NPR Deletes Comments After Determining That Its Commenters Are Too Old and Male

Yeah I've been thinking about doing that here but I'd have to delete myself.

Actually I might do it anyway.

But Jensen indicated that diversity issue also played a role in the decision. NPR commenters don’t reflect the demographics of the site’s readers, since they appear more likely to be older men.
“They overwhelmingly comment via the desktop (younger users tend to find NPR.org via mobile), and a Google estimate suggested that the commenters were 83 percent male, while overall NPR.org users were just 52 percent male,” Jensen said, citing NPR Digital News Managing Editor Scott Montgomery.
Henceforth, NPR will use social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for reader engagement, which will hopefully be more demographically diverse.

What are you motherf*ckers going to do about the fact that only wealthy white people listen to NPR?

Posted by: Ace at 12:37 PM

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1 FIST!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:38 PM (oAY8z)

2 OF!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:38 PM (oAY8z)

3 FURY!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:38 PM (oAY8z)

4 NPR: completely useless, to everyone.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 18, 2016 12:38 PM (AroJD)

5 The funniest thing about Anchorman was that they nailed NPR with Tim Robbins spot on.

Posted by: Jollyroger at August 18, 2016 12:39 PM (t06LC)

6 ran the table

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:39 PM (oAY8z)

7 and I'm a straight white male!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:39 PM (oAY8z)

8 That last paragraph is hilarious.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 18, 2016 12:40 PM (AroJD)

9 NINE!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2016 12:40 PM (6gk0M)

10 I comment here to give the old, white female demographic a little boost.

You're welcome.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2016 12:40 PM (805dc)

11 Good grief.

Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at August 18, 2016 12:40 PM (KkVB6)

12 If AoSHQ is going to start purging commenters for diversity purposes, I have a list we can start with.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2016 12:40 PM (8ZskC)

13 Oh, thank you, Ace, for not going to Disqus comments. Those folks have ruined Insty.

Posted by: PJ at August 18, 2016 12:40 PM (cHuNI)

14 >>and a Google estimate suggested that the commenters were 83 percent
male, while overall NPR.org users were just 52 percent male," Jensen
said, citing NPR Digital News Managing Editor Scott Montgomery.

Well isn't that...intrusive.
Google now reporting on online commenters' characteristics?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:41 PM (NOIQH)

15 Garrison Keiller is boring. And an insufferable asshole.

There, I said it.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2016 12:41 PM (CS7jF)

16 29 isn't old ace.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 18, 2016 12:41 PM (/CXhS)

17 What are you motherf*ckers going to do about the fact that only wealthy white people listen to NPR?

NPR can only hope that some of those old white people are gays or trannies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (8ZskC)

18 >>>citing NPR Digital News Managing Editor Scott Montgomery.<<<

Delete all the comments?

I cannae do it, Captain. I just dinnae have the power.

Posted by: Scott Montgomery at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (H9MG5)

19 NPR? Is that, like, a type of beer, or something?

(If I wasn't paying for that shit through my taxes, I truly wouldn't give a bit of a damn.)

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (JKZQv)

20 So let me get this straight...

NPR, that bastion of liberal thought, is coming up with a bullshit way to decide that anonymous words on a screen are being penned by white men?

Seems racist and sexist to me. Because if I observed a post written in ebonics and said it was probably written by a black person, that's what NPR would be saying about me.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (PFy0L)

21
They should take back their Tote Bags, too.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (/hxGw)

22 NPR commenters don't reflect the demographics of the site's readers, since they appear more likely to be older men.

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When I was younger, I used to always discuss NPR stories on dates, because young women are really into NPR.

Posted by: SH at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (gmeXX)

23 Schweddy Balls

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (0mRoj)

24 As I've always said, "The kindest thing you can do with someone who obsesses over diversity, is run them through with a saber."

Posted by: Josef Pilsudski at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (Ty4IQ)

25 But do the commenters even self-identify as old white males?

Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (7lVbc)

26 The pledge-drive for "Public Stations" is going to take a hit, no matter how good the $130.00 cookbooks are.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (6gk0M)

27 Once one disregards socks it reduces to only 16 real people who make the comments on all websites.

Posted by: A sock wrapped in a sock inside a sock at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (PL2OL)

28 NPR? Is that, like, a type of beer, or something?

(If I wasn't paying for that shit through my taxes, I truly wouldn't give a bit of a damn.)
Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (JKZQv)
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National Panhandler Radio, according to Chris Plante.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (805dc)

29 I am one mature heterosexual white male who had no idea NPR was still broadcasting. It sounds like NPR is creating a safe space. Too much testosterone for its content providers to tolerate.

Posted by: Locke Common at August 18, 2016 12:43 PM (I6Am+)

30 What are you motherf*ckers going to do about the fact that only wealthy white people listen to NPR?

When we traditional Catholics observe the devastation waged on the Church by the Vatican II generation, we await what we like to call the natural, "Biological Solution" to that problem.

I suspect that NPR will shortly suffer the "Biological Solution", too.

Posted by: havildar-major at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (5PN7q)

31 I won't donate if they don't take my shit with the cash.

Posted by: Hal 9000 at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (zziXn)

32 >>the commenters were 83 percent

male, while overall NPR.org users were just 52 percent male

What percent of their annual donations are made by older, white men?

Really, how many web savvy millennials are swayed by fundraising weekends that feature Peter, Paul, and Mary, Ken Burns DVD collection giveaways, and hack 50-something nutritionists who want you to eat vegan for prostate health?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (NOIQH)

33 Seems racist and sexist to me. Because if I observed a post written in ebonics and said it was probably written by a black person, that's what NPR would be saying about me.
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (PFy0L)

Sheeeit, that be wack, yo.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (0mRoj)

34

Hillary will commit what ever felonies are necessary to win .

Trump will go for her jugular and be merciless(but not felonious) while doing so.

Quite the life lesson being played out here.

Way too serious stuff for the tendies at NPR.

Posted by: DJT dick-punched my baby at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (AV4JD)

35 Garrison Keiller is boring. And an insufferable asshole.

But he's very popular among the coveted BLM demo, who listen to him when they're not out shooting cops or burning down their neighborhoods.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (8ZskC)

36 Yo, ace be fittin' ta kik yo ni**as out aight

*posted for AoSHQ diversity purposes

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (/CXhS)

37 15 Garrison Keiller is boring. And an insufferable asshole.

There, I said it.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2016 12:41 PM (CS7jF)

One scene of "The Simpsons" has them watching a PBS pledge drive & Garrison Keiller is on. Homer smacks the TV & says "Damn TV! Be more funny!"

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (7HtZB)

38 How demographically diverse do you suppose NPR's staff is? I'm willing to bet it's also old and male.

Posted by: Cantankerous at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (326rv)

39 Social media platform comments (i.e. FB) absolutely ruined Hot Air.
What a shame.

Posted by: Go To HotGas.com at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (2Ytdj)

40 "In July, NPR.org recorded nearly 33 million unique users, and 491,000 comments. But those comments came from just 19,400 commenters,"

That's like, what, one ONT?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 18, 2016 12:45 PM (mgbwf)

41 Another reason to stop funding NPR. Along with PBS and PP.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 18, 2016 12:45 PM (1ZOkK)

42 When I was younger, I used to always discuss NPR stories on dates, because young women are really into NPR.

Posted by: SH at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (gmeXX)

The irony here is no one outside of a few smarmy liberals trying to appear more intelligent than they really are are into NPR

Posted by: Jollyroger at August 18, 2016 12:45 PM (t06LC)

43 l always figured most NPR listeners were middle aged to older white woman that drive an Acura MDX or a Lexus RX 330 (with Obama/Hillary sticker).

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 18, 2016 12:45 PM (OD2ni)

44 because young women are really into NPR.

they like the soothing voices of the hosts
and the non-judgy tone

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (TQxRy)

45 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (uPt3V)

46 Welfare radio for the rich.

And, it offers zero educational content for those who need it because they don't watch it.

You will never, ever, ever, ever go into a poor persons home and hear the radio tuned to NPR.

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (77emZ)

47 "Listened to only by white people that are rich" needs to include "politically ignorant".

