Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 02, 2012

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    margueritem  over 12 years ago

    Perhaps it was.

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    CyoteBlack  over 12 years ago

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

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    Sisyphos  over 12 years ago

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

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    Dave Thorby  over 12 years ago

    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 …”.

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    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!

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    Hillbillyman  over 12 years ago

    .but they do have great classical music.

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    coldsooner  over 12 years ago

    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!

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    knight1192a  over 12 years ago

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

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    Collo Rosso  over 12 years ago

    Leftys everywhere – their only voice!

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    doublepaw  over 12 years ago

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

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    eddie6192  over 12 years ago

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

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    Ozark12  over 12 years ago

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

    BOOOOOORING!!!!!!
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    cdward  over 12 years ago

    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.

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    meowgirl  over 12 years ago

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

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    SwimsWithSharks  over 12 years ago

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

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    listmom  over 12 years ago

    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!

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    ReadingComicsAtWork  over 12 years ago

    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…

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    finale  over 12 years ago

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

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    pfantom58  over 12 years ago

    Some like to Rush to judgment

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    WaitingMan  over 12 years ago

    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.

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    Farley55  over 12 years ago

    Rat for VP!

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Option – try CBC one and two.

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    Sayman  over 12 years ago

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

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    PShaw0423  over 12 years ago

    “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.

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    Reppr Premium Member over 12 years ago

    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)

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    dekawesome  over 12 years ago

    i agree with the rat

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    Sherlock Watson  over 12 years ago

    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.

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    Number Three  over 12 years ago

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

    xxx

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    6turtle9  over 12 years ago

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

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    CitizenThom  over 12 years ago

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

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    ReaderLady  over 12 years ago

    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.

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    barryj35967  over 12 years ago

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

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    Popeyesforearm  over 12 years ago

    punched right in the snoot

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    cmeyers  over 12 years ago

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

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    corzak  over 12 years ago

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

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    joegeethree  over 12 years ago

    Rat is on the money for once.

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    tigre1  over 12 years ago

    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.

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    dizzycomics  over 12 years ago

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

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    vldazzle  over 12 years ago

    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.

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    mklange Premium Member over 12 years ago
    I’m with Rat on this one.
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    Snoopy_Fan  over 12 years ago

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

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    CitizenThom  over 12 years ago

    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? ;)

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