Timothy Birdnow

Publicly-funded National Public Radio (NPR) wants to end live interviews with Conservatives because - drumroll please! - they lose the argument!

Breitbart has the scoop:

"In her response, "Listeners: Two Recent Interviews Are ‘Normalizing Hate Speech’,” Jensen concluded that the live format had allowed Pollak to get the better of host Steve Inskeep.

She suggested that future interviews be taped: "In addition, in my opinion, these interviews should not be done live. Inskeep is an excellent live interviewer, but live interviews are difficult, especially when there is limited time. A little contextualizing never hurts.”

Jensen went on to argue that "contextualizing” had worked for a similar interview with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, as well as for an interview Nov. 17 with white nationalist Richard Spencer. (Pollak responded to the latter interview in an article Nov. 18 rejecting NPR’s attempt to link Bannon and Breitbart with white nationalism.)

Notably, Jensen’s recommendation mirrors the language of a critique by the left-wing pressure group Media Matters, which complained that "the interview failed to contextualize the true extent of Breitbart’s extremism under Bannon’s leadership.”

Bannon was recently appointed Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to President-elect Donald J. Trump. He took a leave of absence from Breitbart News in August when he was appointed Trump campaign CEO.

Jensen applauded the use of the term "white nationalist” to describe Bannon, although she noted Bannon had disputed that term. She linked to an internal NPR memorandum suggesting the term "white nationalist” be used in stories on the "alt-right.”

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Elizabeth Jensen is the ombudsman for NPR.

So liberal media types can't stand the heat but want to be the chefs anyway. This is vintage liberalism; do not give those you disagree with a fair airing of their views, but rather "contextualize" i.e. twist and distort what they think. You don't dare have an honest debate, lest people realize they aren't crazy and perhaps you are.

Here is an example from history; Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew's best friend was a Japanese-American and Agney and his friend used to make jokes about the other good-naturedly. The friend called Agney a greasy Greek and Agney called his friend a "fat Jap". It was done as a matter of affection. But the media wanted to get Agney, and they reported his "vicious insult" of a poor wretched Japanese gentleman. They did the opposite of "contextualize" becauswe they wanted to destroy Agnew. In that instance "contextualize" meant twisting and distorting. Tlhe reporters who dealt with Agnew understood fully that there was no real insult involved.

Now NPR is publicly funded, and if the left wants to lie on their own outlets they can - up to a point. (Bear in mind there are laws against slander and libel, and there is also the matter of press credentialing) but not on our dime, thanki you very much! NPR is also tax-exempt, something their buddies in the Obama Administration have tried to deny conservatives.

That is the way the Left operates - insult and malign us and use our own money to do it. They love adding insult to injury.

It's past time NPR and PBS were defunded and allowed to sink or swim on their own merits. It has been a "safe space" for supercilious liberals for far too long.

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