James Yeager vs: Allen Combs

[j706]

I did a search and did not find a thread on this. The title is misleading as this is the sorry human being Allen Combs doing an ambush interview via phone of James Yeager. I thought it was entertaining, Yeager kept his cool and IMO made Combs look like he little babbling idiot that he is.

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[Ruffnek]

Wrong link...?

 

[Tombs]

Link worked fine for me, contained the interview with Yeager.

Combs is a weasel.

 

[pudly]

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[jamil]

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I agree completely. Combs is a douchebag and Yeager is a hot head. Amazing that all that can be compressed in a "."!

 

[Street Howitzer]

I'm surprised Yeager kept his cool as well as he did. Combs was just baiting him the whole time and frankly ruined the interview by trying to rope the dope. It could have been a good interview and a constructive debate, instead Combs shows his true colors. His primary goal is to discredit those who disagree with him by asking stupid questions in an effort to marginalize their view point. He's not interested in getting the facts or covering the Bundy story, he wants to marginalize someone who champions a cause opposite of his own. That was a terrible inverview, and frankly just plain bad radio. If I was an advertiser or a station manager supporting Comb's show I'd be pretty ticked off.

 

[billt]

If I was an advertiser or a station manager supporting Comb's show I'd be pretty ticked off.

You, as well as most advertisers. This is the primary reason liberal, left wing talk radio has failed so terribly from a commercial standpoint. "Air America" is / was a perfect example. If NPR did not receive a dollars worth of Federal funding, they would be off the air in a month. No one wants to listen to their country get bashed 24/7. It gets real old, real fast hearing how we are ALWAYS the bad guy, and there is some form of government legislation or regulation that will "fix it". Especially now after over 5 years under the most liberal, left wing President this nation has ever seen. After which nothing has improved. It's only all gotten worse. Much worse.

 

[Destro]

If NPR did not receive a dollars worth of Federal funding, they would be off the air in a month. No one wants to listen to their country get bashed 24/7.

Do you listen to much NPR?

 

[Hexlobular]

Do you listen to much NPR?

I do every day, and I've never gotten the impression that billt is suggesting...

 

[billt]

Do you listen to much NPR?

Do you think they would last any longer than Planned Parenthood would without any Federal funding? Why do you suppose that is? If the product is so superior, why does it continually require sucking off the government tit, in order to sustain itself? Why can't it exist on it's own merit and flourish, much the way all of the conservative broadcasters do? That fact doesn't change regardless if I, or you listen to them.

But to give a clear and concise answer your question, NO I do not. I do not listen to any liberal talk radio. I've heard and seen enough of the liberal viewpoint of government to last a lifetime. And have seen enough of it's total worldwide failure to understand it's a futile political position. Liberals are living proof positive of the definition of insanity. Which is doing the same thing over and over, in an attempt to achieve a different result. Why would I, or any reasonable intelligent individual want to listen to that?

 

[Destro]

Do you think they would last any longer than Planned Parenthood would without any Federal funding? Why do you suppose that is? If the product is so superior, why does it continually require sucking off the government tit, in order to sustain itself? Why can't it exist on it's own merit and flourish, much the way all of the conservative broadcasters do? That fact doesn't change regardless if I, or you listen to them.

But to give a clear and concise answer your question, NO I do not. I do not listen to any liberal talk radio. I've heard and seen enough of the liberal viewpoint of government to last a lifetime. And have seen enough of it's total worldwide failure to understand it's a futile political position. Liberals are living proof positive of the definition of insanity. Which is doing the same thing over and over, in an attempt to achieve a different result. Why would I, or any reasonable intelligent individual want to listen to that?

I think your somewhat mistaken as to what NPR is and does. It's far from liberal talk radio.

 

[jamil]

I think your somewhat mistaken as to what NPR is and does. It's far from liberal talk radio.

I've been listening to NPR for decades. Its hosts are mostly lefties. Its current producers are lefties. I think they do try to be as unbiased as liberal ideologues could possibly be, but when you look at the world from a certain point of view, you report what you see mostly from how you see it. They can't not be biased and it's pretty obvious when you see the world from a different point of view.

But you're right, as a news outlet and producer of radio news magazine style programs, it's hardly like the kind of talk radio in the style of Rush Limbaugh or Alan Combs, where their purpose is entertainment with ideological bias.

 

[Destro]

I've been listening to NPR for decades. Its hosts are mostly lefties. Its current producers are lefties. I think they do try to be as unbiased as liberal ideologues could possibly be, but when you look at the world from a certain point of view, you report what you see mostly from how you see it. They can't not be biased and it's pretty obvious when you see the world from a different point of view.

But you're right, as a news outlet and producer of radio news magazine style programs, it's hardly like the kind of talk radio in the style of Rush Limbaugh or Alan Combs, where their purpose is entertainment with ideological bias.

This.

If you realize that when you listen to it, it really doesn't bother me. Nobody on the FM dial can come close to the quality of NPR as far as reporting goes. Ira Glass is as liberal as they come but This American Life is one of the best radio programs out there. All listening to Rush did was get me all fired up and think the world was going to explode because of Obama.

 

[Destro]

and Nationally I believe NPR only gets about 2% of their funding from the .gov

 

[ViperJock]

I've been listening to NPR for decades. Its hosts are mostly lefties. Its current producers are lefties. I think they do try to be as unbiased as liberal ideologues could possibly be, but when you look at the world from a certain point of view, you report what you see mostly from how you see it. They can't not be biased and it's pretty obvious when you see the world from a different point of view.

But you're right, as a news outlet and producer of radio news magazine style programs, it's hardly like the kind of talk radio in the style of Rush Limbaugh or Alan Combs, where their purpose is entertainment with ideological bias.

Well put. My wife likes a lot of the stuff they put on. But she recognizes the tilt and leaves the kool aid in the glass.

 

[billt]

But she recognizes the tilt and leaves the kool aid in the glass.

I leave it in the pitcher by not even bothering to pour the product.

 

[billt]

and Nationally I believe NPR only gets about 2% of their funding from the .gov

"But almost one-quarter – 23 percent – of the money NPR gets comes from the taxpayers...."

Read more at NPR?s actual tax funding much more than 1% lie

 

[pudly]

and Nationally I believe NPR only gets about 2% of their funding from the .gov

Seems if the govt is supplying so little of NPRs money, then it seems both moral and a minimal hardship to end it entirely.

 

[billt]

Seems if the govt is supplying so little of NPRs money, then it seems both moral and a minimal hardship to end it entirely.

That's my argument for both NPR and Planned Parenthood. They both claim to be minimalists at chomping on the government tit. Yet they both fight kicking and screaming as soon as anyone suggests cutting them off completely. Go tell Bill Moyers, the biggest communist in America, NPR should be cut off. His blood pressure will go up 30 points. Why?

 

[jgreiner]

I think your somewhat mistaken as to what NPR is and does. It's far from liberal talk radio.

It IS however, very liberally BIASED. As we saw from the undercover video tape.