60 years later, NPR's Schorr is still a ‘precious resource' (Warp Level 7 Barf Alert)

USA Today ^ | July 25, 2006 | Peter Johnson

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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20060725/d_mediamix25.art.htm

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The admin said to do it this way...

[cyborg]

Who is this person? If he's such a precious resource then why have I never seen him on television? Or even heard of him?

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He's only seen at Jurrasic Park - National Public Radio - where all the Dinosaurs are kept...

[Dog Gone]

Probably because you're young. I've been aware of him for at least 40 years, although I don't think I've seen him much in the last 15.

[cyborg]

petronski says he's an arrogant, snotty version of Walter Cronkite.

[Enchante]

He's mainly on NPR, delivering dull, windy, self-important leftist monologues that would put anyone to sleep. I never listen to NPR, but a certain family member does, so it is sometimes inflicted upon me - until I can run screaming from the room.

[MiHeat]

He is heard on NPR when they want a very liberal anti-Administration point of view.

Never heard him say anything good about anything.

[Torie]

The man used to be on CBS news, and at that time was about the most out-of-the-closet liberal newsperson around that was hired by the networks. Now on NPR he has substantially toned it down, and sometimes I agree with him.

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Ping.

[john drake]

You're right about his absence from the boob tube. He just turned 90, therefore, a real fossil, and still drinking the Kool-Aid of leftist liberalism. I actually heard his pseudo words of wisdom while listening to NPR last week. I tune in from tim to time to listen to the enemy broadcasts and chuckle regularly at their inanity and utopian silliness. When will they get a real religion and stop believing in this secular humanistic trash?

[nuconvert]

Look familiar?

[Izzy Dunne]

producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam?

Such is the knowledge level of news producers today.

Schorr is a "resource" because he knows the answers to these and other difficult questions...

[knews_hound]

Thankfully, I stopped listening to NPR years ago and have not missed the far left screeds that Schoor produces.

My IQ went up too.

Coincidence?

Cheers,

knewshound

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[Chode]

that senile POS won't even clear the loogie out of his throat before he speaks... next he'll be wearing a spittle cup.

[rod1]

For those young, still impressionable (under 85) and unfamiliar with the subject, Daniel Shore was the original Mr. Priss and role model for the subsequently intolerable Dick Cavett. If you don't know who Dick Cavett is.. good for you.. you have a life.

[bwteim]

Each time I hear the pompous Schorr schnorring off, I want to refer him to a nasal specialist.

http://current.org/people/peop0105schorr.html

"Daniel Schorr has become a kind of generational Rorschach test for Americans. If your first thought on hearing his name is "the CBS reporter who was on Nixon's enemies list," chances are you're over 40. If you answered "NPR news analyst," that marks you as an X-er."

[horse_doc]

The article is more amusing for the telling detail that NPR producers are so stupid, that they don't know which war came first - Korea, or Vietnam. They have to ask an old has-been like Schorr, instead of using, say, Wikipedia . . .

And if there has ever been a man more impressed with his own importance than Dan Schorr, then I don't know who it would be.

[toddlintown]

Thought he died after reviewing the first run of "Birth of a Nation."

[toddlintown]

"NPR producers are so stupid, that they don't know which war came first - Korea, or Vietnam. They have to ask an old has-been like Schorr, instead of using, say, Wikipedia . . ."

And who's stupid here?

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

The last time I saw Schoor on TV was when he and Nina Totenberg were covering the Senate vote on Clarence Thomas' confirmation to the Court. The looks on their faces made me glad it wasn't radio.