Long-time NPR host and liberal Ira Glass got a pit-bull...and demonstrates "suicidal empathy"

 
Ira Glass was host of a regular NPR program called "This American Life."  He was married to...well we'll leave that for a bit.  

Glass's wife had a pit bull that died just before the pair married, and the new wife wanted another one.  Glass agreed, and what happened for years after that says everything you need to know about liberals.

The dog had mysterious eating problems.  Glass hired dozens of experts, and ended up feeding it kangaroo, ostrich and rabbit, then bison, tuna, venison.  They started spending more time cooking for the dog than for themselves.  Since fresh kangaroo meat is rare, Glass began taking daily, hour-long trips get fresh kangaroo meat for the dog.

And making excuses for the many times it bit people.  With characteristic liberal dismissal of attacks by demons, Glass always called these "nips," even though they drew blood.  People couldn't come over to his apartment or they'd be attacked.

"Nips."  Keep that in mind as we continue.

He also put the dog on Prozac and Valium, again because "the experts" said to.  To reduce the "nips," eh?

Nancy Updike was an NPR producer who had known Glass for 17 years.  She realized that Ira saw his pit bull as "helpless, dependent and precious, rather than as a vicious dog that was forcing him to throw his time down the drain."

Updike didn't understand why the seemingly intelligent Glass would allow the dog to take over his life, and she said her lack of understanding seemed to offend Glass, who responded,
>>It's really sweet to have this animal that trusts no one, and is alone in this world except for us.  And he trusts us.>>

There's a name for this: "suidical empathy."  Keep that in mind, as we'll return to it later.

Updike quotes one of Glass's efforts to get some of his life back: "I feel like, let's just put him in [a boarding facility] overnight so we can have a dinner party.  But Anaheed [his wife] isn't into that."

If Glass is starting to sound like an abused wife, you're on the right track.

Ira and Anaheed eventually divorced, and later he confirmed that the dog contributed to his marriage failing.  Ah, the beginnings of waking up, perhaps?

Hahahahaha!  No.

Ira and his wife adopted this animal in part because they wanted to defy the perception that pit bulls were bad.  They wanted to show that smart, compassionate people could take a dog other people believed was vicious and unpredictable, raise it well, and have everything turn out fine.

Ira and Anaheed were addicted to the 'feel-good' notion that they were protecting an underdog, saving and protecting this sweet, loving animal from a world that didn't understand it.

Starting to see where this is going yet?



It is genuinely shocking to read through these interviews and this story and to see that a man who is genuinely insightful about so many topics could show such a pathological level of self-sacrificial adoration for a monstrous animal

NPR producer Updike says the last time she saw Anaheed in the office, the dog was with her.  Updike went to hug Anaheed, who warned 'No, don't come near me.  Don't look at the dog.'  So we stood there, chatting, ten feet apart."

The person who posted this (not Updike) concludes
>>Don't be delusional about pit bulls. Don't sacrifice your life for something that can't even begin to love you. Don't become indignant toward others for disliking your evil dog.

One couldn't ask for a better example of "suididal empathy:"  Liberals like Glass and his wife support letting an unlimited number of unvetted foreigners to enter the U.S. and remain forever, regardless of past criminality.  Because libs are totally convinced that if a po' "refugee" raped or murdered anyone in their home nation it must be that they were wrongly accused, or oppressed, or forced to rape or kill.  If only we would welcome 'em to the U.S. they'll be fine, upstanding citizens!  Yep yep yep!

And no power on the planet can dislodge that irrationality from their brains.  No number of murders or rapes or Americans killed by imported deadly drugs will do that.  And I totally get it: it's because liberals almost always support those they see as misunderstood victims--underdogs.  It's why liberals support and defend Luigi Mangione, Tyler Simpson, Hamas killers who brutally tortured and murdered 1,200 people on Oct 7, 2023 and kidnapped another 250 and held them underground for two years.

Yet liberals like Glass side with the killers, since libs bleat that the killers are really victims.  Seriously.

"Suicidal empathy" is when the po' misunderstood, oppressed pipo the libs embrace turn around and kill them.  Of course it's never exactly them, but always some really innocent person like nursing student Laken Riley who never invited 'em into the country, never insulted or injured the po' oppressed demon who murdered 'em.

If Renee Good had been killed by an illegal alien, it would never have made news, and Leftists would have ignored it.

Ira Glass's ex-wife, Anaheed

Source 1 

Source 2 

https://web.archive.org/web/20151229103946/https://www.petful.com/pet-health/ira-glass-dog-piney/

https://newsweek.com/ira-glass-rescuing-pit-bull-dog-ridiculous-diet-64551