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George Will states an undeniable truth: “NPR is run by people who don’t like people like me”

Jake Tapper, Cokie Roberts and George Will get together on ABC’s This Week to discuss last week’s revelations about NPR’s leftwing bias.

Jake Tapper, Cokie Roberts and George Will get together on ABC’s This Week to discuss last week’s revelations about NPR’s leftwing bias. Needless to say, Roberts and Will didn’t see eye to eye.

Tapper: Cokie, you’ve been at NPR for almost 40 years. Obviously this institution means a lot to you, but why should we care?

Roberts: Look, I should just say that they did then reject that money, and sent internal e-mails basically saying this is totally unacceptable. We have to have tax forms, all of that. So, that should be stated. But, look, we should care because 34 million people listen every week and want to get the news that you get there, that you can’t get any place else. NPR’s got seventeen foreign bureaus. That’s something you can’t say for any other broadcast organization these days. And brings you terrific information, day in and day out, week in and week out. And the reporters who are there on the line, being shot at in North Africa at the moment are being very badly served by the management that’s now gone.

Cokie, honey, the reason they have more foreign bureaus than any other network is because the American taxpayers give them $450,000,000 per year.

Tapper: George, very quickly.

Will: We learned this week redundantly that NPR is run by people who don’t like people like me. Which is fine. The problem is there are 14,000 radio stations in this country. The government shouldn’t be subsidizing neither entertainment, certainly not journalism. In fact, this is a solution in search of a problem.

Roberts: Well, there are not 14,000 radio stations in rural areas, which is where most of the federal funding goes. Most of those stations are the ones that, NPR gets hardly any money from the federal government, and the big stations get hardly any money. But the little, tiny, rural stations that, where there’s nothing else on the air, get a lot of money and they would go dark.

So we’re spending $450 million per year to subsidize NPR so that “little, tiny, rural stations” can broadcast to areas where virtually no one lives?

Take a few minutes, Cokie. We’re pretty sure you can come up with a better argument than that.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

George Will spanks Robert Reich on ABC’s This Week

George Will took Berkeley professor Robert Reich to school on this week’s edition of ABC’s This Week, on healthcare and liberalism.

George Will took Berkeley professor Robert Reich to school on this week’s edition of ABC’s This Week.

You almost felt sorry for Reich. Almost, but not quite.

Reich: The health insurers are not, George, you said they’re popular and everybody likes their health insurer. They like their doctor. They hate their health insurer. And health insurance is going up in terms of rates 20, 30, 40, 50 percent in many states. In fact, Goldman Sachs just this past week has said to its many of its investors, “Invest in some insurance companies because they don’t have competition, and they have, are exhibiting huge profits.” That is money directly out of the pockets of Americans.

Will: A, you say they have huge profits. As you know, confiscate all the profits of all the health insurance companies, with those profits you could finance our healthcare for 48 hours. What you do for the next 363 days I don’t know. Second, you say there’s not enough competition? Fine, let them compete in a national market across state lines.

Reich: Yes, let them compete across state lines, fine. But not a race to the bottom. Set minimum federal standards because we’ve seen over and over again that the recipients of health insurance don’t know what they are buying very often. Until there are common standards, minimal standards, then people are going to be taken. And that is what’s happened over and over again.

Will: There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today’s liberalism: the American people are such dopes they can’t be counted upon to buy their own insurance.

A few minutes later, Reich was undoubtedly in the producer’s office begging not to be booked on the same show as Will ever again.

H/t: NewsBusters.org

Obama turns the Olympics to the I-lympics

One delegate hinted that President Obama may have lost the crowd when he focused his speech to the International Olympic Committee on his favorite subject – himself.

One delegate hinted that President Obama may have lost the crowd when he focused his speech to the International Olympic Committee on his favorite subject – himself.

“You see, growing up, my family moved around a lot,” he said. “I grew up in Hawaii, I lived in Indonesia for a time. I never really had roots in any one place or culture or ethnic group. Then I came to Chicago. And on those Chicago streets, I worked alongside men and women who were black and white, Latino and Asian, people of every class and nationality and religion.”

George Will agreed with the unnamed delegate. As he said on ABC’s This Week:

“What’s alarming is whether it indicates a belief on the part of the President which is that there is no problem that will not melt before the sunshine of his charm. And this is evidence again that it’s not so. The President and First Lady went to Copenhagen and gave little speeches about themselves. She, Mrs. Obama, used the first-person singular pronoun in some form or another, “I” or “me”, sixteen, 34 times in sixteen paragraphs. He used it 23 times in thirteen paragraphs. It was all about them, and the danger is an adjective sooner or later attaches to presidents. Honest Abe, Tricky Dick Nixon. All kinds of adjectives. The danger to the President is that Vain is going to attach to him.”

The Olympic Committee should consider itself damn lucky he didn’t attempt to lead them in a rousing chorus of, “Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama.”

Source: New York Times

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