NPR Nay-sayers: A good "Morning Edition" today...

[Richardo]

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3&prgDate=current

The line-up included:

Mike the Anonymous CIA guy on how we've cluster-f*cked the War on Terra so badly that all we're left with as an option is a military bloodbath. (thank you, PNAC and its puppets). Agree with that or not, he did smackdown the "hate us for our freedoms" drivel and pointed out that in fact "they" hate us for our ME policies, including support of Israel, military presence and invasion of Muslim countries. "They" cannot trust us to be an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc)

Report on how US military based are being built by bulldozing archeological sites like, oh, say the temple area at Babylon. They also hate us for our bulldozers and cultural insensitivity.

Report on how Winston Churchill, as Britain's "Colonial Secretary" post-WWI; cobbled together Iraq out of three disparate regions of the old Ottoman Empire. Iraq is a construct, not an organic, spontaneous country, with no history of democratic rule. Also said that like Rumsfeld, Churchill tried to do it 'on the cheap' with insufficient numbers of boots on the ground. :thumbsup: Pointed out that the meeting in Cairo where they drew the lines for the 'new' Iraq was attended exclusively by white male Britons, except for one Egyptian in a fez.

All in all, a great show, at least while I was in the car.

[Az]

1. They even covered the Rev Moon coronation

And they made sure to point it back at the conservatives rather than chant Democrats like the rest of the media has been doing. They even mentioned that Moon considers the right to be fully in his pocket and is only now going after the left.

[sendero]

2. I heard part of it..

.... and he was only half moron. I guess for NPR that is an improvement.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. That's part of the reason this war nauseates me so much...

After studying art history and all the ancient culture and beauty that's there I get physically sick about what we're doing.

[qb]

4. It's a good start.

NPR has been so bad for so long, it will take a lot more than this to get me back onboard.

[lanparty]

5. The facts are biased!!!!!

It's going to be harder and harder for the media to shill for the Bush administration. As much as they try, they cannot conceal the fact that the emperor is indeed naked.

[taquinas101]

6. Mike's Proposal Reminders of Jonahthan Swift's Modest Proposal

Since it seems that our government is not willing to change Bush's middle east policies, we really have no choice but to engage in genocide, because these policies will necessarily generate more and more recruits for Al Queda.

I sense a bit of satire in Mike's interviews. I think he senses that if he starts bashing on Bush's ME policies, the GOP propaganda machine will just accuse him of being a soft on terrorism liberal shill. So, he just assumes that the policies will remain change, and argues that we have no choice, but to engage in genocide because we have left ourselves with no other option if we continue to pursue these policies.

Like Swift's "modest proposal" I think its intended as shocking satire.

[Cheswick2.0]

7. interesting