NPR's Nina Totenberg is a Bald Faced Liar

The entire “Progressive” ideology is PURE MYTHOLOGY!
No lie is too big or too small if it helps to sell their snake oil.
And, they wonder why we have contempt for so-called “journalists”.
The so-called “profession” of so-called “journalism” has DESTROYED the USA.

Quoting NPR’s Nina Totenberg:

“there were more people on food stamps under George W. Bush”

The federal government reports that the peak rate of food stamp usage under President Bush was 31,624,844 (in 2008).

The federal government reports that -- in October, 2011 (the most recent data available), 46,224,722 people were receiving what used to be called food stamps (in 2008, it became known as SNAP).

The Far Left Huffington Post and other sources acknowledge that more people (by FAR) are on what used to be called food stamps than ever before.

When Pigs Fly!

Quoting Tim Graham
at NewsBusters:

“New NPR President Gary Knell made an appearance on their afternoon talk show Talk of the Nation on Friday (his first day) to give the appearance of transparency and responsiveness and to build morale after scandals such as the Juan Williams firing and the deeply embarrassing Muslim Brotherhood sting video, which led to several firings.

Knell just strained credulity beyond the breaking point by claiming NPR is not an advocacy organization, but a network of ‘fairness and accuracy and honesty’”

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STOP robbing tax payers to fund this purely political advocacy!
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The purely political advocacy demonstrated daily by NPR is never more evident than when they “report” on climate change. Listening to NPR, one would think that there are no scientists in the entire known universe who question any aspect of the purely political orthodoxy of Catastrophic Man Made Global Warming.

Juan Williams reacts to resignation of NPR tyrant

1/8/11 Update:
NPR insiders reflexively blame Fox News.

Vivian Schiller lost her holiday bonus.
Ellen Weiss (who summarily fired Juan) resigned.

Juan Williams reacts
(correctly comparing NPR to Pravda):

I don’t expect anything to improve at NPR. My bet is that Weiss will be replaced by a Leftist ideologue at LEAST as strident as Weiss. If anything changes at NPR, it will only move farther to the Far Left. You can test my theory by listening to NPR to see if you EVER hear ANY viewpoint or ANY data supporting skepticism as relates to the theory of Catastrophic Man Made Global Warming. I listen to NPR regularly and I have NEVER ONCE heard even the slightest suggestion that there MIGHT be even a tiny little SHRED of merit to any skeptical view.

Now, NPR should be free to spew all the purely political propaganda they want to. But, NPR should NOT be allowed to force me -- at gunpoint -- to subsidize their brazen propaganda. Yet, tyrannically, they do.

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No Subsidy for NPR

Quoting Jeff Jacoby
at The Boston Globe:

“A BILL pulling the plug on federal funding for National Public Radio was thwarted last week when the lame-duck Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives voted down a Republican effort to bring the measure to the floor. Introduced last summer by Colorado Republican Doug Lamborn, the legislation would bar NPR and its local affiliates from spending federal dollars on NPR programming. Of course there was never any chance that a bill targeting one of the nation’s most prominent left-of-center institutions would pass while Democrats still controlled the House. But a GOP majority is taking over in January, and ending NPR’s taxpayer subsidies ought to be high on its to-do list…

[In response, NPR] issued a statement so pompous and illogical that it could have been drafted in Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.

‘Today, good judgment prevailed as Congress rejected a move to assert government control over the content of news,’ it declared.”

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Isn’t “pompous and illogical” NPRs standard fare?
NO media outlet should get ANY taxpayer money -- PERIOD!

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NPR fanboy is rappin'

Did NPR make him this way?
NPR fanboy “raps” to get in touch with his inner dweeb:

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Or, click here for a song that will get that crap out of your head.

Meanwhile, back at National Progressive Radio

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The NPR Shell Game With Tax Payer Money

Updated on 6/20/11 to reflect fiscal year 2009 data
NPR is still reeling in the aftermath of their utterly unjustified and totally hypocritical firing of Juan Williams. Senator Jim DeMint has promised to introduce legislation calling for an end to taxpayer funding of NPR. Predictably, NPR is not entirely honest in admitting their taxpayer funding.

