Ms. Greene (right) at work. She’s on our side!
[Note: I had a very bad night, and then the hospital in the morning. That’s why this blog is skimpy today.]
Congress is debating a bill to defund PBS (Public Broadcasting System) and NPR (National Public Radio) because of chronic bias and dishonest reporting (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-gop-moves-defund-chronically-biased-npr-pbs-after-disastrous-hearing).
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who chairs the congressional oversight committee, is leading the charge.
Bias? What bias? NPR’s editorial staff has 87 Democrats and zero Republicans. Oh… that bias.
“They can hate us on their own dime,” Greene said, calling PBS “one of the founders of the trans child abuse industry.” (Go ahead, libs–deny it.)
So put ’em out of business! The Internet has replaced them anyway.
But what about Sesame Street? If it is so great let it have sponsors and make it on its own.
Fat chance
I love this kind of good news. I pray both, PBS and NPR will be defunded.
There was a time when I listened to NPR, all the time. It seemed fairly balanced. There were definitely some liberal points of view, but they seemed capable of treating conservatives with respect and I felt that they were reliable and accurate.
But after a while, it seemed like almost everything they covered was left oriented and I found myself having to listen to subjects of little interest to a workimg person who was hoping to better themselves, through their own efforts. Pretty soon, it came down to almost no news, and almost all social issues. Enough! I turned NPR off over 30 years ago, and during the brief snippets I’ve heard since, I can see no reason to listen to it again.
The Constitution guarantees freedom, both of speech and of press, but that doesn’t mean that the public should pay for it. If PBS and NPR can earn enough in the open market to sustain their operations, let them do it, but I’m tired of paying taxes and seeing the money go to programs which do not serve the best interests of the Nation.
You know what’s sad? Our taxes go to even more base and evil purposes than those characterizing NPR and PBS.
Indeed they do.
Humans seem to have a herd mentality and if something is spoken about, many people will begin to accept as normal things that they would have initially rejected. I’ve seen this happen in social situations, where one person speaks casually about a sensitive subject and quickly the entire group will feel that they have been given permission to abandon their social inhibitions and begin to talk about subjects which may better be kept private.
Your post regarding the Common Core lesson positing that a student gets drunk, has a casual sexual encounter and contracts herpes, is a perfect example. While the herpes is the dilemma, the drunkenness and subsequent casual sex are somewhat normalized. It’s subtle social pressure, because a youngsters who are not prone to such behavior might feel a bit left out. Multiply the scenario by a number of iterations and a young student may mentally normalize behaviors which they would have initially rejected as morally repugnant.
This age sure is good at corrupting people.
If they do manage to do the defunding, probably some rinkydink regional Dem-appointed judge will but a temporary restraining order on it until the constitutionality of the defunding can be reviewed (in about a hundred years).
That’s the pattern that we’re used to.