Thursday, October 21, 2010
Purge?
The Watergate hearings enabled NPR to bring hard-left journalism to America. Then through the '80s, NPR people infiltrated the rest of the media, turning them into the Satanist-Leninist propaganda machines that now inject daily doses of raw poison into our eyes and ears.
Over the last decade or so, NPR has moved back toward the center ... or maybe it just stayed in the same 1974 leftist position while the commercial networks zoomed out past Pol Pot. In either case, NPR has become the least biased of the mainstream sources.
Now I'm wondering if there's an international purge or purification going on. Normally when entertainers or newsy-types get insubordinate or inconvenient, they're quietly dismissed and allowed to Spend More Time With Their Families. In recent months the networks have been chopping hard and fast and sharp for "offenses" that seem minor.
First CNN fired Octavia Nasr for writing something on Facebook about admiring an Arab terrorist. Then CNN fired Rick Sanchez for an interview where he made vague but accurate references to Jews. Then New Zealand TV fired Paul Henry for mocking the eminently mockable name of a Hindoo diplomat. (Paul Henry isn't well-known in this hemisphere, but he was one of the few truly funny people on TV, and I'd been hugely enjoying samples of his shows on Youtube before the firing.) Now NPR fires Juan Williams for sort of vaguely recognizing who our** enemy is.
The latter is by far the worst and most purge-like firing in the series, but the whole set stands out by comparison to the usual quiet departures.
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** Footnote: By 'our' I mean that Arabs are the enemy of the American people; Arabs are emphatically not the enemy of the government in DC. ¶ 5:13 PM
Over the last decade or so, NPR has moved back toward the center ... or maybe it just stayed in the same 1974 leftist position while the commercial networks zoomed out past Pol Pot. In either case, NPR has become the least biased of the mainstream sources.
Now I'm wondering if there's an international purge or purification going on. Normally when entertainers or newsy-types get insubordinate or inconvenient, they're quietly dismissed and allowed to Spend More Time With Their Families. In recent months the networks have been chopping hard and fast and sharp for "offenses" that seem minor.
First CNN fired Octavia Nasr for writing something on Facebook about admiring an Arab terrorist. Then CNN fired Rick Sanchez for an interview where he made vague but accurate references to Jews. Then New Zealand TV fired Paul Henry for mocking the eminently mockable name of a Hindoo diplomat. (Paul Henry isn't well-known in this hemisphere, but he was one of the few truly funny people on TV, and I'd been hugely enjoying samples of his shows on Youtube before the firing.) Now NPR fires Juan Williams for sort of vaguely recognizing who our** enemy is.
The latter is by far the worst and most purge-like firing in the series, but the whole set stands out by comparison to the usual quiet departures.
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** Footnote: By 'our' I mean that Arabs are the enemy of the American people; Arabs are emphatically not the enemy of the government in DC. ¶ 5:13 PM
