Listen to TERRY GROSS - NPR (Nat'l Propaganda Radio) WARMONGER - host of "FRESH(???) AIR" bash the anti-war movement!:

1/23/03 npr.org audio archive URLs to listen to the "Fresh Air" interviews:

- Listen to Terry suck up to Todd Gitlin in this cottonball (not even softball) interview--

Todd Gitlin interview segment:

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=933161



- Listen to Terry bash and red-bait the anti-war movement as a bunch of dupes in the most hostile interview I've heard outside of Bill Reiley's show--

Int'l ANSWER interview segment with Mara Verheyden Hilliard:

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=933163



Gross -- 'uh-huh, so Saddam *is* going to nuke New York, yeah?' -- held a cottonball interview with Todd Gitlin -- who did his usual red-baiting and dupes thing. But Gitlin's undisclosed *real* purpose for attacking the anti-war movement is because much of it also supports the Palestinian human rights cause.

(Gitlin is indirectly firing flak for Israel, who many say is the *real* reason the White House is so chomping for war. This, so that Israel can use the war as cover to complete its crushing or ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.)

Then Gross interviewed a representative from ANSWER, in which the otherwise staid Gross herself almost viciously attacked and red-baited the anti-war movement in the most blatantly biased interview I've ever heard *anyone*, let alone Gross, conduct. Bill O'Reilly would have been proud!



Today (2/5/03) NPR WARMONGER TERRY GROSS (who apparently has quite a lot of hair on her chest) interviewed TWO "liberal interventionists" (one a psychologist for REAL brainfixing!) -- that's euphemism for "pseudo-liberal warmongers" -- or "conservative war propagandists posing as a liberal" -- on NPR's "Fresh(???) Air". No peace activists--like Global Exchange's co-founder/-director Medea Benjamin--were interviewed.



Contact:

NPR Main Number: (202) 513-2000

WHYY in Philadelphia: Tel: (215) 351-1200

(215) 923-WHYY

Terry Gross: tgross@whyy.org

freshair@whyy.org

ombudsman@npr.org

talkback@whyy.org

should you feel so moved.

http://www.whyy.org

Yes, Todd Gitlin is an idiot, he made that plain to anyone who was listening. The pro-war guy was worse. But Mara Verheyden Hilliard really laid it on the line when she referred to Gitlin and others as armchair activsts who have never organized a thing. She dismissed Terri Gross's redbaiting questions and when all was said and done, ANSWER came out looking like an effective and positive voice in the coalition to stop the war.

far from it.

This was an insitefull, interesting interview.

She had several voices on Gitlin, someone from answer and some church group.

The church group has worked with answer, talked about their work with answer, made no big deal about their work with answer, said that they differ from answer but do not find them big and scary.

I heard a very informative show that went into the complexity of the issue without shying away from problem areas.

Healthy criticism, healthy debate, smart interview

Terry Gross is an *arch*-pro-Israel Jew, so that explains her opposition to much of the anti-war movement's sympathy toward the Palestinian human rights cause and their struggle, and thus Gross's anti-Semite-baiting the anti-war movement. She is also, along with Gitlin, firing flak for Israel.

Also, WHYY is in Philadelphia--the home of one of the most historically, notoriously *racist* police department since the days of police captain Frank Rizzo. This is the place where the police shamelessly framed former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal for murder. (Hmmm..., has *that* ever happened before!!!???) I'm sure Gross wants to suck up to the Philadelphia police department and city politics, as well, and fire flak for them too. I'm sure she loves--as a well-known radio personality, a celebrity in her own right--to be invited to all the city's political establishment events, local elite social ceremonies, and other local celebrity affairs.

Part and parcel of ANSWER's mission is to "End Racism". As an African American I appreciate that. I guess that Gross, along with Gitlin, consider the goal of ending racism, support for human rights of an indigenous people against an oppressive colonial state with a racist ideology, and supporting even a black man's right to a fair trial, "lunatic fringe" issues.

Hypocritically, naturally, it is *now* Gitlin--who has long criticized *people of color* for what *he* defines as "identity politics", factionalism, sectarianism, undermining unity, and "divisiveness" (meaning, for Gitlin, that 'privileged white boys' no longer dominate movements), rather than "working together" (as though progressive people of color never do, and now in multicultural organizations along with progressive whites)--who is engaging in his own, as yet undefined, "identity politics", factionalism, sectarianism, divisiveness, and undermining of unity for the goal--when it suits *his* own hidden personal agenda, or rather ambition.

