I would like NPR to tell us what the news value of having the idiots they have on as representative of the American People is supposed to be. If they want to show what a bunch of lying idiots the Trump voters are, that's what they've shown. Even some of the Republicans who won't vote for him must realize what idiots the Trump voters are.
The Cuban woman from Orlando on as I type this, whining about voter fraud - mentioning voter fraud by "illegal immigrants" - is especially stupid. She has a bunch of vague attitudes, not even developed irrational ideas and Steve Inskeep thinks it's worth giving several minutes of her to air her own, unsourced, unsupported notions about a "rigged election". To have her, the beneficiary of the special rules for Cubans whine about "illegals" is absolutely disgusting. And having someone as ignorant and stupid as her is about the limit.
NPR has got to rank as one of the most irresponsible things you could find on the radio dial these days. They won't go overtly Alex Jones but they'll have Alex Jones content on using the always stupid man on the street dodge. It's a sign of how stupid James O'Keefe is that he thought they were the opposition when they're just the button down-nose-breather side of his side.
It would probably be better if NPR would lose all of its public funding and we all face the fact that, barring a major reform of the media, that you're just not going to get reliable news from the American airwaves. They sold out to the Kochs and big money and the Republican Party back during the Carter administration, if not before. You just can't trust them.
NPR is doing exactly the same thing that Paul LePage is doing today, lying about the election that their preferred party and candidate will almost certainly lose is "rigged" so they can damage Hillary Clinton's likely presidency and give the gun carrying, already proven violent Republican-fascist rabble something to use to become even more parnoid and more likely to start killing people. All of this should be remembered as the shooting starts and when it ends, assuming the fascists don't take power. All of the institutions that had a hand in this, the media, the individuals in the media, have to have the responsibility for their irresponsibility put on them because they'll never accept it on their own.
I did like her argument about voter fraud, and how "illegal immigrants" had voted when they shouldn't have. Except what shouldn't have happened was that they were granted citizenship. Not sure why they shouldn't have been made citizens, but they were; which means the voter registration system worked.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't register non-citizens to vote. But still, they shouldn't have been citizens because Freedom; or Castro; or Clinton; or something.
Low information voters are scary. And yes, Steve Inskeep is the "view from nowhere." You can almost hear the wind whistle through his ears. Oh, for the days of Susan Stamberg and Bob Edwards. All we have left is Nina Totenberg.
I can imagine that any immigrants who came from elsewhere noticed it was one of the beneficiaries of the special rules made for Cubans that granted them automatic entry who was lying about their right to vote when they didn't have the same privileges as she did.
DeleteSteve Inskeep and Rene Montagne, pretty much their entire staff, these days, are an insult to anyone who supported them in the receding past. If I'd known what they were going to turn into I'd never have given them money back when they had their financial crisis. Though there were warning signs before that in their coverage of the Carter and then the Reagan administrations, the difference was enormous and it definitely favored Reagan. That Jim Angle went on to work for FOX didn't surprise me any more than when Juan Williams did. NPR should be driven out of business, Alex Jones style lie mongering shouldn't be allowed to have a respectable patina.
Yeah, her attitude was pretty much "Pull up the ladder, I'm here now!", wasn't it?
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