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One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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  4. 4.

    Major Major Major Major

    Blech. Woohoo.

    So sad watching NPR slowly deteriorate over the decades. At least we still have…

    Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
    On The Media
    This American Life
    Radiolab
    Science Friday
    Fresh Air
    I actually kinda like Marketplace
    The 60% of All Things Considered that doesn’t suck yet

  5. 5.

    Keith G

    Well, the money has to come from somewhere and if Democrats can’t keep power in Congress, there are few other options.

  7. 7.

    Mike J

    I complained on the earlier thread. Tonight’s schedule:
    7pm Fuhrman’s End Dieting Forever! (bang included)
    8:30 30 Days to a Younger Heart
    10 Frontline
    11 Ed Sullivan Rock n’ Roll 60’s
    1am 50 & 60’s Rock rewind

    All of those shows except frontline are infomercials. I have no use for public TV.

  8. 8.

    pacem appellant

    Ye gods. And I just threatened to withhold my $11 from my local public broadcasting affiliate for airing “Here and Now”.

  11. 11.

    divF

    This represents reality catching up with satire. Sometime in the 1980’s I remember listening to an Ian Shoales’ monologue on NPR in which he predicted the eventual degradation of public radio, for example, by the merging of “All Things Considered’ with “The National Enquirer” leading to a new show “All Things Enquired”.

    I gotta go.

  15. 15.

    CaseyL

    The rise of advertising on NPR has been a slow but steady process. Once only the name was mentioned, along with other sponsor names. Then a little tag line about the business the sponsor did.

    Now you get a slogan, too.

    Slow but steady creep, and soon I guess there will be narrative and dialog. Tasteful, of course. Oh so very tasteful.

    I want to throw up.

  17. 17.

    Gene in Princeton

    Who tunes in to NPR anymore? Listening to Robert Siegel is like having your mouth stuffed with dead moths.

  20. 20.

    divF

    @Gene in Princeton: The only time I listen to NPR anymore is when I’m driving around DC late at night and WAMU is running the BBC news.

    I agree with you about Robert Siegel – his voice makes my skin crawl.

  23. 23.

    Gene in Princeton

    …and yet they’ve got a pretty good gig over at NPR:

    Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” 2009-2010: $361, 093, base salary of $319,370. 2010-2011: $373,097, base salary of $334,560.

    – Renee Montagne, co-host of NPR’s “Morning Edition.” 2009-2010: $357,037, base salary of $328,117. 2010-2011: $369,552, base salary of $321,919.

    – Michele Norris, former co-host of “All Things Considered.” 2009-2010: $298,360, base salary of $264,9009. No 2010-2011 numbers listed.

    – Robert Siegel, cohost of “All Things Considered.” 2009-2010: $362,687, with a base salary of $309,479. 2010-2011: $375,652, with a base salary of $321,860.

    – Terry Gross, host of WHYY’s “Fresh Air,” broadcast on hundreds of NPR affiliates. 2009-2010: $254,933, base salary of $233,483. 2010-2011: $256,611, base salary of $233,483.

  24. 24.

    beltane

    @Gene in Princeton: It’s interesting that the one whose best at her job, Terry Gross, is also the one who is paid the least although she is still paid very well. The rest of them are completely expendable and could be replaced without anyone really noticing.

  25. 25.

    max

    @Gene in Princeton: Who tunes in to NPR anymore? Listening to Robert Siegel is like having your mouth stuffed with dead moths.

    NPR: for people who don’t want to take lithium.

    max
    [‘I guess they need a heartbeat of some kind though.’]

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    Kismet for this BJ thread, a cat story from public radio.

    There’s the common house cat, the scrappy alley cat, the quasi-domesticated barn cat. Less famous, but equally distinguished on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, is the distillery cat. Source

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    I’ll have to get that book for my niece for Christmas (though it’s a little young for her now that she’s turned 8). She’s been dancing for several years now and still loves it.

  31. 31.

    Mike J

    Teachout winning in Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Deleware, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, Madison, Montgomery, Ontario, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Seneca, St.Lawrence, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren Washington, Wayne, Westchester, and Yates counties.

    Still only has half as many total voes as doofus.

  34. 34.

    pseudonymous in nc

    It’s 2014. We’re all engaging with brands. Or at least, that’s what’s expected of us in exchange for our media.

  35. 35.

    srv

    Truth to power in its last gasp:

    Michael Moore sees President Obama’s legacy as set. The progressive documentary filmmaker couldn’t help but express his disappointment with the legislative accomplishments of the politician.

    “When the history is written of this era, this is how you’ll be remembered: he was the first black president,” Moore said during a discussion at The Hollywood Reporter’s video lounge at the Toronto Film Festival.

