Sheila,

Over fifty-five, interested in quilt-making in Peru?

That’s good girl. I had to laugh out loud, even if I AM 55, and used to have time for quilt-making, (though it wasn’t in Peru).

Thanks for the chuckle. I take it I’m not missing much at NPR, eh?

Seriously..some old people are actually spunkier these days.

“The Left has never had anything like this — a place in cyberspace for groups to coordinate and deliver their messages to activists. And there’s nothing like it on the Right.”

This is quite true and if you have listened to NPR you know there is no resemblence to hate radio controlled by the right.

We all have watched the neocon representatives (talking heads) on radio, in print, and TV talk shows & Fox Noise) representing mostly radical rightist views, and we know they talk loud and propagandize big against all other views. there is little or no reason, logic or objectivity in their loud banter.

Their role is to out-talk, drown out and/or monopolize all conversation with generalities, name-calling, smearing—all the propaganda techniques.

Even on shows like Bill Mahrer, the token neocon representatives do this so much that many of us have to tune out their sodden commercials.

Oh, that NPR…always on top of breaking news.  They’ve just found out about the “Phoenix Program” and its goal of a think tank/PR infrastructure resembling the Right’s strategy for controlling the political discussion.

Sometimes i think that NPR doesn’t get it until Garrison Keillor hears something from one of his cousins in Lake Wobegon…and then doesn’t talk about it until after the pleasant interlude of folk music.

Nice, Polite Republicans.  Yet people who listen to it think that they are well informed.  Read the news for a day and then listen to NPR; count how many important stories they don’t cover.  It’s really no better than any of the other major news outlets.