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George Will: 'NPR Is Run By People Who Don't Like People Like Me'
Newsbusters ^ | 3/13/11 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 03/13/2011 11:00:31 AM PDT by Nachum

George Will on Sunday's "This Week" said what likely has been on the minds of right-thinking Americans for many decades.

"NPR is run by people who don't like people like me" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

JAKE TAPPER, HOST: Cokie, you've been at NPR for almost 40 years. Obviously this institution means a lot to you, but why should we care?

COKIE ROBERTS: Look, I should just say that they did then reject that money, and sent internal e-mails basically saying this is totally unacceptable. We have to have tax forms, all of that. So, that should be stated. But, look, we should care because 34 million people listen every week and want to get the news that you get there, that you can't get any place else. NPR’s got seventeen foreign bureaus. That's something you can't say for any other broadcast organization these days. And brings you terrific information, day in and day out, week in and week out. And the reporters who are there on the line, being shot at in North Africa at the moment are being very badly served by the management that’s now gone.

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1 posted on 03/13/2011 11:00:40 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Hey, George, NPR doesn’t like America. It’s not personal.


2 posted on 03/13/2011 11:01:41 AM 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: Nachum

Hey, cokie, don’t you have a conflict-of-interest (BIG TIME) in making your smarmy, idiotic, brainless, syncopanic supportive comments about NPR? Go away, you ignorant s...!


3 posted on 03/13/2011 11:03:11 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Nachum

A lot of people don’t like people like George, LOL!


4 posted on 03/13/2011 11:03:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: Nachum
"NPR is run by people who don't like people like me"

Change your stage name to Ivan Lenin and they will worship you.

5 posted on 03/13/2011 11:04:33 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Nachum
It looks like a job for CAPTAIN OBVIOUS.
6 posted on 03/13/2011 11:04:44 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Nachum
NPR’s got seventeen foreign bureaus
Yeah and the domestic bureaus too - so what?
When all your info gets strained through your leftist bias filter, it doesn't really make a tinker's damn does it?
7 posted on 03/13/2011 11:05:39 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Nachum

I might start watching this again if Tapper will remain the host, but I can’t stand Amanpour.


8 posted on 03/13/2011 11:05:45 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Nachum

Defund.


9 posted on 03/13/2011 11:06:25 AM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: Nachum

If it were just a matter of them not liking us that’s be ok. They loath, despise, and fear us.

To quote Rush, they hope we fail.


10 posted on 03/13/2011 11:06:42 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

More of a paraphrase than a quote but you know what I mean.


11 posted on 03/13/2011 11:07:22 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum

That’s not a true statement, George. NPR makes a living from people like you. You’re the token beltway conservative who knows just how long his leash is.


12 posted on 03/13/2011 11:08:06 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Great post


13 posted on 03/13/2011 11:09:46 AM PDT by ncalburt (Get Even on Election Day)
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To: hal ogen
Hey, cokie, don’t you have a conflict-of-interest (BIG TIME) in making your smarmy, idiotic, brainless, syncopanic supportive comments about NPR?

Here's idiotic and brainless:

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But hey, she makes Scarborough look better.

14 posted on 03/13/2011 11:10:33 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Nachum
The people at NPR are more like you than they are like me George.

Actually, come to think of it, I don't like NPR OR George Will.

15 posted on 03/13/2011 11:12:07 AM PDT by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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To: oh8eleven

“Tinker’s damn”

You must have known my Dad, who did his level best to immortalize that term. I still don’t know the meaning of it, though.


16 posted on 03/13/2011 11:12:44 AM PDT by pingman (You can lead a liberal to logic, but you can't make them think.)
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To: Nachum

Well, I admire the sentiment, but he’s precisely the sort that NPR would prefer to deal with.

George Will of the people, lol. Please.


17 posted on 03/13/2011 11:13:49 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Nachum
“George Will: ‘NPR Is Run By People Who Don't Like People Like Me’.”

So is the Tea Party. I hate RINOs almost as much as I hate liberals.

18 posted on 03/13/2011 11:18:34 AM PDT by bwc2221
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To: Nachum

They don’t like Juan Williams either so it must not be a political thing.


19 posted on 03/13/2011 11:19:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Look for the union label and just say, NO!)
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To: pingman
Two meanings of "Tinker's damn" --

Most people today associate this with the worthless, disposable material a Tinker would use to hold solder in place while fixing tinware. Within this context, it's really a dam -- so it should be spelled "Tinker's dam".

The second meaning, considered by many to be older and more original, concerns the apparent habit of Tinkers to swear, like, well, sailors. Since Tinkers would cuss so frequently, people tended to ignore their bad language and pay it no mind.

20 posted on 03/13/2011 11:20:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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