Expect a delay before this video starts.
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller
dancing around taxpayer funding:

Click here to exhaustively expose the shell game NPR plays in what could be described as a money laundering scheme involving CPB.

Technical Note: The above embedded video clip is the same clip presented in the above link. In the above link, the embedded video clip may not function properly (might not start). To get around this, right click over the video, then click on “Play/Pause”.

Here’s my abbreviated version
describing the NPR shell game:
First, note that CPB is entirely funded by money stolen from the taxpayers.

Money stolen from taxpayers flows to CPB, then to the NPR affiliate stations and then to NPR. Over the last 5 years, 40% of NPR revenues came from “Station Programming Fees” provided by their affiliate stations. Now, let’s examine where these affiliate stations get their money.

From NPR’s own web site
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These are the sources of the 30.7% of NPR radio station funds stolen from taxpayers in fiscal year 2009:

1) 5.8% directly from federal, state, and local governments.

2) 10.6% from CPB (which gets all it’s funding from taxpayers)

3) 14.3% from Universities - These are universities which host NPR member stations and pay a licensing fee to NPR. You can bet your life that these are all state universities and that the funding for their NPR radio stations comes exclusively from the taxpayers.

That brings us to 30.7% of NPR radio station funding stolen from taxpayers. Of course, one can only wonder what portion of the 6.6% listed as “Other” was also stolen from taxpayers.

Krauthammer vs. Totenberg on NPR's brazen hypocrisy

Krauthammer vs. Toetenberg on NPR’s brazen hypocrisy
(in the entirely unjustified firing of Juan Williams):

Click here for commentary & damning exposés on Totenberg.
Click here for a video on Nina Totenberg’s personal hypocrisy.
If Nina had ANY integrity, she would vigorously defend Juan.
Obviously, Nina Totenberg (like NPR) has NO INTEGRITY!
Click here for all my posts on the national disgrace of NPR.

NPR - Juan Williams Firing Necessitated by Fox News Bias

Click here for more insight into the fantasy world inhabited by NPR management.
Here’s a teaser -- The following is deemed to uphold NPR “journalistic standards”.

Nina Totenberg on God Giving Jesse Helms Aids:

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on this national disgrace.

NPR Listeners - Just as intolerant as NPR management?

Personally, based upon the almost uniform outrage I have witnessed from devoted NPR listeners in response to the utterly unjustifiable firing of Juan Williams, I suspect the alleged intolerance of the NPR audience is more a figment of the NPR management’s imagination. That said, here are some insights into that very disturbing imagination:

Among the many phony excuses offered by NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard, this one stands out as an insight into her perception of the intolerance of NPR listeners:

“In 2008, I received 378 emails complaining about remarks Williams made on Fox – but I heard very little about his comments on NPR. My February 2009 blog post on the Stokely Carmichael incident drew 216 comments – many asking why NPR put up with Williams' dual role.

In fact, since I became Ombudsman in October 2007, no other NPR employee has generated as much controversy as Williams.”

First, I know the NPR audience is tiny; but, unless they had less than 757 listeners (throughout all of 2008), Ms. Shepard was basing her impressions of her audience upon a rather tiny fraction of (like minded) totalitarian extremists among that audience.

There is no evidence that any significant portion of the Fox News audience had any problems with Juan’s dual role at NPR. Or, (lacking any evidence to this effect) even if there was any significant objection, the management of Fox News -- unlike the management of NPR -- had the courage to stand up for the principle of Free Speech and open debate.

Also “interesting” is the following blatant contradiction (typical of the ever vacuous Ms. Shepard) between what she said yesterday vs. what she said in February of 2009.

Yesterday, trying to rationalize the firing of Juan Williams, Shepard said (emphasis mine):

“Many have been troubled over the years by the dual role that Williams has played: balanced news analyst on NPR; more opinionated pundit on Fox.”

In February of 2009, Shepard said (emphasis mine):

“Last spring, NPR's management put him [Juan Williams] on contract with the title ‘news analyst’ largely to give him more latitude about what he says. He's now paid to give his opinion”

Okay, Ms. Shepard, which was the real role of Juan Williams at NPR? Or, do you just make it up as you go according to the purely political needs of the moment?

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on this national disgrace.

