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Benny Profane's avatar

Holy jeebus, that NPR CEO is beyond hokum. Why hasn't she been fired by now. That talk of hers is alien level. Somebody from the WH on day one has to just eliminate her. She's a walking parody. Who talks like that?

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Shelley's avatar

“this radical openness… did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.” I think she stole it from Kamala's stash of bright things to say once she was elected.

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Mike Stone's avatar

I'll give it credit: Quite an original turn of phrase. Something like "radical breathing" keeps mammals alive.

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trembo slice's avatar

Wading into “aggressively neutral” territory.

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Mike Stone's avatar

Actually that makes more sense than "radical goodness".

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MattieRoss's avatar

Someone tell me...is "Corporate Buzzword Speak" an option on Google Translate now? Makes me wonder if these people really talk about this, or feed it into Google/ChatGPT and get these kinds of word salads.

These kinds of reactions are human nature...if your livelihood and social standing were in jeopardy, what would you do?

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Matt Hawthorn's avatar

I have tried in earnest multiple times to carefully interpret the meaning of this postmodern-sounding turn of phrase. I have come up empty every time. Seriously WTF IS THIS PERSON SAYING?

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The Man Who Shouldn't Be King's avatar

She's just using buzzwords to express the standard lefty attitude toward free speech: Anything THEY think is acceptable is legitimate free speech; everything else is not legitimate and should be suppressed. It's exactly how all the Warsaw Pact countries insisted they had freedom of speech for the entire Cold War, and how the UK insists it has freedom of speech today.

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Shelley's avatar

A public square moderated to allow one set of controlling voices is the intentional state. Allowing all voices in the public square is radical openness.

What is sad is there are lefties that understand her phrasing as written. They are true believers in hate speech and believe the gov has the authority to stop speech it does not condone. - like the UK is now doing with fines and jail time.

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Kelly Green's avatar

The entelechy of actual openness is allowing winners to win, the meritocracy of the fittest. Like Manifest Destiny and Israel's future total victory, that is seen as a bad thing that must be slowed by the tyranny of governing authority.

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Ryan's avatar

What can you say about that that hasn't already been said by Dr. Lexus from Idiocracy?

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Shelley's avatar

It's a big world Ryan.

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DarkSkyBest's avatar

PBS/NPR needs to go the way of the Dept of Ed and FEMA. Even if we are broadcast opera via PBS, apparently we rubes can't be salvaged. So, what's the point?

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Steve Vivian's avatar

That's it. We're rubes ... filthy, unwashed, probably gangrenous. And anyone--left, right, center, lopsided, whatever--who is a bit skeptical of establishment polling is a rube, by definition.

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Mike Stone's avatar

The polls are in. 89% (with a margin of error of 92%) of Commiecratz say we're deplorables and garbage.

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Mike R.'s avatar

One Mike to another - as a thought: Are we still surprised at poll manipulation to psyop an election after the 2008 crash revealed the fraud valuation of junk stocks and bonds as AAA by rating agencies? It's a rigged game. What part of "the greatest upward transfer of wealth in human history" do we the people refuse to understand. DNC/Soros/Davos thugs working to rig the American judiciary. WEF/EU owned English totalitarian perps like Kier Starmer boastfully sending operatives to our nations capitol to "canvas" for Harris and bring down Elon Musk. J.Kerry and the toilet paper NYT declaring our Constitution an impediment to modern governance. The size of the LIE reveals the size of the corruption behind it. There is the American Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is psyop. Hold the line.

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Mike Stone's avatar

I am not sure how much of that is true ... but enough probably is to be terrifying.

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@CLJ3's avatar

I get your initial reaction, but on a line by line basis, not much to disagree with, sadly.

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MH's avatar

She's the reason Uri Berliner had to tell his story

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Rick Ludowese's avatar

She's also the reason i stopped donating to wikimedia this year.

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Maggie's avatar

I was listening to Winston Marshall's podcast with Ashley Rindsberg. Wikimedia doesn't need our money any more. If I recall correctly, Rindsberg said that the organization has a war chest numbering in the hundreds of millions now.

