tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post8380576080777170191..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Planet GitmoMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-87310452521031282542009-01-18T10:47:00.000-06:002009-01-18T10:47:00.000-06:00Oh, but of course they are terrorists!! They are ...Oh, but of course they are terrorists!! They are fighting a foreign invader of their sovereign nation, defending their homeland, protecting kith and kin.<BR/><BR/>Something about US exceptionalism . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-48229224300032222892009-01-15T10:31:00.000-06:002009-01-15T10:31:00.000-06:00MeeShill's performance, in this one of many exampl...MeeShill's performance, in this one of many examples, demonstrates how utterly complicit NPR is with the Neocon mechanism (to use the generic term). These NPR hosts (as opposed to journalists) are mere plastic personalities employed for publicity purposes. They do their job well enough to appear to be influential, if not powerful. But they aren't! Like Dubya, Frontman Supreme, they take their orders from higher up, and they perform.<BR/><BR/>This Neocon mechanism, whether it's BushCorp or some as yet unidentified entity, has every intention of maintaining its power and control, no matter who's in the White House. Every movement since the Enlightenment has needed its publicist, and NPR has proven that we know what those letters really stand for.<BR/><BR/>National Piffle Radio is indeed small potatoes, but it's in the front bin. I have to keep myself from being distracted by their sideshow, and constantly keep the Bigger Picture in mind.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-63521278794916799652009-01-15T09:21:00.000-06:002009-01-15T09:21:00.000-06:00Sorry, I wasn't apologizing for "Meeee-shell." I ...Sorry, I wasn't apologizing for "Meeee-shell." I was insulting her. I thought that was pretty obvious. She is hapless and hopeless. In my estimation she is NOT even a journalist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-60286666485500449362009-01-15T09:08:00.000-06:002009-01-15T09:08:00.000-06:00The Pentagon said yesterday that 61 former detaine...<I>The Pentagon said yesterday that 61 former detainees who were released, quote, 'returned to the fight against the US' meaning that they had returned to some form of terrorism." So for those detainees who are deemed dangerous, but for whom no clear evidence exists for prosecution, what should be done with the prisoners that fall in that category?"</I><BR/><BR/>How does one deem someone "dangerous" when no clear evidence exists for prosecution? <BR/><BR/><BR/>Of course, the implication here is that anyone that the Pentagon deems dangerous should remain locked up into perpetuity because the potential that they will do something "dangerous" exists (no matter how small it might be).<BR/><BR/>So, the mere potentiality in someone to commit a crime (as there exists in EVERY human being on the planet) becomes a crime worthy of keeping him or her locked up.<BR/><BR/>Have we really stooped to such a level?<BR/><BR/>This is an affront to every value that Western Civilization has come to hold dear.<BR/><BR/>It literally throws out millennia of legal philosophy dating back to the Greeks. <BR/><BR/>And whether Meeeee-Shell is "nice" in person or not is irrelevant. being a journalist is not about being "nice". As we have seen in recent years, sometimes the truth about America is not nice at all. Sometimes it is downright ugly.<BR/><BR/>If Meeeshell is not smart enough to understand that, she has no business "acting" as a journalist (for which she gets paid a pretty penny, I might add: over $200K per year)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-32576835470835946912009-01-15T08:01:00.000-06:002009-01-15T08:01:00.000-06:00For what it's worth, a friend of mine who used to ...For what it's worth, a friend of mine who used to work at for the NPR Newscast Unit said that "Meeee-shell was a genuinely nice person; not too bright, however." And, while I think she's gotten a lot better at interviewing since NPR hired her, she's still terrible. But, since NPR standards have fallen so low, the chasm between them and her is significantly smaller. So, she has that going for her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-54205177017251308002009-01-15T08:00:00.000-06:002009-01-15T08:00:00.000-06:00Nifty trick indeed. A shorthand for the putative ...Nifty trick indeed. A shorthand for the putative moral compass to say, these are no longer human beings. Don't you NPR listeners be worrying your purty haids about the details.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com