Neal Conan today on Talk of the Nation

[motocicleta]

When discussing the biggest political stories of the year, Neal managed to respond to the litany of Republican corruption scandals by pointing out the cash in the freezer story - "I think that was a Democrat." As if one Democratic scandal excused the tremendous number of corruption scandals that broke or came to a head this year regarding Republic politicians.

Then when a caller brought up 'An Inconvenient Truth', he compared Al Gore's decades long environmentalism with that nugget of right wing pride, the lie that Al claimed he invented the Internet.

Can't something be done to excise this guy from what is supposed to be a solid news source? Conan is continuously a schill for conservative issues. Tomorrow he will have on Richard Perle. I'm repulsed. This crap is turning me into a small government person. If my tax dollars are gonna go to keep a decidedly unfair and unbalanced commentator on the air, why the hell should my tax dollars go to support NPR? Who died and made me a fiscal conservative? This sucks.

[Moochy]

1. I feel your NPR pain

Neal Conan, Steve Inskeep, Juan Williams and Cokey Roberts are the four NPR talking heads that drive me crazy with their slant.

When they are off-script and conducting an interview they are the absolute worst. Talk of the Nation is almost always in either the interview or the caller format, so there is alot of room for skew and slant.

I can only listen to TotN on Science Fridays.

I am pretty sure that Neal Conan predates Tomlinson's stint at CPB Chair.

The one that annoys me the most is Steve Inskeep. He is the dork on Morning Edition, the replacement for Bob Edwards. He and Renee Montaigne are very eager to spin and lie.

[motocicleta]

3. Conan was definitely around before Tomlinson,

but he didn't suck as bad.

[robertarctor]

2. That's how the wingnuts figured out how to kill NPR

That's how the wingnuts figured out how to kill NPR: Put wingnut shills like Neil Conan on, and pretty soon the network's historically liberal supporters will demand that their taxes must not support this new abortion, and they'll ask for the plug to be pulled. It's win-win for the wingnuts.

[motocicleta]

4. I know, I know

and I won't really become so fiscally conservative that I would want funding to be cut for NPR, but I do need things to turn around before I make any more donations, to be sure.

[mama]

5. He stammers so badly that I can't stand to listen to him.

I listen to NPR all day,every day.
He is the worst speaker and a slow thinker, shouldn't be in a radio career.

[blue agave]

6. NPR = National Propaganda Radio

why bother yourself - you will only get frustrated - and * keeps appointing more wing nuts to the board.

[peacetalksforall]

7. I can't bear to listen to NPR Monday thru Friday. I try to avoid

news and political stuff on the weekends. But, I relish the weekend geniuses. It creates a really serious schizophrenic situation. Love hate. Sometime I feel like I despise NPR for going from quite neutral to very right. Sickening. Utterly sickening. It is a public broadcasting station and we are getting 1984.

[Moochy]

8. Are you sure it's not PRI?

The best shows on the local GOOD pbs radio station in the bay area, KALW Information Radio, are from PRI.

At least I find ttbook (To the Best Of Our Knowledge) a good weekend show.

[Supersedeas]

9. since there is no substance there--to be fair, innuendo rumor and lies makes it balanced