Especially hot:
Nina Totenberg wished that Senator Jesse Helms and his grandchildren would get AIDS -- I said would get AIDS. She's still working there.
A so-called humorist on NPR said the world would be a better place if 4 million Christians evaporated. Hilarious.
And calling millions of members of the Tea Party movement a sexual pejorative, tea baggers won't get you in hot water either.
So it seems some opinions are more equal than others at NPR.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 224 of 224Juan whines because he is a liberal. He has always whined and his voice itself is a whine. But now he has something to whine about.
Gasp....was it just 5 or so years ago when NPR was accused by the left of swinging politically too far to the right?
Or doesn't google search work on some of your PCs? some of you clowns are like clock pendulums that never ever get to the center line.
Which would make you right, twice a day. Every day.
hdhouse is never right, but he is always illiterate and usually sitting in a soiled adult diaper.
HD, everybody is "too far to the right" for Leftist agitators.
NPR is a fine institution...but the people shouldn't be forced to fund a hobby for the Left.
She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor's degree in Russian studies and Soviet studies, and a Master's degree in Russian from Middlebury College.[4]"
Wouldn't you be kind of bitter if the whole basis of your studies went *POOF* in 1991? Not much call for "Soviet Studies" without a Soviet Union!
The people I know who focused on Soviet Studies and Russian Language were of two stripes 1) Cold Warriors studying their enemy, or 2) sympathizers and Communists.
I'll leave it to the reader to determine which group NPR's Vivian Schiller falls into to.
Libtard: was it just 5 or so years ago when NPR was accused by the left of swinging politically too far to the right?
Yes, accused by the same people who think Obama is center-right.
The editors old line "but I get hatemail from liberals all the time so I think we are balanced" doesn't play here.
C4--you inferred far too much from my comment on the NPR CEOs comment. I am quite aware that history is determined by many factors--and there are many historiographical approaches. Merely because I cited the comment doesnt not mean I think it is the be all and end all to all subsequent events: merely that it will have an effect.
You do have that engineer linear thinking thing going on. Its quite recognizable.
Juan's sin is being truthful. That is not accepted by progressives who value their agenda more than any outdated concept of truthfullness or honesty. And, he did not get the memo that progressives are partial to Abraham's first son, not his second. Next thing you know, Juan will criticize abortion.
Trey
I'm neither right or left - I think npr screwed up and this reminds me of Phil Ochs' Love Me, I'm A Liberal.
If critics have to go back to 1995 to find a correspondent's questionable remark, NPR must be squeaky clean.
This remark further suggests that Nina was smart enough to bridle her tongue subsequently.
FLS--but doesnt suggest why she made it in the first place, does it.
doesnt suggest why she made it in the first place, does it.
What Nina was reacting to was well-documented at the time. Jesse Helms believed AIDS was contracted only by people "deliberately engaging in disgusting, revolting conduct," i.e. "unnatural acts." But AIDS patients like Ryan White had contracted AIDS though a blood transfusion; Nina was suggesting Helms would change his tune had a family member similarly contracted AIDS. Was it intemperate? Yes.
Jesse Helms did change his tune some years later. Why, I don't know.
http://www.aegis.com/news/ap/1995/AP950702.html
Senator Jesse Helms: Cut AIDS Funding
The Associated Press - 5 Jul 95
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Jesse Helms says the government should spend less money on people with AIDS because they got sick as a result of "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct," The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Helms, who has often spoken of his disgust for homosexuals, spoke to the Times as the Senate considers whether to renew a federal program for the care and treatment of AIDS patients.
"We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts," Helms told the Times.
The Republican from North Carolina argued that AIDS gets a disproportionately large amount of funding for medical research despite being only the ninth-leading cause of death in the United States.
Actually, Public Health Services statistics show that heart disease receives the most federal funding, at $36.3 billion annually, followed by cancer, $16.9 billion, and AIDS at $6 billion, the Times said.
Furthermore, AIDS is the leading cause of death among both men and women from 24 to 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Times said.
The $880 million Ryan White Care Act of 1990, named for an Indiana teen-ager who died after contracting AIDS through a blood transfusion, expires at the end of September.
A reauthorization bill has yet to reach the Senate floor, and in the House, the measure is stalled in committee. Helms denies he has tried to stop the bill.
"I'm going to try to get some equity for people who have had heart trouble," said the senator, who underwent open heart surgery in 1992.
He's pissed and he has every right to be.
Bullshit...as usual:
Nina Totenberg didn't say Jesse Helms or his grandchildren should get AIDS.
Her quote: "If there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS or one of his grandchildren will get AIDS from a blood transfusion."
And she was responding to: Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."
And he also said this: “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
Williams is a dick and always has been.
He got what he deserved.
And he also said this: “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
Factually correct. Operative words, "traced" and "in this country."
Despite the success of the AIDs lobby succeeding in making people think that the disease can strike heteros as well as homosexuals, the fact remains that it is primarily a disease confined to homosexuals. The facts are harsh.
PETER V. BELLA said...
To suggest expressing an opnion makes one crazy is beyond the pale.
Not for a leftard it isn't. They do this constantly and consistently. She just happened to get caught saying it.
I wonder when Nina Totenberg is going to comment on this news. Seems she is getting off scot free for worse than Juan williams. Also would love to hear from Mara Liasson on the subject since NPR has already announced that she is the next one in trouble.
Funny thing is that Juan worked at Fox for 2 years before he started with NPR and Fox had no problem with what he had to say on NPR. Why is NPR having problems with what he has to say on Fox?
I just hope that Mara wises up and gets out with a good contract before NPR sacks her. She is far too good to be lost.
Have been looking to see what NPR is going to do about their screwloose CEO. She can apologize all she wants but no CEO should be releasing any medical info or psychological info on any employee. They should not even be privy to that info. That she thought she could get away with saying what she did tells us reams about what the milieu at NPR is like politically. She needs to go and toute suite.
I also think that Nina will be keeping her head down and her mouth shut on this subject. Anything she has to say would be met with a whole lot of questions on things she has said over the years. Also the fact that she is a commentator and analyst for NBC while also working for NPR is not something she should want emphasized in light of what NPR claims as the reason for firing Juan Williams.
All in all NPR has really stepped into it big time and is dragging the local NPR stations and CPB and PBS into the muck and mire along with themselves. Could not happen to a nicer bunch. They should all be set loose to survive as best they can. If they are so good then the billionaires (Soros for example) and the millionaires who tell us every year we should support CPB/PBS/NPR can just step in and take over the funding. Why should those of us who disagree so vehemently with the programs they now broadcast fund them at all.
Trooper needs to add to his list of journalists and lawyers the term public broadcasters as being about as low as you can go. This crew deserves it.
Her quote: "If there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS or one of his grandchildren will get AIDS from a blood transfusion."
And she was responding to: Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."
And he also said this: “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
Well, it is a concern, that so many of our national resources were spent on a disease that mostly comes from either sodomy or IV drug usage, money that could have been used to combat maladies that were not nearly so behavior related.
The "traced" is, of course, the cop-out word. A hemophiliac who got a transfusion from a gay guy, or a woman from her bi-sexual partner can have their AIDS "traced" to sodomy.
But that quibble obscures the reality, that the relationship between either anal sex or IV drug usage to HIV is usually much closer. And, it is by concentrating on the small number of those without any real culpability that the culpability of the large majority who engaged in such high risk activities is ignored.
Juan is sounding a little too much like O'Reilly and Olberman for my liking. The whole NPR-scene seems really lame, but it also seems like Williams is now eager to capitalize. Shrug.
More evidence that Fox News is more tolerant of diverse opinion than any other news outlet.
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