NPR watch: "Is It Time To Move Past Outrage At AIG?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102006900

The topic today at NPR's Talk Of The Nation. Neal "I never met a neocon I didn't like" Conan just had Columbia professor Charles W. Calomiris on to discuss why it would be bad to blame the crooks at AIG and actually they should get their bonuses.

According to his bio at the American Enterprise Institute web site he's the: "Codirector of AEI's Financial Deregulation Project," so you can see why he thinks less government in this situation is better.

Before this very insightful discussion, they had Tomas Friedman on to assure everyone that the free market model was alive and well.

Can anyone explain to me why we should be subsidizing NPR if they're just going to present one side of the argument that always seems to hew to the neocon way of thinking about things?

And, why are they on the FM side of the dial? Sounds more like a AM kind of thing to me.

"Is It Time To Move Past Outrage At AIG?"...I say....um no. Our outrage is just getting started!

Let's see then operate on the free market model and then see what happens.

it was weird - came off like propaganda.

of tax payer money.

By next week we will be arguing over a different problem.

NPR has been an organ of the American Enterprise Institute since before Bush stole the 2000 election.
Back then , 'Talk of the Nation' was hosted by Fox News's Juan Williams. Juan is that pal of O'Reilly's who smiled and nodded when Billo expressed surprise that staff and patrons at a Harlem restaurant didnt shout F-word, and throw food.

On NPR's other news programming, they offer up A.E.I. guest opinions, frequently. Very frequently.
David Brooks , David Frum , E.J. Dionne...

Who does NPR have to voice the "liberal" side? Yep. They haul out Fox News's Juan Williams.

You know, NPR is so liberal, they need a little "balance."

With Rush's ranting style, people actually BELIEVE NPR is a liberal alternative , because its spokesperson's voices are so gently modulated.

They dont notice that what is being said, isnt so very different.

replace him with "liberal" E J. Dionne.

Let's have Continenti and Brooks on one time and see if it makes any difference.

...I might have destroyed my radio.

No, not time to get past the outrage. In fact it's long past time to delve deeper into the outrage. The disgusting fat pigs who have raped the economy and kept the boot on the downtrodden and oh, yes, as a side effect have just bled the American middle class totally dry -- they deserve to be exposed and brought up on charges. And that's a mild version of what ought to happen to them.

Do you think these guys are getting *scared* yet? Because I won't think the outrage is anywhere *near* loud enough, until I hear their voices quavering and they're begging for mercy -- the same mercy they did not show all of the little people the world over, while they talked to us all about "personal responsibility" and "teaching a man to fish" and all of their other wonderful platitudes that they used to get us to buy into our own destruction at their hands while they live like kings and snicker at how clever they are to keep us thinking that we have a "democratic" system in any way, shape or form -- ha, ha, ha.

Piss on these people -- their day is coming. Once everyone realizes that the 500 Trillion or so dollars that are whizzing around in the ether are purely made-up numbers, and yet it is these very same made-up numbers that have allowed the "haves" to live like sultans while the rest of us have slid farther and farther back -- once everyone really gets it, and gets that the system is not just rigged, it's not just corrupt, it's not just unsustainable, but it's a bloated pile of bullshit that's about to come crashing down on all our heads -- once we all realize that, it's going to be Hell to pay.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102015881

WTF?

Welcome to AEI radio!

I would donate.
Until then, fuck them.

health care.