Posted by: Pip McGuigen at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (VCoSe)

48 The idea of Garrison Keillor is a lot funnier than the actual Garrison Keillor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (8ZskC)

49 "Barry Merbles"

"Thought for Your Thoughts"

Parks and Recreation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frChs4i4qWI

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (6gk0M)

50 When I was younger, I used to always discuss NPR stories on dates, because young women are really into NPR.
Posted by: SH at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (gmeXX)

Just mention modern art, civil rights, or folk music & you're in like Flynn.

Posted by: Otter at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (7HtZB)

51 Much better to have your comments relegated to a third party that is openly hostile to and enjoys silencing the voices of its opposition than actually having to do that yourself.

Posted by: ajmojo at August 18, 2016 12:46 PM (1H9ox)

52 How demographically diverse do you suppose NPR's staff is? I'm willing to bet it's also old and male.
Posted by: Cantankerous at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (326rv)
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Just yesterday I was listening to Chris Plante talk about this. He has a daily three-hour radio show. He has one producer (male, VN vet I believe).

Meanwhile, some woman at NPR (I think it was Diane Rehm, but can't remember for sure) has a one or two-hour show, and has eight producers. Eight.

All female.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (805dc)

53 Posted by: havildar-major at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (5PN7q)

I really wish I had a church near me doing the Tridentine Mass.

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (JKZQv)

54 >>because young women are really into NPR.

They had that one podcast with a criminal that went viral - forget the name, but the 2nd season featured Bowie Bergdahl.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (NOIQH)

55 About 60 percent of the cars that I ride in have this insufferable crap on.

But I get 'em back when I drive. Larry O'Connor in the morning. Savage on the way home. Levin if I work late.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (/CXhS)

56 How demographically diverse do you suppose NPR's staff is? I'm willing to bet it's also old and male.

Old, white, & FEMALE.
Because guys could give a shit.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (AmeQT)

57 Eh.

Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are all pre-censored

for NPR's convenience.

No chance at all that they might have to include double minus bad unthink on their website.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (HGtd0)

58 Garrison Keillor - proof positive that you can be an arrogant, pretentious assbag whilst wearing flannel

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (oAY8z)

59 your tax dollars at work

Posted by: brak at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (MJuTN)

60 Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (wtvvX)

61 I quit Twitter. I only play games and socialize with friends and family on Facebook.

I guess there will be no more comments on NPR's website for me*

*Not that there were any anyway.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (4+VII)

62 "Henceforth, NPR will use social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for reader engagement, which will hopefully be more demographically diverse."
Or in other words, where it takes the least amount of effort to engage and spew biases.

Posted by: Gman at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (VXoTW)

63 Everyone and everything is so stupid right now

Posted by: BacktoGA at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (QUl0c)

64 Maybe if we post 12 word infographics on the Twitters and Mybook so people don't actually read the full depth of the drivel we spew we can get a bunch diversity.

Posted by: NPR obudsmen at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (1H9ox)

65 I get the impression that NOT is funded by rich wives and divorcees.
Or maybe that's PBS.

Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (7lVbc)

66 53 Posted by: havildar-major at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (5PN7q)

I really wish I had a church near me doing the Tridentine Mass.
Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (JKZQv)

I once killed a man with a Tridentine.

Posted by: Brick Tamland at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (0mRoj)

67 (I think it was Diane Rehm, but can't remember for sure)

I shall out myself. I'm a huge NPR fan. (Well, I was until two years ago when I got satellite radio).

I love all of them but I can't stand to listen to Diane Rehm. She sounds like she died and nobody has told her.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (mgbwf)

68 I really wish I had a church near me doing the Tridentine Mass.
Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (JKZQv)

4 out of 5 dentists recommend you try Dentine.

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (7HtZB)

69 [Sleep-inducing NPR-voiced announcer]

This is NPR, and we flog DNC propaganda on your dime.

[Insert short clip of Django Reinhardt playing, because of course]

Coming up next, we perform cunnilingus on Hillary through the airwaves, then a report on hipsters doing incomprehensibly ironic things. All on NPR, and all in your face.

[Insert short clip of Django Reinhardt playing, because of course]

Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (RD7QR)

70 It's because the women who listen to NPR have their cats to talk to.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (/hxGw)

71 >>How demographically diverse do you suppose NPR's staff is?

"Wait, wait, don't tell me! Might need some fresh air to let it click and clack around in my brain. All things considered, I bet it's...."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (NOIQH)

72 NPR = "National Peoples' Radio"

And by "people" I mean "upper-class white liberals over the age of 50."

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (lc2RB)

73 Realistically, NPR's funding base is older, white taxpayers, while it's user base is aging poor hippies, and unemployed/underemployed twentysomethings. Nice niche.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (7ZVPa)

74 Lot of people to run that shitshow

http://tinyurl.com/d94bzgf

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (/CXhS)

75
l always figured most NPR listeners were middle aged to older white woman that drive an Acura MDX or a Lexus RX 330 (with Obama/Hillary sticker).
Posted by: Benji Carver at August 18, 2016 12:45 PM

With hyphenated names.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (IqV8l)

76 What does it count as when your cats try to comment? Because that happens to me at least once a week, plus my toddler trying to do it too as she flies my toons in WoW.

Posted by: pookysgirl at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (ar2KI)

77 why not just have a government program to hire girls and browns to comment on NPR?

problem solved!

Posted by: Hilary! at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (oGRue)

78 65 I get the impression that ~~NOT~~NPR is funded by rich wives and divorcees.
Or maybe that's PBS.

Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (7lVbc)

79 Posted by: Brick Tamland at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (0mRoj)

Where did you get a hand grenade?

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (JKZQv)

80 >>The irony here is no one outside of a few smarmy liberals trying to appear more intelligent than they really are are into NPR Posted by: Jollyroger at August 18, 2016 12:45 PM (t06LC)

The Terry Gross-Gene Simmons interview was one for the books. At the end, where she tries to gig him one last time, he basically tells her she might be a lot of fun at a party if she'd stop being such an uptight bitch. Classic.

Posted by: General Zod at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (Bdeb0)

81 Yeah but AoS commenters do squats and stuff. That lowers our demographic profile by about half a century.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (ZnIt3)

82 Insty has a great link to a study on who pays taxes and who benefits.

"Based on Figure 17, the closest that the average woman will come to
having a positive fiscal incidence is when she is at minus $50,000
around 55 years of age. While feminists are demonizing men for
benefiting from all liberties and rights they have constructed, they
have oddly remained silent over the fact that anonymous male tax payers
are paying women to exist. Read that sentence again."

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (77emZ)

83 Google 'NPR staff photos'

you'll get 80% white women
15% white men
and 5% black

(percentages are approximated)

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (TQxRy)

84 >>I love all of them but I can't stand to listen to Diane Rehm. She sounds like she died and nobody has told her.

Ugh, also Terry Gross.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (NOIQH)

85 My NPR tote bag is a crucial accessory of my virtue signaling wardrobe!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (oAY8z)

86 But I get 'em back when I drive. Larry O'Connor in the morning. Savage on the way home. Levin if I work late.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 18, 2016 12:47 PM (/CXhS)
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Time it right and you get Larry in the afternoon too.

I cannot stand Savage. Cannot. stand. him.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (805dc)

87 Garrison Keilor could report on a bloody mass murder and he'd put people to sleep. The world's most boring man.

And an insufferable douchebag. My mother watched the show, once while visiting I saw it and he had some female folk singer on. She sang this lovely ballad, and he had to harmonize along with it. It completely ruined the song, because despite of his numerous attempts, he CANNOT sing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (AroJD)

88 Assholes, all of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (YOd/B)

89 Misandry and Misracist all rolled into one. NPR - press 1 for wymynz, 2 for minority, and 3 for girlz power! Man are the Muzzies gonna toss their salad with gusto.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (oDCMR)

90 4 out of 5 dentists recommend you try Dentine.
Posted by: josephistan

Dammit! NGU needs to get on board!

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (AmeQT)

91 "Wait, wait, don't tell me! Might need some fresh air to let it click and clack around in my brain. All things considered, I bet it's...."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (NOIQH)

Heh. Well played, ma'am.

Although I think Click and Clack retired a year or three ago.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (lc2RB)

92 How long before NPR articles are the number one trend on the Facebook "news" line.

Posted by: ajmojo at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (1H9ox)

93 NPR: The "charity" for when you want to give money to a cause that will have absolutely no effect on the poor.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (4+VII)

94 65 I get the impression that NOT is funded by rich wives and divorcees.

