Posted on 04/27/2005 11:26:35 AM PDT by hinterlander
National Public Radio has been caught in an anti-conservative smear and forced to apologize.
On Tuesday, NPR issued a correction and apology to Mark Levin, author of the New York Times bestseller Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America. According to Levin's publisher, Regnery, a recent broadcast of NPR's "Day to Day" program falsely accused Levin of advocating violence against judges.
Yesterday's NPR apology stated: "We have a correction [that] concerns a conversation we aired on April 5 about denunciations of the judiciary by certain conservatives in the wake of the Terry Schiavo case. After noting that a U.S. senator had explicitly linked violence against judges to judicial activism, we then turned to a critique of a book by Mark Levin, called Men in Black. We want to make clear that Mr. Levin's book does not discuss either violence against judges or the Terry Schiavo case, and we regret any error or confusion that resulted from our story that day."
Mr. Levin responded by saying, "While I accept NPR's apology and correction, its broadcast was illustrative of a smear campaign launched by the Left to try to silence my criticism of judicial activism. I continue to challenge those who support government by judiciary to debate this issue on the merits."
[Editor's note: Regnery Publishing is a sister company of Human Events.]
To Quote Monte Burns:
"Blah, blah, blah,lip-service, lip-service, lip-service. Now get out of here"
yeah ,...perhaps we'll see them paying their own way soon
I hope this motivates anyone who hasn't purchased this book to do so right away and keep it on the best sellers list another month! I makes a great gift too!
No I don't work the publisher or Mark, it's just the nerve of these idiots at NPR! BTW it's cheaper at Sam's Club and always available not hidden in the back of the store or not there at all.
BTW, I am listening to Levin's book on audio right now. The man has it nailed...
read my tagline...
NPR is apologizing only because it's fund raising time.
NPR is apologizing because "The Great One" would tear them to shreds...
There ain't no bias in the Media. Did PBS, report on Sandy Berger, Hillary and the election funding scandal now brewing, Trips by Nancy, and her people, Daly in Chicago, Mifflin High School, Drew/King hospital, Oil for Food, on and on.
An error of omission is an error.
..When are they aren't fund raising...is when they're picking our pockets.
Has NPR ever been forced to correct and or apologize for an attack on a liberal.....no, because they never attack libs, ever.
lesson...don't smear a smart lawyer...
Why do we taxpayers have to pay for this crapola. Defund it and watch it go away. What ever happened to the Republican majority?
It really amazes me that naughty Nancy can give us all hell about Mr. DeLay's trips but neglects to report her own. Hmmm. Don't liberals know their lies CAN be found out? Trouble is, the MSM will never report on THEM. That's why WE have to do it.
NPR itself is an Antique.........ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! (All things considered)
The book MEN IN BLACK has them obviously scared.
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson"
this is so great ... I adore Mark Levin ... he is, as the kids would say, 'the bomb.' ooops, maybe that isn't the way to describe him at this juncture, but he IS the best!
Hold on now, all things considered, the objectivity and historical clarity found in Men in Black is utterly alien to the Borg mind at the heart of NPR. Thank you for the post, HL.
A God-Bless-Mark-Levin Bump!
Applause!!!
I hope someone on the left will (though highly unlikely because they are fairly devoid of any sort of rational thought processes). I want to listen to it though IF it ever happens.....
ping
MAYBE their apology is genuine. But how many NPR listeners heard that rebuttal/retraction, versus the folks that heard the smear? I'll guarantee that there were - well, considering NPR's "vast" audience, at least three - people who did NOT hear that retraction.
It also shows shoddy workmanship, to report something which doesn't even have ANY basis whatsoever. He writes a book about judges, and he's advocating violence? I suppose Laura Ingraham is advocating violence against Hollywood, too, if we jump to the same conclusions?
Must be time for another begathon!
"Much ado about nothing."
My comment, the book or NPR's apology?
A fresh candidate for the Faux News awards!
NPR = no pulse required, not particularly relevant, national prozac radio, nasal prevaricating ramblings
I stopped in my local Walmart to buy Mark's book, but they didn't have it.
I could never get over how Clinton and Gore would lie at the drop of a hat. It's like they were sure no one would notice. It should be obvious to them that we are noticing but they keep on telling lies. I guess in the world of the elites, it's acceptable behavior. I hope they never stop!
Sam's seems to have it and Costco. People will try to bury it but it's there.
My theory is that if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes truth to the hearer. I could never get away with that at home (smile)! I don't like what we are becoming in this country. You can't trust politicians, the MSM...acchhhh.
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