Roundup
(1) Was there anyone previously unaware of the leftist bias of NPR? If so, that person might want to read this exposé by a 25-year veteran of NPR.
(2) Biden hasn’t given up trying to purchase the votes of the young through unconstitutional means. What a guy:
Joe Biden just announced that he is pushing even further on ‘forgiving’ student loan debt to the tune of billions. When talking about the issue, Biden even acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court told him that he didn’t have the power to do this but that he is doing it anyway.
It’s past time to call this what it is. Joe Biden is trying to buy the votes of college students with our tax dollars.
The media is going along gleefully.
How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?
(3) Sheila Jackson Lee, astronomer extraordinaire:
… [S]ometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gasses.
And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans could live on the moon. Are the gasses such that we could do that?
Lee tried to excuse herself by saying she meant the sun was made of gasses, not the moon. But there’s no way that her statement can be interpreted as referring to the sun.
(4) Did you know that Joe Biden is the perfectly moderate candidate and the Democrat Party is the perfectly moderate party? Yes, indeed:
The other problem with the No Labels operation is that there already is a moderate, bipartisanship-minded political faction in the United States. It is called the Democratic Party. For better or for worse, that party continues to be the home of nearly all of the remaining “institutionalists” in U.S. politics, and party leadership has repeatedly, over the past decade, passed up opportunities to engage in retaliatory procedural maneuvering in response to GOP constitutional hardball, preferring instead to stand up for a long-vanished consensus politics that has virtually no support on the other side of the aisle.
President Joe Biden not only leads that institutionalist party, but he is also its most vocal and successful backer of bipartisanship as a governing and political philosophy. During the 2020 campaign, he touted his record of reaching across the aisle when he was a senator, and as president he has signed an impressive array of bills with bipartisan support …
… Biden and Democrats have also repeatedly resisted tit-for-tat partisan escalation.
Much more of that sort of thing at the link.
(5) Amnesty International covers itself with shame [WARNING: horrific content coming up]:
Even by "human rights group" standards, this is scandalous. Does tell you what Amnesty et al. think of Jewish lives, though.
Walid Daqqa led a PFLP cell that abducted a young IDF soldier, Moshe Tamam, in 1984, gouged his eyes out, castrated him, and then shot him dead. https://t.co/tCFCO1HORE pic.twitter.com/vVpYQn7PGU
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) April 9, 2024
“that person might want to read this exposé by a 25-year veteran of NPR.”
Is it really an exposé if it’s something any thinking person knows? I suppose it’s good that it comes from an insider, but why wait 25 years? He says it used to be different, and it’s gotten bad only in the last few years, but really it’s always been thus. I think this guy finally noticed it, and is just saying it used to be different as cover for his complicity.
Biden loves America like I love that day toward the end of the month, when my Social Security check comes.
Trump loves America like I love my wife and children… and America.
Jimmy:
Probably not all that different but perhaps slightly less awful.
Ok they are trying standup comedy right?
The same applies to amnesia international
Well the gist of their previous behavior was seen in that expose o keefe did a decade ago
Jackson Lee sets such a low standard for intelligence.
As an amateur stargazer im appalled at the singularity that is sheila jackson lee
The other problem with the No Labels operation is that there already is a moderate, bipartisanship-minded political faction in the United States. It is called the Democratic Party.
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David Faris is either remarkably silo’d or has a remarkable capacity for artifice. Yes, he has a faculty appointment – at Roosevelt University (a private teaching institution in Chicago). Your tuition dollars at work.
Amnesty International is now a special pleader for Satan.
URI Berliner didn’t notice the NPR apolgetics for Islamists immediately after 9/11 (Daniel Schorr etc.) or the historical pro Soviet outlook during the 80s-90s? How could he being raised by a lesbian leftist? Now that the left is even more radical th
an his mum, being ‘led’ by Brandon off the deep end, he notices something is off. ‘Guys, keep the indoctrination subtle and the lies less obvious. The rubes have noticed!’
