Hey, NPR: Fund your own lame liberal humor — and leave my family alone
If the obscure and has-been comedians who appear on National Public Radio want to mock conservatives and spread left-wing propaganda, they should do it on their own damned dime.
The government-sponsored radio conglomerate broadcasts a weekend show called “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” It leans heavily on laugh tracks to prop up the lame punchlines of the likes of liberal humorist Paula Poundstone and describes its purpose thusly: “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what’s real news and what’s made up.”
The “best and brightest” include a Muslim comedian named Maz Jabrani, whom NPR has been promoting as “the face of Middle Eastern humor in America today.”
Judging from his latest bit performed on this weekend’s show, the face of Middle Eastern humor looks a lot like the face of your typical CAIR mouthpiece. Tea Party-bashers Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller may be gone and the House may have defunded the public radio enterprise, but the conservatives=racist smear narrative is alive and well at NPR.
Here’s a transcript and here’s the audio:
CARL KASELL, host:
From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I’m Carl Kasell. We’re playing this week with Amy Dickinson, Maz Jobrani and Paula Poundstone. And here again is your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.
PETER SAGAL, host:
Thank you, Carl.
(Soundbite of applause)*
*[MM NOTE: THE SHOW IS TAPED BEFORE A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE, BUT THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CANNED LAUGH TRACK]
SAGAL: Thank you everybody. Right now it’s time for the WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME! Bluff the Listener game. Call 1-888-Wait-Wait to play our game on the air. Hi, you’re on WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!
PATRICK: Hi, this is Patrick from Suffolk, Virginia.
SAGAL: Hey Patrick, how are things in Suffolk?
…[Lame chatter edited out for space]…
…SAGAL: I agree with you. Well welcome to the show, Patrick. You’re going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. Carl, what is Patrick’s topic?
KASELL: Finally, I know who I really am.
SAGAL: Everyone has faced that moment of existential doubt and asked: who am I? Where do I come from? Well, this week, we read about someone who sought answers to those questions and was shocked at what they found. Our panelists are going to tell you three stories about people uncovering a secret about their identity, only one of which was in this week’s news. Choose that true story; you’ll win Carl’s voice on your home answering machine or voicemail. Ready to play?
PATRICK: I am.
SAGAL: First, let’s hear from Maz Jobrani.
Mr. MAZ JOBRANI (Founder, Axis of Evil Comedy Tour): Conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin has expressed her fear that there are Muslims amongst us who are hiding their true identity. The most prominent, she claims, being Barack Obama. However, when she set out to find proof of these undercover Muslims, she found more than she bargained for.
It turns out that there are, indeed, some Muslims hiding their identity to fly under the radar. The most pertinent one for Malkin being her own grandfather.
(Soundbite of laughter)*
*[MM NOTE: THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CANNED LAUGH TRACK]
Mr. JOBRANI: Yes, Grandpa Malkin, who is from the Philippines but lives with Michelle’s parents, had not told the family about his religion for fear of being ostracized and thrown out. “Do you know how hard it is to pray five times a day when your family doesn’t know?”
(Soundbite of laughter)*
*[MM NOTE: THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CANNED LAUGH TRACK]
Mr. JOBRANI: “I had to excuse myself to the bathroom every time I wanted to pray.”
(Soundbite of laughter)*
*[MM NOTE: THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CANNED LAUGH TRACK]
Mr. JOBRANI: “And the ham dinners, don’t get me started on the ham dinners.”
(Soundbite of laughter)*
**[MM NOTE: THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CANNED LAUGH TRACK]
Mr. JOBRANI: Malkin was in shock when her grandfather revealed his true identity to her. He explained that he had been closeted Muslim for too long and it was time for him to live his life and be happy with himself. Malkin used the revelation to confirm her argument that Muslims are taking over. First they wanted the youth, and now they’re going after my grandfather? My 90-year-old grandfather? This is sick.
(Soundbite of laughter)*
**[MM NOTE: THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CANNED LAUGH TRACK]
(Soundbite of applause)
SAGAL: Conservative activist Michelle Malkin finds a Muslim in her very home.
