former NPR CEO Ken stern.......

[dagwood45431]

....has a new book out:

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anyone read yet?

Publishing blurb:

So for one year, he crossed the aisle to spend time listening to, talking with, and praying with Republicans of all stripes. With his mind open and his dial tuned to the right, he went to evangelical churches, shot a hog in Texas, stood in pit row at a NASCAR race, hung out at Tea Party meetings, and sat in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. He also read up on conservative wonkery and consulted with the smartest people the Right has to offer.

LMFAO! Nope. Didn't read! I'll bet the pictures are whimsical though.

 

[dagwood45431]

i haven't read it, just some commentary; what do you mean like maine?

 

[schuylaar]

Apartment life bruh.

Why do white people like their homes at 65f?
Because they have no choice they can't afford to heat it.

I dont know if I'm just blessed or lucky but I've lived in apartments my whole life so the heat is usually included but paying for heat has never been a problem for me. Its 72 in my apartment year round unless I need a little help for the plants (its been a while since I've grown though).
Why the fuck would you buy a massive house but not have the money to heat it?
In your case why would do you spend money on internet if you can't heat your trailer?

A GREAT question..finally! It's part of the 'American Dream', of course..keeping up with 'the Jones'..I've seen homes here at gated communities..EMPTY. TV trays litter the living room. The kid usually has furniture. Beemer or Benz in the driveway..must keep up 'appearances'.

EXCESS..was the 'in thing' during the 1980's..caught hold like wildfire with PCs of the 90's (the awakening), then in comes Social Media (the brainwash) of the Millenium everything Kardashian; you have yourself a toxic culture/political brew..kinda like what we have now..

 

[twostrokenut]

Publishing blurb:

So for one year, he crossed the aisle to spend time listening to, talking with, and praying with Republicans of all stripes. With his mind open and his dial tuned to the right, he went to evangelical churches, shot a hog in Texas, stood in pit row at a NASCAR race, hung out at Tea Party meetings, and sat in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. He also read up on conservative wonkery and consulted with the smartest people the Right has to offer.

LMFAO! Nope. Didn't read! I'll bet the pictures are whimsical though.

I don't blame ya, just stick to your guns and clench your bible if it's all you know and that comforts you from others scary opinions=)

 

[dagwood45431]

I don't blame ya, just stick to your guns and clench your bible if it's all you know and that comforts you from others scary opinions=)

LOL! No bible clenching here, dumdum.

"So for one year, he crossed the aisle to spend time listening to, talking with, and praying with Republicans of all stripes. With his mind open and his dial tuned to the right, he went to evangelical churches, shot a hog in Texas..."

Now that is some bible thumping and gun humping, shitstain.

 

[twostrokenut]

LOL! No bible clenching here, dumdum.

"So for one year, he crossed the aisle to spend time listening to, talking with, and praying with Republicans of all stripes. With his mind open and his dial tuned to the right, he went to evangelical churches, shot a hog in Texas..."

Now that is some bible thumping and gun humping, shitstain.

just cling to your religion, it's ok. different opinions are the devil and all.....

meanwhile the collectivists that have open and honest debate and discussion will continue to evolve into something better than a hive, as they've been doing for hundreds of years.

 

[dagwood45431]

just cling to your religion

I can't cling to that which does not exist, dumdum.

 

[Fogdog]

LOL
An urban liberal takes a trip to Texas as a cultural tourist. "how I learned to love the hicks". Don't read it, @twostrokenut , you might find out that some rednecks can actually talk in complete sentences and think at the level of normal human intelligence. We wouldn't want you to have your fragile white man's ego shattered.

Brian Mann to Ken Stern: NPR isn’t in your liberal bubble
https://current.org/2017/10/brian-mann-to-ken-stern-npr-isnt-in-your-liberal-bubble/

Finally, I want to call you out on your fairly blatant cultural tourism. You’re not the first one to pull this stunt. For decades city folk have been pulling on a pair of suspenders and spending a few Sundays in church with The Conservatives and then writing books in which you declare yourself shocked — shocked! — to find that they read books and talk in complete sentences and think about race in America. But the fact that you’re not the only city slicker to “spend an entire year” with “the other side” doesn’t make what you’ve done any less ridiculous.

And the fact that you dragged NPR into your pre-chewed “How I learned to love the hicks” narrative, when public radio reporters have been telling conservative America’s story with care and knowledge and intimate, deep, factual reporting for decades? That’s even more ridiculous.

Brian Mann is a staff reporter with North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y., and a contract reporter for NPR.

