Dogs And Cats Living Together: NPR Lambastes Obama
posted at 1:10 pm on June 26, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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In the Credit Where Credit’s Due department, be sure to give a listen to a weekend podcast from NPR’s Scott Simon. He first takes on Barack Obama over his reversal on public financing while expressing support for the system, calling it the “we have to destroy the village to save it” rationalization. Simon saves his big guns for Obama’s accusation that the McCain campaign would conduct race-based attacks on his candidacy. Simon reminds Obama that McCain has a biracial family himself, which created the impetus for a rather notorious smear in 2000 — and accuses Obama of manufacturing a new smear with his accusation.
“Can someone raise questions about the experience of a candidate who’s only been a US Senator for four years and who does not have a prodigious legislative record without being stained as a bigot?” Not according to Team Obama, as NPR figures out.
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chickens comin home
trailortrash on June 26, 2008 at 1:12 PM
to roooost!
pseudonominus on June 26, 2008 at 1:14 PM
What a lovely reference.
Classic
Squid Shark on June 26, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Whoa, NPR? Really? Cool, I can use this against my brother who falls asleep and wakes up to NPR, ugh.
NTWR on June 26, 2008 at 1:14 PM
And notice that McCain has enough class to not trot out his kids for a dog and pony show as Dems are wont to do.
DerKrieger on June 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Eh, just words.
Chuck Schick on June 26, 2008 at 1:16 PM
I have already accepted the title or titles that the left may give me for being 100% anti-Obama. Their stupidity is not my problem though. As long as I am comfortable in the fact that I do not want the most liberal presidential candidate ever I don’t care what anyone else says.
NotCoach on June 26, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Guess who is going to be named the WORST! PERSON! IN THE WORLDDDDDD!!!! tonight.
Watch your back, Scott Simon.
wise_man on June 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM
I like NPR, their features and weekend shows are good.
Squid Shark on June 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM
You know it was coming when Juan Williams started to question him a while back.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM
The Car Guys are about the on;y thing I can stand on NPR anymore.
NotCoach on June 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Scott Simon… who would have thought. Look up Bridget McCain.
Sergei on June 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM
I hope the cleaning staff will be able to sweep up all the scales that have fallen from the NPR eyes.
Mallard T. Drake on June 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM
I don’t know if this is new. My mom listens to NPR and has been telling me stories for months about how pro-Hillary they were.
MamaAJ on June 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Don’t forget the weekly puzzle with Will Shortz.
Mallard T. Drake on June 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Just more words from
RICH!!!
WHIIIIITE!!!
PEEEEOOOOPLOLEEEEEEEEE!!!
benrand on June 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Scott Simon… who would have thought.
Sergei on June 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Hey, Mr Simon – comments like that don’t help Michelle’s kids. Just saying.
Nugai on June 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Awesome tag team
apollyonbob on June 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM
The first time I ever listened was while driving to do some salmon fishinhg with my brother, on 9/11. The stuff I heard on the day it happened, within an hour of it, made me hate that channel forever.
NTWR on June 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM
What’s the zipcode for Hell? I need to check the temperature there on http://www.weather.com
rbb on June 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM
You see it is about the future (as much as the lies, and lies about the lies).
He figured he could raise $500 million. Because liberals do not understand ANYTHING, they neglect to realize that EVEN McCain will get matching funds as donors from that pesky red 50% get busy.
So the headlines a few months from now will be about the ONE BILLION DOLLAR ELECTION. Past a threshold of obscenity.
Who will be to blame? Obama.
Agrippa2k on June 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Scott Simon just lost his window office.
Sgt. Hartman on June 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM
“That’s not the Scott Simon I used to know.”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Won’t last. This smells more like an early one-off to buttress the guy’s credibility before he goes to work getting Ellsworth elected.
spmat on June 26, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Scott Simon…the Worst Person in the World…!
Sgt. Hartman on June 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Olby has to bestow that honor on Glenn Greenwald first.
NotCoach on June 26, 2008 at 1:26 PM
66666
amerpundit on June 26, 2008 at 1:30 PM
even ultra liberal puliter prize winning cartoonist steve benson ripped obama’s flip on public financing.
when the long knives come out this Fall, this is gonna be a lot of fun to watch. oh, the humanity.