The premise of Jobrani’s p.c. comedy gag is completely false, as actual readers of my work know. I was one of the first conservatives to criticize Birthers who go to the extreme and have never accused President Obama of being a “secret Muslim.” To the contrary, I’ve criticized him for his rather open and out-of-the-closet apologias for jihad and his perfunctory, bloodless, vague public condemnations of Islamic terror attacks on Americans. As for my “fear that there are Muslims amongst us who are hiding their true identity,” go ask Attorney General Eric Holder what “keeps him up at night.”
Jobrani’s a poor man’s Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert, pandering to progressives with lazy caricatures of the Right, with the encouragement and approval of high-minded libs practicing supposedly indispensable, public interest journalism that rural America can’t live without, don’t you know!?
How many conservative comedians (besides token P.J. O’Rourke, who panders to the Left with his attacks on Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio) get an equal opportunity to lampoon their political opponents on NPR airwaves?
***
Big hat tip to Jamie Huston at Gently Hew Stone , who notes the timing of the NPR segment bashing my family:
…NPR’s mistake goes far beyond mere slander. Their joke targeted the family of a specific conservative at a time when that specific conservative’s family is suffering a tragedy. Quite a coincidence. It’s been two weeks since Malkin’s cousin Marizela Perez went missing…Malkin has used her media presence tirelessly since then to help find her young relative. Either NPR and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me are not nearly as well-informed in their news awareness as they’d like us to believe, or they cruelly decided to go ahead with a particularly tasteless joke.
Ironically, just before this segment aired, they made fun of Gilbert Gottfried getting fired for his tasteless jokes about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Pot, meet kettle…
…On top of that, here comes a radio show that singles her out during this crisis and makes fun of not just her, but goes out of its way to talk about her family. …If she were a liberal and Glenn Beck had made a joke like this, the mainstream media would be calling for blood.
Another day, another government media double standard…
(Cue soundbite of laughter/applause from tittering NPR listeners.)
***
Moe Lane: “For those trying to play the “They didn’t know!” card: two minutes of research on the Internet would have revealed this, given that Michelle has been burning up the Internet trying to find her cousin. Although I suppose that it might make people feel better if it turns out that NPR is merely incompetent, not cruelly callous to other people’s suffering.”
***
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I agree.
I agree.
While NPR has offended you, Michelle,
you have offended a significant portion of your readers.
It is not “extreme” to realize that:
1) No member of Congress has ever inspected hard copy documentation for Barack Hussein Obama to ensure that he is in compliance with the legal requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act and the United States Constitution.
2) Barack Hussein Obama publicly confessed the Shahada, the opening lines of the call to prayer, in Arabic… an action that convinces many Muslims that he is Muslim.
Those are Facts.
And acknowleding those facts does not make me an “extremist”.
So, IlovemyChappy,
how was your weekend?
…acknowledging…
@#101
go back to plucking your pubes with a dried out crab claw.
So if Muslims are convinced he’s Muslim, he must be? So if Muslims believe women should be second rate citizens, they must be?
This assertion from you is not a ‘fact’ as you put it.
Dude, not the right place, time or topic. Seriously.
Creative. I like it.
So true. You are such a well-rounded contributor.
I believe, hopefully, that Michelle was referring to some of the “one-trick” ponies that frequent the site. Some are unable to comment on any subject other than Barry’s ascension into the White House.
And I’ll bow out, too, on this topic.
Rabble rabble…NPR bad…rabble rabble (back on topic).
Michelle, would you explain, “extreme”, in the quote above?
Does asking for Obama’s real long-form Hawaii BC, (which we now know doesn’t exist), constitute extreme? How about pointing out Obama’s claimed father was never an American citizen, making it impossible for Barry to ever be a Constitutionally required, “natural born citizen? Is it extreme to ask why Obama has sealed every record from his past he could get his hands on?
