Like all serious liberals, Danforth is reliably wrong every time. It is a fine art. Serious liberals work hard to ignore facts and thought. Remarkably, by the time they have had their second cup of organic masala breakfast chai, they have pushed away all vestiges of reasoning and personality. Then they are ready to absorb their views from the atmosphere. (Or from "All things Considered" on NPR, which is the same thing.) By quarter past nine in the morning, they are all chanting the same conclusion. It is wondrous to watch.
I hear the non-sound of NPR more as dead air with an occasional dead opinion rattling out without echo. Rather than atmosphere, I perceive it as deep space approaching perfect vacuum. It has been long since I listened to the sounds comprising "Left Wings Considered."
Speaking of chia, one sound that sticks is that of a very sleepy sounding John Edwards (I think) in desperate need of five cups of real coffee or even strong tea. Once again it has been a long time since I accidentally touched an NPR channel, although in Canada, I found some remarkably close copies with their CBC, I think it is.