NPR: Equating Palin jokes with killing Obama? Why are we paying for this?

[bushmeister0]

Here's Neal Conan's introduction to Tuesday's TOTN's discussion about the nastiness of the election. Note how the theme seems to imply 'everyone does it.' That same old NPR equanimity. (You know, don't want to offend anyone.) It never comes up that they wouldn't even be having this discussion if folks at McCain's rallies weren't calling for Obama's head. I mean, when is the last time people at an Obama rally were calling for 'whitey's' head?

Conan:

"With three weeks until election day, partisan passions are running high and some erupt in ugly, angry comments. At rallies candidates have struggled to speak over unruly audiences, booing, heckling and slinging slurs. In television ads the McCain campaign questions Senator Obama's readiness to lead, they've tied him to Tony Rezko, a convicted Chicago slumlord and former Obama fund raiser Bill Ayers, a 1960's domestic terrorist.

The Obama campaign fired back citing Senator McCain's involvement in the Keading five political scandal, his ties to President Bush and Governor Sarah Palin's readiness to lead. And as shocking as some of the things Senator McCain's supporters say, the age jokes from some of Senator Obama's supporters and the diggs at Governor Palin are pretty nasty, too.

So, how much is too much, where do you draw the line?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=95694003&m=95696798

WTF? Yes, yelling "Kill him!" meaning Obama and calling Sarah Palin "Caribou Barbie" are one in the same.

Umm . . . I dunno, Neal, I'd say calling for the assassination a candidate is where I'd draw the line.

The Keading five, the fact that McCain is a member of Bush's party and the very legitimate worries about Sarah Palin's ability to take over in the very likely event of McCain's demise are totally real issues. Does NPR seriously think Obama is about to crash Air
Force 1 into the WTC?

Let's get real here!

Here's a video sampling of the kind of folks Palin and McMummy are attracting at their "rallies." (Funny, the last time I heard that term was about 1939 in Nuremberg!)

Al Jazeera brings you this:

Female supporter:

"I'm afraid if he wins, the black will take over. He's not a Christian. This is a Christian nation, what is our culture going to wind up like?"

Male supporter:

"When you got a Nergo running for President, he ain't a first stringer, he's definitely a second stringer."

Young dude with baby in arms:

"He seems like a sheep, or a wolf in sheep's clothing, to be honest with you. And I believe Palin is filled with the holy spirit and I believe she's going to bring honesty and integrity to the White House."

Fat dude with "Navy" shirt on:

"He's related to a known terrorist, for one"

Another fat redneck:

"He is a friend to a terrorist to this country."

And another:

"He must support terrorists. You know, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. And that to me is Obama."

Female McCain supporter:

"Just the whole Muslim thing . . . I mean, everybody's forgotten about the 9/11, but it's just kind of unnerving."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0t

NPR, please find the same sort of thing going on at an Obama rally.

To try and make this out to be a he said she said thing, so misses the point.

The McCain campaign, in their desperation, is aiming for the lowest common denominator, appealing to America's worst angels, making the stuff that went on during the Clinton impeachment look like a tea party.

How irresponsible for the media, especially the media we all pay for with our taxes, to play along with this crap.

What TOTN should be asking is how John McCain, the great war hero and "maverick" has allowed his campaign to be hijacked by the Timothy McVie contingent of the Republican Party. It's bad enough that whoever takes over in Jan of 2009 has to deal with an economic meltdown, the last thing we need on top of that is a race war.

John McCain should be ashamed of himself for stooping so low. A United States Senator, no less!

The only solace I can take from all of this is: If there really is a God, he must have picked McCain to put an end to the Republican Party once and for all. That's got to be the only explanation, right?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. NPR is supported by.... NPR is supported by... NPR is supported

by someone or something every five minutes. I cannot deal with this "Publicly supported" radio anymore.

[Kolesar]

2. Bill and Melinda Gates and the Joan Kroc (McDonald's) estate

The public broadcasting boards of directors could insist on better writing than this.

