2 Down and so many more in line to get the boot, with such little time.

2012 Here we come, right back where we started from.

It’s just as well. They wouldn’t be able to afford her, anyway, once their funding is cut. (Actually, they would! They’re rolling in dough, apparently, which begs the question: why do they need public funding at all?)

That’s life, you fire someone, but you get fired aswell.

By the way,, what is with the panic button with these people, the jokers already aim to cut their fundings, whether or not that would happen (with Dems help or not), remains to be seen. So what’s the panic for? maybe they have something to hide or just paranoid.

How does this video scandal force her out?

“was a hidden camera sting produced by James O’Keefe, the controversial independent filmmaker”

I don’t think you described O’Keefe accurately enough for Tommy…

“(alleged) Misogynistic James O’Keefe, the controversial independent filmmaker who (allegedly) plotted to strand a female reporter, Abbie Boudreau, on a boat loaded with sex toys and hidden cameras, to end (allegedly) with Boudreau in tears, begging to be let off of the boat.”

I think Tommy would prefer you refer to O’Keefe like that, although without the “(allegedly)”.

sarainitaly said:
How does this video scandal force her out?

I guess just for being a sucky head of a sucky company? I thought maybe she was involved in the video scandal.

jdubbleu said:
Did you have to show Vivian’s pic? I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Well, throwing up on yourself might be part of your attribute, not due to her picture.

sarainitaly said:
“was a hidden camera sting produced by James O’Keefe, the controversial independent filmmaker”

I don’t think you described O’Keefe accurately enough for Tommy…

I agree! This article is an outrageous whitewash!

Say what you want about O”Keefe, the video speaks for itself.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

Is there anyone left working at NPR? Looks like we don’t need to worry about continuing to fund it………………Liberals are eating their young.

Wow!..I thought Obummer was supposed to be the great uniter? LMAO!
WATCH OUT all you libs! Your world is crumbling down piece by piece. All while the ‘great one’ is playing golf. HAHAHAHAHAHA

But…but…but…O’Keefe is the devil! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

skyfet said:
By the way,, what is with the panic button with these people, the jokers already aim to cut their fundings, whether or not that would happen (with Dems help or not), remains to be seen. So what’s the panic for? maybe they have something to hide or just paranoid.

It was her second or third strike and she’s only been there a couple of years. What I hate is though a case for her ouster had been building and she makes a good sacrificial lamb, O’Keefe and his minions are going to get credit, though their prank was really just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

all that comes to mind is hehehehehehehehehehehe

For a bunch of supposed dumb ass, anti intellectual, racist, white hicks… we did pretty good getting rid of these nut jobs..

Sad. I don’t want people at NPR to lose their jobs. I want people at NPR to grow up and realize that what amounts to political bigotry is not right, and that it hurts their credibility with about half of their potential audience.

Magister said:
It was her second or third strike and she’s only been there a couple of years. What I hate is though a case for her ouster had been building and she makes a good sacrificial lamb, O’Keefe and his minions are going to get credit, though their prank was really just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

They are too meek, same reaction to those phony ACORN videos. O’Keefe and Britebart received several positive feedback from it, until months later and the truth was revealed. What’s with the paranoid, the video has nothing to do with her, they are doing this because of the threat of funds that might be cut, and she was especially made infamous after the firing of Williams.

KABOOM!!!

Nacho said:
Nacho

Maybe you need to ask the Board Nacho!

Wise Up, Wake Up, Get your head out of the sand.

perceptorii said:
Sad. I don’t want people at NPR to lose their jobs. I want people at NPR to grow up and realize that what amounts to political bigotry is not right, and that it hurts their credibility with about half of their potential audience.

Perceptorii, I agree, but I would not hold my breath until what you wish happens. To the left, political bigotry is right, destruction of every one on the right is…Right, destroying their family is ….Right.

I just don’t think it will ever happen and I predict it will get worse…just look at what is happening in WI, Ohio and other states.