NPR Lashes Juan Williams

Quoting E.W. Jackson Sr.
at American Thinker:

“When escaped slaves were caught, they were lashed into submission. This was intended not only as a warning to that particular slave, but to the entire plantation of black servants to stay in their place. Liberals do the psychological equivalent of this to any black person who dares to leave the plantation of liberal orthodoxy. After working over a decade for liberal National Public Radio, Juan Williams was summarily fired, publically ridiculed and told to see a psychiatrist. Liberals have a proprietary attitude toward blacks and other minorities. When anyone one of us dares contradict leftist thought, they try to punish us severely….

I have been saying and writing for years that elitist liberals do not like black people or other minorities. They only like the ‘good’ ones whom they control. They like the ones who bow to the god of liberalism. Any black person or other minority can test this thesis by expressing a pro-life view, opposition to same sex relationships or doubts about global warming. They will find the liberal welcome mat unceremoniously yanked just as Juan Williams did. How ironic that the people who are always demanding tolerance have none. Maybe they are the ones who really need to see a psychiatrist.

I don't agree with Juan Williams about much, but I am glad that conservative Roger Ailes gave the liberal Juan Williams a new contract with FOX where freedom of thought is honored. NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting may no longer receive public funding as a result of this debacle. They will still be free to run an intellectual plantation, but not at taxpayer expense. Somebody needs to tell liberals that slavery ended a long time ago.”

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According to Juan Williams,
he “was the only black male on the air” at NPR.
Now, the Leftists at NPR have NO black males on the air.
Coincidence? You decide.

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on this national disgrace.

DeMint - Time to End Taxpayer Funding of NPR, PBS

Quoting a press release from Senator Jim DeMint:

“Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee which oversees the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), announced he will introduce legislation to stop taxpayer subsidies of public radio and television. CPB-funded television and radio programs are distributed through National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

‘Once again we find the only free speech liberals support is the speech with which they agree. The incident with Mr. Williams shows that NPR is not concerned about providing the listening public with an honest debate of today’s issues, but rather with promoting a one-sided liberal agenda,’ said Senator DeMint.

‘Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds programming for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, has received nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money,’ said DeMint.”

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CPB gets ALL their funding from our taxes.
Defunding all of this is long, long, LONG overdue!
But, a Dim controlled Congress would never pass this.
So, there we have one more reason to vote the Dims out!

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on this national disgrace.

NPR Ombudsman on Juan Williams catastrophe

In my first post on this NPR catastrophe I noted:

“NPR Ombudsman promises commentary to come.
Given the nature of her past commentary, this should be ‘interesting’.”

As expected, Alicia Shepard did not disappoint.

A tiny fraction of her commentary sheds light on the fact that NPR is getting hammered just as hard and just as uniformly by Leftists and NPR loyalists as anybody else:

“Thursday was a day like none I’ve experienced since coming to NPR in October 2007. Office phone lines rang non-stop like an alarm bell with no off button. We’ve received more than 8,000 emails, a record with nothing a close second….

At noon, the deluge of email crashed NPR’s ‘Contact Us’ form on the web site.

The overwhelming majority are angry, furious, outraged. They want NPR to hire him back immediately. If NPR doesn't, they want all public funding of public radio to stop. They promise to never donate again. They are as mad as hell, and want everyone to know it. It was daunting to answer the phone and hear so much unrestrained anger.”

The rest of Alicia’s typically excessively verbose nonsense was the usual, predictable, far left propagandistic claptrap which NPR and their Ombudsman are both famous for. When Leftists are cornered -- especially when cornered by virtue of their own insanity -- they always resort to the logical fallacy of the tired old moral equivalence pseudo-argument. In this case, Ms. Shepard wondered out loud:

“I can only imagine how Williams, who has chronicled and championed the Civil Rights movement, would have reacted if another prominent journalist had said:

‘But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see an African American male in Dashiki with a big Afro, I get worried. I get nervous.’ ”

Gee, Alicia, I don’t know. But, if African American males -- using airplanes as guided missles -- ever perpetrate anything even remotely as murderously evil as 9/11, I’ll get back to you on that -- ya’ blind as a bat blond headed BIMBO!

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on this national disgrace.

