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    8 hours ago

    but they do try to present both sides which probably makes some liberals unhappy.

    I’ll tell you why they lost me. In the run-up to the Iraq War II, the GeeDubz administration was obviously pushing bullshit. Like - everyone who wasn’t already subsumed into the Fox News talk radio hivemind knew - with very very little-to-no doubt, they were lying about WMDs. Outright lying - not “wrong” - outright lying.

    They had a secret meeting to plan this war before Sept 11, and now they were hell bent to do it. But, because this was pre-trump, they needed to at least snow everybody under enough to make it look “legitimate”.

    NPR ran every bullshit lie straight up as if it were true - and, listen, everybody knew; everybody from the CIA down to Joe from Joe’s Bar and Grill knew - it was absolute garbage BS. But there they were promoting the lies just like Fox News, only with a little twist - a little “critics say” coda at the end, a totally useless nod.

    GeeDubz wasn’t doing press conferences then. Like at all. For a year, I think. Anyway, he’s finally going to do one. Several major networks are going to be allowed one question each. NPR is one of them. The day arrives, we all listen in to see what flimsy crooked tacked-on part of their insane plan they’ll work to expose. The question comes.

    It was the most mealy, softball, worthless question imaginable. NPR had sent Juan Williams to ask it. I think he’s still lying for Fox News where he went several years later.

    That, and NPR outright refusing to call “enhanced interrogation” what it was; that’s when I told them to GTFO. Never went back.

    Listen, they’re as liberal as a chain store. Their whole purpose is to deflect progressive narratives. And that’s all they do.