RE: Outrage over NPR's firing of Juan Williams
October 24, 2010 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2010 at 2:49 pm by orogenicman.)
(October 24, 2010 at 1:19 pm)A Theist Wrote:(October 24, 2010 at 9:21 am)orogenicman Wrote:(October 24, 2010 at 9:07 am)A Theist Wrote:(October 24, 2010 at 8:56 am)orogenicman Wrote:Quote:But the bottom-line is that NPR receives no direct federal funding. In other words, when Huckabee and Palin call for eliminating direct federal funding of NPR, they are howling at the moonQuote:Oh come on! That's absolute Bull! NPR is still on the receiving end of taxpayers support.
That's your claim. Of course, you can prove it, right? And even IF they are, so friggin what? I think they are more representative of the American people than broadcasters like Faux News will ever be.Quote: I think they are more representative of the American people...LOL!!!
Conservatives have always been a minority in this country, dude. If it wasn't for crossover votes, they'd never win in national elections. But of course, none of this has anything to do with science and mathematics, now, does it. So perhaps the moderators should move this thread to a more appropriate venue, eh?
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
