Look At NPR's Coverage; Don't Privilege The Serial Liar
March 09, 2011 2:05 pm ET by Simon Maloy
It seems that James O'Keefe won't be ignored.
The many-times discredited activist is back with yet another "sting" video, this one of NPR executive Ron Schiller speaking with what he believes to be perspective donors from a Muslim education group (in reality, O'Keefe's operatives merely pretending to be scary Muslims). According to a press release from O'Keefe's group, the unironically named Project Veritas, the video shows Schiller "blasting Republicans, Tea Partiers, middle America, Jews, and Christians," and "expose[s] the true hearts and minds of NPR and their executives."
There's been a lot of coverage of O'Keefe's video, much of it focusing on the reportedly forced resignation of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller and NPR's move to put Ron Schiller on administrative leave (despite already having arranged to leave the company in the coming weeks). Less remarked upon is the fact that O'Keefe's video does nothing to expose NPR's news coverage as anti-Republican, anti-Tea Party, anti-"middle America," anti-Semitic, or anti-Christian, as he implies.
In fact, to take one example, NPR's coverage of the Tea Party has overall been pretty good (by assessments of tea partiers themselves), and the intemperate comments of one executive (who wasn't in charge of editorial content) doesn't change that.
Look at NPR's Tea Party coverage and the first thing you'll notice is that there's a lot of it. And in much of that coverage, NPR correspondents have sought out Tea Party activists and organizers for their perspectives. They've hosted debates between leaders of the disparate factions of the movement regarding the Tea Party's future direction. Rank-and-file tea partiers have been the focus of NPR profiles of the movement's beginnings.
The network has dug aggressively into the movement's funding from wealthy conservative donors and organizations, shedding much-needed light on implausible claims that the group is completely "grassroots." They've covered the issues that have split tea partiers into various factions, from religion to racism to extremist rhetoric.
They produced fluff pieces on tea party love for "Original Tea Party Candidate" Ronald Reagan, and they've hosted cartoons satirizing the movement by teaching people how "to speak Tea Bag." Notably, the tea party uproar over that very cartoon prompted NPR's ombudsman Alicia Shepard to weigh in, saying the cartoon was "not that funny" and was not in line "with NPR values, one of which is a belief in civility and civil discourse." She also empathized with "those on the right, including members of the Tea Party movement, which is populated by passionate Americans who don't like the direction President Obama is taking the country."
You look at all this and the all-but-inescapable conclusion is that NPR has worked very hard to be fair in their coverage of the Tea Party, and some members of that movement seem to agree. Right-wing blogger Glenn Reynolds noted back in December 2009 that he received a message from a Dallas Tea Party honcho praising a report by NPR's Robert Siegel, who "understood that we are not only protesting and rallying, we are also educating our community." Reynolds himself observed: "People on the right don't like NPR, but as I've noted before, their reporting is generally pretty good."
Liars like James O'Keefe win by attrition. They repeat their lie over and over until everyone else gets tired of correcting it. Whatever mistakes NPR executives have made, they're not at all reflective of NPR's journalistic record, and we shouldn't let agenda-driven hacks succeed at conflating the two.
The Troglodytes hate Civil Discourse; they've worked with great determination to erase it from the landscape over the past 20 years.
If you bother to listen to any of the talk shows that air during the day on NPR, you'll hear a real example of "fair and balanced".
This very morning, one show had the Republican Toadie, John Fund on to spew his nonsense, and they treated him very well.
Stating that the teabaggers are a pack of racists? It's not intemperate, it's the truth.
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You wouldn't happen to be saying that you believe in censorship, would you--a world in which if one doesn't like what a person says, he/she has to be punished?
I guess Mr. Schiller doesn't listen/watch much right wing media, where they seem to always deny ever saying anything hateful and moronic. It is always some anti-American, freedom hating, liberal leaning media source taking their words out of content.
Plus good for Mr. O'Keefe for being dishonest about what the event was going to be in order to preform some good old "Gotcha Journalism". What a very Christan way to behave.
For real?
Thats your paltry defense?
Please! If anyone is trying a spin job, its you, OKeefe and that bizarre fusion of media and right-wing politicians to which you are so sheepishly beholden.