I've personally known Todd Gitlin for a long time. He used to come up to me with his latest 'intellectual' sociopolitical musings in Berkeley cafes all the time--expecting me to agree with him--because I looked like "a good black," "a *responsible* black", to him. (My prrroper dic-tion, my edu-ca-ted vocabulary, my intellectual persona, my kempt appearance and all, from the jungle to a hoity-toity classical music cafe [hey, it was right across from campus!]: a sheer *'triumph'* of white civilization.) But, I was *never* all that impressed with Todd, even before his final shift to *criticizing* people of color and social justice movements, instead of supposedly supporting them.

I bet that Todd Gitlin wasn't intellectually 'all that' even back when that "privileged white boy" was head of Berkeley SDS--and I bet that even a lot of other whites--less privileged men and especially women--knew that way back then. The game that the Horowitzes, the Hitchenses, and Gitlins play--as "privileged white boys"--is that they will gain the most media attention however they can (especially as "Contrarians"): whether that's on the left or ultimately even on the right.

Just as Bobby Seale once said: "Anytime you [those] 'white college boys' get tired of this social justice protesting and wanna go make some big money, you can change your clothes, cut your hair, put on a blue suit and tie, say that 'I'm sorry', I was just young and having fun,' and go to work for some big corporation or 'The Man': and he'll accept you back into the fold and you can get rich! Whereas we Black dissidents might end up in prison, left poor, or forgotten."

Now that, since the Reagan decade, it'sno longer as fashionable to be a "Contrarian" on the left--in a movement no longer led primarily by 'privileged white boys'--Gitlin, Horowitz and Hitchens, wanting to 'come in from the cold', now desiring to make much more money and gain a "respectable" high establishment status (wanting to be *regular*, *welcomed* guests on NPR or the Sunday TV political pundit shows), they now want to be "Contrarians" on (for) the right!

Either way they get a lot of attention, huhmmm...?

MORE ON NATIONALIST PROPAGANDA RADIO:

NPR *PRETENDS* to be objective while it clearly is *NOT*!! It's not even *FAIR*!! Otherwise, they would have someone on like anti-war activists Daniel Ellsberg or Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, who they *can't* personally bash; or Palestinian leaders, scholars, spokespersons or journalists like Edward Said, Hanan Ashrawi, Tariq Ali, Hatem Bazian, Asad Abu-Khalil; anti-Zionist progressive Jewish leaders, journalists and academics like Joel Beinin, Jeffrey Blankfort, Tim Wise, Adam Shapiro (and his Palestinian wife), Barbara Lubin of Middle East Children's Alliance (whose children's centers in the West Bank Israel repeatedly bombs or vandalizes to destruction); representatives of organized Mumia supporters and/or his attorneys (instead of people on to just trash the cause for his fair trial with more police propaganda); progressive political analysts like NOAM CHOMSKY, Alexander Coburn; journalists like Robert Fisk (Mideast specialist) or Greg Palast (who investigated the Florida presidential elections fraud); veteran multicultural activists like Yuri Kochiyama; multiculturalism authors like Ishmael Reed, Carlos Munoz, Ronald Takaki; educational standardized test experts like Jay Rosner and David White; progressive musicians like Ani DiFranco; and many other prominent progressives NPR would *never* have on. Why not as many people from the left as from the right? What happened to the 'capitalist' "marketplace of ideas"?

Even many--sometimes most--of the phone calls to NPR's "Talk of the Nation" interview call-in shows, if you would notice, are to the left of the establishment (read, at least right-leaning) "experts" that TOTN has on. (In fact, TOTN operator-screeners try to screen phone calls from a politically progressive perspective--and especially authentic people of color perspective--and will try to argue with you on the phone, unless you ask a namby-pamby decoy question or otherwise try to dummy it down until you get to actually talk to the guests.) They at NPR *DO* softball/cottonball interviews of their establishment propagandists. That's plenty reason to "bash" NPR. I'm glad I score a legitimate, obvious and direct hit.

NPR ...National Propaganda Radio...Gave up on it a long time ago...