Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-17 Thread Maureen
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: Frankly there are so many critical issues that I'm following I can't find time to worry about the 1.37 cents of my tax money that goes to NPR each year. I

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-17 Thread Sam
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: I do know people in the business, and my certainty of non-bias is not at the level it once was.  The success of Fox News and sites like HuffPo have skewed the entire landscape of journalism.   Even the AP Wire reflects

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread denstar
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Sam wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, denstar wrote: Because the whole liberal conspiracy and money laundering for terrorists deal needs more than just NPR to be any fun at all? Well that explains most of what you write :P I'm surprised anything

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: Or maybe since they get like, what?  Surely *billions* of dollars in funding-- LOL!  I can't type it with a straight face! Are you propping up my argument for me so you'll have something to beat down? No?  I don't think

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread denstar
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Sam wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: Or maybe since they get like, what?  Surely *billions* of dollars in funding-- LOL!  I can't type it with a straight face! Are you propping up my argument for me so you'll have

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread PT
Den, I am willing to bet a paper or two could be written about your thought process. I get what you are saying, but not an E-mail goes by without at least one, WTF? moment. :) Sam, too, but for different reasons. On 3/16/2011 6:49 PM, denstar wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Sam

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: Ah.  Well that's fine.  I think there are laws for such things, but law is such a messed up area... And board of directors. Don't get me wrong, we've got a pretty awesome system, but it could still use a bit of work.  

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
I love having a peanut gallery. . On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:12 PM, PT cft...@gmail.com wrote: Den, I am willing to bet a paper or two could be written about your thought process.  I get what you are saying, but not an E-mail goes by without at least one, WTF? moment. :) Sam, too, but for

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
Now I know what you're talking about: NPR: tripped up by its own elitism By JUAN WILLIAMS It just keeps happening. NPR's leader ship keeps tripping over its microphone wires and then asking everybody else to plug them back in. I know everybody thinks I must be in a vindictive mood, celebrating

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread PT
Awww. Now don't be like that. I never said it was a bad thing. On 3/16/2011 7:54 PM, Sam wrote: I love having a peanut gallery. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Maureen
Hardly an unbiased source. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Now I know what you're talking about: NPR: tripped up by its own elitism By JUAN WILLIAMS ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
That's a given around here. I never said the peanut gallery was a bad thing... I'm just always surprised when someone chimes into our silly ramblings.I always assume people tune out. Reminds me of years ago when I was on jury duty reading Plato's Republic for the second time. The old English

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
You have such an amazing grasp of the obvious. . On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: Hardly an unbiased source. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Maureen
Which you seem to need to have pointed out to you from time to time. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: You have such an amazing grasp of the obvious. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: Hardly an unbiased source.

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
I'm messing with you. It's an opinion piece, in the NY Post from a guy that got fired from NPR. Yeah it's going to be his biased version of them. Fair and balanced, they rant, he rants. You decide. . On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: Which you seem to

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Maureen
Frankly there are so many critical issues that I'm following I can't find time to worry about the 1.37 cents of my tax money that goes to NPR each year. As for the New York Times, I get so annoyed by their requirement to login to view the stories that I never bother to go there. I just polished

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread Sam
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: Frankly there are so many critical issues that I'm following I can't find time to worry about the 1.37 cents of my tax money that goes to NPR each year. I think it's a cry for integrity in journalism in general. If I

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-16 Thread denstar
Heh. Calling it a process is a bit of a stretch. Like DSSP, it was not invented. It was found. :) I've thought a lot about the nature of reality, and sanity. Does that explain it? =) :Den -- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power.

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread denstar
LOL! Sam, thanks for lightening my day. I'd been trudging along, ankle deep in code all day, and I read this... and it cheered me right up. It's like I've got my finger on the pulse! PBS *iz terroristz!!!11!1* Well, I guess it's pretty sad from a certain perspective... luckily, I choose to

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread Sam
Dude, you need an intervention. Drop the acid...or is it stop dropping the acid? . On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:05 AM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: LOL!  Sam, thanks for lightening my day. I'd been trudging along, ankle deep in code all day, and I read this... and it cheered me

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread denstar
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Sam wrote: Dude, you need an intervention. Drop the acid...or is it stop dropping the acid? After you've dropped enough acid, you realize that life itself is enough of a trip, 90% of the time. I mean, come on! Where else will you see stuff like: [scene

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread Sam
You're the one that said: PBS *iz terroristz!!!11!1* because I pointed out that NPR did request the money Judah and Gruss claimed they refused to accept. Stay focused boy :P . On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:37 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Sam

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread denstar
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Sam wrote: You're the one that said:  PBS *iz terroristz!!!11!1* because I pointed out that NPR did request the money Judah and Gruss claimed they refused to accept. Stay focused boy :P On what? Or maybe I should say, on which hand?, as I'm the type that

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread Sam
Why did you assume I have fears of PBS? . On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: If you're curious, I can tell you how my local PBS station works... it might allay some of your fears about public broadcasting. But probably not. Hey, look!  Blue!

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread denstar
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Sam wrote: Why did you assume I have fears of PBS? Because the whole liberal conspiracy and money laundering for terrorists deal needs more than just NPR to be any fun at all? Or maybe since they get like, what? Surely *billions* of dollars in funding-- LOL!

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-15 Thread Sam
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: Because the whole liberal conspiracy and money laundering for terrorists deal needs more than just NPR to be any fun at all? Well that explains most of what you write :P Or maybe since they get like, what?  Surely

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Sam
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: I think the guy saying the bad stuff had already resigned, said his opinions were his own, and I believe that he refused the money they were offering multiple times.  In other words, you've got a guy who had resigned

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Marlon Moyer
Probably because we all know the source and needed a few days to untangle all of the creative editing done by the creep. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/14/134528545/npr-okeefe-inappropriately-edited-video-execs-words-still-egregious I'm surprised that no one brought this one up.

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Gruss Gott
Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: National security in WWII Germany maybe. You do realize biased news is not in the best interest of our nation. Really, you think it's a risk? Yes. It doesn't matter what's on the pipe today, it could be whitenoise, it just matters that the pipe exists and

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Judah McAuley
And, as usual, when you look at the whole recording things come out much differently than O'Keefe would like you to believe: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/03/getting-story-straight At this point, any news outlet that runs an uncorroborated James O'Keefe video is committing journalistic

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Sam
I thought you quit because of the politics? . On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Marlon Moyer marlon.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Probably because we all know the source and needed a few days to untangle all of the creative editing done by the creep.

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Sam
We have the emergency broadcast system and when it finally had a use they didn't bother with it. I wonder what NPR thinks of the boy scouts . On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: National security in WWII Germany maybe.

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-14 Thread Sam
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/mar/11/another-hit-for-npr/ In a phone call with Liley after the lunch, an O'Keefe associate posing as Ibrahim Kasaam of the Muslim Education Action Center (a fictitious entity) expressed concerns that NPR, which receives government funding, would be

Re: O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-13 Thread Gruss Gott
Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.com wrote: I'm surprised that no one brought this one up. NPR executives dining with (fake) Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and basically saying things that should (and did) get them fired. Not agreeing with you on this one, but granted I'm not

O'Keefe vs. NPR

2011-03-12 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm surprised that no one brought this one up. NPR executives dining with (fake) Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and basically saying things that should (and did) get them fired. http://www.theprojectveritas.org/nprjudge ~|