Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 09, 2021

“We are both 2 accomplished Greek-Americans with the same first name but different spellings!”

Rat has a point. Donald Duck shows some intelligence and self-control, unlike another well-known Donald.

Now can Rat explain why he was listening to something as liberal as NPR?

Stephan by any other name would smell just as bad.

Even Stevens?

“Smart” and “Accomplished” are not the same things.

Toon Boy is not on N.P.R., but he DOES appear regularly on P.B.S. !

Wow! This guy is a real person! (Sorry, I didn’t know…)Stefan Fatsis is an author and journalist. He regularly appears as a guest on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered daily radio news program.

I’ve been a Stefan from day 1.

Reminded of the Everybody Loves Raymond where Robert’s girlfriend had just met the parents and tells Raymond, “They seem nice.” and Ray responded, “Yes, they seem nice.”

“NPR? Yes, they sound smart.”

I would never listen to NPR. They’re so lame and whiny.

I guess Stefan Fatsis is a Pearls reader – https://twitter.com/stefanfatsis/status/1435957908622217217

Fatsis, sounds like something a guy gets picked on for having.

It’s Steven you pretentious. ….. I guess I can spell my name Pietre and spell it to hostesses everytime.

NPR – National Panhandler Radio – living off the public teat for decades

Don’t tell me Rat is starting to prefer that other Stefan over our Stephan.

When WONDER WOMAN began in the 1940’s,there was an overweight Amazon named“Fatsis”;who was affectionately referred to as “the two-ton hump of grease”.

What are these STEs that he’s a fan of?

All ridiculous ways to spell Steven! There’s only one true way to spell it!

That’s phunnie.

Add Steph Curry to that group.

Time for him to Steph down.

People actually listen to npr??

There’s a British comedian/author named Tony Hawks, always getting confused with the famous skateboarder Tony Hawk. But I don’t think that Tony Hawk would skateboard round Ireland with a fridge.

You know, the Pastis Insult trope gets cumulatively funnier over the years. Was there ever another cartoonist who skewered his own ego like this? The only one I can think of offhand would be Dave Berg of Mad Magazine.

You say Stephan, I say Stefan. Nobody’s gonna confuse Cartoon-Boy with a Smart Guy on NPR!

Take a look at the media bias chart on Allsides.com. NPR news is rated as central and NPR opinion as left leaning. The WSJ is also rated central for news but their opinion is right leaning. Fox News is rated strongly right for both news and opinion and CNN and MSNBC are rated strongly left for both as well.

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