In their usual holier-than-thou fashion, NPR ticked me off this morning. \u00a0I sent the following complaint to the NPR ombudsman.
\n“On the morning broadcast of \u00a0Friday, August 7, 2015, I heard the fact checkers make a very snide comment…that was at least 50% wrong. \u00a0Scott Horsley and Steve Inskeep fact checked the GOP presidential debate of the previous evening. \u00a0While discussing the responses of former Gov. Huckabee and Ben Carson the fact checkers made a very uncalled for remark that was factually incorrect.. \u00a0The snide remark made by Scott Horsley was “One might remember Mitt Romney made similar claims in 2012, only to have President Obama poke fun at such anachronistic measurements, saying the military is using a lot fewer horses and bayonets than it used to.” \u00a0While the statement is correct about horses it is absolutely incorrect about bayonets. \u00a0The military has more bayonets in use today than it did in 1917 and President Obama was flat out wrong when he spoke it in 2012. \u00a0NPR listeners were subjected to a snide remark for which Mr. Horsley’s facts were incorrect. \u00a0We deserve better as listeners.<\/p>\n
Your friend,
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I’ve noted in the past the deep regard Public Broadcasting has for being corrected<\/a> by the peasants. \u00a0With that in mind, and because you all have a right to know, I found a picture of NPR’s “ombudsman”:<\/p>\n
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