Hes a jelly donut i think strawberry
Yes i went with the malaprop from the
kennedy speech
Yes national politburo radio has always been terrible
Ich been berliner?
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1778146005852021188
Taking her at her later word (substituting sun for moon), what in hell makes her think “And that’s why the question is why or how could we as humans could live on the moon. Are the gasses such that we could do that?” was any less stupid?
Yale and uva are proud yikes
Maybe she mixed it up wirh mars where she thinks we planted the flag
I may not have agreed with late mickey leland but he wasnt an idiot
Well JFK is reported by Snipes to have said
I am a resident of Berlin, not a sumptuous item of baked goods.
So Snipes has settled the pastry and can go back to fart checking satire.
Depends where you put the umlaut i guess like the dieresis in spanish or the glottal stop in arablc
If Lee believes that the moon is made of gasses, does that make her a Moon Landing Denier?
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“Institutionalism” seems to be about promoting the interests and desires of the bureaucracy, the entrenched political class, the media, the military, NGOs, and the corporate oligarchs. It doesn’t have much to do with the constitution or the traditions of the country. So it’s “institutionalism” versus “constitutionalism.”
There was something to be said for the old 20th century American Establishment. It wasn’t wholly incompetent and it did seem to have some version of the national interest at heart. Its replacement has combined the vices of the old elite with some new ones of its own.
At the start of this century, Norman Ornstein was preaching the gospel of “asymmetrical polarization,” the idea that Republicans had moved further to the right and Democrats remained more or less in the center. It was a biased point of view then, but it wasn’t manifestly absurd. Spouting the same idea now is. Nonetheless, it is true that the country doesn’t have room for three “institutionalist” parties (Democrats, McConnellite RINOs, and No Labelists).
P.S. Biden had trouble today remembering what century this is and what century he was running as “The man of.” It’s not hard to think of Joe as a “Man of the 20th Century,” but people didn’t want him back then either.
We drifted into some terrible mirror universe thats for sure
Like bearded spock universe
So with Biden’s college-debt ‘foregiveness’ (ie, transfer to other people), there can be two people working side-by-side in the same job, and the one who didn’t get a college loan..may have not gone to college at all…is required to subsidize the one who got an expensive college degree on credit.
Art Deco:
Faris is quite the piece of work. Author of this helpful little guide to tyranny.
But moderate. Very very moderate.
I have argued in somewhat conditional but nonetheless vehement terms, that if what liberals and progressives self report is true, then they are likely hardwired for human termite life and the offloading of the costs of their emotional and psychological dysfunctions onto others, under the mere guise of a so-called progressive moral ideology.
Neo says a change of mind is a difficult thing. I have said that if we assume that progs have self insight and have been doing their due diligence in keeping informed that it follows as a grim fact that nothing will change their minds. Haidt’s moral sensibility research, and the data on both the heritabilty of mental and personality disorders and their greater percentages of occurance in liberal populations seemed to reinforce that conclusion. Write them off, let them die, there is no reasoning with them and they will never learn because data and experience don’t ever register.
I would like nothing more than to be shown to be too pessimistic.
Here is one apparent counter example, though I was always thinking of white people as I constructed my mental model.
You may have seen this already though it seems to have been released only today.
Trump visits a chicken joint in Georgia.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMj8VqNczSs
The comments on the video are interesting.
Was there anyone previously unaware of the leftist bias of NPR?
Since the mid-70s, though it’s gotten steadily worse. Uri Berliner’s long article with its ‘wakeup’ only in 2020 shows how the groupthink acted as a warm bath for all the noble ‘news’ gatherers and producers. Were I the King, I’d fire half of its staff, replace them with articulate conservatives, allot 1/2 of each hour to each faction and let them go at it. They’d lose their support from all the lefty ‘non-profits’, but regain it in spades from all the non-lefties who’ve suffered for fifty years under that mandatory groupthink and those excruciating vocal stylings. And maybe the non-lefties would use good old U.S.A. English, and create a real debate.
