NPR's Morning Edition gave a gauzy, gentle account of Romney's Libya disaster

[Orrex]

Hardly surprising--NPR consistently soft-balls any Republican misstep, so I should have expected it.

After running through a laundry list of the absolutely most tepid GOP responses to Romney's blundering broadside, Ari Shapiro sums up by saying "it's too soon to tell if Romney's statements will gain any traction among the Republican base."

Rather than pointing out that every (relatively) sensible GOP commentator has correctly noted that Romney fucked it up, NPR found the most mild, horse-race-preserving response to what is truly a monumental gaffe.

They made a bigger deal about Biden's "they want to put you in chains" comment a month ago, even though Biden's comment was 100% spot on and wasn't an effort to profit from the deaths of innocent people.

Way to go, NPR. Again.

[BeyondGeography]

1. They have become the SUCK

Little scaredy cats.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. They aren't really a news organization.

They are really good at documenting the arts (musicians, writers, etc). They have a mind-boggling library of recorded interviews with well-known and obscure artists. But they are so afraid of being labeled again as a mouth piece for liberals that they regularly fall all over themselves trying to play the part of appeaser. NPR has become merely entertainment. Sigh . . .

[jsr]

3. Worthless RW mouthpiece

[FSogol]

4. Yeah, I heard their crappy both-parties-are-the-same story on that this morning.