NPR Fact Check

About that “NPR’s values emphasizing fact-based, objective journalism” thing…

Fred Thompson offers some clarification:

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I’m So Awesome!

I hadn’t written a column in a little while because I was busy with baby stuff, so I was really hoping to knock one out of the park with my latest one. And it’s probably been my most popular piece so far. It’s got thousands of “Likes” on Facebook — which I’m pretty sure is a lot — and the Wall Street Journal Best of the Web wrote this about it:

“…for our money is the most astute political analysis we’ve read all year…”

That’s right; my analysis is “astute.” I looked that up on the Wiktionary, and it’s a pretty good thing. It means I’m like bestest super smart pundit number one.

Anyway, I thought I’d use this post to give you, the readers of IMAO, something I know you’ve been dying for: A place to tell me how awesome I am. So get in the comments and pour forth your hearts.

DO IT NOW!

Is Nancy Pelosi Out of Touch with Reality?

About this upcoming election, Nancy Pelosi said, “I would rather be in our position right now than theirs.” You ever get the idea that maybe she’s not living in reality? To add to it, here are some other statements she made:

OTHER STATEMENTS BY NANCY PELOSI

“There will be one clear message in November: More stimulus, please!”

“Our first order of business after the election will be to build a monument to commemorate the passing of Obamacare.”

“Anything less than the Democrats gaining sixty more seats in the House will be considered a disappointment.”

“On November 3rd, Harry Reid, Obama, and I will meet with top mountain carvers so they can get started on the next Mount Rushmore.”

“What I keep hearing from voters is, ‘Wow! Look at all these jobs! It’s almost too many! Please stop making so many jobs, Pelosi.'”

“Tea Parties. I hear your concern. We’ll get single-payer health care as soon as we can.”

“Our economic plan is going to do even better than we predicted because we have top leprechaun accountants working on it.”

“The only problem we’ll have this election is building enough stables to hold all the unicorns happy voters will reward us with.”

“I am not a witch.”

The Orwellian NPR

So the NPR ombudsman (no where near as entertaining as the Red Eye ombudsman) wrote a long article explaining the firing of Juan Williams. It’s a lot of nonsense, but I’d like to focus on this one paragraph:

Instead, this latest incident with Williams centers around a collision of values: NPR’s values emphasizing fact-based, objective journalism versus the tendency in some parts of the news media, notably Fox News, to promote only one side of the ideological spectrum.

So, they got rid of the only guy who wasn’t completely in lockstep with the other fringe leftists to make sure they aren’t ideologically tilted. Can you get anymore Orwellian than that? Except maybe if NPR’s only black guy and only one who diverged a little intellectually was fired by the “Ministry of Diversity”.

So NPR is a bunch of moron weirdos with the kind of thickheaded stupid you have to work hard at each day to sustain, and that’s okay. Just it’s ridiculous any of our taxpayer money should go to sustain these guys whose political views belong in a freak show. I don’t know how anyone could actually justify that other than one of these losers, so hopefully Congress will finally do the sensible thing. It’s only fair; liberals like “fair”, right?

Here’s more from Treacher, including a racial slur aimed at Juan from a leftist. If you want to see some racism, easiest way is to get a minority to disagree with a white liberal.

Random Thoughts

In a Muslim country, you could be arrested just for quoting Sir Francis Bacon.

In a Muslim country, anyone separated from Kevin Bacon by two degrees or less is executed.

I guess NPR decided conservatives didn’t have enough issues to get them angry and motivated to vote.

Maybe with Bush becoming more popular in light of Obama, I should start pimping my book again. It’s one of the top one million books on Amazon!

Q. What do you call Oliver Willis flying through the air like Superman?
A. An overhead projector.

Angry Birds taught us a truth I assume farmers knew for years: It’s fun to watch large structures collapse around pigs.

Interesting the reaction from a lot of the left to Juan Williams being fired. I think Jonah Goldberg wrote a book on this subject…

Strategically, might be better to wait for a Senate takeover in 2012 along with giving Obama the boot. If GOP has both House and Senate, Obama might be able to play off that for reelection if he’s smart (which he probably isn’t, but still).

CW was that a Senate takeover wasn’t possible this year because of relatively low number of D seats in the mix. Pretty amazing if it happens.

Can’t we just even things out with NPR and have tax payers pay 2% of Glenn Beck’s and Rush Limbaugh’s salaries?

I have a hypothesis: Babies love being tickled. I shall go collect data.

A seller on Amazon has my book for $999. If you want to pay that much, please buy directly from me.

Some people, like those at NPR, have a sort of stupid you have to work hard at every day to obtain.