Bush Proposes to Cut PBS Funding by 30% (sob)

http://www.apts.org/news/budget07.cfm ^ | February 6, 2006 | FreeManDC

[Trajan88]

Hey PBS... isn't the free market a bee-otch?

[TChad]

THIS IS THE YEAR!

FINALLY!

I JUST KNOW IT!

IT'S REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN!

[KoRn]

"Awesome! I just wish he proposed 100% cuts."

My thoughts indeed. Why is President Bush continuing to go soft on them? :p

[Galveston Grl]

He's gonna pluck poor big bird's feathers out and fry Kermit's legs at the ranch. Soccer moms...DO SOMETHING!!!!
Vote for Ted Kennedy.

[Jack Black]

Bush is a liberal. Why not 100% ?

[EricT.]

the Rats have passed Prozacville and are moving into Droolerstown.

LMAO!!! Good one.

[ChadGore]

[little jeremiah]

Whew - note to self, read whole article before commenting. But, of course, public broadcasting is just a drop in the bucket. Good place to start, though. The only reason to listen to NPR is if you need an emetic.

[conservative_brother]

This is the first time I heard of Bush actually cutting something not just the growth. While he's at it, he should gut National Public Radio by 65%. They're is another radio network that relies on donations, because it can't survive on it's own. Air America LOL!! Let the free marketplace flush both of them.

[taxesareforever]

I believe this is just an election year ploy. There will be no cuts to PBS.

[ChiMark]

This cut might be a drop in the bucket but watch the panic from the left.
This is going to be a real entertaining month on the MSM channels. The hysteria will be unreal.

Just in time to scoop the Olympics. Which is another America bash fest for the MSM and the euro-trash snobs.

[newzjunkey]

PBS's only usefulness is bringing in british-made programs and the best material is always saved for "beg week" where viewers suffer interminable interruptions asking for donations. In today's market of very large channel lineups there's bound to be an alternative.

Let's defund the NEA too while we're at it.

[lndrvr1972]

GOOD!!

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

"Lawson said: “By submitting a budget proposal with cuts of this magnitude, the Administration is completely ignoring the will of the American people as they expressed it quite vocally last June."

Yeah! 30% isn't what Americans wanted...We wanted a 100% cut.

[goldstategop]

Nope. Let's face it, the public face of PBS is Sesame Street and Big Bird. Conservatives attack those revered cultural icons at their peril.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[newzjunkey]

You know there was a special where Charlie Brown did finally kick the football, don't you? He was invisible and successfully kicked the football in 1981's "It's Magic, Charlie Brown."

[napscoordinator]

I am thrilled. I never thought that they should be paying for TV channels and it doesn't even have to due with content. I just don't see why we need to pay for a TV channel that nobody watches.

[Loyal Buckeye]

If funding is cut, PBS will never be able to finish their analysis of why Al Gore lost.

[gridlock]

Anybody want to bet how much the budget actually proposes increasing spending on Public Broadcasting by?

Every little thing ever supported must be supported forever (and at an ever-increasing rate), and everything new is just deferred support for something that should have been funded years ago.

You just gotta think like a Lib!

[bert]

....They won't be able to afford the ten billionth rerun of "Are you being served?"!!!!......

My wife had a series on the local PBS channel that ran for 25 years. She taught the Mother/baby care course that ran at odd times but went on and on and on. It was the longest coutinuous running show on the station.


It may still be on.


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