Search the interviews NPR did with Dick Army or ANY of the Tea Baggers. You will be very surprised to see just how courteous and accommodating NPR has ALWAYS been with the political right.
I challenge you to find even ONE time when NPR reporters had unfairly maligned or dismissed the Tea baggers.
In fact, i would say NPR is TOO accommodating to the hard right.
For you, NPRs decades of service boils down to a few sound-bytes sold to you by a repeated liar, a convicted criminal, and a total weirdo pervert who thinks date-rape and abduction are funny. You never listened to NPR, and with respect to this smear, you actively refuse to know better.
Having never listened to NPR, you, like the rest of the baggers, have no idea what its reporting is like or how they convey news. You have no idea just how well they treat their guests regardless of their political background (again listen to the interviews with Dick Army, Karl Rove, and the rest of those nazis, and try your darndest to find something that makes NPR seem unfair.)
Unlike your masters at Fox, NPR treats its guests like GUESTS, not like targets. They dont chase guests away the way Beck or Hannity or Orielly would.
Thats the reason they fired Juan Williams. They cant afford to have him botch their interviews with Muslim guests (because when you have so much news coming out of the Middle east, those prejudices mean you have less sources to call upon.)
That dedication to excellence is also why NPR forbade their employees to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity (something that seems to be missing in this conversation).) If they really were the big lefty cess-pool about which you fantasize, they would have been all over the event. But to do so would compromise their integrity, and so they forbade it.
By contrast, Fox actively funds and hypes Becks Rallies, and the first Tea Parties after Obamas election were all coordinated by Fox News. its not news, its a dishonest political action committee.
This attempt by Okeefe will simply not work, because far too many Americans know what a perverted liar he is.
And even more KNOW what good work NPR really does.
You should do yourself a favor, and not trust a juvenile delinquent who thinks its perfectly okay to seclude and film the sexual humiliation of a private citizen for political copy.
The problem some have on the right is npr feels free to "aggressively dig into funding" when it's the right but cry foul when the right "aggressively digs to cut their funding" for biased reporting and slanted views.
Schiller said himself npr can survive without the Federal 3%. Everyone else is tightening belts in these tough time...it's high time npr did the same.
Cut federal funding of npr now.
Can you direct me to it please?
DISTRACTION!
Once again, we see the wealthy power mongers in this country trying to deflect attention away from the elephants in the room.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
You sir, are a tool and are being used.
This whole exercise is nothing about belt-tightening and everything about getting rid of anything that even remotely threatens their piggish way of life, their selfish worldview.
Well, everyone except the top 3 percent of wage earners.
Remember, the Right made a very obstinate point to ensure that the wealthiest Americans, and the most reckless private companies, will never have to worry about a loosing a single penny.
They even saw tax cuts for the wealthy as a bigger priority than compensation for 9-11 responders, (in fact, keeping the later issue hostage to the former.)
The Koch Brothers and Rush Limbaugh are not tightening their belts.
Wall Street Bankers are not tightening their belts (quite the contrary, they are swimming in bonuses.)
No one at Fox News is tightening their belts... in fact, they are tossing fat wads of cash into the political campaigns of their own paid staff! (BTW, does the complete fusion of media with top-down, right-wing political directives -as clearly illustrated by Fox News- still constitute Big Government?)
Governor Walker cut taxes for larger Corporations in Wisconsin, costing the state billions, and has displaced all of the belt-tightening on to Middle class, hard working, tax paying citizens (complete with a draconian negation of basic workers rights.)
Hell, thanks to Citizens United, wealthy and private corporations now have more rights than your average Middle class American.
So no, not everyone is tightening their belts. The only people being made to tighten their belts are those most vulnerable.
Thanks to the right, those most priveleged (through power, money and influence) are actually letting out their seams.
WTF? Investigating the source of a groups funding is the same as trying to DEFUND another group? WOW!
And this is where you would provide somesort of proof to your calim regarding "biased reporting & slanted views"...
Well said.
Having lived within the orbit of NPR and PBS all my life, I find it hard to imagine the world without either.
NPR was my mothers milk for many years of morning and evening commutes. Nothing on radio is as calming and reassuring or as blandly informative. It is as unbiased as classical music....which would qualify it as boring and elitist to the infotainment crowd who sneer at so called high-brow programming. ("Is that what you pantywaist college-boys listen to?")
