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(h/t: nils)
Fox News tells all!
I’ll spare you the self-righteous, disingenuous drivel from behind the scenes at NPR (a/k/a “Commie Radio”) and cut to the chase:
RAW DATA: NPR Internal Memo on Juan Williams
(h/t: F)
We’re profoundly sorry that this happened during fundraising week. Juan’s comments were made Monday night and we did not feel it would be responsible to delay this action.
Notice that NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller is not sorry that she used her position as head of a tax-supported organization to suppress legitimate political speech that took place elsewhere. Nor is she sorry for having punished Juan Williams for having told the truth.
She is merely sorry that NPR got caught with its pants down at an awkward moment, namely fundraising week. No doubt she is also sorry that the blogosphere has been reverberating the story everywhere.
Some apology.
Whether or not Juan Williams violated NPR’s policies is not the issue here. NPR determines its policies based on the demands of its hard-left and pro-Muslim constituency – federal government bureaucrats and elected officials, “charitable” foundations, and private donors such as George Soros. Its written policies are interpreted based on the demands of that same constituency. Thus, if one of NPR’s ‘journalists’ or ‘news analysts’ or what-have-you – particularly if that individual is a member of a minority group – strays one iota from the party line, even on his own time, out he goes, and that’s that.
Pull NPR off the public teat
No more US tax dollars should go to support such enemy propaganda. Programs with a hard-left, pro-jihadi slant are offensive to the majority of Americans, and are counter to the interests of anyone who is not an outright traitor to the US. By constantly suppressing any suggestion that Islam is dangerous, NPR gives aid and comfort to the enemies of the US and to the enemies of its (perhaps former) allies.
To make this happen, NPR, PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the National Endowment for the Arts must all be pulled from the federal teat, once and for all. They have a complicated shell game going, to conceal the extent to which they are being supported by your tax dollars. To prevent the shell game from continuing, all sources of government funding for NPR must be shut off.
We can do it!
The “dark side” will no doubt resort to some scare tactics about “killing Big Bird.” Don’t believe it! The private sector will ensure that the public can still watch or listen to any programs that people actually want, as opposed to those that the propagandists want to foist on us. If enough people still want to see Big Bird, then some other network and/or numerous local stations or cable channels will show Big Bird. Let the market decide, and let the beleaguered US taxpayers keep their money!
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Tags: CPB, Fox News, George Soros, government spending, Juan Williams, NEA, NPR, PBS
Hey defund them all for all I care. But I think we should start with NPR and leave PBS alone for the time being. We have to be careful not to aim to high.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Fixed that for you.
Full disclosure – NPR stations are the only ones I listen to in the car, either here at my work location, or back at home base. They’re the only classical stations available over the air. But the loss of their federal funding isn’t going to make much of a dent in their financing anyway, so it should be pulled just on principle. They don’t need it.
Navy is killing ND Gonna be 28-10 any sex now
Mike C. wrote:
I wouldn’t even know where to look for NPR on regular radio.
@ Nevergiveup:
It’s on the left end of your dial.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Bring back Norm Abram and The New Yankee Workshop. Couple million ought to do it.
now this is good
Fun, Frolic, and Midterms
The question is: When the results start rolling, how will the election rate against the Best All-time Midterms? Obviously there will be one helpful measurement. The MSM anchors will not be smiling too much on November 2, 2010.
But here’s a better way to go. Dial up usmidtermelections.com and check the stats. It’s got a table of all the U.S. midterm elections going back to the first midterm in 1790.
Want to know the worst result ever for the Democrats? Click here, and usmidtermelections.com will show the midterm elections ranked by the worst Democratic results ever. Here’s a screenshot of the results. (Note: if you click a column heading, you will get a reorder of the results.)
