another droney anesthetizing voice
I preefer that to emotive/overly interpretive ones.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i wanted to throw rotting vegetables at dan schorr for his analysis of gates-gate tonight. /enemies list anything
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:40 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
the guy is 140 years old.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i raged at him on twitter the other day it was so satisfying
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol his voice lulls me into a trance. i think, "i love this guy but i'm not sure what he said" so ur probably otm but i don't know
― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
you AND Richard Nixon (not on twitter, just on tapes) xp
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Favorite NPR names:
Kai RyssdalSylvia PoggioliSoterios Johnson
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
doualy xaykaothao
― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
How quickly they forget.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Kai RyssdalSoterios Johnson
^^^ have been spelling these names totally differently in my mind for years
― max, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"Kai Rizdal" and "Saterius Johnson"
love this name and always wondered how it was spelled
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Satirius" is so much better! Like he's in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to WNYC.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a huge crush on Kai Ryssdal's voice...he makes me heart the economy and everything about it
Any love for Ira Flato?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Ira.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate neda ullaby
― harbl, Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:52 PM (3 months ago)
― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
another good name NPR that i don't know how to spell is Soraya Sarhadi-Nelson; she reports from Afghanistan.
the guy who preceded Kai Ryssdal had an even swoonier voice; i can't remember his name now. something about marketplace, i guess.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Favorite name: Snigdha Prakash (whose name I heard as "Snit Paprikash" for the longest time)Favorite newscaster overall: Nina Totenberg reporting on the Supreme Court
― Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Eleanor Beardsley YES! Besides news I also loveeee Car Talk. The snorting gets on my nerves sometimes but I usually learn something very important.
― Sunny River
http://www.desicomments.com/dc/14/34898/34898.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not a racist but it wasn't Juan Williams.
"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams continued. "You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101021/cm_yblog_upshot/npr-fires-juan-williams-for-muslim-remarks-on-fox
― I Want to Change My Password... (bnw), Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
He should have been suspended instead of fired imo
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims
Would you say that about a nun? I'm not unconscious of the fact that exremist Islamists are a greater terrorist threat than, say, Tibetan Buddhists but it's unhelpful not to mention categorically incorrect to conflate either piety or maintaining traditional 'garb' (more of an ethnic cultural thing, me thinks, than strictly religious as long as a woman is 'modest') w/a propensity to terrorism.
I think the firing is opportunistic - they haven't been getting along as of late, anyhow.
― A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Juan Williams should be better informed about what the 9/11 hijackers looked like. They purposely avoided "muslim garb", and purposely violated many restrictions imposed on strictly observant muslims, in order not to draw attention to themselves or arouse suspicion.
― Aimless, Friday, 22 October 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
stupid thing to say stupid reason to fire the guy stupid responses from republicans just dumb all around good luck usa
― max, Friday, 22 October 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
NPR's Jackie Lyden, what do you require by way of fuck-you money?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=510313
― buzza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Soterios Johnson just called Sunday "tax day" on his news/weathercast, tho taxes are actually due on Tuesday. Dick.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 April 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
― buzza, Saturday, 19 May 2012 08:06 (eleven years ago) link
Cart Talk calling it quits after 35 years (25 on NPR)! NPR will play best-ofs, however, for the foreseeable future.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
HOLD ON...THIS JUST IN
CAR Talk also calling quits.
also, I love the guy who sounds like Tom Bodett. Every story sounds like old Motel 6 commercial.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Also kinda weird because Tom Bodett's has been a reg on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Can't remember that reporter's name atm.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Last thing: Shay Stevens' late night updates are very soothing. Doesn't hurt that they come on during Jazz with Bob Parlocha.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 June 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
car talk is so awesomerip brothers who wont stop laughing at each other
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Friday, 8 June 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2278/2055067451_e9cfc377c3_z.jpg?zz=1
― buzza, Saturday, 2 March 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
zoe chace's delivery drives me nuts. in the bad way!
― andrew m., Friday, 19 July 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
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this post has managed to crack me up five times in the span of a few minutes.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 20 July 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
she does happen to be exactly 69 years old....
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:30 (ten years ago) link
i like zoe chace's voice
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
she sounds like my friend who is from rochester, ny.
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
I don't like any of them, but I do enjoy doing impersonations of Robert Siegel.
― all other cassettes are better off crushed (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 July 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
argh i hate zoe chace too! harsh voice, harsher accent. is she from cleveland? erie, pa? buffalo? anyway i came here to say kristian foden-vencil. who i thought was christian fodenvetzel.
― single white hairball (harbl), Monday, 18 November 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
i like how wade goodwyn always sounds like he's shaking his head, ruefully amused
― goole, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
I can't stand Ari Shapiro. I can tolerate a lot of NPR-ness, but Shapiro is such an insufferable dweeb. I can't take the bad jokes, the forced smile, the doting interviews with truly awful authors.
I miss Michele Norris and Melissa Block :(
― Evan R, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
Bob Edwards
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
― goole, Friday, May 27, 2016 12:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There are few voices I can't stand. His is one of them.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
― harbl, Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:52 PM (seven years ago)
i haven't heard from her in a while. she has been replaced as #1 most hated by mary louise kelly. you just can't talk like that. stop it.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link
ASK COKIE this morning! My Q: How do you *still* have a fucking job?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
Mara Liasson's "analysis" of SC today was pure dishwater. Cokie would be proud.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link