PBS and NPR are national treasures.
NPR Radio consistently delivers an excellent product. Dittoheads and Teabaggers refuse to recognize this.
But when the President of Fox News Roger Ailes publicly calls NPR executives Nazis, inflexible bigots and NPR journalists government-funded hacks, deeply offensive and clearly indicative of right-wing bias in Fox News news coverage, that means NOTHING. No no no. Fox News is fair and balanced. Move along nothing to see here
Squawks and Bippy are competing for all time highest Right Wing Authoritarian score. If you understand the personality type, you will understand the traits expressed (complete lack of logical faculties, incapable of learning once you threaten any part of their world view, unable to absorb rational ideas).
But please continue to pseudo-feed the trolls. It's pointless but the troll humiliation is enjoyable to watch. They ACTUALLY think they're winning the argument.
Among FoxNews and NPR who provides 'fair and balanced' news?
EXCELLENT point.
it does prove they both pretty biased though.
I challenge anyone to show a liberal or conservative bias in any of these shows.
All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Talk of the Nation Science, Weekend edition Sat and Sun are another matter altogether though.
These shows have more than enough left leaning reporting or on the lighter side an inherent liberal bias. Example; Gun control is always presented from the lefts perspective, in that more gun control is good, less gun control is bad. Never from the rights perspective, just enforce the thousands of gun control laws on the books.
I like npr as a rule. Listen almost daily. The Thistle and Shamrock ranks as one of my all time favorite shows on the radio. It is non-political though. Once you take that stand on one side of the divide then you lose federal funding. Plain and simple. npr should not receive one thin dime if they continue to bias and more to the point hire and promote leftist who then hire and promote and taint the product.
Cut federal funds to npr now.
Again TBone, you are making it clear that you have never listened to any of those shows... you probably just googled them with the hope that dropping some names might make your stance seem reasonable..., which it is not.
Not so long ago, Karl Rove was on Fresh Air promoting his book(or dont you rmemeber?) Go check out the transcripts for that interview, read it thoroughly and see if you can find the liberal bias in that interview.
I can assure you the entire conversation was a clean up job for Rove and an ad for his writings. As much as i love Terri Gross, she completely kowtowed to Karl and let him make his case.
If you were truly someone who listens to NPR daily, you must have heard that interview... can you show me exactly where the liberal bias was there?
If you truly listened to NPR, then you would have heard Dick Army discussing his own work on Talk of the Nation or All Things Considered. And you may have noticed that Army was able to make his case sans conflict or counterpoint.
I cant even fathom how you see Science Friday as leftist at all... what, is discussing dinosaur bones, subatomic structures or geological patterns a political issue to you? Or are you one of those people whose ears start to bleed when evidence of global warming is presented?
Also TBone, you still havent answered my question above (not that i am holding my breath... I am just curioius for your response.
You say that everyone is tightening their belts...
Well, what about the top 3 percent of wage-earners?
The GOP launched an aggressive campaign in order to ensure that the very wealthiest Americans dont have to tighten their belts at all.
In fact, the GOP even kept the 9-11 Responders Bill hostage to their agenda of keeping tax breaks for the very wealthiest Americans.
Scott Walker has just padded the pockets of wealthier corporations in Wisconsin, exacerbating the deficit and forcing teachers to take the fall (And thanks to Citizens United, those corporations now have more rights than even you do TBone!)
Big Business in Wisconsin isnt tightening its belt.
Wall Street isnt tightening its belt... hell, they are high-fiving bonuses all over the place.
Fox News isnt tightening its belt... its pouring millions into the PACs of its own paid staff, many of whom are actually career politicians for the GOP.
(and again TBone... does a total top-down fusion of right wing political directive with fanatically loyal media count as big government too?)
So Tbone, take a more thorough look at who is actually tightening their belts and who is letting out their seams.... then ask yourself how just or right that is.
And, as for your statement on NPR--- Why not actually try to locate that liberal bias of which you seem to be so certain? I cant name several specific instances in which NPR staff was more than accommodating to the right... I have offered you two.
The real reason the right claims liberal bias on NPR is simply that they dont want any civil discussion anymore.
