tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post8149685695731024813..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: From the Peanut GalleryMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-72124261985999403692009-02-13T18:17:00.000-06:002009-02-13T18:17:00.000-06:00Checked out the reference to Grumpy's 'peanut butt...Checked out the reference to Grumpy's 'peanut butter' link, and happened to noticed his reference to cause and effect....which is where NPR drops the ball on the whole economy meltdown thing. The 'stimulus' is actually a salvage package..we need some serious house cleaning to go with it. The Corporatocracy is run by gangsters.Hubertghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409027211218872203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-56639274772448213982009-02-13T17:33:00.000-06:002009-02-13T17:33:00.000-06:00(faints and hits the floor upon learning that D. C...(faints and hits the floor upon learning that D. Corn was on a NoPR show...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-71127734631826013662009-02-13T12:24:00.000-06:002009-02-13T12:24:00.000-06:00Miranda- INDEED, David Corn Rocks! But, I think he...Miranda- INDEED, David Corn Rocks! But, I think he has since moved on to Mother Jones, thus (it is my guess) he is less likely to be used by corporate UnPR because he is considered to be a "stinky hippy." -JETJuan "Toss" Ensaladahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863718055252256536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-80506335551077728402009-02-13T09:46:00.000-06:002009-02-13T09:46:00.000-06:00My one and only pleasure in listening to NPR is wh...My one and only pleasure in listening to NPR is when David Corn is a guest on Diane Rehm's Friday News Roundup. Sandwiched between two conservapundits, one Fox shill Juan Williams and someone from the (ugh) Weakly No-Standards, Corn sounds rightly exasperated as he talks about, among other things, the disaster of Reaganomics...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-88396800875799444562009-02-13T08:03:00.000-06:002009-02-13T08:03:00.000-06:00The problems here is also, of course, that NPR sub...The problems here is also, of course, that NPR substitutes (more and more) actual reports for hot, host-on-reporter action. Sorry, but I just made myself sick thinking about an interview 3-way with Insqueak, Mundane and Shillburner. Ugh! Baseball, baseball, baseball . . .Juan "Toss" Ensaladahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863718055252256536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-79993140392208761512009-02-13T07:59:00.000-06:002009-02-13T07:59:00.000-06:00So, let me get this straight . . . a private but h...So, let me get this straight . . . a private but heavily-subsidized peanut business can poison Americans, sickening thousands and killing at least nine, in a country that under-funds its own agencies used to inspect these businesses? Hmmmm, yeah . . . I just don't see the journalistic "peg" in this story.<BR/><BR/>By the way, the BBC did this story a bit of justice -- more than two weeks ago -- addressing most of the details that escaped Mousey, Mundane and The Marauder.Juan "Toss" Ensaladahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863718055252256536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-23291119560075507202009-02-13T07:25:00.000-06:002009-02-13T07:25:00.000-06:00npr may be flashing a red herring here in getting ...npr may be flashing a red herring here in getting us to think that all food is blended from distant sources. Iirc, only peanuts grown in Georgia and Virginia can be used in food, at least that's a regulation mentioned to me about 20 years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-18742765516682322332009-02-12T22:37:00.000-06:002009-02-12T22:37:00.000-06:00Sill-burned-out's sick-making voice has been a psy...Sill-burned-out's sick-making voice has been a psychological ploy over the years: that is, NPR-oids, thinking that, because she is a homely, dreary-sounding and mouse-like critter, instead of a sexy-tongued and robust media android, this person must be credible. Because, heck, she herself must be sick most of the time, so she must be on the 'side' of listeners.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, that makes about as much sense as Un-PR actually being 'liberal'. I remember Silburnedher The Sickening's little 'critique' of Michael Moore's 'Sicko', and she was just as smug as the best of them, Liarsson 'n Mundane included.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.com