Posted by: @votermom at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (7lVbc)

You say that like it's a bad thing

Posted by: United Gigalo Workers Local 237 at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (7HtZB)

95 Gee, what about me?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 18, 2016 12:51 PM (mpXpK)

96 It still amazes me that NPR is publicly funded PLUS gets a tax subsidy where if people give money they get a tax break.

Republicans should have had the balls to end that decades ago.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (qX02u)

97 Assholes, all of them.
...
Go on.

Posted by: Hope S. at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (1H9ox)

98 NR and NPR. Tell me again how the progs aren't going after free speech?

Posted by: dagny at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (eSQgj)

99 "I love all of them but I can't stand to listen to Diane Rehm. She sounds like she died and nobody has told her."

I get Diane Rehm and Terry Gross mixed up. Are they the same person?

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (OD2ni)

100 "They overwhelmingly comment via the desktop (younger users tend to find NPR.org via mobile), and a Google estimate suggested that the commenters were 83 percent male, while overall NPR.org users were just 52 percent male," Jensen said, citing NPR Digital News Managing Editor Scott Montgomery.

++++

I would have thought that they get more comments from desktops than mobile devices because desktops have keyboards instead of the PITA touchscreens and whatnot that mobile devices have.

But, feel free to ignore that opinion as clearly that is just my white male privilege speaking.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (R+30W)

101 87 Garrison Keilor could report on a bloody mass murder and he'd put people to sleep. The world's most boring man.
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I ran into him a couple of years ago at National Airport. The man has the worst dye job imaginable.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (oDCMR)

102
I love all of them but I can't stand to listen to Diane Rehm. She sounds like she died and nobody has told her.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM

She sounds like someone doing an impression of an old Katherine Hepburn or someone trying to start a car engine when the temperature is 20 below zero.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (IqV8l)

103 My bad, it is Derry Merbles from "Parks and Recreation":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frChs4i4qWI

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (6gk0M)

104 Chiefjaybob

Did you check here: http://tinyurl.com/6sjuk6y ?

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (TQxRy)

105 I'm on a cellphone! Don't delete me!

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (THupw)

106 I hate Terry Gross

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:53 PM (oAY8z)

107 And to think both Parties fought RR who wanted to cut off all federal funding to these liberal turds.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 18, 2016 12:53 PM (mpXpK)

108 While feminists are demonizing men for benefiting from all liberties and rights they have constructed, they have oddly remained silent over the fact that anonymous male tax payers
are paying women to exist. Read that sentence again."
Posted by: RoyalOil

END THEM!

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 18, 2016 12:53 PM (AmeQT)

109 Republicans should have had the balls to end that decades ago.
----------------
Can you think of any Republicans with balls? I can't.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 18, 2016 12:53 PM (oDCMR)

110 I think a lot of people were enraptured with the idea of the great community meeting with free minds to engage on every topic, but they're finding its not the utopia they hoped for.

1) Too many jerks and scumbags out there who love to post
2) Too many people outside their ideological fold who post, ruining everything with thoughts they hadn't considered or been able to avoid to this point
3) Related to 1: some can post stuff that gets you in trouble, which means you have to police the comments very closely.

In essence, a combination of jerks and uncontrolled badthink is making the experiment very disappointing.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 18, 2016 12:53 PM (39g3+)

111 >>>39 Social media platform comments (i.e. FB) absolutely ruined Hot Air.
What a shame.
Posted by: Go To HotGas.com at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (2Ytdj)

Yeah, it had NOTHING to do with us revealing our actual "Progressive" RINO proclivities, whatsoever!

Vote Hillary or DIE, social inferiors!

Posted by: Hot Air Staff at August 18, 2016 12:53 PM (2zIj5)

112 OT

Posted this on the last thread, but only after this one went up.

SJWs are whining about the impending release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided next week. Apparently the fact that players are confronted with moral choices, and can pick "immoral" ones, is causing SJWs to get the vapors.

Of course, this is after earlier complaints about ads for the game that co-opted Black Lives Matter.

In any event, since the game releases next week, it's too late to do anything about the complaints. And that assumes that Square- Enix is even inclined to do so. It's a Japanese company, and the Japanese tend to be inclined to ignore SJW whining.

Posted by: junior at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (mUM5y)

113 Can you think of any Republicans with balls? I can't.
...
Hillary?

Posted by: ajmojo at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (1H9ox)

114 So why are they still giving air time to David Brooks, older white male?

I will always remember Brooks having sneeringly referred to "alleged" shortfalls in care at the VA under Obama's watch. After hundreds of documented instances of veterans dying on secret waiting lists without ever once having been seen. What a little shit he is.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (noWW6)

115 The Terry Gross-Gene Simmons interview was one for the books. At the end, where she tries to gig him one last time, he basically tells her she might be a lot of fun at a party if she'd stop being such an uptight bitch. Classic.

Good god. That interview is classic for the opposite reason.

Gene Simmons proved himself to be the worst person in the history of persons or history.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (mgbwf)

116 "a Google estimate suggested that the commenters were 83 percent male"

Furthermore, of that 83%, 67% frequently use gay porn, 52% make comments in their pajamas while sipping cocoa, and 22% which we categorized as biologically male in fact identify as female.

Oh, and these are merely based on our "estimates." Not that we'd actually know or anything...

Posted by: Google at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (PL2OL)

117 My tinfoil hat theory about the diversity argument is really about collusion with Google, Facebook, Twitter because they are democrat supporting hacks which collude with Democrat hacks.

Posted by: Democrats are evil! at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (xB7fY)

118 >>I get the impression that NOT is funded by rich wives and divorcees.

Well, except for Joan Kroc, the widow of the McDonald's founder, who left $200 million to NPR.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (NOIQH)

119 Where da white women at?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (kTF2Z)

120 I have a dear friend who is deeply Conservative, a retired Marine, Rush listener and subscriber, works tirelessly for the local Tulsa Republican party since his retirement, who for some inexplicable reason always has NPR on in his vehicle. He laughs and says that he likes to hear what crazy thing the Liberals are pushing today. Whenever I rode with him, I always made him turn it off because I just can't stand it.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (kXoT0)

121 Time it right and you get Larry in the afternoon too.

I cannot stand Savage. Cannot. stand. him.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (805dc)

Same here. And I do time it right.

Usually get about 20 minutes of Savage then Larry about halfway home usually.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (/CXhS)

122 Ace should get a mobile site.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (KUaJL)

123 There are men who listen to NPR?

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (nFdGS)

124 It still amazes me that NPR is publicly funded PLUS gets a tax subsidy where if people give money they get a tax break.

Republicans should have had the balls to end that decades ago.

Posted by: Maritime

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That wasn't the hill to die on, it wasn't even an anthill.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (7ZVPa)

125 Do you think NPR calls these undesirable guys 'Hector' ??

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (TQxRy)

126 Republicans should have had the balls to end that decades ago.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (qX02u)

I would remind you that Paul Ryan and his merrie band of quisling bitches couldn't end full taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood's butchery centers when the GOP had control of both the House and the Senate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (8ZskC)

127 The New Yorker shut off comments on its articles about a year or so ago. Until then the comments were often well-written critiques of the articles. Can't have that!

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (r1fLd)

128 Juan Williams learned the hard way what happens when you displease your bosses at NPR.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (1ZOkK)

129 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (IqV8l)

I got the impression Diane Reihm (sp?) might have had a stroke at some point and that's why her speaking voice sounds rather odd. I don't think she always sounded this way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (6HqlZ)

130 Garrison Keillor - proof positive that you can be an arrogant, pretentious assbag whilst wearing flannel

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (oAY8z)

Wait, did you mean "assbag" or "gasbag"?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (lc2RB)

131 Republicans should have had the balls to end that decades ago.
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Can you think of any Republicans with balls? I can't.
Posted by: Puddin Head

I mean like in 1994 when things like welfare were being reformed and people were screaming bloody murder, couldn't have Republicans put in there an end to NPR funding?

Just seems a really easy thing to end funding for considering Republicans have held the House on and off for like 20 years since 1994.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (qX02u)

132 Once again, reality disappoints the progressive ideology.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (KUaJL)

133 Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (TQxRy)

I did. The closest to me is 20 miles away, and only does it on the 1st and 3rd Sunday. (?)

