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Hey, NPR: Fund your own lame liberal humor — and leave my family alone
Michelle Malkin ^ | 3/21/11 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 03/21/2011 1:00:30 PM PDT by Nachum

If the obscure and has-been comedians who appear on National Public Radio want to mock conservatives and spread left-wing propaganda, they should do it on their own damned dime.

The government-sponsored radio conglomerate broadcasts a weekend show called “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” It leans heavily on laugh tracks to prop up the lame punchlines of the likes of liberal humorist Paula Poundstone and describes its purpose thusly: “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what’s real news and what’s made up.”

The “best and brightest” include a Muslim comedian named Maz Jabrani, whom NPR has been promoting as “the face of Middle Eastern humor in America today.”

Judging from his latest bit performed on this weekend’s show, the face of Middle Eastern humor looks a lot like the face of your typical CAIR mouthpiece. Tea Party-bashers Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller may be gone and the House may have defunded the public radio enterprise, but the conservatives=racist smear narrative is alive and well at NPR.

Here’s a transcript and here’s the audio:

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Reason number 1,757,492 to cut NPR's public funding...
1 posted on 03/21/2011 1:00:38 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

liberal humorist Paula Poundstone?

liberal child endangering drunk driving and possibly molesting humorist Paula Poundstone.........there, fixed it...............


2 posted on 03/21/2011 1:06:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: Red Badger

Exactly.


3 posted on 03/21/2011 1:07:25 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Red Badger

You forgot the quotes. “humorist” is more accurate.


4 posted on 03/21/2011 1:09:23 PM PDT by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: Nachum

Seriously —> How do we stop bullying among children when they see the adults around them, e.g. NPR and the Democrats, in general, bullying anyone and everyone they disagree with?


5 posted on 03/21/2011 1:10:55 PM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: Nachum

“Wait, wiat” is a very poor copy of the MUCH funnier “News Quiz” on the BBC, where, although still liberal, the panelists are actually funny.


6 posted on 03/21/2011 1:11:08 PM PDT by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: Nachum

There is no depth below which a liberal will not sink.


7 posted on 03/21/2011 1:12:40 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Nachum

They still claim to have no bias??

I know they are now calling themselves “Privately Funded”


8 posted on 03/21/2011 1:13:32 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Red Badger

The morose Poundstone is about as funny as mass starvation.


9 posted on 03/21/2011 1:16:26 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: Nachum

Why are we paying for NPR?

Why are we going to keep paying for NPR?

:(


10 posted on 03/21/2011 1:20:40 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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I know they are now calling themselves “Privately Funded”

Privately funded must mean that the Democrats tax even the lowest ranking members of the army to pay for NPR.

11 posted on 03/21/2011 1:22:00 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: Nachum
Middle Eastern humor in America

It bombs in more ways than one...
12 posted on 03/21/2011 1:26:32 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Dr. Thorne

Poundstone became popular because she had the right credentials: she was a single, left/liberal woman which tends to describe practically every female comedian. And she is a lesbian. In fact, Poundstone writes a regular column for The Nation or Mother Jones I forget which one. That’s pretty far left. I’ve watched some of her shows in the eighties or nineties trying to figure out why she was supposed to be funny. One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of the improvisational-type comedians are just not very funny. Poundstone is one of those.


13 posted on 03/21/2011 1:36:21 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Nachum
It's time for the REAL Conservatives to step up to the plate.

If they can't even get rid of this miniscule rotten money pit then they have no balls whatsoever.

Until they start getting rid of these kind of programs don't expect them to tackle the big programs.

THEY'RE EFFING WIMPS, PERIOD!

14 posted on 03/21/2011 1:49:40 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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Reason number 1,757,492 to cut NPR's public funding...

Can you list the other 1,757,491 reasons so I can show them to my liberal "friends"? ;)
15 posted on 03/21/2011 1:53:55 PM PDT by adorno
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Ask you liberal friends if they contribute to NPR fund drives or are they NPR moochers?.................


16 posted on 03/21/2011 1:57:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: alecqss
Muslim humor:

Did you hear about the new German microwave oven?

It seats eight mudsucking subhuman Zionist Jewish pigdogs, Allah be praised.

17 posted on 03/21/2011 2:00:59 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: fhayek

Muslim humor:
“when we bomb, we REALLY BOMB!”


18 posted on 03/21/2011 2:16:11 PM PDT by singletrack (..................................................................)
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To: Nachum

NPR liberal humor? When I first read this Garrison Keilor of “Prairie Home Companion” came to mind. He rips conservatives while promoting leftists every chance he gets.


19 posted on 03/21/2011 2:17:27 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: fhayek

It seats eight mudsucking subhuman Zionist Jewish pigdogs, Allah be praised.

Well if those pig dogs were Krugman, Alter, Klein, Klein, Emmanuel, geithner, Sunstein, Axelrod, Allah in fact be praised.

I am invoking the “I am a Jew I can say this” clause.


20 posted on 03/21/2011 2:42:19 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Have you terrorized a terrorist today?)
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