Urban Progressive Privilege: Our Vacuous Overlords
By Mitch Berg
I’ve listened to a lot of vapid, trite radio in my life.
Janeane Garofalo’s attempt at a talk show. Most any “audio essay” by David Sedaris. Just about every local show on AM950, from Nick Coleman and Wendy Wilde and Two Putt Tommy and Steve Timmer through Bart McNeil or whatever his name is. Lots of dreadful stuff.
But I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything quite this stomach-pumpingly vacuous as this two year old episode of “Radiolab”, an NPR podcast [1] which combines an oppressive amount of cutesy sound editing with a programming lineup that captures all of the lows of “This American Life” with none of TAL’s occasional highs.
it’s a rebroadcast [2] from a couple of years ago, when the Covid pandemic had come and gone for most of America, but was still leaving the world a Camusian hellscape for the organically-fed fashionably angsty member of the Laptop Class that work for and listen to National Public Radio.
And in it, the plush-bottom yoohoos in the studio seem to be straining to make the case that 2020 and 2021 is a candidate to be horrible years in history, as compared to…
…536AD. When something, a bunch of volcanoes or comet dust or something blotted out much of the sunlight for years, causing a chain reaction of crop failures, famines, plagues (as hungry rats invaded granaries) and wars that led to the death of perhaps 20% of the people on the planet at the time.
But Covid’s pretty bad, too!
Here’s the neat (if nauseous) trick: Listen to it, and you can almost feel like you’re sitting in a “breakfast place” on Eat Street listening to a bunch of non-profiteers bitching about how lack of rent control is genocide.
NPR should really be funding itself.
[1] NPR – the National Public network that earnestly declares it’s neither National nor Public:
April 16th, 2023 at 12:20 pm
Ever notice how the the PBS icon is a a row of NPCs?
April 16th, 2023 at 12:41 pm
Oh, yeah, talking about the media, there’s this too, Media Is to Blame for Covid Vaccines’ Wall of Infallibility
“An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous,” [Conny Turni, a scientist at Queensland University] and co-author Astrid Lefringhausen concluded, arguing the vaccines presented a greater health risk to young healthy people than Covid-19 itself.
It was one of the most shocking things I’d read in years; a detailed review, scrupulously referenced, pointing to the growing plethora of scientific studies around the world that were casting doubt on the effectiveness and safety of the Covid-19 vaccines from 2021.
“The only media attention I have received was from the UK,”
April 16th, 2023 at 4:22 pm
In 2004, ‘Bart’ McNeils producer made the mistake of putting me on the air (I used my real name, naturally). After I pinned his ears back for a couple minutes with factual refutations of his inane bullshit, he cut me off and went on a 3 minute tirade.
I laughed at him on TwitR (I may have used a rude colloquium for female genitalia, tbh).
He responded, saying he knew who I was, and that he’d love to kick my ass. I thanked him, and acknowledged many would like to see my ass kicked, it was way past time for that to happen and said I’d arrive at his station in 20 minutes to receive his righteous beatdown.
He immediately responded, saying he had contacted the police. Seeing that as the cunt move it was, he added that I had threatened his family. This was all on TwitR.
I contacted the station manager, Janet something, and advised her that I’d be suing the whole wretched bunch for libel. All the Tweets came down.
My point: Not only are these degenerates liars, they’re cowards. Call them out at every opportunity.
April 16th, 2023 at 4:30 pm
BTW, NPR has announced they’re quitting TwitR. Maybe it’s time for my re-emergence?
April 16th, 2023 at 6:39 pm
Ah-nold may be getting red pilled.
https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1647645607228747776
April 17th, 2023 at 9:38 am
jdm, thanks for the link. Good, useful reading…as long as one isn’t worried about his blood pressure.
April 17th, 2023 at 11:34 am
jdm, Seymoure Hersh has published an article (H/T jpa), detailing the outright theft of hundreds of millions of the federal fiat currency FJBiden’s handlers and congressional neo-cons sent to fight for buttsex, child trafficking and, yes, money laundering. Zelinsky and his pals are rolling in cash, and his generals are setting up shell corps to facilitate the sale of the munitions NATO gave them.
The skim is so large, no one will ever know just how big it is.
Now, only a nitwitted neo-con or degenerate leftist wouldn’t have seen this coming from day 1, but as with mRNA vaccines, the feckless leftist media is gaslighting the truth. And yet, nitwit neo-cons like Mr. Bubble still believe the bullshit they publish.
The Western MSM is shit, but as a wise person once observed “You can’t rape the willing”.