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:56 PM (JKZQv)

134 Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 12:52 PM (TQxRy)

Thank you for the suggestion, though!

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:57 PM (JKZQv)

135 I would have thought that they get more comments from desktops than mobile devices because desktops have keyboards instead of the PITA touchscreens and whatnot that mobile devices have.

I'm on a touchscreen phone. It predicts what I want to say. Not much typing involved. It knows, if I type 'Hi' to suggest 'Hillary' then 'Clinton'. Then 'should' then 'be' then 'in' then 'jail'.

I think it's learning.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 18, 2016 12:57 PM (ZnIt3)

136 I used to listen to NPR-

Their politics always sucked but I always changed the dial for that esp. when Fossilized Commie Gloryhole Minder, Daniel Schorr, came on.

Straight up commie a-hole, that guy.

But, they'd usually have some interesting music or book or cultural deal on that made them tolerable.

But, then they went totally insane at some point during the Bush years-

and all their fun stuff went away (or so it seemed)

I turned them off and haven't been back.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2016 12:57 PM (HGtd0)

137 Juan Williams learned the hard way what happens when you displease your bosses at NPR.

I know. (And I know that he is hated around here). I thought he was cool for being able to maintain his integrity on Fox and NPR at the same time.

Then one of them fired him for thought crimes and it wasn't the conservative one.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 18, 2016 12:57 PM (mgbwf)

138 Libs have an aesthetic sense that they mistake for a moral imperative.

Ie., a scene doesn't "look right" to them unless it contains X% blacks, X% whites, X% women, X% men, X% asians, etc. But then they conclude some injustice is taking place if the scene does not conform to that aesthetic.

Me, I don't get it. I can watch a classic movie where the whole cast is white and not even think about "diversity" at all, whereas most instances of diversity in modern movies seem artificial and forced.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 18, 2016 12:57 PM (v9gSJ)

139 NPR? Is that, like, a type of beer, or something?

(If I wasn't paying for that shit through my taxes, I truly wouldn't give a bit of a damn.)

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 18, 2016 12:42 PM (JKZQv)

Assorted Christians and conservatives keep saying we need to keep engaging the culture.

I say fuck that shit. As much as possible we should be withdrawing from the culture and taking our dollars with us. Including our tax dollars.

Fuck the prog scum.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (Idu2i)

140 I mean like in 1994 when things like welfare were being reformed and people were screaming bloody murder, couldn't have Republicans put in there an end to NPR funding?

--

It was on the list of items to be defunded. Lasted on the list about 3 days, IIRC

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (7ZVPa)

141 >>The Terry Gross-Gene Simmons interview was one for the books.

I recall in interview with Colin Firth where she got basic facts wrong, like asking him about his "first" newborn child when he had a child years earlier with Meg Tilly. It was embarrassing the way he had to keep correcting her.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (NOIQH)

142 I got the impression Diane Reihm (sp?) might have had a stroke at some point and that's why her speaking voice sounds rather odd. I don't think she always sounded this way.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (6HqlZ)

Does Rehm really sound that bad? If she does have a speech impediment, she needs to get the hell off the radio and start doing social work, or print journalism, or whatever. Yes, it's harsh, but "hire the handicapped" is not a universal truth.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (lc2RB)

143 @131 I mean like in 1994 when things like welfare were being reformed and people were screaming bloody murder, couldn't have Republicans put in there an end to NPR funding?
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They couldn't even put an end to the NEA.

Posted by: junior at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (mUM5y)

144 >>Ace should get a mobile site.

Stay Tuned. I'm beta testing the AoSHQ Mobile Hamsters as I type.

Posted by: Richard Gere at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (/hxGw)

145 Some of NPR's podcasts are not terrible. Planet Money is an economics based one that only occasionally swerves into stupid leftism.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 18, 2016 12:59 PM (KUaJL)

146 There are men who listen to NPR?Posted by: Emmett Milbarg

Yes. And they're huge tippers, too. Huge.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 18, 2016 12:59 PM (ZnIt3)

147 I have a dear friend who is deeply Conservative, a retired Marine, Rush listener and subscriber, works tirelessly for the local Tulsa Republican party since his retirement, who for some inexplicable reason always has NPR on in his vehicle.

He laughs and says that he likes to hear what crazy thing the Liberals are pushing today.

Sun Tzu - know your enemy.
Sounds like what a retired marine would do.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at August 18, 2016 12:59 PM (AmeQT)

148 Nobody watched Parks and Rec?

...I don't even know you people.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2016 12:59 PM (6gk0M)

149 >>I got the impression Diane Reihm (sp?) might have had a stroke at some
point and that's why her speaking voice sounds rather odd. I don't think
she always sounded this way.

Yes, she has some sort of ailment that affects her voice.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 12:59 PM (NOIQH)

150 Yeah it would have been easy to kill NPR. The Democrats figured out what the Republicans never seem to have: if you push through what you want, you begin to shape culture and what was once unthinkable becomes mainstream. If they'd just pushed through some of this stuff, the screams of horror would have faded away.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (39g3+)

151 But... but...

PROFILING!

Posted by: RKae at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (CYNno)

152 I used to enjoy commenting at NPR. They didn't know how to handle any opinion that was to the right Fidel Castro. Talking back to taxpayer-funded left-wing radio was somewhat cathartic.

But I have to admit, by the end it was 70/30 percent populated by folks busting on NPR. Not as fun.

Posted by: CJ at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (9KqcB)

153 140 I mean like in 1994 when things like welfare were being reformed and people were screaming bloody murder, couldn't have Republicans put in there an end to NPR funding?

--

It was on the list of items to be defunded. Lasted on the list about 3 days, IIRC

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (7ZVPa)

++++

The Left rolled out Big Bird and all the other Sesame Street characters and the GOP folded.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (R+30W)

154 >>>70 It's because the women who listen to NPR have their cats to talk to.
Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (/hxGw)

Truth be told, we're always tellin' those whiney cunts to STFU/"Talk to the Paw", but they always interpret it as "High Five!"......

Posted by: Cats of Wymmn-listenerz of NPR at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (2zIj5)

155 Romney was going to kill Big Bird!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (IqV8l)

156 123 There are men who listen to NPR?
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 18, 2016 12:54 PM (nFdGS)

[Hangs head, holds hand up a little bit]

My excuse is that it's the only classical station in the Philly area and I can always mute the People's NPR Propaganda News when it comes at the top of the hour.

Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at August 18, 2016 01:01 PM (RD7QR)

157 "How demographically diverse do you suppose NPR's staff is?"

In terms of the on-air talent, and no, I am not going all Stormfront here, there seem to be a disproportionately large number of Jewish announcers and presenters. While there are rather small percentages of blacks and Latinos.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2016 01:01 PM (noWW6)

158 I can understand (though I don;t agree with) the idea of stripping say women's health clinics of money being politically difficult.

But NPR has like 1% listenership for most of its programming and it's all dyed in the wool liberals in New England for the most part.

Why any Republican would be scared off from defunding is beyond me.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 01:01 PM (qX02u)

159 "Henceforth, NPR will use social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for reader engagement, which will hopefully be more demographically diverse."
Or in other words, where it takes the least amount of effort to engage and spew biases.
Posted by: Gman at August 18, 2016 12:48 PM (VXoTW)

Interesting because so far, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are still nominally open to wrongthink people.

BTW, that Ivanka Trump story we discussed in earlier threads, Lady Grey is being excoriated on social media because their stunt egregiously violated their published privacy policy. Even some Liberals are saying, "Hey, when or where I buy something is my business and if you use that transaction to try for a public humiliation of me--that's wrong, especially if you promised me privacy."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (kXoT0)

160 If you want to barf, track down Terri Gross's interview of Al Franken. She giggled like a lovestruck schoolgirl throughout and Franken is one of the most unfunny, unlikeable humans that walks the earth.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (oAY8z)

161 77 why not just have a government program to hire girls and browns to comment on NPR?
problem solved!
Posted by: Hilary! at August 18, 2016 12:50 PM (oGRue)

How about beaming NPR into prisons? Now THAT'LL cheer up their diversity numbers!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (SRKgf)

162 Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 12:58 PM (lc2RB)

She pauses between most of her words and drawls out others, so I think it's the result of some illness, not because that's her natural way of speaking, but I hadn't read anything about a stroke or throat surgery so it's just speculation on my part.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (6HqlZ)

163 SHUT IT DOWN. SHUT IT DOWN NOW!!!

(use your John Taffer Bar Rescue voice)

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (jxbfJ)

164 "l always figured most NPR listeners were middle aged to older white woman that drive an Acura MDX or a Lexus RX 330 (with Obama/Hillary sticker). "

A lady who fit this to a T used to work for me. She politely encouraged me to listen to NPR. Her husband was a university professor. Better stop here, I think I may be profiling.

