Posted on 03/21/2011 9:58:48 AM PDT by dbehsman
Former PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers is at it again, agitating against Republicans for daring to oppose National Public Radio subsidies. In the latest installment (with Michael Winship) on The Huffington Post, Moyers concluded with a quote illustrating "the importance of a public media whose obligation is not to a political or corporate paymaster, but to the integrity of the work and the trust of the listener." NPR, he claimed, was like Kennedy's tribute to the poet Robert Frost:
"The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state," Kennedy said. "... In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having 'nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.'"
NPR is somehow against intrusive, meddlesome government? Moyers insists that somehow public broadcasting is the only media check on the conservative movement in America. Those other private networks don't seem to be any help to liberals at all.
Republicans, we're told, are on a crusade "to feed red meat to Fox News and the partisan talk radio hosts who have turned the public airwaves -- remember, the airwaves above our fair and bountiful land belong to you, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. America -- into a right-wing romper room."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
bttt
The positive and optimistic structure and learning environment of Rush’s “Romper Room,” vs. the vile, reprehensible “piss Christ” of NPR’s “art”?
OK... that comparison is fine with me.
First time that I’ve heard Commmunist Propaganda is “art”.
FTA: Moyers: “personal vision of reality”
Reality is or is not.
This insanity of such a statement is pure liberal moral realtivism and automatically causes me to ignore anyone who spouts it.
back in ancient italy, the artists, like Michelangelo, had to perfect their skills to be better able to sell items created to potential buyers.
once you provide govt assistance, the need to push ones skill level is removed.
capitalism:
govt assistance:
you decide
Wasn’t Romper Room carried on PBS back in the 60’s?
so why is “art” always with a left wing bias?
More like pornography.
If the airwaves above our beautiful land belong to us, then let us listen to what we choose! We choose with our dollars right wing radio where the truth is discussed, not partisan, funded with our stolen money NPR.
If NPR is Art, is it objective or subjective? If subjective, should it be given federal funding?
What a dunce. Bill Moyers is seemingly lacking in even a scintilla of self-awareness. He is the perfect caricature of the effete, Walter Mitty-esque, clueless yet holier-than-thou leftist.
An important part of the “art” of producing left-leaning news is knowing when to divert the listener’s attention to some totally irrelevant topic and in the process consume the program’s limited time slot.
Thus the “art” of NPR is not only how they cover what topics they choose to report on, but what they choose to not report on at all and instead have erudite stories about Amazon native’s struggle with toe fungus.
He's made the transformation from useful idiot to generic idiot.
Romper Room is the only thing that he can understand now. His keepers are hoping that someday he may be able to understand old reruns of Barney and maybe even Teletubbies.
9 to 5 and 5 to 9
Ain’t gonna take it
It’s our time
We want the world
and we want it now
We’re gonna take it anyhow
~Ramones
Bill Moyers made a fortune selling tapes of shows that were produced with NPR/taxpayer money and shielded from corporate taxes. Art, you bet, the art of the ripoff.
*Moyers: NPR Is Like Art
I agree. It’s a leech. The old masters are spinning in their graves.*
It’s the same kind of art that National Endowment for the Arts promotes. The kind that involve urine and feces
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage." - Saul Alinsky
Every no-talent liberal bum I know has been e-mailing me about the tragedy, wanting to sign petitions, etc.
For the life of me, I can't understand why they're so supportive of an organization they have zero chance to be noticed by.
LOL, this drunk driving imbecile Moyers is still around?
Good grief.. Some people have absolutely no shame.
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