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MUST SEE: Krauthammer Slams NPR's Hypocrisy Over Williams And Totenberg
RealClearPolitics ^ | october 22, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 10/22/2010 10:27:09 PM PDT by i88schwartz

FOX News: "I don't understand the inconsistency here," Dr. Charles Krauthammer said on PBS's "Inside Washington" Friday night. Another guest on the panel was NPR's Nina Totenberg, whom Krauthammer targeted for her consistent liberal bias.

"Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly? And she's an honored correspondent there; in fact, they mention your status here on ["Inside Washington"] in your biography at NPR. And Juan, because he expresses his opinions, he gets canned from NPR," Dr. Krauthammer said.

Totenberg said she's been put in an "awkward position" with the uproar and offered her explanation of why Williams was singled out for dismissal. "In the modern journalistic world, where people are asked to give opinions all the time whether you're a regular on a show like this or not, if you cover a story you may be asked to appear on a television show and talk about it. I think it's a very very difficult line to draw. And NPR tries to draw it, in my view, using rules that don't exist anymore."

"I have personal opinions that I will not share with you," NPR's Nina Totenberg said, who has not been afraid to share her opinions before. Juan's firing was not "popular on the floor" at NPR.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charleskrauthammer; defundnpr; juanwilliams; krauthammer; ninatotenberg; npr
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To: Darkwolf377
"Totenberg"--German for "mountain of the dead."
81 posted on 10/23/2010 2:37:32 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

If they are all female, maybe they were all PMS ing at the same time. This person gives females a bad name...Juan is a decent guy even if I don’t agree with him...bunch of female bigots are running a corp...on the public dime...yuk...


82 posted on 10/23/2010 3:31:26 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: raybbr

Glad you enjoyed...


83 posted on 10/23/2010 4:38:50 PM PDT by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Teanami's coming...)
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To: Karliner
...because I'm fed up( as you can read) with the danged idiots, excuse me, developmentally disabled( no offense to them)jerkwad pricks that are trying to enforce some sort of westernized propaganda speak instituted by muzzies to drive wedges between their enemies, namely America and Israel and Europe and any other country they haven't turned into dhimmis...

Don't hold back, Karliner - tell us how you really feel. :)

OK - there's no one we can vote out to get rid of PC - the only way to do it is the way we're doing it now. We point out the truth - we refuse to be intimidated - and we stand with men of integrity - of either party if necessary ( like we're doing with Juan Williams). Other than constantly drawing lines in the sand, constantly sticking our necks out, and forever standing for what's 'right' over what's 'popular' (PC), we'll hold our own...

84 posted on 10/23/2010 4:46:05 PM PDT by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming...)
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To: Darkwolf377

And how Kelly said “I’m the interviewer, I ask the questions”. I love that Kelly!


85 posted on 10/23/2010 5:33:22 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: abigailsmybaby

“Sen. Jim DeMint, the conservative and increasingly powerful Republican senator from South Carolina, introduced a bill Friday to strip federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in the wake of National Public Radio’s decision to fire Juan Williams for comments about Muslims that he made on Fox News earlier this week.”

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/22/jim-demint-introducing-bill-to-defund-public-broadcasting/


86 posted on 10/23/2010 5:36:59 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: ridesthemiles

Last Christmas my brother and sister in law put on a cartoon where there were no parents (Ruby & Max I think), but an older sister and younger fending for themselves.

I made a big stink about it while watching. I kept saying “where are the parents”?

I told my bff about this incident (my family laughed at me) and she told her mom friends about it and it caused a big uproar. I don’t think any of them noticed there were no PARENTS!

My bff then told me about an episode where the sister was trying to get enough quarters to take the bus to go do their laundry.

I’m not sure if they still watch the show. I’ll have to ask her. I just texted her to ask.....


87 posted on 10/23/2010 5:46:30 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: JrsyJack
"Williams and his NPR ilk would have been first in line calling us racist."

Bill did bring it up, regarding the walkout of whoopie & behard. Williams did not call him a racist.

88 posted on 10/23/2010 5:49:39 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Darkwolf377
I know this is a shallow thing to say, but I can’t help myself—I’ve never been able to take Totenberg seriously because the few times I’ve seen her I’ve burst out laughing due to her resemblance to Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine character.

LOL! Now that you mention it...

89 posted on 10/24/2010 7:08:58 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: sickoflibs

Thanks for the ping and the direct link, SIL. Have a good week.


90 posted on 10/24/2010 7:10:32 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: NoGrayZone
Excuse me?...

I watch Max & Ruby quite often with my granddaughter.....we really like the little show.

Max & Ruby are siblings.....and the vignettes encourage the viewers to treat their siblings with patience and caring....that's all.

No hidden message....
...it's a very sweet storyline and their grandmother is very special to them.

A lot, if not all, of these preschool animated series have moms & dads.....Little Bill, Charlie & Lola (one of our favorites).....

There are a lot of things to get upset over on tv.....but surely this isn't one of them!

91 posted on 10/24/2010 1:30:55 PM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: Darkwolf377

HAHAHA! I agree.


92 posted on 10/24/2010 1:32:14 PM PDT by Palladin ("Congress--YOU'RE FIRED!!!")
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To: Aria

Megan Kelly ripped that Ibrahim fool a new one!

Man, she was on fire.


93 posted on 10/24/2010 1:34:40 PM PDT by Palladin ("Congress--YOU'RE FIRED!!!")
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To: Carling

Totenberg is a vile creature.

The Kraut is O.K. except when it comes to brilliant women like Sarah Palin. Charles can’t stand to see a woman who is smarter than he.


94 posted on 10/24/2010 1:37:15 PM PDT by Palladin ("Congress--YOU'RE FIRED!!!")
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To: GOPJ

Roger that; just so infuriating somehow we’re labled haters, bigots, islamophobes, oh and racists...gads, whata strange bckward world it’s all become, the prince of darkness is working overtime shifts.


95 posted on 10/24/2010 2:27:34 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: Karliner

Liberals ARE the narrow minded bigots - they fear ideas different than their own ...


96 posted on 10/24/2010 3:07:50 PM PDT by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming...)
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To: Karliner

Check out post #37 at this link - you think you’re mad now...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2613580/posts?q=1&;page=1


97 posted on 10/24/2010 3:35:33 PM PDT by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming...)
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To: Guenevere

Where are the parents?


98 posted on 10/24/2010 4:25:10 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: GOPJ

Oh my CNN’s numbah one muzzie ho with a pre 9/11 painting? Yee gads!Seriously? How can she have that on her wall and call herself American? I suppse that’s a rhetorical question...*more grrrrrrrr*


99 posted on 10/24/2010 5:00:30 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: NoGrayZone
Why don't you write & ask the creator of the series?

I don't write it, I just enjoy it.

100 posted on 10/24/2010 5:33:54 PM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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