Posted by: RM at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (U3LtS)

165 I did. The closest to me is 20 miles away, and only does it on the 1st and 3rd Sunday.

There's one close to me in NJ but I only go a few times a year. Always worth the trip.

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (TQxRy)

166 Many pastors have the same bullshit concern if their congregations are "too white".

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (v9gSJ)

167 assbag

gasbag

tomato

tomahto

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (oAY8z)

168 Why any Republican would be scared off from defunding is beyond me.

Posted by: Maritime

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Don't use that horrible word "Def____". Ouch, it hurts to even begin the word! How about saying 'the political process that cannot be named, instead?'

Posted by: The Ever Courageous GOPe at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (7ZVPa)

169 The Democrats figured out what the Republicans never seem to have: if you push through what you want, you begin to shape culture and what was once unthinkable becomes mainstream. If they'd just pushed through some of this stuff, the screams of horror would have faded away.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

It's like Affirmative Action, had they killed it decades ago, I honestly bet you would see far more black Republicans.

But because Republicans keep letting the issue dangle, it makes blacks enslaved to Democrats out of fear.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (qX02u)

170
Is it me or does the fat Egyptian anchor dame look like a very bloated Pamela Geller?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (9P3OG)

171 Comrades, your publicly funded Ministry of Propaganda is receiving unacceptable levels of opinions from persona non grata audiences capable of expressing complete thoughts. These thought criminals will not be tolerated. Henceforth, all thoughts will be limited to 140 characters and expressed with maximum levels of emojis. All those using antiquated computers will be banned as old, backward thinking though criminals and we will expand outreach to correctly non-thinking social media so that our message can be copied, pasted and linked without interference of thought crime behavior.

Posted by: Damiano at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (71OEY)

172 Terry Gross has always been a progressive hack journalist. She went all "tough guy journalist" when interviewing Bill O'Reilly and her bullshit was so ridiculous, he walked out.

Gross' "tough guy journalist" act was notably absent the week before when she interviewed Michael Moore. Her demeanor during that interview could be described as "slobbering all over his knob and swallowing".

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 01:04 PM (lc2RB)

173 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 18, 2016 01:00 PM (39g3+)

Except real change comes in the other direction: bottom up. Washington is the end of process, not the beginning. By the time PBS/NPR funding came up, the game had been rigged to engineer the proper vote. The Right was ridiculed. We'll know we've made progress when Dems are ridiculed for their ideological votes.

Posted by: CJ at August 18, 2016 01:04 PM (9KqcB)

174 My AP History teacher was a retired Marine Corps Colonel.

He kept issues of "The New Republic" lying around "to see what the enemy is thinking."

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 18, 2016 01:05 PM (4+VII)

175 Out: You make express your thoughts and opinions freely.

In: You are free to disseminate our thoughts via links and verbatim, approved headlines without comment.

Posted by: Damiano at August 18, 2016 01:05 PM (71OEY)

176 169
It's like Affirmative Action, had they killed it decades ago, I honestly bet you would see far more black Republicans.

But because Republicans keep letting the issue dangle, it makes blacks enslaved to Democrats out of fear.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (qX02u)

Hence the raison-d'etre for Hart-Cellar and the importation of a whole new dependent/voter bloc for the Democrats. They knew when the civil rights era passed, most if not all Black Americans would become Republican.

So? Destroy several generations of blacks and import brown people from south of the border.

Winning!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2016 01:05 PM (9P3OG)

177 Honestly, if Trump wins and wants to show there is a new sheriff in town who gives no fucks.

He would cut off NPR and PBS right off the bat.

Straight. No chaser.

The explosion of heads would be glorious.

And perhaps, give a little spine to the gelatin-like GOP losers, when they saw the lack of blowback.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2016 01:06 PM (HGtd0)

178 38 How demographically diverse do you suppose NPR's staff is? I'm willing to bet it's also old and male.
Posted by: Cantankerous at August 18, 2016 12:44 PM (326rv)

A lot are female.
One time I was working a little charity function in a city park where a lot of hikers go. One of my co-volunteers saw a local female NPR announcer walk by and introduced us--my friend knew the announcer personally.

This was a gal with a gorgeous voice I'd heard many times. She was also one of the ugliest women I've ever seen, but purposely ugly. Shaved-stubble head (and not because she's sick, which of course would be understandable), UNshaven legs, somewhat overweight with no bra--those girls were pointing right at her shoes.

I couldn't believe the array of bad choices she made.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 18, 2016 01:06 PM (ozZau)

179 163
SHUT IT DOWN. SHUT IT DOWN NOW!!!

(use your John Taffer Bar Rescue voice)

Can I use my Mr. Book voice instead?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 18, 2016 01:06 PM (AroJD)

180 I'm not a ran of Rush nor NPR which means they'd be the perfect fit.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 18, 2016 01:06 PM (UhRGU)

181 Several years back I was riding in my ex-boyfriend's truck and he had NPR on. I told him if he didn't turn it off he could let me out at the next signal. He complied.
And yes, he was a lib., the confused kind, who after a while came to despise Obama.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 18, 2016 01:07 PM (CFc5L)

182 BTW, that Ivanka Trump story we discussed in earlier threads, Lady Grey is being excoriated on social media because their stunt egregiously violated their published privacy policy.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:02 PM (kXoT0)

The new MSM rules: ignoring all previous agreed-upon rules to go after Trump is totes OK, because Trump.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 18, 2016 01:07 PM (lc2RB)

183 You can either have diversity or quality. NPR chose diversity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 18, 2016 01:07 PM (Nwg0u)

184 Narrative Propaganda Radio? Small Things Considered? Weakened Condition? F>ck those smog-voiced superior scrunts.

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at August 18, 2016 01:07 PM (ucB75)

185 Republicans should have had the balls to end that decades ago.

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Never in the cards.
Republicans and Conservatives get by through ostracizing their own, inevitably drifting towards the left in the process.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (THupw)

186 The thing about defunding PBS is that, from what I've heard, they make billions in Sesame Street branded products. That's billions with a B.

They wouldn't miss the money at all. Just gotta have govt cash I guess.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (AroJD)

187 67
(I think it was Diane Rehm, but can't remember for sure)

I shall out myself. I'm a huge NPR fan. (Well, I was until two years ago when I got satellite radio).

I love all of them but I can't stand to listen to Diane Rehm. She sounds like she died and nobody has told her.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 18, 2016 12:49 PM (mgbwf)

Terry Gross is predictably lefty, but she does decent interviews. She always seems to have prepped appropriately.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (EzgxV)

188 Posted by: Yuimetal at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (v9gSJ)

Not this pastor. I'm just happy if people show up to hear the Gospel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (6HqlZ)

189 I cannot let my hopes get up about the news in sidebar of Clinton global initiative hacked. The political gads are not that kind to me. But ooooooh if true.

Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (qrG6s)

190 Ace,

Is 'Too White to Post' a census designation?..... that can be used to further bifurcate and other wise configured to set us against each other?

0. It whats we can divide that matters.

Posted by: DJT dick-punched my baby at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (AV4JD)

191 They learned it from Sony. Delete the comments you don't want seen so you can shape the narrative. Sony didn't want valid criticisms for Ghostbusters, so delete those comments and only leave the racist and sexist troll comments so you can claim that's the only reason people don't like it. NPR wants to look diverse so "whitewash" the old white males.

Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (z/Ubi)

192 >>>What are you motherf*ckers going to do about the fact that only wealthy white people listen to NPR?

Maybe they will think about that when all of us old white guys no longer pay taxes or die leaving our wives big inheritances to blow thru (I'm looking at you Darlene Shiley)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 18, 2016 01:09 PM (voOPb)

193 "to see what the enemy is thinking."

