The AP reports that a U. S. House committee has voted to cut some government funding for PBS and NPR.
Rep. Nita Lowey (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., brought puppets of "Sesame Street" characters Bert and Ernie to remind Republicans of the battle 10 years ago when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., unsuccessfully led the charge to take away subsidies for public broadcasting, but relented after a public outcry.
I don't think there'll be much of an outcry this time. Most of the public is indifferent to PBS and NPR. And while both have their loyal supporters, growing numbers of Americans are put off by public broadcasting's leftist tilt.
Yes, PBS and NPR insist with straight faces they have no such tilt. Then they go our and hire the biased, America-bashing BBC to bring us "news."
Who's fooled?
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I ain't. Anyone with half a brain can tell how biased PBS is.(Ahem, "Postcards from Buster" comes to mind...) We shoulda' cut the funding years ago.
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