I don't listen to it. I see no need to fund it. I have in the past, but that was before they took a sad turn for the dark side and I had a rekindled interest in the light.

I still recall with fondness the social / fundraising things we did when I was a Young Republican.

I too was a long-time listener, but I listen no more.

While I used to believe that they're reporting was fairly fact-based, recently the interviews have been so negative, cynical, and passive-aggressive, I'd rather listen to sports talk than NPR. They used to be sensitive about objectivity, but no longer.

Also, one gets tired of pieces about folk music artists in far-away land, that no one gives a #$!*! about.

Enough.

Agreed. I have gone from big fan to can't even listen. Threw that baby out with the bathwater.

I think all public donations to NPR should be cancelled immediately. As to private donations, thats the business of the people who donate.

Exercise your free will. Be amazed if they answer correctly. Odds are next to zero that any volunteer fund raiser for NPR can answer correctly. Maybe they will start their long overdue education. Follow on question - why does BHO have no idea what it is?

Why would I contribute if they answer the question?

I'm glad my post lead you to happy memories. I have no doubt that many NPR listeners 20 or 30 years ago could define American Exceptionalism. I doubt many could now.

"no chance they will know the answer. "
I don't know. I met someone who occasionally volunteered for public radio. She had worked at a top DC law firm before returning to the Midwest. I'm sure she knows what it means.

I had actually forgotten about it, and it brings back happy memories because she's my wife. Before we did things like Cub Scouts and football we did things like NPR, young professionals groups, UU events. I can hardly remember those events.

Perhaps my post wasn't clear. My goal in this is to see if a volunteer fund raiser for NPR can simply define American Exceptionalism. Correct = donation. Incorrect = no donation. Give them motivation to try to answer. I believe there is no chance they will know the answer. So, when they look it up, then compare that to the way BHO defined it, that might, just might start them thinking. I know. Long odds of that. The focus is on the definition. Frankly, since 40% of Americans cannot name the three branches of government, the odds are much higher they cannot define American Exceptionalism. I hope this clears it up a little more. I will call our local station and test my theory. Just trying to educate some folks.

"Obama spoke of America's Exceptionalism was when he turned Lybia into a hornets nest."
That's the first thing I thought of too. President Obama turned used the phrase a new way, using it to mean the US is an empire or at least the world's police force. It was such a stark juxtaposition for me to hear him talk about American exceptionalism to support that view.

I'm huge fan of NPR, BTW. I do not hold President Obama's statement against any news outlet.

Let NPR die a well deserved death.
But, of course, it won't die. It's a government fed zombie that infects those who can't think for themselves with communist ideas proven to destroy liberty and centralize power in a dictatorship.

JS who also coined the useful idiots line.
One Of the many times Obama spoke of America's Exceptionalism was when he turned Lybia into a hornets nest.
In Libya, many of his top advisers, including his defense secretary, urged him not to use the U.S. military to protect citizens from attacks by forces loyal to dictator Moammar Gaddafi. The United States didn’t need another war in a country of only peripheral interest. Obama overruled them, citing America’s “indispensable” role.

“Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries,” he said in a speech shortly after the bombing began. “The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”

Well by not waiting for the images and acting he sped up the slaughter and mass graves because Kaddafi went hard after Islamic extremists and killed 300 .
The death toll continues as the millitia's in Libya
Fight for control. Not to mention the slaughter of Americans at the Benghazi compound.

But this is eye opening over 11,000 have drowned trying to escape the hell hole he created.

Libya's proximity to the Italian island of Lampedusa and the closing of the EU-Turkey border has increased the flow of migrants entering Europe via the Libyan coast.
This year, around 26,886 migrants have crossed to Italy, over 7,000 more than during the same period in 2016. Since 2014, an estimated 11,221 people have drowned while taking the central Mediterranean route.

No mass graves needed when eaten by sharks.