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President Trump Could Slash $500 Million from Public Broadcasting
Breitbart California ^ | 11/22/16 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 11/22/2016 5:19:45 PM PST by markomalley

With President-elect Trump promising to pay for his infrastructure and defense spending by defunding non-essential federal spending, one of the first programs on the block could be the almost $500 million spent on public broadcasting.

Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding.

Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left. An NPR article described the 2016 election results as “nostalgia for a whiter America.”

After Joel Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism” in a Nov. 16 interview, NPR’s ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives, who may be “normalizing hate speech.” Instead, guests with presumably controversial views should be pre-taped, she said, so that their opinions might be “contextualized.” (NPR clarified on Monday evening that it will continue to air live interviews with conservatives.)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; cutgovernment; cutspending; defundnpr; federalspending; liberaltalkradio; trump; trumpmedia; trumpstillwinning; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain
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To: markomalley

I actually listen to a lot of NPR. To them leading up to the last few weeks of the election wikileaks did not exist. They should be defunded.

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21 posted on 11/22/2016 5:30:36 PM PST by nomorelurker
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To: Skepolitic

Why do taxpayers need to fund liberal cultural projects?

Isn’t Hollywood enough.


22 posted on 11/22/2016 5:30:38 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: markomalley

Oh, PLEASE, make it so! I don’t care that they are liberal liars. What I care about is them getting ANY tax monies and being a so-called “Non-profit.” Let them compete in the market place of ideas like everyone else.

“Listener sponsored” is their continual cry. Christian radio makes it work with one pledge drive a year and no government subsidies. NPR should try it.


23 posted on 11/22/2016 5:31:25 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: markomalley
It's a start.

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24 posted on 11/22/2016 5:31:37 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: ealgeone

It’s nothing but brainwashing of the little ones anymore. It needs to go


25 posted on 11/22/2016 5:31:37 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: markomalley

When they’re done, public broadcasting ought to look like Gettysburg on July 5 1863.


26 posted on 11/22/2016 5:31:49 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: ealgeone; butlerweave

You guys do know that Sesame Street is now owned and produced by HBO?


27 posted on 11/22/2016 5:32:09 PM PST by PJBankard
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To: markomalley

Do it. Save the $’s or re deploy elsewhere. $500M. A good start.


28 posted on 11/22/2016 5:32:48 PM PST by Swanks
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To: markomalley

overdue by decades. i suggested it on his website.


29 posted on 11/22/2016 5:33:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: markomalley

it’s a good start...


30 posted on 11/22/2016 5:33:53 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Professional

A wholly reasonable proposal.


31 posted on 11/22/2016 5:34:18 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: PJBankard

They can still pay for it. They’re on the show IIRC.


32 posted on 11/22/2016 5:34:53 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: markomalley

What a GREAT, absolutely FANTASTIC IDEA which is WAY WAY overdue!!


33 posted on 11/22/2016 5:37:33 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: markomalley

Absolutely. I despise Public Broadcasting. No MSM organization is more biased against American values than these outfits. SHUT THEM DOWN!


34 posted on 11/22/2016 5:38:58 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: markomalley

I like it!


35 posted on 11/22/2016 5:41:14 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: markomalley

More winning please!


36 posted on 11/22/2016 5:41:22 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: markomalley
Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left.

It doesn't matter where they lean, it only matters that the government shouldn't be paying for it.

37 posted on 11/22/2016 5:42:00 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: goldstategop

If Trump does that, he would have the gratitude of the country.
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He would certainly have my family’s gratitude. Anti-American propaganda outlets doing damage at taxpayers’ expense. Shameful!


38 posted on 11/22/2016 5:42:55 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: cableguymn

I second that.


39 posted on 11/22/2016 5:44:40 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: markomalley

He should do it his first day in office.

Let the liberals pay for their liberal network.


40 posted on 11/22/2016 5:45:02 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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