NPR's behavior of getting rid of their executives today for expressing carefully edited and manipulated opinions shows a cowardice that gives it's opponents exactly the leverage it wants to further attack it. Saying that tea partiers are racist and crazy is not radical idea, a lot of people think it. By giving into this manipulation is concedes that they did something wrong. NPR should have stood up and fought it or probably more effectively they could have ignored it. Adulterers and criminals can attack NPR with some sort of moral superiority they believe in and their minions believe in, but NPR cowers and caves within hours.
I don't even remotely buy that NPR is biased. The ALWAYS have opposing viewpoints...ALWAYS. they try so hard to be fair that they end up putting more conservatives on the air. I heard a bit this morning where some guy was defending Peter King's Islam hearings, there was no other person there, pointing out that for years King support terrorism in Ireland or that by continuing to kick Muslims that you further radicalize them, King plays into the hand of the radicals by treating Muslims as second class citizens, but NPR didn't present that truth...ONLY the King view. Bias my ass.
Man up NPR and instead of conceding with all the bravery of a mouse, defend yourself. Show the truth, show your neutrality, use data (it will be lost on the people who hate you b/c facts never get in the way of a firmly held Fox-given belief). Stand up, it's the one thing that middle America understands. Newt Gingrich can blame his infidelities on his patriotism and people will eat it up, surely NPR can stand up for truth.
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