* Nina Totenberg:
... if there was "retributive justice" in the world, former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms would "get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
* On "All Things Considered," humorist Andrei Codrescu said:
... the "evaporation of 4 million [people] who believe" in the doctrine of Rapture "would leave the world a better place."
Codrescu, who was on contract with NPR but not a full-time employee, later told The Associated Press he was sorry for the language, but "not for what [he] said."
* Julianne Malveaux. an occasional guest on Public Broadcasting, said on another network:
On November 4, 1994, Malveaux famously stated of Supreme Court Justice Thomas: "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease....He is an absolutely reprehensible person."
‘Learn To Speak Tea Bag’ (video cartoon by NPR bigots)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047 ^
Just a reminder but NPR didn’t fire a cartoonist who insulted tea party attendees. Apparently that kind of thinking is consistent with their editorial standards and practices.