It was a fascinating and deeply disturbing episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-winston-marshall-show/id1727337401?i=1000667967804

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Mike R.'s avatar

I enjoy Winston--thanks for the link Maggie

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Alvie Johnson's avatar

Likewise. And wish I could recover past donations, although they were not large.

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Stephanie Beckett's avatar

The woke upspeak is strong with this one.

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Selenti's avatar

They're all like that in the bureaucracy. If you think that's horrifying, understand that there are hundreds of thousands of people in government doing things that control your life, who think and talk precisely like her.

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MattieRoss's avatar

It would surprise me to see those "hundreds of thousands" shrink down to far more manageable numbers in the next 4-8 years.

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Max Dublin's avatar

Government bureaucracies are basically upscale sheltered workshops. This is how they talk to one other in order to blunt self-awareness, to hide from themselves while manipulating others. In the end it's quite a balancing act. People used to take government jobs for the security but once they are in them long enough that morphs into revenge on society, on the real world, for their own inadequacies.

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Jgb's avatar

…upscale shelter workshops… ahahahaha!

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Mike Stone's avatar

While they're holding steaks and leaning into the fire.

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Skenny's avatar

Kamala Harris's verbal twin.

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Mike Stone's avatar

They share a single iq point.

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Patrick's avatar

Let me be clear.........Everything, ... is part of something else.

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Jake's avatar

The reason she hasn’t been fired is the same reason she was hired.

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Richard Clarke's avatar

At least she's decent to look at.

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Kate Cahill's avatar

That's why she was hired, but whatever happened to "a face for radio?"

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Patrick's avatar

or a face only a mother could love?

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Jonathan's avatar

Bruh...

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TimInVA's avatar

That's the mistake countless men have made, I am sure.

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TeamOfRivals's avatar

She absolutely deserves such a sexist remark. She is the epitome of the dumb blonde, intensified to moronic imbecile level with a heavy dose of deceived demonic deceiver. She's evil beyond the point of insanity. Instead of giggling dizziness she oozes pure nonsense disguised as competence. Whichever ism you choose to employ to deflate her, go right ahead. Be hateful! She deserves it!

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Adrian Smith's avatar

how does she keep that couch clean tho

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David's avatar

At least. For sure. But also at most.

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Charles Main's avatar

Though perhaps revealingly accompanied by myriad pointy graphics in her furnishings and clothing. Such passive-aggressive decor!!😉

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BeadleBlog's avatar

Please do not reproduce with her!

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Rob Giunta's avatar

Musk wants federal funding for NPR stopped. A good start, but yes that NPR CEO is loaded with toxic phrases and woke ideology. I found her rhetoric odious, but why wouldn't I, a white male object to all that venom tossed my way. Liberals can't seem to pee out all that woke kool-aid.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Benny, I'm guessing she would be outraged that you ask who talks like that. She will retort that she does not talk. She speaks. And she will immediately sniff you out as a misogynist.

I found myself quickly falling asleep as I listened to her drone.

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Benny Profane's avatar

Could you imagine the long meetings? Shoot me.

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Mike Stone's avatar

Thinning the herd ... Mooooo ...

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Marie Silvani's avatar

Listening is one thing understanding is totally something else, I might not be the brightest bulb in the bunch, but that was one hell of a unique word salad. I did very much understand she’s not keen on white men🤣

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Jgb's avatar

I’M TALKING (my best Kamala imitation)

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Patrick's avatar

She's speaking.

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Mike Stone's avatar

Someone should try asking her to explain her "speech" in "other words". The result would be both cringy and hilarious.

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Mike Stone's avatar

She IS an ALIEN.

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EPoch270's avatar

Now I understand why DEI universities are so prolific and important. It must take years of "education" to come up with a convulated a statement as she made and only those in the "norm" (fellow lefty degree holders) to understand what the hell it means. That circular word salad would make Kamala so proud.

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Alvie Johnson's avatar

Concur. Creepy as hell -- not only what she says, but also how she says it. Pathological to an extreme. The most definitive example ever for not giving another dollar to NPR and shutting it down immediately.

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Lia's avatar

Kamala does 😆

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BAILEY BUILDING AND LOAN's avatar

I think they just hired her this year lol

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Benny Profane's avatar

Yup. After listener numbers were tanking, and I'll bet those numbers are still going south. And you and I are paying for that.

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