Jane Hamsher @ 108

Kathleen you have been a valued commenter here but this comment crosses the line of what is acceptable at FDL. If it happens again you will be banned.

I truely question why this crosses the line. If I noticed that a radio station was dominated by Irish catholics I would question the leaning of the that station. Please explain this to me. I truely do not understand.

I am sorry if I have offended anyone. But I truely would like to know why this “crosses the line”?

katheen @ 92

I have often wondered if you have to be Jewish to get the job as a host on one of NPR’s shows. Terri Gross…Fresh Air. Scott Simon ..saturday. Neil Conan Talk of the Nation. Ira Glass This American Life. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Justice Talking I believe Margo Adler is Jewish.

Kathleen you have been a valued commenter here but this comment crosses the line of what is acceptable at FDL. If it happens again you will be banned.

I truely question why this crosses the line. If I noticed that a radio station was dominated by Irish catholics I would question the leaning of the that station. Please explain this to me. I truely do not understand.

I have often wondered if you have to be Jewish to get the job as a host on one of NPR’s shows. Terri Gross…Fresh Air. Scott Simon ..saturday. Neil Conan Talk of the Nation. Ira Glass This American Life. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Justice Talking I believe Margo Adler is Jewish.

Kathleen you have been a valued commenter here but this comment crosses the line of what is acceptable at FDL. If it happens again you will be banned.

katheen @ 104

One does not need to speculate and many of the on-air host have shared their ethnicity and their religious persuasions. If there is a lop-sided imbalance it needs to be corrected. I for one think there is an imbalance at NPR in their reporting on the I/P conflict. And people should be able to address it. Does this have to do with many of the host at NPR being Jewish (it is a strong possibility) and how the way stories on the middle east are covered, should be examined closely.

It seems about as significant as the old talk that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a pawn of the Vatican.

The Israeli lobby influences what is discussed and covered in the MSM in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. One does not need to speculate the evidence is in your face everyday there is very little coverage on the MSM about the conflict and when there is it is often inaccurate. Folks have been noticing this for years.

The A*P*C espionage investigation was barely touched by the MSM. The continued delay of the A*P*C Rosen espionage trial has barely been mentioned by the MSM let alone the so called “liberal” blogs. One does not need to look far to find proof of the power of the A-Lobby.

http://www.informationclearing…..e17985.htm

I fervently hope that we have NOT heard the last of it, since if we ARE able to hammer the democrats into singlehandedly forcing troop withdrawals on bush, Karl Rove and the rest of the petro-shitbirds that dragged us into this misery will dance naked on the white house lawn, for their joy at our letting them off the hook, and for our picking up the bloody bartab for what is going to follow the troop wihtdrawals.
What you evidently don’t understand, Jane, is that we have NO choice. Until the people who are responsible for this, the republicans, get there backs enough to the wall to join us in taking the responsiblity for the denouement of THEIR misery-opera, we simply cannot afford to do it for them.

It will be political suicide. It will mean that they have an excellent chance of keeping the white house and taking back congress, along with it.

Are you aware of the fact that it is almost certain that Iraq is going to split into at least three…entities? You can call them states, or regions, or sections, or whatever you please, but they are going to be separate from each other. And NONE of them, not even the Kurds, are going to be user-friendly to us. In the south, “Shiastan” is going to be flatass in BED with Iran. Same agenda; same eagerness to use that newly-joined oil power; same willingness to back the Shia, or most of the Shia, across Iran.

Everything points to Baghdad turning out like some kind of 70’s Beirut-on-crack-cocaine. The fallout from bush’s lunacy may have no limits.

And when those chickens start coming home, I don’t care how “moral” and high-minded you are, or how “moral” and high-minded you think the american voters are, if they have “made by democrats” tattooed on their asses, we are going to get hammered for it. I mean HAMMERED!

The american people are NOT going to say:

“Oh, lookit how courageous the democrats are; they pulled the troops out and triggered all of this. Let’s all run down and vote for them.”
That is part of the wretched truth about this: it was so idiotic; so arrogant; that bush and the rest of the people who did it to us, now have that as their last defense.

“Why sure; you just figure out some way to start the withdrawal, while we do NOTHING except watch, and sharpen our “stab-in-the-back” chain saws.
The MSM is starting to turn our way. Slowly, but they’re turning. They are, after all, frontrunners, and now that the wheels are unspinnably coming off the PanzerKampfWagen there is, AT THIS POINT, no doubt about who is reponsible for it.
4 more prominent republicans are saying the surge isn’t working. They won’t yet say that they will back a bill forcing bush to start pulling the troops out, but that is coming, and sooner, rather than later.

