The Blaze
The New York Post reported Monday that the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, sent a memo to Congress requesting the elimination of the funding [for PBS and NPR]. He is also pushing to codify other budget cuts identified by the Department of Government Efficiency. More
Just means more great rock concerts while they beg for even more money.
“I like PBS. I love Big Bird….But I’m not gonna keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.”
Mitt Romney on defunding PBS in 2012.
I’d ditch NPR (National Pinko Radio) before PBS.
I hope there’s a grave site so I can start planning my piss pilgrimage.
Public broadcasting has always been a bad mistake, even though, a long, long time ago, they would occasionally produce something worthwhile. It’s been so long that I can’t remember what. Nova comes to mind, but Sagan’s unctuous personality spoiled it all.
“Follow That Bird!”
TO OBLIVION
Uncle Al, Carl Pagan’s boring monotone voice was guaranteed to put me to sleep every Sunday night when we watched him on Cosmos on PBS back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. But he still wasn’t as big a phony as Neil DeGrasse is on the current rendition of Cosmos.
If you try to watch anything on PBS these days, very little is available that is free. Almost all is premium content that requires a paid membership. So taxpayers are footing what is not available to them.
NPR = NDR = National Democrat Radio. PBS = DPS = Democrat Public Broadcasting. Together, they spell Pravda.
Alone in the Wilderness is a favorite of mine.
Probably because it was filmed by the subject and not some Hollywood idiots.
OMG! What will my sister-in-law do?
Maybe she’ll wake up…
Where will I get my daily fix of Democrat, Socialist, and Communist talking points? Oh, right, NYT, CNN, pMSNBC, ABC…..
Good riddance!
We’re pretty heavy watchers of some of the programming that’s under the Masterpiece Theater umbrella. A lot of that programming is funded by grants from various foundations, charitable trusts and even individuals.
They are also running commercials to help fund the programming. They put those forth as messages from sponsors but that’s disingenuous. Viking River Cruises is in the business of filling ships that cruise the waterways.
I also still like watching This Old House. Yeah, they’re all a bunch of lefties but I am interested in seeing new building materials and methods. Home Depot “sponsors” that programming.
My bottom line is that I don’t want PBS to go away, I just want them to cease sucking on the taxpayer tit.
MrLiberty: I addressed that in a blog post a few years ago: https://theconservativekitchentable.blogspot.com/2019/08/show-me-themoney.html
Masterpiece Theater started with The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Funny thing, though, I first saw ithat on CBS in 1970. After airing that, PBS followed up with Elizabeth R, and they spared no effort to let everyone know that it would be the first time on American TV that there would be full frontal nudity.
I watched it, but only for the articles.
Just like Jimmy Carter reading Playboy for the articles, yeah sure.
In prehistoric times when radio wasn’t available every square inch twice times NPR and younger sibling PBS made a little sense. Once full coverage of signal occurred both should properly have been terminated.
pbs & npr: pimp yo causes on yo dime, property, & time
It would still be public broadcasting. The same silly, leftist women can still donate billions of their dead husbands’ hard earned money so they can flaunt their generosity in the donations listing at the beginning of each Brit sitcom show.
“public” anything soon becomes a “public” toilet…schools, transportation, etc.