> Do you understand that actual leftists consider NPR to be a voice of the corporate right-center? We have to give up on arguing about what "leftism" is. It do

> Do you understand that actual leftists consider NPR to be a voice of the corporate right-center? We have to give up on arguing about what "leftism" is. It doesn't mean anything, and Glenn Beck stirred the American brain so thoroughly that there's no way to even give them a general idea of what it used to mean. Just let liberals have it. We have to just talk about our specific political positions on their merits and leave the taxonomies in the history books. NPR is exactly what you would think its sponsors, which are managed funds, massive health care insurers, huge agribusinesses, silicon valley and chemical companies want it to be. Arguing about whether it's "leftist" with people who think the most "leftist" things are massive banks, Hillary Clinton, and fundamentalist Islam is a waste of your life. As a person who identified as a leftist and hung with other people like that for 30 years (and continuing), we were calling NPR National Petroleum Radio 25 years ago when it was gutted at the end of the Clinton administration. It no longer has any serious intention to inform; like most media it's staffed by the children of the wealthy, generating content to support current political initiatives.