Saturday, October 30, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Benjamin Kerstein: NPR and the Liberal Subculture that Worships It - '...every subculture has its objects of affection. Punks and hip-hop fans have their music, Trekkies have their TV shows and movies, hipsters have mumblecore, etc. The difference, of course, is that unlike NPR, none of these are funded largely by coercive means. And this says something, I think, about the liberal mentality. Put simply, liberals constitute the one subculture in the United States that consistently and often willfully mistakes its specific and particular preferences for universal truths...'
These Leftwingers dont think that NPR has a Leftwing bias, but rather that NPR merely holds the opinions of intelligent educated moral people. Centrists.
They are fair and balanced by discussing the horrendous opinions of Western Conservatives and appropriately dinegrating them and labeling them as hatefilled, xenophobic, evil, theocratic, ingorant, dumb etc.