My fearless forecast is an eighty-seat GOP pickup, and why not? I’m not a party operative, and I’m not a pollster. Here’s my thinking. This is not 1994, when moderate voters wanted to punish Clinton for tax increases and HillaryCare, and Republican voters were returning to work after the 1992 strike against the elder Bush’s tax increases. Remember? Unemployment was 5.6 percent. This is not 1914, when Republican voters were reuniting after a mammoth split. It is not 1894 and a monster depression with real hardship. No, this is more like 1938, when American voters were reacting against a president who had seriously under-delivered and been sold to them as a lightworker. In 1938, Republicans gained 81 seats in the House.
I know what you are thinking. Eighty seats. Wouldn’t that be fun!
Mike C. wrote:
But if they’re no longer “official” government radio, they’ll sooner or later go the way of Air America. The private funding will eventually dry up if they can’t claim to be official.
It’s the same thing with the NEA. The “artists” don’t care that much about the money, it’s the official seal of approval that an NEA grant bestows. If the NEA went private, the grants wouldn’t be anywhere near as desirable.
Get rid of all of it. If you want classical (or anything else) in your car, pay for it. If you don’t want to fool with CDs, get a radio that interfaces with an iPod or a USB stick, like I do.
Mike C. wrote:
Yes they do. The largest portion of NPR funding comes from what they term ‘member stations’. These radio stations get CPB funding. In addition, many of them, if not most, are college radio stations, whose funding is wholly tax supported.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Hey drinking anything yet? I just cracked up open some wine. Staying in this weekend. I don’t feel like going out and spending money.
davehm wrote:
Funny, but also quite correct.
Hmm. I went to NPR’s ATC page to check on the bios of their hosts to see if any of them moonlight for alphabet soup networks. Click any of the “read bio” links. Wery interestink.
Rodan wrote:
Still in the Office. Hygienist still has one more patient.
PBS? What will Big Bird say about this? LOL Or Earnie or Bert or or or? Seriously, wish we could delink PBS and npr from the defunding. At least until the election is over. Crap! Tornado siren. brb.
Ohh Navy is Kicking some Irish but today. Navy 35 ND 10
More interesting stuff on NPR’s website. Daniel Schorr passed away last July, and is still listed as a commentator.
@ Poteen:
No they don’t. It’s fricking pledge drive week again, so twice a day (to and from work) I get to listen largely to funding talk. In DC and Houston, at least, donations and corporate sponsorships make up by far the bulk of the stations’ funding.
snork wrote:
Yeah so aren’t Trotsky and Lenin still on their Board?
snork wrote:
They took the bio pages down.
So let me get this straight. Juan Williams was canned a few days ago, and is already deleted from NPR’s website, but Daniel Schorr has been dead for 3 months, and is still on there.
WTF???
@ snowcrash:
Tornado siren 8O?
davehm wrote:
Why?
Ugh. lol
@ snork:
Don’t know, I click the links and no bio.
@ Nevergiveup:
Well I’ll drink for you! It’s your birthday weekend which I have declared a Blog Holiday weekend!
Rodan wrote:
Yeah but I got to get up early tomorrow and go up to the Sub Base.
Rodan wrote:
Same here. Got some vino. Need to clean the apartment, hang some art, then do some CAD drawings.
To ensure fool-proof security, the President’s team has booked the entire the Taj Mahal Hotel, including 570 rooms, all banquets and restaurants. Since his security contingent and staff will comprise a huge number, 125 rooms at Taj President have also been booked, apart from 80 to 90 rooms each in Grand Hyatt and The Oberoi hotels. The NCPA, where the President is expected to meet representatives from the business community, has also been entirely booked.
The officer said, “Obama’s contingent is huge. There are two jumbo jets coming along with Air Force One, which will be flanked by security jets. There will be 30 to 40 secret service agents, who will arrive before him. The President’s convoy has 45 cars, including the Lincoln Continental in which the President travels.”
Since Obama will stay in a hotel that is on sea front, elaborate coastal security arrangements have been made by the US Navy in consonance with the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard. “There will be US naval ships, along with Indian vessels , patrolling the sea till about 330-km from the shore. This is to negate the possibility of a missile being fired from a distance,” the officer said.
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CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn these people sure do like spending our money.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Make sure you get the order right. FIRST the CAD. THEN the vino.
