Sickening: NPR has David Horowitz on to comment on Howard Zinn

[cali]

My contempt for NPR continues to grow.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123081519

[libnnc]

1. too angry to type

I...no words.

:nuke:

[Zoeisright]

2. Horowitz is a tool.

He's not fit to lick Howard Zinn's shoes.

[marginlized]

12. NPR is the tool n/t

[hlthe2b]

3. that was unconscionable....

The story was supposed to be a memorium, not a treatise on his previous writings. Even so, to have Horowitz, who has no credibility, rather than any number of real historians (including those who may have disagreed with Zinn's approach) is just unconscionable.

[eleny]

4. what the hell?!

[Blue_Tires]

5. what a low-class stunt

weak...like having the KKK on after the death of a civil rights leader...

[asdjrocky]

6. What I wrote to them yesterday when I first saw this-

Listening to All Things Considered nearly made me sick to my stomach. Why on earth would NPR invite someone like David Horowitz to comment on Howard? It was almost like a rebuttal.

Is that what we do now when we remember people on NPR? Do we make sure we have someone on who is their polar opposite so they can skewer a man less than 24 hours gone from us?

What has David Horowitz every contributed to society?

Shame on you NPR and shame on you All Things Considered

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Why?!!!

This is the most insulting and irresponsible thing that I've heard of for a very long time! :grr:

[tularetom]

8. I don't think it would be very hard to get NPR shitcanned

The dumbasses already hate it and all the David Horowitzes in the world won't change their mind about that.

All it would take is a few Dems getting on the bandwagon to get rid of it and it'd be gone.

I think it would be a great candidate for Obama's spending freeze.

[Echo In Light]

9. Doucher, 110%

[randr]

10. Horowitz exposed

Just how else would you like to see this assholes opinions exposed.
As a listener I have the intellectual capacity to tell that Horowitz represents the worst of ideologues and I am glad to see his kind exposed to the light of day.

[Brewman_Jax]

11. They've done some stupid stuff

but this is near the top--giving a platform to a brain-dead racist money-chasing hack like Horowitz, rather wHorowitz.

:wtf:

[Canuckistanian]

13. I sent a message to the NPR Ombudsman

Date Created: 1/28/2010 9:43 PM EDT
Subject: Horowitz on Howards Zinn's death? Are you serious?
Body: There's only ONE thing you can do to compensate for this.

You MUST have Michael Moore on to immediately comment on the death of Rupert Murdoch (when that happens).

Then and only then will I consider you a *fair* broadcaster.

[MinM]

16. The Fallacy of False Equivalence

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7596721#7600492

Even though Michael Moore should not be equated to the hate-monger Horowitz. NPR would never do that.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Strictly speaking, you're right

But from NPR's point of view, MM is a probably a radical.

[MinM]

23. Good point...

Hope our letters to the Ombudsman get some traction...

But I have my doubts.

NPR Ombudsman: NPR should have more people like Glenn Beck
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7596721&mesg_id=7600035

[Blue_Tires]

21. and i remember a couple years back being stuck in traffic one day

and hearing the soft, reverent, kid gloves they used to cover William F. Buckley's death...How many big-name liberals would have wanted a chance to rant on-air about THAT guy??? 10,000?

[G_j]

25. I remember that

good point, tempted to pull up the show, but I don't think I could stomach it.

[Blue Owl]

14. They're leaning more and more right

They're becoming National Propaganda Radio.

NPR recently had Tim Pawlenty commenting on the MA elections, saying how the country was turning back to the GOP.

But today we hear that 94% of Fox's Bill O'Reilly viewers gave Obama an "A" for his first year.

How can that be?

For once, I'm tempted to believe Fox News over NPR (the horror, the horror).

[ljm2002]

15. I am going to listen to that tonight...

...and then I am going to let them know why I will not be responding to my local NPR station's fund drive.

I will never knowingly support an organization that gives David Horowitz a platform from which to spew his insanity. Period.

To have that particular person comment on the occasion of Zinn's death is utterly outrageous and scummy. Whoever made that decision ought to be fired.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. I'd tell Whoreowitz to go to Hell

but that would be unfair to Satan :evilfrown:

[JackRiddler]

18. That really disgusted me. They would never turn anyone else's obituary into an attack piece.

[cyberswede]

19. Infuriating!

I was listening in the car...and I FLEW to to off button the minute I heard that asshat open his mouth. i can't believe they included Horowitz in that piece!

[G_j]

22. Contact page:

http://help.npr.org/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=5670&task=ticket

please send them a note...

[Enthusiast]

24. NPR has become nothing

more than a more sophisticated version of Fox News.

[Junkdrawer]

26. I will spit on NPR's grave...n/t

[PuraVidaDreamin]

27. I felt real guilty not contributing to NPR last year

But not anymore. Guess I need to let them know that.

[KamaAina]

28. "There is... nothing in Howard Zinn's intellectual output that is worthy of any kind of respect."

So saith Whore-owitz.

Well, then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn#Education

His doctoral dissertation LaGuardia in Congress was a study of Fiorello LaGuardia's congressional career, and it depicted LaGuardia representing "the conscience of the twenties" as LaGuardia fought for public power, the right to strike, and the redistribution of wealth by taxation. "His specific legislative program," Zinn wrote, "was an astonishingly accurate preview of the New Deal." It was published by the Cornell University Press for the American Historical Association. While at Columbia, his professors included Harry Carman, Henry Steele Commager, and David Donald. La Guardia in Congress won the American Historical Association's Beveridge Prize as the best English-language book on American history.

Fiorello LaGuardia, of course, was a Republican.

[Blue_Tires]

29. on this evening's show, they did read two of the tamer angry e-mails

and they made a point to say they got a LOT of negative reaction -- one e-mailer cited the recent death of Oral Roberts, where Pat Robertson was allowed to wax philosophically unopposed...And I had already mentioned the William Buckley death, and I'm sure there are countless other examples...

Whoever in charge made the decision to put Horowitz on the air needs to be out on the street Monday

[devilgrrl]

30. I turned them off years ago (2000)

Utter shite!