Lazy journalism at NPR typically causes a return to their default position: liberal bias. Such was the case yesterday. In the morning edition, NPR reported on the recent and unsurprising announcement that NOW--the National Organization For Women, an ideological & partisan group--would endorse Barack Obama.
Rarely does the National Organization For Women endorse a presidential candidate. On Tuesday, the group announced it is endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Kim Gandy, president of NOW, talks with Renee Montagne about why the organization is endorsing Obama.
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Pay attention to the highlighted material. According to NPR, NOW rarely endorses a presidential candidate. If by "rarely" they mean once every 4 years, then, yeah, they rarely endorse a candidate for President. But here's the problem, a cursory search of the internet reveals that earlier this year, when she was still in the running, NOW endorsed Hillary Clinton. In 2004, NOW endorsed John Kerry. Presumably, though I haven't done the search, they endorsed Gore in 2000 and so on and so forth.
Discovering this information took me about five minutes. Five minutes! Do you think it was laziness on the part of NPR that caused them to present NOW's endorsement in this fashion?
It's unlikely the NPR writer and editor responsible for this piece purposely sought to deceive listeners and readers. The more likely explanation is that they, as mentioned above, lazily default to a liberal position. In all probability, they are blissfully unaware of either their own biases or NOW's.
The obvious trouble arises for the NPR listener who knows nothing about NOW and takes NPR at their word. A Harris telephone poll in 2006 found that NPR is among the most trusted news sources. This raises the stakes. A listener might reasonably think to themself, 'If a non-partisan organization for women is for Barack Obama, (1) he must be great and (2) what's wrong with Sarah Palin that they wouldn't endorse her--a woman--and John McCain?'
Despite the fact that Sarah Palin is, obviously, a woman, NOW would never consider endorsing her or her top-of-the-ticket partner, John McCain because NOW is ideologically opposed to the pair on nearly every issue. Thus, their impending announcement shouldn't have kept anyone wondering, with bated breath, which way they would go. And furthermore, inviting them to share their reasons for endorsing Barack Obama amount to little more than a political ad--free air time--for Barack Obama.
—Jacob S. Lybbert is an editorial associate at NewsBusters.
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Obama policy enslaves Women!
September 17, 2008 - 22:42 ET by Lame CherryI blogged a parody on this tonight in explaining that Obama's policies for women actually are the caste system which will like all liberal policy keep all people from ever acheiving wealth, independence and real freedom.
I call it goat herder Obama as that is exactly what Oprah, Michelle, Joe and Barack will relegate women to while they sit in their million dollar mansions.
I hope the Hillary supporters and all liberal women in media read this and realize just what malevolent mandate the Obama camp are attempting to usher in for women.
FOR GOODNESS SAKE WAKE UP WOMEN, Obama destroyed Hillary Clinton the biggest left wing slugger in the harem and now they are trying to destroy the most dazzling political woman in American history in Sarah Palin.
You think Obama is good for women????????
Wake up!
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The Goat Herder Obama
I would prefer you remember the word, "caste" as it will come up later and is important as later will explain.
Mr.
and Mrs. Obama sent me an email which stated they were going to require
equal pay for equal work for women as a way to bribe them to get votes
as Gov. Palin is as predicted taking more female votes away daily from
the Obama camp when PUMA supporters start concluding that if they vote
for Mr. Obama that it will be 8 years waiting for Mrs. Clinton and by
that time she will be too aged.
Furthermore these women realize that
if they allow Obama / Biden to trounce McCain / Palin the way Mondale
/Ferraro was trounced that America will not put another woman on the
ticket for a generation.
So the Obama, Obama and Biden crew has decided to promise women equal pay for equal work with evil men.
There
is not one decent human in this world who does not believe that all
people should be treated fairly in the work place. That a woman should
be paid the same wage for doing like work.
The problem is the
Obama people want to make this a government mandate. Now some women are
already bristling saying, "And what is wrong with a mandate!?!?!?!"
This is why the word "caste" is important as most Americans have no idea how most of the world is run on a caste system.
I will utilize Oprah as a first example. Ms. Winfrey earns around $60 million a year.
Under
Mr. Obama's mandate, Ms. Winfrey's salary will have to be paid to Ellen
DeGeneres, which is fine for her, but this means David Letterman, Jay
Leno, Craig Fergeson, Conan O'Brien, Tavis Smiley, Charlie Rose on PBS
all will be paid $60 million as remember the law is equal pay for both
men and women.
Do you think PBS can pay $120 million in salaries for
2 men? Do you think the shrinking ABC, NBC, CBS can turn out those
kinds of salaries or for that matter syndicated programs could pay out
that kind of wage?
This either means the government which taxes
people to raise money is either going to have to pay for this mandate
or it is as you ladies are already reasoning, "Yeah but that is unique
and there could be some kind of regulation on it."
Alright, we
will visit the un unique in, Miss Principal, our beloved school
teacher. She is fresh from college with no experience, but in equal pay
she is now going to be earning the exact wage as Mrs. Tutu who has been
teaching for 30 years and is earning $55,000 a year, plus having
personal days of 120 she has garnered.
The law states it is a matter
of gender and not experience or talent, so Mrs. Tutu finds all her
efforts like many women are negated as the new woman hired is getting
exactly under mandate what she has worked for.
"This proves we
need regulations", is now the thought. Here is the problem though with
this fix of the Obama fix of making all of us equal.
Where do
the fixes end? Does a Latino farming in California turning out
vegetables earning several million dollars a year now find a woman in
Ohio who is herding 20 milking goats earning only several thousand
dollar, become another government subsidy as her equal work in farming
is going to be paid what someone farming in California is?
How
long do you think it will be before this nation has 300 million goat
herders, all now because of 3 million dollar salaries for milking a few
goats, all trying to sell a five thousand dollar cup of milk, as people
will find the best career is one which one does not work, but gets paid
as a millionaire?
"I'm sure Obama can fix this more with regulations," is now the conclusion.
Alright,
who in this world is now going to decide that only so many people can
be goat herders for a million dollars, who gets to be Oprah par dux to
earn $60 million and who gets to be the women earning a buck two eighty
nine an hour picking worms out of the corn at a sweet corn factory?
"Regulations will fix that for each situation," is the reply.
So
which regulations do you want? The regulations of the United States
military who takes recruits and knows out of a 20 person unit, 10 are
social retards who can not function and are always graded for cannon
fodder or scrubbing toilets. 7 are worthy of actually being trusted
with some responsibility and 3 actually have leadership potential.
Or
do you want this started for a 5 year old regulated for the rest of
their life as the toilet scrubbers as people never get out of their
grade in the military.
Maybe wait until they are 18, but then one
might remember how idiotic you were at 18. Do you want to be judged a
toilet scrubber for the rest of your life before you found your God
given calling?
Wait for college? Alright, let us then pay all suma
cum laude students a million dollars, magna cum laude students five
hundred thousand and the rest get the buck two eighty nine wage for the
rest of their lives scrubbing toilets.
"But wait, there can be pay grades and scales so to make it all equal", the answer is.
You
mean like the government in it's pay grade scales? Alright then, how do
you as you have just negotiated a caste system where people are herded
by politics, family name and political favors decide "for equal pay for
equal work" just how equal it is when you just advocated creating
levels, situations and judgments not based on the person, but on their
being someone who can collect high grades at university?
If one
checks the rosters of business, politics and entrepreneurship, one
finds those people graduated entirely at the bottom of their classes.
So much for the system of grades deciding equality in work and pay.
"Maybe there could be a factor for initiative and production", is the conclusion.
So
after what one knows will be 40,000 pages of regulations just like the
tax code which is supposed to be simple but has a mountain sized pile
of regulations, one decides that the Obama mandate of equal pay for
equal work, should reflect instead a woman who went to college, was
allowed to develop into her own person, so when she was ready, she
moved onto different levels of her chosen fields to become an
outstanding person and a leader, who just so happens to be Gov. Sarah
Palin as the solution for women and not mandates handing her jobs, but
a place she earned by merit.
Mr. and Mrs. Obama can not even see
the complexity of the one more disaster they plan for the United
States. Their plan is going to force women to be toilet scrubbers for
their entire lives and the chosen Oprahs, will not be there by talent
or merit, but by protocols the government lays down.
Look at what
the Democrats did in the disaster of Geraldine Ferraro in affirmative
action for women in a really unqualified person not by intelligence,
but she had absolutely no inspirational leadership skills was thrust on
the national stage with a unequal male in Walter Mondale for a disaster
for all women. Mrs. Clinton has been fighting that since that 1980's
mistake and Democrats once again booted her to the failure pile for
women.
That is a caste system at work and exactly what Barack Obama is advocating.
Gov.
Palin rose on her own without any presidential husband entitling her to
a Senate seat. There is a vast difference in God given ability earning
by merit your position in life and someone handing you things and
people looking at the woman and rejecting her as unproven.
The
Obama equal pay for equal work is insane as it would regress all women
to a position like Russia where women dream of being whores and
marrying a rich westerner just to move up in life or women in India
bought and sold as children with their entire lives mandated for them.
That is the caste system which plagues Africa, Europe, China and Japan.
America
has been from it's first a vocation for women to strive and become the
complete citizens God intended them to be. That is what one finds in
Judeo Christian fundamentals. Sarah of the Bible had her own tent,
household and managed a vast realm with her husband, Abraham.
Women have always managed their own business affairs in their lives from the colonial days of America and done it successfully.
These
are the basic fundamentals of America which created Oprah Winfrey and
created the lady who Ms. Winfrey in her caste system now is treating
unfairly in a criminal illegal way in Gov. Sarah Palin by not treating
her the same as the male Barack Obama.
One has to understand
that the Obama equality is a despot equality of the people on top
dictating to others, and the others are all goat herders for all of
their lives without the million dollar homes, but goat ticks instead.
Ms.
Winfrey, Mrs. Obama, Mr. Obama, Mr. Biden, they are the barons, the el
presidente's for life, the feudal lords and the tribal chiefs of yore.
They are not of the American system where women are afforded the right
to decide on their life and decide on that life a hundred times if they
choose. These American women can be mothers, homemakers, astronauts,
soldiers, journalists and even Presidents all in the same life if they
choose to strive for it.
It is beyond insulting for the Obama's
to play on women's needs and then turn around and try in the worst way
to destroy a woman in Sarah Palin to keep her from the forever
shattering the power ceiling on her own.
The reason American women
have been held back is they have trusted in the Obama system of
affirmative action placing mediocre women into positions of power and
forcing a Hillary Clinton to look like she is getting a handout from
Bill to run for political office.
The liberal caste system is
what Barack Obama represents and it will turn all American women into
the shackled property they were a thousand years ago.
Women do
not deserve equal pay for equal work when their work is better, women
deserve to own the company, manage the government, to Oprah Winfrey
unequal pay grades when they kick every Phil Donahue off the air in
accomplishing a better work.
Women do not deserve a Katie Couric
maneuvering all the women reporters at CBS off camera due to her
inability to cope with talented women.
Let those issues be addressed, but do not degrade a Sarah Palin by telling her she is only a woman and therefore unqualified.
That is the reprehensible caste system and has been coming out of every liberal's mouth, except for Hillary Clinton.
She
might like her caste system which is shackling her, but she understands
fully the damage being done to her position by Barack and Michelle
Obama as they attempt to cast both Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton to
the repression Americans threw off hundreds of years before.
No
more goat herders for women, Mr. Obama. Women own the herd and decide
how it is managed for their exclusive profit and position and not in
how a Barack is ordering women to herd his goats while he sits in the
White House.
agtG
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*Ahem!* As one who
September 17, 2008 - 23:22 ET by tomnkiki*Ahem!* As one who graduated Cum Laude from college, I would expect half of what a Magna Cum Laude is getting, which would be $250,000. Of course, in the Obamination, that would make me "rich" and they would tax the snot out of me. So, I guess I just won't bother working and will let the government steal...ummm, I mean, take tax money from all those filthy, rich people and pay it to me. That seems like a fair solution.
Osama/Bin lyin', cheatin', plagiarizin', gaffin' '08
*Ummm...Lame* and *Ahem! tom*....
September 18, 2008 - 00:45 ET by TheSterAs one who likes lookin' at shiny things and changin' tires on my house...
