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NPR’s Totenberg ‘Very Afraid’ of Elections
Breitbart.com ^ | October 31, 2010 | Nina Totenberg

Posted on 10/31/2010 12:32:37 PM PDT by FTJM

We're sure this is in keeping with NPR's strict journalistic standards.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: npr; totenberg
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1 posted on 10/31/2010 12:32:38 PM PDT by FTJM
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If I were her and anybody in NPR i’d be afraid too. I hope one of the first thing the new house will do is to defund them!


2 posted on 10/31/2010 12:35:05 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: FTJM

Gridlock is good.


3 posted on 10/31/2010 12:35:05 PM PDT by seton89 (Carl is the RESET button)
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To: FTJM

If she wants to get rid of her fear of the Tea Party, maybe the Tea Partiers could board an airplane with her while dressed in Muslim garb.


4 posted on 10/31/2010 12:35:45 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Worst. Post-Racial. And Post-Partisan. Agent Of Hope And Change. EVER.)
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She is afraid of free and fair elections. She probably has no problem with dictators who win 92% or 100% of the vote.


5 posted on 10/31/2010 12:36:19 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: FTJM

Be afraid! Be very afraid! We love it!


6 posted on 10/31/2010 12:36:35 PM PDT by Prussianone
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She doesn’t seem to care for America very much. Maybe she’d be happier in France.


7 posted on 10/31/2010 12:36:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: FTJM

Sorry Nina,

I am not.


8 posted on 10/31/2010 12:38:17 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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DEFUND NPR!!! Nina a PIG.


9 posted on 10/31/2010 12:38:51 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: aquila48

“If I were her and anybody in NPR i’d be afraid too. I hope one of the first thing the new house will do is to defund them!”

If we can’t defund them, perhaps we could make funding conditional on all NPR commentators wearing a clown nose before expressing opinions on the air. Nina and Bill Moyers would, in addition, be required to wear orange clown wigs approved by the FCC.

I guess if NPR takes the money, it can be required to conform to decent public standards. At a minimum, it would make their news commentary more fun than the earnest and tendentious affair it is today.


10 posted on 10/31/2010 12:40:57 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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If we can’t defund them, perhaps we could make funding conditional on all NPR commentators wearing a clown nose before expressing opinions on the air. Nina and Bill Moyers would, in addition, be required to wear orange clown wigs approved by the FCC.”

That would work, too. Or a very visible hammer and sickle on their lapels.


11 posted on 10/31/2010 12:44:11 PM PDT by aquila48
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NPR’s Nina Totenberg said Friday that she’s very afraid of the upcoming elections.

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, her co-panelist on “Inside Washington,” said historians might look upon November 2, 2010 “as kind of a joke...obviously the political system’s a mess” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

GORDON PETERSON: Nina, columnist Paul Krugman says if the election goes as expected, his advice is be afraid, be very afraid. Should we take his advice?

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: I am already afraid, very afraid. I mean, it’s not like governance has been going great. I think we’ll, I don’t know whether I should be afraid, but there will be gridlock.

PETERSON: Evan, Krugman also says that future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America. You are a historian. You agree with that?

EVAN THOMAS, NEWSWEEK: No, but they might look on it as kind of a joke. There is sort of a circus aspect to it that people, it’s become comic and a kind of a dark way. You know, Krugman is a professional doomsayer. So, you have to take that with a grain of salt. But obviously the political system’s a mess.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/10/30/totenbergs-very-afraid-these-elections-thomas-thinks-theyre-jokepolit


12 posted on 10/31/2010 12:46:55 PM PDT by kcvl
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Nina Toten-the-Left’s-water-berg has lived off the public teats long enough....


13 posted on 10/31/2010 12:47:26 PM PDT by mikrofon (National Proletariat Radio)
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What a great use of tax dollars: the fools Totenberg and Thomas discussing a prediction buy uberfool Krugman.


14 posted on 10/31/2010 12:47:54 PM PDT by Minn
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To: GeronL

I understand she was the caddy for Kim Jong Il on his first golf outing. It was 3 hole in one’s wasn’t it.....


15 posted on 10/31/2010 12:52:16 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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EVAN THOMAS, NEWSWEEK

Oh yeah, teh same Evan Thomas whose grandfather was the socialist candidate for President? Ok, apple...tree

16 posted on 10/31/2010 12:55:40 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The greatest deterrent to liberalism is sunlight.)
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To: FTJM

I can imagine the look on her face come Tuesday night!


17 posted on 10/31/2010 12:56:38 PM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL, You Did It, Beat WVU!!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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What is truly comical is that their blinding white hypocrisy does even embarrass them...are they that arrogant or just incredibly ignorant?


18 posted on 10/31/2010 12:59:00 PM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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I am sick of seeing these assholes on TV that obviously hate the American people. The election has become “a joke”??? Why? Because it isn’t going the way they want it to.

The media/”ruling class” are a bunch of spoiled children who stomp their feet, whine, and ultimately belittle anyone or anything they don’t like. And it is clear, they do not like “US” ...


19 posted on 10/31/2010 1:10:52 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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Juan: “A little nervous” when a muslim walks onto a plane

Nina: “Very afraid” when a patriot walks into a voting booth.


20 posted on 10/31/2010 1:15:32 PM PDT by scottinoc
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