Tag Archives: NPR

It’s a cartoon but you still might want a tissue. (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

Via press release: SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) and the renowned oral history organization, StoryCorps, are proud to announce a new partnership that will help identify stories from LGBT older people around the country for StoryCorps’ “OutLoud” initiative, which is dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing LGBTQ stories from across America. StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit whose mission …

Hate group leader Scott Lively appeared on NPR yesterday to defend his campaign against LGBT people around the world. An excerpt: MARTIN: Well, you know, this law, though, has been denounced by the United Nations, by U.S. officials, including the Secretary of State and the president. A number of European nations have said that they’re suspending aid to the country …

This morning I was interviewed by New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word Of Mouth show about yesterday’s comments by Pope Francis.  Listen here.  Towards the end, we also touched on the Russian vodka boycott. The show airs at 2:00PM Eastern today.

Via Minnesota Public Radio. (Tipped by JMG reader Daniel)

This is what was going on while I was sitting in radio row at the DNC while waiting for my turn on SiriusXM. I thought I might be on this clip in the background, but she whipped the camera around too quickly. When the NPR guy walked away is when I got homofascist cooties on her.

The American Family Association is calling for a national boycott of Ben & Jerry’s because of their latest flavor, Schweddy Balls. They’ve also sent the ice cream maker a letter demanding a halt to the flavor’s distribution. From an AFA press release: Ben & Jerry’s announced their newest ice cream flavor which sounds anything but appealing. Schweddy Balls is the …

It exists.

JMG reader Evan tips us that NPR is streaming the cast recording of The Book Of Mormon, which garnered 14 Tony nominations last week. Today only, folks.

I love this guy so much, it should be illegal.

A coalition of Tea Party-backed Congress members headed by wingnut Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) plans to cut 100% of all federal funding for the arts. A group of conservative Republicans, called the Republican Study Committee, revealed a new plan on Thursday to cut federal funding for arts down to zero. This means the National Endowment for the Arts and the …

“This week another group that demands the celebration of homosexuality called on National Public Radio to exclude the viewpoint of Family Research Council and other conservatives because we ‘have nothing productive to bring to the table.’ “We are all agreed that every suicide by a ‘gay’-identified teenager is a tragedy. And there are not two sides to the issue of …

Tony Perkins appeared on NPR today to declare that the rate of suicides among LGBT youths is so high because those kids know they are freaks. And not because they’re taught every day of their hopeless lives that God hates them. Via Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins, president of the evangelical Family Research Council, says gay activists are exploiting the …

National Public Radio has fired host Juan Williams (who also does political commentary for Fox) after he said on the Bill O’Reilly Show that seeing Muslim-looking people on airplanes makes him nervous. And all of Teabagistan is going nuts. Williams, who is also an analyst for Fox News, told Fox today that he was not given a chance to defend …

The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer debated a Tea Party organizer on NPR to warn that unless the teabaggers embrace the AFA’s positions on gay rights and abortion, they’ll lose the support of the nation’s Christianists. It’s rather astonishing that NPR would provide a platform to a crazy like Bryan Fischer, who has called for homosexuals to be sent to …

NPR reports that a billboard depicting Dubya and the words “Miss Me Yet?” has gone up along an Montana Minnesota highway. Nobody knows who’s behind the sign yet, or whether it mocks the former president or the current one. I’m betting on current. And teabaggers.

The residents of Wingnuttia are screaming at NPR for hosting the below Mark Fiore cartoon on their site. Fiore casually reports receiving death threats over the issue: Before you could say, “due to a pre-existing condition, your health coverage has been denied,” there was a full-fledged viral campaign by right-wing media outlets and blogs to jump, scream and shout about …

NPR shares some really silly ways to say hello without shaking hands, in order to protect against swine flu. A foot smack?