Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1116 Editor's Choice: 15
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ReganaD
[Read the article: The Dodd and Biden show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't come anywhere close to "fighting every battle." Who would have the time?
Here's the thing with NPR. I hope we can agree on all of it.
NPR is a great medium, with a huge advantage over any other news network. There are no commercial interruptions. There is a massive national network of stations. If you are in Paris, Texas or Parris Island, SC, or Parisville, Michigan, you will almost assuredly have NPR News. And NPR has the luxury of a highly educated audience that will tolerate thoughtful, lengthy, debate.
And, NPR is relentlessly, religiously, liberal-biased. Their Senior News Analysts are Dan Schorr, Juan Williams and Cokie Roberts. There you have the full range of viewpoints from radical-left Democrat to left-wing Democrat to mainstream Democrat. Those are the people who NPR assigns to interpret your news for you. There are no conservative voices in NPR News; none. NPR's sister publication is Slate, where the polling of its staff for the last Presidential election was something like 85 or 90% for Kerry. The Slate and NPR commentators are often interchangeable; I presume, and think I have every good reason to presume, that the political leanings of the NPR News staff is about the same as it is at Slate.
And yes, Michelle Norris' husband is a former staffer to noted California nutjob Pete Stark, a former Clinton White House Aide, a former Senior Advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign, and he's now a lobbyist specializing in Democrat connections, right?
NPR has virtually zero (or just "zero"?) credentials as a home to any conservative analysis or news programming. Which doesn't make conswervatives feel very good about their national government-supported radio news network.
Has any of this been quantified, you ask? Well, yes, it has. Look here:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=278808786575124
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NPR may invite a conservative or two to appear. They have David Brooks square off with EJ Dionne. And occasionally David Frum will do a commentary (like Robert Reich). That may represent a little balance. BUT...
[Read the article: The Dodd and Biden show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...BUT who among the NPR News staff is a conservative? NONE of the Senior News Analysts, for sure. Those are the staff opinionators.
NONE of the viewpoint-type programs feature conservative hosts. Not Democracy NOW!, or News & Notes. Not Tavis Smiley or Kurt Anderson or "On the Media". (Brooke Gladstone's husband is the virulent Bush-hater at Slate, Fred Kaplan.) Not Terry Gross, who was excoriated by the NPR's ombudsman for her hostile interview of Bill O'Reilly. Gentle soul Garrison Keillor is the "old liberal" from the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party. Ira Glas represents the Gen-X generation of new urban liberals. There are probably 50 political viewpoint shows produced by NPR, PRI, APR, Pacifica, etc. I don't think there is a single conservative viewpoint show. They are all gradations of liberal, to left, to far-left, to radical-left.
NPR is not as "fair" as it pretends to be, and it isn't even close to being "balanced."
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Coming Next Week in Salon: An Analysis of Barack Hussein Obama's Church and Religious Life
[Read the article: This is not Romney's Kennedy moment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or, maybe not.
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Then again, you could consider a real expert on the subject...
[Read the article: CIA coverups and American injustice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Former United States District Judge, terror trial jurist, and now United States Attorney General, Michael Mukasey:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010616
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All this talk about corrupt despots and totalitarianism...
[Read the article: CIA coverups and American injustice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...with so few mentions of Saddam, or Arafat, or Mugabe, or Castro, or Chavez, or Kim Jong-Il, or the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad, or Assad. If only the Salon readership could get as worked up about those figures as they do about any member of the Republican Pary...
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(Yawn)... Clinton appointee to the District Court...
[Read the article: Why is California so special?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who knows? This bizarre ruling might even get by the loony-tune 9th Circuit before adults step in to reverse it.
As I recall, California was the state where an actor named Arnold Schwarzenegger made a military utility vehicle, the Humvee, popular for civilian use. California stars were the ones who made bottled water popular, too.
Wake me when they have decided what is the next "green" fad I am obliged to follow.
In the meantime, I expect that Detroit will continue to make the world's best cars and light trucks for the American market.
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Salon to America: You suck.
[Read the article: Why is California so special?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This all reminds me of a story from the online OpinionJournal.com website of the Wall Street Journal, in which a bunch of young Democrat campaign workers were hunting for some beer after a long day's and then a long night's work. And they laughed contemptuously at the notion that anybody might find some domestic beer, instead hoping for some Guiness.
The Journal writer noted that Guiness was going through some severe labor issues; the domestic beer was made by unionized American workers.
Can one of the Salonistas supply somebody like me with a list of all of your hate objects? Do you equally despise American auto workers and American troops? Has anyone broken the news to John Edwards that you all feel that UAW members are building crappy cars?
Is there anything I could do to assist any of you in quickly leaving the USA and moving to Japan, or Germany, where you can buy and drive their swell cars and know that your government is a faithful signatory to the Kyoto Protocol?
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I'll believe that Al Gore and his disciples are serious about a global warming "crisis"...
[Read the article: Why is California so special?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... just as soon as they propose an immediate and large-scale program to develop nuclear power plants to replace coal-fired power plants.
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I guess it is only natural that Salon would be the place that you would go to in order to find someone who is all too happy to blame Bud Selig for substance abuse in baseball, but not the outlaw players and their thug union bosses like Don Fehr.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really. I don't recall Bud Selig encouraging anybody to try the juice. And I also don't recall Don Fehr calling out for more testing and stricter league policies on performance-enhancing drugs.
I guess that if you are George Mitchell and your job is 'diplomatic negotiator,' you talk nicely to both sides. Even if one side is composed of terrorists, as in Norhtern Ireland, or crooked lawyers, as with the MLBPA.
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It's Agnes Moorhead -- Samantha's mother, Endora, on "Bewitched"!
[Read the article: Campaigning while female]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.phpimage=Bex/Bewitched1_endora.jpg
She was a witch, too!
Damn! Who you gonna call?
Hillary "Bewitched" Clinton?
John "Love Child" Edwards?
Barack Hussein (No fictional middle name needed) Obama?
"President McCain" is sounding better all the time...