What, in your opinion, is being an, “extreme Birther”, considering the significance of the Constitutional requirement to be president, and the empirical evidence of what happens if that Constitutional requirement is ignored?
No one needs to apologize for insisting the Constitution be followed.
I’m afraid the laughs aren’t canned. I saw a vid of this show and the audience is really into it. Maybe they have a “laugh!” lamp, but the reactions are real.
It also seems that the more vicious and ad hominem the attack joke is, the more uproarious and sustained the reaction. Poundstone seems to get some of the most appreciative reactions for her regular Kathy-Griffin-level-of-snark attacks against religious people and Sarah Palin.
I agree with you on all of this, and so do a number of posters here.
By the way, I never click on the links that trolls provide. I don’t trust them. They could be rigged. Another reason is, I don’t want to give that site so many hits. They don’t deserve it and every time we click on the site, it helps them. Ugh. Not worth it.
My sympathies go out to MM for having to entertain this garbage during a very sensitive, unfortunate and personal moment in her life, but this behavior is nothing new coming from Liberals.
Don’t forget, some writer for Bill Maher (thanks to the Huffington Post) carved this screed into the still-open casket of Ann Coulter’s deceased father back in 2008.
I don’t fault the comedian, what does he know? What’s pathetic about this case is that the big boys and girls at NPR feel that they have to hide behind the publicly-funded skirts of Islam in order to throw rocks at Michelle.
Kathy Griffin, Paula Poundsand, et al…when they stand before their maker, it will suck to be them. I almost feel sorry for them. Almost. We all make our choices in life.
For the record, NPR has some programs that some conservatives like…that I like. But it is a little like dumpster diving; why bother when you can get good radio program from less offensive sources? However, the fact that it mostly is liberal, and therefore promotes MM-bashing lies as so-called humor – this is not the heart of the issue IMO. If NPR were as hard-core conservative as MM is (OH LORD, let it be!), it STILL would need to be defunded. What kind of twisted logic argues that folks who live in rural areas are entitled to government subsidized radio of any kind?
Ilovemycountry’s eds obviously didn’t work very well, either
Flashback:
It didn’t bother me when the DNC spokesman called me an “extremist”.
In fact, both Michelle and I found it “comical”.
But it does bother me when Michelle herself starts criticizing Constitutional Republicans like me (who want nothing more than the full support and defense of our Constitution and Rule of Law)
as “Birthers who go to the extreme”.
If supporting and defending the U.S. Constitution and current immigration law makes me a “right wing extremist”, then so be it.
Screed yes, and he claims to be a satirist, but has no proof. Gee Bill, you really pay this guy? Seriously dude, if you want to throw your money away…
Really? I fault him. He knows plenty. Satan knows scripture better than you or I.
I have friends who have been to these tapings. They say it’s a lot of fun. I’m pretty sure it’s not a phony laugh track.
Yup. Monty Python, Masterpiece Theater, This Old House…to name a few. But that doesn’t mean I want or expect my viewing choices to be subsidezed by the taxpayer. They should succeed or fail on their own and be paid for by the private sector.
ILMC = LGM?
ITRP – Do you seriously want Michelle to respond to this while she’s defending her family, veracity and reputation from libtard personal attacks during an epic family crisis? Up to you, but methinks discression is the better part of valor. Live to fight another day and all…
discression– discretionBad keyboard day.
Some outstanding NOVA and music programs as well. These programs would stand on their own in the market. Now that their off the dole, real world programming decisions need to be made, and the liberal dogma won’t float.
Maybe Air America will pick that part up. Oh yeah, out of business (Average .02% market share) – imagine that.
Cruel and stunningly ironic considering its a show about knowledge of CURRENT EVENTS. And as for that GLAD member and accused pedophile Paula Pondstone being billed as a “comedian”, now that is funny.
Jobrani = jabroni
They’re not off the dole, it passed the House, the Senate will restore the funding.
I have a confession about my Grand-Daddy. He was probably a Democrat.
Swede,
I understand the timing issue with respect to Michelle’s family and the stress of finding Marizela. I am sensitive to Michelle’s family crisis, and I continue to pray for Marizela’s safe return.
