Inside the mind of NPR (Reporter admits taking perverse pleasure in US "failure" in Iraq)

TruthLaidBear.com ^ | 9-12-03 | Staff

[Noachian]

And what is it with all the BACH and MOTZART? If it is a true PUBLIC radio station, play more COUNTRY music!

I like classical and country music, but I don't want to pay tax money to NPR to hear it. Nor do I want to pay NPR to spout liberal/socialist doctrine on my dime.

If NPR can't make it in the world of private enterprise, supported by advertising instead of my tax money, then it deserves to go under.

[OldPossum]

Note that "Staff" likes NPR for its "continuous news coverage." Well, folks, every major city has a radio station that specializes in continuous news coverage. Even if you don't live in the city, you will find that the signals usually are strong enough to reach far beyond the city limits. In other words, don't give me that jazz about listening to NPR for news; there are better and less-prejudiced sources.

[niteowl77]

Bach and Mozart? You're lucky if it's Bach and Mozart, because classical seems to be played only only during the hours they can't fill it with NPR indoctrination, Garrison Keillor's faux-nostagia or contemporary wordbeat. Only the United States government could subsidize playing music from nations that collectively have less musical merit than the Mayberry marching band.

I'm glad someone else is keeping track of the enemy, because NPR makes me break out in hives.

Big hives.

Right on my butt.

[Matchett-PI]

"Garrels' & Co. plus the current 9 dwarfs and the Clintons' DNC Politburo's immaturity/delusion/5th column propaganda is pathetic, as it is dangerous to our Republic." ~ SevenDaysInMay

Talking about the fifth column -- another swamp we need to drain in addition to the CIA, etc., is "Foggy Bottom". It is FULL of Marxists and Arabists who hate Bush and Chalabi, have tried to prevent us from defending ourselves militarily in the first place, and have thrown road blocks in the way of Bremer at every turn in his efforts to rebuild Iraq, now that we won the initial phase of the Iraq war.

"Several individuals from State's Near Eastern Affairs (who opposed democracy in Iraq and for years sought to undermine Saddam's democratic opponents) are actually key advisers to Bremer." ~ Laurie Mylroie

6-27-03: "U.S. forces have at least gone back on offense against the Baathists, as in last week's attack on the convoy near Syria. U.S. regent L. Paul Bremer has also pursued a vigorous de-Baathification campaign.

This is a huge step forward from the early occupation, when State Department official Robin Raphel said it would be "fascistic" to purge too many Baathists.

In one episode reported by Mr. Tyler on May 8, Mr. Bayyati watched in horror as his former Baathist jailer walked past him to meet with Ms. Raphel."

"Disarming the Free Iraqi Forces after the war was a terrible mistake, another example of the State Department and CIA vendetta against Ahmed Chalabi."

There's also a message here for the U.S. political class: Saddam is counting on the media and politicians to continue their bureaucratic navel-gazing since the main fighting ended.

He wants them to re-parse every Pentagon word, and to interview every CIA analyst, to somehow show that liberating Iraq was a mistake. While the Beltway spins, he and his Baathists can plot their return."

HERE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/936419/posts

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State of Denial September 9, 2003
The Wall Street Journal

The Pentagon is getting blamed for every problem in Iraq, but any honest post mortem should also focus on the State Department's hostility to enlisting Iraqis as our allies.

Even now, at this crucial stage in Iraq's transition to democracy, Foggy Bottom has chosen to discontinue all funding to the Iraqi National Congress under the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act.

The withheld money will apparently include $5.1 million that should have been disbursed in 2001, much of it for INC radio and TV.

This is hardly the policy Congress intended.

The Act specifically states that "once Saddam Hussein is removed from power in Iraq, the United States should [provide] democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with democratic goals."

The INC is just that: ardently pro-American, and the only major non-ethnic, non-sectarian movement in the country today.

Yet State continues to pursue what can only be described as a bureaucratic vendetta against Ahmed Chalabi, who this month sits as the rotating president of the new Iraq Governing Council.

Among State's excuses is that it can no longer favor any one Iraqi group. But the U.S. should be helping any group that wants to assist in democratic reconstruction, if only to counter the foreign money flowing in to other, less savory groups.

INC broadcasting would be a special help right now. The American-backed revival of official Iraqi television has gone so poorly that the station's first director quit early last month, saying he lacked the resources to compete with the likes of al Jazeera and al Arabiya.

Meanwhile, those stations, along with others sponsored by Iran and Syria, continue to spew anti-American propaganda.

The restoration of INC money is urgently needed, and it appears that may require a Presidential word with Secretary Colin Powell.

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[Helms]

I can't help thinking when folks like her "act up" if they might be gay.

[OldFriend]

Same reason BBC gets funding. No one has the courage to bite the bullet and stop funding their treachery.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land! Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this point in time." -- Roger the Shrubber

On a more series note, I tend to think of the culture at a boiling point. Like the wort in beer making, the left has worked for a long time to destroy our cultural superstructure and, once gone, reinnoculate society with their particularly noxious strain of mental illness.

In some ways, though, the boiling point can be a good thing since it also concentrates and refines the left into a more definable, visible enemy. Further, the scum that tends to rise in such conditions and can be skimmed off as it comes to the surface. For awhile now, a fair amount of scum has been getting skimmed off but we have a long, long way to go.
An alternative view (with some merit) is that we're in a culture war that is a prologue to a shooting war.

Maybe.

In any event, one thing is for certain...

DEFUND NPR, PBS AND THE AMERICAN PRAVDA NETWORK - NOW!