[Peace-discuss] at SignOn: NPR, CFR: Don't Enable Elliott Abrams' Smear Campaign on Chuck Hagel

[Robert Naiman]

It doesn't call for NPR to not say something. It doesn't call for any
specific action. It just says "not enable."

I think there two acceptable paths:

1) not have someone like Elliott Abrams on as a guest
2) have him on, but have him seriously challenged.

NPR did neither one.

The BBC, if they were going to do an interview like that, would have
someone who was prepared to really challenge, either a reporter who was
prepared to really challenge, or another guest who was prepared to really
challenge, *at the same time.* It doesn't undo the damage of a smear to
have someone else on at another time who says something else.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
<galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

> And it calls for NPR *not* to say something.
>
> NPR has become a shameful apologist for government crimes, but the cure
> for bad speech is more speech, not less.
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> wrote:
>
> The point here is Elliott Abrams, not Chuck Hagel or Barack Obama. There's
> nothing in the petition that says I support Obama or Hagel. It's all about
> Elliott Abrams.
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> And give Obama cover for his child-murders?
>>
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Can you help me get this rolling?
>>
>>
>> http://signon.org/sign/npr-cfr-dont-enable-elliott?source=c.url&r_by=1135580
>>
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>> Just Foreign Policy
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