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28. This is sexist.

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:22 PM

Mar 2015

I agree NPR is awful but stop describing a female speaker in such terms. It puts your argument in the gutter. It makes you seem misogynistic.

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Anyone else catch the NPR extended blow-job of Senator Tehran Tom Cotton? [View all] appal_jack Mar 2015 OP

Unfortunately NPR is no longer a liberal media outlet. newthinking Mar 2015 #1

For more than a decade. appal_jack Mar 2015 #2

Hard to believe as it may be, it got worse. appal_jack Mar 2015 #6

I heard him say something recently... ReRe Mar 2015 #13

I love that idea marle35 Mar 2015 #12

Yup. nt appal_jack Mar 2015 #5

Beyond pathetic for a once great network. Peregrine Took Mar 2015 #7

Rage, rage against the dying of the light! nt appal_jack Mar 2015 #9

... Enthusiast Mar 2015 #18

Yes - had to turn it off KT2000 Mar 2015 #8

Like a train wreck, I could not turn away. nt appal_jack Mar 2015 #10

I refuse to turn it on. NPR has gone over to the dark side. Enthusiast Mar 2015 #19

I had to stop listening to NPR during the 2000 election debacle deutsey Mar 2015 #11

I was fishing one day. I had the radio tuned to NPR... Enthusiast Mar 2015 #21

Nope. ReRe Mar 2015 #14

Me too. Enthusiast Mar 2015 #22

NPR has sucked ass.. sendero Mar 2015 #15

Yes of course, but many still listen and believe. appal_jack Mar 2015 #23

Hope Chang didn't get any on her nice blouse Tsiyu Mar 2015 #16

''Ailsa Chang...... DeSwiss Mar 2015 #17

That's why they are called "totebaggers" Fumesucker Mar 2015 #24

Not a moniker I'd heard before. Nice turn of phrase! appal_jack Mar 2015 #25

Hey NPR vt_native Mar 2015 #26

They had a bad case of cotton mouth after that one Blue Owl Mar 2015 #27

I see what you did there! :-) nt appal_jack Mar 2015 #30

This is sexist. WCLinolVir Mar 2015 #28

I would say the same about a male reporter who so debased himself. appal_jack Mar 2015 #29