O’Keefe hangs another head on his wall.

skyfet said:
They are too meek, same reaction to those phony ACORN videos. O’Keefe and Britebart received several positive feedback from it, until months later and the truth was revealed. What’s with the paranoid, the video has nothing to do with her, they are doing this because of the threat of funds that might be cut, and she was especially made infamous after the firing of Williams.

I actually agree with a lot of what you say. But you have to admit her reaction to Williams firing was handled so badly NPR could have justified firing her then… with the “psychiatrist” crack.

This show is being brought to you by the letters ‘L’ ‘M’ ‘A’ ‘O’

Liberal cannibalism.

If federal funding wren’t at stake she and the other Schiller could have said or doe anything they wanted, taken any slap at conservatives regardless of how ugly and most likely would have been applauded by the board of directors.

BUT – since the Juan Williams thing began to shine a light on NPR’s screaming liberalism and conservative Republicans now hold the purse string they’ve started to eat their own. No standing on liberal principles here.

Bon appetite, NPR (and the rest of the progressive cockroaches out there – your turn is coming).

By the way, this by ChrisNH:

“This show is being brought to you by the letters ‘L’ ‘M’ ‘A’ ‘O’”

…is classic.

Well played.

One less Ne-Communist in charge of a media outlet.

I am sure there are many more in line to take over at this (hopefully) soon-to-be-defunded pile of crap. Send the NPR the way of the un-intentionally funny Air America!

Psychiatrist’s? any out there? This super smart Liberal Viv, needs one, like NOWy. Also, please someone call her PR person. She needs that hack quick too. What see needs is a bunch of really really smart Liberals right away. She needs Tommy to write another dig about O’Keefe. Tommy, where the hell are you? I am sure this whole thing can be spun in her favour if we just as smart as Liberals and able to understand their incredible reasoning. Rubes, prepare to be amazed, Liberal super brains are working to educate you as we speak….Where the hell is Rachel, we need her Godlike Super Brain today!

I fail to see the controversy in that video.

Ron Schiller was essentially a fund-raising guy. He had nothing to do with the news, at all. He pretty explicitly stated that he was speaking of his own mind and that his views were not representative of NPR’s. It seems to me that he was merely exercising his right to express his own political opinions. And, to top it off, he didn’t accept the phony $5 million, which seems to be the real reason why O’ Keefe attempted this stunt in the first place.

Stephen Hogan said:
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I fail to see the controversy in that video.

No one hear figured you would understand! You are a lefty – you see a distorted world.

Stephen Hogan said:
He pretty explicitly stated that he was speaking of his own mind and that his views were not representative of NPR’s.

ask Juan Williams about it.

but seriously, they receive tax dollars, and he is bashing half of the country who pay those taxes?

BUSTED!…BIG TIME!

Maybe she just wanted to leave suddenly to spend more time with her family , if she has one .

Stephen Hogan said:
I fail to see the controversy in that video.

Ron Schiller was essentially a fund-raising guy. He had nothing to do with the news, at all. He pretty explicitly stated that he was speaking of his own mind and that his views were not representative of NPR’s. It seems to me that he was merely exercising his right to express his own political opinions. And, to top it off, he didn’t accept the phony $5 million, which seems to be the real reason why O’ Keefe attempted this stunt in the first place.

SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!!!!!!!!111 I don’t want to hear ANY of this, LIB!!!!111 It CONFUSES me!!!!!111

Karl Spensen said:
It CONFUSES me!!!!!111

THAT”S GOLD kARl !!!!!!!!!2222222 GOLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!222222

Stephen Hogan said:
I fail to see the controversy in that video.

Whew! Story’s over, folks. Everybody gets their jobs back. Move along.

Stephen Hogan said:
He pretty explicitly stated that he was speaking of his own mind and that his views were not representative of NPR’s. It seems to me that he was merely exercising his right to express his own political opinions.

Did you miss the part where he said his statements didn’t reflect his own views? Meaning James O’Keefe somehow forced him to saying those things! We have to get to the bottom of this reich-wing mind control… before it’s too late!!!!!!

Maybe Rachel will do an “awesome defense” of Vivian on her show tonight. AT least gives Tommy Christopher a post for tomorrow.

