PBS Promises to Die if Romney Is Elected
Despite Juan McAmnesty’s kiss of death, voters have at least one reason to support Mitt Romney:
Responding to front-running Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s assertion that he would end federal funding for PBS, network President Paula Kerger said Wednesday that any such blanket defunding would make it “impossible” for PBS to continue its mission.
That mission: to brainwash Americans into embracing moonbattery. Naturally Obama promises more government funding.
According to Kerger, without coercive financing — i.e., stealing money from people who have no use for PBS and may even actively hate it for spewing corrosive left-wing propaganda — numbers just won’t add up. The creative destruction of the free market would free up a channel on your cable dial for programming people like enough to pay for with their own money, rather than someone else’s. Score another point for the free market.
On a tip from Sean.
Never mind the STATE funding local PBS affiliates get, who in turn must pay exorbitant dues to PBS national
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/local-stations-are-canceling-pbs-contracts
Why do we need government supporting any broadcasting service? If PBS can’t survive on its own in a free market, then it obviously is not providing a service that is wanted or needed by the public.
If only.
Seriously, with all the Elmo and sesame street merchandise, they can’t afford to stay afloat. I’m having a hard time swallowing that.
Dm
To be clear, I’m not supporting PBS I just think they are FOS.
Dm
“It’s For The Children.” Hence PBS is immunized against rationality for eternity.
You can wrap an entire socialist propaganda machine in that one slogan.
A nation of sheople.
I can see the ads:
“Republicans killed Big Bird!”
“Elmo no happy! Elmo sad! Elmo has no job because mean people fired Elmo!”
“Cookie monster can’t afford to eat cookies anymore!”
or this picture
Maybe they can sponge off of the UN and create anti-American propaganda.
Same product, different funding.
I take that back. The UN is funded by the US.
Same old, same old.
Let that program die. If it can’t survive on its own in the free market, it’s because people aren’t interested.
What “your” govt. is doing becomes quite clear when you ask some questions, like;
So where are the Conservative public-funded stations?
And, just when does the Congressional White Caucus meet?
NPR, PBS, all of these leeches need to be burnt off the walls.
Promises, promises. I’m still waiting for that bleeding asshole Alec Baldwin to leave this country. You scum don’t like America – leave. It’s not a prison like your socialist utopia countries.
PBS execs don’t want to have to look for a real job, instead of a cushy, taxpayer-funded free-for-all. I mean really, after years of of no heavy lifting, what could they possibly do in the private broadcast sector?
Yeah, yeah,yeah…don’t let the proverbial door slap ya on the way out. And don’t forget to take Alec Baldwin with you.
Big Bird gets paid over $900,000 a year. Does that sound like anything other than their Communist agenda will die once their hands are pulled out of taxpayers pockets?? Not hardly.
Almost makes me willing to vote for Romney
Just finished a trip along I-10 from Texas to the east coast.
Tried listening to talk radio stations for the distance, but only hit about a 70 percent success rate, and some of the talk radio stations were, uh, questionable (there are a lot of nuts out there).
One thing I think we *could* hear for the entire length of the trip, though, was NPR. It seemed always to be there somewhere when re re-scanned for stations. While some of the programming was local or regional, All Things Considered was a constant during its time slot — I think a two- or two-and-a-half hour stretch in the afternoon.
So at least we had the approved news and information available for a good chunk of the trip. I’m so relieved.
Couldn’t always find talk radio with Rush during the trip, couldn’t consistently find Beck. Nor Levin. (didn’t really want to listen to Hannity). But NPR — always there.
When the Republicans re-take the White House and both houses of Congress, maybe they could officially commercialize NPR and allow shows like Rush and Beck and Levin to be broadcast nationwide on a clean, clear FM signal. West to East, North to South. You’d always be able to find Rush.