NPR’s Teri Gross – one of the most overpraised figures in the American media, a woman who is to interviewing what Jay Cutler has been as a quarterback – busted out her deep thoughts about history and politics in a recent interview with American Sniper star Bradley Cooper.
Gross started with the obvious – NPR is soaking in bias (emphasis added):
“Clint Eastwood directed the film – and very well. He directed it very well, I think,” she said. “But I’ll tell you, after he interviewed the chair at the Republican National Convention, I thought, wow, I’d be scared to work with him after that. And I’m wondering if you had any reservations about, you know, having him direct the film knowing that he could interview the chair.”
Cooper laughed: “You got to ask him about that one time (laughter) if you ever get a chance to.”
But it’s Gross’s deep thoughts about the nature of mankind’s most brutal habit, and the place of morality, that is the real big news (emphasis added):
Gross also sounded strange when she insisted that people on the Left want to oppose the war, but support the troops, but “they draw the line when the troops had to do something like kill someone.”
In other words, they support the military when it’s just like another social program; when it’s thousands of people sitting around collecting checks and not really doing much.
if you want to hear the on the air version of sploosh listen to any interview of hers where the guest is bad mouthing the NRA.
Can’t liberate Dachau ’cause ya might have to kill some SS guards, after all.
It boggles the mind…..
I love how they make a blatant political statement then, almost as an afterthought, make it look like a question by saying “would you agree with that?”/
To the left, our combat veterans are victims or villians. They are to either be pitied (and given large gov’t programs) or vilified as killers.
Listening to Terri Gross causes me great irritation. How many people are there in broadcasting that could get away with saying “um” at the start of every question?
The Eastwood empty chair bit was funny and got traction because like all good satire, it had an element of truth to it. Barry O is like a lot of business people (particularly youthful senior managers that come right from MBA training) I’ve met, an empty suit. He’s good at the ‘talk’, but when it comes to the real world of business or politics in this case – the horsetrading, cajoling, etc. he’s a jack ass.
I think this is why the Brian Williams story has gained traction. Once again because of a smooth delivery (and don’t forget that gorgeous hair) he is given credit for knowing things he doesn’t know. John Stossel used to say that when he was a consumer reporter, the plaintiffs bar routinely pitched him on the dangers of this or that product, in the hopes that he would do a story (that was spoon fed to him) to get their lawsuit moving. The networks aren’t much better – they’re fed a narrative from the Democrat Party-Big Government-Big Media complex they are a part of to retail and they do so.
It’s no wonder that the dwindling set of people who get their news from one source like the network news or NPR are willing to believe that our service people are, as Chuck notes, either victims or villains.