This is among several points being raised about the half-crazed Hungarian communist with far too much money on his hands. The writer suggests that if NPR actually were set loose, and deep-pocket leftists like Soros were forced to support it --- would NPR last very long at all?

QuoteI'm aware that Soros is the great bête noire of conservatism. An unstoppable, sinister force involved in everything and active on infinite levels of chicanery. But if that's the case, if Soros is the real-life version of a Bond villain, then why is the left in such desperate straits? Why are they on the verge of being cast out of the political universe? Why is Soros himself publicly admitting that he "can do nothing against the Republican avalanche"?

It's my contention that Soros is yet another example of that common leftist phenomenon, the rich dilettante who shows up with buckets of money and a plan, throws no end of funds at every crank initiative from legalizing pot to building a mosque atop Mt. Rushmore, and at last departs into private life much poorer and in no way wiser. The only difference with Soros is that he has a lot more money that will take much longer to burn through. 

Obama, of course, speaks for himself. Here we are emerging robust and healthy from the second Great Depression, with historically low unemployment, no foreclosure problem, terrorism ended, Iran tamed, the entire world running on wind power, and all the wealth spread around a bit. Did I miss anything? Oh, yeah, those oceans haven't begun dropping yet. But he'll be able to get that now, at least if Fox doesn't get in the way. 

So here we are mere days before the Apocalypse, when the floor of the Capitol opens up to swallow the last howling Democrat -- and what's the grand plan of this pair of masterminds? Getting Juan Williams fired.

But now Soros has control of that mighty weapon of public opinion, NPR? Let's look more closely at that. A very conservative friend of mine had an older and rather ambiguous brother who would show up, turn on the radio, tune in NPR, and then walk around smirking at everybody and chuckling loudly every time an announcer said "Karl Rove." That was his method, evidently, of striking a blow for liberation from the Bush tyranny. And that is all that NPR amounts to. That is what NPR is for, with its cute Garrison Keillor Hallmark Card homilies and shows with half-clever titles like "All Things Considered." It is "Doonesbury" for the ears, a network for people who are not well-educated, not well-read, not very radical, and not very courageous, but who would like to think of themselves as all those things. In other words, NPR is a lapel button, a ritual gesture along the lines of wearing a rising doughnut t-shirt or driving a Prius.

If Soros thinks he can do something with that crowd, he's welcome to it. Putting NPR up against Fox is like sending Hello Kitty out to stalk the Predator. My recommendation would be to defund the sucker, let Soros take over, and allow him to spend his last years discovering exactly what a financial black hole the network actually is. More than likely he'll simply dump it the same as everything else as soon as his next brainstorm hits.

The whole story, to my mind, is yet another sign, along with the midterms, fleeing czars, and collapsing programs, of the bankruptcy of the left. Keep in mind that a decadent, deteriorating system doesn't simply flop over into terminal sloth. There's no lack of energy and initiative, but it's all of the wrong kind. Resources and time are wasted on weird little projects that accomplish nothing and wouldn't help even if successful, while the real problems grow larger, fiercer, and closer to intractable.

That's what's happening here. The left has been in the driver's seat for four years. The record is clear. Not a single one of their programs has taken off. Their congressional vanguard, including such grandees as Boxer and Feingold, is in deep trouble. They haven't been able to raise a finger against the Tea tsunami. But they got Juan Williams fired! That's one for the progs! I predict a lot more of this kind of thing. Mara Liasson, another NPR figure guilty of torturing innocents in the Fox dungeons, has been targeted by Media Matters. Over at Wired, there were a lot of calls last weekend for the termination of military writer Noah Schachtman for the thought crime of pointing out that the Wikileak Iraq documents contain a lot of material verifying the WMD narrative. They've reached the point where they're eating their own. This could work out very nicely.

J.R. Dunn, at American Thinker = http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/soros_and_the_collapse_of_the.html

  Sell it to him for a billion or so, then put all the same restrictions on broadcasting everyone else has...then let him fail...all libtard media is failing or failed....Air Asshole was a soros funded thing wasnt it

Quote from: zip on November 07, 2010, 09:21:04 AM
  Sell it to him for a billion or so, then put all the same restrictions on broadcasting everyone else has...then let him fail...all libtard media is failing or failed....Air Asshole was a soros funded thing wasnt it

I'm thinking the same thing, and let them lose their tax exempt status.
Then lets see just how long the survive.

Only if the half-crazed idiots who work for NPR are also turned over to Soros.

If Soros wants NPR he should be made to pay dearly to get it.

NPR is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded version of Air America, and we all know what happened to Air America.

Let the Mad Hungarian take over NPR.  The programming would stay exactly the same, without the constant soliciting and fundraising prostitutes begging for money from the listeners.

Quote from: AmericanFlyer on November 07, 2010, 02:20:03 PM
NPR is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded version of Air America, and we all know what happened to Air America.

Let the Mad Hungarian take over NPR.  The programming would stay exactly the same, without the constant soliciting and fundraising prostitutes begging for money from the listeners.

    That fund raising gets sickening...let soros buy it and no more fund raising...he has to support it...and it will fail