Last-minute Administration Payment Before the Shutdown: $445 Million (to PBS)

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[chessplayer]

Public-broadcasting fans love to proclaim that PBS and NPR are bravely “independent” of the government. But sometimes, the facts suggest a close symbiotic relationship. Terence P. Jeffrey of CNSNews.com reports that on the first day of the government shutdown, the Daily Treasury Statement revealed no money for clinical trials for cancer, but the administration awarded $445 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Pay the publicist first!

[originalbuckeye]

But PBS is so much more important than everything the Obama Admin has cut! /s

[Henry Hnyellar]

Gotta keep the Ministry of Propaganda open!

[Secret Agent Man]

Let’s not forget they get a cut in all the toy merchandise from the Sesame Street characters and any other stuff they decide to hawk via the capitalist pig consumer-greed system they’re all so opposed to.

Still they love to cry poor four times a year for their fund raisers. I am so surprised the libs just don’t automatically have their checking accounts deducted four times a year via automated payouts to pbs.

[Political Junkie Too]

And they ridiculed Romney for saying he'd cut funding to Big Bird.

-PJ

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks chessplayer.

[sand88]

And they ridiculed Romney for saying he'd cut funding to Big Bird.

The sad reality is Romney was lying when he said such -- he was just trying to fool the Conservative base.

Reagan was the last national leader who tried to shut down the Marxist NPR.

He couldn't get the RINOs to budge.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Propaganda for Barry Soetoro (PBS)

[FlingWingFlyer]

$445 million taxpayer dollars thrown in a sh**hole.

[TurkeyLurkey]

Of course the propagandist arm must be funded above all else!

[FreeAtlanta]

Propaganda is very important to tyrants.

[SevenofNine]

WOW Downtown Abbey is losting money

How come you could get the dvd at Target for 20.00 bucks now