Policia de Catalunya

Let's see. Here's a small sampling. We've got:
* Full-fledged police cars, with sirens and flashing lights, for the TARP bail-out auditors. What's that old saying? "Bureaucrats never die. They just get bigger"?

* $432 million for National Public Radio (which I like and to which I've contributed, don't get me wrong. But NPR ought not claim to be neutral when it's not). NPR's current err, former foundation president, Ron Schiller, says our big problem is a bunch of stupid people. White, uneducated, evangelical gun-toters, to be more precise. The intellectual elite are, well, too damn elite, the redundant Ron lamented, in true intellectual fashion.
* Little flying drone things ("micro air vehicles") for the police. So the tiny MAVs can hover in front of your kitchen window and show the government what's cooking in your kitchen. Meth, anyone?
Alrighty then. Get back to work, you two-thirds-remaining wage earners (alas, more than one-third of all wages are tax-payer handouts). We need more of your earnings. More, more, more.
Ah, well. At least Juan Williams is enjoying some Vivian Schiller schadenfreude today.

Labels: Mavs, Npr, Police Cars For Tarp, Ron Schiller, Vivian Schiller

This "ombudsman" column just posted by NPR's Alicia Shepard is shameful.
The headline: "NPR's Firing of Juan Williams was Poorly Handled."
The content: He had it coming.
Here's a snippet:
"Instead, this latest incident with Williams centers around a collision of values: NPR's values emphasizing fact-based, objective journalism versus the tendency in some parts of the news media, notably Fox News, to promote only one side of the ideological spectrum."NPR values "fact-based, objective journalism"?
Seriously?
The NPR bus ran over Juan and now it's revving its engine. Fortunately, a whole lot of buses are heading NPR's way.

Labels: Deceptive, Defends Firing Of Juan Williams, Disingenous, Npr, Ombudsman, Pathetic

Today NPR fired Juan Williams (the only African American male on the air at NPR).
NPR fired him after the Council on American-Islamic Relations ("CAIR") issued a strongly-worded complaint about his recent "irresponsible and inflammatory" comment on Fox News.
Fasten your seat belts before you watch this "outrageous" comment:

But, NPR hastened to add, it didn't fire Mr. Williams because CAIR commanded immediate "action" against him (although it "may have been a "factor").
Nor was it because of the substance of his comment: that he has a moment of worry or nervousness when he's on an airplane and sees someone in Muslim garb, a person who has chosen to identify himself "first and foremost as Muslim."
No, NPR incredibly claims, the real reason it fired Mr. Williams is because he has turned into a . . . pundit!
Okaaaaaay. And NPR star Nina Totenberg isn't?

From NPR's internal email:
NPR News analysts have a distinctive role and set of responsibilities. This is a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist. News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts, and that�s what�s happened in this situation.But while we're on the subject of objectivity, what does NPR stand for, anyway? It's certainly not "Neutral Public Radio." Just watch this oh-so-clever spoof on the "Tea Party" that NPR posted on its website.
A website, I might add, that you help to fund -- to the tune of $422 million, this year alone. (This CBS link references the specific page on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's financials. But, alas, NPR's parent corporation has taken the page down.)
If Rs and Independents weren't already fired up to vote on November 2nd, they are sure juiced now.

Labels: Cair, Fox News, Islam, Juan Williams, Muslims, Npr, Taxpayer-Funded, Vivian Schiller