Clip from Newsweek just posted today, supposedly Barack Obama’s approval rating jumped from 48% to 54%. I ain’t takin’ the bait on this one, especially from Newsweek, there is nothing to suggest that the enthusiam gap has been ‘closed’ by the Democrats…To me this is Newsweek trying to create the image of momentum for Obama and the Democrats………….
lol
@HA
@ NoThreat2U:
Big thunderstorm, big wind with some rotation, sirens went off. Now its over. Wild weather in greater DW area.
@ PrincessNatasha:
You can always straighten the pictures later.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Drinking some Spanish wine and watching the Texas- Iowa State game.
@ NoThreat2U:
Newsweek also declared the economy was booming! The Obama Boom!
Rodan wrote:
OMG, do they really think anyone believes this shit any more?
Shit, I thought every week was fund-raising week for those douchebags. It seems every time I happen to channel-surf to PBS they have yet another beg-fest going on.
/They remind me of a certain pony-tailed fat-ass with a tip jar.
@ PrincessNatasha:
That’s why Newsweek was sold for $1
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
You can always tell when PBS is raising money; that’s when they’re showing the Three Tenors. Once the fundraising is over, it’s all environmental church, all the time.
Nevergiveup wrote:
We’ll drink in your honor!
@ NoThreat2U:
Chuck will post on this!
LOLs all around
Rodan wrote:
Consider the source- An entire magazine publishing operation that just sold for $1. And I think the buyer overpaid, if you axe me.
On Friday night’s Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic leader:
He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times – just like we are now – people were out of work, they needed jobs and a guy came along and rallied the troops. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader, because all they’re selling is fear and anger and that’s all Hitler sold. “I’m angry and I’m frightened and you should hate that guy over there.”
“Right,” Bill Maher chirped in as Reiner, to applause from HBO’s Los Angeles audience, declared: “And that’s what they’re doing.”
Archie should have kicked him in the teeth when he had the chance
@ Rodan:
Yeah, he’ll take it as gospel. lol Dumbass.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Well, that plus assuming all their debt…
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
That rag is not worth even a penny!
snork wrote:
Yeah, and they always say- “if you want to keep seeing quality programming like this, donate $500 and we’ll send you a $5 CD!”
Fear and anger are not always negative emotions. SOmetimes they can elicit positive actions. That is what the left is nervous about. And they should be.
Oh, but there’s MORE.
PBS Sends Senior Editor as Presenter to CAIR Conference on ‘Defaming Islam”
PBS apparently sent Schwartzberg to train “CAIR Leadership” knowing that CAIR had advertised the conference for several weeks listing the #1 reason to attend as, “You’re tired of seeing Islam defamed and want to do something about it.”
Greetings, fellow infidels!
Rodan wrote:
I noticed our library did not renew its subscription when I saw the “current issue” still sitting on the magazine rack was from August and actually had dust on it, lol.
Mike C. wrote:
I checked KUHF and you’re right there. But in LA, KPCC gets about 10% directly from CPB. They’re only one of several LA area college stations that use NPR for news and other content. I’m looking for their list of donors to find what hides there.
Meanwhile, this hypersensitivity has its inverted mirror. Even as certain public bodies such as NPR strain themselves to root out the mere scent of intolerance toward Islam, Seattle-based cartoonist Molly Norris, who idly proposed a “Let’s Draw Mohammed Day” (and later withdrew all association with that project and apologized), is now in hiding after being declared a “prime target for death” in a fatwa. Have we heard as much about her and her plight — more drastic by far than the state of Juan Williams’ nerves at an airport — as about the NPR flap? Is her story not more news-worthy? Yet, the threat to kill a citizen in a democracy because she is alleged to have “offended” Islam is almost treated as normative. No hot and pressing edicts from NPR on that fatwa.
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Things/3715907/story.html#ixzz13D0Y5wx9
@ Nevergiveup:
Hitler didn’t “sell” fear. The Germans already had plenty of that.
He sold “hope” and “change.”
Sound familiar?
