Y'know.... F' NPR. Really.

[cthulu2016]

Not just NPR, of course, but they're on the list.

I get that reporters would prefer precision, but I have never seen a WH that wasn't allowed to describe things within their own framing, and "Ransom" is not really very confusing as a metaphorical description of a payment demanded for nor gratuitously harming someone or something.

Sorry it does not "serve (y)our purposes."

...it was "ransom" — a word Obama has used repeatedly to describe Republican negotiating tactics — that struck the last press corps nerve. The usual briefing room decorum, such as it is, broke down entirely when Carney said finally that Obama would sign a debt-ceiling extension but not if it meant "paying a ransom" to Republicans.

"The president will not pay ransom for ... " Carney began.

"You see it as a ransom, but it's a metaphor that doesn't serve our purposes ... " NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro shouted back with broad support from other confused reporters.

"You guys are just too literal then, right? Carney said.

"We just want to accurately report," Shapiro began before Carney interjected. "We're trying to be accurate in our description of what's going on."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/10/white-house-faces-an-insurrection-over-metaphors/

[NBachers]

1. National rePublican Radio- I get so pissed off when I hear their repuke-supporting drivel

[Control-Z]

2. Either they are too stupid to understand

and therefore have no business playing reporter. Or they are stirring up shit, knowingly, and likewise have no business pretending to be a reporter.

So, yeah. Fuck them.

[Loudly]

3. My philosophy is....

Shouldn't cut friends off too easily.

[mahina]

4. When I get on the car I turn on npr.

I check the clock to note how long until I hear an unacceptable winger talking point.

Lately I can't make it for 10 minutes. This morning it was two.

Used to donate twice a year and volunteer.

[JDPriestly]

5. August 3, 2011

August 3, 2011

In a stunning bit of candor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) admitted in the Washington Post today that his party had taken the debt ceiling “hostage,” and that some of his colleagues were willing to “shoot[]” it:

“I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting,” he said. “Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this — it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.”

The Post added that McConnell “said he could imagine doing this again.” Indeed, he has promised he will do so. (HT: Taegan Goddard)

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/03/286995/mcconnell-admits-to-taking-debt-ceiling-hostage-its-worth-ransoming/

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. I used to love NPR. What a disappointment it has become.

Still better than the alternatives, though. How depressing.