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NPR News Director Calls Republican Candidate 'Nimrod'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/07/2009 5:54:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Your tax dollars at work . . .

Forwarding a press release from a GOP Senate candidate to his Dem opponent, an NPR News Director called the Republican a "nimrod." Roll Call's "Heard on the Hill" column has the [subscription-required] story, which it describes as "another tale of e-mail forwarding gone wrong" [emphasis added]:

Army Col. Conrad Reynolds is one of several Republicans vying to take on Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) for Arkansas’ Senate seat in 2010. Reynolds’ campaign issued a press release last week blasting Lincoln for a vote, and among those who received it was Greg Chance, the news director of an NPR affiliate based at Arkansas State University.

It seems Chance attempted to forward the e-mail to Katie Laning Niebaum, Lincoln’s Washington-based communications director. In his forward, which HOH obtained, Chance mocked the press release and even the campaign’s logo, which features the Army colonel insignia.

“There was another one from this nimrod earlier today which I lost. I just love his logo. That ought to go over really well with the enlisted people. (ha ha),” he writes.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: blanchelincoln; conradreynolds; gregchance; npr
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1 posted on 10/07/2009 5:54:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

How dare we accuse NPR of liberal bias ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 10/07/2009 5:55:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

NPR news directors believe all Republicans are nimrods.


3 posted on 10/07/2009 5:56:27 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

People at NPR have a lot of room to call anybody a nimrod. Why do they all talk in the same monotone?


4 posted on 10/07/2009 5:56:46 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A welfare bum criticizing a GOP candidate? I’d call it a badge of honor!


5 posted on 10/07/2009 5:57:11 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: popdonnelly
NPR news directors believe all Republicans are nimrods.

Actually, I understand that consider Olympia Snowe to be thoughtful, and to have "grown in office."
6 posted on 10/07/2009 6:00:00 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: rdl6989

“Why do they all talk in the same monotone?”

When turning through the radio dial I can tell when I’ve landed on an NPR station: the men invariably speak in a emasculated tone, as if they’re afraid of offending the feminist powers-that-be that rule the network.


7 posted on 10/07/2009 6:00:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: popdonnelly

That’s ironic that Republicans are called Nimrods but it was Nimrod, when trying to construct the tower of Babel, who advocated the building of a one world government as NPR advocates!


8 posted on 10/07/2009 6:00:13 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I was listening to NPR last night on the way home. They had some guy on who wrote a book about "Whiteopia". They were discussing people who live away from cities, in predominantly white areas. They talked about it like they were talking about martians. Took calls from self-flagelating white people living in white areas, but longing for "diversity." It was very funny. I wanted to call in and say "Hell yes I live in Whiteopia--and I love it. Crime here is so low we don't even have a police dept. The neighbors are all good hardworking people. We elect conservative representatives, and vote against any tax or bond that finds its way onto our ballots. And this is in New Jersey!"

They are so out of touch it's comical.

9 posted on 10/07/2009 6:01:19 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

nim·rod [ ním ròd ] (plural nim·rods)

noun

Definition:

hunter: a skillful or enthusiastic hunter ( literary )

[Mid-16th century. <Nimrod as a “mighty hunter” (Genesis 10:9)]

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861683409/nimrod.html


10 posted on 10/07/2009 6:04:59 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Huck

NPR is propaganda supreme and WE PAY THE bastards. They should never be allowed to report any currten events and confine their activities to arts and science. A government financed “news” organization is the very definition of conflict of interest. GUILLOTINE! ! !


11 posted on 10/07/2009 6:05:55 AM PDT by Huebolt (Democrat = (national socialist) = NAZI)
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To: Huck; governsleastgovernsbest

NPR wouldn’t exist without our tax support - who would, or does, listen to this drivel?


12 posted on 10/07/2009 6:07:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: mdmathis6

Nimrod, grandson of Noah, founder of Babylon...hardly a perjoritive. There was that Tower of Babel thing but so what, Robin Hood wore tights.


13 posted on 10/07/2009 6:08:34 AM PDT by Leg Olam (Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Huck

I heard the same segment on the way to the grocery store. Hilarious. I took the gist of it to be “White people should feel guilty for anything they like.”


14 posted on 10/07/2009 6:09:02 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

15 posted on 10/07/2009 6:10:18 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

NIMROD was a king and a great hunter according to the Bible, so I’d take that as a complement.................


16 posted on 10/07/2009 6:11:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Zero has more airtime than Michael Jordan...........)
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To: Huebolt

NPR has no station or translator near me, yet I’m still paying for them through the tax code.


17 posted on 10/07/2009 6:12:25 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("The Community Organizer better stop bitching that the community is organizing." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Red Badger

You have to remember these are the same people that think the Bible supports their assertion that “Jesus was a socialist”.


18 posted on 10/07/2009 6:14:20 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Huck

I heard that nimrod.

Dang condescending idiots.

Those folks who want more diversity should move back to the diverse hellholes they came from.

And as a proud member of “whitetopia”, I resent having my tax dollars sent to that sucking wound called “urbania”.


19 posted on 10/07/2009 6:15:49 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It is amazing how many people will state proudly that they listen to NPR because, “It is unbiased.” I always know right then that I'm speaking to a total idiot.

NPR epitomizes the Partisan Liberal Media. They simply write their opinions in the form of factual news stories. Its the worst type of yellow journalism and is solely intended to be persuasive to the weak of mind.

20 posted on 10/07/2009 6:16:02 AM PDT by SampleMan (No one should die on a gov. waiting list., or go broke because the gov. has dictated their salary.)
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