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Carl Kasell, the longtime NPR newscaster who breathed new life into his career as the judge on the public radio station's "Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!," has died, NPR reports. He was 84.
The radio personality reportedly died Tuesday in Potomac, Md. of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Kasell, who was known as the steady voice of the news on NPR for more than three decades, grew up in Goldsboro, N.C. with the dream of one day getting his pipes on the air.
"Before I even started to school," he told NPR in 2009, "I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air, and try to fool people that came by to listen."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:22PM (4 children)
> s/some conservatives/anyone not extremely left of center/
I just wish people with affinities to the Republicans acknowledged how far to the right their party has drifted, dragging "the center" with them.
Trump fits perfectly with the European extreme-right, Hillary would be too right-wing for many Europeans, and Bernie is near the Euro center, a bit left of it (social democrat).
The point being that Bernie didn't change recently. The neo-cons, and then the GOP against Obama, moved right by a significant amount (can't be seen to agree with him, even when he's deporting more illegals than anyone before, it MUST be not enough). The "center" as seen by too many (including TMB) is now so far that the Pope, Bernie, and most of the world has become leftie extremists.
When everyone you meet is a radical...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:46PM (3 children)
You know, no other continent has to put up with having their every stance weighed against another, so either get off our asses and jump on the ones who are really fucked up or have a nice, steaming cup of shut the fuck up.
Also, if you think we're moving right as a nation, you have zero grasp of history.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:09PM (2 children)
Fine, then let's compare to the US of only 50 years ago. #zerograspofreality
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:17PM (1 child)
You do know hashtags used unironically around here are going to get whatever you said ignored, yes?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @01:25AM
lol you already noticed #sad