Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 02, 2012

Perhaps it was.

NPR’s greatest report I heard was when they spoke about the jazz legend James Moody after his death

NPR is too solemn and self-important. Maybe Rat hat recht once again….

For the benefit of anyone else outside the USA who doesn’t know what N.P.R. is, Wikipedia says “NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a …”.

NPR is still second only to the BBC, both way better than anything else……Quick, tell me anything that happened outside the US,today, that has no direct affect on us? We’re so ethnocentric it’s embarrassing…..200 years as a supposedly mature modern country and we still act like babies who can’t get their way!

.but they do have great classical music.

Awww come on. NPR news makes everyone happy. The closer to the election, the better the economy is, housing is great, joblessness is way down, the sun is shining, birds are singing, and we’ll get a chicken in every pot! So when you’re feeling down about how divided our country is now, just listen to good old NPR. Life is good!

Rat’s just jealous cause NPR knows he’s too unimportant to even want him on.

Leftys everywhere – their only voice!

NPR is a great place to hear both sides of issues, unlike FOX News that writes their own news.

Rat’s back at it again, kicking major fanny.

NPR is great if you like the verbal equivalent of elevator music.

I listen to a variety of news outlets including those from other countries. For my money, NPR has lately tried to be too folksy rather than too elite. Compared with the news of, say, BBC or Germany’s NDR, it’s still a little too chummy. But compared with pretty much anything else in the US, it is serious (I know, that’s a bad word for most consumers of mass media) and thorough.

Perhaps they need to start listening to “talk radio” rather than the NPR, public crap. Of course they sound snooty, they are liberals…..

I hope that wasn’t an NPR fundraising coffee cup. The irony would hurt even more.

I find it ironic that we bemoan the lack of education and the rise of ignorance in this country, and then when we have a radio station that requires its listeners to think a bit, and that has intellectual and intelligent discussions, it is labeled as “snooty”. Odd how the conservatives never seemed bothered when it was William F Buckley Jr doing the intelligent, intellectual discussions. I wish we could have more conservative commentators like him these days!

I agree with Rat. I remember when the hubby and I lived in Connecticut and he would always have NPR on the car radio and I remember begging him to turn it off sometimes because I could not stand the “snooty” personalities on there. Not ALL were snooty…but some…

Elitist snobs now populate both sides of the political spectrum……some are just louder than others.

Some like to Rush to judgment

Well, of course people who see Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck as the great American philosophers of our time are going to think NPR is snooty.

Rat for VP!

Option – try CBC one and two.

It’s “you’re” using. And missing all your capitalization as well .Maybe you need that reader!

“Snooty”? Yes, of course…if they’re more well-informed, thoughtful and articulate than you are, they must be Evil, so insult them and drag them down to your level at all costs..It’s tempting to lay this at the feet of our current political climate, but America has had a deeply populist, anti-intellectual streak in its soul since its foundation. It’s too bad, really — a society that worships the medicrity of the average has nowhere to go but down.

C’mon, people! This is a comics page. Today they ding NPR, tomorrow someone else. That’s what they do. (By the way, I am a Tea Party member sick of the elitist weasels calling us Tea Baggers)

i agree with the rat

Calling people who actually think “elitists” is a sign of stupidity. You only have to think about it to see that’s true.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Rat should be more careful; Goat clobbered him once, and he might do it again.

Can’t bear to see anybody successful can you, Rat?

xxx

Divide and conquer, divide and conquer. Sheesh! Y’all make it so easy. Ok, now hold still, this won’t take but a moment….

Only NPR fans read Dick and Jane as adults. ;)

I have to agree with Ratty this time. Some years ago, the commentator on NPR news reflected (quite snottily) that they didn’t report on the bad behavior of a certain Democrat politician because “it did not interest us”, but reported the bad behavior of a Republican politician for weeks.That kind of irresponsible, skewed journalism so annoyed me that I never listened to them again.

Excellent, Stephan! I’m beginning to like Rat, a LOT!

punched right in the snoot

I freakin’ LOVE this strip. You are my hero, Rat!!

Sorry, I guess I misinterpreted your comment. So you support socialism then.

Rat is on the money for once.

Anyway, look at the artwork…Rat’s a lefty…that’s a downward-hook, too.

And yeah, NPR is so far above the ranty-chat BSSRs every other spot on the dial there’s NO comparison.

We listeners CAN criticize NPR…don’t hear much of THAT about Faux. But then, we’re Americans, you know. We don’t have to agree.

Ha! they do all sound like that skinny brother on Frasier, but a little bit more condescending

My indoor radio reception is poor and PC is busy with stuff like this, but I used to be a subscriber to PBS (for years). .Since they started airing more (leftist) politics than culture I subscribe to other things (such as Cornell Nestcams in HD) but I still watch new episodes of the Met and Masterpiece Mysteries.

NO, Rat… I’m SNOOPYfan, not SNOOTYfan!

ha ha ha. How are your kids going to learn how to insult opposing opinions rather than actually reason against them if you let them read Dick and Jane? ;)