The indefatigable Solomon (thanks to all who sent this in) tells the story of Mariam Sobh, who during her college career was a member of the Muslim Students Association and an inventor of vicious anti-Semitic falsehoods including fabricated statements by Ariel Sharon in which he vowed to kill Palestinian children and rape Palestinian women.
And what is she doing now? Why, working for NPR, of course!
Doesn't NPR know that the MSA is? Or does NPR just not care?
Change "that" to "what"
When a hiring like this happens, I really think they definitely do a background check, and when they come across the facts that Mr. Spencer mentioned, they either agree or label it freedom of speech and hire away. And we pay for it in more ways than one.
There is little doubt that NPR hired this Jew-hater precisely because she is a Jew-hater.
Of course no one who comes to this site donates to NPR. But that is not enough. One must spread the word. Despite the hundreds of millions left by Joan Kroc, NPR does still need donations. Spread the word. If someone who has uttered the kind of things this NPR New Hire has uttered, and if despite this she has been hired, then there is something terribly wrong. One can easily imagine what would happen if it was revealed that some other New Hire had previously been spreading Aryan Nation propaganda. Why is this different? It isn't.
NPR has to be punished in the only way it understands -- through financial deprivation. One should do whatever one can to discourage businesses from donating money and being recognized for it on local NPR outlets (if they knew they would lose business, and they should, they might think again).
And when those hideous fundraising days come along, and the smarmy eleemosynary pleas are made, and you are instructed that NPR "is the fairest" station that gives you "all sorts of views" (what preening crap this all is) then do not merely not contribute, but cause others not to contribute. Meet them, answer them, for this and other outrages, with an active and relentless hostility.
It works for me.
I listen to NPR every day. The fund drives are annoying. I never give a penny (highly trained in the art of recognizing free riding opportunities by my economics professors and why there is no harm to society by doing so). If the donors to NPR weren't so generous to NPR, think about all those funds ending up in the coffers of Hamas et al, which because of my guess is the donors' place on the political spectrum, is where they would be otherwise inclined to donate.
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click: Corporate/Service (transcripts, management, etc.)
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my best guess is that this would be a good emaillist to sent to:
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remember listening to NPR discuss the Danish law banning immigrants from coming into the country based on marital status if they were younger than 24.
I very rarely listen to NPR but here is an example of the nonsense that they report.
NPR starts the segment by saying that "Something is rotten in Denmark." (Geez, this guy must have thought he was so clever.) Then they discuss the law with a few married couples who live in Sweden and have to commute to jobs in Denmark as a result of the Danish law. Then they have this professor discuss what an idiotic law it is.
Of course, NPR doesn't give any background on the law or that its primary purpose was to prevent Muslims from bringing in brides to the country in forced arranged marriages. They don't discuss any tales of women who have been forced to marry their cousin from Pakistan.
Look, if you listen to NPR, you would not be aware of anything going on in Europe with the Muslims.
Sorry to dissapoint everyone, but Mariam Sobh was not "hired" by NPR, and she does not work for NPR. Rather, she is working for an NPR affiliate. If you scroll down the comments on this page you will see that several people have written to NPR to voice their opinion and have been informed that NPR has never heard of this woman.
That being said, I've read her articles and there is no excuse for bad journalism, much less outright lies. But she does have quite a friendly smile, no?