In NYC, we have WBAI.
Rapid leftists all day.
I do listen now and again to to hear the batshit crazy stuff they get worked into a lather about.

such as the unique problems of LGBTQ as it related to the penal system

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2016 01:09 PM (TQxRy)

194 What's even sweeter are the bitter internecine tears heard on even more moon-bat radio Pacifica begging for cash bcuz, Joe Stalin, y'know.

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at August 18, 2016 01:09 PM (ucB75)

195 As shitty as NPR is, it still does generate comedic moments.

There was the aforementioned _Fresh Air_ interview with Blowhard O'Really, who before leaving midway through the interview, lashed out at Terry Gross, saying "This is an ambush interview! This is completely unfair and out of line! Did you ask Dan Rather these kinds of questions?"

Later, they had on Triumph The Insult Comic Dog as a guest, who then said to Gross, "This is an ambush interview! This is completely unfair and out of line! Did you ask Lassie these kinds of questions?"

Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2016 01:10 PM (noWW6)

196 188
Posted by: Yuimetal at August 18, 2016 01:03 PM (v9gSJ)

Not this pastor. I'm just happy if people show up to hear the Gospel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:08 PM (6HqlZ)
<pulls up chair> Proclaim preach on, brother.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 18, 2016 01:10 PM (jxbfJ)

197 All of this won't make any difference after Oct 1. That's when the U.S. gives up the Internet to the tyrants of the world.

Posted by: Soona at August 18, 2016 01:10 PM (Fmupd)

198 Tsk! Tsk! NPR has not received the memo from The Oprah. Diversity is no longer the favored term. Inclusion is the new term and goal. Inclusion is code for everybody but White, Christian, Heterosexual males.

Posted by: Locke Common at August 18, 2016 01:10 PM (I6Am+)

199 >>> 186 The thing about defunding PBS is that, from what I've heard, they make billions in Sesame Street branded products. That's billions with a B.

One of Romneys failures in 2012 was that when they tried to paint him as the meanie defunding Big Bird, to hammer the crap home that Big Bird is one of the 1%! This is why we lose.

Posted by: LizLem at August 18, 2016 01:11 PM (qrG6s)

200 did they explain how they knew what sex or color commenters were? that's decidedly non inclusive to focus on sex and color. we've been told.

Posted by: nckate at August 18, 2016 01:11 PM (968UG)

201 Over the years, Rehm's voice has changed dramatically, culminating in the diagnosis of spasmodic dysphonia in 1998.
Spasmodic Dysphonia is a voice disorder characterized by involuntary
movements of one or more muscles of the larynx (voice box) during
speech. It is a type of dystonia.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 01:11 PM (NOIQH)

202 At he very least, Republicans should make some sort of committee where the ideological balance has to be tested to make sure its "neutral" on all shows.

That would almost be better than defunding it as NPR will be fine without taxpayer assistance.

Posted by: Maritime at August 18, 2016 01:11 PM (qX02u)

203 Radical right wing TV doctor, Dr. Drew, spreads conspiracy theories about Hillary's brain damage:

https://tinyurl.com/jmp934p

That CrackerJacks medical diploma is really paying off for that guy.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at August 18, 2016 01:11 PM (4ng05)

204 How a network that gets money extracted involuntarily from taxpayers and has begging sessions can have an air of superiority is beyond me.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 01:12 PM (7ZVPa)

205 Seeing what the enemy is thinking does what, exactly?

It's not like you can avoid what liberals are saying, so how come exposure to these select outlets is preferable in some way?

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 01:12 PM (THupw)

206 >>How a network that gets money extracted involuntarily from taxpayers
and has begging sessions can have an air of superiority is beyond
me.

I know, right?

Posted by: BBC at August 18, 2016 01:13 PM (NOIQH)

207 Terry Gross has always been a progressive hack journalist. She went all "tough guy journalist" when interviewing Bill O'Reilly and her bullshit was so ridiculous, he walked out.
...

She certainly is. Look at us here we are outing ourselves as listeners, lol.

I used to listen a lot, but now never. I will give Gross credit for one thing I heard her say. She was interviewing Bill Ayers, whose lame defense for his bombings was that he didn't kill anyone. Gross asked him how did he know that the pound of C-4 he planted in a Pentagon restroom would't kill anyone? He admitted he got lucky.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 18, 2016 01:13 PM (ozZau)

208 Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2016 01:11 PM (NOIQH)

Good to know what it is. Thanks I knew something had happened although I haven't listened to NPR for several years unless I turn it on by mistake.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:13 PM (6HqlZ)

209 Obviously, this wouldn't be happening at PBS if the commenters weren't overwhelmingly right of center. That undermines the narrative...

Posted by: Maxwell at August 18, 2016 01:14 PM (n6tqt)

210 Do it, Ace. For the record, I'm a hot, curious, 16-year-old girl.

Posted by: major major major major at August 18, 2016 01:14 PM (YcKif)

211 The liberal way to deal with criticism.

Posted by: pat at August 18, 2016 01:14 PM (4MSOz)

212 I would remind you that Paul Ryan and his merrie band of quisling bitches couldn't end full taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood's butchery centers when the GOP had control of both the House and the Senate.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2016 12:55 PM (8ZskC)

Rats. Two days ago I received an email from "Paul Ryan" begging me for money to stop Hillary or something. I know it's useless, but I sent an email back listing all of the issues that Paul Ryan and his fellow republican twats have caved in on. I forgot about funding for Planned Abortion centers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2016 01:15 PM (+lVUW)

213 195 As shitty as NPR is, it still does generate comedic moments.

There was the aforementioned _Fresh Air_ interview with Blowhard O'Really, who before leaving midway through the interview, lashed out at Terry Gross, saying "This is an ambush interview! This is completely unfair and out of line! Did you ask Dan Rather these kinds of questions?"

Later, they had on Triumph The Insult Comic Dog as a guest, who then said to Gross, "This is an ambush interview! This is completely unfair and out of line! Did you ask Lassie these kinds of questions?"
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2016 01:10 PM (noWW6)

That's all Triumph though. I wouldn't be surprised if Gross had no clue that he was referencing the previous interview.

Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2016 01:15 PM (z/Ubi)

214 210 Do it, Ace. For the record, I'm a hot, curious, 16-year-old girl.
Posted by: major major major major at August 18, 2016 01:14 PM (YcKif)

The Paolo, he asks how are you?

Posted by: Paolo, who is a hot Latin lover and totally not joncelli at August 18, 2016 01:15 PM (RD7QR)

215 It's only a matter of time before this all comes to the various right wing media outlets anyway

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 01:15 PM (THupw)

216 "At he very least, Republicans should make some sort of committee where the ideological balance has to be tested to make sure its "neutral" on all shows. "

**Cue Hilary cackling laughter**

Posted by: RM at August 18, 2016 01:15 PM (U3LtS)

217 Wait, what? I thought you had to be an older, white male TO post comments here??

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (xVgrA)

218 210 Do it, Ace. For the record, I'm a hot, curious, 16-year-old girl.
Posted by: major major major major at August 18, 2016 01:14 PM (YcKif)

Sounds like something a 44 year old FBI agent would say.

Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (z/Ubi)

219 As a concerned middle-aged white guy I can honestly say that NPR sucks big-hairy, monkey balls.

Posted by: dananjcon at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (NpXoL)

220 overweight with no bra--those girls were pointing right at her shoes.

I couldn't believe the array of bad choices she made.
Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 18, 2016 01:06 PM (ozZau)

There's a disturbing new trend that I am seeing here in Tulsa--women in their late 70s and upward wearing loose large Tshirts with no bras. These are women who need either a bra or a belt for those bosoms. I get that it's super hot here and you no longer see yourself as a sex object, but, ladies, that's just icky.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (kXoT0)

221 The liberal way to deal with criticism

Also Right wing media.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (THupw)

222 Even the "fun" non-political shows like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and Ask Me Another are getting unlistenable. Always leaning left, they are now vicious gulag hate fests. Thank God Car Talk is all vintage shows or we'd be hearing, "And don't drive like that Hitler Trump."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 18, 2016 01:17 PM (Nwg0u)

223 "Our Country is screwed"

The good news is that Christ and God the Father aren't. :^) But I will post a nice reflection from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church below this.. I usually post these or some other devotionals in the midmorning thread (Maybe you've seen them?) but hadn't don it this week and last week I was away:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:17 PM (6HqlZ)

224 Republicans should make some sort of committee where the ideological balance has to be tested to make sure its "neutral" on all shows. "

--

That was tried once. It was called the fairness doctrine. Fortunately, the gutless GOP and some Dems managed to kill that one, since it was a direct violation of the first amendment.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 01:17 PM (7ZVPa)

225 My excuse is that it's the only classical station in the Philly area and I can always mute the People's NPR Propaganda News when it comes at the top of the hour.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at August 18, 2016 01:01 PM (RD7QR)

I miss the old all-classical station. "Sleepers Awake" was my favorite program. Now we only get classical until 6:00.

