Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:41:56 PM
I'm a little late putting my two cents worth in over this controversy, but it's so hard to resist liberal hypocrisy. Even though Juan Williams is on the liberal side of the spectrum, he's a decent and honorable journalist with whom you can conduct a mutually beneficial and respectful conversation. However, horror of horrors, he also worked for the "nefarious" Fox News along with National Public Radio, and NPR's leftist apparatchik director, influenced undoubtedly by big time NPR financial benefactor George Soros, decided Williams needed to be purged lest his more realistic understanding of Islamist terrorism, contaminate the multicultural mush adhered to by NPR management and many of its listeners. NPR's "leader" suggesting that Williams should see his psychiatrist is especially hideous given the practice of the Soviet government of sending political dissidents to sadistic "psychiatric rehabilitation" in order to get their political thoughts and beliefs "straightened out." Perhaps this woman should be sent to set up a new bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea and worship "dear leader" Kim Jong Il and his newly "anointed" son, so she can get an indepth understanding of true political madness.
NPR does provide more in depth analysis of governmental issues than most other networks and has included some relatively conservative perspectives in its broadcasts in recent years. However, the bottom line is that it serves as a publicly subsidized fulcrum for leftist agitprop. It's stable of "journalists" includes leftist mares like their Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg, former Romanian "poet" Andrei Codrescu who wished the rapture would cull the world of Christians, and long-time pseudo-journalistic leftist crank Daniel Schorr who leaked content from the congressional Pike committee on FBI and CIA activities than sanctimoniously hid behind the 1st Amendment and refused to reveal his sources. Schorr was also a useful idiot for the Soviet Union and in 2002 described the Supreme Court's Gore v. Bush decision as a "coup by a gang of five." You can also count on NPR to be a reliable mouthpiece for any leftist cause such as global warming, appeasing Islamist terrorism, deficit spending, supporting WikiLeaks, and serving as an enemy of traditional sexual morality. It's time for Congress to unplug NPR's federal subsidies and force it to compete for dollars like thousands of other broadcasting entities. If leftists want to fund NPR, they should do it entirely on their own dime.