4107...If Rush Limbaugh Does It It Is Okay

True dat. If a right wing talk show host pimps for a Conservative [or conservative] party the way Rush Limbaugh, Lowell Green, Charles Adler and others do they are open spoken heroes.

But if someone involved with a politically correct channel like NPR, National Public Radio, does it, they are thrown to the wolves.

Case in point is a report from the Associated Press that reports that Lisa Simeone was let go from her job at SoundPrint, a radio show that airs on WAMU, an NPR affliiate in D.C. Reason? She was pimping for Occupy Washington protesters.

I cribbed this from Slate who wrote that

"According to Roll Call, NPR's code of ethics reads, in part:

"NPR [and WAMU] journalists may not engage in public relations work, paid or unpaid...exceptions may be made for certain volunteer nonprofit, nonpartisan activities, such as participating in the work of a church, synagogue or other institution of worship, or a charitable organization, so long as this would not conflict with the interests of NPR [and WAMU] in reporting on activities related to that institution or organization.”

I just don't get the double standard that exists here. I/you/we know that if Rush et. al. were doing PR for the Republicans/Conservatives/Tea Party it would be fair.

Perhaps you may want to consider that the reason the Rushes of the world are the 1 % and the NPRs of the world are the 99 % is because the 1 % aren't self righteous cannibals.

One thing the right, especially the Stephen Harpers, get is that it is all about winning.

WFDS