BatBoy said:
No one hear figured you would understand! You are a lefty – you see a distorted world.

And what a warm welcome to get. I guess I shouldn’t expect much more from some commentators on this site.

Seriously, though. I fail to see the controversy. If you would care to elucidate me on why this is a controversy, rather than make baseless personal attacks, I’ll be all ears. But I don’t play the troll game.

Changing one person won’t fix a problem when the whole culture at NPR is sick. The insiders at NPR suffer from the same problem found elsewhere in the mainstream media — they don’t want to be journalists who report on what’s happening; they want to be activists who influence what is happening. I have no problem with advocacy, and there is a place for it on our media; but when activists masquerade as journalists, and taint the news with their bias and spin, they destroy their own credibility. And NPR is one big masquerade, and a clumsy one at that. Anyone with half a brain can see through their charade and figure out the not-so-well-hidden agenda at work in their programming.

To fix this mess, NPR needs not only a new CEO but a large-scale housecleaning. And who seriously believes that this will EVER happen?

Big Eddie said:
Maybe she just wanted to leave suddenly to spend more time with her family , if she has one .

My guess is any family she stood to have was aborted.

Stephen Hogan said:
He pretty explicitly stated that he was speaking of his own mind and that his views were not representative of NPR’s.

Obviously you don’t listen to much programming on NPR. Please point me to the NPR show where conservatives are allowed some equal time to express their views? I’m waiting…..

sarainitaly said:
ask Juan Williams about it.

but seriously, they receive tax dollars, and he is bashing half of the country who pay those taxes?

Thank you, Sara. I know that I can count on you not to initiate a discussion with ad hominem.

I was personally appalled by the Juan Williams firings, as well. He was discussing something that is actually recognized in social cognitive literature; the dual process model of impression formation.

And I appreciate your concern with his remarks. I find them distasteful, as well. However, he explicitly stated in the video that these were his own opinions and were not representative of NPR. So, would you suggest that NPR employees should be unable to discuss their own political opinions in private? Even if they are not on the news side of the business?

I would argue that there would be an issue if he had knowingly mentioned these words in a public forum, while ‘wearing his NPR hat’, but since this case is the exact opposite, I cannot see the issue. He was in an NPR office, unknowingly being filmed, and had explicitly stated that his comments came from him, and did not represent the attitudes of NPR. And he turned down the fake $5 million.

BatBoy said:
No one hear figured you would understand! You are a lefty – you see a distorted world.

BINGO!!!

Vivian is making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year but looks like she is homeless!
I see why liberal woman personally attack the conservative woman like Palin so much.

Liberals cant stand that a woman takes care of themselves and want to look good… They hate that conservative woman are pro life and they don’t follow every agenda put out buy N.O.W or some idiot Hollywood celebrity.

felixw said:
Obviously you don’t listen to much programming on NPR. Please point me to the NPR show where conservatives are allowed some equal time to express their views? I’m waiting…..

That is an entirely different discussion. One, I would agree, is worth having, but not in the context of a fund-raiser’s personal political opinions

Jim Treacher said:
Whew! Story’s over, folks. Everybody gets their jobs back. Move along.

I’m not saying that there isn’t an issue here. I’m just not seeing what the big deal is.

Stephen Hogan said:
If you would care to elucidate me on why this is a controversy, rather than make baseless personal attacks, I’ll be all ears.

Some would say it’s a controversy because it vindicates the claims of left-wing institutional bias at NPR, but they’re just silly teabaggers.

BadGenome said:
Did you miss the part where he said his statements didn’t reflect his own views? Meaning James O’Keefe somehow forced him to saying those things! We have to get to the bottom of this reich-wing mind control… before it’s too late!!!!!!

What I heard was that his statements did not reflect NPR’s view. At what point did he say that his statements didn’t reflect his own? I must not have heard it clearly.

Stephen Hogan said:
And what a warm welcome to get. I guess I shouldn’t expect much more from some commentators on this site. Seriously, though. I fail to see the controversy. If you would care to elucidate me on why this is a controversy, rather than make baseless personal attacks, I’ll be all ears. But I don’t play the troll game.

