[MintyHippo1980]

These guys need to be defunded. Garrison Keillor isn't all that entertaining.

[Red Badger]

Car Talk isn’t all that informative,
I know more than What Do You Know,
I Don’t have to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me,
I live in Scenes From An American Life,
And I know all about Living On Earth............

[cripplecreek]

They’ve been pretty entertaining over the last 24 hours. LOL

[Lando Lincoln]

Good article, but I am not so sure that JFK was weakened to the point his second term chances were threatened. I need to do a little research. If anyone has a source, Ol’ Lando would be grateful.

[samtheman]

I don’t find any of it entertaining. I find the whole station dripping with pretentious self-absorbed narcissism.

But that’s irrelevant. Why should taxpayers ever fund entertainment, of any kind? Good, bad or indifferent?

[driftless2]

A minor quibble. Blumenfeld derides W.F. Buckley Jr. as a neoconservative. W.F. Buckley was a neoconservative???? Buckley just happens to be the godfather of the modern conservative movement.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bernard Mayes, an Anglican-Catholic worker-priest and BBC journalist

say WHAT??? Couldn't find a Jewish-Mormon rabbi-truck mechanic and soccer goalie?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

NPR will have to go it alone without taxpayer money!....To hell with them!

[Tzimisce]

It’s time for NPR to go.

[Mariner]

While I agree no funds should be expended by the congress to support any media (that includes internet infrastructure and content), I DO enjoy some Public Programming. Especially PBS during fund raising. That's when they have the best music...Pink Floyd live etc.

Many of the PBS radio stations double as Classical Music stations as well...and that would be a terrible thing to lose. But, I don't think we would lose Classical Programming if NPR was defunded...that is their money-maker. That's what encourages the BIG donations.

I'm not opposed to Public Broadcasting...I'm opposed to Publicly Funded Broadcasting.

The greatest fear of the libs is that All Things Considered won't be able to attract sufficient resources to survive...while "public radio" will do just fine.

[Viking2002]

Defund them. Let 'em trot out the usual stable of geriatric, hippy-dippy, burned-out 60's folk singers for entertainment during their quarterly fundraising love-ins. They always entertain me in a perverse, driving-by-a-hideous-car-crash sort of way.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[CottShop]

Bill Moyers took a trip around the world with David Rockefeller. Later he wrote in 1990: ‘Secrecy is the freedom zealots dream of: no watchman to check the door, no accountant to check the books, no judge to check the law. The secret government has no constitution. The rules it follows are the rules it makes up’ (Bill Moyers, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1990) p. 7).

This is EXACVTLY what we are seeing come out of the obama administration and ferom the left in general- they are systematically trying tyo dismantal the constitution, and give the government aLL THE POWER TO DO AS IT PLEASES- MAKING UP RULES ALONG THE WAY AS IT GOES.