Reply #3: Worse than Cokie...

[Owlet]

..was Juan Williams pontificating on arcane demographics of 'security moms' and 'office park dads', both groups, of course (according to Juan) favoring Bush. I nearly barfed my bagel.

I lost all confidence in NPR's ability or interest in any kind of objectivity in this election when they assigned Juan and Mara Liason as the two national correspondents to cover the campaign. Both are Fox News 'contributors' who play the Alan Coombs pseudo-liberal role.

I've been a member of Public Radio for over 20 years (and a substantial contributor), but the past 12 months or so have seen a dramatic lurch to the political right. I'm not going to renew my membershp when it's up next month, but plan to call the pledgeline and let the poor volunteer there know exactly why. I've written letters to the managers of the two NPR affiliates I belong to, but received no reply in one instance and a form letter in the other. They are just another branch of the corporate media.