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (7HtZB)

226 I've always liked that saying "I'm Like Flynn."

It refers to the fact that Errol Flynn was banging a set of hot twins pretty regularly during his Hollywood heyday.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (mfo3v)

227 205 Seeing what the enemy is thinking does what, exactly?

It's not like you can avoid what liberals are saying, so how come exposure to these select outlets is preferable in some way?
Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 01:12 PM (THupw)

It prepares you for being challenged on it by someone in real life. Places like NPR are often what people latch onto because they're nominally non-partisan. So when your coworker comes in talking about the outrageous thing that Trump did that they heard about on NPR during the drive to work this morning, you might be able to have a response ready (that is, if you're inclined to say anything at all, which you might not be a good idea).

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (KUaJL)

228 "How long will we waver?"

Brooklyn Tabernacle Church devotional

http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/devotional

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (6HqlZ)

229
217 Wait, what? I thought you had to be an older, white male TO post comments here??
Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (xVgrA)

---------------

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: Soona at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (Fmupd)

230 Question: if the Democratic Party became really openly anti-white, would it matter to white Democrats?

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (tvyXw)

231 218 210 Do it, Ace. For the record, I'm a hot, curious, 16-year-old girl.
Posted by: major major major major at August 18, 2016 01:14 PM (YcKif)

Sounds like something a 44 year old FBI agent would say.
Posted by: buzzion at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (z/Ubi)

Heh. I always chuckle at those "To Catch a Predator" type deals, because the 13-14 year old girl in the chat room that they want to meet up with is always, ALWAYS a cop. You'd think they'd learn.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (0mRoj)

232 There's a disturbing new trend that I am seeing here in Tulsa--women in their late 70s and upward wearing loose large Tshirts with no bras.

-
It seemed like such a good idea in 1967.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (Nwg0u)

233 210
Do it, Ace. For the record, I'm a hot, curious, 16-year-old girl.

Posted by: major major major major

I just felt a twinge in my rotting scrotum.

Posted by: Zombie Author James Harrison at August 18, 2016 01:19 PM (3b9U4)

234 >>>200 did they explain how they knew what sex or color commenters were?

They used data from Google. All those cookies and tracking of your personal browsing habits. Google told NPR that the commenters were fans of stereotypical white male things.

That's why I always make sure to visit the nastiest pron sites immediately before posting here. So pixy knows we are perverts.

Posted by: wooga at August 18, 2016 01:19 PM (G0kET)

235 217 Wait, what? I thought you had to be an older, white male TO post comments here??
Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (xVgrA)

Just rational, cogent ones.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (0mRoj)

236 Question: if the Democratic Party became really openly anti-white, would it matter to white Democrats?

--

It already is; I think it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (7ZVPa)

237 What are you motherf*ckers going to do about the fact that only wealthy white people listen to NPR?

Posted by: Ace
---------------
Exactly what the rest of America does - forget that NPR even exists in about 10 minutes .

Posted by: Chi at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (ApeEc)

238 Honestly Joe, I've never had anyone mention a single thing they heard on NPR ever.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (THupw)

239 Racist progressive elites will be racist progressive elites. They hate it when they look at themselves in the mirror.

Posted by: Excelsior at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (CG+Mw)

240 There's a disturbing new trend that I am seeing here in Tulsa--women in their late 70s and upward wearing loose large Tshirts with no bras. These are women who need either a bra or a belt for those bosoms. I get that it's super hot here and you no longer see yourself as a sex object, but, ladies, that's just icky.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:16 PM (kXoT0)

On the Moon, where gravity is 1/4th that of the Earth, their breasts would still be perky.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (7HtZB)

241 On the Moon, where gravity is 1/4th that of the Earth, their breasts would still be perky.
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at August 18, 2016 01:20 PM (7HtZB)

They'd just be floating up over their heads.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 01:21 PM (0mRoj)

242 They'd just be floating up over their heads.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 01:21 PM (0mRoj)

For these gals, they would have to tuck them under their arms or be unable to see.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:22 PM (kXoT0)

243 Let's see....I had my middle-aged, white Shocked Face around here somewhere...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2016 01:22 PM (bzd8I)

244 Per reports, the two swimmers who were removed from the plane have admitted they made up the robbery story. What a bunch of clowns.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 18, 2016 01:23 PM (2cS/G)

245 Their politics always sucked but I always changed the dial for that esp. when Fossilized Commie Gloryhole Minder, Daniel Schorr, came on.

Straight up commie a-hole, that guy.

He gave a speech while I was in college, and, yes, most of it was excuse making for communism's failures in the Soviet Union.

Fortunately I had a history professor who had lived in Estonia under communism and would go back to Russia periodically to do research for books. He had lots to say, in great detail, about why and how communism doesn't work. If you want to see someone who loves living in America, talk to someone who has lived under the communist system.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2016 01:23 PM (+lVUW)

246 177 Honestly, if Trump wins and wants to show there is a new sheriff in town who gives no fucks.

He would cut off NPR and PBS right off the bat.

Straight. No chaser.

The explosion of heads would be glorious.

And perhaps, give a little spine to the gelatin-like GOP losers, when they saw the lack of blowback.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2016 01:06 PM (HGtd0)

That's the kind of thing I'm hoping for from Trump. Lord knows no other Republican will ever cut anything.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2016 01:23 PM (zoehZ)

247 The way to destroy NRP is to point out it was the creation of a racist, misogynistic, war monger, LBJ. This isn't who we are!!!

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (oDCMR)

248 Wtf?? Why would you make up a story about being robbed?

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (xVgrA)

249 The Paolo, he thinks there was a night of the, how you say, trannies and Bolivian marching powder, si?

Posted by: Paolo, who is a hot Latin lover and totally not joncelli at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (RD7QR)

250 230 Question: if the Democratic Party became really openly anti-white, would it matter to white Democrats?

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (tvyXw

No! Look who is afflicted with "White Guilt" and supports the loony left.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (voOPb)

251 @FenelonSpoke
I have seen your devotionals and appreciate you posting them. When I see them, I make an effort to read reflect. Thank you for doing that.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (jxbfJ)

252 Gigolo sock off.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (RD7QR)

253 AP has published an account of what happened to Lochte and co. in Rio. Rio police department has scheduled a press conference for this afternoon.

AP is reporting that Lochte made up the robbery story and that two of the swimmers with him have confessed.

They stopped at a gas station to use the restroom and when they couldn't open the door, they broke it. Gas station attendent wanted them to pay for the door and they said no. Security guard came over and had another patron at the station translate, and said he never pulled a gun on any of them.

Additional details of the story here.

http://tinyurl.com/jz494ba

Lochte and company can be disciplined by the US Swimming commission , for fraud and dishonesty which breaks the commissions code of conduct.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 18, 2016 01:25 PM (JbgDR)

254 242 They'd just be floating up over their heads.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 01:21 PM (0mRoj)

For these gals, they would have to tuck them under their arms or be unable to see.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:22 PM (kXoT0)

----------------

Yo! Lady! You forgot to take the clothespins off your nips.

Posted by: Soona at August 18, 2016 01:25 PM (Fmupd)

255 Heh. I always chuckle at those "To Catch a Predator"
type deals, because the 13-14 year old girl in the chat room that they
want to meet up with is always, ALWAYS a cop. You'd think they'd learn.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM

Actually, a couple years back we had a now-ex state senator get busted for trying to hook up with an underaged boy. I forget how the texting started, but the kid got totally creeped out and went to the cops who proceeded to set him up. It was hilarious. "No, ossifer, really, I always just happen to have condoms and sachets of lube in the car. I'm totally not here to bugger a 15 yr old...."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2016 01:26 PM (bzd8I)

256 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 18, 2016 01:24 PM (jxbfJ)

You're welcome. I post them because they help me to remember and reflect as well. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2016 01:26 PM (6HqlZ)

257 >>>200 did they explain how they knew what sex or color commenters were?

