central television. it means that npfrr is not thate different from the tehran times ,with the exception, ofhappen course, being lessed accurate and more anti-american. yo so that happened on tuesday. why are we telling you. chan abt with all the momentous changes underway around the world, whyy would we open a showab with a story about twittergorizing categorizing npr as state media will ? because it s true. reaso that s the reason.n. finally, thankfully, somebodyd in authority has told the truth about something and that is thrilling to see on its own terms. in a world defined by lies froms our leaders. this seemedig like a rare sis of hope and progress. up telling the truth is the mostms revolutionary act of all, far more than taking up arms. and yet you rarely see it. human beings created language or to describe the world around them more precisely than they could with , say, grunting sign language. ng o beeurnn evly, we have national publi own creatioern ever since, b
a piece on npr s website, which really does belong in the museum of uptight liberalism. quote, npr official s have asked twitter to removeplie the label. they initially assumed it wasd appliebyd by mistake. laur npr spokesperson isabelle larra said we were not warned. it happened quite suddenly last night. laura saidresponse in response n npr email for the story seeking comment and requesting detailsdn about what in particular mightat have led to the new designationn . twitter s press account, orta replied with a emoji. moji what s just so perfect? you couldn t prove it? hey, twitter stopped callings us what we are. okay, npr here s a sketchcartoof cartoon so you can forgeortars,o the rockets in the electric cars. elon musk is a hero for this alone. but npr wasn t finished. still had fight. national public radio was soedie angry, so enraged to be called state media that supporters enlisted the help of o the regime s top spokeswoman to claim. otherwise.
it s interesting to i mean this is totally circumventing the pentagon. well, in some ways it s not surprising that this idea has surfaced again. if you think back to last summer, the summer of 2017, there was a lot of reporting about the decision-making process by which the president decided to extending and in some ways enhance our presence in afghanistan. it was enclosuclear that the pr wasn t happy with the choices that were in front of him. one of the out of the box ideas that surfaced at the time was this idea of using private contractors. so again, on any day when something bad happens in afghanistan, i m sure there are those around the president or the president himself who are wondering couldn t we do this in a better way. but this idea has been looked at and it s got lots of flaws. i won t take time now, but it s got a lot of problems associated with it. nick rasmussen, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. you re welcome. nearly three weeks after a
crazy stuff well, you can t really say the muslims attacked us on 9/11. no, but what barbara walters said to you. were they norwegians? come on. wait a second though, wait, hold on. if you said what timothy mcveigh the atlanta bomber, these people are ho are protesting against homosexual at military funerals very obnoxious. you don t say first and foremost we have a problem with christians. that s crazy. bill: it doesn t rise to that level. when you said in the talking points memo a moment ago that there are good muslims, i think that s a point. as it happens vivian schiller the president and ceo of npr was today s featured speaker at the atlanta s press club where she reiterated why npr fired juan williams. she also said her decision was not anti-fox and that npr wasn t singling him out. he contributor to fox news. that s fine. we don t necessarily have an issue with that however, we expect anybody that appears on