Thankfully for the guardians of Culver City’s unique niche in the history of American entertainment, they are not relying on National Public Radio to blab to the less fortunate corners of the world that the Heart of Screenland turns 92 years old this weekend.
Feh, birthday.
Even though NPR West will celebrate its seventh anniversary on Jefferson Boulevard in our town next month, never shall the words “Culver” and “City” soil the virginal lips of Renee Montagne, the fetching co-host of NPR’s national overnight show, Morning Edition.
Better that she should expel a degrading profanity than to curve her lips into “Culver” followed by “City.”
Bearded, overweight, one-legged, blind Martians, who smell, will establish a permanent outpost atop The Culver Hotel before the filthy phrase “Culver City” escapes onto NPR’s airwaves.
Ms. Montagne’s co-host, Steve Inskeep, based in Washington, travels the country and abroad. His location is precisely identified, practically to the street address, age of the building and hue of his sox.
Snubbing the West Coast, and blurring many venues here, is an old stunt that the lords of electronic communication established nearly 100 years ago.
Under strict orders from the lords of NPR, Ms. Montagne is told to disguise her locations.
Unless she is in the FBI’s witness protection program, there is, of course, no reason for yet another liberal policy that sags like a swaybacked nag under the weight of NPR’s immutable political and social bigotry.
Every Night
Diane and I are devout students of Morning Edition, all five weeknights.
By now, I almost am inured to NPR’s lopsided political reporting. They were forerunners of the Swish Obama theme, liberals, good, right-wingers (rather than “conservatives” because it sounds nastier) bad.
No exceptions.
Right-wingers are to blame for about everything since the steam engine, including the current racism charges, which they don’t have to prove, just pronounce.
In this morning’s 2-hour edition, I heard Ms. Montagne describe her location twice. She said she was broadcasting from “Southern California” and the other time from “California.”
California? Is that a joke. Why not Western Earth?
Ludicrosity of policy never has deterred the nimble, admittedly conservative-loathing minds of NPR.
Take NPR’s upside-down report this morning on the Acorn scandal, an exposition that might yet destroy this thoroughly corrupt group.
NPR’s lady reporter, a veteran who knows better, sounded, sadly, like an ex-wife bitterly describing her former husband’s attractive new girlfriend.
NPR’s reason for stoutly supporting Acorn to the death remains embedded in its foundation policy — defend all groups heavily peppered with black personnel. Do not criticize blacks, ever, unless one is found to be a right-winger.
As for NPR and Culver City, if you despise, not merely oppose, the people who disagree with you politically so strongly that you believe they are vile, it is a tiny step across the bridge of integrity to vigorously deny your point of broadcast.