Although it was his opinion and not related to his job, he brought negative publicity to his company. Many corporations would do the same thing. Especially in this day and age of all the gadgets people carry around to try and get dirt on other people.

Dave Richards said:
Although it was his opinion and not related to his job, he brought negative publicity to his company. Many corporations would do the same thing. Especially in this day and age of all the gadgets people carry around to try and get dirt on other people.

There it is.

Jim Treacher said:
Some would say it’s a controversy because it vindicates the claims of left-wing institutional bias at NPR, but they’re just silly teabaggers.

Haven’t those claims been vindicated already? And even if they had not been already vindicated, I’m not sure how a fund-raiser’s explicitly-stated personal opinion is indicative of the general attitude of NPR.

Dave Richards said:
Although it was his opinion and not related to his job, he brought negative publicity to his company.

Fair enough. I see this as an excellent reason behind his resignation.

skyfet said:
They are too meek, same reaction to those phony ACORN videos. O’Keefe and Britebart received several positive feedback from it, until months later and the truth was revealed. What’s with the paranoid, the video has nothing to do with her, they are doing this because of the threat of funds that might be cut, and she was especially made infamous after the firing of Williams.

What phony ACORN videos? Don’t tell me you actually believe what MMFA and TPM said about them.

Ron Schiller says the Tea Party movement has “hijacked” the Republican Party;
are really a xenophobic. sort of white, middle-America gun-toting, scary, seriously racist, racist people; and liberals are generally more educated than their conservative counterparts, and more fair and balanced.

All true. So what’s the problem?

Stephen Hogan said:
Haven’t those claims been vindicated already? And even if they had not been already vindicated, I’m not sure how a fund-raiser’s explicitly-stated personal opinion is indicative of the general attitude of NPR.

No sir, the claims have not been “vindicated”…………………they’ve been IGNORED. NPR is the most ‘up-front’ Democrat campaigner masquerading as “news” being broadcast today. And it’s for that exact practice that reasonable Americans find it unjust to be forced to fund it with our hard-earned money.

Maybe YOU would like being forced to fund Rush Limbaugh, huh? That would create balance, but it would still be wrong.

#winning!

Stephen Hogan said:
I would argue that there would be an issue if he had knowingly mentioned these words in a public forum, while ‘wearing his NPR hat’, but since this case is the exact opposite, I cannot see the issue. He was in an NPR office, unknowingly being filmed, and had explicitly stated that his comments came from him, and did not represent the attitudes of NPR. And he turned down the fake $5 million.

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He was at that lunch (I wonder who picked up the tab) as an official NPR employee doing his job.

In spite of the fact that part of his salary is paid by every tax payer he had no problem defaming millions of them.

I also take great exception to his little snickering claim that newspapers are really in the clutches of those “Jews”.

In short, this sordid little episode has simply highlighted the intrinsically evil, IMO, nature of government funding and supporting political speech of any kind from any ideology.

So when is CNN going to make James O’Keefe “Most Intriguing Person”?

Face it, Liberals are insane. They still believe that Islamic terrorists are not a threat to the USA.

Davo said:
No sir, the claims have not been “vindicated”…………………they’ve been IGNORED. NPR is the most ‘up-front’ Democrat campaigner masquerading as “news” being broadcast today. And it’s for that exact practice that reasonable Americans find it unjust to be forced to fund it with our hard-earned money.

Maybe YOU would like being forced to fund Rush Limbaugh, huh? That would create balance, but it would still be wrong.

My use of the word ‘vindicated’ carried the definition of this : 2. to afford justification for; justify

In this instance, your claims have been vindicated.

And I was not discussing federal funding of NPR. Neither have I indicated any position on the matter. I was merely making the comment that I fail to see any real controversy here.

Stephen Hogan said:
Haven’t those claims been vindicated already? And even if they had not been already vindicated, I’m not sure how a fund-raiser’s explicitly-stated personal opinion is indicative of the general attitude of NPR.

Of course. Nothing matters. Next topic.

Grammie said:
He was at that lunch (I wonder who picked up the tab) as an official NPR employee doing his job.

