I don’t mind that Limpy is opinionated and partisan. Good for him. Democracies are supposed to include strong
differences. There is a reason why the distance between the governmnet and opposition benches in the Westminster
parliament is two sword lengths. We have elections because its better than shooting at each other, and vigorous debate is a welcome alternative to combat.

I have two grievances against Dumbo. First, he lies. You want an example, listen to his show for five minutes or consult the archives at Media Matters. He claims in the interview that one of his goals is to inform his audience, but telling people stuff that isn’t true is not informing them. NPR made a passing reference to that issue, but all they really care about is that we all get along.

Crap to that. This country faces serious problems that aren’t going to get solved by masking the truth for the sake of comity. And if one side in a debate is wrong, the media, who are supposed to provide accurate information, should say so.

In this case, reporting on Limberger should include an easily documented exposition of his, shall we say, ambivalence about objective truth.

The other charge i would make aganst Rott is his nasty habit of calling people nasty names. Specifically, he habitually uses racial slurs and ad nominem attacks. Examples ? Sure.

Feminists are feminazis. Obama is a halfrican. I could go on.

And then they had the bigot Glenn Beck come on and attack Rutty for being rude!!! Glenn Beck, slanderer and serial racial name caller himself.

Heckuva job, NPR. Next funding drive, I got yer donation, right here.

Margot @ 193: Not sure why that site did that. I just clicked through w/o that problem.
Odd.

My son figured it out, I had iTunes as the ‘default player’ when I downloaded something. So he changed it to RealPlayer and it works.
Good station, thanks!

First of all, I happen to be a proud resident of Sen. Sesssions’ home state of Dumbfuckistan and a regular Firedoglake reader, so we’re not all like that. As to the liberal media bias the wingnuts rail about, I quote from a letter to the LA Times by the late great Steve Allen: “You know who the liberal media are, don’t you? That’s the 600-odd stations that carry Rush Limbaugh.” Fight on!

My senators suuuuuuuuck.

I love my senators. Both are progressive liberal lightening rods, Kennedy and Kerry. Few orate better on the Seante floor than Kennedy, maybe just Byrd. Kennedy is also prolific drafter of legislation. Kerry’s heart is in the place.

TREX great voice.

Sandia Blanca @ 26

Well, let’s not overlook the Nice Polite Republican stylings of Mrs. Cokie Roberts this morning, waxing poetic about the Good Ol’ Days in Washington, when all the little Congressional children played together on the veranda.

I do declare. And lobbyists took Senators to tea at the Washington Hotel.

Where’s a radioactive teapot when you need one?

I don’t have the exact numbers, but the results were along these lines: Fox 90%, the major networks 50% – 60%, etc. The lowest was NPR at about 20%.

If news execs were actually interested in informing the public, they would say to themselves, “yikes, our viewers/listeners are terribly misinformed – we need to do a better job”.

Instead, what happened was the right wing went after NPR, and put alot of political pressure from the top down – Tomlinson was the main advocate – to weed out left-wing influence, and include more airtime for conservative issues.

The results have been extraordinary. I remember the first time I heard a piece on NPR about the “two sides” of the “evolution debate”, and sadly shook my head.

The right wing targeted NPR and got what they wanted. I stopped listening, but after reading the above, I think I will start listening again and dash off e-mails whenever the I see clear indications of the rightward (and counterfactual) shift.

I had switched from NPR to Air America – but in the Boston area, this just went off the air in November (Clear Channels switched to a Spanish language format). So now I listen to AA via the internet.

Total information control is underway, and at this point therer is not a single “mainstream” news source. Thank God Al Gore invented the internet!!!

Loathesome BlackJack Keane on CSPAN.

ohhh…dear lord. ‘No drawdown on CIVILAIN CONTRACTORS’…

guy is kook.

So what about those 92,000 troops? Apparently we don’t have them. How do we get them? Do they believe they are going to recruit that many, really? What am I missing here? Somebody throw me a bone.