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To: Brumar89 who wrote (86468)	6/23/2012 8:45:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 90947

NPR Panel Wants 'Fast and Furious' Inquiry Declared DOA By Tim Graham \| June 23, 2012 \| 15:21 Of course, NPR wants to just cover whatever Axelrod has told them to cover this week. Anything else is a distraction. All three journalists invited to the journalists' roundtable on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR Friday played down the Fast and Furious scandal as a loser for Republicans. [ If it were a loser for Republicans, NPR would be obsessed with covering it.] Jeanne Cummings of Politico wanted Congress to drop it like a hot potato: "to create this big constitutional clash with the White House makes Congress, once again, look like it's just got its eye off the ball. This isn't what people want them to do... we're going nowhere here." NPR reporter Ari Shapiro recalled how Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales was dogged by a U.S. Attorney-firing scandal because Republicans were willing to harp on it. But the Democrats are united for Obama, so it somehow cannot be a scandal: "I think it's only when and if we see Democrats turning against Holder, which I don't expect we're going to see, that this will really enter a new phase." How convenient is that reasoning? Doyle McManus was mildest, sticking to the line that anything that distracts from the economy is somehow a bad idea for Republicans to pursue (without anyone noticing the utter lack of pursuit by "objective" journalists): McMANUS: It's not a great issue for the president or the White House. They are on the wrong side of this in that, you know, if you want to -- that, initially, when the Justice Department was asked about this program, about the gun -- what's called gun-walking into Mexico, they said, well it's not going on. We don't know anything about it. They've acknowledged that wrongdoing. On the other hand, is this really what Republicans in the House want to be talking about and arguing about on television for months and months? Well, no, actually their agenda is -- of course, is supposed to be to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. And so they run the risk of looking as if they're pursuing the administration on everything else but jobs. They are SO concerned about Republicans looking bad. How funny! ....... Then came the listeners with their (liberal) input: SMITH; I have some emails here, including one rather sharply worded one from David on the subject of the contempt citation. He writes, "It appears that 85 percent of the country holds the Congress in contempt. Therefore, the hearings on Fast and Furious are an attempt to distract from the economic issues that the Congress is not able to handle. Isn't that the fact, Ari Shapiro? -- says David. Would that be David Axelrod? SHAPIRO: This is a point that Spokesman Jay Carney made at the White House yesterday in the briefing. He said, if Congress wonders why they are the most unpopular of any Congress in recent memory, maybe if they would spend their time working on the economy instead of what Carney called partisan fishing expeditions, they might see their numbers go up. You know what? As you mentioned, many attorneys general recently have been in this kind of trouble with Congress. And I covered the Justice Department when Bush's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was under fire for the U.S. attorney dismissals, which ultimately led him to leave the post of attorney general under a cloud. And one big difference between that controversy and this controversy is that when Gonzales was under fire in Congress, there were Republicans and Democrats calling for him to step down. Now, we've seen six Republican senators call for Eric Holder to step down, but the Democrats have been a united front. And I think it's only when and if we see Democrats turning against Holder, which I don't expect we're going to see, that this will really enter a new phase. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/06/23/journalists-frown-table-npr-panel-wants-fast-and-furious-inquiry-declare#ixzz1yfNQB11H Let's hear these comments without the spin cycle... Submitted by James3 on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 3:30pm. Turn off the liberal filter and what you hear is ''We, the MSM, do not want to talk about ''Fast and Furious'' right now because it reflects poorly on our candidate. Let's keep talking about civil issues like gay marriage and immigration. We will not talk about the economy. We will talk about those evil, greedy 1%-ers, those Wall Street tycoons, and the Koch brothers''. .....

To: Brumar89 who wrote (86468)	6/23/2012 9:01:31 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Critic for smug elitist NPR condemns even smugger elitist HBO for confirming the cliche of liberals as smug elitists By Tim Graham \| June 23, 2012 \| 06:41 Perhaps no media outlet has demonstrated a greater hostility to Fox News than NPR -- firing Juan Williams for making too many prime-time appearances there. But on the NPR show Fresh Air on Thursday, TV critic John Powers (whose day job is writing for Vogue magazine) trashed Aaron Sorkin's new HBO show The Newsroom for being smugly against conservatives. Powers said, "In fact, the show's so riddled with disapproval toward those who watch Fox News, read the tabloids or enjoy reality TV that it feeds the cliche of liberals as smug elitists who reflexively look down on anyone who doesn't agree." Sorkin's take on TV news is equally callow. Although supposedly devoted to honest, truthful, old-fashioned news, Will quickly morphs into a version of Keith Olbermann, a prosecutorial anchor on the warpath against the Tea Party, whose members are all portrayed as dopes, dupes or ignoramuses. The Newsroom makes it clear that Will's not merely telling the truth, but that any intelligent, right-thinking person knows he's telling the truth. ....Like many of us, Sorkin is driven crazy by what's going in our stridently divided culture, yet he's not quite sure what to do about it. And so, rather like a fly caught in a bottle, he buzzes around and around, touching on lots of things, sometimes quite intelligently, but never escaping outside to get a bigger picture. Trapped inside the bottle, he's created a show that replicates much of what it thinks it's opposing. It's partisan. It's sermonizing. And it's terrified that if it's too brainy or complex, the audience won't find it entertaining. The Newsroom may think it's grappling with the crisis in American culture, but in the end it's just another symptom. .... Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/06/23/even-npr-trashes-new-sorkin-show-feeds-cliche-liberals-smug-elitists#ixzz1yfSvkisx ..... Oh, my...... Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 7:08am. when *NPR,* of all entities, recognizes something as smug......it is to laugh..... Login or register to post comments That was my reaction too Submitted by needle on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 12:35pm. It's a bit like Liberace commenting on somebody being overdressed. .......