tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post8658419359863103746..comments2024-03-28T15:17:43.056-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: I'll retire to Bedlam . . .Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-71110439981627972462013-05-20T10:01:21.551-04:002013-05-20T10:01:21.551-04:00NPR officially died in 1991, during the first Iraq...NPR officially died in 1991, during the first Iraq atrocity that the US committed, by failing to report on what was actually happening. To quote Maurice Chevalier, "I remember it well" . . . the only way to read about our massacre of over 400 women and children in the bomb shelter at Amiryeh was to read The Nation. The final "turkey shoot" (as one Apache chopper operator described our mowing down, at night with special vision technology, of thousands of people as they tried to flee to safety)--same story. NPR just caved--"Okay, we'll be 'embedded.'" <br /><br />And now, we have Scott Simon on weekends, sounding like Dr. Evil, asking banal questions and laughing pretentiously at his own non-humor . . . Peter Sagal thinking that he's funny [I call the show "Wait, wait, don't listen (to this shit)].<br /><br />NPR commentators are smug, ignorant, self-important, lacking in keen intelligence and wit, and pathetic in general. It is a sad, sad state of affairs. <br /><br />But at least the FCC protects us--unlike those obscene Canadians--from hearing words like "shit" and "fuck" on radio and TV.<br /><br />The true obscenity is our mass-murdering and polluting of the world's people and environment, and the corporate media's complicity in it. And in the meantime, Bush and Cheney run free while pot smokers go to prison. Apparently smoking a joint is a crime, whereas leading your nation into war (and, in all likelihood in Cheney's case, facilitating the destruction of buildings in NYC to achieve that end) is not. Don Quixotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-11433466234891896732013-05-19T15:49:54.010-04:002013-05-19T15:49:54.010-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.toko baju muslimhttp://goo.gl/ORD7Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-55385633771268034042013-05-17T15:02:43.015-04:002013-05-17T15:02:43.015-04:00I think I hit return instead of shift. The above w...I think I hit return instead of shift. The above was from me.C. Coraxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-50271460510696232392013-05-17T15:01:14.120-04:002013-05-17T15:01:14.120-04:00Masochist, listening to NPR. I flat out refused to...Masochist, listening to NPR. I flat out refused to listen yesterday. I wait until 6pm when the Albany NY station starts its half hour of local news, then I can usually listen to Marketplace without screaming at the radio.<br />I do enjoy writing bitingly sarcastic emails to the ombudsman at NPR.C.noreply@blogger.com