Posted on 10/07/2009 5:54:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Your tax dollars at work . . .
Forwarding a press release from a GOP Senate candidate to his Dem opponent, an NPR News Director called the Republican a "nimrod." Roll Call's "Heard on the Hill" column has the [subscription-required] story, which it describes as "another tale of e-mail forwarding gone wrong" [emphasis added]:
Army Col. Conrad Reynolds is one of several Republicans vying to take on Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) for Arkansas’ Senate seat in 2010. Reynolds’ campaign issued a press release last week blasting Lincoln for a vote, and among those who received it was Greg Chance, the news director of an NPR affiliate based at Arkansas State University.
It seems Chance attempted to forward the e-mail to Katie Laning Niebaum, Lincoln’s Washington-based communications director. In his forward, which HOH obtained, Chance mocked the press release and even the campaign’s logo, which features the Army colonel insignia.
“There was another one from this nimrod earlier today which I lost. I just love his logo. That ought to go over really well with the enlisted people. (ha ha),” he writes.
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How dare we accuse NPR of liberal bias ping to Today show list.
NPR news directors believe all Republicans are nimrods.
People at NPR have a lot of room to call anybody a nimrod. Why do they all talk in the same monotone?
A welfare bum criticizing a GOP candidate? I’d call it a badge of honor!
“Why do they all talk in the same monotone?”
When turning through the radio dial I can tell when I’ve landed on an NPR station: the men invariably speak in a emasculated tone, as if they’re afraid of offending the feminist powers-that-be that rule the network.
That’s ironic that Republicans are called Nimrods but it was Nimrod, when trying to construct the tower of Babel, who advocated the building of a one world government as NPR advocates!
They are so out of touch it's comical.
nim·rod [ ním ròd ] (plural nim·rods)
noun
Definition:
hunter: a skillful or enthusiastic hunter ( literary )
[Mid-16th century. <Nimrod as a “mighty hunter” (Genesis 10:9)]
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861683409/nimrod.html
NPR is propaganda supreme and WE PAY THE bastards. They should never be allowed to report any currten events and confine their activities to arts and science. A government financed “news” organization is the very definition of conflict of interest. GUILLOTINE! ! !
NPR wouldn’t exist without our tax support - who would, or does, listen to this drivel?
Nimrod, grandson of Noah, founder of Babylon...hardly a perjoritive. There was that Tower of Babel thing but so what, Robin Hood wore tights.
I heard the same segment on the way to the grocery store. Hilarious. I took the gist of it to be “White people should feel guilty for anything they like.”
NIMROD was a king and a great hunter according to the Bible, so I’d take that as a complement.................
NPR has no station or translator near me, yet I’m still paying for them through the tax code.
You have to remember these are the same people that think the Bible supports their assertion that “Jesus was a socialist”.
I heard that nimrod.
Dang condescending idiots.
Those folks who want more diversity should move back to the diverse hellholes they came from.
And as a proud member of “whitetopia”, I resent having my tax dollars sent to that sucking wound called “urbania”.
NPR epitomizes the Partisan Liberal Media. They simply write their opinions in the form of factual news stories. Its the worst type of yellow journalism and is solely intended to be persuasive to the weak of mind.
The GOP candidate ought to use this incident to raise funds and get some mileage. He has proof now that the media are biased against him. This ought to be worth a lot of $$ in contributions from angry conservatives.
Render unto Obama ?..................
Bring back Dueling.
The left has no guns................
Did it become an insult because of Bugs Bunny's sarcastic use of it describing Elmer Fudd? Or had its meaning changed before then?
Why, that snaggletoothed hornswoggler!
Dont ever believe that...
Yes, but since I was a kid a "nimrod" was a buffoon, a "maroon" a stooge, and idiot - I have no idea where the idea came from.
KASU News Director
gchance@astate.edu
Yep, that's really him.
I found it quite funny too. I really did want to call in. The author made David Brooks sound like John Wayne lol. I liked all the guilt ridden callers. Bunch of dopes. They were marveling that people in whiteopia like boats and snowmobiles and atvs. lol. Um yeah, that’s what we like about living in the country you dopes. Peaceful, good people, in touch with the land and nature. What’s not to like?? Isn’t it funny how these enviro types live in totally unnatural craphole cities? You’d think they would like living out here in the real world.
He looks like the auto parts store guy in Roadhouse.
Who was it that said that if you’re over 18 and have to wear a name badge at work, you’ve made a bad career choice.
I don’t................;^)
lol, sort of equivalent to mocking someone for poor grammar/spelling and then making a grammar/spelling mistake yourself (”your an idiot!”). How embarrassing! Not that anyone ever doubted the bias at NPR, but still....
Also there are two definitions for nimrod in my dictionary: 1) a hunter 2) a foolish person (from Bugs Bunny calling Elmer a nimrod). So in this case it’s probably true that both the colonel and the news guy are both nimrods. Here’s hoping the hunter wins his election.
It’s actually pretty funny sometimes. I dont do it all the time. It’s sorta like trolling DU, which I also do occasionally. And besides, since I shut off my tv service, I figure I’ve got a few brain cells to spare.
Like they can't move or something.
This is sort of like those people who you run into and they say they haven't heard from you in a long time....I always say, you know my phone number !
I know. I was telling my wife about it. She said “Then get the hell out of here if you don’t like it.” lol.
For real?
Anywhere I’ve ever been in this country, I’ve managed to come across 4 or 5 NPR stations during scan
and you're right, it's an excellent way to see who's an idiot.
And then Bugs Bunny made it an insult.
NPR wouldn’t exist without our tax support - who would, or does, listen to this drivel?
It is all people listen to in big cities. I worked in medicine in Chicago for a number of years, and I was the only one who wasn’t brainwashed by NPR on those hour-long commutes into work. Already liberal doctors got more and more indoctrinated, and sheltered from real news. Every conversation started with “I heard on NPR this morning...”. Pathetic.
Nimrod: Someone who tries to forward an email, but hits the reply button instead.
They all sound as if they’re announcing a golf tournament.
Quiet, hushed voices confiding something oh, so important just to you.
Good insight - very good insight. Kudos.
I listen to NPR because its the only jazz radio station. As soon as the talking heads come on I change the channel. I have noticed in their coverage of jazz, that there is a serious effort not to play any white jazz musicians. Wonder why?
Same here, but there's no "balance" in radio programming, per our Communi(st)cations "Czar"...
NPR Nimrod Public Radio.
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