Anyone else catch the NPR extended blow-job of Senator Tehran Tom Cotton?

[appal_jack]

More than four minutes long, and not a single truly critical or Democratic voice.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/13/392845709/tom-cotton-the-freshman-senator-behind-the-iran-letter

Shameful. Is Ailsa Chang always this bad?

No mention of how 'politics stops at the water's edge' nor how foreign policy is supposed to be conducted by the President. Certainly nothing about the Logan Act. No, instead just slurp, lick, kiss, ooh, Tom Cotton, you're so young & studly... slurp, slurp...

-app

[newthinking]

1. Unfortunately NPR is no longer a liberal media outlet.

It looks more and more like msm every day.

[appal_jack]

2. For more than a decade.

NPR's role in 'catapulting the propaganda' during the run-up to the B*sh Iraq invasion was reprehensible. But then they made slight corrections from 2007-2008. Apparently, those were just a ruse...

Lying bastards.

-app

[Rex]

3. Wow that is a new low for NPR. Thats like if the Koch brothers joined the Muppet Show.

"No more handouts! Bad enough people feel entitled to free air and water!"

[appal_jack]

6. Hard to believe as it may be, it got worse.

During the 5 PM hour when I caught this travesty of journalism, it was followed by a Friday news roundup where the Repub propaganda continued further:

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/13/392845719/week-in-politics-sen-tom-cottons-letter-to-iran-clinton-addresses-emails

When E J Dionne finally got invited to voice an oppositional point, he made a good mild critique, but felt the need to base this critique entirely upon the column of Republican Mike Gerson. So, essentially, there was no Democratic or progressive voice here either.

sigh,

-app

[ReRe]

13. I heard him say something recently...

... don't ask me what it was because I dump what they say and instead place them immediately on my mental shit-list. Eff E J Dionne.

[marle35]

12. I love that idea

Someone needs to make that into a weekly satirical web series.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm)

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

www.rense.com/general37/char.htm

[appal_jack]

5. Yup. nt

[Peregrine Took]

7. Beyond pathetic for a once great network.

A moment of silence for what it once was.

[appal_jack]

9. Rage, rage against the dying of the light! nt

[Enthusiast]

18. ...

[KT2000]

8. Yes - had to turn it off

[appal_jack]

10. Like a train wreck, I could not turn away. nt

[Enthusiast]

19. I refuse to turn it on. NPR has gone over to the dark side.

[deutsey]

11. I had to stop listening to NPR during the 2000 election debacle

I used to be a loyal supporter (WAMU in DC), but during the late '90s I noticed increased changes to the content and the governing structure. I didn't expect them to be partisan for Gore during the aftermath of the 2000 election, but I also didn't expect them to be among those jumping on board the Bush bandwagon, either.

I forgot what the particular thing was that finally pissed me off enough to stop listening, but I do remember angrily turning off the radio one morning after listening to yet another instance of what I thought was reporting biased toward Bush.

I've never gone back.

[Enthusiast]

21. I was fishing one day. I had the radio tuned to NPR...

They had a guest on there talking about the upcoming 2008 presidential election. The guest insisted that the election would be very close. The election would be so close that it would once again be decided in the courts. There was no counter argument, not even a single word against this line of thinking. I thought I had slipped into the Twilight Zone.

Since then whenever I have switched on NPR is seems it's only a matter of minutes until someone repeats a Right Wing talking point with no counter position to be heard. Pure bias.

I never give them the chance to repeat this propaganda to me. I see NPR as a more subtle version of Rush Limbaugh. Fuc em.

[ReRe]

14. Nope.

I ignore it like I do FOX. Never listen to it anymore.

[Enthusiast]

22. Me too.

[sendero]

15. NPR has sucked ass..

... since at least 2002. If you didn't know that you are really behind the power curve.

[appal_jack]

23. Yes of course, but many still listen and believe.

I raged against NPR's bias as hard as anyone from 2000-2006. I still listen because I drive quite a bit, and it's a decent option on the FM dial, plus I like to get a lay of the media landscape to know what people are hearing. Back in the 1990's, I'd do this with Limbaugh too (driving in a location where that's all there was...) but that was truly bad for my sanity & blood pressure.

Some people think that the political spectrum goes from Fox to CNN, or from Limbaugh to NPR. We who live out beyond the corporatist veil need to be able to talk to all of them, and let them know that another world is possible.

-app

[Tsiyu]

16. Hope Chang didn't get any on her nice blouse

NPR is a joke anymore. No research, no in-depth journalism, just puff pieces on the lowest scum in politics.

Used to send them a little when I could, but never, ever again.

[DeSwiss]

17. ''Ailsa Chang......

...Mother-Superior says hold out your hand, this is not going to be pretty.''



- It's things like this that made me realize how right George was all along......

K&R

[KittyWampus]

20. NPR is how the fascists sweeten their bile for soccer moms driving their kids around.

[Fumesucker]

24. That's why they are called "totebaggers"

They think they are so liberal, they listen to NPR and everyone knows NPR is liberal.

[appal_jack]

25. Not a moniker I'd heard before. Nice turn of phrase!

Alas, too true. NPR plays a large role in legitimizing election theft, aggressive war, environmental destruction, etc. Fight on, we must.



-app

[vt_native]

26. Hey NPR

Don't neglect the balls!

[Blue Owl]

27. They had a bad case of cotton mouth after that one

[appal_jack]

30. I see what you did there! :-) nt

[WCLinolVir]

28. This is sexist.

I agree NPR is awful but stop describing a female speaker in such terms. It puts your argument in the gutter. It makes you seem misogynistic.

[appal_jack]

29. I would say the same about a male reporter who so debased himself.

My OP was deliberately crude in an effort highlight the extremely one-sided reporting. The fact that the reporter was a woman had absolutely nothing to do with the nature of the report and its contained bias.

I actually did stop before posting and asked myself, "Should I be this crude?" Then I re-listened to the NPR report, with Ailsa Chang pondering presidential runs by Cotton, etc. The answer was clear. This was a wet, sloppy, lingering, balls-deep journalistic blow job.

My descriptors are indeed offensive, but golly (note non-cussin' expression of disbelief), this sad piece of 'journalism' offended me deeply, and warrants the grossest description any of us can muster.

I promise to reserve such crudity for only the foulest examples of media bias I encounter. When rational thought and polite critiques can suffice, I am all for them.

-app