WaPo:
The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday’s 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock.
Ellen Weiss, NPR’s vice president for news, said she “felt strongly” that “the White House shouldn’t be selecting the person.” She said NPR told Bush’s press secretary, Dana Perino, that “we’re grateful for the opportunity to talk to the president but we wanted to determine who did the interview.” When the White House said the offer could not be transferred to one of NPR’s program hosts, Weiss took a pass.
Yeah, if Bush wants to get tea-bagged by some cable weasel-style propaganda organ whose house Negro will give him the deference He feels He deserves, let Him go on FOX:
Which is just what happened:
But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams’s talk with Bush wound up in a very different media venue: Fox News.
Williams said yesterday he was “stunned” by NPR’s decision. “It makes no sense to me. President Bush has never given an interview in which he focused on race… . I was stunned by the decision to turn their backs on him and to turn their backs on me.”
Thank God. Saved me the trouble to throwing stuff at the radio again and breaking things.
Or maybe NPR just figured they didn’t want to overwhelm their switchboard with listener, er, reaction. Whatever.
NOTE And what’s an NPR commentator doing commented on his employer? Does that strike anyone else as weird? It’s like he’s working for, er, somebody else as opposed to his employer. (Or is Williams just for hire? If so, that makes NPR’s decision all the more reasonable; if Williams wants to peddle it, he should go to a house of ill-repute, like FOX, to do so.)
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Lately, I get hung-up upon ANY time I call the local NPR 'board'
And one of the board ’jocks’ sent me a RABID e-mail in response to my daily calls to complain about NPR’s GOPuke stenography, virtually shouting at me for my continued criticism.
So i’ve quit calling ’em.
A Quick Study, But A Slow Learner
NPR Needs Our Support...
…as well as our criticism.
This took guts. And look how grateful is Juan Williams. Why did the White House even bother to go through NPR; they could just have contacted Williams first - or perhaps they did and he preferred to do the interview on the more prestigious radio network.
I think some of you younger folk don’t recognize how hard it was to get an NPR and a public television service and to keep them; the rightwing in this country is dying to kill off all public cultural institutions and surely all public media outlets and to make sure that they stay dead. Our local PBS outlet is KCET, which was once one of the flagships of the network; today it is reeling from lack of funding. Granted, it’s a vicious circle, the cuts in funding on the federal level make local subscribers feel that the smaller volume of programming makes it less attractive to subscribe. But the end result is the same. The NEA and the NHA are hanging on by threads.
Bill Moyers alone justified the existence of PBS, and NPR’s is justified by its reporting from Iraq.
So Why Doesn't Williams Feel Insulted
So, the White House calls for Williams, and only Williams, and Williams does not understand that it is calling him their pet. Why doesn’t a real journalist get angry at that? Why does NPR want to keep him?
Hidden assumption there, salmo
“Real journalist…”
Or, Leah, am I being overly cynical? Such things are still possible….
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"So i’ve quit calling ’em."
Yeah, that means fund-raisers, too…
A Quick Study, But A Slow Learner
I would start by giving the tableware
Good lord, what I wouldn’t give to be tea-bagged by some cable weasel-style propaganda organ with a house Negro…
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Better?
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
Didn't Wan Williams used to have another gig
on one of the Sunday bobblehead shows, on MSNBC or Fox or something?
Kidding, Right?
Lately, I get hung-up upon ANY time I call the local NPR ’board’
Submitted by Woody—Tokin Librul on Wed, 2007-09-26 10:42.
And one of the board ’jocks’ sent me a RABID e-mail in response to my daily calls to complain about NPR’s GOPuke stenography, virtually shouting at me for my continued criticism.
So i’ve quit calling ’em.
This is Woody’s idea of a joke, right? I mean, granted, you NPRbots have your IQs diminished from your constant dosing on propaganda, but even you goons don’t really think NPR is anything but the ultra-extreme leftwing haven of adult onset SIDS it is, right? Please, I want to have hope that there is at least one sentient human on the left….Oy vey.
Ah, another Cornerite heard from
I see the overly familiar projection and hate triggers, but I don’t see evidence and reasoning. Quelle surprise.
In fact, far from being “NPRbot”-like, this blog has consistently criticized NPR; try Googling—you know about Google, right?—“NPR is teh suck”. Ever since one of your guys got in there and ran a horse-racing operation out of his office, the suckitude has been massive. As it was designed to be, of course.
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
Congratulations on the protein-lanche
Just that, actually.
Some fucking lanche...
We’ve been linked to by Malkin, and the Corner, and now by these guys, and if the clickthroughs we get are any indication, they’ve got nothing. What are we at on this post, 180? A link from an A-lister is from an order of magnitude greater on up. Pitiful performance, although regarded as very Serious
by the smart money inside the Beltway.
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
But we have been visited by Geenius!
Let us contemplate the mind which could generate the sentence:
“Adult onset SIDS.” SIDS, of course, is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. So we are dealing with the sort of person who would use the unspeakable experience of waking up in the morning to find that your baby is dead, as a joke. Or perhaps an insult. It’s hard to tell with this sort sometimes.
My guess is it’s a victim of Rush Derangement Syndrome, where you just grab a random bit of poo to fling when you want to get attention. Or perhaps just an idiot, who meant to say AIDS perhaps and got his acronyms mixed up. That would be a lot funnier wouldn’t it, “adult onset AIDS.”
But I’m sure she felt she was making a very cutting point. Yeah. Sheer genius.
Go back to Rush-listening, sweetie. Any attempt on your part to listen to an NPR broadcast is too liable to expose you to what little remnants of reality-based content they still let sneak through. Rush will keep filling your head with that pure, sweet poo so your ammunition stores are kept full at all times.