So there’s this movement of people really angry about their tax money being wasted. And the federally funded NPR — which pretty much everyone agrees is a waste of tax dollars — decides to make fun of them as stupid and Nazis. At this point can we now classify NPR as too dumb to live?
So how much crappy, left-wing media do we need before we no longer feel the need to federally fund it? And where in the Constitution is this even allowed? I know liberals consider the “general welfare” clause this huge loophole they can drive anything through, but can anyone really argue that Car Talk is needed for our welfare?
Anyway, I think the Tea Party movement has found a new target. It might not be the largest part of the budget, but it’s something pretty much anyone with sense would agree is stupidly spent. I might have supported government spending on entertainment if the federal government were to interfere in the market to save Arrested Development or Firefly, but I don’t see why what’s on NPR is so special. Time to swim with the sharks.
So my government mocks me (but has the authority to take my money).
Is there any wonder why I hate the government?
No one listens to NPR anyway. No one can take them seriously when they claim to forgo commerical sponsorships and yet take the time to thank so-and-so companies for their charitable donations, and such rubbish.
At least their not using our money for porno this time.
I had a prof in college who, shockingly, was entirely illiberal…he always called it Nazi Propaganda Radio.
I hope NPR didn’t pay for that animation. There is better stuff coming from teenagers hold up in Grandma’s basement. I guess the lefties know their audience, which in this case seems to be pitched at the pre-school level. Satire doesn’t work unless something in it is actually true! Bah!
Frank, you aren’t going far enough. Any and all government operations not directly targeted at killing terrorists, potential terrorists, people who sort of think maybe terrorists have a point or at securing the US Borders or finding and developing domestic supplies of 91 octane gas for my 4wd truck should be shut down completely.
And the people who do listen to NPR and PBS should also be forced to pay back the US taxpayer for every penny wasted on it over the last 40 years.
Well, except for the PBS part that paid for Monty Python, Red Green and the Hitchhiker’s Guide….
Hey, I like Car Talk.
DP is right. Car Talk is great! after I heard them counsel a prius owner that the running their car out of gas & battery would leave them at the mercy of an svu owner who would likely beat them up and steal their arugula and organic sandals.
Still doesn’t begin to make up for Mario & Me. Alan Chartok is singularly responsible for Fred Thompson creating the punch a hippie rule.
The only things I ever watched on PBS were the re-runs of British comedy shows like Monty Python, Hitch Hikers Guide, and Red Dwarf.
The only things I ever listened to on NPR are Car Talk and Prairie Home Companion.
What do these shows have in common?
They were entertaining, and thus could have made it on any network or radio station without tax-payer support.
Has PBS or NPR ever produced anything original that would justify spending a dime on them?
National Pricks Radio
Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion are the only good things about NPR. The news parts suck, the narrative things are pretentious and also suck, and everything else sucks.
It’s against the nature of conservatives – and EVERY proud American – to beg other people for money. And so we get the liberal bastions of PBS and NPR…where liberals do what they do best: beg for money and promote their socialist, perverted agenda.
It’s funny how most liberals that i argue with, absolutely LOVE NPR while people I tend to agree with politically just loathe it. But they’re unbiased, so the conservatives are just being a bunch of whiners and probably taking everything out of context, right?
It’s important that taxpayer-funded broadcasting be continued. After all, how else can a farmer in Alabama and a rancher in Wyoming and a poor inner-city child in Louisiana and an illegal alien in Ohio get to listen to the metropolitan opera? It’s not like they can buy a CD or anything. Or get one from school or the library. After all, they’re WAY out from civilization. Also, PBS is important so we can watch This Old House Hour and also so the federal government has a direct line into everyone’s house via cable or broadcast. My VCR used to get its time signal (to set the clock to the right time and not 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00) from the public broadcasting cable channel. The fact and directions were right in the VCR instruction booklet. So it’s important that we can have the federal government tell us what time it is. You narrow-thinking redneck whiners. Get a job.
My boss gets his “news” primarily from NPR and PBS. Of course, he’s an Independent and a Capitalist who voted for McCain…but because of McCain, not Palin.