DrW on June 26, 2008 at 1:35 PM
NPR means well but its contributors are mostly effete urban liberals. They can’t help it.
Dr. Manhattan on June 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM
You can almost hear the scales falling from the eyes all liberal America. Their Dear Leader is a fraud and a charlatan.
rockmom on June 26, 2008 at 1:43 PM
NPR is great! You’re telling me that nobody here has listened to Car Talk on the weekends?
NPR really does have some great programming…if y’all can get over the stereotypes. Don’t knock it ’til your try it.
budorob on June 26, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Or as Hussein himself might put it, a devout charlatan.
Akzed on June 26, 2008 at 1:47 PM
You know, I’ve been listening off and on to NPR on the radio for the last 6 months, and they are not in the pot for Obama and Democrats in America. Lots of their callers are, but they really go way beyond typical American politics and news.
It’s not a bad station at all.
Vincenzo on June 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Actually, dudes it is 48169.
Just look up Ann Arbor. They are all probably having a collective heart attack.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
I won’t go back–they still employ Garrison Squealer–but I won’t badmouth them after this.
mymanpotsandpans on June 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
This is not the tax fattened, predictable left wing radio I used to know . . .
If we get the Fairness Doctrine, what will NPR be “balanced” with? Err America?
NoDonkey on June 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Until I see evidence to the contrary, I can only view this as the one piece that will prove how balanced they are having been gotten out of the way before it can cause Barry to lose any votes. It’s probably also scheduled to cause the least possible conflict with any pledge drives. I wonder if anyone who doesn’t support Obama is a subscriber.
snaggletoothie on June 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM
4 years? he was feeling generous..
saus on June 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM
BO’s favorite line from that movie: “Next time somebody asks if your a god…YOU SAY YES!“
Nosferightu on June 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Controversy makes for high volume listeners.
They’ll fall in line as soon as they think it’s time.
BTW, on the Supreme Court performing as in their own illegal Constitutional Convention I heard Mark Levin pointing out in the 2nd Amendment on free speech, they support the rights of pornographers but not your or my rights or the rights of talk radio. Time to clip the vulture’s wings!
maverick muse on June 26, 2008 at 1:59 PM
National Propaganda Radio. As I tell my liberal friends who say it’s “fair and balanced”, I say, well if 80% liberal spin, to 20% conservative analysis is your idea of fair.
This is story is the 20% good analysis.
I can’t listen to NPR for more than 3 minutes without finding some biased left wing reporting. And egad! the style of the speakers just puts me into REM sleep! I think the listeners are in a trance.
kirkill on June 26, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Can’t go past 20 seconds of those two laughing at eachother over something not at all funny to begin with.
wise_man on June 26, 2008 at 2:03 PM
C’mon, the only reason for the 1st admendment is for potty jokes, porn and nekked dancin’, whereas any irrelevant political speech that leftists dislike can be regulated as out of bounds hate speech.
NoDonkey on June 26, 2008 at 2:04 PM
We do need that clip from “Ghostbusters”.
steveegg on June 26, 2008 at 2:04 PM
1:59 1st, my bad. Yesterday ain’t today.
maverick muse on June 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I just can’t wait until B.O. gets his clock cleaned in the General Election.. Because then, he can come back to the Senate as the Junior Senator from Illinois gaibn, which then gives us in Illinois the opportunity to throw his skinny butt out of office come the next time he comes up for re-election.
pilamaye on June 26, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Whose that behind the curtain?…looks like Hillary…
right2bright on June 26, 2008 at 2:07 PM
RICH!!!
WHIIIIITE!!!
PEEEEOOOOOOPLEEEEEE!!!
benrand on June 26, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Good sweet heaven! NPR hits The LightWorker?! Buy canned food and shotgun shells, the end is near. The hacks at NPR have done nothing but blow sunshine up his skirt for 6 or 8 months. Wow. And wow. Will wonders never cease?
What’s next?
