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1 posted on 03/20/2025 4:34:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 03/20/2025 4:35:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I want to defund NPR—how is that for free speech?

Lol.


3 posted on 03/20/2025 4:36:59 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: BenLurkin

Depends upon who is listening.


4 posted on 03/20/2025 4:37:17 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: BenLurkin

Trick question! There is no free speech at NPR!


6 posted on 03/20/2025 4:39:10 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: BenLurkin

If I told them what I think, they’d hunt me down like a dog.


8 posted on 03/20/2025 4:43:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: BenLurkin

Radio host Chris Plante calls them National Panhandlers Radio because they mooch millions from taxpayers and donors.


9 posted on 03/20/2025 4:43:54 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: BenLurkin

I spout off an FR about things I would not talk about except with people I know and trust. Someone wants to hunt me up because I think the trans thing is crazy is welcome. I have several layers of security. But I’ve seen people go physical because a complete stranger to them is wearing a MAGA hat. Since using deadly force to protect myself is an option and I don’t want to do that, I limit the possibility of coming into contact with crazy as much as possible. From that aspect, I self-censer.


10 posted on 03/20/2025 4:44:19 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: BenLurkin
We want to know who feels freer to speak in this moment, who feels they're being forced into silence, and the extent to which the right to free speech, as protected GUARANTEED by the U.S. Constitution, might be changing for different people, for better or worse.

And these people want to collect my personal deets on this matter?


11 posted on 03/20/2025 4:45:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: BenLurkin

So, you’ve pretty much gotta be an NPS listener to even know about this, then you gotta have the desire to do this. Talk about a biased and captive audience.
Just wait for the story they come out with. I’m sure it will be “super” accurate.


12 posted on 03/20/2025 4:46:33 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: BenLurkin

YES! I can exercise my free speech rights. just not in public.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 4:49:50 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: BenLurkin

It’s the left that hates free speech and has suppressed it.


17 posted on 03/20/2025 5:00:09 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, let’s see...

Walk through a Republican stronghold wearing a Biden/Harris shirt, nothing happens except some jeering and mocking. Wear a MAGA shirt through a Democratic stronghold and prepare for lawsuits and beatdowns.

Think that kinda sums it up. That said, I went to NPR and did their thing. Figure it eats up resources to be ignored.


19 posted on 03/20/2025 5:28:29 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: BenLurkin

Surd, they’ll promote any leftist freak who wants the microphone but
Speak truth on say COVID, Hunters laptop or Trump Russia and you’ll never get to use their mic.

Did I miss NPR’s apology for who they been?


20 posted on 03/20/2025 5:28:59 PM PDT by jcon40 (Leftists are usually obnoxious Bullies)
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To: BenLurkin
"an NPR journalist may reach out for an upcoming story."

More like, "a leftist propagandist from NPR will tell lies about you."

22 posted on 03/20/2025 5:34:25 PM PDT by TChad
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To: BenLurkin

Let this communist propaganda outlet figure this stuff out for itself!

Respond with: Get stuffed!”


23 posted on 03/20/2025 6:07:14 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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