I call BS on the Newsweek poll. In order to believe it, you have to agree that every other poll is wrong: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
I called it! Chuck has a post promoting this poll.
500 rally in Moscow demanding Putin’s resignation
Published: 10.23.10, 16:42 / Israel News
Some 500 people rallied in central Moscow on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom protesters blame for economic problems and lack of political freedoms in Russia.
Opposition activists from left-wing and liberal groups gathered at the statue of the 19th-century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, known for his anti-government stance, in a rare opposition protest allowed by the Moscow authorities. (AP
In a related story, local Moscow coffin makers were surprised, but happy, to receive an order for 500 coffins.
@ Rodan:
wow good call rodan
predicting that chuck would parrot stupid was about as hard as
predicting the sun will rise in the morning.
@ Rodan:
Good call! Also notice the witty, penetrating analysis and insight he provided with the post /
Take a look at this steaming pile of s***!
Rodan wrote:
Chuck is so predictable™.
Mike C. wrote:
It’s amazing how many people have fallen for and believe that myth. Over 80 percent, that right 80 percent of NPR’s budget come from tax payer dollars. They receive 10 percent straight from the US treasury and that is the amount that they publicly admit to.
They then play a typical corporate shell bait and switch act, this is where NPR is being 100 percent dishonest. The next 70 percent of their funding comes from fee’s paid by affiliate stations for NPR programming. NPR pretends that this money is not taxpayer money because they receive it from their affiliate stations and not from the tax payers.
The dishonest part of that is, the affiliate stations receive 70 percent of their funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a federally funded program.
By putting two middle men between themselves and tax payers NPR pretends that it is receiving a far smaller amount of tax payer money than they really are.
Defunding NPR means stipulating to it’s affiliate stations that they cannot use any funds received from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pay for NPR programming.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Well, if it wasn’t genocide, what was it? A mere over-reaction?
Rodan wrote:
In fact, I think Daedalus needs to do an update.
doriangrey wrote:
Defunding government radio means defunding government radio, including taxpayer support for the member stations.
@ Philip_Daniel:
WTF is “mostly impartial evidence”?
eaglesoars wrote:
A whole bunch of unfortunate gun cleaning accidents?
//
New DOD!
Chuck promotes flawed Newsweek Poll
snork wrote:
No, more than that. I read something about them getting new digs in DC along w/a $40 million tax break.
No more tax subsidies PERIOD.
snork wrote:
I think that’s a term used by AGW researchers…
They are interviewing a Navy Kid on TV after they Beat ND and the kid said “Hell” and immediately apologized.
It’s always funny to hear the left whine that by not funding NPR, PBS, the NEA and the like, we’re “stifling the freedom of expression” and “attacking the 1st Amendment”.
Neither of those is true, of course. Nobody’s saying that those on the loony left don’t have the right to express their views, or to create whatever art they choose. What we ARE saying is that the public shouldn’t be forced to pay for those things.
Sure, if the local symphony closed down because of a lack of federal funding, I’d be a bit disappointed. But it’s not Uncle Sam’s job to provide a symphony, an art gallery or ‘educational’ TV for little Johnny & Suzie.
Nevergiveup wrote:
See what happens when you get rid of DA/DT? Navy guys advertising that they’ll do anything…
@ doriangrey:
From the Washington Times-
So they lost $18 million that fiscal year.
The miraculous Obama recovery is hitting close to home, one of the banks I do business with has just failed. http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/10/23/Kansas-City-area-bank-fails-with-bad-loans/UPI-72191287854510/
Iron Fist wrote:
I didn’t even notice that?
I’m an ND fan, but you have to love Navy.
They had a flyover, had a seriously ill kid on the sidelines in Navy gear.
Heck they spread sand from Iwo Jima & Afghanistan at midfield & they
are unfailingly polite. Their fullback thanked his mom & dad!
@ eaglesoars:
\Make the fuckers report their “donations” as advertising dollars (it is what they are, anyway), and tax them as income. Give them no breaks any other radio station out there playing hard-core death metal wouldn’t get…
@ snork:
I agree with you on principle, but I am extremely cynical about the prospects for that actually happening. The GOP has a long history of not walking the talk on PBS/NPR defunding.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Sounds like not only do they need to be defunded, but they also need a full forensic audit of their books as well.
