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Nina Totenberg: ‘I Was At – Forgive the Expression – a Christmas Party...’
Newsbuster ^ | December 20, 2010 | Brent Baker

Posted on 12/20/2010 9:07:07 AM PST by Carpe Cerevisi

“I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party,” NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend’s oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a common event, seemingly embarrassed to invoke any religious terminology for Christmas. She didn’t say what she’d prefer for parties this time of the year to be named. “Winter solstice party”? Just plain old “holiday party”? Or a “seasonal gathering”?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristmas; christmas; liberalmedia; npr; totenberg
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Well really, Christmas was originally a Pagan holiday.

But no matter. They will all be judged according to their salvation as the Bible clearly spells out. All the “good” intentions in the Universe will not save them if they denounce our true savior and the “Lamb of God” in their every day lives. Tolerating a few Christian symbols or traditions will not do it for them.


41 posted on 12/20/2010 9:53:58 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: rarestia

I pointed out how sweet your comment was ... read into that what you will.


42 posted on 12/20/2010 10:06:53 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: rarestia

Get out of MY HEAD!


43 posted on 12/20/2010 10:14:15 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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To: PLD

I love him, too.

He’s everybody’s favorite Jewish Uncle.

Everybody, that is, with a moral compass and a sense of humor.


44 posted on 12/20/2010 10:14:52 AM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Vermont Lt’s brain © rarestia. 2010-2011. All Rights Reserved.


45 posted on 12/20/2010 10:17:52 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Go to hell, Nina.

Hey, perhaps that will be the first thing she hears after her death.


46 posted on 12/20/2010 10:21:03 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Nothing sends these uber-leftists like Totenberg up the wall like white, heterosexual Christians who will express their faith in public.

They will tolerate Mohammedans who force burkas on their women, pedophiles, and totalitarians of every stipe.

But an open celebration of Christmas sends them up the wall.

Merry Christmas, Nina, you nitwit.


47 posted on 12/20/2010 10:21:59 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

stipe = stripe.


48 posted on 12/20/2010 10:23:45 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Westbrook

Thanks - Jackie Mason is great!


49 posted on 12/20/2010 10:28:49 AM PST by GunsAndBibles
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To: rarestia

Today, you could probably put it to better use than I have....


50 posted on 12/20/2010 10:29:39 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I’m sure she would apologize for attending a Ramadan party too.

Right?


51 posted on 12/20/2010 10:31:24 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I keep getting Nina Totenberg confused with that other Nina - Burleigh? - who said she wanted to do a Lewinsky on Clinton (and presumably every male member of congress) because he supported a woman’s “right” to partial birth abortion.

Oh well - - peas in a pod, I guess.


52 posted on 12/20/2010 10:33:47 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I watched a portion on the “National Christmas Tree Lighting” on the local PBS station yesterday. I noticed that while it WAS referred to as such, the season was “this holiday season” and by all indications, the tree was the only thing that was referred to by the Christmas label. I didn’t watch all of it, it rapidly became apparent that there was little reason for the season there!


53 posted on 12/20/2010 10:48:16 AM PST by SES1066 (Thank you for your vote in November, now let us get to work!)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

When I read this, I felt a flash of anger, but this is one of those things we really must be WWJD about. As in ancient Rome, Soviet Russia, and Nazi Germany, it is necessary for the elites to sneer at Christianity.

If George Soros is a James Bond villain, Nina Totenberg is an Ayn Rand villain.


55 posted on 12/20/2010 7:37:19 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
My Political Views
I am a far-right moderate social authoritarian
Right: 7.88, Authoritarian: 2.97

Political Spectrum Quiz

Was that considered a non typical with the drop tine?

56 posted on 12/20/2010 11:13:08 PM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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To: denydenydeny
When I read this, I felt a flash of anger, but this is one of those things we really must be WWJD about. As in ancient Rome, Soviet Russia, and Nazi Germany, it is necessary for the elites to sneer at Christianity.

OK...but this is a new trend...no one woulda dreamed of this sort of public scorn of Christianity prior to the late 80s-early 90s

57 posted on 12/20/2010 11:15:35 PM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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To: wardaddy

I seem to remember that they scored him as typical in the local big buck contest, but I can’t remember positively.


58 posted on 12/20/2010 11:33:18 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: wardaddy

I wonder what Nina would think if one of her colleagues said, ““I was at – forgive the expression – a Hanuka party,”


59 posted on 12/21/2010 7:21:25 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Puppage
The mother of National Public Disgrace Radio's Nina Totenberg was the Executive Vice-President of the Massachusetts ADA, Americans for Democratic Action, one of the oldest radical leftist political organizations in the country.

Nina is a longtime personal friend of Ruth Bader (Buzzi) Ginsburg, leftist Supreme Court justice, who presided at her second marriage in 2000.

When Totenberg worked as a writer for the National Observer she charged she was a victim of sexual harrassment by an unnamed boss "who made passes at her repeatedly".

She was eventually fired from the magazine for plagiarism.

Repeated charges during her journalism career have included liberal bias, using material without proper attribution, lack of objectivity plus distorting conservatives' quotes by leaving parts out, a tactic also attributed to the liberal New York Times reporter, Maureen Dowd.

When Juan Williams was fired from NPR, he bitterly, openly and correctly charged the taxpayer-funded station with overlooking Totenberg's repeated transgressions in broadcasting journalism while firing him for essentially a minor ditto.

We pay part of the arrogant, leftist, elitist Totenberg's salary.....thanks to NPR funding bills supported by Democrat and RINO congresscreatures alike......who always take care of their own first.....and the taxpayers last.

Leni

60 posted on 12/21/2010 8:16:04 AM PST by MinuteGal
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