[repub32]

this is outrages

[KansasCanadian]

outrages, series, and hugh, all in one...

[Wolverine]

We should ask all movie goers why this money is justified. Hollywood makes BILLIONS from the public year after year.

[fella]

What? ....... A bunch of ..... those ...... uuuuh ..... little people ..... want the artistic elite to pay for their own back-slapping? Pht .... pht ... How gauche.

[JoeFromSidney]

Yes, it's outrageous. However, it's even more outrageous that Flake learned of it only AFTER he voted for the bill. Why don't those jerks on the Potomac read the bills BEFORE they vote?

[BossLady]

What is an outrage on top of this is the 'goody bags' the celebs get for presenting awards etc. Some worth 10-50K!!!!! What a crock the whole thing is!

[Blood of Tyrants]

The obvious answer is that liberals support all kinds of causes, as long as they can use other people's money. Liberals are cheap bas#*%&$!

[TheBattman]

This is about as bad as I have ever heard....

[ScottLA37]

Does this make everyone at the grammies government employees? If so I think everyone who works for, presents, and receives grammies should be drug tested.

[Sonny M]

I never realized (though I should have)that they recieved tax payer money. Then again, a bunch of rich liberals, wanting tax payer money, why am I not in shock.

[DBrow]

Let me throw this out- 800G means that the government has a stake in the grammys, and the 800G can be taken away if the folks running it don't behave. Sort of like highway funds tied to education programs.

Listen to all the rumors going around that the committee asked all the performers not to use their stage time as an anti-war protest. The guys running the show maybe wanted to keep getting the 800,000 bucks?

Money can be a leash as well as a tool and how much is it worth to prevent Bono and Crow from using the airtime for their own purposes? Of course Clinton had the same leash, as did Bush I.

$800,000 is less than one Superbowl ad spot.