'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' is a very funy and topical show on NPR along the lines of Colbert and Stewart.
Yesterday was the first time I've ever heard it censored in a somewhat bizarre way.
The second round of the show centered on Sen. Allens' flair up during the last debate where a reporter asked him the question about his heritage. Whenever the host Segal spoke recounting the exchange between Allen and the reporter, loud music blared out overlapping his voice just enough to drown out his words. The sound continued to ebb and flow in precision strikes. This was planned. But by who??
And why?
Having just sold my soul for a new monstrously powerful computer system and having got on my knees to suck up the most powerful corporate broadband I could, (all the better to receive up every sensual bit of the next Kos convention if I again am thwarted from going), I went online after the show to check out the actual websites clips to verify my hunch.
CYA. (The best lesson my divorce attorney ever taught me, for next time.).
I did. AOK there.
http://www.npr.org/...
So, that means it had to be done by the station management here in Arizona, at KJZZ in Phoenix. Why would they feel the need to do this to an already well publicized national story? There was nothing legally offensive said. But they thought so. Who or what are they protecting?
Americas morality? The children? It sure isn't for our 'freedoms'. Not the 'peoples' freedoms anyway.
A moment to rant please:
C'mon forget the 'kids' or the 'vets' or flags and morals. We all know sex, money and power is what its' all about.
Larry King and Diane Sawyer of the infamous ABC just delved into the sexuality of two public figures, McGreevey and Aiken. MSNBC and NBC created a warm and cozy set to interview an attractive well made up blonde sexual predator. And has re-aired it several times. Where is the block, the cut, the bleep on that. 'Yeah he wanted it an so I gave it to em'. Wheres the damn Congress on that? Hey where's your 'heartland' morals on that Joe Scarborough? Your networks profiting off a pretty blonde child molestor!
Why is that OK! Why is dressing up a 5 year old girl like a hooker, destroying her hair and skin, for the sake of a show, OK with this sick bunch of bastards? Democrats are routinely grilled mercilessly, down to cigar stories and questioning their war wounds. Thats OK too with the bible belt folks, the 'heartland folks', with the Christian Right and the Falwell and Robertson extremists.
BUT NOT WITH ME, A MOTHER AND PROGRESSIVE MOTHER OF A DEMOCRAT! YOU ARE PERVERTED MONEY LOVING SICK BASTARDS TO BELIEVE THAT CLINTON WAS BAD, BUT BUSH IS GOOD!
So, back to Arizona.
Arizona is a more moderately red than purple state. A state with an already poor record of fair and balanced media coverage.
In Phoenix the Right and the right-wing Christians ganged up to pay off and reformat an AirAmericaRadio station, for 10 times its value. It was the only voice of the left in all of Arizona. (But in a moment of Progressively supreme glory WE all ganged up and had it back on the air, in a safe haven, in a record 24 days!)
The most outrageous examples were from the only other other NPR station in Arizona located in Flagstaff, KNAU out of Northern Arizona University. That manager has a blatant Right-wing-fest so perverse he refused to air NPRs' own Democratric Presidential debate. It's local donating members were told to try catching it on the Phoenix station, 180 miles away. KJZZ.
Remember when Congress first cut funding to NPR and CPB and the resulting national outrage? The Flagstaff Republican Congressman Rick Renzi, of the "The Most Corrupt Politicians in America" list for several years now, voted for those cuts. He was also not one of the few members leading the drive to restore some of the funding. But after being bombarded with calls and e-mails by his entire district, he reluctantly supported the restorative bill. But the Flagstaff KNAU/NPR treated him like a war hero and posted a huge "Thank You Rick Renzi" letter occupying most of NPRs' online homepage and left it up there for three months. Only Katrina finally brought it down.
I'm curious how other states are faring. ??
In Arizona anyway, the 'P' in NPR is slowly being toppled.