GOP Moves to Cut Funding for Liberal Outfits NPR, PBS & the National Labor Relations Board
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 6:51 PM
It’s a good thing NPR CEO Vivian Schiller thinks the taxpayer funding is insignificant…
The GOP is pushing to cut public funding for liberal outfits NPR and PBS.
ABC reported:
As the House prepares for debate today on the budget, Republicans are trying to cut off public funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service, which run such iconic programs as “Sesame Street” and “Morning Edition.”
The House Republicans’ budget would rescind any funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which partially supports these two organizations — for the remainder of the year, and zero out millions in funds after that.
This is not the first attempt by Congress to cut funding for what many Republicans see as liberal-leaning broadcast operations.
House Republicans made a proposal in November to strip federal funding for NPR after the radio station fired controversial commentator Juan Williams for comments he made about Muslims.
That bill didn’t pass, but this time, Republicans are in the majority in the House, and many say the cuts are needed to balance the burgeoning U.S. deficit.
“I think they are dead serious. There’s a real concern about budget among lots of people and they’re looking for ways to cut,” said Christopher Sterling, a professor of media and public affairs and public policy at George Washington University.
Also this week Republican Congressman Tom Price (GA) introduced an amendment to completely defund the union-controlled NLRB through the end of FY 2011.
UPDATE: A coalition of conservative groups and Republican lawmakers led by freshman Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy is trying to defund what’s left of the Obama-Pelosi stimulus bill.
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wodun commented:
Something tells me that Sesame Street is strong enough to survive without government funding of PBS. There are many many examples of kid programs that do just fine without the government.
The Republicans want to kill Big Bird attack is more than a little over the top. This must be the new civility.
Granny commented:
Something tell me that just about any television channel in the world would be more than happy to pick up Sesame Street at the very drop of a pin. And pay for it to boot.
Back in the day Public Television definitely did lead the way in children’s programming, educational programming and cooking shows. These days, though, they are far and away behind the times when it comes to most of that . . .
xqqme commented:
Perhaps folks like Bill Moyer will turn over all the profits they made from this taxpayer funded enterprise to fill any budgetary gaps. LOL
Granny commented:
JIM – the link in the UPDATE you posted above is broken.
tarpon commented:
Sounds to me anybody with a brain would bid to pick up the few successful shows on these networks and use them to replace Current TV useless waste of spectrum.
Ginger commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxdB1bhL24&feature=player_embedded
The Fed……..
Granny commented:
#5 Tarpon –
At least some of those successful shows that start out on PBS move to the networks pretty quickly. One of my favorites, Daisy Cooks, started out on PBS. Now she’s on the Foodnetwork Channel.
Ginger commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUUPp8b2dR8&feature=player_embedded
Please…. listen to all of this!
Mikey commented:
This is good news! I shouldn’t have to pay for all the liberal drivel that is spewed via NPR and PBS. The government shouldn’t be in the entertainment business. They shouldn’t be in the automobile business either, but with Socialist Zero at the helm nothing is off limits.
I hope they stand firm on this and abortion issues, as well. It’s time to take our country back from the commies.
DINORight commented:
A very funny and appropriate amendment: cut the funding for The One’s Teleprompter!! TOTUS should be RIFed:
http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2011/02/15/republican-proposes-cut-funding-obama-s-teleprompter
Too bad he pulled it. The One can’t really speak well off the cuff, unless he is doing radical activist Alinsky-speak, that is.
iconoclast commented:
After watching Obamacare get continuing funding from the RINO’s on the Rules Committee, I will wait to see if this is just more happy talk intended for the proles back home before I celebrate.
Faye commented:
Why in the dickens are we still supporting these leeches? This was never the responsibility of the Federal government and we should get the hell out of this entertainment businesses. I don’t care what political propaganda they support, the federal government should have never been in this business.
Too bad the politicians in DC have not got the balls to get us out of it completely.
Just love the socialist talking points of taking tax money to do what the states and local government should do and flake off National security like sealing our borders.
Ginger commented:
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110215/NEWS/110215050/Investigators-enter-Wheeler-s-home?odyssey=tab
rampart ranger commented:
With all the $$$$ brought in by the sale and licensing of Sesame Street characters, if they can’t make a go of it with all that cash inflow, maybe Issa should investigate who has their hands in the till at Sesame Street.
P. Aaron commented:
I’m all for defunding all this non-essential crap!
olm commented:
I CANT wait until they defund this.
I’ll donate or buy more Sesame Street stuff if they defund. I swear I will. This and Planned Parenthood need to be defunded now.
gus commented:
Why? Why do we support an organization that sh!ts on us??
Big L commented:
What a minute. There is no plan to kill PBS or the other two twaddle-purveyors. It is public payments that arebeing stopped. The folks that watch these shows or companies can PAY for it themselves. They can do pledge breaks and bake sales and the rest. The Donks and lefites are setting the argument…Don’t let them get away with it.
Also check out http://www.npr.org and look at the tax return. There are salaries for $300,000.00 per year listed, and a number of $180,000.ones. Also looks like NPR sold a radio station for $115 million. NPR is not impoverished. These folks like the scam of having other pay for it.
olm commented:
That’s absolutely correct. Don’t let them frame the debate. This will not end pbs/npr or planned parenthood, they will just have to operate as a business.
They are desparately trying to frame the debate. Look at the hot troll mess on the muslim gang rape thread. We can not allow the left to frame these debates.
We literally don’t have the money.
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