Fair enough. And he rightfully resigned for it.

Grammie said:
In spite of the fact that part of his salary is paid by every tax payer he had no problem defaming millions of them.

I’d argue that, regardless of who ‘pays’ him, he has his right to express his opinion. He did and now he’s suffering the consequences.

Grammie said:
I also take great exception to his little snickering claim that newspapers are really in the clutches of those “Jews”.

I understand completely.

Jim Treacher said:
Of course. Nothing matters. Next topic.

I’m not asking to shut down conversation, Jim. I’m just asking questions.

spacegod said:
Ron Schiller says the Tea Party movement has “hijacked” the Republican Party;are really a xenophobic. sort of white, middle-America gun-toting, scary, seriously racist, racist people; and liberals are generally more educated than their conservative counterparts, and more fair and balanced. All true. So what’s the problem?

There is no evidence to back up your claims. One guy packing a gun at a rally does not count.

Chris Ar said:
What phony ACORN videos? Don’t tell me you actually believe what MMFA and TPM said about them.

The Phony one, that was thrown out of court in California and other places.

Stephen Hogan said:
One, I would agree, is worth having, but not in the context of a fund-raiser’s personal political opinions

Then why was he offering them during a meeting in which he was working, talking to a potential donor? If you flip burgers at McD’s, and spend your day spouting off about Nazis or some such, you’re getting fired, despite the fact that your views don’t represent the organization you work for.

skyfet said:
The Phony one, that was thrown out of court in California and other places.

When did it go to court? Hint: it didn’t.

Stephen Hogan said:
I’m not asking to shut down conversation, Jim. I’m just asking questions.

And I’m agreeing that there’s no story here. Just because a representative of NPR embarrassed them and insulted millions of people while operating in his professional capacity, that’s no reason to fire him. He and the other Schiller just got their jobs back and nobody cares anymore. Well done.

Stephen Hogan said:
Thank you, Sara. I know that I can count on you not to initiate a discussion with ad hominem. I was personally appalled by the Juan Williams firings, as well. He was discussing something that is actually recognized in social cognitive literature; the dual process model of impression formation. And I appreciate your concern with his remarks. I find them distasteful, as well. However, he explicitly stated in the video that these were his own opinions and were not representative of NPR. So, would you suggest that NPR employees should be unable to discuss their own political opinions in private? Even if they are not on the news side of the business? I would argue that there would be an issue if he had knowingly mentioned these words in a public forum, while ‘wearing his NPR hat’, but since this case is the exact opposite, I cannot see the issue. He was in an NPR office, unknowingly being filmed, and had explicitly stated that his comments came from him, and did not represent the attitudes of NPR. And he turned down the fake $5 million.

He can say he was expressing his own personal views but he was doing it while representing NPR as a fund raiser. He was on the job. He was there to represent NPR. He was in an NPR office, on NPR business, and therefor he was represent NPR during the entire conversation, regardless of his saying he was representing his own views.

Stephen Hogan said:
Fair enough. And he rightfully resigned for it.

Which is it, rightfully or wrongfully? You seem confused.

Pablo said:
When did it go to court? Hint: it didn’t.

Saying it was thrown out was being nice, it was a farce, no case, non-existing, because of it’s phoniness.

Liberals say that young Christian men do all the terrorist killings in the USA…They do know that Timothy McVeigh and the Columbine shooters were ATHEISTS?

…hell even Jared Loughner is an atheist.

skyfet said:
The Phony one, that was thrown out of court in California and other places.

Why was it thrown out of court? I honestly don’t know, but as a reasonable person I will, at time, disagree with a court’s findings. For instance, if a man signs a Miranda Warning, tells the police that he murdered someone in cold blood but later gets his confession thrown out because he claims he didn’t speak English and didn’t understand what he wrote he will be innocent in the eyes of the court but guilty in my eyes. This is why I ask why was the tape thrown out in court?

