Posted on 03/09/2011 7:25:58 AM PST by MintyHippo1980
Car Talk isn’t all that informative,
I know more than What Do You Know,
I Don’t have to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me,
I live in Scenes From An American Life,
And I know all about Living On Earth............
They’ve been pretty entertaining over the last 24 hours. LOL
Good article, but I am not so sure that JFK was weakened to the point his second term chances were threatened. I need to do a little research. If anyone has a source, Ol’ Lando would be grateful.
I don’t find any of it entertaining. I find the whole station dripping with pretentious self-absorbed narcissism.
But that’s irrelevant. Why should taxpayers ever fund entertainment, of any kind? Good, bad or indifferent?
YES!
End NPR funding. And next up: the National Endowment for the (f)Arts.
A minor quibble. Blumenfeld derides W.F. Buckley Jr. as a neoconservative. W.F. Buckley was a neoconservative???? Buckley just happens to be the godfather of the modern conservative movement.
I’m not sure JFK would’ve lost in his reelection effort. He would certainly demolished Rocky or Goldwater.
When I am traveling on the road and surfing stations for something to listen to I can always tell immediately when I have hit an NPR affiliate by the drippy syrupy style of delivery that sounds like someone trying to put the listeners in a trance so they are lulled into hypnotically believing the propaganda hidden behind the "mellowness".
My sister once talked me into listening to Garrison Keeler. He was all the rage with her friends in Colorado. I only made it through one program and half of another. He was a living lesson in why it takes government subsidies to support a lack of talent.
They put a disclaimer on the show because it showed Muslims as Terrorist.
NPR will have to go it alone without taxpayer money!....To hell with them!
My sister once talked me into listening to Garrison Keeler. He was all the rage with her friends in Colorado. I only made it through one program and half of another. He was a living lesson in why it takes government subsidies to support a lack of talent.Keeler is absolutely 1000% pretentious and 1000% self-absorbed and his audience of mind-numbingly stupid leftists all lick it up like it's some kind of manna from heaven.
As far as the "drippy syrupy style of delivery" that you mention, I tried to find a youtube video of a scene from the movie Fahrenheit 451, one of the scenes in which the future NPR personality on the wallscreen is talking to the audience, calling them all "cousins", but it doesn't seem to be available. Too bad. It would illustrate your point perfectly.
It’s time for NPR to go.
If NPR goes away, how I am going to get my heart rate up for a cardiovascular workout?
I mean, a few minutes of listening to NPR....
Oh, and I wish I could convey a PRICELESS reading of the sports report by what must have been a major weenie-of-a-guy on NPR. It was clear from the report that a) someone else wrote the report; b) he couldn't read all that well; and c) did the guy ever play one sport, ever, growing up?
“End NPR funding. And next up: the National Endowment for the (f)Arts.”
And the rest of the so-called “Great Society”, because it WILL bankrupt the nation (although it might already be too late).
Many of the PBS radio stations double as Classical Music stations as well...and that would be a terrible thing to lose. But, I don't think we would lose Classical Programming if NPR was defunded...that is their money-maker. That's what encourages the BIG donations.
I'm not opposed to Public Broadcasting...I'm opposed to Publicly Funded Broadcasting.
The greatest fear of the libs is that All Things Considered won't be able to attract sufficient resources to survive...while "public radio" will do just fine.
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