tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post451393700773754005..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Tea & Sympathy: NPR NewsbaggersMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-64414517162766768212011-04-22T17:24:34.457-05:002011-04-22T17:24:34.457-05:00Friday, NPR All Things Right Wing considered, did ...Friday, NPR All Things Right Wing considered, did another wet kiss to the Tea Party.<br /><br />Somewhere MYW is grinding his teeth, I know I was.GRUMPY DEMOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076837066633851919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-36842147793523296722011-04-19T08:11:51.282-05:002011-04-19T08:11:51.282-05:00Never realized there was a bank under the NPR flag...Never realized there was a bank under the NPR flagship building (wonder what bankster/fraudster organizations bankrolled that building?). Color me completely surprised. No, really that surprises me.<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-46370993660638675702011-04-19T06:46:16.822-05:002011-04-19T06:46:16.822-05:00They don't call it National Profiteering Radio...They don't call it National Profiteering Radio for nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-86195272913885399302011-04-19T06:10:32.993-05:002011-04-19T06:10:32.993-05:00I'm glad you saw that exquisite little detail ...I'm glad you saw that exquisite little detail of the photo - Bank of America as the foundation and cornerstone of NPR - ha! And no, I didn't doctor the picture at all - it comes right from <a href="http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/visit.html" rel="nofollow">NPR's "Visit"</a> page.Mytwordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-84936356114973062612011-04-18T20:57:30.870-05:002011-04-18T20:57:30.870-05:00Wait - is this picture of the NPR building doctore...Wait - is this picture of the NPR building doctored or is there really a branch of BofA that occupies the first floor? <br /><br />I spent a couple of hours picketing a BofA today. That was fun. We went in and demanded to cash a check for 1.5 billion dollars.geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-67193643066253285752011-04-18T20:31:17.004-05:002011-04-18T20:31:17.004-05:00More BS From NPR:
"Pentagon Clears McCrystal ...More BS From NPR:<br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/18/135524256/pentagon-clears-mccrystal-of-any-wrongdoing-described-in-magazine-article" rel="nofollow">"Pentagon Clears McCrystal Of Any Wrongdoing Described In Magazine Article"</a><br /><i><br />"A Pentagon inquiry into the magazine profile that led to the retirement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal could find no evidence that would confirm what was written in the Rolling Stone article."</i><br />end of NPR quotes<br /><br />Do the nitwits at NPR (in this case Eyder Peralta) actually expect the sources within the Pentagon who provided information to Rolling Stone to admit that they were indeed the sources?<br /><br />Seriously?<br /><br />This is dumb even by NPR standards (and that's pretty dumb).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-74730407662679073602011-04-18T14:51:48.044-05:002011-04-18T14:51:48.044-05:00Yesterday S-F-0 had a 50th commemoration of the Bo...Yesterday S-F-0 had a 50th commemoration of the Boy of Pigs boondoggle. While they mentioned that the c.i.a. launched the invasion, the whole story was replete with boilerplate 'fear the commies' nonsense, to the point of ultra scary nuclear weapons stationed in Cuba. They didn't use the newer fear-inducing mantra of 'WMD', they preferred the classic fear-mongering. In a word: nauseatin. And typically unoriginal. One really needs to wonder: who's buying that shit anymore?larry, dfhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-26452814126761813782011-04-18T10:03:18.418-05:002011-04-18T10:03:18.418-05:00Yeah, "fear" for their job.
They know t...Yeah, "fear" for their job.<br /><br />They know that if NPR gets defunded (or more precisely, if NPR member stations do -- or at least are prevented from using public money to pay for NPR programming), they basically have nowhere to go.<br /><br />There is no "next" pasture for the already pasturized. <br /><br />Once they over-graze their current pasture, that's it.<br /><br />No greener one on the next hill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-75632164559795988922011-04-18T09:54:28.076-05:002011-04-18T09:54:28.076-05:00I was in DC on the 19th of March though i did not ...I was in DC on the 19th of March though i did not take an arrest this time and was struck by the difference between that and the tea party meet-up. I also remember Informed being there a few months earlier and there was nothing. And i did comment on their "story" about the end of the anti-war movement.<br /><br />NPR is at best Scoop Jackson "Democrats" which have morphed into the Clinton/Obama wing of the Republican Party and at worst? Just another cog in the dominant culture's cultural/social hegemony. Either way spells trouble here at home and abroad. I think Obama "Democrats" are simply negotiating the terms of surrender to the banksters, fraudsters, corporate/military/security they are allied (or hope to be lol) with.<br /><br />edkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-35920681372379541782011-04-18T09:41:25.126-05:002011-04-18T09:41:25.126-05:00@Anonymous:
In other words: fear. These days fear...@Anonymous:<br /><br />In other words: fear. These days fear seems to equal "good business".Patrick Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12398291623086774963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-60626005507108217552011-04-18T08:44:21.800-05:002011-04-18T08:44:21.800-05:00Covering the Tea Party is like a condom for NPR: i...Covering the Tea Party is like a condom for NPR: it gives them protection from claims that all their stories have a liberal bias.<br /><br />That's it. No more, no less.<br /><br />If Ron Schiller's secretly taped comments to the front group told us anything, it is that NPR management does not actually believe their own official line but merely repeats it because it is good business (or more precisely, that not repeating it would very likely put them OUT of business)<br /><br />Every policy at NPR these days has to be viewed through one lens: survival and maintaining the salaries and benefits of the folks at the top)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-58551398310079526432011-04-18T08:33:38.434-05:002011-04-18T08:33:38.434-05:00I signed the petition and left a comment. I haven&...I signed the petition and left a comment. I haven't had a chance to read the news article yet in the paper but I saw that WEKU is launching a local talk show. It will be interesting see if it echoes all of the other mindnumbing hate filled AM radio crap or if they step up and do the kind of stuff that NPR used to do well a very long long time ago.<br /><br />As for the tea party, NPR doesn't even hide their pro TP stance anymore. They seem to be obviously catering to these people and I can't decide if it's out of fear or if it's really because they actually agree with them. I'm leaning towards fear myself.Patrick Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12398291623086774963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-26685123505749570552011-04-17T20:22:40.798-05:002011-04-17T20:22:40.798-05:00What was that thing I never heard about again?
A ...What was that thing I never heard about again?<br /><br />A new NPR spiritual:<br /> <br />I’m going to lay down my journal book<br />Here in the capital <br />Here in the capital<br />Here in the capital <br />Here in the capital<br />Ain’t gonna protest war no more<br />Ain’t gonna protest war no more<br />Ain’t gonna protest war no more<br />Ain’t gonna protest war no more<br /><br />I’m gonna to put out and blind my eyes<br />Here in the capital<br />Here in the capital<br />Here on the village mall<br />I’m gonna to put out and blind my eyes<br />Here on the the village mall<br />Ain’t gonna notice war protests<br /><br />I’m gonna talk with the villagers <br />Talk with the villagers<br />Think tanks and senators<br />Ain't gonna protest war no mo'<br />(Praise the lawd!)<br />Ain't gonna protest war no mo'geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300772545812600392noreply@blogger.com