Stephen Hogan said:
What I heard was that his statements did not reflect NPR’s view. At what point did he say that his statements didn’t reflect his own? I must not have heard it clearly.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/nprs-ron-schiller-issues-statement-i-have-agreed-that-my-resignation-is-effective-today/

BadGenome said:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/nprs-ron-schiller-issues-statement-i-have-agreed-that-my-resignation-is-effective-today/

I will admit. A very strange statement.

Well, he is, essentially, a saleman. It would stand to reason that we would make such claims in order to appear sympathetic to a couple of gentlemen claiming to represent a Muslim organization.

Still, though, it is strange.

Jim Treacher said:
Which is it, rightfully or wrongfully? You seem confused.

I never argued that he shouldn’t be fired.

Just for fun……….

http://wonkette.com/440168/tea-party-racists-will-all-start-listening-to-npr-now#more-440168

skyfet says:
Chris Ar said:
What phony ACORN videos? Don’t tell me you actually believe what MMFA and TPM said about them.

The Phony one, that was thrown out of court in California and other places

Yeah, they were so phony that the DEM Congress voted to defund ACORN because of them.

skyfet said:
Saying it was thrown out was being nice, it was a farce, no case, non-existing, because of it’s phoniness.

No, saying it was thrown out of court was lying, because it isn’t the least bit true. And it was so phony that ACORN doesn’t exist anymore.

Charlie Sheen? Bah! James O’Keefe is a warlock, amirite?

Pablo says:

Charlie Sheen? Bah! James O’Keefe is a warlock, amirite?

Hehe, BOOM, WINNING!!

Nepotism is almost always a bad thing.

Jim Treacher said:
Which is it, rightfully or wrongfully? You seem confused.

so glad treacher is back!

felixw said:
Obviously you don’t listen to much programming on NPR. Please point me to the NPR show where conservatives are allowed some equal time to express their views? I’m waiting…..

Stephen Hogan said:
That is an entirely different discussion. One, I would agree, is worth having, but not in the context of a fund-raiser’s personal political opinions

Your evasion answers my question….

As you well know, there is no place on NPR where conservative views are allowed expression. And that’s what happens when an organization is stack top to bottom with progressive liberals, and they abandon journalism in order to run a spin and disinformation outlet. All perfectly legal — since even propaganda is protected by the first amendment — but why should taxpayers fund it?

Accused of a liberal bent,
Today NPR will repent
Its ways prejudicial
With lambs sacrificial
By giving up Schiller for Lent.

News Short n’ Sweet by JFD8
http://twitter.com/JFD8

felixw said:
Your evasion answers my question….

As you well know, there is no place on NPR where conservative views are allowed expression. And that’s what happens when an organization is stack top to bottom with progressive liberals, and they abandon journalism in order to run a spin and disinformation outlet. All perfectly legal — since even propaganda is protected by the first amendment — but why should taxpayers fund it?

Just because I didn’t follow your redirection does not mean that I ‘evaded’ the question.

Stephen Hogan said:
I never argued that he shouldn’t be fired.

…because there’s no story here. Okay.

Stephen Hogan said:
Just because I didn’t follow your redirection does not mean that I ‘evaded’ the question.

Huh? You’ve now put up numerous comments here, and still have failed to answer my question — namely, tell me the NPR show on which conservative views are given air time. If that’s not evasion, what is? Why don’t you at least have the intellectual honesty to admit that NPR refuses to give air time to conservative views?

I’m confused…was she ousted or did she resign?

On another note, and I’m just trying to understand the viewpoint of the right-wing contributors here, are there specific examples of left wing bias on NPR that stand out to you? By that I mean actual news. And how does it compare to the right wing version of said story? I’m just trying to understand here.

sarainitaly said:
I guess just for being a sucky head of a sucky company? I thought maybe she was involved in the video scandal.

I happened to catch about 20-25 minutes of “Vivian” at the National Press Club. It was on C-Span yesterday or the day before.

She came across as arrogant & cocky, easy because of her friendly audience. Brother, would I like to see her back at the Press Club now. That smerk on her face just might be gone!

bealzebubba said:
I’m confused…was she ousted or did she resign? On another note, and I’m just trying to understand the viewpoint of the right-wing contributors here, are there specific examples of left wing bias on NPR that stand out to you? By that I mean actual news. And how does it compare to the right wing version of said story? I’m just trying to understand here.

