Bill Bennett and Howard "The Curtsy" Kurtz love to hear themselves talk so much they've lost the art of listening. Me first, no me first, no me first, no me first. Of course, each one always 'one ups' the other and needs to 'capture' the moment in the battle of the vocal cords. It's hard to believe these jerks are actually considered part of the brain trust.
I congratulate NPR for turning away the most oppressive president this country ever had. He couldn't exert his will over a network that is viewed as a precious will of the people. BUSH and MURDOCH CAN'T BUY PUBLIC RADIO !!!!!
The Supreme Court Just Took Us Back to the Days of Segregation (click on)
A 5-4 decision guts the vital Brown vs. Board of Education case that attempted to desegregate public schools.
In a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday, the Supreme Court told local school districts that they cannot take even modest steps to overcome residential segregation and ensure that schools within their diverse cities themselves remain racially mixed unless they can prove that such classifications are narrowly tailored to achieve specific educational benefits. But they swear they haven't overturned Brown v. Board of Education. Writes the Chief Justice:
Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin. The school districts in these cases have not carried the heavy burden of demonstrating that we should allow this once again.even for very different reasons. For schools that never segregated on the basis of race, such as Seattle, or that have removed the vestiges of past segregation, such as Jefferson County, the way to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis ... is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
To which, in sad dissent, Justice Stevens responded:
There is a cruel irony in The Chief Justice's reliance on our decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U. S. 294 (1955). The first sentence in the concluding paragraph of his opinion states: "Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin." This sentence reminds me of Anatole France's observation: "[T]he majestic equality of the la[w], forbid[s] rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." The Chief Justice fails to note that it was only black schoolchildren who were so ordered; indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools. In this and other ways, The Chief Justice rewrites the history of one of this Court's most important decisions....
The Court has changed significantly since...
Do I have say more? The Bush White House is a house of bigots. They place iconic figures in their administration while they legislate and decide to oppress the civil rights of a nation. The Republican Right Wing is hugely bigoted. Show me ONE minority anchor on FOX NEWS.
What's that other despicable radio show? Oh yeah, "The Big Talker FM." They are the worst bigots in the world. They have absolutely NO minority anchors EXCEPT when the 'regulars' are at some convention some place and then the minority anchors simply 'parrot' the same junk the bigots have to say. They never speak to the issues that affect minorities, the recent jerk from FOX NEWS, O'Reilly is a prime example of how completely idiotic they are.
O'Reilly goes into a Black Owned and Operated Cafe in New York City for the first time in his life and states, 'Gee, it's just like home.' GIVE ME A BREAK. I guess he had to get it right with God before he died.
Now Howard "The Curtsy" Kurtz is trying to take NPR's focus on 'No Tolerance to Stupidity' into a law that states, "George Bush gets what he wants when he wants it." Howard Kurtz and the Washington Post are self righteous 'wannabees' that sell 'junk' to the DC Public in order to sell papers. Whatever happened to The Washington Post that believed in the rights of Americans to stand against their government when policy was draconian and SIMPLY "W"rong.
I guess the New York Times needs to take out an ad in the Post to bring Americans home to real values rather than FCC values as dictated by Michael Powell. At least you know when he writes in the NYTimes it truly is propaganda and oppression and one can witness a sociopath at it's best ! At The Washington Post it's still legal to verbalize an opinion that is adverse to the Civil Rights of the nation while insitutions such as Columbia University are ridiculed for doing the very same thing !
Not long ago, earlier this year The New York Times did a crossword puzzle whereby the solutions all had the letters NPR in them. That's respect. Kurtz is a joke and can't recall when Civil Rights actually meant something in this country. Kurtz believes as the Republicans do, no taxes, the socially manipulative are the wealthy and rightfully so and the battle for civil rights is a thing of the past so they can pad their wallets rather than conduct moral policy, including the way Republicans can oppress the poor and deprive children of daycare, health care and a good education.
WHO CARES WHAT BUSH SAYS. HE'S MORE THAN A LAME DUCK, HE'S NO DUCK AT ALL. HIS PROPAGANDA NO LONGER HAS WINGS TO FLY. HE STATES NO, TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE? HE AND CHENEY NEED TO BE IMPEACHED JUST TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVES ON THE 'HOMELAND.'
NPR Rebuffs White House On Bush Talk (click title to entry)
Radio Network Wanted To Choose Its Interviewer
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; Page C01
The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday's 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock.
But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams's talk with Bush wound up in a very different media venue: Fox News.
That was then: Juan Williams of National Public Radio interviews President Bush in January. NPR passed on the latest Bush interview.
(By Eric Draper -- White House, Via Getty Images)
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Williams said yesterday he was "stunned" by NPR's decision. "It makes no sense to me. President Bush has never given an interview in which he focused on race. . . . I was stunned by the decision to turn their backs on him and to turn their backs on me."
Ellen Weiss, NPR's vice president for news, said she "felt strongly" that "the White House shouldn't be selecting the person." She said NPR told Bush's press secretary, Dana Perino, that "we're grateful for the opportunity to talk to the president but we wanted to determine who did the interview." When the White House said the offer could not be transferred to one of NPR's program hosts, Weiss took a pass....