Wisconsin Public Radio used to have Old Time Radio Drama from 8:00-11:00 PM, on Saturday and Sunday nights. In 2020, the cancelled it, because Old Time Radio is racist, and substituted ” more inclusive” programming.
Juan Williams went after Uri for his comments abut NPR.
Biden Education Secretary Refuses To Answer Whether ‘Women Are Physically Different Than Men’
Seriously, who are these people?
}}} Biden even acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court told him that he didn’t have the power to do this but that he is doing it anyway.
This is really no different that what Obama did with Solyndra, which was totally illegal — it benefited an Obama donor at the expense of the American people. And this was directly in contravention of the specific law in which Solyndra was given money.
The fact that it was illegal was indicated to them by the DOE Chief counsel, the DOE’s “outside counsel”, AND the OMB.
Nothing happened to anyone, and Obama’s major donor cleared out with almost a billion in illegally obtained tax credits.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170707065530/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-donor-gained-nearly-1-billion-in-tax-credits-in-solyndra-bankruptcy/article/2536031
When time comes to actually restructure things, one thing that needs to be put into place is an independent auditor/legal branch whose job it is to audit, sue, and prosecute government agents who violate the law in this manner. They should wind up destitute and probably in prison in many cases.
}}} Biden loves America like….
… O.J. loved Nicole.
}}} It was a biased point of view then, but it wasn’t manifestly absurd.
Sorry, Abraxas. It was manifestly absurd even then. There is zero question that the majority of the left, by far, hated everything America stood for. They just weren’t as VOCAL about it then as they are these days.
}}} Amnesty International is now a special pleader for Satan.
This is not news. This has been the case for literally 40 years.
}}} sheila jackson lee
She’s managed to enshrine her Hank Johnson moment for all to see.
It was 40 years ago that William Rusher was making the case that Amnesty International was run by poseurs. They used to be subtle about it. A milestone between then and now was reached in 2000 when a Philadelphia cop killer named Wesley Cook (a.k.a “Mumia Abu Jamal”) was declared a ‘prisoner of conscience’.
What the left can teach the right about political power
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/what-the-left-can-teach-the-right-about-political-power
If this were a Liam Neeson action-flick , the author of that Amnesty International post would be identified. Then, his friend(s) & relative(s) would receive the treatment that that soldier endured — with that A.I. author sitting close by, watching.
But that’s just a script idea
Had she been paying attention in school she would know that the moon is made of cheese.
How the residents at the San Antonio Zoo [would have] reacted when they heard Representative Lee lecture us about astronomy….
“San Antonio Zoo animals go bananas during eclipse as creatures freak out when day becomes night”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13288091/San-Antonio-Zoo-animals-eclipse-reaction-video-sun-moon.html?ito=chromelessDM_0
Was 55-57 when I first voted some 21 years ago, and I had noticed how left-wing NPR was for years before that – even tho didn’t really pay much attention to politics prior to GW Bush.
https://notthebee.com/article/the-us-navy-posted-this-picture-then-deleted-it-lets-look-at-the-comments-shall-we
That is why the left made sure to cancel the vote through strategic placed judges with prop 187 prop 229 sb 10 sb 4 etc etc
So this effemdi daqua died a martyrs death like qutb why are they not celebrating
Well let us recall than rowling used to work for oxfam and AI so the drone didnt know any better but management has no such excuse. its like those who made such a deal about mandela but ignored the cause of his inprisonment
A violent overthrow of the south african government which would have been replaced along soviet lines
Not this again
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1778168318853005821
The gasses are emanating directly from Jackson Lee – fore and aft.
Rep. Lee has a BA from Yale and JD from UVA.
How did that happen?
The thing that drives me wild about NPR is that it can’t be defunded. Or maybe it can, but it never happens.
