One more reason not to pay attention to NPR's Morning Edition:

[Gabi Hayes]

I caught a decent sized snip of Renee Montagne's love fest (I guess she calls it an interview) with Mark McKinnon, in which they shared praise for Karl Rove's career.

think I'm exaggerating?

here's what I found, from the NPR site....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14075143&ft=1&f=3

the title?

''Karl Rove's Legacy: Sage Tactics, Political Savvy''

seriously. that was the tone of the interview. she asked McKinnon if Rove might have been considered 'divisive,' to which he replied something like this. "Bush came to the WH with the idea of changing the tone, but after the contested election, the dems didn't give him a chance." That was the gist of his answer, and Montaigne let it go unchallenged, as she did everything else he said. Everything

one of the most disgusting, pattycake interviews I've ever heard.

the title of the link says it all, though

and to think my poor niece just signed a contract as a local reporter with them. she's so happy, so proud, as is the rest of the family. If they only knew. I bite my tongue.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. on the now infrequent occasions upon which I listen to this stuff, she seems to pull tricks like:

NPR presented vice president of conservative think tank as sole expert on Democrats' appeal to religious voters


On the February 21 edition of Nation Public Radio's (NPR) Morning Edition, following a report on Republican presidential candidates' attendance at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention and Exposition, co-host Renée Montagne introduced a segment she described as "a look at how Democratic candidates are reaching out to religious voters." But her only guest was Michael Cromartie, the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank that says it is "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy." Montagne and Cromartie used the terms "religious" and "evangelical" interchangeably and focused on such issues as abortion and same-sex marriage, which Cromartie described as matters that "vangelicals and religious conservatives care deeply about." Montagne and Cromartie did not discuss how the views of other religious voters might differ from those of evangelicals, and NPR did not balance Cromartie's perspective with any comment from Democrats or liberal religious leaders.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank that, according to its website, "was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues." Sitting on EPPC's Policy Advisory Board are Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, another conservative think tank. Additionally, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. In 2004, Cromartie was appointed by President Bush to a two-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. In 2005, he was elected chairman of the commission. His biography on the EPPC website lists numerous conservative publications to which he has contributed book reviews and articles, including First Things, The Washington Times, and Insight -- but no liberal or progressive journals.

Montagne quoted only one source -- and not a Democrat -- to comment on Democrats' outreach to "religious voters." In contrast, during the report on Republican candidates' attendance at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention that aired immediately before the Cromartie interview, NPR reporter Rachel Martin presented comments and speech excerpts from Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Christian broadcaster Stuart Epperson.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702220002

[PCIntern]

2. Screw NPR...

I can't take THEIR hypocrisy - they jumped when the Administration threatened them. Such balls they have...

[Gabi Hayes]

3. partially true, but their management has been taken over by the likes of Kevin Klose, who

was, well, here. plenty more like this one:

http://www.counterpunch.org/microradio.html

Both Klose and the boss of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Robert Coonrod, come from careers in US government propaganda abroad. Klose ran Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, long a stamping ground for the CIA. Coonrod oversaw the Voice of America and both Radio and TV Martí.

As Peter Franck of the National Lawyers Guild's Committee on Democratic Communications puts it, "Klose and Coonrod come out of the national security state. Their instinct is to see federally funded public radio as an actual or potential propaganda arm of government, and they're terrified of independent voices." Indeed, Coonrod has been intimately involved in efforts to curb the independence of stations in the noncommercial Pacifica network, which is now the object of an admirable strike by Pacifica Network News reporters.

[Tesha]

4. I heard that too.

Another instance of NPR always using a Republican to explain away
Republican evil-doing.

Where was the rebuttal, NPR? Every time you have a Democrat speak,
you're always sure to have a Republican rebuttal speaker (or two).

Tesha

[qb]

5. I stopped listening to NPR completely

When their religion show broadcast a theological "justification" for the invasion of Iraq. That and I couldn't listen to Nina Totenburg without tearing my hair out.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. yeah...WTF happened to her? I saw Inside Washington last week,

and she sounded more like Mona Charen than the 'dirty lib' who unveiled all the nasty on Clarence Thomas way back when

[PCIntern]

7. Co-opted by the dark side of the force: