NPR Anchor Scolds Republican Over Excessive ‘Gulag’ Rhetoric, But Not Democrat’s ‘Klan’ Gab
NPR demonstrated a shameless double standard in interviewing members of House of Representatives about the Tucson shooting on their evening newscast All Things Considered. On Tuesday, anchor Robert Siegel upbraided just-retired conservative Rep. John Shadegg for “over the top” rhetoric in using the word “gulag” to describe Obama's health care plan in the fall of 2009. But on Monday, Siegel interviewed liberal Rep. Jim Clyburn, and offered no scolding for extreme rhetoric, when Clyburn compared ObamaCare protesters to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War. On Tuesday, Siegel pressed Shadegg to apologize, perhaps borrowing from the Democrat blog Think Progress :
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