They want to keep the country beholden to the hysteria of Glenn Beck, the smear campaigns of Andrew Breitbart, the unprofessional depravity of Fox News, the mendaciousness of James Okeefe (a date-raping creep who attempted to film the sexual humiliation of a private citizen),and the totally bigoted hypocrisy of Eric Cantor, Newt Gingrich, Peter King, etc...
On that note, be careful for what you wish for TBone... and tell the rest of the GOP that.
Remember, they once supported the Mujahadeen and the Saddam Hussein... until they realized that pouring so much energy into so much anger (as a political strategy) was blowing back in their faces.
Thanks to that same kind of reckless and thoughtless strategy, you now have a generation of kids who think its okay to film your neighbors, edit the film mendaciously for political copy, and then ruin the lives of innocent private citizens by smearing them online through the website of a professional arm of the Republican party.
(Didnt Orwell mention something about children being raised to spy on their neighbors for the sake of their political masters?)
Those kids are going to grow up, dear... just like the Mujahadeen grew up into the Taliban, and the Contradoras grew up into the very narco-terrorists who our country is fighting now.
Just like the hysterical insanity of Glenn Beck is becoming an uncontrollable liability for the right, The fall out from this behavior is going to become far more ugly than you can imagine, and all because you refused to teach your children well.
That should be I CAN name several instances in which NPR was more than accommodating to the right.
I gave you two, TBone.
The far right does not care about facts. The far right does not seek information to help they decide, they seek information which support what they want to belief is true, even if it has to be fabricated or falsely represented. If it supports what they want to belief then it is the truth and any attempts to correct the falsehood is what then become the lie.
In January, they fired Senior Vice President for News, Ellen Weiss, for the handling of the Williams affair. At the same time they killed the bonus for CEO Vivian Schiller for the same reason.
Now they've fired their chief fundraiser for stated bigotry...along with firing the aforementioned CEO...a pair of Schillers with one shot...good riddance.
It's time to cut the funding. In today's tough economic times it's not out of line for them to swallow a 10% cut in funding.
They did fire or make resign the other Schiller.
So in other words, you say NPR cleaned house back around the time of the Williams firing, and did so again here, and what is your complaint about them again?
Nothing.
NPR is the best news organization that this country has. Bar none. And when their people do wrong, they don't just sit on their hands, and do nothing. They take action.
BTW: Mr. Schiller was going to leave at the end of May. He was dismissed early. Yes, yes he was fired.
I found this on wikipedia. Took 10 seconds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding)
In 2009, NPR revenues totalled $164 million, with the bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants, contributions and sponsorships.[14] According to the 2009 financial statement, about 40% of NPR revenues come from the fees it charges member stations to receive programming. Typically, NPR member stations raise funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, and grants from state governments, universities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from direct government funding, 10% of their revenue from federal funding in the form of CPB grants, and 14% of their revenue from universities.[14][15] NPR receives no direct funding from the federal government.[16] About 1.5% of NPR's revenues come from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes. Now more money to fund the NPR network is raised from listeners, charitable foundations and corporations instead.
They take action huh? I'm still waiting on the "action" for Nina Totenberg. From her shameful comments of a US Senator to her dubious role in the Anita Hill hearings and cozy relationship with the liberal SCOTUS judges...
Yeah, npr takes action alright.
And anyone who has read any of the research and opinion polling on the tea party knows it has a lot of religious zealots in it. But I don't think the GOP has been taken over by the tea party yet.
As the Liberal Progressives try to contain the fallout from more of their blatant hypocrisy being exposed. Yes, the "many-times discredited" activist has once again exposed another ring of socialists determined to promote American declinism.
This is typical of the low achieving Liberal mind. It would rather bring down the only system its dependent personality can exist in. This in hopes that the alleged, but never proven, intelligentsia of the Left will somehow suport them with their projections and nothing else.
Hopefully the new resurgence of intelligent and cohesive debate that the Conservatives and TEA Party can offer will reform many of the lost and pathetically delusioned Liberal Progressives. If not then they will need to be relegated to the scrap heap of imbeciles so well represented by the Left.
Wow, you really have absolutely no sense of self-awareness. You are one sad an pathethic individual.
Keep reading and soon, as you get your social security check, you'll be reading well enough to know how little your pathetic existance is really worth.
