by Sam Whiskey 161 Replies latest jw friends
Sam Whiskey:
"BizzyBee, I started this thread and I'll start another one, and another one and another one... just for you, Beks and Villablowhole.
All to the glory of Glenn Beck... Amen and Amen. LOL..."
In your egocentric self congratulation, you are making seem like - no, you really believe that - we are riled up by a fool posting worshipful nonsense and praise to his psychotic god. You just traded demons when you left the Bitchtower.
Villabolo
It was a jooooke BizzyBee, it was a joke. Get it?
Ooooohhh, yeah i get it - so funny I forgot to laugh!
It's not Christmas for NPR.... Ouch! Bunch of Libs anyway...
By Ronald D. Orol
Published March 17, 2011
Hahaha, bunch of Scmuuucks... Wooops, there goes more of your money. Libs need the number to the local Waaambulance?
By Mike Gonzalez
Published March 16, 2011
Times have been tough for NPR in the last six months. Just last week, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke at the National Press Club in Washington. Among other things, she discussed the firing of NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams in October. By the end of the week, Schiller herself was out of a job, after a video caught her chief fundraiser making disparaging remarks about Tea Party activists and Jews.In her speech at the National Press Club, Schiller made sure to emphasize that NPR maintains its commitment to diversity. She meant, of course, racial diversity.
Even casual observers know that the network’s devotion to this cause appears to apply only to the staff’s skin pigmentation not to their political orientation. Something that strikes me as more than passing strange for an organization that inherently deals with politics.
But it’s not just me saying that NPR lacks political diversity—it’s now coming from NPR itself! And this time it wasn’t the result of a sting video, either. The admission came on NPR’s air this past Sunday.
Just look at this the exchange last Sunday between Bob Garfield, host of the NPR show “On the Media,” and Ira Glass, host of “This American Life.” Mr. Glass had challenged Mr. Garfield to conduct an internal audit of liberal bias at NPR and report on it in a week. Mr. Glass added he was sure none would be found (that makes two of us, but I digress). Then the conversation turned to what metrics would be used. Could the absence of conservatives at NPR be a metric?
Bob Garfield: … you and I both know that if you were to somehow poll the political orientation of everybody in the NPR news organization and at all of the member stations, you would find an overwhelmingly progressive, liberal crowd, not uniformly, but overwhelmingly.Ira Glass: Journalism, in general, reporters tend to be Democrats and tend to be more liberal than the public as a whole, sure. But that doesn't change what is going out over the air. And I feel like, well, let's measure the product.
Sorry, Ira, but you’re wrong. It does change what’s going out over the air. You stuff a newsroom with a bunch of progressives and nary a conservative and you will definitely get a product that at least tilts left. Liberals will not understand, they just won’t “get” at a gut level, what offends conservatives, not just in news selection and reporting but even in cultural programming.
That is why NPR constantly offends conservatives, which is why they don’t want their tax dollars going to it. Anyone at NPR who can’t understand this may not be as intellectual he or she thinks (unless one uses Bertrand Russell’s definition of an intellectual as “a person who pretends to have more intellect than he has”) they are.
And, no, I don’t have to wait a week to prove this point. The examples are seemingly endless.
Monday, on “All Things Considered,” NPR aired a paean to ’60s radical musician Barbara Dane, whom it called “a versatile voice with a political purpose.” The spot included such hagiographic lines as: “Dane has remained a symbol of resistance, someone who isn't afraid to break the rules.”
Barbara may not be afraid, but she certainly did support a regime that terrorizes its own people—Fidel Castro’s in Cuba.
Dane started traveling there when Fidel’s and Che’s firing squads were working overtime. NPR’s “versatile voice” was unstinting in her embrace of the even the most indecent of Castro’s terrorizing techniques.
Let me give you an inside view. I was a child in Cuba then, and the slogan I found most terrifying was “to the paredon,” which I heard communists cry on the airwaves or the street I lived on. Paredon, you see, is Spanish for the walls used by firing squads.
And just what name do you think Dane gave to her product line? Well, Paredon records.
You don’t have to be a Cuban-American to have this sensitivity. Other conservatives have also pointed out today the inappropriateness of the piece on Dane.
Now I ask you, really, NPR? I, and others, found the piece offensive, and typical. Why should conservatives’ taxes pay for this?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/16/earth-tax-dollars-npr/#ixzz1GvcQ2KS6
Nighty nite, sleep tight and hope Glenn Beck does'nt bite.
LOL....
Can anyone join in here?
I'm not sure if you guys realise . . . but this thread has a distinctly "american" flavor to it. I don't wish to sound patronising, but you do have some distinctive traits . . . but don't get me wrong . . . I love you guys . . . you gave me my old religion after all!
It's all that left-right-conservative-liberal-democrat-republican-bullshit . . . along with the penchant for lauding the views of the talking heads that swoon you over your TV screens . . . and I have to agree with villabolo with regard to the overall debate regarding Glenn Beck . . . he adds nothing.
Back in 1949 a man called Einstein had this to say . . . "A largely unregulated capatalist global economy can only result in the greatest ever tragedy for mankind" (to that effect) . . . he added something like . . . "The increased competition for resources by an ever increasing population will impoverish many and place wealth in fewer and fewer hands"
Yeah . . . over 60 years ago . . . Villabolo's sound presentation re; global warming is simply "hurrying" the process up and bringing the inevitable forward. The global community is heading for unprecedented upheaval . . . but you don't have to be an Einstein to work that out surely to God!
Does it not make sense that future prospects depend more on creating personal circumstances that are most likely to survive that upheaval? . . . than on this . . . .
Let's face it, I'm an opportunist, so I'm also looking at the markets and how this will affect investment opportunities as well. In these situations there are ways to profit from these scenarios. Just thinking about all these things.(Sam Whiskey)
Ahhh yes . . . investment and profit . . . don't you just get giddy with anticipation when you here the words "passive income" . . .
All it really means is "I love getting rewarded for doing fuck all" . . . and lies behind the momentum which drives us onward . . . fantastic!
Getting something for nothing . . . reminds me of a guy called Beck and an old religion I used to belong to.
Shit . . . what does that make me . . . democrat? . . . liberal? . . . actually I'm Tangata Whenua
Luvonyall
Sam having oo much Whiskey: "The bill passed by a 228-192 vote, with no Democrats voting for it."
So tell me, Sherlocks, who were the 192 that voted in favor of the NPR getting funding? Republicans?
Homo Imbecilitas.
Villabolo
Perfect example of blind allegiance Sam. I take it you haven't you seen the unedited version of the O'keefe video? Fox lemmings.
Thank you Murray.
Villabolo
Getting something for nothing . . . reminds me of a guy called Beck and an old religion I used to belong to.
You got it, Murray. How soon some forget...........
