WTF? Cokie Roberts calls Guiliani a "top candidate".

[cali]

This is what NPR has sunk to. And it's been at that level for years. I don't know why I even listen to those idiots. It's so stale with dinosaurs like Roberts and Juan Williams. Years ago- like in the eighties- NPR was worth listening too.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

1. Really. I always had him figured for a bottom. n/t

[rjones2818]

2. She pushed that Rudy's not campaignin up 'til now

was a really good idea.

:nuke:

:banghead:

:puke:

:wtf:

[onenote]

3. well, he is still outpolling Mitt nationally in some polls

Giuliani is polling nationally in the teens. So is Romney. In some case Giuliani leads Romney, in some cases its the other way around. But under the circumstances, I don't think its erroneous to call him a top candidate still. If he craters in Florida, he's done, but until then the national polls make him a top tier candidate among the repubs.

[cali]

6. Romney has far more delegates than any other of the pukes

he's won two of the 5 repuke primaries/caucuse. he's come in 2nd in another two. It's fair to call him a top candidate. Rudy has been beaten by ron paul. he's registered in the low single digits. Even if FL he's no longer ahead. it's absolutely ridiculous to call him a top candidate- and misleading as all hell.

[onenote]

23. giuliani hasn't made any effort in most of the earlier races

focusing on Florida. But he's closer to the repub leaders in the national polls than Edwards is to obama and clinton and folks still, appropriately, regard Edwards as a "top tier" candidate. And in Florida, Giuliani has lost his big lead, but he's still within striking distance (ie the margin of error). I think McCain's momentum is going to bury giuliani, but the outcome is still far from absolutley certain.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/fl/florida_republican_primary-260.html

[radfringe]

4. sounds like "COKIE" is more than just a cute nickname....

the only things I listen to on NPR any more is the classical music, cartalk and wait-wait..

[Tesha]

11. There's more truth on "Wait-Wait" than on the NPR "news" programs.

> the only things I listen to on NPR any more is the classical music,
> cartalk and wait-wait..

There's more truth on "Wait-Wait" than on the NPR "news" programs.

Saturday, after discussing Rudy Giulliani's electoral
prospects, Wait-Wait ended the segment with a
bit of the Supertramp song Rudy. You know, the one
that goes:

"Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line..."

Tesha

[SpiralHawk]

5. Republicon propagandists like Roberts will say anything

to make it seem as if the republicons have a clue.

[western mass]

7. "sunk" - no.

Cokie Roberts has been with NPR for as long as I can remember, and she's always been a right-wing shill.

[mwb970]

8. Have you noticed Rudy doesn't say "9/11" as much any more?

I have seen several interviews with him in the last week, and now every sentence is a noun, a verb, and "tax cuts". In his interview with George Stephanopolous on This Week, he was all like "tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts", and sometimes "cut taxes". Not one word about 9/11.

Can the guy's brain only hold one idea at a time?

[Ganja Ninja]

9. Has Rudy finished ahead of Ron Paul in any of the primaries or

caucuses?

[Warren Stupidity]

10. Cokie Roberts has been a complete asshat for years.nt.

[sendero]

12. National Propaganda for Republicans

... radio sold out years ago. I haven't sent them a dime since 2002, and I doubt I ever will.

They have improved since then, when they were running commentaries from the Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, CATO and the National Review on almost a daily basis, but not much.

These folks still get their message out via talk shows and interviews, and the left gets dick.

Fuck NPR, like Colin Powell, they had a chance at greatness and decided to sell out instead. I will jump for joy the day the Fed finally cuts their funding anyway, and they go silent.

[sunonmars]

13. Oh please keep on love, lets run against Guiliani, please.

[cali]

15. alas, there's no chance of that. n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. Guiliani *is* a top candidate

The only reason he hasn't gathered more candidates so far is that his campaign has been focussing on the Super Tuesday states.

He's still got a non-trivial chance of the Republican nomination.

[Orsino]

17. Well, there are none better on the Republican slate.

...sad to say.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

18. "Top" isn't a matter of better

Mike Huckabee is the worst of the candidates, but he's also a top one, in the sense that he's less unlikely to win.

[Orsino]

20. You're no fun anymore. n/t

[Zynx]

21. You really haven't been paying attention, have you?

I won't even bother with this except to say, he trails in every state except New York and possibly there too.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Juan Williams, Clarence Thomas's supporter and fellow sexual harassment ace. nt

[malaise]

19. Come on

9/11 tops the economy
9/11 tops Rudy's criminal links
9/11 even tops the twin towers and the Empire State Building.

Cokie probably has that lovely photo of Rudy in a top hat doing the tap dance.

The problem for Top Rudy is that the voters have placed a big S in front of that top.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

22. I don't know that he or any of the other Repugs qualify...

No clear "winners" in that camp at all. McCain is too war-happy, Romney is too flip-floppy, Fred isn't all there, Huckabee is a fundie freak, Paul is too unorthodox, and Rudy is stuck in a 9/11 time warp.

All the better for our side of the aisle, of course!!!

[spanone]

24. here's why:

A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio

~snip~ May 16, 2005
A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio
By STEPHEN LABATON
WASHINGTON, May 15 - Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with the Bush appointees who lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In one of several points of conflict in recent months, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which allocates federal funds for public radio and television, is considering a plan to monitor Middle East coverage on NPR news programs for evidence of bias, a corporation spokesman said on Friday.

The corporation's board has told its staff that it should consider redirecting money away from national newscasts and toward music programs produced by NPR stations.

Top officials at NPR and member stations are upset as well about the corporation's decision to appoint two ombudsmen to judge the content of programs for balance. And managers of public radio stations criticized the corporation in a resolution offered at their annual meeting two weeks ago urging it not to interfere in NPR editorial decisions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/business/media/16radio.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print