Posted on 12/26/2016 9:32:36 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Rehm's retirement is a Christmas gift to America
National Public Radio mainstay Diane Rehm, who did Hollywood a disservice by missing her calling as a horror movie voice actor, has at long last retired after nearly four decades of boring and infantilizing helpless Washington, D.C. area taxi fares.
Her retirement Dec. 23 is an early Christmas present for Americans.
The fossilized crypt-keeper of taxpayer-funded NPR, a pillar of the left-wing media establishment, is beloved by wrong-thinking people across the fruited plain. She also helped starve her husband so he would die prematurely which makes her a heroic figure — a trailblazer of sorts — in feminist circles.
Rehm suffered from spasmodic dysphonia, and that is why her voice was the way it is.
She’s a lefty loon, and a hateful fruitcake, but only a cretin would make fun of her voice.
That said, I am grateful to her for interviewing someone who quoted a line by Stephen Sondheim:
Pretty is what changes
what the mind arranges
is what is beautiful.
This I think is the most eloquent and lovely observation on vision, intelligence, and the function of the brain, I've ever seen, and reveals the remarkable genius of Sondheim.
She was unlistenable.
I’ve always thought Diane Rehm has suffered from a paralyzing, brain slowing stroke for about twenty years,
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I have never heard of her either. Of course I do not listen to NPR.
If this is the annoying, gravelly-voiced witch that causes me to turn off college radio whenever she comes on, good riddance.
Or perhaps someone who was unaware of her condition.
We are at war with the likes of NPR, and this woman is one of many Tokyo Roses of said times. She and her ilk poison the minds of our youth. The tools of Alinsky are too good for their fate.
Rope. We are going to need more rope.
NPRrrrr,
Because We’re Smarter than You!
That’s what I hear from them.
Bill Kristol comes to mind.....
That’s what I hear from them.
There's no denying their noxiousness.
But credit where it is due.
They were far better — actually enjoyable — thirty or forty years ago. They were liberal, but tried to be intellectually honest (usually) and for the most part kept their politics to themselves.
In my opinion, they went off the deep end in the 1980s, when the Reagan administration tried to cut their funding.
At that point, they became totally political. They pulled out all the stops, and basically took it as their existential mission to boost any Democrat and pound any Republican into the dust. For a while, in the late 1980s, they pretty much gave over all their airtime to this goal.
This illustrates the problem of "public broadcasting." They can at an instant turn their programming over to politics. They don't have to answer to advertisers, or to a corporate board, or to stockholders.
And it doesn't matter what's in their charter. I'm sure the charter of NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service includes all kinds of language that prohibits them from getting involved in politics. It's all unenforceable, just as the laws against politics in the church setting are unenforceable against black churches.
Why must I pay for workfare for Dianne Rhem? Can’t we let the market decide if she is employable as a radio person or not?
I think he was calling her a ghoul because she starved her husband to death.
I was an NPR listener back in the early 80s. I was a liberal and my work commute was long. I actually enjoyed them. Then something happened that turned me away from them.
One day, during my morning commute, they aired an article about some famous artistic person. He had succumbed to AIDS after a hard-fought battle. He was, they told me, a HERO. A few days later, they aired a story about another ‘artist’ who had suffered a similar fate. He, too, was a HERO.
Then another artist, and another and another. After a while it seemed to be “another day, another HERO”. Now, I felt sorry for these men and their loved ones. I really did. But even as a liberal I couldn’t see how getting shtupped in the kiester made a man a hero. It was too much. I stopped listening to NPR.
After that I listened to mucic and audio books. Then something interesting happened.
One day, as I was turning the dial, I heard a voice from a radio station coming in on the skip. It was a radio station in Sacramento . . .
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