It has a structure where the local affiliates pay the DC HQ. But there must be some federal money in there that needs to be eliminated. There is no way that conservatives should be forced to pay for leftwing propaganda.
No they dont want it to be defunded who knows why blackmail
Re:Sheila Jackson Lee;
She is right up there (or maybe I should say, down there) with Kamala Harris, in terms of being just plain stupid and ignorant.
And speaking of stupid and ignorant; recall US Representative Hank Johnson (D – Ga.) who was concerned that the island of Guam would TIP OVER if too many people populated the island.
Yep folks; these are some of the absolute morons that the citizens elect into office.
Ignorance can be “fixed;” it just means you do not know something, but you can choose to learn/study and decrease / remove that ignorance about a given topic.
Stupid cannot be fixed because stupid people are too stupid to realize they are stupid and ignorant. Further, they do not know they are stupid and ignorant.
One group that I can think of that is equally ignorant and stupid are the cast of that TV show , “The View.” (and no, I do no watch that show).
Apparently, one of the hosts claimed that the recent earthquake in the NE USA was caused by global warming.
The USA is not long for this world when many in Congress have the brain power of a pebble.
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
Mark Twain
Insufficiently Sensitive remarks, re NPR, on “those excruciating vocal stylings.”
Yes. I’ve never been under any illusions about NPR’s leftist bias, and though I was never exactly a very regular listener I did tune in now and then. But there came a point, maybe ten years ago, when I suddenly realized that I just could not stand the way most of their news people talked, and have really never listened since. It would be more trouble than I want to take to try to describe and explain it. But it has to do with a supremely smug, supremely pleased with themselves, quality. A sense of “we are the smart good people, and also the upper class, and we are speaking to our peers.”
Doonesbury, once funny, managed to do something similar using only pictures and text.
About the propaganda, though: many people who have listened for many years agree with Berliner that it really has gotten much worse over the past decade.
Cornhead @ 1020:
“Rep. Lee has a BA from Yale and JD from UVA.
How did that happen?”
I hope that was a rhetorical question. The answer is very obvious I would assume.
You have to go to skippy orourke for similar foolishness
Actually it is “Ich bin ein Berliner”
JFK obviously was saying “I am a Berliner,” as in a citizen of Berlin. This, of course was when the Berlin Wall was still standing. The listening audience was momentarily dumbfounded; here was the president of the USA saying that he was a jelly donut.
A Berliner is a jelly donut. Another name for this item, in German, is Krapfen.
At least JFK did not say, “Ich bin ein Krapfen.”
Though he could have said the existence of the Berlin Wall was Krapfen.
Doonesbury, once funny, managed to do something similar using only pictures and text.
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Doonesbury was never amusing. The cartoonist and his audience made a cruddy little club.
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Berke Breathed took flak from people who said Bloom County was derivative. It wasn’t. Bloom County actually was funny.
The listening audience was momentarily dumbfounded; here was the president of the USA saying that he was a jelly donut.
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I’ve heard that contention once before. The progenitor was an unpleasant little popinjay employed as a history professor. No, he was not trustworthy on any subject.
Being lauded for one’s ignorance is merely another manifestation of “reparations”.
Ditto for the get-out-of-jail-free card madness.
To be sure, minority communities suffer the most but THAT can also be blamed on white supremacy…and its orange-haired overlord…
Win-win-win…(well, for some)…
In re NPR’s timeline of left-wing bias: a current story at Red State led back through a series of posts on the subject, using the common hook “Defund NPR” (which has my vote).
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/04/11/defund-now-nprs-headline-on-the-death-of-oj-simpson-was-something-else-n2172634
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/04/28/reporter-reminds-us-why-npr-needs-defunding-in-remarks-on-wh-correspondents-dinner-n738507
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/07/04/calls-to-defund-npr-ring-out-after-network-absurdly-goes-woke-on-independence-day-n588843
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/06/22/defundnpr-trends-after-npr-caught-spreading-fake-news-about-louisville-incident-involving-car-and-protesters-n244151