“No Rant, No Slant”

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Next time someone tells you National Public Radio does a good job of being balanced and avoiding bias, give ’em this example from yesterday afternoon’s “All Things Considered”.  Robert Siegel was interviewin Nina “Jesse Helms Should Die Of AIDS” Totenberg about a new Arizona law that allows courts to shut down businesses that hire illegals.

Siegel asked if it was the same as last year’s controversial immigration law (emphasis):

“No. That law…requires law enforcement personnel to check up on the status of any individual they think on the street is illegally in the country and it says, you know, give me your papers…”

She’s lying, of course, or at least leaving out the bit about “illegals who have some legal contact with law enforcement”, as opposed to trawling the Home Depots looking for people with brown skin.

7 thoughts on ““No Rant, No Slant””

  1. Last year’s immigration law was not “controversial”. Only moonbats and open borders morons question Arizona’s right to defend itself from invasion.

  2. Well, the wouldn’t be “All Things Considered” if they didn’t seriously consider doing insanely slanted rants from time to time, I guess. Actually doing one, or two, or twelve, or making it a regular thing is one step farther, and that has to be considered as well.

  3. NPR yesterday:

    NORRIS: Is there any potential backlash after the Tucson shootings where Palin was placed in a very harsh spotlight for a webpage that had Congressman Gabrielle Giffords’ district in some sort of crosshairs. Giffords was critically wounded in that shooting. Will that make it harder for Palin to embrace the state as a new home base or even a weigh station?

    Mr. BARR: I think it will, because I think a lot of folks in Arizona – and I can tell you from having gone back home and the rest of it is just, they don’t blame her necessarily but they think that that kind of rhetoric is irresponsible.

    You’re seeing a lot of those folks who had spoken the same kind of way, whether we’re talking about Russell Pierce or Joe Arpaio or whoever in Arizona, they had all these personalities who kind of subsisted on over the top rhetoric, and you haven’t heard a lot from them recently. They’ve been very quiet. In fact, all of their political stocks are sinking.

    And the other thing for Palin is whenever her name comes up in Arizona, the next sentence is about Gabby Giffords. And so if she ever wanted to do anything there, be significant in the state, she’ll forever be linked to the Giffords shooting.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136690541/has-palin-purchased-a-home-in-arizona

  5. I’m trying to come up with a noun that describes one news commentator interviewing another and all I can think of is: “incest.”

  6. Defund NPR and see how long they last. I’d bet not much longer than Air America.

  7. Scott, 90% of their bottom line comes from beg-a-thons (credit my dad for that one). Sometimes they go as far to insult non-‘paying’ (even though our tax dollars go to that sorry excuse for a radio station) listeners and trying to guilt them into donating. Commercials are much more tolerable than ‘member drives’

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