NPR: Dialogue From a Bad Script
If someone wrote this dialogue, and submitted it to me as a script, I'd tell them to ease up a bit. Too unbelievable. Too on the nose. Respect your audience a bit more, I'd tell them. Don't hit it so hard.
Seriously: the NPR executives recorded here sound like old-time stage villains. Listen to the way they laugh, around 00:49, when one of the undercover reporters says "We call NPR, National Palestinian Radio." It's what we in the screenwriting trade would describe this way: The assembled group laughs evilly, sips their wine.
What's fun, of course, is that this is exactly the way they see us! This is exactly what they accuse us of sounding like! Secretive, evil, money-grubbing, and dishonest.
Don't miss the section around 22:00, when NPR (About to be Former) Senior Director of Institutional Giving talks about how and why the undercover reporter could keep his $5 million gift to NPR anonymous. It's just a matter of deciding how to "structure" his identity in the "database."
This is bad potboiler dialogue. If it was a script I was producing, I'd send the writer back for another draft before I paid for it.
Of course in this instance, we've all already paid for it.
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Oct '10
Re: NPR: Dialogue From a Bad Script
Poor lefties. The arrogance of power. . .
May '10
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Rob Long:
What's fun, of course, is that this is exactly the way they see us! This is exactly what they accuse us of sounding like! Secretive, evil, money-grubbing, and dishonest.
Projection is nothing new. They might not even think of this as hypocritical, in the sense that knavery for leftward causes is justifiable, whereas even overt, honest speech for rightward causes is dangerous and subversive.
May '10
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Soon the shear numbers of hypovehiculated NPR execs will be detectable in the aggregate unemployment statistics.
May '10
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They are soulless whores first and only craven ideologues second.
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In the movies, it seems to me, the villain is always some very much for-profit pharmaceutical company executive--the slimy doctor willing to kill innocents to make his next Porsche payment. (Admittedly, I may just be sensitive to seeing my creepy evil twin on screen all the time. I mean, c'mon Rob, give me a break in your next script, okay?)
Real biotech executives pretty much cower full time. Instead of vying to take over the world, we pretty much tie ourselves into pretzels to avoid angering regulators, media bigwigs and anybody else who might carelessly toss another barricade athwart the already impassable road to marketing a new therapeutic product. Fighting with Mother Nature is tough enough.
Nice to see that some folks out there really do laugh evilly and conspiratorially over lunch. But I won't hold my breath waiting for the Hollywood version to hit the big screen.
Oct '10
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This is a little too much fun. What a time to be a conservative. Will we look back on the Acorn/NJ Education Conference/NPR sting videos as the Golden Age of Conservative activism? Or as just the beginning.
May '10
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George Savage:
Nice to see that some folks out there really do laugh evilly and conspiratorially over lunch.
Nice?
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What was this talk about how the NPR execs repeatedly refused the $5 million? Doesn't sound like they're refusing the money to me....
Sep '10
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I wonder if they think that giving the axe to these creeps will allow them to keep their federal subsidy? If they were pure as the driven snow I'd want them defunded, of course. Maybe they think if they fire these people and stay out of the public eye for a while they can keep the money? I sure hope they're wrong about that.
Sep '10
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In the Acorn takedown, one could feel some empathy for the poor schlubs caught on tape working in the Acorn offices. But these NPR people are supposedly the creme de la creme of our society.
Aug '10
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Working on a Klikkk and Klakkk takedown, but can't find enough witnesses. Has anyone seen them working on a Ford ?
I'm waiting on the phone in
Bhong, Oregon
Peace
Edited on Mar 10, 2011 at 7:20pmSynthia Fung Smuther ,M.S.,J.D.,Chair Grey's Teaparty
Jul '10
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"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No! Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
"Even if I can give you five million dollars? To fight zionist newspapers?"
"Maybe NPR can find a place for you after all, Mr. Bond."
Mar '11
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Gee Rob;
How many time in the last few days have you tweaked NPR? If you are not careful they will no longer shake your Martini and give you the "full Williams" treatment. Hell hath no fury like a progressive scorned.
Dec '10
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Best word of the week.
Sep '10
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When Rob posted about the first video of these NPR execs, some Ricochet members questioned whether this sort of thing was morally right. I stayed out of that one. With this second video, I still haven't made up my mind, but at least I like this about it: it's putting a lot of light on things the Left would rather remain dark. That's good.
And another thing: it has them fumbling and scared, which is even better. I don't just want the Left to lose a few; I want them defeated and demoralized. Crush their spirits.
Jul '10
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Severely Ltd.:
This is a little too much fun. What a time to be a conservative. Will we look back on the Acorn/NJ Education Conference/NPR sting videos as the Golden Age of Conservative activism? Or as just the beginning. · Mar 10 at 5:23pm
There is an endless supply of this stuff. If O'Keefe kept ten crews working full time for a thousand years, he might get 10% of it, but DC would still multiply these opportunities in a logarithmic fashion. The invisible hand extends to corruption opportunities. Who knew? Welcome to Constantinople on the Potomac.
There has to be a sitcom pilot in there somewhere.
Edited on Mar 10, 2011 at 7:48pmDec '10
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dogsbody: When Rob posted about the first video of these NPR execs, some Ricochet members questioned whether this sort of thing was morally right. I stayed out of that one. With this second video, I still haven't made up my mind, but at least I like this about it: it's putting a lot of light on things the Left would rather remain dark. That's good.
And another thing: it has them fumbling and scared, which is even better. I don't just want the Left to lose a few; I want them defeated and demoralized. Crush their spirits. · Mar 10 at 7:44pm
"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"
Sep '10
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Jerry Broaddus
"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!" · Mar 10 at 8:00pm
Jerry: exactly! And have a nice cup of tea afterwards.
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Mark Wilson
George Savage:
Nice to see that some folks out there really do laugh evilly and conspiratorially over lunch.
Nice? · Mar 10 at 5:31pm
Sure. It would have been even nicer with one of the NPR execs stroking a cat.
Jul '10
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Jon Stewart (I know, I know) had a good bit about this where he points out Schiller's extended discussion of the delights of madeira wine - not only making himself even more of a pompous liberal stereotype, but seemingly clueless about the fact that he's talking about wine with what he thought were orthodox Muslims.
And they say we're dumb.