With that in mind, I’m not the one bringing up the post were Michelle portrayed us as “tin foil hat” people. Michelle herself did that above…
If you think my comments are poorly timed,
I am responding contemporaneously to a fresh smear.
I don’t necessarily expect Michelle to respond to me individually,
but I do expect her to acknowledge the facts of the situation and to support and defend the Constitution and Rule of Law at ALL times.
I do expect that when she slanders a group of people, and they respond to her charges (as I have been doing continuously, as evidenced in Michelle’s linked post, where I rebutted Michelle’s charges), that she will then respond to those rebuttals as a whole.
Michelle herself stirred the hornet’s nest again.
Is it wrong to defend ourselves when freshly slandered, stand up for the truth and the rule of law, and expect her to respond in general?
Zero.
A leftist judge will dismiss the case.
Yes, we are ALL GUILTY by the actions of our fathers and grandfathers. We should have been able to Teleport back in time and tell them not to do certain things. /sarc
My grandfather was a democrat – a proud one, at that. However, if he were still alive, he would be appalled by the current democrat party’s antics.
I also expect that Michelle, being the incredible investigative journalist that she is, would have interest in getting to the bottom of this…
Note the two words that were scrubbed, and how it impacts the meaning…
Even in Michelle’s “tin foil hat” smear post, she acknowledged the following:
Yes, there is a legitimate constitutional issue to explore here. And we welcome Michelle’s exploration, or at least her further acknowledgement of the excellent work that attorney Leo Donofrio continues to do at his blog.
So Red State, you seem to have no problem with the insults NPR pours onto Michelle, yet you are a guest of her site.
Exactly. Why should people wo don’t make anywhere near what I make be forced to subsidize my highbrow viewing habits? My daughter is planning to work in pottery after she finishes college. She will be subsidized by… well… people who have an interest in pottery! How will they subsidize her? By buying the stuff she makes because they think it’s cool! There’s a word for that… wait, wait, don’t tell me! Oh, yeah! It’s the FREE MARKET!
Eating Fritos and squeezing pimples while playing WII Mario Cart in my Mom’s basement is better than meeting yucky girls!
So you do agree with Michael Moore. I also agree with fat boy on the superiority of the Super Whopper to the Big Mac. Ain’t bi-partisanship great?!?
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Evelyn Mulwray: Hollis seems to think you’re an innocent man.
Jake Gittes: Well, I’ve been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that.
The Weekly Standard reporting that Sen. Claire McCaskill has a bit of a John Kerry problem regarding her luxury craft.
Not really. WWDTM is lame and smug, and I would agree with any of y’all who believe it’s not an appropriate use of your money.
Blech! There isn’t much that isn’t superior to the Big Mac. My fast-food preference is a Double-Double from In-N-Out, mmm-mmm-good!
OMG, I think I’m going to faint…..
Chalk up another ‘liberal’ who doesn’t think it’s appropriate use of taxpayers money. I don’t get it either.
Moe, Larry, the cheese! Moe, Larry, the cheese!!!
- Curly (HORSES’ COLLARS, 1935)
This is what we would expect from NPR/PBS.
I posted a couple of comments in the link about the (More Than) ‘Birther’ issue, but I would like to point out that no matter how many times you throw us, (those who know Barry is a Fraud, Felon and Treasonous Usurper), under the bus, it won’t help you ‘win’ with NPR and their ilk…Never.
I understand why only Donald Trump dares to speak a tiny fraction of the Truth: he won’t lose his job and he’s very well protected…I/we know how dangerous telling the truth about Barry is. So, please, stop throwing us under the bus and we will have no argument. The Obama Nation is counting on us to go after each other; we cannot afford to oblige them.
God Bless you Michelle.
I have a 50-50 tie between Braum’s steak sandwich and the chicken-fried steak burger from Del Rancho.
Sounds dandy! Too bad their locations are a tad incovenient for a Southern Californian
Inconvenient in Honolulu, also. But once a year……in the fall……
And my wife makes me take her to Cracker Barrel, also.