I'm distressed by this constant reminder that republicans care nothing for facts. Instead words carry the burden of reality to them. There is no evidence that can be mustered to show that NPR programming has a liberal bias but If one guy (who otherwise would be called a liar for saying the sky is blue) states something they think supports their belief, then suddenly his word is all the proof they need.
And you have the balls to accuse me of not caring for the facts? You Liberal Progressives are so pathetic you dont even realize it. Your deluded Liberal parents or your self-aggrandizing elitist professor convinced you of what to think. Your obvious inability to think independently is why you beg for the nanny-state that Barrack promises you and you cluelessly accept as your ultimate destination in life.
Here are your "facts",,,,,
NPR’s Nina Totenberg telling the host of PBS’s Inside Washington that if there was “retributive justice†in the world the (admittedly loathsome) Jesse Helms would “get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.†Totenberg is still NPR’s legal affairs correspondent.THIS is your self incrimination. You can't argue these facts yet you'll brazenly, and as usual mindlessly, support the "lack of liberal bias"!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
You are further than delusional, you are programmed into the Liberal mindset of hate, fear, racism and lies yet you have no way to comprehend it. This is your pity. This is your sorrow.
I can only reassure you that I will pray for your restoration and hope God will have mercy on those corrupting you.
Oh my God, like you Liberal Progressives don't use any insults or put downs, which by the way, Einstein, are the same thing.
As you hypocrites berate, curse and use any perjorative possible and think its so cute we laugh at your idiotic embarrassing displays.
Projection suits Liberal Progressives very well, just like incompetence suits Barrack.
Its like he thinks he is composing pure poetry, when its really so disjointed and confused... I actually find it entertaining.
Its almost like when OKeefe was giving another delusional speech, and thought he was really hitting it out of the park by describing his work as the Nadir of morality (perhaps the only honest thing that chump has ever said.)
USABogue appears to be subsisting at that level of cluelessness, but he writes like he thinks every word is solid gold. I mean, its pretty funny for all that.
In the immortal words of Ms. E.V. Mystique (probably before your time, USABogue), you should have listened to your mother when she told you to get an education!
(yes, I am putting him down..., but only because he makes it so easy.)
You teabaggees are getting so much easier to use, and the best part is you don't even realize it. But keep patting yourselves on the back, and maybe try posting some neat songs online like your limited brethren do on Huff-N-Puff post when they are engaged in less than meaningful debate. Which is essentially most of your drivel.
(yes, I'm putting you down, just in case you didn't realize it)
Liberals, so easy.
If the sound of someone talking with way too much popcorn in his mouth were put to print, I guess it would look like your last post.
Its just an observation, not a judgment. Get some help with that, and stay in school.
Thats a really poor defense to be hyped with such flourishing bravado (and awful English to boot!)
You really have NO idea why Nina Totenberg would have said what she did, do you?
Nor can you understand why she is absolutely correct. You dont have to be on the left or on the right to acknowledge the truth of what Totenberg is saying.
The bare fact is that if retributive justice really existed as a force of nature, Jesse Helms (or someone close to him) really would have AIDS. That is, IF retributive justice really existed; I think Totenbergs suggestion is that it doesnt.
Regardless, her model with Helms is absolutely correct.
The only reason why you cant understand that is that you are too young, too brainwashed or just too out of touch with the real history behind Jesse Helms. Your statement only says that you dont know what people suffering with AIDS had to deal with 20 or 30 years ago.
You have no idea what merciless and inhuman miseryHelms and his supporters aggressively inflicted upon people who were dying with the disease. You have no clue about the overt and reckless hatred, and the attempt to shape that hysterical hatred into public policy.
Are you okay with badgering and harassing people that are dying?
Are you okay with putting such angry effort into making sure that the last breaths of your fellow human being are as humiliating and punishing as possible?
Because that is EXACTLY what Mr. Helms and the people in his camp did to people dying from AIDS back in the 1980s.
Go ahead Bogue, ask me how I know!
What kind of mercy would any real god show to that kind of behavior? (Certainly, any god who would support it is really the most hideous and depraved demon.)
Now, find someone who lost a loved one to HIV in the 1980s... but not someone on the net.
Go see a real human being, rather than a digitized sound-byte fabricated by a paid reactionary delinquent.