FNC is running a really good show right now with John Stossel about the future direction of our economy.
lobo91 wrote:
ROTFLMAO… Is John showing a toilet flush?
doriangrey wrote:
Fix’t that for me…
@ lobo91:
Hell in a handbasket? It can’t look good, if they are telling anything remotely like the truth.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Thanks for that. I’ll bet you a cup of coffee that the execs are taking home high 6 figure or maybe even 7 figures in salary, not to mention expense accounts.
mfhorn wrote:
More to the point, if little Johnny and Suzie go to the symphony in the first place, their mommy and daddy almost certainly have bucks, anyway.
And besides, if you’re dirt poor, and you need to listen to Beethoven, you can go to the damn library and check out a CD. Live performance is a luxury.
@ Iron Fist:
Given that they got that 40 mil tax break in DC, I assume they pay some kind of taxes, but I don’t know the details of their incorporation, so don’t know what taxes they may be exempt from.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Of course they are, because they’re technically not government employees.
They just work for a “corporation” that depends on the government for its existence.
Just like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, but you see, Muslims can’t commit genocide, because mushrikin are not real people because they reject Slavery to Allah.
As a canonical hadith says, when Muslimin kill, it is done with mercy.
Mercy, my a**.
lobo91 wrote:
Did you catch the part about welfare in Denmark? The benefits period started at 5 years. Nobody got a job until 5 years were up. So they cut the span to 4 years. Guess what? Now, they’ve cut it in half to 2 years.
lobo91 wrote:
Roger that. These NGOs are the worst of both worlds, and there are gazillions of them. All the corruption of the public sector with all the secrecy of the private sector.
lobo91 wrote:
And we all know how well that worked out. Isn’t Obama’s new National Security Advisor someone form Fannie or Freddie? Destroy the economy, get a promotion. It is Democrat Politics in action.
@ Philip_Daniel:
We should mercifully nuke Mecca. It would be a big mercy for those of us who aren’t Moihammedan.
Iron Fist wrote:
Well, we will be doing the mohammedans a favor, too. Don’t they worship death and consider it the ultimate honor to die for Aloha Snackbar? So, we will be bringing them closer to the virgin goats. Nuking as an act of supreme benevolence. Yeah, I’ll buy that!
@ eaglesoars:
It always works that way.
Remember what the libs said about the welfare reforms that were implemented in the ’90s? “Millions are going to starve to death in the streets!”
Funny how I never saw any evidence of that happening…
A bit of insight to Vivian Schiller, the CEO who suggested Juan Williams see a shrink:
Ms. Schiller, it seems, had a fascination with the Russian language. Which led her to the Soviet Union after college, which led in turn to a job as a tour guide, which led to work on the documentary version of Turner’s Portrait of the Soviet Union.
[ ]
John Corry of the New York Times — that’s right, the New York Times –panned the film that Schiller helped facilitate. “History disappears down the memory hole in ‘Portrait of the Soviet Union,’”said Corry in his opening line of a scorching review that appeared in the Times on March 20, 1988.
The film said, said Corry caustically (Corry was the rare conservative at the Times), tells us: “The Soviet spirit just works wonders. From Moscow to Azerbaijan to deep in frozen Siberia, no one even frowns.”
Narrated by the late liberal actor Roy Scheider of Jaws fame, the Soviet Union is presented as — no kidding — the “place of tomorrow.” Asks Corry: “What happened to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago? It’s as if it never existed; the memory hole has opened up.”
[ ]
Three years later the Soviet Union collapsed onto, as Reagan accurately predicted, the “ash heap of history.”
[ ]
So what does Ms. Schiller herself have to say of this time in her life? In an interview in, of all places for an NPR executive, the February-March 2009 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, she says
“At the time, Ted Turner went through this period of deep fascination with the Soviet Union … and they hired me to be a translator/production assistant/’fixer’–which in production terms is somebody in a foreign country who ‘makes it happen,’” Schiller says.
