NPR’s Terry Gross. This fatuous idiot has had her day and then some.

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg caught NPR in a whopper this morning. Here’s his whole post from The Corner.

Just now on NPR’s Morning Edition (yes, I often listen), a story on yesterday’s failed vote on Debo Adegbile began “a handful of southern Democrats joined Republicans yesterday to defeat President Obama’s choice to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division.” For what it’s worth the Democrats who voted no:

Chris Coons (Del.)
Bob Casey (Pa.)
Mark Pryor (Ark.)
Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.)
Joe Manchin (W.V.)
Joe Donnelly (Ind.)
John Walsh (Mont.)

And, of course, Harry Reid (Nev.), who did it for procedural grounds.

Not exactly Sons of the Confederacy.

But some put up with this kind of crap because of the slow fruity tones of the oh so educated who populate NPR and the teevee version called PBS. Where else are we going to get the high culture stuff we need to keep going in this vale of faux trailer trash tears? We have to have some beauty and art in our lives, even if we have to wade through lefty propaganda to get to the staples they trot out during pledge drives — blind tenors, Celtic women, and rhapsodic tours of Europe as experienced by Americans who have always known we made a mistake severing ourselves from the old world. You know. The better world, which has stronger ties to WGBH Boston than Boston has to Ohio and Nebraska. And they’ll sell us DVDs of our favorite culture chestnuts for $59.99, because we’ll also get a PBS baseball cap for free. And maybe a bookbag too.

All done. Netflix is infusing the streaming universe with offerings far better than NPR/PBS has provided in a generation. There are more gripping Brit dramas than Downton Abbey. Jeez. Wasn’t this already done by Upstairs Downstairs and the Forsyte Saga a quarter century ago? Yeeeeeah!

For the record, Neflix has the newer version of the Forsyte Saga, also long and mesmerizing to watch. In addition, they have the following shows, which should be catnip for the intellectual set:

The Art of the Steal. About the scandal of Philadelphia’s outrageous theft of the greatest private art collection ever.

Wagner and Me. Stephen Frye, a Jew, grapples with his heritage and his passion for the composer he regards as the greatest ever.

Verdi’s Otello. Placido Domingo. Not the blind guy.

Imaginary Witness. A tough look at Hollywood’s blind eye toward the Holocaust. Or if not blind, fatally flawed in the rendering.

In Search of Beethoven. Why some think he’s the greatest composer of all time. Me, I still prefer Mozart. But you have to be willing to hear the views of others.

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould. What the hell IS genius? Maybe this.

And a whole bunch more. We don’t need the tired, antediluvian, money obsessed public channels anymore. I haven’t even scratched the surface here.

The free market can do high culture better than the command-propaganda system. Shouldn’t come as a surprise.