No more waking up to NPR for me

[Blue Owl]

They couldn't say the words "GOP landslide," "mandate," and "republican control" enough times.

Numerous sound clips of Boehner assuring us that this victory was all about "the people" (yeah right).

Making the tea party sound like a legitimate people's revolution sweeping the nation with no mention of its corporate origins or funding.

Ugh, talk about getting up on the wrong side of the bed -- my head still hurts...

:hangover: :hangover: :hangover:

[gizmonic]

1. Me too. And I've been waking up to NPR for years

I can't stomach the election results. :puke:

Hearing Boehner's voice this morning makes me want to punch someone.

Looks like I'm going to have to change my alarm settings. No more waking up to NPR.

[patrice]

2. Listener, volunteer, and giver for decades. No more. NPR is dead to me.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. We turned it off about 6 weeks ago

I don't think we'll go back. NPR national is a disgusting, Fox News lite piece of shit.

Bush murdered NPR by stacking the CPB with conservo-shills, and all the little NPR journalists fell in line. If you gove money to NPR, you may as well be paying directly to the Republican Party.

[guardian]

5. So are you advocating that NPR be defunded????

Now you sound like Beck or Limbaugh.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. I'm advocating that people on the left refuse to fund a Republican propaganda outfit, yes

They can, of course, get their journalism unit back into shape, but I think giving them money until that time is just encouraging bad behavior.

[Hawkowl]

6. Turned it off 10 years ago

Or whenever they got rid of Bob Edwards. Nothing but corporate sponsored Rethug hacks spewing regurgitated lies or just outright complete inanity.

[guardian]

15. "Rethug hacks spewing regurgitated lies"

So for the 9 years before Bill Moyers retired he was a Rethug hack??? There is something seriously wrong with your head. Next you'll be saying that Amy Goodman is a Rupert Murdoch plant. Any other conspiracy theories you care to share?

[Hawkowl]

16. Bill Moyers isn't on my local NPR....nt

A lot of people don't distinguish between local public radio and N P R. Something seriously wrong with your head. Dumbass.

[sensate2000]

4. Exagerate much?

I think NPR may have used the term "Republican Landslide" because we had a Republican Landslide.

I've heard more about teabagger's corporate sponsers on NPR than anywhere else. Don't blame NPR for what happened yesterday.

[kestrel91316]

7. Ahem. It wasn't a "Republican landslide". Far too many of the wins

were squeakers for it to be called that. And here in CA, it was a bloodbath, with the Republicans the ones getting bloodied.

[MadHound]

8. Umm, despite your rose colored glasses, out here in the real world it was a 'Pug landslide

C'mon now, sixty three seats in the House, six seats in the Senate, numerous state congressional seats, governorships, etc. California was the only state spared. For the rest of us it was a landslide.

[stubertmcfly]

10. Um....

Hello? Colorado?

[Blue Owl]

9. calling their victory a landslide is exaggerated

Yes they won some seats -- but not by a national landslide IMO.

I'm not so much blaming them for what happened, just noting that their election coverage has taken on undertones of propaganda in terms of framing the events in a way that gives the tea party way more credibility than they've actually EARNED. Not as blatant as FOX; but it's there.

[Supersedeas]

12. Been off for me since Ann Garrolls puff pieces on the Iraq War

[JackRiddler]

13. Actually, those words were in equally constant NPR use before the election.

So they helped make it so!

[aikoaiko]

14. Even Democracy Now had similar headlines: Big Gains in State Races Position Republicans ......

Big Gains in State Races Position Republicans to Alter Political Landscape in Upcoming Redistricting

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/4/big_gains_in_state_races_position