It is pretty obvious that the right wing is trying to destroy Obama's presidency if he takes office. They want to divide America because they hate America.

[ikojo]

3. I stopped listening to NPR on a regular basis in 2003, when they

jumped on the "let's go to war!" Bush bandwagon. They did not tolerated any criticism of their boy, George W Bush. My friends all say, "they've gotten better" well I don't see it. There is no way that parody songs and jokes about the joke that is Sarah Palin is the same as saying "kill him" or "off with his head!"

NPR needs to grow a pair and stop sucking the c*ck of the Republican party. Like the Democratic party adopting Republican ideas, it doesn't matter. They right wing will STILL consider them to be "left" (yeah right).

Why can't more "journalists" have the courage of Amy Goodman? She does not care what the corporate media says about her, she just keeps on her path.

[deutsey]

6. I stopped listening in 2000 when they seemed to fall all over themselves

to legitimate the election theft that year.

[JVS]

4. We, Kemosabe?

[sendero]

5. I stopped giving money..

... to NPR, after 17 years of donating, in 2002. One Sunday morning they let Colin Powell spout his batch of lies and I waited in vain for some kind of journalistic response, some counterpoint, some rebuttal, SOMETHING.

Nothing came. That was the last dime I gave to NPR.

I still listen to them and they had improved a little since 2002 up until lately. Their overall election coverage is so blatantly slanted to favor McCain as to be sickening and obvious.

Fuck NPR. They decided to go corporate and they are not worth a dime of the left's money. Let them go ahead and get all their funding from corps and right-wingers, their content is already that biased.

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. I stopped listening when they fired the union steward of WETA (a beloved local DJ).

Did they mention attacks on Palin's membership in a secessionist group?

[eridani]

8. Their contact form is easy to get to from your link. I used it to send the following

Why is TOTN pretending that anything supporters say at Obama rallies is in any way equivalent to McCain/Palin supporters openly calling for Obama's assasination? That isn't "evenhandedness;" that's lying by omission.

At a McCain rally a woman held up a poster that said "War is over" but her sign was quickly ripped down by people in the audience. She then held up her hands in the "V" symbol for peace and yelled, "We want peace!" She was quickly escorted from the premises.

At many McCain/Palin rallies, supporters have been shouting '"kill him," 'terrorist,""off with his head'"and other equally incendiary terms about Barack Obama, and both claim they have no control over what members of their crowds do. If their security can remove someone for shouting "We want peace," why can't they remove people for explicit murder threats?

Clearly, both McCain and Palin are disqualified for holding the offices they seek because they are utterly incompetent as leaders. If they can't manage their campaign events, they can't manage their country Or perhaps this is what today's Republicans think of as real leadership. If so, Eisenhower is surely spinning in is grave.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/11/antiwar_protestor_disrupts_mcc.html?hpid=topnews

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873876

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/10/14/news/doc48f4ba8994588930223377.txt

[tom_paine]

9. That's the BushoCorporate M$M's job: making demonstrably one-side evil look like a he-said/she-said

I have to admit this form of "lying without lying" is brilliant and diabolical in a way Hitler could have only dreamed. Though he wouldn't have bothered, there was no need for such advnaced subtlties in the time and country HE was trying to take over and tyrannized.

As to the workings of the Mind of God, I can only assume that since, She let Hitler and the Nazis have a 12-year run with tens of millions of victims, She is also going to let the current version of the Nazis, the Bushies, ride their movement out to the end, also.

We might argue about whether or not Her Hand was in FDRs election and repulsion of the attempted Bushie-Nazi takeover

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

as well as the Free World' banding together to beat the Bushie Axis. But we cannot argue that the original German Bushies had it their own way for most of a 12-year run and the same could be said for our own Bushie Tyrants having had a 28 year successful, pretty much uninterrupted run.

Given those facts, I don't think it likely God will stop the Bushies immediately any more than She stopped the nazis immediately.