Posted by: justenjoyhim | November 13, 2007

Open Records Talk Today At 3:00 On NPR

via Theresa, AKA Ungrateful Little Bastard. Help get the word out!!:

Adam Pertman of Evan B. Donaldson Institute will be on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” today at 3 p.m. (Eastern). Also on will be Tom Atwood of NCFA and someone from the ACLU, so it will be sort-of two versus one. Please get word out immediately about the show so that people can call in to provide their comments, support the Institute’s work, and comment on whatever the other two guests have to say. Call-in number is 800-989-8255.

I’m just going to re-post the comments that I left on her blog. They fit.

1. Adam Pertman continues to be my hero.

2. I can’t help it, every time ACLU comes up in this context, I feel personally disappointed by them. :(

3. Not so much the NCFA; they’ve always had a lot of suckage.

4. Thanks so much for the heads-up. I HAVE to remember this and listen!!

5. You rock, as always.

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EDITED TO ADD: Some listings have Talk of the Nation at 12:00. *sigh* Others have it at 6:00 p.m.

Right now where I am we have Fresh Air. Hmmmm.

Responses

Judy, I nominate you to call in.

Really.

I’ll just get all uppity and lose control, but I know you’ll just give them the velvet hammer and be all controlled and awesome.

Tina

(PS if you hear a nervous, high-pitched voice who isn’t making any sense but is trying to convince people that Adam is right, that’ll be me

Tina,

Actually, I’d probably get really flustered and talk in circles, because, Adam Pertman? — rock star hero god status to me.

Yeah, it’s true. I know, I know, a geeky rock star hero god status, but still.

What can I say? I love his brains.

You better call sistah.

Well the ACLU never fails to give me to willies and I’ve never heard of anything decent they have ever done. They ALWAYS come down on the wrong side of a subject.

oh and YOU BETTER CALL I won’t be listening, but you’d better call :)

Erin, I think politically we’re cancelling each others’ votes out ;) , so we’ll just have to respectfully disagree on political issues. I actually agree with much of what the ACLU does and stands for; that’s why their stance on this issue disappoints me so very much.

And Erin and Tina — I think the actual broadcast was noon and by the time I figured that out, it would have been too late to call. Or something.

I’m confused, at any rate.

I ended up having a really productive time helping an adoptee (!!) who was doing research for her paper on open records — YAHOO!! What timing! :)

I actually got the Press Release about it this morning and posted at musings with the contact number, too. (It was 3 Eastern time.)

And Judy, I’m with ya on the ACLU thing. I’m often aligned with them on so many things … except this one. Strange feeling, indeed.

3 Eastern time, only not where I live, GRRRR!!!

Very frustrated about missing it!!

Yeah, Gretchen, I hear ya! The ACLU backs libraries on freedom to read/not banning books, The Privacy Act (not letting the government just come in and get peoples’ library records), etc. And I like their stance on most other issues. But I really hate their stance on this one and it just confounds me.

Pertman might be a hero to adoptive parents, but he certainly isn’t to many adoptees, and he hasn’t done transracial adoption any favors, either.

http://www.babylovechild.org/2007/11/14/adam-pertman-please-shut-up/

Susan,

Is that from a transcript of the show? I obviously need to listen to the show and/or read a transcript of the show. That doesn’t sound at all like what the report said.

It sounds as if he totally backtracked on the report.

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