Joe Biden’s working on a train to get you there…….
Thanks, but I’ll just stick to getting my fix at In-N-Out……and Maid-Rite when making the pilgrimage to visit relations in Iowa
Now I agree with every word.
This Audacious Fraud is the crown jewel of Alinsky in action.
It’s a complete waste of taxpayer’s money.
We do not need a second rail from Honolulu to Long Beach.
Hey Mr. Jobrani, let’s see who has the last laugh.
NPR and PBS have been infested by liberal half-wits for decades. The only real positive contribution was the PBS show “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood”, may God rest his Soul.
I haven’t listened to NPR or watched PBS since President Ronald Reagan was in office (1st term).
I say de-fund those callous elitists. Sell the assets, close the doors.
Not only do they need to be defunded but spayed and neutered as well.
I knew if I left that one off, someone would pick it up
On March 21st, 2011 at 1:52 pm, Hangfire said:
Thank you, Hangfire. I appreciate those kind words, and I enjoy your contributions, too.
from what I’ve heard, he bombs every time he comes near labia.
Misses the mark, eh?
Sounds like a personal problem to me!
Gen. “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, I’m beginning to smell a big fat Commie rat.
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
Hangfire,
I am going to build tunnels under the sea through which travellers can take tube trains, somewhat like the vehicles which travel through pipeline tunnels, which will provide the means to travel at mach 1 or higher, and travel from somewhere in California all the way to one of the Hawaiian Islands, I haven’t decided which one yet.
From that Island the passenger can transfer to a vehicle which will take them to the island of their choice.
The Big Island might be a bad idea at this time, for the active volcano is there. To place a depot on Maui, near Hana, or Hookipa might not be a good idea either. Perhaps, instead of an Island depot, there could be a hotel-terminal out int he ocean about fiveteen or twenty miles where the tube high speed line terminates. Passengers can stay in underwater hotel lodging, a la the Florida Keys, or above sea level lodging. There can be transfer vehicles from that ocean station to the island of choice, be it boats, ships, helicopters, a runway for light aircraft, etc.
If one could hit mach one it would take about 2 or three hours to arrive at the Islands from the Mainland in California. If the materials made it possible to exceed mach one safely, without vibrations damaging the tubing that the bullet vehicle would travel through (perhaps with magentism), then I’d like to get the vehicles moving at mach two or three, cutting travel time to less than half, or around on hour to one and one half hours from the mainland to the Ocean terminal station off shore.
Forget the politics fopr a minute. These NPR people are a disgrace to their profession. The easiest way to get a laugh ia a dirty joke. The second easiest way is to riducule someone you think your audience dislikes in a mean spirited way.
They call themselves humorists. If they are chefs what they are serving up is not even fast food. It is swill.
NPR people are not humorists. They are just small, petty persons who can’t make a real living in their stated profession.
I just watched part of Rachel Maddow’s show. She was discussing the situation in Lybia and how Obama was, apparently, doing such a great job or at lest better then Bush.
To prove this she played clips of Bush in his 2000 campaign, his Father and Regan in 1890. After making fun of all three, though most was aimed at Bush 43, she played a few clips of Obama.
However with Obama, she did not play any audio of him speaking. Just the video that she talked over.
Wonder why that was needed, even on MSNBC…
Wait, wait, don’t tell me… is a poor excuse for identifying anything “real” in the news. It’s all about the left wing humor. One wonderful reason not to give money to NPR, either directly or indirectly.
They’re afraid of you, Michelle Malkin. They have to invent a cartoon of you that can safely be attacked, sort of a pinata-Malkin.
Your riposte skewers them nicely.
Hiring a private detective was smart. Go ahead and put Marizela back as the lead story – your readers are with you, and your family, including your grandpa, is in our prayers.
NPR performers have the right to make fun of other people and to use, as factual, any information that comes out of their heads because they are “intellectuals.” http://pavellas.com/2009/02/11/what-is-an-intellectual-really/
Sounds like a good idea.