Understand this carefully. To be a “fixer” in a totalitarian country is to swim in the waters, understanding how it works and how to manipulate people to get things done. How, in other words, a society that will not tolerate dissent or free speech can silence that speech.
Nevergiveup wrote:
And the “pakhans” in the prison yard began grinning lewdly in anticipation of fresh meat.
Hmm…
@ snork:
Hey, man, she’s a Democrats. Everybody knows campaign finance regulations don’t apply to them. Next you’ll be expecting race-neutral law enforcement from the Department of JustUs. That is just plain silly
doriangrey wrote:
Speaking of that, from the same editorial-
Poteen wrote:
Well, let’s use your example of KPCC, then. 10 % ? BFD. If they can’t round that up on their own, or do without, let them shut down.
Let me be perfectly clear here. I am in favor of cutting all subsidies to NPR and CPB, even though I listen to NPR stations. The ones I listen to will survive without the fed tax dollars. Some might not. Shit happens. If all of them shut down, I guess I’ll have to put Sirius radio in my car.
Gonna miss “Car Talk”, though …
doriangrey wrote:
I want Schiller waiting tables at some Denny’s in Bumfuck, Nebraska.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
This is from the “For what it’s worth” file.
When I get into a cab & the drivers name is Mohammad, Achmed etc
the radio is tuned either to the BBC or NPR.
Mike C. wrote:
Sooner or later, the global warming freaks will kill that show, anyway. How un-PC to talk about those earth-destroying monsters!
NPR just folded too quickly. In my old line of business if we had a Juan Williams who was rowing against us on the boat. It would be death by 1000 cuts. The firing offense would occur a few years earlier. Then the other shoe would drop two years later. In the meantime, the offender had he duties changed. If we were worried that the change in duty actions stood out in any way we sacrificed a regular employee first.
Juan was lefty screwed here. I worked in a lefty corporation and one had to always be careful to guards ones speech and never broach an opinion that wasn’t a reflection of the status quo. government worker.
Go here and vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/
Iron Fist wrote:
Several of Obama’s inner circle are former Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac executives.
Franklin Raines comes to mind. He made tens of millions while he was Fannie Mae CEO.
@ NoThreat2U:
This is very interesting. Is this Cantors brainchild?
Taxpayer Funded PBS Sends Senior Editor as Presenter to CAIR Conference on How to Stop “Defaming Islam”…
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/10/23/taxpayer-funded-pbs-sends-senior-editor-as-presenter-to-cair-conference-on-how-to-stop-defaming-islam/
@ NoThreat2U:
Ha! GMTA – see my #49
So I wonder who really put the screws to them – Soros or CAIR
@ snowcrash:
I believe so. I have been getting emails to that site for quite some time now. Pretty good ideas. It at least shows him which way the wind is blowing for the public.
@ eaglesoars:
Whoops. I didn’t even see that. Sorry!!! Yep, GMTA!
@ Philip_Daniel:
Don’t get me started. I just lost 10 minutes of my life this morning reading about yet another perpetual motion machine and how the oil companies are covering it up.
Fwiw – here’s an image map version of the NPR montage with names and info, in case you ever wanted to put faces behind the NPR voices, like Click and Clack the Tappet brothers, say.
WTF? Am I going to hell for laughing at this??
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115770569
@ NoThreat2U:
I am always surprised when new ideas pop up. I like it. I also really like getting the votes on the record. Tells us where our Reps stand.
You know I like Sarah Palin more and more. She is holding up through a lot of crap that no other politician has never gone through.
Of course, what Chrissie neglected to mention was that those people “from all over the world” were private sector workers, not government employees…
Yup. Government is precisely where I look when I want an example of “efficiency.”
@ nils:
Nils, how do I get it to the link back to npr to see who is who?
Does Michelle Obama have an alibi for that date?
@ lobo91:
He is despicable. To save manpower? I’d LOVE to dump his ass in a coal mine for just one day. I barely stood it for 4 hrs – and I’m short.