There are AIDS hospices all over the country. Go see those people and talk to them (WWJD? Really?)
Go meet someone who death-by-AIDS has actually touched, especially if it happened in the 1980s.
Talk to her or him, and then ask yourself why Nina Totenberg may have said what she did. If it doesnt make sense to you after that, then you are far more out of touch and cold-hearted than you already seem.
Ninas statement is just a simple observation of facts.
And another thing; get past the whole grandiose wish-i-were-a-thespian shtick. You come across as quite the legend-in-your-own-mind with all those misfires at 5 and 10 dollar words.
But its not only unconvincing, it makes one feel embarrassed for you. It a lousy frame for a very poor command of the English language as well. I hope you dont try to pull that in close company.
Again, just a statement of facts.
I'm almost impressed there little kitty. You certainly are full of yourself aren't you?
Just so you understand, I am a retired physician who did indeed have a family member die of HIV Kaposi Sarcoma. But I'm sure your delusional Liberal mind "THINKS" you know what that means because you read about it on PMSNBC or Mother Jones or Mediamatters,,,,,ooooooooo so educated aren't you Liberals. Never been outside of your neighborhood but you will sit here and berate others who don't believe in your pathetic propaganda or imitation of a president.
I have seen more pain and suffering in my life than you can ever dream of in your pathetic closed mind of social justice and collective dependence. You're an embarrassment and you don't even realize it. Common sense real Americans pray for lost and dysfunctional souls like you who think because some impudent journalist went off on someones grandchild they have a clue. Nina Totenberg, regardless of her claims or purpose, is a pig for making such a statement. Only you heartless, unconditioned, home-bound Liberals would accept her stupidity because it agrees with your socialist agenda.
Again, just a statement of facts.
No one who ever passed 10th grade would write like you do.
Ever hear the expression, diggin it deeper? Take a lesson champ... and again, stay in school.
Are you okay with badgering and harassing people that are dying?
Are you okay with the angry effort which Helms and his henchmen poured into making sure that the last breaths of your fellow human being were as humiliating and punishing as possible?
And also, what do you think a real god would say about the behavior exhibited by Helms, and those who follow his example?
As a supposed physician who supposedly knew people with KS, what do you think of that.
(and btw, just to remind you again, its very obvious that you are lying... no one is buying it. I wouldnt expect anything less for some sorry sap unfortunate enough to believe James oKeefe.)
Your projections and Saul Alinsky tactics won't work any longer. Your lies are obvious and your veiled attempt to disguise them with your self proclaimed knowledge is just,,,,laughable. Go listen to more of Totenbergs, Schillers, Matthews, Madcows and other second rate pundits and enjoy how sad your life truly is.
Embrace your Mediamatters hypocrisy and ask uncle George for more money to support your hapless existance, it's all you'll ever achieve.
Okay, see that right there? That whole sorry never proved thing?
Congrats champ!!!!
You have just exposed how young and inexperienced you really are (an admission which truly continues to make everything else you say completely unbelievable; and rather comical with their desperate theatrical flourishes.)
Never mind your truly cruddy English; at this point you really have made it clear that you have absolutely no clue (let aone first hand experience) about this subject.
The cruel aggression which Helms mobilized against people with HIV is not something that needs to be proved.
Its something which anyone over 35 would remember quite clearly, okay? (How old are you really? 12?)
You dont have to pretend that you are a retired physician to remember how Helms treated people with HIV, nor the crest of hatred and sadism on which he soared so gleefully.
Criminy, its like saying that you need to prove that the Unabomber existed!
That chapter in like life of this country is a living memory that even Helms would acknowledge.
Sorry retired Dr. Bogue, you really stuck your foot in it there.
There is a saying that if you give a criminal enough rope he will hang himself (like OKeefe did with Abbie Boudreau or NOLA)... and I am sorry to say that you really have proven the same truth about chumps who rely on lies to make fallacious ideological points.
Now hurry back to class champ, it almost Spring Break!
And please do drop the whole powdered-wig speak, it is just embarrassing for you.
Read The Authoritarians dipstick. IT IS peer reviewed and the studies have been repeated in other independent studies. I'm sorry, I can guarantee that your scientifically illiterate. Look for "peer reviewed" science that has been published in reputable journals. Cr@p, you're certainly in denial about science too. Well, never mind mental midget.
