Why the PBS crowd isn't like the rest of America

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 11/30/2001 | Joseph Perkins

[dalereed]

I have always refused to watch PBS but would have liked to see him eat them a new one.

I didn't even watch the hour that I did on PBS when I ran for the Assembly in 1980, I had a friend tape it for me.

[billybudd]

PBS viewers are Europe-infatuated Democratic liberal racist elitist snobs. That's how they're different from real Americans.

[JoeGar]

They are probably liberal and Democratic (like most PBS viewers).

NPR is just as bad. Daniel Schorr has to be the most anti-American commentator on the air.

[NC_Libertarian]

Propoganda Broadcasting Service

[Phantom Lord]

Daniel Schorr has to be the most anti-American commentator on the air.

Along with being one of the hardest to understand. He needs to get new dentures, get the marbles out of his mouth, or retire. Maybe all 3.

[Cicero]

Well, I listen to PBS because I like classical music. But I certainly agree that their idea of "balance" is three liberals interviewed by a liberal reporter and one conservative when they feel especially generous, but more usually none. They introduce Democrats respectfully and let them speak live in their own voices, but they invariably report secondhand what Republicans say, in their own snide voices, and even at that they go out of their way to find a Republican who tells them, "No comment." Their classical music isn't all that great, either, to tell the truth, but usually there's not much else to listen to driving down a country road.

[Tench_Coxe]

"If a reader or a viewer happens to disagree with my perspective on military tribunals -- or any other subject for that matter -- I am happy to entertain their counter-argument. But they lose me when they bring race into the equation.

The irony is that the e-mail writers who took issue with me almost certainly view themselves as enlightened on matters of race. They are probably liberal and Democratic (like most PBS viewers)."

While anecdotal, I have noticed a similar thing in my experience. It always seems to be that the 'enlightened' folks are more concerned with skin color than most.
A good song to illustrate this is Randy Newman's song, "Rednecks".

[ladtx]

My preference is Bluegrass when driving down a country road. Classical when I'm reading at home. Kind of off topic.

[mel]

I like PBS, it makes me feel smart. The dribble they put out is so juvenile, so predictable and so often simply uncorrect.

[VetoBill]

Only reason I watch PBS is Red Green.

[dalereed]

"NPR is just as bad."

Even though I have been actively involved in Republican politics for over 40 years (So. Calif.) I had never heard of NPR until I came to FR 4 years ago and still wouldn't know where to look for it on the radio. To this day, i've never heard anyone here ever mention it.

[NC_Libertarian]

I think your thinking of NPR - National Propaganda Radio.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Liberals just don't understand why a black man WOULDN'T be happy on their plantation. Independent thinking blows their group-think minds.

[wontbackdown]

"My preference is Bluegrass when driving down a country road. Classical when I'm reading at home. Kind of off topic."

When my husband and I were driving through the Mississippi Delta, we had Robert Johnson in the cassette player. Maybe he sold his soul to the devil, but he repented on his death bed. And he was the King of the Delta Blues.

[dalereed]

Did anyone here see this show?

Perkins is not only a solid conservative but he is knowledgable and well spoken and i'll bet he ate them alive.

[NC_Libertarian]

Oh, they're pretty popular. I listen to them from time to time. NPR is likely the most left biased news source in the country. And guess who pays for it?

They do a lot of touchy feely stories about things like the suffering of the Afghanis or about sky-scrapers being symbols of greedy materialistic capitalists that desearve to have planes fly into them.

And to make the rest of their broadcast sound extreme right wing they carry BBC news too.

[woofie]

I too am a man of color ...its just that the color is white

[RosieCotton]

"My preference is Bluegrass when driving down a country road. Classical when I'm reading at home. Kind of off topic." Sounds about right...except that I sometimes find myself going wayyyyy over the speed limit when I listen to bluegrass. Talk about drivin' music!

[skeeter]

PBS viewers are Europe-infatuated Democratic liberal racist elitist snobs. That's how they're different from real Americans.

That, and they seem to like smokey, deisel powered vintage Volvos.

This is obvious because as soon as they get one they paste a PBS sticker in the window.

[Random Access]

PBS viewers are Europe-infatuated Democratic liberal racist elitist snobs.

Thank you for so graciously giving your hard earned dollars, through taxes, to support this welfare program for the terminally trendy. These people know how to spend your money better than you do. You should be grateful that they are willing to help you, so you do not have to make all of those nasty decisions about what to do with the money you earn.