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  1. “that person might want to read this exposé by a 25-year veteran of NPR.”

    Is it really an exposé if it’s something any thinking person knows? I suppose it’s good that it comes from an insider, but why wait 25 years? He says it used to be different, and it’s gotten bad only in the last few years, but really it’s always been thus. I think this guy finally noticed it, and is just saying it used to be different as cover for his complicity.

  2. Biden loves America like I love that day toward the end of the month, when my Social Security check comes.

    Trump loves America like I love my wife and children… and America.

  3. Ok they are trying standup comedy right?

    The same applies to amnesia international

  4. Well the gist of their previous behavior was seen in that expose o keefe did a decade ago

  5. As an amateur stargazer im appalled at the singularity that is sheila jackson lee

  6. The other problem with the No Labels operation is that there already is a moderate, bipartisanship-minded political faction in the United States. It is called the Democratic Party.
    ==
    David Faris is either remarkably silo’d or has a remarkable capacity for artifice. Yes, he has a faculty appointment – at Roosevelt University (a private teaching institution in Chicago). Your tuition dollars at work.

  7. Amnesty International is now a special pleader for Satan.

    URI Berliner didn’t notice the NPR apolgetics for Islamists immediately after 9/11 (Daniel Schorr etc.) or the historical pro Soviet outlook during the 80s-90s? How could he being raised by a lesbian leftist? Now that the left is even more radical th
    an his mum, being ‘led’ by Brandon off the deep end, he notices something is off. ‘Guys, keep the indoctrination subtle and the lies less obvious. The rubes have noticed!’

  8. Hes a jelly donut i think strawberry

    Yes i went with the malaprop from the
    kennedy speech

    Yes national politburo radio has always been terrible

  9. Taking her at her later word (substituting sun for moon), what in hell makes her think “And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans could live on the moon. Are the gasses such that we could do that?” was any less stupid?

  10. Yale and uva are proud yikes

    Maybe she mixed it up wirh mars where she thinks we planted the flag

    I may not have agreed with late mickey leland but he wasnt an idiot

  11. Well JFK is reported by Snipes to have said

    Ich bin ein Berliner.

    I am a resident of Berlin, not a sumptuous item of baked goods.

    So Snipes has settled the pastry and can go back to fart checking satire.

  12. Depends where you put the umlaut i guess like the dieresis in spanish or the glottal stop in arablc

  13. If Lee believes that the moon is made of gasses, does that make her a Moon Landing Denier?
    __________

    “Institutionalism” seems to be about promoting the interests and desires of the bureaucracy, the entrenched political class, the media, the military, NGOs, and the corporate oligarchs. It doesn’t have much to do with the constitution or the traditions of the country. So it’s “institutionalism” versus “constitutionalism.”

    There was something to be said for the old 20th century American Establishment. It wasn’t wholly incompetent and it did seem to have some version of the national interest at heart. Its replacement has combined the vices of the old elite with some new ones of its own.

    At the start of this century, Norman Ornstein was preaching the gospel of “asymmetrical polarization,” the idea that Republicans had moved further to the right and Democrats remained more or less in the center. It was a biased point of view then, but it wasn’t manifestly absurd. Spouting the same idea now is. Nonetheless, it is true that the country doesn’t have room for three “institutionalist” parties (Democrats, McConnellite RINOs, and No Labelists).

    P.S. Biden had trouble today remembering what century this is and what century he was running as “The man of.” It’s not hard to think of Joe as a “Man of the 20th Century,” but people didn’t want him back then either.

  14. So with Biden’s college-debt ‘foregiveness’ (ie, transfer to other people), there can be two people working side-by-side in the same job, and the one who didn’t get a college loan..may have not gone to college at all…is required to subsidize the one who got an expensive college degree on credit.

  15. I have argued in somewhat conditional but nonetheless vehement terms, that if what liberals and progressives self report is true, then they are likely hardwired for human termite life and the offloading of the costs of their emotional and psychological dysfunctions onto others, under the mere guise of a so-called progressive moral ideology.