Vote Sauron 08 on June 26, 2008 at 2:11 PM
I just wish Scott Simon would show some intestinal fortitude and guffaw at some of the howlers that Dan Schorr comes out with. Last weekend he asked Schorr about Obama opting out of public financing, and Dan-o managed to work Richard Nixon into the answer to about how public financing doesn’t cure world hunger, so it’s okay for Obama to bail, but conceded it might be a little teensy-weensy problem for Obama among those who haven’t yet chugged their third glass of kool-aid. Beeeezaaaar!
drunyan8315 on June 26, 2008 at 2:13 PM
budorob,
Of course I do! Click and Clack. I love the list of their producers, drivers, etc. and the nice play on words.
“Our russian transportation director, Pikup Andropov”
Classic stuff…
Nolamom67 on June 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Daniel Schorr makes my skin crawl. (one thing that Nixon got right)
wise_man on June 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Wow. This is huge! Just huge.
pabarge on June 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Of those 4 years he’s ‘been’ in the senate, he’s been running for president most of the time.
Entelechy on June 26, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah, NPR is left handed. What else is new. But give the folks some credit.
Last weekend Mark Shields took Obama to the woodshed over the campaign financing issue.
Limerick on June 26, 2008 at 2:39 PM
What about someone who’s only spent 143 “full days” as a US Senator before launching his presidential campaign? NPR still gives him more credit than he deserves!
ihasurnominashun on June 26, 2008 at 2:45 PM
GMTA :)
ihasurnominashun on June 26, 2008 at 2:46 PM
NTWR on June 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM
You said you listened to NPR on 9-11-01 and it made you hate the channel forever.
I had a similar experience of revulsion. I fired up the short wave and caught an ear full of Radio Havana. Across a pretty clear signal that night, an english-speaking male with a sensitive, effeminate voice lectured me about how the United States had created Bin Laden and therefore deserved the attack, chickens home to roost, etc., and the USA should ask itself why the world hates it. I wonder if the Radio Havana broadcast might have simply been a replay of the NPR broadcast you heard earlier that day?
jeff_from_mpls on June 26, 2008 at 2:54 PM
I thought so too. (skip to 2:05-2:25) Best scene tho – Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Who, come to think of it, describes Barack Obama pretty well. Inflated, soft, sticky, empty calories and frighteningly larger than life.
“NOBODY steps on a church in my town!”
inviolet on June 26, 2008 at 2:54 PM
I know NPR well and it Left me I did not leave NPR MOF I still pay for it with my taxes that are stolen to fund these pukes!
el Vaquero on June 26, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Infidel! Apostate!
No, I know what you mean. The local Pacifica station, KPFA, is pure insanity politically speaking but they have some good music shows.
Still, I would love to end any and all public financing of NPR and PBS. Let them push their ceaseless anti-Western, anti-Ameican horses**t in the free market and let’s see how well they do. They should not have their special, exalted government funded status.
Django on June 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM
No.
Next question.
Seriously though…..someone needs to make that into a bumpersticker.
The Ugly American on June 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Hell froze over!
Pass the popcorn!
newton on June 26, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Simon has done a few other off-the-liberal-reservation NPR commentaries in the past, which I suppose makes him NPR’s version of Juan Williams. It also means he’ll have a few irate barbs in his e-mail this week from some Obama supporters, and won’t be expanding his broadcasting horizons on the network past being Click and Clack’s Saturday morning lead-in for the foreseeable future.
jon1979 on June 26, 2008 at 5:01 PM
It’s getting tiring hearing someone accused of being a racist simply because they are Republican. The rumor about McCain aside, the fact that he has adopted someone of color should put Obama’s statements to shame. But, you’ll always have people like this who will vote for Obama merely because of his skin-color even when they know they’re being hypocritical insinuating McCain is a racist.
It seems to me that Obama vs McCain might do a lot to changing a few minds about multi-culture, gender, and ethnicity being pre-eminent to having some smarts, wisdom, and talent. It’s the latter idea that the USA sorely lacks.
Sultry Beauty on June 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM
“Can someone raise questions about the experience of a candidate who’s only been a US Senator for four years and who does not have a prodigious legislative record without being stained as a bigot?”
See, that’s how great the Obaminator is. Elected in 2006, he’s already been a Senator for four years!
Kevin M on June 26, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Um, hate to burst your bubble here, but Obama was elected in 2004. He gave that oh-so-wonderful speech at the convention, which is why he’s the nominee now.
smithinmich on June 26, 2008 at 9:56 PM
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