Posted on 01/13/2011 5:05:39 PM PST by Sub-Driver
NPR Launches Offensive Against Congressman Trying to Cut Its Public Funding
published January 13, 2011 | FoxNews.com
National Public Radio is accusing Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., who is leading a Republican charge to cut public funding to the broadcaster, of trying to stifle free speech, a move that puts the embattled network on the offense as it fights fallout from its decision to fire Fox News contributor Juan Williams.
Lamborn immediately fired back, saying the whole point of not funding NPR is to enhance competition and viewpoints.
The tit-for-tat comes just a week after the NPR news editor who fired Williams resigned as the network's board of directors completed its independent review of the dismissal. The directors recommended new internal procedures for personnel decisions and disciplinary action, and cancelled NPR CEO Vivian Schiller's annual bonus because of "concern over her role in the termination process."
Lamborn first introduced his NPR defunding legislation in June, but it didn't receive much attention until the network fired Williams in October over remarks he made on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" about his anxiety over seeing people dressed as Muslims on airplanes.
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GOVERNMENT speech is NOT "FREE" speech, and "public" funding is INVOLUNTARY funding, morons.
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson, 1779
That’s all liberals do - fight. Then they call us haters if we complain. For me, I’d be happy to have my tax dollars support NPR if liberals are also forced to use their tax dollars to support Rush and Hannity and all the rest of our shows....
Not to mention all that equipment, broadcasting real estate, etc, belong to the Tax Payers!
Fire and evict their asses! Sell off the electronics! It ALL belongs to US!
Good one, FreeKeys.
It’s not free speech if the taxpayers are funding it.
Thanks, GOPJ
I will offer some advice to NPR...which they might want to consider. If congress comes to your door and says defunding is to occur, and that measly three percent that you really bragged about the magic amount is wrong...then you’ve got major issues in a sluggish economy. My perception is that your budget guys hid a fair amount of money which funneled its way from other government resources, and twenty percent of your budget is from the government.
Here is my advice. If you packed up the NPR base of operations in Washington DC, and moved everything to Nashville....you’d cut your cost by half. You wouldn’t have to pay your employees the DC rate for salary. You could cut down the rental cost and operating cost by a significant amount. You could get down to a base of operations that wouldn’t require government funding.
Course, there is a negative to this. Nashville would be in the heartland. You’d have to start grasping at how real people think and operate. You’d have to cut back on political news and get back to regular news. You might even have to get back to old fashioned reporting like folks did in 1966.
Only a suggestion.
Nashville is too cosmopolitan for them.
I like Nebraska. Buy them an old farm. Have the talent from “All Things Considered” Milk the cows and sell it. Nina Totenberg can get the corn harvest in. Zero overhead for NPR because the farm offsets any expenditures in the broadcast. Be the most honest work those Commie Pinkos have ever done.
But I like NOva, and Frontline, and Masterpiece Theater....and yes... Lawrence Welk reruns, Barry Manilow and Paul Anka and oldie revivals....and offers to buy the CDs for 100$ donation when I can get them at Walmart for 5$.... What will happen to me?!!!!!?????? I’m starting to hyperventilate here.....Please....tell me... WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MEEEEEEEEEEEE?????!!!!!!!
Yes. And while we are at it, I move that all government agencies, and all government communications including speeches on the floor of the House, be vetted for any and all uses of the word "public," (or "society) - and any instance of the usage of "public" or "society" as a euphemism for government be translated to actually say "government."These thugs want to blood libel Republicans, and use that to censor all the pervasive military metaphors out of Republican (but, you may be sure, not Democrat) speech. Which, as Ann Coulter points out in her characteristically pointed way, would include banning the word "campaign" from political discourse.
Let's see how they like it if a point of order is raised every time they use their trademark euphemisms. They'd be tongue-tied!Note: What's the difference between "society" and "government?" Simple - freedom. In the absence of freedom, but only then, there is no difference.
Well, I guess we can either live in a world where everyone carves off a piece of government cheese until there’s no cheese left, OR we can eliminate the government cheese business altogether. Sure, you might have to watch some commercials or pay for cable to watch NPR, but somehow the nation will go on without government subsidizing and/or taxing literally everything in our lives.
Note to so called small government Republican leaders: you have to actually CUT government to make it smaller.
I’m very pro 1st A, and I think that NPR should be able to broadcast all they want. But their theft of the American people’s money to prop up their existence is not part of the freedoms delineated in the amendment.
Anything in this free republic that needs a government subsidy, stolen from the American people, in order to survive should be defunded and allowed to fail.
I swear, if I happen to be flipping TV stations, and stumble upon something vaguely interesting to watch on PBS, you can rest assured, it will be interupted a few minutes later with a pledge drive.
The ONLY time they show anything worth a spit to watch is during pledge time. I can predict, by the interest factor I might have in the show, without hitting the “info” button, as to wether or not a pledge appeal will pop up in the next few minutes.
Otherwise, its all Tavis Smiley or some other garbage. Even my kids avoided Sesame Street and Arthor when they were younger, we were able to get Tenessee Tuxedo, Mr. Wizard, and all manner of kids programming from cable.
PBS offers nothing of value to the general masses, it is just liberal retreat for those who cannot cope with the reality of the world, and who need reassurance of their liberal views.
Years ago they had some interesting cooking shows, but Food Network even knocked them to the bottom in that category as well.
And the free tote bag with a $200 contribution? You might as well wear a headband that says “Gub’mint Employee” on the bus, because I would predict those are the only folks contributing to PBS.
NPR doesn’t deserve my hard earned money. Its liberal public radio.
Yet I knew they would squeal like stuck pigs if ever their funding came to a vote. Liars all.
NPR is not free speech.
It’s left-wing propaganda paid for by extorting money from the public.
/bingo
Cut their funding already!!!
Yep
The more I read and re-read your idea the more I like it. No, the more I LOVE IT! Can we find a congressman to sponsor adding it to the House rules as a start? How do we go about doing that?
(and see the last post in this thread)
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