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2008-03-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

NPR Listeners Furious Conservatives Getting 21 Minutes On The Network-

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Posted by Icerigger 2008-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a radical right-wing nutcase. It's sad how far liberalism has fallen, when you compare it with pre-60s liberals. Those men, I might disagree with, but I respected.

Posted by gromky 2008-03-11 00:50|| 2008-03-11 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 It's actually really funny. Again, a number of the "open-minded", "diversity-loving", individuals on the Left cannot handle dialogue. As Bugs would say, "What a bunch of maroons."

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-03-11 00:58|| 2008-03-11 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure more than one bong was tipped that morning.

What drives me nuts is how fantastic most of their shows are. Why the see the need to slant crap is, well frustrating to say the least. Especially since we, are all paying for it.

Posted by Icerigger 2008-03-11 01:26|| http://coonlakebeach.com/news.htm]">[http://coonlakebeach.com/news.htm] 2008-03-11 01:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh please! Am I the only one to find it amusing that their "conservative line up" has the president of the Souther Baptist Convention the same day that drudge has an AP report that says, "NEW YORK (AP) -- In a major shift, a group of Southern Baptist leaders said their denomination has been "too timid" on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming.
The declaration, signed by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention among others and released Monday, shows a growing urgency about climate change even within groups that once dismissed claims of an overheating planet as a liberal ruse. The conservative denomination has 16.3 million members and is the largest Protestant group in the U.S."

Didn't Grover Norquist have a spat with McCain where John McCain used his report to clobber Grover Norquist, and Norquist rebutted by calling McCain a "liar" and "delusional."??

I don't know if Beck supports McCain and I know nothing about David Keene, however call me suspicious for thinking that their motives weren't for equal opportunity for conservatives.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-11 02:00|| 2008-03-11 02:00|| Front Page Top

#5 60 emails out of a 13,000,000 listener base. I think that's about 0.000005%. What a torrent of rightous outrage! NPR better watch it. They could lose dozens, maybe even hundreds of their base. Considering the average age of their listeners, at least that many probably die of old age each week.

Posted by Titus Cloling7944 2008-03-11 05:17|| 2008-03-11 05:17|| Front Page Top

#6 "atypical programming around 6:30 a.m."

I'm surprised there were many liberals up to hear it at that time of morning. Must have been on their way home from a party the night before. It's mostly conservatives who have to go to work before sunrise. Or maybe people who go to work before sunrise tend to become conservative.

Posted by Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-03-11 08:27|| 2008-03-11 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Out of 13 million listeners only 60 complained?!?
And some of those emails and calls were positive?
I don't think this is the start of an NPR Intifada or anything. When you get so many angry emails that your server catches fire and melts into a puddle of lead, then you have a furious reaction.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-03-11 08:52|| 2008-03-11 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 And those are probably the same 60 people that showed up in D.C. for the last anti-war demonstration.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-03-11 08:55|| 2008-03-11 08:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Apparently, some liberals don't like the small practice of "fairness doctrine". NPR would have to have this for half of its programing. Hehe.

Eat hypocrisy liberal fuck-heads.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-03-11 09:34|| 2008-03-11 09:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Really easy to fix. Cut off the taxpayer subsidies, and then npr will "belong" to those who donate. Easy...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-11 09:36|| 2008-03-11 09:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Typical liberal reaction: they don't argue the points, they instead try to silence the opposition.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-11 09:43|| 2008-03-11 09:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Cheap bastards. Pay for NPR out of your damn pockets or listen to commercials like the rest of us hoi polloi.

Posted by ed 2008-03-11 09:45|| 2008-03-11 09:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Yep. Defund NPR NOW.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-11 10:13|| 2008-03-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Defund PBS while you are at it.

No government funding for programs. Let it rise or fall on its own merit.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-03-11 10:26|| 2008-03-11 10:26|| Front Page Top

#15 And CPB while you're at it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-11 10:29|| 2008-03-11 10:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Lady Kroc [she of the House of McDonalds] willed 200 million to NPR. Invested they should be generating 10 mill a year, enough to go it alone without government subsidy. Should've happened already.

And PBS subsidies should've ended when successful programming kept the royalties and didn't kick back into the system. It's a one way street. They take and don't give back.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-11 10:49|| 2008-03-11 10:49|| Front Page Top

#17 How many of the 60 were employees writing from their desk?

Posted by AlanC 2008-03-11 11:36|| 2008-03-11 11:36|| Front Page Top

#18 NPR has had commercials for a number of years, although they pretend it's a matter of thanking corporate sponsors, thus pulling the sheerest possible veil over the indignity of crass consumerism.

I agree the choice of representative conservatives is curious. But as for the 6:30 a.m. time slot... an awful lot of vice presidents and directors of this'n'that lean toward Liberal for the citizenry at large. It's one of those reverse discrimination thingies: Sure, I worked like a dog to put myself through college and then to get where I am today, skimping to save pennies along the way; but it just isn't reasonable to expect others to do so, nor fair to punish them, as it were, when they don't. So the NPR vice presidential types are just pulling in to the office parking lot at 6:30 a.m., having already done a full work-out, balanced the checkbook, and got in three phone conferences during the drive in. We won't even mention the fifty-seven emails answered while riding the exercise bike. (Yes, I do know the type intimately -- it's exhausting sometimes just watching him!)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-11 11:45|| 2008-03-11 11:45|| Front Page Top

#19 Point missed. If I understood Inskeep correctly the morning show hardly if ever gets complaints.

Posted by Icerigger 2008-03-11 14:50|| http://coonlakebeach.com]">[http://coonlakebeach.com] 2008-03-11 14:50|| Front Page Top

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