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Bucky

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18. It's disgusting the way they broadcast people with opinions different than mine!

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Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:35 AM

Mar 2017

I am literally barfing my eyes out after listening to someone who I disagree with! Is this even America any more?

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Hugh Effing Hewitt on NPR this morning. This is why they don't get my $$ anymore. [View all] Coventina Mar 2017 OP

The car is in the shop this week mrs_p Mar 2017 #1

He was blathering about the calls for Nunes to recuse himself. Said it was purely political. Coventina Mar 2017 #2

Oh, of course. mrs_p Mar 2017 #3

My final straw with NPR came when they had Fucker, er, Tucker Carlson on. Coventina Mar 2017 #5

Yes, yes mrs_p Mar 2017 #8

it really destroys their credibility and pisses off their core audience NewJeffCT Mar 2017 #4

I just fail to see the upside for them. I guess no lessons learned from CNN, huh? Coventina Mar 2017 #6

So your objection is that they put on a speaker who disagrees with you? brooklynite Mar 2017 #7

My objection is that they put on a right-wing radio entertainer (not news) and treat him like a Coventina Mar 2017 #9

Blame MSNBC for that Egnever Mar 2017 #35

I understand your point, but NPR should hold itself to standards and not just blindly follow what Coventina Mar 2017 #37

That's how I read it as well. tammywammy Mar 2017 #10

Please see my post #9. n/t Coventina Mar 2017 #15

I try to imagine if they put on equally left types at times Dem2 Mar 2017 #12

Feel free to trash the thread if you find it so embarrassing. Coventina Mar 2017 #13

Bill Richardson was on today to talk about Trump's wall mythology Mar 2017 #17

Bill Richardson is a former governor and presidential candidate. Coventina Mar 2017 #19

Boy that was well put Saboburns Mar 2017 #25

Wow! Thanks! Coventina Mar 2017 #28

Must be odd to limit oneself to one and only one possibility when so many exist. LanternWaste Mar 2017 #32

NPR's goal is to make Republican Authoritarianism palatable to soccer moms. KittyWampus Mar 2017 #11

I hear crap like this all the time that goes unchallenged. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #14

Very good point. raccoon Mar 2017 #30

Fuck them. They don't deserve your money, and they don't need it. Orrex Mar 2017 #16

It's disgusting the way they broadcast people with opinions different than mine! Bucky Mar 2017 #18

I am complaining about a right-wing radio personality being treated as a reliable source for "news." Coventina Mar 2017 #20

I heard the spot. It was not news, it was opinion and Analysis Bucky Mar 2017 #21

Well, clearly there is a Yuuuuge philosophical difference between the two of us. Coventina Mar 2017 #22

+1, like folk can't see the overt false equivalency ... Hewitt is a reality-less hack uponit7771 Mar 2017 #23

Thank you!!! Coventina Mar 2017 #24

Give to Pacifica Bucky Mar 2017 #36

IF NPR needed a glass of water jrthin Mar 2017 #26

Trump may soon grant your wish randr Mar 2017 #29

He hates NPR because jrthin Mar 2017 #31

NPR isn't chicken salad Pablorama Mar 2017 #27

what about jonah gold fricking berg?????????? Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #33

he still whining & bedwetting that Jeff Sessions won't start RICO prosecutions against pot stores? Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #34