{"id":51185,"date":"2015-02-09T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51185"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:07:19","slug":"npr-omaha-beach-was-a-rhetorical-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51185","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Omaha Beach Was A Rhetorical<\/i> Battle…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0<\/em>star Bradley Cooper.<\/p>\n

Gross started with the obvious<\/a> – NPR is soaking in bias (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

\u201cClint Eastwood directed the film – and very well. He directed it very well, I think,\u201d she said. \u201cBut 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<\/strong>. And I’m wondering if you had any reservations about, you know, having him direct the film knowing that he could interview the chair<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper laughed: \u201cYou got to ask him about that one time (laughter) if you ever get a chance to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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):<\/p>\n

Gross also sounded strange when she insisted that people on the Left want to oppose the war, but support the troops, but \u201cthey draw the line when the troops had to do something like kill someone<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0star Bradley Cooper. Gross started with the obvious – NPR is soaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51190,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions\/51190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}