Saturday
19Jul
Typical NPR Sob Story - Busted
Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 08:02If NPR is nothing else, it's the preeminent media purveyor of guilt. Tugging at heartstrings, making us all feel so sad for the downtrodden, it's a well-worn path for NPR's touchy-feely writers.
Well, this time the aura of "we, as a nation, should DO something about (societal tragedy du jour here)" has been punctured. As Gateway Pundit noted, pictures are not exactly helpful to the hand-wringing NPR agenda:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/poor-ohio-family-forced-to-scrimp-on.html
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Honest question for you, Redbeard - how would you know the "typical NPR story?" (laugh) You aren't actually an NPR listener, are you?
Yes, I am. I find it useful to keep tabs on the whiny PC leftists.
Typical NPR feature story:
[cue the background sounds of crying babies and rattling pots]
Ever-so-sensitive announcer, complete with a name pronounced in anal-retentive PC accent: "Maria and her sisters live here, in a mud hut in Guatemala, with an open sewer running through their kitchen. They eat rats and bat guano, because that's all they can afford. Yet they are optimistic."
Maria (with simultaneous translator): "Someday we hope to have larger, fatter rats to eat, if we can only get help from rich Americans."
And so on, and so on, ad nauseum, for 5 agonizing minutes.