But I'll bet he tastes like chicken.
Posted on 08/22/2005 12:08:28 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
From the newsletter of Rep. David Obey (D-Wisconsin):
"Public broadcasting is America's voice.
Unfortunately, there are those in Washington who don't like public broadcasting because they can't control what's being said. This year, they tried to use the tight budget to justify cutting nearly 40% of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's federal funding. Such a cut would have devastated public broadcasting, spelling the end for such classics as Sesame Street and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
That was simply unacceptable to me; and to the tens of thousands of Americans who called Congress to tell my colleagues to keep their hands off public broadcasting. Apparently my colleagues listened, because when Nita Loewy (D-NY), James Leach (R-IA) and I offered an amendment to restore funding for public broadcasting it passed with a wide majority on the House Floor.
The fight's not over year - we must still negotiate a compromise with the Senate and get the President to agree but, thanks to the public's outpouring of support, it looks like public broadcasting will ge the money it needs next year."
No one speaks of the millions made by licensing Sesame Street characters (esp. that damn Elmo!)
Dear Rep. Obey, maybe we can replace the funds by having Big Bird steal the needed funds from a Boys/Girls club....sort of like Er Amerika.....seems to be working ok for them.......
With all the licensing, the reuse of up-to-35-year-old footage, the 'repackaging' of 10-year-old shows to Noggin, video sales, etc., etc., etc., 'Sesame Street' is the last business that needs to be supported by tax dollars (and I say that as a parent of three young children who watch it regularly).
PBS is becoming the Amtrak of the air.
Big Bird is gay.
Your tax dollars at work supporting the ANTI-AMERICAN PBS and NPR....
The insanity of OUR TAX DOLLARS being used to promote the demise of our own country....hello???
Just as Pravda was the voice of the Soviet Union. PBS should be ended for that same reason. The government doesn't need a voice. And don't worry about Big Bird, Children's Television Workshop brought in $6,809,000 in Program sales and Royalties and $66,043,000 in Publishing and Licensing in 2004.
Get the socialists to understand that by simply selling advertising instead of having "corporate sponsers" (a form of advertising but counted as a tax break for the "greedy corporations"), CTW could easily make up the operating loss of $1,836,000.
As for Newshour, how many cable companies would pay good money to get Jim Lehrer and his team to join them? PBS does have quality programming. And it can all be put on commercial television and would attract larger audiences than it does now. But it's not about quality programming, it's about spending tax dollars ineffectively that socialists love.
Nonsense.
If 'America's voice' is to be found anywhere it would be on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
But I'll bet he tastes like chicken.
Except PBS has billions in revenue.
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