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.
If my tax dollars are going to be forced from me to pay for radio, where is my input? How about NPR with a daily stretch of Fred Thompson followed by the IMAO podcast? Better than anything they have on now.
Instead of a ministry of Political Coreectness and Love, how about the Ministry of Hippie Face Punching? Far more practical.
Um, hey NPR? Juan Williams was on Fox News. Doesn’t that say SOMETHING about the objectivity of THEIR network to ask a moonbat to be on the network? When was Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, or Michelle Malkin last on NPR? Remind me, please?
Fact-based?
Fact-based??
NPR is the Mack truck at 60MPH, facts are the flock of baby ducks. SQUASH.
Yep, that’s NPR, Fair and Balanced. They report BOTH the communist and the socialist side of EVERY issue.
“Come and see the Tolerance (TM) Inhereent in the system!”
@Raving: Tee hee, hee hee.
Foiled again. Treacher beat me to the bit about liberals claiming that Fox is biased but then don’t want anyone who shares their viewpoints to appear on Fox. I know it’s fashionable to say it, but I’ve always liked Juan. Well, sometimes I had to stop liking him for a few moments, but you get the picture.
So, here’s my original observation, which I originally made just now. Did anyone catch Rove on O’Reilly last night? He was furious, and you could tell he was sincere because his entire face and dome were red (I kid you not). I’ve never seen him so angry. That said, is there a single conservative whom liberals would support in the same way were that conservative to be fired from, let’s say, MSNBC?
Fellow employees do not morn the departure of the thought criminal Williams, he was well aware of the penalties for voicing thoughts that run counter to the prevailing opinions demanded of NPR employees. Obviously he committed thought crime…and as everyone knows it’s doubleplusgood to root out thought criminals. Make no mistake, he is guilty of crimethink…that is, he had a heretical thought…a thought diverging from the principles of NPR, and thoughts like that should be literally… unthinkable….G. Soros, owner, NPR
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Say what you will about NPR, but you can’t find a more hilarious radio station. They take themselves so seriously and yet somehow can’t see the forest for all the rainbows and unicorns.
I also listen to NPR constantly. The station I have been listening to is almost totally classical, and has no bias.
Instead of ending the subsidy for NPR, maybe we should resurrect Air America?
Wait, that would be stupid.
Classical music, OK.
Prairie Home Companion, OK.
Click and Clack, the tappet brothers, OK.
News and Commentary… FAIL!
This and O’Reily’s dust-up on the View the other day may be the beginning of the end for Politically Correct (spits on the ground) Speech in America. (I hope.)
If the Corporation for Public Broadcasting loses taxpayer funding they will still have Foundations looking for a non-Religious (in the sense of worshiping God) place to put tax-exempt dollars, so I think we can still count on our classical music. I might even donate if it went only to my local station and not to the Corporation for Public Indoctrination. #13 4of7, I am old enough to remember when Garrison Keillor was really funny, not just an embittered old man. Also, I must admit that NPR has the best sound fidelity since Captain Kangaroo back in the black-and-white days. Amazing. You could hear every crunch as he cut construction paper with safety scissors. Anyone else willing to admit they remember that? Or that we were patient enough to watch and listen?
“NPR’s values emphasizing fact-based, objective journalism”
BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA! Thanks for the laugh, NPR!
Raving Lunatic wrote, “Come and see the Tolerance (TM) Inhereent in the system!”
ROFLMAO! Brilliant!
You don’t need to pay for Trotskites to hear Tchaikovsky. WCPE http://www.theclassicalstation.org is a way above average classical station that is 100% listener supported. You can listen to their streaming at http://www.theclassicalstation.org/internet.shtml. They provide royalty free feed for local stations via satelite at no charge. For all I know, they could be far to the left of Che or to the right of Atilla. Thankfully they stick to music. Let your local classical station know they can cut loose from NPR.
#14 – granny boo,
Oh yeah, Capt. Kangaroo!
I never would have know how many things one could make from an old Quakers Oats box if not for him!
Do you remember how the theme music would stop the second he hung his key ring on the hook?
I thought it was magic!
Mr. Moose and his fixation on ping pong balls, Mr. Bunny Rabbit, the bespectacled carrot thief, Mr. Green Jeans, the magic drawing board, and Story Time! Yay! Story Time!
(Nostalgic sigh) 😉
Garrison who?
4o7– let’s use this as a personal nostalgia fest.. i would love to get some dvds of the real Captain Kangaroo to see if my step-grandboys would be as entranced a i was… i don’t hear violins in the theme music of the shows they ask to watch… oh, the ping-pong balls! good times, good times! do you remember Stone Soup?
#19 – Granny Boo,
“Do you remember Stone Soup?”
Know it? I’ve made it!
(only we called it mustgo soup – you just look in the fridge and say, “This must go, and this must go, and this must go…)
How about Tom Terrific?
And Mr. Green Jeans playing a base fiddle like a ‘gee-tar’? Only he wore a beard and called himself something else, I can’t remember what. Was he also Mr. Bainter, the painter?