Yeah! Why do we have to support PBS?
Because only those who can be forced to pay for it would pay for it.
It was meant to represent those communities, not-white, who were underrepresented on TV. With BET and a boatload of hispanic stations, that function is no longer needed.
Also in the same transcript;
“MARK SHIELDS: I am not as upbeat about it as David. I think that there has been a frenzy of anti-Muslim activity and rhetoric. And it is not just the province of the marginalized, of the few. It has become mainline. It’s become mainline with — for political advantage.
Newt Gingrich, I mean, the man who is described as the brains of the Republican Party, is — is a leading proponent and expropriator of this sort of language. “