[samtheman]

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?

[ponygirl]

I find the whole station dripping with pretentious self-absorbed narcissism.

YES!

[Baynative]

Whenever I hear someone tell me they heard something on NPR it changes how I value their opinions or comments.

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.