As one think-tanker put it:

“September is looking more like the end of the debate about withdrawing, instead of the beginning of it.” And it is.
This is cleaving our military right down the middle. Do they go for short-term promotion and keep parroting that this is “doable”? Or do they speak the truth, and save our troops lives, and let the Iraqis make the decision on what to do with what’s left of Iraq?

You ended your piece with:

“If members of the GOP and the Connecticut for Lieberman party want endless war, make ‘em wear it. It’s an awfully difficult piece to accessorize.”

Which is the smartest thing you said there.

And with which I totally agree.

They are now wearing it, and it aint pretty. How about we wait until they decide to take it off, themselves (it won’t take long) rather than slipping around behind them, and lifting it off and putting it around our own necks?

RBG @ 103

I, for one, have no need to speculate on the ethnicity or religious persuasions of any one of the NPR on-air staff. What they say on-air is all that really matters. Enough said?

One does not need to speculate and many of the on-air host have shared their ethnicity and their religious persuasions. If there is a lop-sided imbalance it needs to be corrected. I for one think there is an imbalance at NPR in their reporting on the I/P conflict. And people should be able to address it. Does this have to do with many of the host at NPR being Jewish (it is a strong possibility) and how the way stories on the middle east are covered, should be examined closely.

It seems about as significant as the old talk that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a pawn of the Vatican.

katheen @ 92

There was a demand by present and former employees at NPR to have an outside investigation at NPR of “pervasive cronyism” at NPR. The report has never been released by NPR

http://www.current.org/rad/rad702r.html.

Suit against NPR
http://www.current.org/rad/rad702k.html

Another suit
http://www.current.org/rad/rad601d.html

I have often wondered if you have to be Jewish to get the job as a host on one of NPR’s shows. Terri Gross…Fresh Air. Scott Simon ..saturday. Neil Conan Talk of the Nation. Ira Glass This American Life. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Justice Talking I believe Margo Adler is Jewish.

I, for one, have no need to speculate on the ethnicity or religious persuasions of any one of the NPR on-air staff. What they say on-air is all that really matters. Enough said?

One does not need to speculate and many of the on-air host have shared their ethnicity and their religious persuasions. If there is a lop-sided imbalance it needs to be corrected. I for one think there is an imbalance at NPR in their reporting on the I/P conflict. And people should be able to address it. Does this have to do with many of the host at NPR being Jewish (it is a strong possibility) and how the way stories on the middle east are covered, should be examined closely.

Get Tough @ 82

Same with NPR, and Miller at NYT, and Broder and others at WaPo. The neo-cons learned from Tricky Dick that they have to control the media–the NY Post and Wash. Times and Faux Noise are just preaching to the choir. So, they go to work on the bastions of the left–NPR, PBS and the aforementioned periodicals. I read both periodicals religiously, and the WaPo for the longest time leaned “Cheney” for a long time, despite great work from Froomkin and Geller. Cheney inserted the Miller mole at the NYT, and the NYT bit and then cast her aside.

The Neo-cons are trying to control the message, and the newscasts and organizations that true patriots and americans looked to for unbiased, straight dope on those in power have been hooked in for reasons I am not fully capable of explaining. Thank goodness for blogs like this and others.

There was a demand by present and former employees at NPR to have an outside investigation at NPR of “pervasive cronyism” at NPR. The report has never been released by NPR

http://www.current.org/rad/rad702r.html.

Suit against NPR
http://www.current.org/rad/rad702k.html

Another suit
http://www.current.org/rad/rad601d.html

I have often wondered if you have to be Jewish to get the job as a host on one of NPR’s shows. Terri Gross…Fresh Air. Scott Simon ..saturday. Neil Conan Talk of the Nation. Ira Glass This American Life. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Justice Talking I believe Margo Adler is Jewish.

I, for one, have no need to speculate on the ethnicity or religious persuasions of any one of the NPR on-air staff. What they say on-air is all that really matters. Enough said?

If you want to feel great for the rest of the evening watch George Galloway rip into Coleman with the truth!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7883488/

Coleman is Such. A. Tool.

I’m so glad that Franken’s beating him in the fundraising game.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7883488/