JUAN WILLIAMS - I Was Fired for Telling the Truth

Quoting Juan Williams:

“Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth…

To say the least this is a chilling assault on free speech….

my comments on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ are being distorted by the self-righteous ideological, left-wing leadership at NPR…

They loathe the fact that I appear on Fox News…

This is an outrageous violation of journalistic standards and ethics by management that has no use for a diversity of opinion, ideas or a diversity of staff (I was the only black male on the air). This is evidence of one-party rule and one sided thinking at NPR that leads to enforced ideology, speech and writing. It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought.

Daniel Schorr, my fellow NPR commentator who died earlier this year, used to talk about the initial shock of finding himself on President Nixon’s enemies list. I can only imagine Dan’s revulsion to realize that today NPR treats a journalist who has worked for them for ten years with less regard, less respect for the value of independence of thought and embrace of real debate across political lines, than Nixon ever displayed.”

You heard it straight from Juan.
FNC is fair and balanced and NPR is not.
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on this national disgrace.

Wean NPR From the Government Teat

Update:
NPR Contact Page is overloaded
NPR Ombudsman promises commentary to come.
Given the nature of her past commentary, this should be “interesting”.

Quoting Fox News:

“National Public Radio fired Fox News contributor Juan Williams on Wednesday after a Monday night appearance on Fox News' ‘The O'Reilly Factor’ in which Williams said that it makes him nervous to fly on airplanes with devoutly-clad Muslims.”

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Click here for Juan’s comments on his firing.
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It is way beyond high time that NPR was weaned from their government teat! No media outlet should ever receive government funding, least of all a media outlet as brazenly propagandistic as NPR (or PBS, or CPB).

Williams is one of the most reliably Leftist voices on Fox News. But, for NPR, the simple fact that Williams appears on Fox News brands him as a traitor to their lunatic cause. I believe that -- simply because Juan was also employed at FNC -- NPR has long been looking for an excuse to get rid of Williams. NPR found that excuse in the poisoned well of Political Correctness run amuck.

SHAME ON YOU, NPR!
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NPR Ombudsman Alicia C. Shepard is Hideously Dishonest

Quoting NPR Ombudsman Alicia C. Shepard
(who was commenting on this controversy):

“NPR does not receive direct funding from the federal government. Less than 2 percent of its annual budget comes from competitive grants from federally funded institutions.”

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NPR’s Alicia C. Shepard further suggests that NPR showed political balance “On Dec. 31, [when] Fiore took after Obama on npr.org.” Is Ms. Shepard SO ideologically blinkered that she TRULY BELIEVES political balance is achieved by:

1) Mocking Obama for -- in the eyes of Fiore -- not being enough of a leftwing extremist.

2) Simultaneously mocking “Rightwing Ralphie”.

Sadly, at NPR (and CPB) this IS what they regard as “balance”.

I might suggest that NPR find a new (and less ethically challenged) Ombudsman. But, I am certain the next one would be no better than this one. What I REALLY want is for the utterly dishonest and pathetically propagandistic NPR to STOP ROBBING ME AT GUNPOINT!

Mark Fiore, NPR's Third Rate Propagandist

If anybody wonders why I object to being required -- through force of law -- to fund NPR, look no further than NPR’s third rate propagandist -- Mark Fiore.

It’s unclear whether Fiore is paid by NPR. I’m betting he is. What is certain (at a minimum) is that I am required -- through force of law -- to fund the hosting of Fiore’s garbage and pay the salary of whatever NPR nitwit creates the associated NPR web pages.

The following are just two examples of Fiore’s trash -- the first being the most egregious:

1) Click here for Fiore’s health care propaganda (“Learn to Speak Tea Bag”).
Click here for the well documented facts.

2) Click here for Fiore’s ClimateGate propaganda (“Science-Gate”).
Click here for the well documented facts.

My disgust with NPR has reached a whole new level.

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NPR - AGW hysteria is an article of faith

Quoting NPR’s Living on Earth:

“protecting the planet is an article of faith [in AGW hysteria]”

Actually, we already knew that.
But, click the image & read the rest:

Or, click here for the audio version.

This story/movement reminds me of Liberation Theology.
But, that is not even remotely surprising.
Ditto the international wealth redistribution agenda.

Slate.com openly worried about the establishment of
a state (environmental) religion -- here we are!

Click here & mark the day AGW science died
(and went to heaven).