Notice how these traits are so offensive to Right Wing Authoritarians that they continuously project them onto their targets?
Add "lemming, Kool-aide Drinker, puppets . . . " to your tirade buddy. Sadly, these monikers are only accurate when describing your RWA pathology.
Beck has his perfect storm and USAJoke is my definition of a perfect storm:
*Right Wing Authoritarian score of over 135+
*Completely Tweeked out on Methamphetamines
*Delusions of being a physician
*Vitriolic partisan hate (can you feel me?)
*Probably armed
Get some professional help.
But keep listening to the wanna-be voices of Matthews, Madcow, Olderman (oops, sorry that one has to still hurt, him getting fired twice in one year) and any other blathering I'm sure you'll stay mesmerized.
Brain dead.
"Your feined education is apparent from the absolute collapse this administration has caused in our nation."
You're a physician?
Bulls#it!
Liar!
You're great at World History also aren't you pinhead. Well let's see. All I have to show is one country where Liberal Progressive policies have "worked" to disprove your whole premise?
How about:
Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, England, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada . . .
You are about as sharp as a bowling ball, USAmoron.
Go troll somewhere where people are as stupid as you are - How about Faux, or better yet TheBlaze. You don't have what it takes to play here, imbecile.
Psssst, your vitriol is showing teabaggee (you do know what a teabaggee is don't you? of course you do and you enjoy when we teabag you don't you?).
Didn't your messiah Barrack talk to you children about trying to go an hour without your ingrained Liberal Progressive hatemongering, racism, fear and lack of anything resembling intelligence?
If you love socialism in your example countries so much why don't you do mankind a favor and just move there instead of polluting our great Federal Constitutional Republic with your socialist xenophobia? Better yet why don't you move to Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal or other IMF dependent nation.
Oh, by the way, you do know that your coveted England is in a financial crisis worse than ours don't you? Of course you don't. And isn't Japan in their second "lost decade" of Keynesian incompetence and malfeasance? You wouldn't know.
Your envy of those more intelligent and more rational is expected yet your defense of yourself is just more contemptable. I'm sure your Liberal Arts degree is much more important in your deluded self-aggrandizing nature as the only one in your family to have completed an on-line education.
Congratulations. But when you finally achieve the status a physician receives you'll learn all about responsibility. Alas, your inability to ever achieve anything that isn't given to you by the nanny state is evidence of your small contribution to society.
Its not like that wasnt a long-lived and very explicit controversy, or anything like that, right?
Maybe our physician was in surgery for the entire decade.
I think he must be rather young, and probably on a bunch of perscription mood-altering substances.
Answers for some of your ranting:
"you do know what a teabaggee is don't you?"
How do you know I'm not gay and enjoy the lifestyle? It does show that YOU are a homophobe. How do you know how to perform a sexual act that you seem to be obsessed with? I didn't mention teabagger or teabagging. Is that a homosexual advance on your part? Usually homophobes have homosexual fantasies that they can't resolve. Are you a Log Cabin Repug? Anyway, I'm not really interested, I don't like where your soul is. Thanks for the offer anyway.
I'm sure now that awizard2u nailed you as a mindless 16 year old.
Your high school failed to teach you about what socialism is; please revisit that class.
Back to watching Glenny my boy, you didn't get the full package. Nevertheless, I shall treat you with apathy as deserving the troll you are.
Goodbye Dr. Troll, I bet your specialty is proctology and you're your own biggest client and specimen.
You Liberal Progressives are so cute. Projection is not a flattering trait to embrace as much as you all do.
Yes, I will watch Glenn because I can verify everything he states.
Unfortunately you can't do the same for your talking bobble-heads on PMSNBC and Menialmatters.
Just ask Olderman,,,oops, I'm sorry, that had to hurt.
Ewww, I got it. Your last post was entirely subdued because my last one hit too close to home. I was just trying to point out that your homophobic taunt was inappropriate for many reasons.
