NPR/ Cokie - "Mission Impossible"

[stellanoir]

LOL

Cokie was just doing her typical Monday morning, "nobody likes Kerry" schtick on Morning edition and she mentioned (paraphrasing) that * Bush didn't regret landing on the aircraft carrier and speaking in front of the "Mission Impossible" banner.

Rene either didn't catch it or chose not to point it out. Cokie didn't correct herself either.

It would have been too funny if it wasn't so ironically true.

[JI7]

1. cokie is such a disgusting whore

who is worse, cokie or candy crowley ?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Thanks for the warning

I usually listen to Morning Edition on my way in to work. Think I'll put my Fez Music Festival CDs on instead.

[stellanoir]

5. actually

about 20-5 minutes into the first hour they interviewed Mary Beth Cahill and she sounded really confidant about Kerry. Of course she would but there was a solidity in her tone of voice that really was encouraging. She said don't believe in the polls and described how the Jersey Moms (9/11 widows) and some military moms would be campaigning for Kerry this week.

[Owlet]

3. Worse than Cokie...

..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.

[teryang]

4. "Just another branch of the corporate media"

You've got that right.

[stellanoir]

6. couldn't agree with you more Owlet

especially about the last 12 months. There's been a gradual erosion of their objectivity that's been really disturbing. If you're really going to stop contributing you might want to write to their ombudsman instead of venting on a volunteer. I've actually gotten responses from the ombudsman before, believe it or not.

Thankfully my affiliate is owned and operated by Boston University and they still have some great interviews during the day. But the national Morning and Evening shows have definitely digressed.

[ClassWarrior]

21. I love how they make up a marketing classification...

...then report on it like it's some sort of real group.

23.

[PCIntern]

7. Mondays with Cokie

Pretty smarmy...I shall never forget her upset when Bush I lost the election. All those contacts in the WH in the toilet - all thosee years of groveling and shape-shifting. She acts like such an aristocrat but she's forgotten her roots as the daughter of a brave, populist senator who lost his life most likely because of his dissent with the Warren Commission Report and his insistence that the language be changed.

[AIJ Alom]

8. She sure got that right ! Mission Impossible !

Especially the way the Bush administration has been abusing our military. Heck they even openly say it, "It's better that we fight them in Baghdad than over here." What the ? So these guys are happy that American soldiers are fighting and dying to kill handfuls of Al Qaeda ? We walked right into a trap. When a insignificant nation like Iraq can take up this much in resources (138,000 ground troops and 136 billion dollars) and cost so much in terms of life lost(1048 dead Americans, 7000 wounded, 13,000 Iraqi civilians dead), then one has to ask the question, who is winning ? Al Qaeda wants to kill Americans (civilian or otherwise).

Why come all the way across the ocean to kill an American where you would stand out in a crowd ? Why kill an American in your own middle east state, where you could get caught because the Americans are concentrated ? Why not go to a nation where you can blend in with the people, raise the natives suspicions of the outsiders, and blast away the Americans because they stand out ?

Our troops are sitting ducks in Iraq. They are a lean, mean fighting machine, not peacekeepers or police officers. They don't speak Arabic or understand Iraqi culture. Most of our weapons systems are useless because we don't have to level as many things to the ground anymore. Then these clowns go on the air and try to say how peachy everything is. HOGWASH !!!

When you utter a lie so many times, the truth eventually comes out.

Hence Donald Rumsfield mixing up Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

Hence George Bush utters we can't win it.

Hence George Bush two weeks ago slips and says the world would have been better place if we had not gone into Iraq.

Support our troops, Dump W.

[AP]

9. NPR also did that story about the textile industry today. They're upset...

...that China is price competing.

NPR was really defensive about American-owned textile factories in Nicaragua losing their huge profit margins because China not only pays low wages, but also charges low prices for their goods, whereas the Gap and Levis pay low wages and charge high prices for their goods manufactured in central American sweatshops. Of course NPR made it sound like China was a problem for the workers in other countries, rather than for the owners of capital. But that's what NPR does. They make women think Repubicans are better for them, and they make workers think that concentration of wealth in the hands of the owners of capital is good for them.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

11. Ever since I heard that Wal Mart was on of their Sponsor/Donors

I gave up NPR. It's sad because, it the months leading up to the Iraq war, NPR was the only national media outlet that continually pointed out the exaggerated claims of WMD, AND the complete lack of a plan after the troops "won". MKJ

[AP]

12. I thought NPR's war coverage was terrible. They skipped over the why and

went straight to the when.

The didn't care about justifications at all and began acting like it was inevitable months before it happened.

And they unquestioningly played hours of the Pentagon press briefings every morning when it was clear that it was nothing more than cheerleading.

[Kolesar]

10. Ha Ha Ha Ha

I feel good. I have written a few testy emails to Mourning Edition about Cokie. I will have to listen in to the 8:00 am broadcast now.

[slappypan]

13. I heard that too this morning

Lately Cokie sounds like she keeps a flask of Southern Comfort in her purse to "freshen up" her coffee in the morning before she does her commentary.

[stellanoir]

14. I just listened to the

rebroadcast- Shoot- THEY CORRECTED IT.

[slappypan]

16. scary

They have some Winston Smith at a computer somewhere smoothing out all their verbal gaffes on the fly. Down the Memory Hole.

[DeepModem Mom]

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[markus]

17. Two scary people

Cokie is caught up in the growing proto-fascist wing of the Catholic Church, and Juan, well, he has his own problems, mostly with the ladies. They are two real sleazeballs.

How an organization like NPR, which we assume to a attract more thoughtful listeners than say Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh, wound up with these two looser is amazing.

[NJCher]

18. so glad I didn't bother

I've turned off the media since Saturday because it makes me feel like I have so much more time. Seeing this, I see an additional benefit.


Cher

[CroixRoussienne]

19. I gave up on Cokie

the day she returned to the USA from Cuba to cover the Lewinsky affair. She had left for Pope John Paul's visit to the island nation giddy as a schoolgirl because she had lined up an interview with him.

Had to cancel it at the last minute to cover the blue dress story.

Just another hog at the trough, I am sorry to have realized...

[Shopaholic]

20. I sent her a smarmy e-mail

pointing out her little verbal error. I pointed out that the truth has a way of slipping out sometimes in the most unexpected of ways. Then I told her it gave me a good laugh--although I spent quite a bit of time laughing at her commentaries which are so totally separated from reality. :evilgrin: