Posted on 07/20/2007 12:14:18 PM PDT by California Desert Rat
Washington - The House voted Wednesday evening to reject President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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I wish Bush would show some cojones by vetoing the piece of the budget that encompasses public broadcasting funding, then use his executive powers to revoke every "public broadcasters" license.
For God's sake, there's probably more actual "news" content in Al Jazeera than in NPR!
Anyway, I give Doug Lamborn a lot of credit for pushing on this.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Funny isn't it how this has become an issue now. All the years the Republicans controlled Congress could have been used to de-fund PBS and NPR. But nope.
It absolutely puzzles me how taxpayers are required to fund these agencies which openly aid our enemies, promote illegal entry into the country, glorify faggotry, celebrate abortion, and oppose capitalism. And, they’re paid very well to do all of this damage BTW.
And Bush would have gone along with it, but nope, it didn’t happen.
The Republicans should have de-funded PBS (and the National Endowment for the Arts) when they held both houses of Congress and the White House.
$420 million? That’s about half of what Children’s Television Workshop makes a year off the Licensed Products they sell on that hour long advertisement Sesame Street and they have the nerve to send Elmo up to the Hill and beg for more money from the taxpayers.
We had the opportunity to do this for 6 years, and didn’t. And now they try it with a Dem congress. Makes you think its all for sure and the they never wanted it defunded.
Bush can still kill the public broadcasting monster with a veto. He need only tell Congress that particular slice of the budget goes nowhere unless public broadcasting is defunded. But it’s going to take some noise from our quarters to make that happen. Once they’re defunded it should be relatively easy to de-license the local operators.
Anyone in the WH reading this?
Millions for National Palestinian Radio, but the same legislative traitors nix a raise for our troops in the field, and protection of Joe Citizen when he reports suspicious terrorist activity a la the Flying Imams.
God almighty. And yeah, why didn’t President Bush eliminate this boondoggle when he held Congress? Wouldn’t have been compassionate?
Rodger that, adding all of this money should be used for the war effort.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’d settle for seeing a few of those dollars set aside for prosecuting Bill Moyers for being a quisling POS. Doing so might make a few others think twice before opening their treasonous yaps.
It’s a wonderful issue for re-energizing a dispirited base. I would forgive a lot if the WH decided to run with this ball.
I can’t help but wonder what would have happened to editors and reporters who carried on in WWII the way PBS/NPR “journalists” do now. I suspect more than a prison sentence would have been involved.
The GOP isn't really interested in reducing the size of government. Quite the opposite, actually.
That's why I donate money to individual candidates, not the party. The party is only marginally less corrupt than the other one.
It is not just Sesame Street that rakes in the cash. Just walk through Toys R Us and look at all of the stuff connected with PBS kids shows. Barney, Clifford, Teletubbies, and a host of other shows generating billions in sales every year. The PBS share could easily fund everything that the CPB does.
Wait...I just realized what I said....
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