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I listen to NPR. A lot. Specifically, I tune in to Milwaukee’s WUWM and occasionally WPR; The #1 and #2 presets in my car. In an average week, my ears get to enjoy at least some of the following programs: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, On The Media, Radio Lab, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, and plenty of other fantastic news and non-news public radio programs.
Lately there has been a renewed push by the Regressives of this country to strip the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of all of it’s federal funding. This would effectively shut its doors for good and close down dozens or even hundreds of local NPR and PBS affiliates. Their reasoning for the proposed defunding is because NPR has a “liberal bias”. This could not be further from the truth. Part of the reason that I so enjoy listening to the various programs from NPR is because of how hard they strive to be unbiased and balanced. I can’t think of a single story I’ve ever heard them do that I felt leaned to one side or the other or wasn’t immediately followed up with the opposing view. If I want media with a “liberal bias”, I’ll point my browser to the Huffington Post or set my TV to MSNBC. Likewise, if I want to hear conservative lies I’ll switch over to Fox News. If, however, I want straight news delivered professionally in an intelligent manner that doesn’t insult the listener, I tune my radio to NPR. My only assumption is that what the right-wing sees in NPR as a “liberal bias” is, in actuality, a bias towards intelligence and if there’s one thing that frightens the right-wing, it’s an intelligent voter.
Regressives – noun
The new label representing the political attitude of the Republican Party, showing their push towards policies that strip American citizens of their rights. This should be adopted to refer to the Republican Party in the same respect that it’s antonym, Progressives, is a reference to the Democratic Party; Why did you vote for the Regressives? Their overall goal is to strip workers of their rights and make the rich richer.
Wisconsin’s smug corporate puppet of a Governor, who will hopefully not make it through a full term, decided after signing his union-busting “budget repair bill” in to law today, that he would turn the douche up to 11 and utilize Twitter to rub a little salt in to Wisconsin’s wounds. I have no doubts that he was all but giggling while he informed the state workers’ unions of the “good news”.
Truthfully, I didn’t previously think that the level of disgust I have for Fox News could possibly increase. Today it did.
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In an effort to do my small part to harm the extreme right-wing efforts of the Koch brothers, I will be henceforth doing my best to avoid purchasing any and all products from Koch Industries. If you are not familiar with them, they have been secretly funding various tea party efforts and have at least one Governor in their pocket.
For those of you willing to join me in this effort, these are the brands to avoid:
Here’s the list, if you can’t read the above picture:
Invista:
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Georgia-Pacific:
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International Brands:
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Please print out a few of the following flyer and spread the word:
(source)For those of you that have been watching, listening, or reading pretty much any US news coverage over the last week, other of course than the propaganda being spouted by the talking heads over at Fox News, you are probably at least vaguely aware of what has been going on here in Wisconsin. Long story short, Governor Walker created his own budget crisis as an excuse kick-start the Republicans’ attempt at union busting.
Up until today, the 40,000+ people who have thus far turned out at our fine state’s capitol have been leading entirely peaceful protests in progressively greater numbers (Again, unless you’re a Fox News watcher who believes the reporting of “anti-American” “riots”). That will hopefully remain the status quo through the weekend, but in his own “Mubarak Moment”, the puppeteers behind Scott Walker have decided to stage their own walk on Madison by bringing out their mindless teabagging faithfuls to do their dirty work. As my wife intelligently pointed out this morning “teachers are used to taking verbal abuse”. That, along with the fact that the hard-working state employees now swarming the capitol are looking to keep their rights, not start a fight, will hopefully mean a continuation of peaceful protests we’ve seen over the past week. If it does take a turn for the worse, however, all blame lies with the Republicans and their tea party horde.
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