Take the Koch Challenge... Heard on NPR
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UncleBuck
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no histrionics or you will be ignored.
abandonconflict
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ttystikk
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They used to be such a trustworthy source. Now it's just more drivel. Hour long interview of Breaking Bad actor instead of investigative reporting.
tampee
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Go figure no news on WW3.
CriticalCheeze
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Just shut the fuck up already tampon.
ttystikk
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You got any?
SneekyNinja
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Lol, you literally need a used tampon to converse with now.
Unclebaldrick
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Not "pure" enough for you anymore?
ttystikk
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They used to do substance. You know, news and reporting.
Unclebaldrick
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They still do. Not much has changed. Except maybe your expectations.
Its the Koch money, isn't it? Does it bother you that they take corporate money? Maybe they should eschew it in favor of envelopes full of change from the masses.
ttystikk
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Sure they do, but the tenor has changed.
They don't hold corporate America accountable to anywhere near the degree they used to.
Fogdog
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I give sixty bucks every year. That should be enough.
Seriously, GOP has been trying to get rid of NPR for decades because it hasn't been quoting Rush Limbaugh and Hannity as real news sources. Now, the bernietards are sharpening their knives over a perception they have that corporations aren't getting hit enough by NPR reporting. You know, the the kind of reporting done on u-tube, like "The Young Turks". What tty is saying is he wants NPR to be more like bernitard u-tube. Radicals left and right hate NPR now.
OK then, I'll up my donation this year. And for once, I spit out the words: I'm glad the Kochs made that donation to NPR. I'll rely on NPR to keep the relationship according to their ethics rules.
Cokie Roberts -- bought and paid for by corporate America. Her commentary drips with bias. LOL
Unclebaldrick
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Because they routinely have "opposition (Trump toadee) speakers"? Sorry I don't see it.
Politics is the art of the possible. They reach more people by acknowledging the dark side and making a cogent argument against it than they do by becoming a polarized mouthpiece a la Breitbart.
It is public radio. They have an explicit goal of representing "the public".
But you don't like 100% of what they do so you ruin your salad.
Get a grip - NPR is not our enemy.
Unclebaldrick
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ttystikk
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You misrepresent me, and then raise a Strawman for your argument;
I never said they have become worthless, just diluted. They most certainly haven't become an enemy; those are your words, not mine.
Nuance, man. The polemics of this section have clouded your perspective.
Unclebaldrick
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No, you said you vomited in your organic salad. That left room for interpretation. I applied context et voila.
Just tired of seeing people who should be united against a common cause splintering off when this or that person fails their ridiculous "purity" test.
Unclebaldrick
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And I am tired of the alt-left and alt-right hiding behind "straw dog" as a defense.
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