HULK SMASHED
3xs in one day. Whooo.
Doughy Pantload. Gross.
oh well
As I mentioned somewhere below: I've stopped listening on Saturdays.
and I only listen on weekday mornings until the local Pacifica puts up the BBC World Service.
NPR used to rival BBC for nearly-objective journalism. No longer.
Damn you spinoza.
I had the radio on this a.m. Heard it. He had to mention how many good things were going on in Iraq that were not being reported.
And if New Orleans gets a direct hit, that could be really, really bad.
Let's all hope not.
Meh. I just listen to the headlines. I wake up just about in time for the morning "Marketplace", and I usually determine to be up and about by the time Steve'n'Renee start blethering. OTOH, Morning Edition did have a good series on the consequences of America's addiction to fossil fuels on Nigerian oil reserves...
meanwhile, the poodle threatens to give the walrus a nasty nip. Developing...
Bleah. Shouldn't Senor Doughy Pantsload have refused to compromise his principles by appearing on that Communist network?
These wingnuts are bizarre -- the "MSM" is "liberal," but they just loooove it when they get these prestigious mini-gigs, where they preen like pudgy little roosters.
Academia's pretentions are to be sneered at, but they take a childish delight in giving each other mock-academic titles in their ridiculous think tanks -- Senior Fellow Chair of Dean at the Heritage Wankation.
Gits.
Goldbug was so inarticulate, silly and clumsy that I hope he becomes the regular spokesboy for the right
You know it's Opposite Day, don't you? So it's ok to put on a total tool of the right and say he's subbing for the liberal.
Geez, your intolerance is showing! [/snark]
You know what, maybe the feds should pull the plug on NPR. Keep PBS but NPR bye bye.
Ooops. Wrong thread. Excuse-moi!
Hey, just 'cause you are incompetent and evil doesn't mean you don't deserve radio time!
Things really ARE getting as bad as we think they are, aren't they.
Goldberg should be dropped into a pool at SeaWorld, and small children should be encouraged to launch tiny harpoons at him.
I can't remember the last time Juan Willimas conducted a good interview? He's a shill to the max.
Wrong punctuation. oops.
Thanks for the link Thealogie. Yup, Bolton's doing exactly what Bush wants him to do.
Does anyone else remember seeing an old clip of GHW Bush from the 60's bashing the UN in almost the same words used today? I saw it in January, in the lead up to the inauguration. Cannot for the life of me remember which network showed it, but I think it was one of the cable news networks.
Anyone know a good station for hearing the commentary from Test cricket? With England and Australia going hammer and tongs to win the Ashes, it's really pretty entertaining.
TheaLogic-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/...and/
4190216.stm
Here's a link TheaLogie.
Here's an acronym:
Never
Pickin' up a
Rifle
WHAT???
Daniel Schorr -- missing!!?? Replaced by pod person??
Great. Another reason NOT to listen to NPR. Short of Terry Gross and Car Talk, I'm running out of reasons. Air America, Bill Press, etc. are too good. The last thing I want to hear on public radio is the angry right accusing us of being the angry left.
Why, thank you sir.
I'm tired of writing NPR, getting nothing back in response and seeing them slip further and further down into the MSM abyss. It's not even a matter of assholes like goldberg, it's their objectivity, at one time it was at least arguable, now, it's gone. Their reporting on Cindy Sheehan has been indistiguishable from MSNBC. That's sad.
Another casualty of the rethug takeover; NPR.
What's pathetic are the NPRistas more in love with their Volvos than their integrity--no one's willing to speak out.
I expect something from Garrison Keillor soon--he's bullet-proof.
I liked JG's conclusion that all those nasty statisticians keep leaking data that disproves the administration's HappyWorld press releases because they want to embarass Bush. Of course, if the reports were actually based on facts, leaked data wouldn't be particularly embarassing, because it would bolster -- rather than contradict -- the conclusions of the report.
It just nakes me sick.
