Buckley’s conclusions on a number of issues were totally off the wall, but he could at least put forth a cogent argument for them.

Tricky Dick was actually pretty reasonable on the environment and other areas that didn’t involve foreign policy or his innate paranoia. In general he had actual intelligent reasons for what he did and acted accordingly. Alas, his paranoia opened the door to the whackoes, and they flooded in under Reagan.

– Badtux the Reminiscing Penguin

I was already dealing with SUVs that can’t stay in their lane when it came on, so I couldn’t spare a hand to change stations, but it really ticked me off.

I know what you mean about pledge week. I was a regular until they decided to move to the right and include so many whackoes. I never had a problem with watching Buckley, back when I watched TV, because there was at least intelligent conversation on Firing Line, but NPR went around the bend under the Hedgemony.

1) Either Kathryn Jean Lopez or NPR owes me a new kitchen counter radio to replace the one that paid the price for the rank stupidity of the quote.

B) Some days it seems almost too easy to add reasons to the growing list entitled “why I no longer contribute during Pledge Week”.

If enough people paid attention to where the “information givers” came from that appear on these shows, we could deny them the ratings to continue immediately.

And, thusly, solve one problem.

Or one would hope.

Suzan

So NPR has a project it is calling Memos To The President, and today in the car I heard Kathryn Jean Lopez, Editor-at-large, National Review Online
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