind her back.larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.com