 

[twostrokenut]

LOL
An urban liberal takes a trip to Texas as a cultural tourist. "how I learned to love the hicks". Don't read it, @twostrokenut , you might find out that some rednecks can actually talk in complete sentences and think at the level of normal human intelligence. We wouldn't want you to have your fragile white man's ego shattered.

Brian Mann to Ken Stern: NPR isn’t in your liberal bubble
https://current.org/2017/10/brian-mann-to-ken-stern-npr-isnt-in-your-liberal-bubble/

Finally, I want to call you out on your fairly blatant cultural tourism. You’re not the first one to pull this stunt. For decades city folk have been pulling on a pair of suspenders and spending a few Sundays in church with The Conservatives and then writing books in which you declare yourself shocked — shocked! — to find that they read books and talk in complete sentences and think about race in America. But the fact that you’re not the only city slicker to “spend an entire year” with “the other side” doesn’t make what you’ve done any less ridiculous.

And the fact that you dragged NPR into your pre-chewed “How I learned to love the hicks” narrative, when public radio reporters have been telling conservative America’s story with care and knowledge and intimate, deep, factual reporting for decades? That’s even more ridiculous.

Brian Mann is a staff reporter with North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y., and a contract reporter for NPR.

its funny when you collectivists are confronted with defining such shit as "gun deaths" no?

the rest of the free world is concerned with homicides while you drone on......"legal tender" is likewise something y'all kinda hiss at but don't dare define.

it's laughable really, thanks for the chuckles my dude.

 

[UncleBuck]

its funny when you collectivists are confronted with defining such shit as "gun deaths" no?

the rest of the free world is concerned with homicides while you drone on......"legal tender" is likewise something y'all kinda hiss at but don't dare define.

it's laughable really, thanks for the chuckles my dude.

why is your party electing a pedophile?

 

[twostrokenut]

I can't cling to that which does not exist, dumdum.

you don't beleive in a higher power yet you look to the state as the answer to mostly moral problems.

cling to that religion son.

 

[twostrokenut]

why is your party electing a pedophile?

Roy Moore? I'm not party to Alabama. terrible "debate" as usual bunk.

nice white knight attempt for your friend also, white boy.

 

[UncleBuck]

you don't beleive in a higher power yet you look to the state as the answer to mostly moral problems.

cling to that religion son.

do you not get the difference between effective administration of government and blindly praying to a sky daddy?

jesus christ, go back to whatever site you were previously spamming with your retarded white supremacist shit.

 

[UncleBuck]

Roy Moore? I'm not party to Alabama. terrible "debate" as usual bunk.

nice white knight attempt for your friend also, white boy.

i'm just glad it is your party proudly electing a pedophile to the senate.

hell, you already celebrated when one illegitimately took the oval office.

 

[twostrokenut]

do you not get the difference between effective administration of government and blindly praying to a sky daddy?

jesus christ, go back to whatever site you were previously spamming with your retarded white supremacist shit.

its you that doesn't get that sky daddy's mana from heaven is no different that money from a printing press with authority from administration or legislation.......

I will give you a moment to consult your old testament on that one.

say aren't you a seventh day Adventist? I forget how many of you still thump the Hebrew bible.

 

[UncleBuck]

sky daddy's mana from heaven is no different that money from a printing press........

the jews in the desert didn;t have to harass their local bank tellers for pre-1982 pennies though. so that's one big difference.

jesus christ you are an effete dipshit.

 

[twostrokenut]

the jews in the desert didn;t have to harass their local bank tellers for pre-1982 pennies though. so that's one big difference.

jesus christ you are an effete dipshit.

concession you thump the old testament yet mock the skydaddy.

no-one likes complicated bitches, and you are making a weak case for an exception.

 

[UncleBuck]

concession you thump the old testament yet mock the skydaddy.

no-one likes complicated bitches, and you are making a weak case for an exception.

i "thump the old testament" because i responded to your retarded post about divine miracles being just like those dollar bills you don't have enough of?

ok

 

[dagwood45431]

you don't beleive in a higher power yet you look to the state as the answer to mostly moral problems.

I do no such thing, dumdum, but enjoying fellating that strawman.

 

[dagwood45431]

its funny when you collectivists are confronted with defining such shit as "gun deaths" no?

the rest of the free world is concerned with homicides while you drone on......"legal tender" is likewise something y'all kinda hiss at but don't dare define.

it's laughable really, thanks for the chuckles my dude.

Dry drunk?