NPR you suck

[Danzig]

i thought it was. seemed a better attempt at the point rupert was trying to make with you, riot. and i'd wager everyone knew the answer, although you were far too reluctant to say what we all would know is the truth. hell, everyone knows you don't have to fear an 80 year old woman, unless she's driving!
it also made the point i was trying to make a few days back. voicing your thoughts or visceral reactions is being honest, not dishonest. now, acting out on irrational feelings is a whole different story. but like i said when this first came out, how can we have dialogue if people are afraid to speak? this thread illustrated that point, albeit a bit awkwardly.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i thought it was. seemed a better attempt at the point rupert was trying to make with you, riot. and i'd wager everyone knew the answer, although you were far too reluctant to say what we all would know is the truth. hell, everyone knows you don't have to fear an 80 year old woman, unless she's driving!
it also made the point i was trying to make a few days back. voicing your thoughts or visceral reactions is being honest, not dishonest. now, acting out on irrational feelings is a whole different story. but like i said when this first came out, how can we have dialogue if people are afraid to speak? this thread illustrated that point, albeit a bit awkwardly.

Ruperts point was self-evident, but for a slightly different reason, matching what he posted about crime in LA. I agree with the article - blind obedience, without question as to why, to irrational fears isn't something to embrace.

[randallscott35]

On Jon Stewart’s first night in the nation’s capital, he had to tackle last week’s firing of the NPR analyst Juan Williams.

Mr. Williams was fired after he said on Fox News that he felt fearful when he saw people in “Muslim garb” on an airplane.

Said Samantha Bee, one of the “Daily Show” correspondents: “It was a direct violation of NPR’s never-say-anything-interesting policy.”

Mr. Stewart latched onto the anti-NPR attitude that dominated Fox News programs in the days after Mr. Williams’s firing by NPR. (Fox immediately extended Mr. Williams’s contract. “NPR, you just brought a tote bag full of David Sedaris books to a knife fight,” Mr. Stewart said. Here’s the segment:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...n-williams/?hp

[Riot]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Said Samantha Bee, one of the “Daily Show” correspondents: “It was a direct violation of NPR’s never-say-anything-interesting policy."

No kidding. Seeing some turn themselves inside-out calling NPR "left wing liberal" makes me think: have they ever even listened to NPR?