....meee's thinks i's need the obama's!! i'z gonaz aplys fer da cart russtlr jobz at the walz marts at 4am...my mama told me to not play in the car lanz at the day timz.
u peple needs to quits raggin' on thosz Obamaz peoples!!! tHey wantz me vote!!
i went to puplik skoole...tHey caRe ubout mE!!! u rePublikans hute me!! yu hate us poer white peopel!! tHrer ain't no trach next to my trailer...i just piicked up last tHURDDAY!!
i R tooo edumacatEd..i cam in 54th out of 40 in a spkelin bee!
hUssain oBlama '0....8?
sTeR.
Hee hee! Actually, it's
September 18, 2008 - 02:32 ET by tomnkikiHee hee! Actually, it's Kiki here. Tom's the hubby. :-) I know, I'm not "progressive" enough. No gender confusion here.
Obama is lying
September 17, 2008 - 23:43 ET by wdhorningObama's equal pay "promise" is really a lie, since women already get equal pay for equal work as guaranteed by federal law and besides:
1) unions have payscales regardless of sex
2) professional employers have payscales regardless of sex
3) ditto for all other job situations
4) women still tend to get BA degrees while men tend to get BS degrees and BS degrees pay more, but no one forces women to get BAes instead of BSes, and it is only here that women tend to fall behind salary-wise, but that is not government's fault, not men's fault, in fact it is not even women's fault. It is simply a conscious choice of some women and some men to work in fields of interest where a BA is all you need, but does not pay as much on average.
Obama is really lying anyway because:
So, Obama cannot change this anymore because the system of equal pay for equal work is already in place, and there is simply nothing more government can do (or Obama). The laws are already written and compliance is virtually 100%, and in the rare cases of discrimination prosecution and/or lawsuits are usually successful.
Lame...U ARE AWESOME!!!
September 18, 2008 - 01:18 ET by TheSterI READ YOUR POST TWICE...
U ARE AWESOME!! x2
Ster.
Of course, as we all know
September 18, 2008 - 07:41 ET by HermanoOf course, as we all know now, Mr. Obama pays his women less than his men. Actions should speak louder than words. An interesting anecdote on this same vein: I have a pair of friends who are married. The have the same degree - PharmD - and worked for the same boss. The man was making a little more a year than the woman. She complained to the boss, who said, "Hmm. That is not right," and proceeded to cut the man's salary. Today, the woman commands a much higher salary than the man due to her position.
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"Non Partisan NOW"?
September 17, 2008 - 22:48 ET by MightyMouthWhat would a "partisan" NOW be doing? Running over toddlers?
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Pre-emptive abortions
September 17, 2008 - 23:11 ET by JerryNo, they would be shooting men and calling it pre-emptive abortion.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Well sure, misery loves company
September 17, 2008 - 22:55 ET by wdhorningGreat! "National Politburo Radio" reports on the "National Organization of Wenches" endorsement of "Communist" Barrack Obama. Well, "isn't that special."
You and I
September 18, 2008 - 01:05 ET by NorthCoasterpaid good tax money for this blatent bias.
Enough!!!
NPR needs to get some balance in it's reporting or get cut off from the Federal trough!
YEA RIGHT!!!
September 18, 2008 - 01:14 ET by TheSterRemember the outrage and backlash the liberals launched when Bush appointed a new head of Publik Radio??? They ran him out of town!!!
Ster.
How funny is this, the party
September 18, 2008 - 02:35 ET by USA4freedomHow funny is this, the party with no female on the ticket gets NOW’s endorsement.
So really I am to take from this: its not about women, its about abortion and liberal ideas..
NOEL: National Organization of Execution by Liberals
(sorry Noel.)
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Of course it's about
September 18, 2008 - 05:39 ET by motherbeltOf course it's about liberal ideas.
I've said it should be renamed NOWOL...Nation Organization of Women on the Left.
That's liberal hypocrisy for
September 18, 2008 - 08:05 ET by sshuffield70That's liberal hypocrisy for ya! They'll only endorse ya if you're a lib.
hmmmm
September 18, 2008 - 09:04 ET by MazziNow I have a dilemma. I was pretty certain that I wanted NEA funds cut first when President McCain is in office, but I didn't think of NPR. Let me consult my tarot cards....
Either way - stop sending MY money to those anti-American D-bags! (If you have a teenager, you know whet the "D" stands for, if not, feel free to substitute "dirt").