Start getting the permits now, especially filing the EIS, and hopefully your son can break ground 30 years from now.
The Supermoon is in full bloom the last couple of days on this site. I was wondering why all the lunatics were screaming, banging pots and pans and demanding answers to the purpose of their deranged personal blogs. Speaking for the thousands of readers who do not post responses to the idiots on here… “huh?”
Paula Poundstone has quite a bit of baggage herself to be going around pointing her finger at anybody.
Herman Cain says the race card has expired:
“LETS RAISE CAIN”
Michelle – God bless you and your family now and always. To be the target of such garbage is cruel and beyond comprehension.
Herman Cain Interview on C-SPAN
Errah the folks that listen to this crap are the same folks Newsweak polled as ill informed. Stupid is as stupid does Forrest! Pull the plug/funding. Speed Channel will hire Click and Clack. The rest can go out to pasture up in Vermont or Lake Woe Be Gone.
And that is just dealing with the EIS….add another 45 years for dealing with the lawsuits from environmental groups.
These NPR goons-as with their cousins as CPB do have the arrogance and crudeness of the well entrenched. De-funding is the only answer. The whole concept of a federally funded propaganda organ is anathema to a Constitutional Republic.
Is it wrong to defend ourselves when freshly slandered?Not at all, hitting back is legal.
===
Cut the budget:
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
should be a convenience store,
NOT a government agency.
On March 21st, 2011 at 10:36 pm, William said:
I like people who dream big, and then plan their work and work their plan.
Assuming you are sincere, one thing to factor into your engineering plans are major earthquakes. The recent 9.0 quake moved Japan 8 FEET!
Your design needs to be able to withstand such a quake, without breaking (and flooding) the tube.
In the event you think you are exaggerating, in 1968 a bridge was proposed over the Ohio River connecting what is now I 265 in Northeastern Louisville, KY to Southeastern Clark County, IN.
Ground has not yet been broken. Currently all the moon bat lawsuits are proceeding and a “commission” was appointed that deemed the only was to complete the project was to charge tolls, which they knew would kill the project.
I like your chances of getting the tunnel dug to Hawaii before this bridge gets built.
Cindy Simpson at the American Thinker gets it:
Instead of attacking or smearing those who acknowledge the real facts (the fact that Obama has never authorized the release of his vital records from Hawaii, the fact that no member of Congress has ever inspected those hard copy vital records, the fact that even if the “Obama birth narrative” is proven to be 100% true, there is a legitimate Constitutional question as to whether or not a child born a British subject, to a father who was a British subject, would be considered a “natural born citizen” of the United States by our Founders, and the fact that Obama publicly recited the Shahada in Arabic, which convinces many Muslims that he is Muslim), why not put Obama on the spot and ask him:
1) Why won’t you release your vital records directly from the State of Hawaii?
2) Given that you pride yourself on supposedly having a greater understanding of Muslim culture than any living President, we must assume that you fully understand what it means to Muslims when a person recites the Shahada in Arabic. A single honest recitation of the Shahadah in Arabic is all that is required for a person to become a Muslim. Given that you claim to be a Christian, why have you been unwilling to publicly confess what is described in Romans 10:9-10, but chose instead to publicly confess the Muslim confession of belief (which includes “Allahu Akbar” and the confesssion, in Arabic, that the confessor believes that there is no god except Allah and they bear witness that Muhammad is God’s Messenger)?
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It’s not extreme to acknowledge the facts.
It’s not extreme to acknowledge that Obama committed to making his administration “the most open and transparent in history”, yet he refuses to be transparent about his vital records.
It’s not extreme to acknowledge that Obama has publicly confessed the Muslim confession of belief in Arabic, but he has never publicly confessed “Jesus Christ is Lord”.
It’s not extreme to resist the Alinsky inquisition, and to turn the focus of that inquisition back where it belongs: Obama.
If we had these kind of lawsuits to impede progress in the expansion of this nation, we’d still be traveling rutted trails using wagons pulled by oxen while fording rivers or using rafts or ferries.