Hey Bubba,
First, she was FIRED. The exact words were: Resign today or you will be fired tomorrow! All that ‘thanks & regret” business is just polite BS.

Now, regarding the conservative criticism you asked about:
Sophisticated illusionists (on either side) have learned several subtle ways to slant their news stories. For instance, you select or ignore stories favorable or unfavorable to your political view. If you do a story unfavorable to your view, you simply include 100% of the points you like, and don’t bother to mention 98% of the arguments against your point of view. MSNBC prime time lineup are masters at these techniques. They seldom, if ever, have genuine conservatives who will not let them get by with this flim-flam.

Liberals will tell you FOX does the same thing, only in reverse. Not so! FNC and conservative talk radio came into being after having decades of ONLY left leaning media (now called mainstream media).
*IMPORTANT* > FOX didn’t have to lean heavily to the right. All they had to do was NOT LEAN TO THE LEFT. This was interpreted as “right wing” by people who only knew how to speak the liberal language.

It reminds me of my move from the midwest to Arkansas. I debated & spoke like Walter Cronkite. Every time I’d ask a girl to dinner, her first question was: Where are you from, you’ve got a YANKEE ACCENT! You can imagine I usually got nowhere when I answered: I don’t have a yankee accent. What you hear is the ABSENCE of a Southern accent! Like liberals today, what they hear at FOX is the ABSENCE of a left-leaning media outlet.

I hope I helped clear up your question, at least a little.

bealzebubba said:
I’m confused…was she ousted or did she resign?

Ousted = Forced to resign instead of fired

bealzebubba said:
On another note, and I’m just trying to understand the viewpoint of the right-wing contributors here, are there specific examples of left wing bias on NPR that stand out to you? By that I mean actual news. And how does it compare to the right wing version of said story? I’m just trying to understand here.

You seem to be tacitly admitting there is plenty of left wing bias everywhere on NPR except maybe the ‘actual’ news and is a reflection of what you deem right wing news. The main reason that the right-wing contributors care is because NPR receives government funding and tax-exempt status because of its claims to being non-partisan. You all but admit in the question you pose that that impartiality doesn’t exist. Therefore, neither should NPR’s special status exist. Now do you understand? This isn’t (or shouldn’t be) about whether “your” station is better than “my” station. It’s about whether there is equality of opportunity at the base level.

felixw said:
Huh? You’ve now put up numerous comments here, and still have failed to answer my question — namely, tell me the NPR show on which conservative views are given air time. If that’s not evasion, what is? Why don’t you at least have the intellectual honesty to admit that NPR refuses to give air time to conservative views?

Because I already have. In a previous comment, I acknowledged the fact.

Jim Treacher said:
Some would say it’s a controversy because it vindicates the claims of left-wing institutional bias at NPR, but they’re just silly teabaggers.

To which I replied:

Stephen Hogan said:
Haven’t those claims been vindicated already?

See, I also recognize the lack of conservative voices at NPR. I apologize that I didn’t give you the attention that you feel that you deserve.

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Ousted By NPR Board Of Directors

Wtf took so long?? This should have happened during the Juan Williams screwing.

Stephen Hogan said:
Because I already have. In a previous comment, I acknowledged the fact.

To which I replied:

See, I also recognize the lack of conservative voices at NPR. I apologize that I didn’t give you the attention that you feel that you deserve.

Well, duh, how can you possibly reconcile that admission with your comment that “Schiller’s comments came from him, and did not represent the attitudes of NPR.” (I am quoting your words exactly.) Let me get this straight, NPR doesn’t allow airing of conservative views, an their exec attacked conservative views, and there is no connection between these two facts? What make-believe-land do you reside in?

This lefty should have been put out to pasture months ago, her treatment of Juan Williams was beyond belief, I still hope he launches his law suit against her and National Palestinian Radio.

A Tale of Two Schillers

Both pathetic individuals; at least Juan Williams now has the last laugh

It’s a shame the SCOTUS does not have such high standards, Judge Thomas would be gone!

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