    Neo says a change of mind is a difficult thing. I have said that if we assume that progs have self insight and have been doing their due diligence in keeping informed that it follows as a grim fact that nothing will change their minds. Haidt’s moral sensibility research, and the data on both the heritabilty of mental and personality disorders and their greater percentages of occurance in liberal populations seemed to reinforce that conclusion. Write them off, let them die, there is no reasoning with them and they will never learn because data and experience don’t ever register.

    I would like nothing more than to be shown to be too pessimistic.

    Here is one apparent counter example, though I was always thinking of white people as I constructed my mental model.

    You may have seen this already though it seems to have been released only today.

    Trump visits a chicken joint in Georgia.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMj8VqNczSs

    The comments on the video are interesting.

  16. Was there anyone previously unaware of the leftist bias of NPR?

    Since the mid-70s, though it’s gotten steadily worse. Uri Berliner’s long article with its ‘wakeup’ only in 2020 shows how the groupthink acted as a warm bath for all the noble ‘news’ gatherers and producers. Were I the King, I’d fire half of its staff, replace them with articulate conservatives, allot 1/2 of each hour to each faction and let them go at it. They’d lose their support from all the lefty ‘non-profits’, but regain it in spades from all the non-lefties who’ve suffered for fifty years under that mandatory groupthink and those excruciating vocal stylings. And maybe the non-lefties would use good old U.S.A. English, and create a real debate.

  17. Wisconsin Public Radio used to have Old Time Radio Drama from 8:00-11:00 PM, on Saturday and Sunday nights. In 2020, the cancelled it, because Old Time Radio is racist, and substituted ” more inclusive” programming.

  18. }}} Biden even acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court told him that he didn’t have the power to do this but that he is doing it anyway.

    This is really no different that what Obama did with Solyndra, which was totally illegal — it benefited an Obama donor at the expense of the American people. And this was directly in contravention of the specific law in which Solyndra was given money.

    The fact that it was illegal was indicated to them by the DOE Chief counsel, the DOE’s “outside counsel”, AND the OMB.

    Nothing happened to anyone, and Obama’s major donor cleared out with almost a billion in illegally obtained tax credits.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20170707065530/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-donor-gained-nearly-1-billion-in-tax-credits-in-solyndra-bankruptcy/article/2536031

    When time comes to actually restructure things, one thing that needs to be put into place is an independent auditor/legal branch whose job it is to audit, sue, and prosecute government agents who violate the law in this manner. They should wind up destitute and probably in prison in many cases.

  19. }}} It was a biased point of view then, but it wasn’t manifestly absurd.

    Sorry, Abraxas. It was manifestly absurd even then. There is zero question that the majority of the left, by far, hated everything America stood for. They just weren’t as VOCAL about it then as they are these days.

    }}} Amnesty International is now a special pleader for Satan.

    This is not news. This has been the case for literally 40 years.

    }}} sheila jackson lee

    She’s managed to enshrine her Hank Johnson moment for all to see.

  20. It was 40 years ago that William Rusher was making the case that Amnesty International was run by poseurs. They used to be subtle about it. A milestone between then and now was reached in 2000 when a Philadelphia cop killer named Wesley Cook (a.k.a “Mumia Abu Jamal”) was declared a ‘prisoner of conscience’.

  21. What the left can teach the right about political power

    Closing the borders is good for the country and increases the likelihood that the right will win elections. Reducing crime and incarcerating criminals is good for the country and increases the likelihood that the right will win elections. Solving the student debt crisis by destroying the university stranglehold on employment is good for the country and increases the likelihood that the right will win elections. These issues may not offer the immediate catharsis that some activists seek, but by running and winning on these issues, the right gains power, and with power far greater change is possible.

    https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/what-the-left-can-teach-the-right-about-political-power

  22. If this were a Liam Neeson action-flick , the author of that Amnesty International post would be identified. Then, his friend(s) & relative(s) would receive the treatment that that soldier endured — with that A.I. author sitting close by, watching.

    But that’s just a script idea

  23. Had she been paying attention in school she would know that the moon is made of cheese.

  24. Was 55-57 when I first voted some 21 years ago, and I had noticed how left-wing NPR was for years before that – even tho didn’t really pay much attention to politics prior to GW Bush.

