All Things Considered interviewed some real koolaid drinkers

[Ilsa]

about why they still support the Chimp. Finally one said something like this: "He (Bush) gets blamed for everything! 9-11, Katrina, Iraq problems, economic problems! There been one disaster after another and he gets blamed for all of them!"

I nearly wrecked the car, I was laughing so hard.

[MadMaddie]

1. Soo they support the chimp because he is being blamed for

things he caused???? On his watch....


They deserve everything they get.....

[Blue Belle]

24. These are the same people who felt sorry for Tanya Harding...

When she got blamed for everything that happened to Nancy Kerrigan. They probably felt sorry for OJ Simpson too. :eyes:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

2. I heard that too.

It's so sad that NPR has become another propaganda outlet for BushCo.

I remember when they were a good source of news.

[Ilsa]

5. Actually, I thought it was pretty interesting.

They started the segment explaining that these were the fringe; social conservatives, the last 20% (roughly) that fully support Bush. The journalist gave some demographics on them which you would expect: farmers and small town people that go to a Baptist Church and have Bible study every Friday morning. I could easily imagine an Aunt Bea-looking character being interviewed while sucking down some strawberry shortcake and saying that crap. I was wondering how many other people were thinking like me, "Well duh, does a brick wall have to fall on your head?" Apparently it does.

[Ilsa]

9. I got the % wrong. Here is a quote from the page:

"These voters make up about 11 percent of Americans over age 18. They are almost all Republican, mostly women, and substantially more conservative than the rest of the population on issues such as gay marriage."

[Iris]

14. sounds like a good segement. I still regard NPR as a good source to get

news. It's obvious there is pressure to present "the other side" but I think they do it in about as fair a way as we can expect these days.

Besides, those 11% probalby won't be listening to NPR, but it sure helps the rest of us to be aware of what we are dealing with.

[Roland99]

19. In my unscientific observations of */Cheney and W bumper stickers

The vast majority are on pickup trucks or on OldsmoBuicillacs driven by very elderly drivers.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

22. I signed on in the middle of the story and it sounded like an ad

All these hillbilly accented women talking about his true faith, his praying before murdering thousands of innocent people, etc.

If they were presented as "fringe people" that makes a difference, but it's still several minutes of positive spin about BushCo.

NPR has steadily become more and more RW since 1994 when they were threatened with being "zeroed out" of the budget.

I thought their coverage of the run-up to the Iraq war was almost as bad as Fox.

[KansDem]

25. Very similar to the "let's go to rural cafe to see what mainstream...

...America thinks about this campaign" crap the Corporate Media pulls out every four years. It seems like a given that at some point during a national campaign, CM "reporters" will travel to some small town and "interview" the customers in the town's only cafe. Of course, these "common-sense straight talkers" will parrot the GOP party-line with all the spin that's fit to print.

It's getting very old.

[Pharaoh]

3. link to show?

[Ilsa]

6. Available here after 6:30 EST:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2

[Ilsa]

7. You can read it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5249846

I got the % wrong; it is much lower.

[Cleita]

4. I'm really getting concerned with these mentalities.

How do we smarten these people up? When I was young, people laughed at you when you said dumb things like that and they told you you were being absurd. This forced people to run to the library to look things up so they wouldn't be considered stupid and absurd.

What changed?

[JuniperLea]

17. It's bad to be smart now

And good to be stupid. Smart people think! The Bush Regime hates that! Stupid people take what they are fed and they wash it down with Kool Aid. Ignorance is bliss.

[bluerum]

8. I heard it - Wertheimer - she has been working the RW fundies

in for a while now. Every once in a while they let her air one of her propaganda pieces.

I immediately wrote to NPR and told them they had sunk to a new low and reminded them that they lost my support years ago because they have been slipping farther and farther to the right.


edit for spelling.

[Ilsa]

11. I think it might be propaganda for the left wing.

Interviewing these people shows how absurd and errant their thinking is.

[bluerum]

13. I don't agree. Why give them a voice like this. Even if your aim

is to show the absurdity of their positions you are giving them expensive air time. Why should I have to listen to this drivel. This is why I stopped supporting NPR.

[Iris]

15. We need to know what's going on in the world.

Whether we like it or not. Ignoring these people will not make them go away - it hasn't for the past 40 years and look where it's got us.

[JuniperLea]

18. Exactly!

Know your enemy! Being willfully ignorant of these idiots and their escapades is dangerous, imho.

[bluerum]

20. I think they benefit more from the exposure than we do. For example,

consider the inane RW talking heads on FOX, Rush Limphead and all the other talking heads. Does more than 5% of what they say make sense? Is it reasonable? Would it make good national policy? No, no and no.

Let Wertheimer go work for FOX. She has been riding on her fathers coat-tails long enough. Bill O will show her where its at.

[JuniperLea]

16. I was thinking the same thing

It is just too weird! I wonder if they listened to themselves. Jeez. How stupid are some people and how on Earth do they survive the day to day in this world while being that stupid?

[Catfight]

10. I heard it, very creepy people. The one that said bush ask god before

he makes any decisions, but she never spoke about how god said it's okay to kill a neighbor? These people just arn't right in the head...how do they justify thinking in such a hypocritical way? It's a brilliant manipulation though from bush camp to get these people to think you're a christian and you can do ANYTHING in the name of Jesus! BRILLIANT! Hitler did it and now bush has succeeded doing it years later. When I'm an old woman, there will be a history documentary on how the bush administration fooled the christian's AGAIN.
Also, what about the hypocrite who said she doesn't think immigrants should be here but she uses them as slave labor to pick the fields that no one else will do? So it's okay for a christian to break the law instead of paying decent pay in exchange for work? It was amazing...she discredited everything she said.

MORANS!

[Ilsa]

12. Exactly! Everytime they are interviewed and open their mouths,

they sound like idiots!

[Pharaoh]

21. NPR has to balance

left and right,.........

they are mandated to be balanced, but these morons help the left cause more than anything we can say.....

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

23. Didn't Carter get blamed for everything during his time?

The buck has to stop somewhere, now doesn't it.