March 2, 2005

DID I SWALLOW THE RED PILL OR THE BLUE:

Signs of Democracy in the Middle East (Daniel Schorr, March 1, 2005, National Public Radio)

NPR's senior news analyst says that recent events in Lebanon and Egypt suggest that the Middle East is moving towards democracy. Bush may have had it right when he said that a liberated Iraq could show the power of freedom to transform the region.

Audio is available. Just who is this imposter, and what has he done with the real Daniel Schorr?

Posted by Bruce Cleaver at March 2, 2005 8:32 AM
Comments

Obviously the imposter was Karl Rove impersonating Daniel Schorr. Schorr is in Dick Chaney's basement with Osama Bin Laden.

Posted by: AllenS at March 2, 2005 9:02 AM

By the way..What has happened to Julia/Eric?

Posted by: h-man at March 2, 2005 9:08 AM

Now I am worried. Schorr is my leading radio contra-indicator. Never understood how someone who has been so close to history for so long usually shows that he has learned nothing from the experience.

Posted by: Rick T. at March 2, 2005 9:32 AM

Rick -

Exactly so. Ever since I began hearing him on NPR (1980s?) Daniel "Republicans Are Ontologically Incapable of Being Correct" Schorr functioned as a comfortable bass-ackwards weathervane for the day's events. His worldview was already hardened liberal dogma in the early years of his NPR commentariat, and it has done nothing but solidify since.

Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at March 2, 2005 10:38 AM

Further evidence of soundness of the "What Liberal Media?" thesis. Schorr is a class(less) traitor!

Posted by: Luciferous at March 2, 2005 11:23 AM

My first alarm bells about Ted Turner went up when, despite his supposed connection to conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s (when Jesse Helms was championing his effort to buy CBS so he could fire Dan Rather), Turner went out and hired Daniel Schorr as the main political commentator for his fledgling Cable News Network. His migration later to NPR didn't bother me, because they were ideoloigcally made for each other, and he made his replacement, Bill "Master of the Obvious" Schneider, look good by comparison.

But Daniel's heresy on the quagmire in Iraq, combined with the second thoughts on the Middle East being uttered recently by The New York Times and even Keith Olbermann (he has thoughts?), has to make some on the left feel like their media stlawarts have turned into rats deserting a sinking ship.

Posted by: John at March 2, 2005 12:26 PM

the msm re-alignment is a beautiful thing to behold, if only because it will reduce the chances of accidently seeing some noisy leftist blathering away. seriously, it is stunning to see the transformations occurring around the world. is it too much to hope for, that the publicly funded universities become less ideological ?

Posted by: cjm at March 2, 2005 2:15 PM

I never watched Olbermann even on ESPN during gambling(oops, football) season. As for Daniel Schorr, I have pictures of him being drugged like John Gill in the Star Trek episode on the Planet of the Nazis for him to have made this report.

Posted by: Bart at March 2, 2005 3:02 PM

Bart -

Perfect. I had forgotten about that episode...

Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at March 2, 2005 3:41 PM

"Never understood how someone who has been so close to history for so long usually shows that he has learned nothing from the experience."

Talking, not listening or looking.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 2, 2005 6:01 PM
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