Listening To Cokie Roberts This Morning My Blood Was Boiling

[ThomWV]

I finally noticed how that miserable bitch does it; how with her 'analysis' she promotes the Republican viewpoint in virtually every piece of broadcast trash she speaks on.

Here is what I noticed. She will state in some detail the Republican talking points for whatever matter is at hand. She will follow that with a short and distorted, always approached negatively, version of the Democrat's position on the matter. Then she does it, she says - and I am quoting this - "The truth is ... " and then she restates the Republican talking points.

I listened to the bitch do it time after time after time. "The truth is ..." As if that bitch would know the truth if it up and bit her on the ass.

And while I'm just standing here naked and ranting, what in all of the blazing bowels of hell is all this religious oriented broadcasting doing on NPR? I find myself swearing at the radio and turning that religious tripe off more and more these days. They've seen their last donation from me, that's for good and god damned sure.

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. Cokie Roberts was spouting religion? nt

[Catherine Vincent]

2. I know how you feel.

But you really should stop listening to her if she gets you that upset.

[ceile]

3. I quit listening in 2003

I'll listen to commercials before I put on NPR.

[glitch]

18. 2000 here - when their bias for Bush became unbearable. nt

[bluerum]

4. She is a BIG reason NPR does not get my $$$ anymore.

[anniebelle]

5. Exactly! I canceled my membership with our local PBS

radio station. I'm sick of listening to Cokehead Roberts and her ilk on what used to be one of my primary sources of 'fair and balanced' news. No more!

[Maddy McCall]

6. I quit donating to them about two years ago...

They were becoming more and more right with their analyses and with the guests they chose to interview.

I dumped them. Don't even listen to NPR anymore, except to catch the local gardening show that my state NPR affiliate broadcasts.

[catmandu57]

7. Do like so many of us have already done

Turn national propaganda radio off, they belong to the darkside now.

[grytpype]

8. Yeah, just quit listening to Nice Polite Republicans.

We own the Internet and we have Air America. NPR is for geezers who are a little too sane to watch Fox.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. I just caught this...

"And while I'm just standing here naked and ranting..."

That would have been a sight to see! :)

[AX10]

10. NPR should be cut off from government funding.

If they are going to promote only one side, then they can go to wealthy Repubs and the Scaife/Right Wing Crime family for money!

[question everything]

22. I don't think they promote one side

the Republicans still consider PBS and NPR to be liberal. If we stop supporting them the only thing left would be hate radio by Limbaugh et al.

NPR is till the best source of all encompassing news, trying to bring all sides to the story.

Just because some do not like a single story does not make it "promoting one side only."

And saying that it should not get government funding you are playing straight into the hands of the right.

[AX10]

26. There should be a push for true balance then.

Just maybe that will happen when congress changes hands this fall.

[bluerum]

27. When there were real reporters at NPR -

they would laugh at reporting like the drivel that Cokie Roberts puts out. Wasting air time on it would simply be out of the question.

NPR has shifted what used to be a progressive news broadcast firmly into the world of "lets try to please everyone all the time."

IMO this is ridiculous. It has led to banal banter and the likes of Cokie Roberts being able to spew her views on what used to be the flagship medium for innovative critical broadcast journalism.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. The other one is that Scott Simon guy on the weekends.

His approach is pure PNAC wrapped up in little sad human interest stories that convey the Arab hater message.

[glitch]

20. He was my final straw. Nasty little sanctimonious smarmbot. nt

[filer]

12. Religious oriented programming on NPR? nt

[ThomWV]

14. Inserting and Evangelical Viewpoint Where None Is Called For

The news is becomming saturated by it and they have a show devoted to religion in public affairs or some such nonsense - I refuse to listen to the show but they 'advertise' for it on the local feed station.

[Wickerman]

15. I agree with much of what you say

but have found, listening over time, that Speaking of Faith is one of the most liberal shows I have heard on radio. Its much more theology than religion and certainly doesn't tend to favor Christianity - it examines faith and the impact its had on world change. Some of the pieces on Islam and Muslim studies have been fascinating and some of the bits on Mega churches have been very damning to the con artists that run the shows. That of course, does not mean it isn't boring as hell 3 out of 4 shows. :shrug:

[filer]

16. I've noticed it on MSM a lot lately.

Didn't realize NPR was up to that. I thought I heard a big sucking sound the other day. I wondered if the Rapture had begun. But I guess not...just jobs leaving the country.

[Merlot]

13. Don't listen to NPR anymore - and TELL THEM WHY!

It's to be expected that faux, and the corporate media have their viewpoints. Dissapointing, and a desertion of journalistic integrity aside, it's how it is. But when NPR askes for our money and pretends to be unbiased, it's to insluting for words.

I gave up on them after the 2004 election.

[cosmik debris]

17. The Neocons set out to destroy public broadcasting

And they are succeeding. They couldn't do it with a hammer so they did it with a pen knife. They have slowly carved and whittled away at the credibility until its donors are abandoning it in droves. It can't survive Republican rule, and the donor base will not tolerate it much longer. I said good bye to NPR two years ago.

[glitch]

21. Accurate summary of what has happened to them. Tragic, I used to love them

still looking for a fulltime substitute.

[MadHound]

19. Yeah, I heard that this morning

And yes, she is despicable.

However I still donate to my local NPR station, because their morning and afternoon news shows aside, I still enjoy what they offer.

And if you listen to something other than Morning Edition or ATC, you'll still find some pretty good left leaning shows. Fresh Air, and even better, Bob Edward's Weekends. Good hard hitting interviews from a left POV.

Besides, my local station is the only one for miles that broadcasts good classical and jazz programs, along with Lake Woebegone and the Woodsongs Radio Show, among others:shrug: I agree their editorial bias shows in their news programming, but the good still outweighs the bad for me, thus I still continue to fund them.

[uppityperson]

23. I listen to NPR, hadn't heard "news" for a bit, was appalled

their talk programs we have here seem good, but then I listened to the news. I pulled over to listen before going into a radio blackout area, hoping to hear about how Lebanonese civilans were doing and didn't hear anything about them. Nothing. No thing. Not 1 thing. Bah.

[MODemocrat]

24. I thought Cokie Roberts was dead or was it the wicked witch?

She and her "poor" little dog too! :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :spray: :spray:

[David Zephyr]

25. Her father helped cover up Dulles' murder of JFK.

That's all you need to know about Cokie.

Oh, and her whoring for ADM, the "supermarket" to the world.

[WI_DEM]

28. hard to believe she came from a strongly democratic family

I find her very annoying.

[stepnw1f]

29. Another Reason I No Longer Listen to NPR (nt)