Well, I was at a meeting today, and I met some happy big city liberals. They were all happy doing their liberal stuff, and I came to one conclusion.
They listen to NPR a lot. Why is it whenever I run into big city liberals they are always talking about a show they heard on NPR. Not only that they are always bringing up the fact that they heard something on NPR, or this or that.
The thing I hate most about NPR, in addition to the fact that big city liberals listen to it, is that it is always at around 88 on the FM dial, always interfering with my iPod playing music through my FM car radio. Here I am happily listening to Toby Keith, only to have "The Taliban Song" inturrupted by "Almost All Things Considered."
The only time I would ever listen to NPR is when I want to kill myself by falling asleep behind the wheel of my SUV and go off the road, hitting a tree (an endangered one)
Now at this meeting I was followed on the agenda by this:
R. Ace Baiter: NAACP Election 2004
Now when I saw that the NAACP was going to talk about the election I knew there was going to be an attack on Bush, aggressive or passive aggressive.
Well R. Ace Baiter spoke on the desperate need to get out to vote. DESPERATE need to vote this year so we have a president who is elected and not 'selected'. WTF?? I'm not even going to get into that old discussion. It was over 4 years ago!!
About half the room, the half with trendy Lisa Loeb glasses and copies of the latest Dan Brown novel cheered. A third sat quietly, and the rest grumbled. I sat quietly because a community meeting on community health is not the place to get political.
Ms. Baiter followed up her talking point with "well whether you think the current president is good or bad we need to vote" blah blah blah. I rememberd that my wife and a few of my conservative friends haven't registered to vote recently, so I took several of her voter registration forms to get more Republicans registered. Take that Ms. Baiter.
My dad always said you learn something new everyday. Today I learned that NPR is listened to by a lot of big city liberals, and the lefties still haven't gotten over Gore losing.
I find it really interesting that when judges follow the law and it means Bush becomes president, they get all problems, but they have no problems with Judges making up law when it comes to God, or marriage.
Posted by: Jim Bax at March 12, 2004 10:39 AMI meant they have all sorts of problems with it, not "they get all problems"
NPR is the only FM station that I've heard that gives regular updates on the stock market.
Another NPR story - I was once driving through one of those empty western states (you know - the one who's borders are all straight lines) and I wanted to know what time it was so I tuned to NPR. After a while they announced it was "19 minutes past the hour." I yelled at my radio "19 minutes past WHAT hour, you morons!"
This taught me 2 things: 1) NPR listeners are assumed to be so focused on time that they don't loose track of a (billable?) hour; & 2) NPR listeners need to know that it's 19 past the hour, not 18 or 20.
And of course a community health clinic is pro-Democrat. Like most people who live off the goverment, they understand these simple equations:
Democrats = more taxes
More taxes = more spending
More spending = more money for me
This holds true for both welfare moms & university professors, 'conceptual artists' and school teachers.
Same with the NAACP. If all they cared about was justice and not increased handouts, it wouldn't matter which party was in power. Give the NAACP credit for one thing - at least they're honest about their name.
Posted by: David D at March 14, 2004 12:34 PM
