NPR and Romney's tax rate

[barbtries]

i was listening on my way home from work yesterday. throughout their entire piece reporting on the release of romney's taxes, they referred repeatedly to his rate as "just under 15%." not once did they offer the actual number.

now that's bad enough. i'm a single mother trying to get my son through college without crippling debt and i'm pretty sure that my "effective" tax rate is as high or higher than romney's, especially after adding in SS taxes, medicare, etc. and he is obscenely rich while i'm a struggling wage earner.

turns out that "just under 15%" was bullshit. much later, either here or watching TDS, i learned that romney's effective tax rate in 2010 was 13.9%.

that's "just under" 14% - why is NPR trying to make Romney out to be better than the motherfucking scumsucking greedmeister that he obviously is? why?

i gave up on corporate media years ago and there is so much i love about npr. but they are losing me. this kiss assing of the republicans is making me sick, sick, sick.

[Scuba]

1. NPR has been going downhill for a while, and it's very disappointing....

I was listening to TOTN a week or so ago when they were discussing the Keystone XL pipeline.

After a few minutes listening it was clear that they indeed had guest representing both sides of the issue. One guest was an pro-pipeline American; the other was a pro-pipeline Canadian.


I yelled at my car radio.

NPR and Wisconsin Public Radio didn't used to allow guests lie without challenge before the Republicans started threatening them. Dammit, the truth is NOT a liberal position! It's the truth!