Happy Weekend, Internet! Monday we’ll be listening to Catherine Russell sing in the Fresh Air studio. As she sings, “Wake Up And Live!”
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On today’s Fresh Air: remembering Doc Watson. You can download his interviews on Fresh Air in 1988 and 1989 right here.
RIP Doc Watson
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“what good is an apology or a retraction once the lies are released into the zeitgeist? the second part is never as widely reported. Much like a feather pillow that bursts all the feathers will never be re-gathered. ~pp”
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Always so close…
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“Educate yourselves. know who is delivering the news to you. then VOTE dammit. Use your vote in November.” —
(directed at my followers here in the United States)
yes i am mad as hell
Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Blasts National Public Radio Brass as ‘Nazis’ - The Daily Beast -
UPDATE: On Thursday, Ailes apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)for describing NPR brass as “Nazis.” He wrote: “I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough… My now considered opinion ‘nasty, inflexible bigot’ would have worked better.” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL’s national director and a Holocaust survivor, responded: “I welcome Roger Ailes apology, which is as sincere as it is heartfelt. Nazi comparisons of this nature are clearly inappropriate and offensive. While I wish Roger had never invoked that terminology, I appreciate his efforts to immediately reach out and to retract his words before they did any further harm.”
NPR took sharp exception to the latest Ailes statement, with spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm saying: “We are disappointed that Mr. Ailes directed his apology only to the ADL, and amazed that his statement substituted a new insult to replace his original scurrilous remark. This ongoing name-calling is offensive to NPR, its member stations and the 27 million listeners who rely on us.”
Roger Ailes: Soledad O'Brien Was 'Named After A Prison' -
when does this man get held accountable as a public figure?
“[A] bunch of lying scum.” — That’s how Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman, described New York Times reporters in a speech at Ohio University Monday night. A senior Fox News executive says he regrets using that language. (via cheatsheet)
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