    “OK, not a bad accomplishment, but that’s it,” the director said. “That’s it, Mr. Obama. 100 years from now, ‘he was the first black American that got elected president’ and that’s it. Eight years of your life and that’s what people are going to remember. Boy, I got a feeling, knowing you, that — you’d probably wish you were remembered for a few other things, a few other things you could’ve done.”

    “So, it is, on that level, a big disappointment,” Moore said.

    Diane Rehm, here we come!

  36. 36.

    p.a.

    The winner of the RI Democratic gubernatorial primary:

    Gina M. Raimondo, General Treasurer, State of Rhode Island

    On January 5, 2012 the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership selected Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island General Treasurer who crafted the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act, as its 2011 Urban Innovator Award winner. Raimondo’s work to define long-term retirement security through extensive public pension reforms has stabilized a crisis situation that an October story in The New York Times described as a “nightmare scenario.”

  41. 41.

    jl

    Could rename All Things Considered to All Things Corporate, at least for the economic reporting.

    I’ve listened to it when could not escape (mainly visiting parents) and have tolerated the hideous economic reporting by pretending it is some sick satire.

    People like Stiglitz and Krugman and Shiller (and James Galbraith) get airtime on NPR but I have never heard them on All Things Considered for analysis. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

    And, not sure if its just me, but NPR overall seems to me to have a weird deadened over produced audio quality that I hate. Is that just my imagination? Or are my ears put on wrong?

  42. 42.

    cckids

    @Mike J: Is that a local decision? PBS isn’t like that here. WE’re just now watching This American Life; the Mount Rushmore episode.

    Christ, Borglum was an ass.

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @srv:@A Humble Lurker: and the guy who made Roger and Me and lives in Michigan can’t think of anything else Obama has done?

    Moore, who worked so hard to save the country from Al Gore, is so invested being too noble for this unworthy world he can’t the world in front of his face.

  46. 46.

    jl

    @srv: Sounds like Moore has become a bitter purity troll.

    Little evidence on how Obama will look historically years from now. Wikipedia has a compendium of rankings. Seems like Big Dawg Bill is a little below the Grover Cleveland Line, and Obama is a little above, probably due to PPACA and progress on (certain) areas of civil rights. That is in mid-teens. I don’t think that is bad at all for Obama or Big Dawg. Cleveland had a worse sexytime scandal than Big Dawg, and Obama’s lack of one (except for little reported scandal and injustice that I truly believe in my heart that I deserve Michelle, not Barack) maybe helps.

    Most of the rankings seem pretty consistent across studies, except for a few controversial cases, like James Madison and the historical (as opposed to Zombie Godhead) Reagan, whose rankings are all over the map.

    Dub was doing pretty damn good in studies done before 2002, then he hit rock bottom. Wunner what happened to the lil’ feller?

    Anyway, too bad Moore is bitter Obama did not establish the US as a new Sweden or Norway. Obama LIED to us that he would, and never even tried, everyone with an ounce of sense know that, right?

    Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

  49. 49.

    srv

    @jl:

    Sounds like Moore has become a bitter purity troll.

    Purity is always bittersweet.

    I think we need a Snowden thread.

  50. 50.

    NotMax

    @

    Purely subjective, but would quibble with placing the Fredric March Jekyll & Hyde in the first tier and Gable and Harlow’s Red Dust in the second.

    And no mention at all of Wm. Powell and Ann Harding in Double Harness? Both of them are boffo in the only film they starred in together.

    Not pre-code (duh!) but Fail-Safe is airing at 3:15 p.m. (Eastern) on Saturday. Riveting flick; Lumet (director) and Fonda (actor) firing on all cylinders all the way through.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Purely subjective, but would quibble with placing the Fredric March Jekyll & Hyde in the first tier and Gable and Harlow’s Red Dust in the second.

    And no mention at all of Wm. Powell and Ann Harding in Double Harness? Both of them are boffo in the only film they starred in together.

    Not pre-code (duh!) but Fail-Safe is airing at 3:15 p.m. (Eastern) on Saturday. Riveting flick; Lumet (director) and Fonda (actor) firing on all cylinders all the way through.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    It’s less “First Tier” and “Second Tier” and more “Movies I’ve Actually Seen” vs. “Movies That I’ve Heard Are Good.” I’ve seen Dr. Jekyll but haven’t seen Red Dust. I haven’t heard of or seen Double Harness, but it’s on my DVR list, so I’m planning to take a look.

  55. 55.

    Keith G

    Sounds like Moore has become a bitter purity troll.

    Not unlike the comments about NPR on this thread.

    Yes NPR has been diminished and has changed, but it still is the best place in the USA that broadcasts news nationwide every day.

    I view it a bit like I view Obama – Started as a great concept with notable successes; experiencing diminishing returns do to inadequate support; not everything they try works out, but their heart is in the right place.

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