Posted on 12/31/2014 7:25:05 AM PST by Kaslin
In the fall of 2007, President Bush offered an interview on race relations to National Public Radio correspondent Juan Williams, but NPR declined the invitation. Ellen Weiss, the news boss at the time (who was deposed in the controversy after she fired Williams three years later), demanded that an NPR anchor do the interview. The Williams interview with the president aired on Fox News, and not on NPR.
That sense of feisty independence does not extend to President Obama. When he grants an interview to an NPR anchor, it has all the dramatic tension and hostility of a cappuccino klatch with the D.C. Young Democrats.
NPR "Morning Edition" anchor Steve Inskeep reported the president "seemed unusually relaxed when we pulled up chairs for a 40-minute talk by the Oval Office fireplace." And why not? He knew he would be getting equally "unusually relaxed" questioning.
Inskeep began by noting to Obama that "since your party's defeat in the elections," he'd made two executive actions, one on illegal immigrants and the other normalizing relations with communist Cuba. "Is there some way in which that election just passed has liberated you?"
That sounds like asking Peyton Manning after he lost the last Super Bowl 43 to 8 if he felt "liberated," and perhaps if he was going to Disney World. It's an obnoxious question. Clearly what was called for -- and certainly would have been called for were he a Republican was: "Since the voters have given the Republicans both chambers of Congress, shouldn't you be working with them instead of against them?"
This is par for the NPR course. In 2013, Inskeep asked Obama about Obamacare, that everyone seems to believe "that once the individual mandate takes effect and people begin receiving subsidies, the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, stays forever. It cannot be removed, because there will be political support for it. Do you believe that?" Obama said yes, and Inskeep added his take on the fallacy of conservatives' opposition: "Apparently the argument is sometimes people come to like things that the government can't afford anymore."
Let them eat cake. They'll like it someday.
Obamacare stunk it up in the polls then, and still stinks now. At NPR, you never have to notice.
In October of 2012, Inskeep interviewed Obama campaign manager David Axelrod, and in nine minutes of airtime, never asked about Benghazi, but compared Obama to a president on Mount Rushmore: "Abraham Lincoln, as historians have noted, had a habit of getting upset with someone, writing them a letter that might be a very strong letter and then sticking it in a desk -- never sending it. I'm interested if metaphorically, the president has been sticking a lot of letters in the desk?"
Inskeep's new interview was so favorable to Obama that another hard-left network shared in the warm glow. MSNBC played three minutes of clips on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" the day it aired. Mitchell said to Inskeep: "This was not a president, Steve, who is going to be taking another lame duck year or two. He seems to be very activist." Inskeep agreed, saying, "That is his point, Andrea. He wants to present himself as a president who is ready to finish strong." He said Obama decided to "move forward" on Cuba and immigration.
At least MSNBC doesn't rob the wallets of Republican voters and then tongue-bathe the "black Lincoln" on a national broadcast. The new GOP majority ought to zero out the public broadcasting subsidy until they acquire a sliver of journalistic integrity. That day might never come.
Because I have a 1.5 hour one way commute in an area with few radio stations, I find myself listening to NPR from time to time. I’ve been doing this length of commute for a few years now and actually enjoy their shows quite a bit, but not for the reasons they intend. I honestly find it funny. The arrogance of their communication style, especially when spewing raw ignorance or misinformation, often has me laughing out loud. Seriously.
On a related note, back around this time last year, they had a report on obama’s last year (2013) in office and called it “Obama’s terrible, horrible, very bad no good year.” I remember saying out loud to the radio, “You guys think 2013 was bad, wait ‘till 2014. And 2015 will be even worse.”
And here we are.
And in thats is a hint at why I think my tag line is more accurate than ever.
I really only want to know one thing, did Inskeep have his kneepads on or not???
It’s NPR’s “Morning Sedition.” Bathhouse Barry saves his cuddles for Reggie Love.
When i listen to NPR, I think of middle-aged metrosexuals in the SF Bay Area driving their lexus hybrids to their yoga lessons. NPR have a very specific world-view which colors everything they do.
I recently listened to a report about the launching of the worlds largest container ship - and where did NPR take it? The low number of women sailors in various merchant marines, and how big ships might effect whales. That was the entire content of the story about a massive new container ship.
New drinking game..... one shot every time someone on N(ational)P(eoples)R(evolution) uses the word “diversity” when they could have used “variety”.
Disclaimer.... I own stock in Jack Daniels.
I recently listened to a report about the launching of the worlds largest container ship - and where did NPR take it? The low number of women sailors in various merchant marines, and how big ships might effect whales. That was the entire content of the story about a massive new container ship.
It’s like hearing about the invention of the automobile, but knowing nothing about the benefits and uses of the car, and only reporting how it will impact armadillos in Texas.
Have not listened to NPR in decades...except for the occasional Saturday foray into The Tappet Brothers, when they were available online.
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Posted on 12/29/2014 1:17:33 PM PST by Dave346
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“compared Obama to a president on Mount Rushmore”
Yeah, I do that too: in AF-1 at 6000’ at 450 KPH
defund NPR/PBS. Death to government propaganda.
I remember when NPR was where you went to hear
classical music, not propaganda.
Of course that was a long time ago.
When I come back from band practice (after ten pm) they are still the classical music source. And they do a pretty interesting job of it.
Of course he was relaxed. He knew he was going to receive a journalistic b**w-job from an NPR anchor.
You either have to laugh at it or scream in frustration.
keyboard spew alert
It’s a half a billion / year.
I could find better uses for that.
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