horrible NPR radio, horrible Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.Carolina), horrible Selby R-Alabama

[amborin]

NPR let Demint speak at length today about how the Big Three should go bankrupt, not get any bailout...of course the main objective, blatantly stated, was to bust the UAW, eliminate it

DeMint and Selby both talked about how bad unions are, that "unionism is antiquated" etc....

bad enough that these two wretched rethugs are saying those vile things...but why does NPR let them speak at length, and not have anyone from the other side?????

I know NPR drank the koolaid a long time ago, but I didn't realize just how much

[Jane Austin]

1. Minor point.

It's Shelby.

I'm also tired of looking at those two - plus Mark Sanford and that mean woman from Tennessee. (Sorry, it's late.)

They are really getting a lot of teevee time.

[amborin]

3. shelby, thanks, it is late

[sweetpotato]

15. Get used to Mark Sanford

He is being groomed for big things - or so goes the word on the street in Columbia, SC.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Sometimes I think that they put those guys on not to advocate

for their position, but to show how crazy they are. At least that's the end impression I always end up with, I'm never ever swayed by the arguments they present & I doubt anybody else is either.

[amborin]

4. i hope most listeners can see, but there's an awful lot of anti-

unionism out there, and the way these rethugs and the media are spinning the big three crisis does not help the UAW

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. However, those bastards are whistling in the dark, at the end of the day

the Democratic Congress & President will keep things right.

[blindpig]

10. Nope, they're serious.

Libertarianism is alive and well in South Carolina. Ya oughta see the legislative program of Gov. Mark Sanford, strictly Chicago School. We're kinda slow down here, he hasn't gotten the message that the meltdown happened precisely because of such policy.

Funny how the libertarian symps around here have gotten quiet lately. That crap might sound ok to some for the civil liberty aspect. They don't or won't see that all issues from economic power and that libertarianism is first and foremostly about economic inequality. Without economic equality all other forms of equality are moot.

[stuntcat]

11. that's what I get from it

the jerks they give time on there sometimes are just acting like jerks.

[judasdisney]

6. National Pentagon Radio

The final day I listened to NPR was in January 2003, when All Things Considered ran a two-minute opinion piece by someone from the Heritage Foundation, saying that "Jesus was a warrior" who would want Christians to attack Iraq. After a three-year ass-full of Juan Williams hosting "Talk of the Nation" and the Supreme Court coup d'etat getting less than one day's worth of coverage, Cokie Roberts schilling for war & tax cuts, and zero balance, I gave up.

I will never, ever listen to NPR again.

[hootinholler]

7. I heard that yesterday AM...

Started out I'm not out to break the unions and then proceeded to blame the unionfor all the big 3 problems.

It's time to let the unions run the big 3.

-Hoot

[KG]

8. NPR must die.

[riqster]

9. DeMint admitted he wants to get rid of unions overall nt

[raccoon]

14. And I thought Lindsey Graham was bad. nt

[kskiska]

12. DeMint is a looney and a homophobe

and revealed it in his Senate race against state education superintendent Inez Tennenbaum:

(snip)

DeMint stirred controversy during debates with Tenenbaum when he stated his belief that openly gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. When questioned by reporters, DeMint also stated that single mothers who live with their boyfriends should similarly be excluded from being educators. He later apologized for making the remarks without specifically retracting their substantive claims, saying they were "distracting from the main issues of the debate." He also noted that these were opinions based on his personal values, not issues he would or could deal with as a member of Congress.

In an interview on NPR's Diane Rehm Show on January 31, 2008, he cited the prevalence of certain diseases among homosexuals as his reason for opposing gay marriage.

[QC]

13. NPR = Nice Polite Republicans.

I wrote them off years ago.

[Bigmack]

16. Good NPR program....

"Car Talk" with Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers. LMAO!

The Magliozzi brothers are the only NPR program I can listen to without pounding the dashboard in rage.