And yet, Juan will still be a liberal, sadly. :-(
I hope that PBS and NPR *are* defunded and go away...or else that evil CAPITALISM rears it’s ugly head and saves the day when donors respond to keep them running...will all those liberals care enough to do that? Remains to be seen...
A broken clock is right twice a day.
Hey Juan what about EPA??? NPR is a little drop in the Lib Bucket and a sacrificial lamb.
Juan knows the liberal underbelly - he's got their number.
“came to think of themselves as smarter than anyone else”
Nice bitch-slapping.
My daughter is an NPR fan, and we were once stuck in a rental car together ... for three days ... listening mainly to NPR on the road.
Needless to say, she didn’t know much about what is really going on in America; and she pays much better attention to things these days.
The argument against government funding of ANY media has been solid since 1776. Do all liberals have to be mugged by their own before acquiring a modicum of common sense?
Juan Williams may still hold dopey liberal views but he certainly got it right about the corporate mindset of NPR. A leftist organization brooking absolutely no dissent from the egalitarian liberal line and aimed at effete upper middle class liberals while pretending to be both inclusive as well as objective. Even partially funding NPR with taxpayer money is an insult to working Americans and needs to be ended, now.
DSome day Juan Williams may wake up and discover that he was never a liberal. He just thought that if he said the right words and did the right things he would be accepted. What he is finding is that if you are not 100% dedicated to the cause, there is no room for you and that you are just another useful idiot.
Didn’t NPR claim they don’t “need” to be funded by the government?
Cut them off then.
Watch them cry.
It seems to me that Juan is saying that government funded broadcasting, like commercial broadcasting, is still bottom line oriented and therefore bound to become corrupted. He still leaves in place the concept of journalism as a disassociated judge/jury in his inflation of its worth and place in culture.
Juan is right but in the end its not about their anti-intellectual arrogance, though that certainly describes them to a tee.
Funding radio and TV outlets is simply not government’s business. There is no shortage of radio and TV outlets. NPR and PBS can get their own funding. They can continue to seek foundation support, or they can sell ad time like everyone else does. We don’t need a government radio station and we don’t need a government TV station.
I’m celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and the other Schiller.
I do believe my tax dollars will be no longer headed in their direction. It will take a little bit more time to get it done, but I think their days are about done sucking on the tax nipple.
I think a lot of liberal / marxist towers will be falling.
I’m celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and the other Schiller.
I do believe my tax dollars will be no longer headed in their direction. It will take a little bit more time to get it done, but I think their days are about done sucking on the tax nipple.
I think a lot of liberal / marxist towers will be falling.
What do you expect?
NPR is an ivory tower. They lord over the peasants who pay for them.
National Palestinian Radio gets its come-uppance.
I hope not only liberals will fund NPR but conservatives as well. Give folks like O’Keefe, Giles and Lila Rose an outlet for upcoming talent in the wide world of news and talk radio.
NPR needs to lose it’s stigma of being liberal government propaganda if it’s going to survive this present storm.
No Juan we don’t think you’re crazy just too liberal.