@ RIX:
Now that you mention it……..
lol
@ snowcrash:
Good question. It works fine for me with the (Google) Chrome browser, but when I try in Firefox I just get a bigger picture. Short answer – I dunno, but now it’s going to bug me until I figure it out.
I thought so.
@ eaglesoars:
He’s just an idiot.
If that rescue had been left up to government, those miners would all be dead now.
@ 109 Philip_Daniel: yah Penn and Teller, you are just soldiers in the pharmacy army. Part of the “irrelevant” corp. Designed by mega pharmacy monopolies to grassroot their “contrary” campaign to the unsuspecting.
You say you effect at most 1 percent of TV viewers. But from the PharmCon viewpoint that 1 percent accumulates with the “pollyanna” corp and their “happy” campaign.
so you are being used by Pharmcon.
You do it for free.
/s
@ lobo91:
What a dipwad. If Tea Partiers were “every man for himself”, there wouldn’t be Tea Parties, now would there?
@ lobo91:
In one major respect though Hitler sold the notion that Germany was an exceptional country held down by the rest of the world. Barry is the exact opposite in that.
lobo91 wrote:
See the dead miners in China
@ NoThreat2U:
This is the best way to defend islam Zuhdi Jasser. Saw him when Juan Williams subbed for O’Reilly. And one would think if he lives and becomes influential then maybe there is hope for islam.
http://www.aifdemocracy.org/
@ nils:
hahaha sorry nils.
Denish D’Sousa in his book “The Roots of Obamas Rage” makes a
passing reference to Matthews as an “Obama Syncophant”
The other night Matthews gave a hysterical negative review of
the book without mentioning the title or name of the author.
It was really childish.
orangecrush wrote:
I was pretty impressed by him, too.
@ orangecrush:
I checked out his website. Not to sure how I feel though. I don’t trust people that easily. When the rest of the moes declare a fatwa on his ass, I will be in his corner 100 percent.
Yeah I saw him last nite too
@ snowcrash:
Snowcrash – thanks for the heads up. It looks like the image map doesn’t work at all, except in Google Chrome, and (possibly) only for me, when I’m logged onto my site.
Google Sites is free, and it’s “”user-friendly”" (double scare quotes), but it’s like jumping through hoops trying to do much of anything out of the ordinary with it. You can edit raw HTML with it, but when you click ‘Save’ Google alters your HTML something fierce, and that’s what’s happened here.
Sorry, image map isn’t working…
@ nils:
You are a map tease. Love me some maps. LOL
Try it again – NPR montage image map.
Thanks again for the heads up!
@ nils:
Works ok in my Chrome. Heads up: Another thread with that pic @ 8:30 EDT.
@ nils:
Thanks, works well.
@ snowcrash:
Coolage – thanks again for the feedback.
@ snork:
Cool. Fwiw, the current picture is a bit better than the original one that 1389ad used – it’s 17×12 now so only (6) bogus NPRers are necessary to make it a full rectangle (vs. needing (10) before when it was 16×12).
@ nils:
So you just made up stuff and added Kent Brockman and Alfred E Neuman? LOL
snork wrote:
It’s a plot devised by the transnational hegemonic conspiracy of White Zionist Jewish Nazis, who want to steal and occupy and colonize all the land in the Middle East and commit genocide against all the brown Muslim Arabs! ///
NoThreat2U wrote:
But I thought those Pakis in Pocky-ston liked the Baracky-mon?
@ snowcrash:
No I didn’t make up stuff. I just opted for a full rectangle. Of the 284 “people of NPR” on their website, only 198 had pictures with their biographies, so those are the only ones I used. 17×12 = 198 + 6. All the NPR names, summaries, and links are real.
@ nils:
I was just kidding, Nils. I did not mean to be accusatory, it seemed really obvious. I read a bunch of npr bios. Its all good.
I figured you had to be kidding if you’d actually looked at the map – I just wasn’t sure you had. Even the Brockman and Neuman quotes are real, and fit the NPR ethos really, really well, IMO
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