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« on: October 27, 2010, 12:22:52 PM »

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39574

On June 30, 1972, two weeks after the Watergate burglars were taken into custody, Richard Nixon vetoed a congressional bill to double and treble federal funding for public broadcasting.

Nixon's stunning veto was sustained. Yet he had only "scotched the snake, not killed it," in the words of MacBeth.

Having escaped the ax, PBS and its little sister, National Public Radio, with their consistently leftist bias, grew fat on 40 years of federal money.

Nixon would express regret he had not followed the advice of those who urged him to terminate taxpayer funding and force public television and radio to compete fairly with private broadcasting.

Early in 2011, a Republican House and a more Republican Senate will have a second chance to succeed where Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush I and II failed to try -- to terminate tax funding of PBS and NPR.

Whether a Republican House will zero out funding for public broadcasting will be an early test of its character. If it gives CPB only a haircut and a pat on the head, the tea party folks should start recruiting candidates to run against GOP incumbents in 2012.
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2010, 01:36:53 PM »

No, I'm a crazy person for suggesting that the GOP would ever touch funding for PBS or NPR! What a ridiculous thing to suggest! No one on the right is even talking about that! And the Republican party has never supported such a thing! Roll Eyes

You people are going to be shocked by how hard and fast this country moves to the right.
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2010, 01:51:04 PM »

Compared to most western civilizations, or eastern civilizations for that matter, we probably fund public television the least.

Not that any of that matters.  Any dime makes it a communist conspiracy.
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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2010, 04:18:46 PM »

While NPR could probably survive on its own(I think they only get 15% of their budget from the gov't), I don't see Obama letting this happen.

Obama and this new Congress are going to get into quite a few fights in the next 2 years.
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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2010, 04:26:03 PM »

While NPR could probably survive on its own(I think they only get 15% of their budget from the gov't), I don't see Obama letting this happen.

Obama and this new Congress are going to get into quite a few fights in the next 2 years.

If nothing else; it'll make for good entertainment.
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2010, 04:31:51 PM »

While NPR could probably survive on its own(I think they only get 15% of their budget from the gov't), I don't see Obama letting this happen.

Obama and this new Congress are going to get into quite a few fights in the next 2 years.

If nothing else; it'll make for good entertainment.

Unlike NPR.
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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2010, 04:39:35 PM »

The deadlock might cause the spending to increase at a slower rate.
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« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2010, 05:15:03 PM »

No, I'm a crazy person for suggesting that the GOP would ever touch funding for PBS or NPR! What a ridiculous thing to suggest! No one on the right is even talking about that! And the Republican party has never supported such a thing! Roll Eyes

You people are going to be shocked by how hard and fast this country moves to the right.

And, now you're on ignore.
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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2010, 05:37:49 PM »

While NPR could probably survive on its own(I think they only get 15% of their budget from the gov't), I don't see Obama letting this happen.

Obama and this new Congress are going to get into quite a few fights in the next 2 years.

If nothing else; it'll make for good entertainment.

Unlike NPR.

We agree on something!

(I know that was meant to troll.. you really should be less transparent)
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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2010, 11:34:49 PM »

While NPR could probably survive on its own(I think they only get 15% of their budget from the gov't), I don't see Obama letting this happen.

Obama and this new Congress are going to get into quite a few fights in the next 2 years.

If nothing else; it'll make for good entertainment.

Unlike NPR.

We agree on something!

(I know that was meant to troll.. you really should be less transparent)
I don't know, I thought it was pretty funny.
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« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2010, 12:48:00 AM »

I dare the GOP to try this. It will only serve to make NPR even more popular.
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« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2010, 12:51:54 AM »

Ah, interstate commerce...
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« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2010, 09:47:43 AM »

I dare the GOP to try this. It will only serve to make NPR even more popular.

If that is true, then it wouldn't need to access federal funds.  Smiley
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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2010, 11:09:37 AM »

Well, look at that! The first thing suggested to be cut on Majority Whip Eric Cantor's official government website? NPR. (link)

I'll now accept apologies from the people who said I was crazy to think the GOP would try to end government funding of NPR.
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« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2010, 11:45:22 AM »

I dare the GOP to try this. It will only serve to make NPR even more popular.

If that is true, then it wouldn't need to access federal funds.  Smiley

Perhaps it is popular with people who have no money MODU.  Marketability is not the same thing as popularity.
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« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2010, 01:29:22 PM »

I dare the GOP to try this. It will only serve to make NPR even more popular.

If that is true, then it wouldn't need to access federal funds.  Smiley

Perhaps it is popular with people who have no money MODU.  Marketability is not the same thing as popularity.

LOL you would be quite wrong about that. Who do you think listens to NPR, Opebo? The poor and downtrodden?
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« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2010, 04:41:25 PM »

I dare the GOP to try this. It will only serve to make NPR even more popular.

If that is true, then it wouldn't need to access federal funds.  Smiley

Perhaps it is popular with people who have no money MODU.  Marketability is not the same thing as popularity.

LOL you would be quite wrong about that. Who do you think listens to NPR, Opebo? The poor and downtrodden?

Liberal arts types. They aren't exactly drowning in money bins.
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« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2010, 04:47:55 PM »

LOL you would be quite wrong about that. Who do you think listens to NPR, Opebo? The poor and downtrodden?

No, I'm aware who listens to it - relatively well off and well educated people.  I do when I'm in the bad place, as did my dear departed father. 

The point I was making was that MODU's presumption was nonsense.
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« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2010, 01:49:52 AM »

Yes, .000000000000000000001% of the budget deficit down, 99.99999999999999999999% to go.
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« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2010, 01:57:12 AM »

Will we get a sing off between the final two to be cut each week?
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