Comments on: Late Nite FDL: When the Party’s Over

By: John Frodo

John Frodo — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:52:47 +0000

I was right, right, to bad they closed down the forum, the whole neo bunch would be exposed as useful idiots.

By: Rocket Scientist

Rocket Scientist — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:02:41 +0000

William F. Buckley once famously described a conservative as a man standing athwart the flow of history, crying, “Stop!”

Well, the last few years have taught us that a NeoConservative is a man standing athwart the flow of history, saying, “Huh?”

–Deserves to become a classic, TRex. May it be quoted and quoted and…

I can’t give you permission, but I sure do give you lots of encouragement. This is a gem that is meant to be shared. It is absolutely delightful that we get so many gems like this at FDL.

FDL: Accept no substitutes.

Oops - I forgot to get permission from Peterr

By: Midwest Meg

Midwest Meg — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:10:06 +0000

I agree with all the above posters. NPR has become usually too unbearable to listen to anymore. More and more now, I switch over to Air America, which ain’t perfect, but at least I don’t have to hear the same, tired, smug right-wing talking points dished out for the 1,000th time that day.

In Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, Air America’s ratings are going up while public radio’s (and everyone else’s) are going down. Wonder if the two are connected? Maybe a whole lot of us are hitting the change channel button in the car.

By: angelina

angelina — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:03:54 +0000

I heard this load of dreck while I was driving yesterday and I couldn’t believe NPR let it on the air. I was yelling back at the radio. Is everyone so poorly educated that they can’t read and discern the facts? How do these people rise to rather prominent positions. It’s one thing to say Libby is a friend but to deny the facts of this case and the whole Plame outing is outrageous besides unpatriotic.

Except for Terri Gross, I can’t listen to NPR anymore. They used to be great. We lost our liberal talk station in Cincinnati too so it’s slim picking while driving. At least Ira Flatow’s Science Friday hasn’t gotten all ID yet.

By: cynic

cynic — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:59:41 +0000

Did someone say Trex has a day job? Isn’t there some sort of a grant (I mean something a little more substantial than the couple of hunderd I can afford a year to send to FDL) for news reporting that people like Trex and Patch, and Marcy and most of all Jane and Christy (and I’m leaving everyone one else out just because of space, not because I don’t love all of them) could get (if they don’t have one already) that would bring these people to us on a regular paid basis. I mean we pay them to do it. I’m just sayin. I don’t listen to All Things Considered anymore, and we’re about to cancel the NYT, so what about it? Anyone know?

By: Boleslaw

Boleslaw — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:59:16 +0000

Right on about NPR. Also, much of PBS, other than Bill Moyer’s reports skews to the right.

It seems like David Brooks, the right wing op ed columnist of the Times has been on TV more than a thousand times in the past decade. I don’t recall seeing Bob Herbert, the Black liberal, even once.

By the way, all the liberal columnists of the Times see things through Right wing framing — Daily Howler has covered that well.

By: TRex

TRex — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:39:26 +0000

Ed*ard Teller @
302

My NPR letter:

Driving between locations on my job this afternoon, I caught Dan Goure’s commentary regarding the Libby verdict on ATC. I had to hear it again tonight when I got home, on my laptop, to make sure what I thought I heard earlier was correct. It was.

When friends get in trouble, we tend to reach out, sometimes irrationally. That is what Mr. Goure did on your dime. Maybe the next time somebody from the Lexington Foundation has a friend get a DWI, you can get another one of their “fellows” to help us see the injustice in that too. If nobody in your editors’ room realizes how important this trIal and verdict are, I feel your show has lost any sense of perspective.

I can tune over to my AM dial to hear such uninformed people being passed off as authoritative all day long. More and more, I hear shoddy commentaries like Mr. Goure’s on ATC. Is this the new direction of journalism at NPR, or did somebody just mess up?

Excellent work, ET.

By: Bill R.

Bill R. — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:27:27 +0000

I’ve had it with NPR. They have utterly turned on their own constituency. Those few times I tune in, when II hear Cokie Roberts I turn the radio off. I’ve even stopped annual membership to the local public radio station. Enough is enough! If they want to be a schill for the right wing, they can do it on their own time and their own money.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:58:12 +0000

kathleen @ 402

Koppel is Kenneth Pollacks father in law.

Holy crap — for real?!?

This explains a LOT.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:56:58 +0000

reba @
400

Just read the reprehensible Fred Hiatt editorial in WaPo and the firestorm of comments Out of hundreds, only two support the editorial. There is a huge amount of well-informed and angry concern out there. How can we harnass it?

By posting links to FDL, to let the folks reading and typing those angry comments know that they’re not alone! (It also wouldn’t hurt to post things like this over there.)