Tom,
Are you certain that a St. Patty's day parade is a good gauge?

I am half Irish so I might get half in the bag tonight.

Pitty those poor snakes eh!

Have a good day then.

Sent by Dave Rosen | 12:24 PM ET | 03-17-2008

I am so weary of NPR's political bias; it's become blatant and pathetic. We KNOW you prefer Hillary, but I'm angry that a supposedly "progressive" station like NPR should constantly award headlinces and silly stories like this one--Hillary "drawing a crowd" (it was a PARADE for God's sake)--of 300,000. Please back up your claim that "the moment was hers." Really? You interviewed every individual at the parade and asked for his or her political allegience? I'm disgusted and annoyed and as an avid listener of 12 years (since I was 18 years old), I have begun avoiding your coverage of everything these days, as I find myself shouting at the radio at another lead story covering Hillary's "momentum" or her stalwart supporters (i.e., older white people) in outrageously subjective and manipulative ways! You are losing important people like me, people who are younger and want an alternative to commercial news and radio. You are turning us off and enraging us with your bias. I and many like me are staying away as well (I know this because they tell me). Shame on you, NPR. Shame on your elitist, speudo-liberal reporters who spend too little time understanding the demographic they claim to seek: me. (Removing Bob Edwards, as if that would reel in the "youth"). Enough already!!!

Sent by Jena Meagher | 1:21 PM ET | 03-17-2008

"Since landing in Scranton last Tuesday Clinton has racked up more than 12,000 bodies at various campaign stops along the way."

When Obama came to Dallas he had 17,000 pack an area and an estimated 2,000 overflow outside.

Hillary had 1,200 several days later, somehow 12,000 at "several stop" doesn't seem even close, it sounds a lot like spin form the Hillary camp.

Sent by Ron Gordon | 1:47 PM ET | 03-17-2008

Jena seems to want an ideological litmus test for NPR to pass before she will listen to their reports.

I listen to NPR not because they claim to be "progressive" which is the label Jena stuck on them and the criticized them for not living up to. I listen to NPR because it is a solid source of information and one of the few non-print mediums to be worth listening to or watching.

Perhaps Jena wants NPR to be a liberal version of Fox. But as a college teacher I can say that young people need all the help that they can get in learning about domestic politics and international relations as they have become the first generation in U.S. to go backwards educationally rather than forwards.

Sent by David | 5:19 PM ET | 03-17-2008

NPR is certainly biased, but not for Hillary. You run everything about Obama, but do not get into the nitty gritty of his pastor and their relationship. He can't attend a church for 20 years and not know what this pastor has been preaching. Then say he is dismissing him from his campaign as an adviser because he doesn't believe in what he stands for !! GIVE ME A BREAK..........

Sent by Kathy in Ky | 5:25 PM ET | 03-17-2008

Please Kathy, get over Obama's pastor, that is soooo yesterday...if you want a revolution...listen carefully to what Obama is saying, not his pastor...there's your break..take it!

Sent by Cynthia | 5:45 PM ET | 03-20-2008