WNYC, New York City’s public radio station, had a segment on Intelligent Design. Brian Lehrer had three callers chatting together (they must have been passing time waiting for Sean Hannity’s show to start) promoting the teaching of Intelligent Design in science classes since I.D. is a theory just like Evolution is a theory. It was excruciating radio. Are they so naïve to think that they can get the right to stop attacking them? They will just lose their core audience and never get donations from the Hannity/Limbaugh listeners.
Goldberg replaces Schorr?! I think not.
Wow, I sent that flying into a mountain.
"makes me sick"
I think NPR acts responsibly when the editors include voices from all sides, but it's also their responsibility to be just a tad more selective. There's nothing censorious about choosing who's articulate and has something worthwhile to say and who's an execrable moron.
I just got the same sick feeling I got the day of the OJ verdict, the day after the 2000 decision and the 2004 election!
I've been sitting here trying to think who, on the left, would be a counterpart to Young Goldberg. And I can't think of anyone who can ignore reality as well.
So, what do you all think? Who could we suggest that NPR bring on of a Saturday morning to give a truly Left spin to the week's happenings?
Of course, the Left doesn't have a central clearing house for approved spin, so commenters from the left would be using their own thinking, which might not "fit" the current narrative.
Seriously, who would be a counterpart to Goldberg? How loony Left would the person have to be?
Then, who would be a really good person to represent more leftward, liberal thinking?
Amy Goodman is too fact based, too much a member of the reality-based community to be a Jonah opposite; however, she would be truly refreshing and really good, IMHO. She has the experience and does radio quite well. Good TV, too. Rachel Maddock (sp?)? Steve Clemons? John Aravosis was really good in his Jimmy/Jeff appearances on cable.
Who can we suggest to NPR?
Because this Jonah appearance cannot go unremarked.
"promoting the teaching of Intelligent Design in science classes since I.D. is a theory just like Evolution is a theory"
Marx had theories too and unlike I.D. Marx actually did some rather impressive predicting with his.
Thealogie, I can't watch cricket. All those fine looking men in white excites me way too much. Being from the U.S. one forgets the effect that fit, normal sized men can have on you.
If those (American) football players get fatter we should forgoe the pads and spandex and just have group grope sumo.
NPR is to public radio as our medical insurance is to a real health care system. It doesn't work because it isn't meant to. Crush the infamous thing.
Why bother trying to reform NPR? If you have access to Air America, simply turn off NPR, stop donating money to it, and encourage all of your friends to do the same.
The conservatives have all of the right wing AM stations, plus the Christian stations. Let's focus on making Air America equally as strong by driving up its ratings, and shopping at its advertisers.
Patrick @ 11:39AM--Thank you for your comment! I listened to that segment and I nearly barfed! I used to love Brian Lehrer, but he does, I think, go way out of his way to accommodate Republican and right-wing callers. He will keep them on much longer than most liberal/left callers. He will take calls from one gun rights guy who calls repeatedly--just to get the right-wing comments on as "balance."
Last week, I could barely take the discussion of Cindy Sheehan. Some guy was saying it was terrible that she was taking advantage of her son's death to push her partisan agenda. He was kept on to talk to people who supported Sheehan's stand. (No one has been attacking the parents who got the Megan and Amber laws passed, BTW. that I'm aware of.)
Lehrer had started the segment by reading quotes George Will(!) had put in a column, and some from the "some say" source, all of which showed Sheehan in a poor light. He admitted he had not verified these quotes as being Cindy Sheehan's actual words!!!!
He defended this by saying that when he spoke the previous day with someone down in Crawford, another leader in the Gold Star Families for Peace organization, that person could not deny some quotes attributed to Sheehan. Well, d'uh, Brian.
That's why *you* use Google and Lexus/Nexus.
But, of course, on the left, we are all our brothers' and sisters' fact checkers and keepers.
Finally, a caller got on who read verbatim Sheehan's words, which showed that the sentences used by the columnist were taken totally out of context.
So I fired off an email reminding Brian of basic journalism standards.
"Some say." Sheesh. And aaarrrghhh!
