| A strange loop.
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| A strange loop.
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Listening to NPRI listen to NPR's news as often as I get a chance - particularly when I am in the car. This is because they actually have reasonably sober presenters and frequently bring up issues or points I had not previously considered. However, NPR's talk shows are horribly politicized. This morning, I heard something like:
Host: Does the murder of Uday and Qusay Hussein by American troops help or hurt our attempts to rebuild Iraq?
Impressively-Credentialed Raving Moonbat #1: Of course, this will be seen as a "success" for the occupation, but I think that the most casual review of the facts on the ground tells us that this is really a transient and unimportant episode, which will in the end ensure that all Iraqi people want to drink the blood of American soldiers.
ICRM#2: I couldn't agree more. It's amazing to me how the military just refuses to see how this will undermine our troops' already precarious position even worse, by making martyrs of these two relatively-unimportant figures.
ICRM#3: What I don't understand, personally, is how we can even be talking about this, when it's obvious that Resident BUSH LIED about Iraq's motives in a minor note on an addendum to a subsection of a paragraph of his State of the Union speach. This makes me ashamed to be American.
Token Reasonable Person: There seems to be something wrong with my line: there's a low banging constantly in the background. Anyway, I think that this has been a great moment in ...
Host: That was the unending drumbeat of doom. It sets the atmosphere. And that's all the time we have for today. Please tune in tomorrow, when we'll have several more impressively-credentialled raving moonbats on to discuss how tax cuts cause little babies to die abandoned in the street.
I think I'm exaggerating. Or maybe that was the BBC I was listening to.
Posted by Jeff at July 23, 2003 01:53 PM | Link CosmosJeff, if you're exaggerating, it ain't by much!
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on July 23, 2003 04:51 PMNo, that was NPR. The ICRM's and the host didn't have British accents.
That's how I can tell the difference.
Posted by: Kevin Baker on July 23, 2003 10:19 PMDefinately NPR. If it were the BBC, it would have substituted Blair for Bush, the dossier for the SotU speech, ashamed to be British (not American), and thrown in some comments about Blair being responsible for the suicide of David Kelly, and that even if Kelly was completely unreliable it wouldn't matter, because it was a legit news story and that's what journalism's all about (I guess the BBC wouldn't call that failure!).
Posted by: Brian on July 24, 2003 12:55 AMSomehow, when I switch the radio to NPR (I do a lot of driving on the current contract, and the excellent local talk station runs a lot of ads) they are talking to a reporter on the scene who reports something like Uday snagging the bride from an upscale wedding for three days of rape, or the troops who surrounded him getting on the bullhorn and inviting everyone to come out with their hands up and getting gunfire for a response. Of course I don't stick around very long and have avoided their admitted commentary programs for decades.
