{"id":186314,"date":"2014-03-04T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/04\/and-npr-they-suck-too\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T01:05:00","slug":"and-npr-they-suck-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/04\/and-npr-they-suck-too\/","title":{"rendered":"And NPR, they Suck Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They put a holocaust revisionist who calls for genocide of the gays, and they <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2014\/02\/npr-interviews-holocaust-revisionist-hate-group-leader-scott-lively.html\">neglect to mention these facts to their listeners<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">National Public Radio\u2019s Michel Martin did a segment on Uganda\u2019s growing crackdown on its gay population, and decided to interview Holocaust-revisionist hate-group leader Scott Lively, who is truly one of the most horrific religious right extremists in America.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">How did NPR\u2019s Michel Martin describe Lively to her audience? Simply as \u201cEvangelical leader Scott Lively.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">That\u2019s it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">No mention of the fact that Lively was labeled a Holocaust revisionist by HateWatch for his \u201cthoroughly-discredited\u201d 1995 tome, \u201cThe Pink Swastika,\u201d which tried to argue that gays were the really force behind the Holocaust.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">No mention of Lively\u2019s organization, Abiding Truth Ministries, that was officially-designated a \u201chate group\u201d by the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was extensively involved in Uganda&#8217;s proposed &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; bill, and the now just passed &#8220;Jail the Gays&#8221; bill.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t just call him &#8220;Evangelical leader Scott Lively.&#8221;  At the very least you call him a controversial anti-gay activist, unless you are so cowed by the Talibaptists that you should quit journalism and take up knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They put a holocaust revisionist who calls for genocide of the gays, and they neglect to mention these facts to their listeners: National Public Radio\u2019s Michel Martin did a segment on Uganda\u2019s growing crackdown on its gay population, and decided to interview Holocaust-revisionist hate-group leader Scott Lively, who is truly one of the most horrific &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,970,969,1051,1030,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}