"When a government robs Peter to pay Paul, they can always count on the support of Paul." ~ George Bernard Shaw~
Long article, but worth it
September 18, 2008 - 07:07 ET by tomnkikiVery interesting article about an interview with a former abortion clinic owner. It's long, but worth it. It has information about NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the wicked practices of the abortion industry in general, including the fact that it is totally UNREGULATED. Now, if the Dems. are so for gov't. regulation, why don't they start with their favorite industry? Also, think about the fact that Balack Osama donates money to Planned Parenthood, and is rampantly pro-abortion.
Good thing they have an edit button. I forgot to put the link in. Sorry! ;-)
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.abortionf...
It's unlikely the NPR
September 18, 2008 - 06:16 ET by KillgraveIt's unlikely the NPR writer and editor responsible for this piece purposely sought to deceive listeners and readers.
I disagree. NPR serves as the propaganda arm of Democrat Left. Period. Liberals believe that "the end justifies the means", so they feel a moral imperative to lie, if necessary. They are clearly lying when they say that NOW has kept out of presidential elections since the Mondale/Ferrero ticket. This gives the story much more 'ooomph' that a supposed "non-partisan" women’s group is making a clear stand against Palin.
This is about as blatant as it can get. You would think that a women’s group would celebrate the fact that a woman, who earned a mayorship, and a governorship, can very well be the second most powerful person on this earth. They can say "this is a truly wonderful time for us" and do what they can to persuade Palin to be more attentive to issues that are important to them. Take the middle road. But no. They are going to do everything they can to DESTROY this lady.
I think it's crucial that McCain/Palin try to reach out to the rank and file of NOW, because there HAS to be women in there who will see through this bull. Clearly, NOW isn't about empowering women. They only exist to serve the hard left arm of the Democrat party, even if it means going against the very reason of their being (promoting the social and political status of women).
Jim Quinn........
September 18, 2008 - 06:34 ET by old crolocal radio host (now nationally syndicated) caught a lot of flak for calling them "the National Organization of Whores". Meaning, he explained, that they sell out their support for promises of future considerations. They are the same type of grasping, clutching harpies that infest all democrat self interest groups.
http://www.warroom.c...
McCain 1st ACT of controlling spending? Ditch NPR
September 18, 2008 - 06:40 ET by ChrisMillsA Pres. McCain should put into motion plans for firing all NPR workers and auctioning off their stations. Imagaine how much money he would save taxpayers by getting this monkey off our backs. All they do is shill liberal, big gov't rhetoric anyway. Oh, and PBS, you're next.
I said a long time ago that
September 18, 2008 - 09:29 ET by SnappyI said a long time ago that both NPR and PBS as "Public" institutes need to get off the govt hand outs. If they want to survive then they should survive wholly on the public support that they strive for in their fund raisers....and guess what, if the fund raiser doesnt pony up the cash to stay operational, then I guess they need to change the content to somthing that appeals to more people.
"Rarely does the National
September 18, 2008 - 07:29 ET by Ruths husband Ben"Rarely does the National Organization For Women endorse a presidential candidate."
Well, only once every 4 years is rare, isn't it?
“it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” - Justice Antonin Scalia
I do not think [this word] means what you think it means.
September 18, 2008 - 08:07 ET by ClintACKYep.
That's the ticket.
"Rarely."
Right.
Asking NPR
September 18, 2008 - 07:38 ET by Mica the MagnificentI wonder who the non-partisan Communist Party is endorsing?
Hey, Jack Cafferty! Lynn Forester de Rothchild, the most aggressive fundraiser for Hillary and member of the DNC, announced she is supporting McCain. Does that make her a racist? . . . Jack? . . . Hello?
Didn't know NOW was sexist
September 18, 2008 - 08:43 ET by wiwfDidn't know NOW was sexist AGAINST women!
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
I heard this
September 18, 2008 - 10:36 ET by americaneagleI heard this the other day when they had Kim Gandy on, and I nearly busted a gut laughing...I had other drivers looking at me like I was a lunatic! It was just the idea that NPR had the gall to pretend that NOW is not the feminist wing of the Democratic Party, and that there was ever a doubt that they would be endorsing whomever the Democratic nominee was just cracked me up! Kim Gandy, non-partisan...that is always good for a good guffaw!