NPR Vs. Fox News

by Rich on 07/30/2010

in Politics

I usually don’t read forwards, but this one was sent by one of our trusted readers, and I think it’s worth reposting here:

Dear Friend,

In just a few days, the White House Correspondents Association will decide which news organization will be awarded the seat recently vacated by Helen Thomas. The news organizations most actively vying for the seat are FOX, NPR and Bloomberg News.

FOX News is a right-wing propaganda outlet, not a legitimate news agency. In recent weeks the network has turned the volume up on its race-baiting political agenda. The media assault on Shirley Sherrod is just a latest in a series of racist and politically motivated attacks on targets like Van Jones, ACORN, and Eric Holder’s Department of Justice.

It’s bad enough that we have to fight the constant smear campaigns and appeals to racial paranoia from FOX and the right-wing media. We can’t let them have the best seat in the White House press briefing room and the legitimacy that it confers.

I just told the White House Correspondents Association to give the best seat in the briefing room to NPR, not FOX. I hope you will, too.

Have a look and take action at the link below:
Help NPR beat FOX News

This meeting happens Sunday, so take 30 seconds and sign this petition asap. You can check out NPR’s classy letter to the white House Correspondents Association here. I haven’t seen one from Fox, so I’m assuming that it looks something like this:

Deer white black House,

Their is a front row seat with our name on it and we need to fill it with a hot chick. that’s right – Hellen Tomas (sp?) was an old wrinkly ballsack and we’re the…um…not wrinkly ballsack that teabags you while your sleeeping and posts that shite on the internet. Wait…anyway, we have Sarah Palin and that chick from Fox n Friends…you know the bitch…blonde hair (all our hosts are blond LOL). You know wich one we mean becuz we’re the #1 top rated news station in the world by the poll we just conducted ourselves, so youve def seen her. So yea, if you dun’t were just going to rag on you more, (jk LOL but srs we will) so do it unless you want too get bored to def by NPR. My grandpa listenz two that shit for fucks sake. you don’t want to be like him – hes wrinkly too like my nutz in yer face lolepicpwn.

Laterz,
FOX

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With an eye-catching title like that, you may have been expecting some sort of metaphor or deep poetry at work here, but no, there’s just this awesome tea/coffee cup with the cutest picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cthulhu jumping of a trampoline I’ve seen all week on it.

the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cthulhu

As a skeptic, sci-fi nerd, and big fan of religious parody, I wholeheartedly approve. My friend Kenna paints cups like this by hand, and this one in particular is for sale along with several others, so check out her Etsy shop if you’re so inclined. She does accept customer orders, but I don’t think I can think of anything more awesome or random to paint on a porcelain cup.

(Yes, I know this is completely off-topic. No, I don’t care…it’s fucking Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cthulhu on a goddamn trampoline. STFU.)

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