  25. That is why the left made sure to cancel the vote through strategic placed judges with prop 187 prop 229 sb 10 sb 4 etc etc

    So this effemdi daqua died a martyrs death like qutb why are they not celebrating

  26. Well let us recall than rowling used to work for oxfam and AI so the drone didnt know any better but management has no such excuse. its like those who made such a deal about mandela but ignored the cause of his inprisonment

    A violent overthrow of the south african government which would have been replaced along soviet lines

  27. The thing that drives me wild about NPR is that it can’t be defunded. Or maybe it can, but it never happens.

    It has a structure where the local affiliates pay the DC HQ. But there must be some federal money in there that needs to be eliminated. There is no way that conservatives should be forced to pay for leftwing propaganda.

  28. Re:Sheila Jackson Lee;

    She is right up there (or maybe I should say, down there) with Kamala Harris, in terms of being just plain stupid and ignorant.

    And speaking of stupid and ignorant; recall US Representative Hank Johnson (D – Ga.) who was concerned that the island of Guam would TIP OVER if too many people populated the island.

    Yep folks; these are some of the absolute morons that the citizens elect into office.
    Ignorance can be “fixed;” it just means you do not know something, but you can choose to learn/study and decrease / remove that ignorance about a given topic.
    Stupid cannot be fixed because stupid people are too stupid to realize they are stupid and ignorant. Further, they do not know they are stupid and ignorant.

    One group that I can think of that is equally ignorant and stupid are the cast of that TV show , “The View.” (and no, I do no watch that show).
    Apparently, one of the hosts claimed that the recent earthquake in the NE USA was caused by global warming.

    The USA is not long for this world when many in Congress have the brain power of a pebble.

    “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
    Mark Twain

  29. Insufficiently Sensitive remarks, re NPR, on “those excruciating vocal stylings.”

    Yes. I’ve never been under any illusions about NPR’s leftist bias, and though I was never exactly a very regular listener I did tune in now and then. But there came a point, maybe ten years ago, when I suddenly realized that I just could not stand the way most of their news people talked, and have really never listened since. It would be more trouble than I want to take to try to describe and explain it. But it has to do with a supremely smug, supremely pleased with themselves, quality. A sense of “we are the smart good people, and also the upper class, and we are speaking to our peers.”

    Doonesbury, once funny, managed to do something similar using only pictures and text.

    About the propaganda, though: many people who have listened for many years agree with Berliner that it really has gotten much worse over the past decade.

  30. Cornhead @ 1020:

    “Rep. Lee has a BA from Yale and JD from UVA.

    How did that happen?”

    I hope that was a rhetorical question. The answer is very obvious I would assume.

  31. Actually it is “Ich bin ein Berliner”

    JFK obviously was saying “I am a Berliner,” as in a citizen of Berlin. This, of course was when the Berlin Wall was still standing. The listening audience was momentarily dumbfounded; here was the president of the USA saying that he was a jelly donut.

    A Berliner is a jelly donut. Another name for this item, in German, is Krapfen.
    At least JFK did not say, “Ich bin ein Krapfen.”
    Though he could have said the existence of the Berlin Wall was Krapfen.

  32. Doonesbury, once funny, managed to do something similar using only pictures and text.
    ==
    Doonesbury was never amusing. The cartoonist and his audience made a cruddy little club.
    ==
    Berke Breathed took flak from people who said Bloom County was derivative. It wasn’t. Bloom County actually was funny.

  33. The listening audience was momentarily dumbfounded; here was the president of the USA saying that he was a jelly donut.
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    I’ve heard that contention once before. The progenitor was an unpleasant little popinjay employed as a history professor. No, he was not trustworthy on any subject.

  34. Being lauded for one’s ignorance is merely another manifestation of “reparations”.

    Ditto for the get-out-of-jail-free card madness.

    To be sure, minority communities suffer the most but THAT can also be blamed on white supremacy…and its orange-haired overlord…

    Win-win-win…(well, for some)…

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