They used data from Google. All those cookies and tracking of your personal browsing habits. Google told NPR that the commenters were fans of stereotypical white male things.

That's why I always make sure to visit the nastiest pron sites immediately before posting here. So pixy knows we are perverts.

Posted by: wooga
****

So those ads that appear for you here must be reeeeallll interesting.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW- Skeet Surfing at August 18, 2016 01:27 PM (uhftQ)

258 New thread Gawker bankruptcy

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 18, 2016 01:27 PM (kXoT0)

259 Newd Gawker

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 18, 2016 01:27 PM (7ZVPa)

260 If you want to see someone who loves living in America, talk to someone who has lived under the communist system.
--------
Except for Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov, he's all in for Hitleray!

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 18, 2016 01:28 PM (xVgrA)

261 Question: if the Democratic Party became really openly anti-white, would it matter to white Democrats?

--

It already is; I think it doesn't matter.

-
They think everybody knows they're down with struggle so they're immune from societal collapse.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 18, 2016 01:29 PM (Nwg0u)

262 Except real change comes in the other direction: bottom up.

Yes and no. Many of the changes we're experiencing lately have been top-down impositions: let trannies in your changing room, homosexual marriage, etc. Then, culture gets used to it and goes "well its been like this for years, and my house didnt collapse, lets leave it"

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 18, 2016 01:29 PM (39g3+)

263 Ryan Lochte is the dumbest fucking white man alive. I knew the robbery story was bullshit the minute I heard he was involved. I just figured that they had their money stolen by a tranny hooker or something embarrassing though.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at August 18, 2016 01:29 PM (KFVqG)

264 "Question: if the Democratic Party became really openly anti-white, would it matter to white Democrats?"

Yes, but not if no one brings it up.

We now have weekly race riots and a Democrat Party pandering to black power extremists. And the GOP is...silent.

If nothing else, Trump is smart enough to note this. See Powerline: "The Trump Speech that will Win Him the Presidency." (with major caveats)

Posted by: CJ at August 18, 2016 01:31 PM (9KqcB)

265 Libs have an aesthetic sense that they mistake for a moral imperative.

Ie., a scene doesn't "look right" to them unless it contains X% blacks, X% whites, X% women, X% men, X% asians, etc. But then they conclude some injustice is taking place if the scene does not conform to that aesthetic.
Except for the neighborhoods they live in or the schools their children attend.
The successful liberals around here wouldn't get caught dead sending their children to a school that was truly integrated.

All those super rich actors and entertainment industry types? If they really wanted to do something to help low income black kids, they could give scholarships to the private schools their own children attend. You know, so that ghetto minorities make up 25% of the school enrollment.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2016 01:31 PM (+lVUW)

266 I miss the old all-classical station. "Sleepers Awake" was my favorite program. Now we only get classical until 6:00.
======================

There's always WCPE's theclassicalstation.org online

Slacker also has a good selection of classical music channels, but they don't play the complete longer works, just a single movement.

Posted by: mrp at August 18, 2016 01:31 PM (JBggj)

267 I have had SiriusXM for the past three months. I can't imagine trying to listen to over-the-air radio anymore.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 18, 2016 01:33 PM (oDCMR)

268 Many of the changes we're experiencing lately have been top-down impositions: let trannies in your changing room, homosexual marriage, etc.

But I think that by the time they were imposed, the cultural battle had already been lost. We know this because Democrats will suffer very little if at all because of these acts. If you notice, Democrats are asked to make very few difficult votes by their base. The base makes it politically safe for the Dems to vote. (Obama was allowed to wait until gay marriage was safe before he supported it.) Our side constantly demands the GOP to cast votes with massive downsides, which politicians rarely do.

Posted by: CJ at August 18, 2016 01:36 PM (9KqcB)

269 I listen to npr every morning.

I'm an old, white, sorta well off, hetero male.

My motive? Know your enemy.

Posted by: Ω at August 18, 2016 01:39 PM (mBYZv)

270 I've known one person that was a pretty devoted NPR listener. Accord to this douche, Fox was solely responsible for the hate/ political partisanship in the country. He was also my boss, so I kept my mouth shut for the most part aside from a quick jab about the leftist media as a whole. According to this guy, NPR was straight up.

One day out of nowhere they escorted him out. Everyone was pretty shocked. Found out recently through a very solid source that he was fired for pissing dirty.

Lol, your brain on drugs.

Posted by: Cooldawg at August 18, 2016 01:42 PM (bVtr0)

271 So taxpayer funded NPR discriminates based on race and gender.

Posted by: Fuq the media at August 18, 2016 01:47 PM (syAr3)

272 "So taxpayer funded NPR discriminates based on race and gender."

Oh, and age too. If only they could determine their reader's sexual orientation too.

Ha, just kidding, we know only homosexual read and watch NPR.

Posted by: Fuq the media at August 18, 2016 01:50 PM (syAr3)

273 226 I've always liked that saying "I'm Like Flynn."

It refers to the fact that Errol Flynn was banging a set of hot twins pretty regularly during his Hollywood heyday.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 18, 2016 01:18 PM (mfo3v)

This being Hollywood, I would have assumed that coke was the reason Robin Hood was happy all the time.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 18, 2016 01:54 PM (VdICR)

274 and Joan Kroc earned it all herself! Right?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or great value tibet at August 18, 2016 01:55 PM (U4PcL)

275 Ace it has to improve your diversity quotient that have long self identified as a handicapped black hispanic lesbian with a chinese surname.

xoxo Shimerita 'Tugs' Wong

Posted by: DanMan at August 18, 2016 01:58 PM (zRf7o)

276 They can just get the hell off my lawn.

Posted by: Bitsko, former MSM journalist at August 18, 2016 02:01 PM (g+yem)

277 I was traveling with a co-worker from Chicago to Nowhere, Indiana. On the way there he had Rush on, which is meh to me. I put on my podcasts on the way back. Ace of Spades was the first one. I felt no need to explain a few middle-aged dude's ecstatic reverence for Bradley Cooper.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 18, 2016 02:02 PM (VdICR)

278 National Review has also deleted comments.

Ever get the feeling that the Elites don't want to hear from the peasants?

Posted by: Tom Terrific at August 18, 2016 02:53 PM (/R4ru)

279 chiefjaybob --

I'm kinda late to the party, but check out "find a parish" at the Personal Ordinariate: http://ordinariate.net/
There might be one near you.

Posted by: Lurkette at August 18, 2016 02:59 PM (PLmfk)

280 I've never listened to NPR, but my 20-something son has listened since his teens. And while he's probably considered white, he can pass for most any ethnicity.

Posted by: adsila at August 18, 2016 03:49 PM (erVZn)

281 LOL, ace complaining about deleting comments....

Posted by: Poor ace. at August 18, 2016 04:12 PM (p8YKk)

282 I listen to hear what the Cathedral believes.
So out of touch with reality. Happily, Obama is importing enough Syrians that a few will find their way back to Panem and help renovate the Metro with body parts.
NPR, where whimsy and preconscious in a breathless air gave us Schweatty balls with Alec Baldwin.

Posted by: freedom2014despitebarack at August 18, 2016 10:29 PM (cJDvr)

283 "What are you motherf*ckers going to do about the fact that only wealthy white people listen to NPR?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB7mHxdHlRY

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at August 18, 2016 10:58 PM (0OG8D)

284 Guess NPR stations will stop playing any music by dead white males, like Mozart or Bach.

Posted by: waelse1 at August 18, 2016 11:11 PM (uyIKB)

285
Sounds like NPR needs to dust off its old slogan.

"If NPR doesn't do it, who will?"

Posted by: Levin at August 18, 2016 11:47 PM (iZGeA)

286 That's wealthy white assholes that listen to NPR. They prolly think Cokie Roberts is a hottie.

Posted by: Ram A Lam A Ding Dong at August 19, 2016 12:09 PM (Sda6L)

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