Turned on NPR for my daily two minutes of BULLSHIT.

[AP]

They're talking about Jews for Republicans -- huge donors to Bush campaign in Texas and they're a traditional Democaratic voting block.

You know what, NPR. I bet they still are. Except ONE super rich right wing jew (there's always one) made ONE large donation which you reported. And that one donation was for nothing more than purchasing a news story on NPR.

Two minutes is all I can take of them.

[JI7]

1. that's what they did with black voters also

they found a few who said they wont vote for or have questions of Kerry because of the gay rights issues. and then the whores started writing articles about how black voters are moving to Bush.

[PCIntern]

2. Funny story along those lines...

I recently had a Jewish couple move from Texas to Philly. Something told me not to say a word to them about politics - it's like a sixth sense, you all know what I mean.

Turns out that they're personal friends of the Bush family, here on business for 3 years. I of course, don't say a word. They don't insinuate themselves negatively and that's what life used to be like before the Gingrich Revolution. Civility Ruled.

[UL_Approved]

3. This is sad

NPR is (or was) a collection of several news organizations from around the world. They used to be more moderate in their stance. I guess that the shrub took over there too. Time for some Roundup.

[LuminousX]

4. Actually that full report

was about Delay's gerrymandering in Texas. It was a good piece showing just how corrupt the RNC was in that process.

[endnote]

5. Fuck NPR. In Boston we have this Dick Gordon dick...

I cannot stand him. What an ass...

[Rambis]

6. I turned them in the other day

and I was shocked! I support KUNI in Iowa and I said that I wanted my $ to go anywhere but NPR news. I suggested the Thistle and Shamrock with Fiona Richie or the Mountain stage program. Again, I was shocked when they lead with a lick bush's ass story.

[minerva50]

7. I filled out my CFC (Combined Federal Campaign) donation form yesterday.

In previous years, I've contributed to two local NPR stations, but I've gotten so I can't stand to listen to either of them anymore. Let them get their support from their corporate donors.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi minerva50!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Bucky]

8. I heard the same news story. It wasn't as bad as all that

They mentioned that there were some Jewish voters backing Martin Frost's opponent this year, but that Frost picked this particular district out of the many that were gerrymandered out of his old district by Delay's "surgeons" in the Texas lege because of the concentration of Jewish voters in the area.

The piece was overall pretty positive about Frost--who's a real hero to us Texas Dems. He came off as a real fighter and got a more favorable treatment than Sessions, the Republican in the race (altho that may just be a matter of Pete Sessions being a right wing screwball). They pointed out that in a district that's supposed to be 65% Republican, Frost is polling 46% to his opponent's 50%--within the margin of error--despite Delay's attempt to boot Frost out of Congress.

Your perceptions about NPR are strange and are not supported by reality.

[midnight armadillo]

9. My thoughts on that story

I felt that the story missed the point entirely. Rather than focus on election engineering for a Repub majority in the House, they should have focused on the disenfranchisement inherent in gerrymandering. It's not only a scheme to add Repubs beholded to Delay to congress, it's a method to deliberately dilute the influence of those deemed not worthy of a Congresscritter (i.e Democrats, folks with browner shades of skin). The districts are ridiculously convoluted and are intended to prevent people with common interests from having influence on their representatives.

I think I will send an email to Morning Edition making remarks along these lines. Maybe I can get a furious reply in return from the show's producer, like I did once after sending a very critical note about one of their stories on the run up to the Iraq war (to sum up, I apparently have no concept of what is and isn't newsworthy, according to some dude at NPR :evilgrin:).

[AP]

13. I guess that's bad luck for me and NPR that I turned it on at the only bad

moment in that report.

I literally had on NPR for 45 seconds (I know, I know, I said two minutes before).

I try to avoid Morning Edition now. I go straight to DU's LBN. I flipped on the radio. Heard that Jewish Voters were rasing money for Bush. I turned off the radio.

[Fed Up]

11. Is NPR still on? I stopped listening in 1999

when I got tired of their Clinton bashing.

Ha, I won't ever give another penny to NPR or PBS. I used to give generously to that outfit.

Next week they get to gag on their own shit when they have to report a great Kerry victory.

[demokatgurrl]

12. National rePublican Radio. I stopped supporting them

about 8 years ago. They're as bad as CNN with the Bush Buttkissing.