Goldberg was actually pathetic today. He was obviously so eager and happy to have been selected to replace Dan Shore - he practically stumbled over his lines as he parroted them.
According to Jonah, it's the Sunnis that are in the catbird seat in Iraq. THEY are the ones who are going to make out best from the whole Constitutional fiasco.
If this is the standard Party line, then the NRO is truly in deep trouble.
However, the whole segment was worth the price of admission (in precious moments of life forever lost) just to hear Jonah's precious little giggle as they signed off.
WHYY's e-mail address for complaints seems to be:
talkback@whyy.org
nuff said
Dan
What that who I was listening too while half asleep? The guy cheerfully talking about the good news that reenlistments among those who were in the shit are up?
By the way, if there's a college student-run station in your area playing punk rock and weird stuff, give your money to them, not the NPR station.
How... totally disappointing.
"Nationalistic Proganda Republicans"
Jonah Golberg? Man, talk about affirmative action. They really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with his wingnut bona fides, huh?
"Nationalistic Propaganda Republicans"
Was he announcing his enlistment in the Army?
=
"Nice Polite Republicans"
There IS no such thing!
Jonah's precious little giggle as they signed off.
Oh...my...god!
I listened to an Australian radio phone-in on teaching ID in Australian schools. Best caller? Classic Aussie bloke, phones in and says:
'Look, mate, it's crap.'
And then explains why in technical detail.
What that who I was listening too while half asleep? The guy cheerfully talking about the good news that reenlistments among those who were in the shit are up?
Goldberg failed to mention the 30k they're being promised plus the fact that they're being told if they don't take the cash, they'd be called back anyway under stop-loss.
You tell me what you would do.
Oh, it was awful, and I only listened because the Air America station in LA was playing some infomercial. Thank God I was vacuuming so I couldn't hear it all. But there was Jonah saying we have to stay in Iraq because the terrists want us to leave, some guy pimping his book about how great Christopher Columbus was (breaking news! Columbus discovers America), a couple of goofballs singing a children's song about farting, and the inane story about the woman who sued her doctor for saying she was fat. Fox News takes to the radio!!!
Support your local community and student radio! As for Garrison, who knows? Maybe Air America could use some entertainment segments too...
Goldberg, barf, barf, barf. Totally unqualified except for the fact (I almost said fat) of his mother. Ten people off the street could do better for the right.
Please tell me it's just for one day while Dan is vactioning somewhere.
Does anyone know... is it permanent?
Goldberg embarrassed himself - he was inarticulate throughout and Simon had to tell him to say "thank you" at the end (hence the giggling). If he's on again it'll be because Tomlinson or one of his flunkies at CPB twisted somebody's arm.
I can't do Air America very often. Great content but commercials suck ass.
I agree with people above on supporting college radio. I came of age listening to WXDU and WXYC in NC (and WBER in Rochester, NY). These stations rock.
To puke or to punch something, that was the question.
I could hardly believe my ears, it was the equivalent of substituting a turd for a diamond. Phone your local outlet, especially if you're a member.
EEUWWW!!! Streamed KUOW from Seattle early this morning in NYS as our local NPR doesn't come on until 9:00...didn't realize WHO was talking as I was busy...did notice it wasn't Daniel...AND heard the nonsense about how the Sunnis would WIN either way it goes...bet they'll be glad to hear that! Yes, it had better be only while Daniel is away. Cause I'm not sure I can keep this XM radio even for AAR...which we love...but HATE XM...and, agree about all the commercials (not all AAR by the way). What's a gal to do??? Really pissed that AAR chose it over Sirius...so much better on all levels IMHO...
I sent a note to the NPR ombudsman, expressing my bewilderment at their giving Goldberg this unchallenged platform this morning.
Amazingly enough, I actually received a reply from Jeffrey Dvorkin. It appears he's having a bad day on this issue, because here is what he wrote:
"Did you listen yourself, or are you just outraged because a blog told you about it?"
Pretty sad, eh?
I'm finding myself in this dilemma: I want to support my local public radio stations, but I no longer want to fund the decline and fall of NPR news. What would y'all advise?
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