[Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
Joe Campbell
philosopher.joe at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 12:46:59 PDT 2011
So if I gave you $1 million, you'd be guilty of liberal bias? I'm tempted
just to get you to keep quiet!
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Glenn Schwaller <vpschwaller at gmail.com>wrote:
> Donovan Arnold wrote: Public radio is important to those of us that don't
> want only corporate owned media deciding who gets to speak and what is said
> and the stories covered. So again, please explain to me how a $1 million
> donation to NPR from George Soros is not evidence of a political bias. And
> he will have no influence on who gets to speak and what is covered?!?!
>
> And while you're at it, explain to me how, sine 2004, almost 90% of
> political contributions from members of the boards of NPR and the NPR
> Foundation has gone to Democratic candidates and liberal-leaning political
> action committees. No strings attached on content?
>
> Nope, still no bias there! But feel free to keep livin' the dream!
>
> GS
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Donovan Arnold <
> donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> What good is freedom of speech if you cannot afford the microphone?
>> Public radio is important to those of us that don't want only corporate
>> owned media deciding who gets to speak and what is said and the stories
>> covered.
>>
>> Public radio is not a huge expense to the public. I understand that many
>> people disagree with what is said and covered on public radio, however,
>> there are plenty of other radio and television shows to counter ten times
>> over whatever is said on public radio. We all have to pay taxes for things
>> we disagree with. Suck it up and be grateful we live in a country where
>> everyone gets a voice even if it falls on deaf ears.
>>
>> Donovan Arnold
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 3/22/11, Glenn Schwaller <vpschwaller at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Glenn Schwaller <vpschwaller at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
>> To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:49 PM
>>
>>
>> Just one Campbell?
>>
>> After the NAACP accused the Tea Party of racism, NPR's political
>> editor Ken Rudin said that the organization was “responding to … an
>> ugly spectacle of members, African-American members of Congress, who
>> when they came out from voting on the health care reform several
>> months ago, they heard epithets from people outside, so-called Tea
>> Party protesters outside. Emanuel Cleaver, a black congressman from
>> Missouri, said he was spat upon. So they called – they passed this
>> resolution to, you know, to stop tolerating bigotry.”
>>
>> Rudin didn't mention that multiple videos of the congressmen walking
>> through the protesters showed no evidence that any racist language or
>> physical assaults occurred. Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart
>> offered $10,000 to anyone who could produce footage of the alleged
>> spitting incident, and nobody was able to do so.
>>
>> oh how about 2 . .
>>
>> Last September, NPR reporter Terry Gross described town hall protests
>> against President Obama as “a right-wing movement that has been
>> interrupting town hall meetings, staging tea party protests, and
>> challenging Obama's citizenship,” implying that the entire movement
>> was based on wild suspicion over Obama's birthplace rather than
>> rational anger over economic issues.
>>
>> And this doesn't even touch on the issue of $5 million dangled from a
>> "Muslim Brotherhood" organization, nor George Soros' $1 million
>> donation to NPR as evidence of the organization's political bias.
>>
>> Nope, none there!
>>
>> GS
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Joe Campbell
>> <philosopher.joe at gmail.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=philosopher.joe@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> > State one left wing point of view that NPR broadcasts, Roger. Just one.
>> >
>> > They broadcast news. You are so used to listening to the lies on Fox
>> that
>> > you confuse them for "points of view."
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lfalen@turbonet.com>>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If NPR wants to broadcast left wing points of view and supporters are
>> >> willing to fund it, more power to them.
>> >> Roger
>> >> -----Original message-----
>> >> From: "Robert Dickow" dickow at turbonet.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dickow@turbonet.com>
>> >> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:18:10 -0700
>> >> To: vision2020 at moscow.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com>
>> >> Subject: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
>> >>
>> >> > I hear that the conservative congressmen have proposed withdrawing
>> >> > government funding for NPR. Apparently a newscaster or fund drive
>> person
>> >> > or
>> >> > somebody made some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party. Fie! Fie!
>> >> > Now,
>> >> > denying public broadcasting all those scarce taxpayer dollars sounds
>> >> > like a
>> >> > reasonable and just response to such offenses if you're a
>> conservative
>> >> > Republican sympathetic with the Tea Party movement, right? Uh
>> huh.sure.
>> >> > How
>> >> > dumb can anybody be?! NPR won't suddenly go belly up and go off the
>> air,
>> >> > slinking off into the shadows with its tail between its legs. Private
>> >> > donors-- those dwindling middle class stalwarts-- will valiantly step
>> up
>> >> > to
>> >> > the plate in ever greater numbers. So what will actually happen,
>> then,
>> >> > is
>> >> > that NPR will be unfettered and free to unleash all their rabid
>> commie
>> >> > pinko
>> >> > liberal gun-hating womens libber staffers to say all the rabid commie
>> >> > pinko
>> >> > tea-barfing they've always wanted to say but didn't because they felt
>> >> > compelled to be balanced in their commie pinko tree-hugging opinions
>> and
>> >> > bleeding-heart liberal union thug biased news reporting. Clearly,
>> this
>> >> > government measure will not serve the common good. And I may be
>> forced
>> >> > to
>> >> > mix even more metaphors in the future.
>> >> >
>> >> > Bob Dickow, troublemaker
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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