I believe you're here for auto-flagellation from the members here to satisfy your deep self-loathing due to your sexual orientation which explains your rabid vitriolic posts. You are singularly exemplar in your blind vehemence for anything that isn't extreme right wing because they share your disgust for people like you. I can picture you as a BYU sophmore who has undergone, at a minimum, one aversion therapy session. Now that you are having those urges again you must seek out a forum that will reciprocate the deep disgust that you have for yourself.
I am not here for this purpose for you and you shouldn't feel the need to do this to yourself. Surround yourself with people who will support you for the actual person you are not the facade.
You have my deepest sympathy and I'm sure Cats and others here feel the same way. You need to network with people who have similar desires and orientations. It is not unnatural despite what you've been tortured to believe.
Best wishes to you,
Jagarundi
Cats, he has a deeper pathology than we originally established - Be kind.
Stay in school champ.
I can hear your snivel Spanky.
After finally putting to rest the fact that Liberal Progressives are so easy to defeat in debate I must leave this discussion as the undisputed victor.
In my years of debating Liberals I find it similar to shadow boxing, after 15 minutes I realize two undeniable truths.
1. I'm tired.
2. I always win.
Once again, thank you for your inadequate and clumsy attempts at knowledge, it just proves the lack of independent thought and sustainable argument.
Like i said, you have absolutely no sense of self-awareness. If you weren't such an obnoxious dick, it would be sad.
If not, the nanny state, so embraced by the Left because of their lack of personal pride and independence, will persist and just create more hardship for the real Americans who want it corrected.
Unfortunately I can tell you don't have a real family, otherwise you wouldn't be here embarrassing yourself with such nonsense.
You have mounted absolutely no defense of your positions.
When was the last time NPR was referenced by any other media outlets for outstanding journalism or reporting of things not covered by other media outlets? Why is it that the only time one hears about NPR is when they go through yet another public relations fiasco?
Everyone knows that the right wing is hell bent on destroying public broadcasting-anything that serves the common good is under continuous attack and has been for many years now. Pandering to those who would de-fund you right out of existence does not make for journalistic integrity. And that is EXACTLY how this move will be seen.
I lived abroad for 15 years until recently and when I started listening to NPR again, as I had for many years, many years ago, I could hardly recognize it. NPR which right-wingers brand as "liberal media" has moved so far to the right- far more so than the population at large - as to be almost unrecognizable. NPR has a nasty habit of confusing reporting with verbatim repetition of beltway rhetoric, without even a hint of critical reflection.
Let's face it: NPR is virtually the last vestige of anything remotely intellectual in American public life, at least as far as radio broadcast goes. The waves of anti-intellectualism which have been drowning our collective culture for the last 30 odd years has reduced our body politic to such a degree that substantive discussion of issues facing our society is nearly impossible-not completely, but the absence thereof is the hallmark of all things in the so-called MainStream Media. NPR, of course, has not been immune to these developments. The proportion of "fluff" reporting in contrast to investigative reporting of pressing societal issues has skewed over the years ever more towards the prize of "infotainment".
The answer to the right-wing attack on public broadcasting is NOT to go on the defensive, justifying actions and firing people or publicly broadcasting the code of behavior that NPR expects of its employees. The answer is to become relevant-something that people do not want to do without, regardless if one agrees with them or not. NPR's stories should be stories covered by the rest of the media, not due to their embarrassing nature, but due to their journalist excellence. No other media form can compete with public radio when it comes to the potential for in-depth reporting. NPR doesn't have a commercial break every 90 seconds, not everything has to be reduced to buzzwords, catch-phrases and talking points.
NPR was vulnerable to this attack by the likes of O'Keefe because it has been running away from itself, self-defensive, self-justifying, and weak. Being more than a mouthpiece for beltway rhetoric takes spine, particularly when you are dependent on government funds. But having spine earns you respect, far more so than pandering to those who control your purse strings. In journalism spine is speaking truth to power.
Go ahead NPR give the right-wingers a real reason to hate you and in so doing you might just find enough support from the public at large to quell this continuous fear and intimidation tactic once and for all, which the right has used against you thus far. Bite the hand that feeds you, at least occasionally, otherwise no one will be there to defend you.
Although back to his comments, what he said may not have been PC but it wasn't a lie, and as pointed out here it didn't reveal anything, sinister or otherwise, at all about NPR.
Funny how the righties are always obsessed with mocking PC-ness on the left, but can't stand hearing some raw comments.