About frikken' time!
House Republicans announced Wednesday they plan to force a floor vote on defunding NPR in response to the firing of analyst Juan Williams last month.
House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) said that cutting funds to the publicly subsidized news organization was the winner of the conference's weekly "YouCut" contest, in which the public votes online on spending items they want eliminated.
Expect the squealing of stuck pigs decrying how Republicans are "Philistines" who hate the arts!
"When NPR executives made the decision to unfairly terminate Juan Williams and to then disparage him afterwards, the bias of their organization was exposed," the two Republicans said in a statement. "Make no mistake, it is not the role of government to tell news organizations how to operate. What is avoidable, however, is providing taxpayer funds to news organizations that promote a partisan point of view. Eliminating taxpayer funding for NPR is precisely the kind of commonsense cut that we have to begin making if we want to fundamentally alter the way business is conducted in Washington.”
L'affaire Williams is simply the straw that broke the camel's back. From "Morning Sedition" on, NPR has had a very leftward tilt. Let them compete on the marketplace or if they want to remain non-profit, let them rely on like minded contributors, not the taxpayer.
H/T memeorandum
Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.
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I hope this sticks. It's not even so much the money as it is the principle. The federal government should not be funding TV and radio programs, even if taxpayer funds now only provide a small fraction of the total.
ReplyDeleteThey like to act as if they are poor pubic servants, but Bill Moyers makes millions off of that racket.
If they want to continue fleecing guilty white latte liberals that's their right, but leave the government out of it.
Who has two thumbs and a huge freaking smile? This guy.
ReplyDeleteAbout damn time. I have been wanting them to defund NPR going on 15 years now. We can pass obamacare overnight but it takes a decade and a half to defund Pravda? WTF
Let Big Bird and Ernie carry their own weight on PBS as well.
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