On his first day of usurping the Presidency,
pResident Obama had the WhiteHouse.gov web site updated to say:
Another good article from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/22/134662664/abortion-foes-target-family-planning-program
Yeah, I agree, it’s really too bad that your mother didn’t think more about family planning before she had you.
If its that good, then, they should be able to get enthusiastic financial support from individuals and private business entities. Whatever good may be done does not entitle them to taxpayer funding.
And… NPR still refuses to take my Complaint Call. ( Shocking huh? )
(202) 513-3247
Hard to “melt the phone lines” when they send you direct to voicemail. Keep trying guys.
Something stupid, once again….
Ugh, that show is so annoying. At least, the few minutes I’ve heard annoyed me. Just not funny at all.
I don’t care how liberal or conservative NPR is. They deserve not one penny of taxpayer money. If enough people like NPR, they’ll voluntarily support it. If not, it’ll go the way of Air America – and good riddance.
I think Galileo was asked to do the same by the church. He knew church doctrine was wrong but also knew he would be burned at the stake if he told them so. He had to do some real thinking to get out of that jam.
Something about tricking them into saying it first, so he was only agreeing with them.
Joan of Arc couldn’t come up with a good plan.
The Salem witches were preordained to die for the benefit of power.
Obama is well schooled in intimidation by using wealth and power. The one thing he needed was a compliant media. He knows he has it.
I have been very disappointed at the number of conservatives who are unable or unwilling to defend themselves against the Alinsky tactics by speaking the truth and not backing down.
Its pretty simple isn’t it. Rule says you must be a natural born citizen to be President. That requires that you prove it, not just say it is so.
From what I understand, only one person has seen the proof. She apparently signed an affadavit that says she saw it and therefore it is proved.
One person? We put all our faith into one person? We don’t have the wherewithal to validate it better than that. Our entire structure can be hoodwinked by one person? It just does not make sense at all. And yet the birthers are the ones that are ridiculed?
Yea…I WON the LOTTERY …..I had the numbers and this nice lady right here SAW them….so give me the money….
And I have one person who heard you say that you would give me half of the winnings.
Yes.
It’s particularily galling because she obviously does not know what natural born citizen means. If he was born in HI, he would be a native born citizen. HI did issue COLBs to people not born there, so if not, he may not be a citizen at all, his mother not being old enough to pass citizenship. He was adopted and registered in school in Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen by the name of Barry Soetoro. Did he ever change it back?
On Fightthesmears/Obama’s website it states that he was born a British subject because of his father’s British/Kenyan nationality. One cannot be born a British subject and a natural born citizen. One or the other. Just as one cannot be male and pregnant.
Justice Scalia has made comments that lead me to believe that they won’t touch this because it was known prior to the election. They may think if Americans are too stupid to know he was ineligible, we get what we deserve. Buyer beware….
I think they have a duty to the Constitution.
To be fair BOB, we’ve never seen an Alinsky play like this one before.
It is the crown jewel.
It has been fascinating to watch it play out.
Frightening, too….
Agreed.
As I said on another thread earlier, the ’08 “election” was a massive strike against the rest of us by the America-destroying socialists in the cultural/nonshooting civil war in which we are involved.
Essentially, the America-destroyers shoved us and poked us in the eye, and then asked, “So what are you going to do about it?”
It doesn’t get laid out any clearer than that. NICE
Michelle,
I respectfully ask you to apply your investigative skils to the fraud perpetrated in a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court…
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-5801.htm
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/flores-villar-v-united-states/
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/irli-got-some-splainin-to-do/
I’m a rural American. Very rural SW ND. And I can tell you that I can live without Prairie Public.
All we ever watch on it is some of the history programs, Antiques Roadshow, the occasional Nature or NOVA (but they usually have a lot of FALSE scientific propaganda they’re pushing or outright LIES) & when we’re REALLY bored, the Lawrence Welk show on Sunday nights.
The only time their programming is worth a damn is when they’re begging for $$.