Trump to defund PBS/NPR.

[kathleenwilhoitd]

Never, but nor do I believe in stealing from some to fund art for others.

You were complaining about funding bad art.

I was complaining about funding any art. If I wasn't clear in that, let me be now.

Why are you opposed to funding art?

Shit eating art...

I am a professional artist and was a taught art in primary school, secondary school and college. I have never heard of shit eating art.

Jackson Pollack


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[Wry Catcher]

If the Congress, and in particular the Tea Party Caucus (oops, LOL, now calling themselves the Freedom Caucus) really were concerned about the nation's debt, they would lead by example.

They would:

• cut their pay
• cut their benefits
• tax the donations they receive to keep their job as ordinary income
• stop the boondoggles
• stop logrolling

You just described everyone in the federal government, at least everyone in DC...

No fool, I described the Congress, not every federal employee in DC. You want to cut wages and benefits for others, rather than better yourself and improve your situation. Envy is a deadly sin, so his hate - get counseling.

 

[Wry Catcher]

The press is muted? NPR, PBS have little news content, most of it is discussing the news, much like Fox, CNN, MSNBC, a 100 plus radio talk shows. You'd have a point if there were few media outlets.

It's difficult to wade through the negative and snarky coverage and find anything positive on NPR these days. PBS is more balanced, but NPR is nothing but Globalist propaganda.

Is there really anything wrong with getting more than one perspective? Where do you think that will come from if its gone?

NPR isn't balanced. It's Communist/Progressive Democrat propaganda. It refuses to provide balance. So taxpayer-funding should end.

Wow, another stupid person with an opinion based on ignorance. It's no wonder trump was elected, thankfully millions of voters were smart enough to vote for others.

Actually he was spot on. If you don't think so you have either never listened to it or are a partisan liberal...imo

You're not only an envious person, you are a serial liar.

 

[NYcarbineer]

What, you mean PBS gets government money?

Impossible!

Sit through the ten minutes of commercials at the start of each "Masterpiece" and then tell me it's non-commercial and sucks only government teat.

15% of PBS funding is from the government.

 

[NoNukes]

You were complaining about funding bad art.

I was complaining about funding any art. If I wasn't clear in that, let me be now.

Why are you opposed to funding art?

Shit eating art...

I am a professional artist and was a taught art in primary school, secondary school and college. I have never heard of shit eating art.

Jackson Pollack


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A great American artist who was very influential. Next!

 

[easyt65]

No fool, I described the Congress, not every federal employee in DC. You want to cut wages and benefits for others, rather than better yourself and improve your situation. Envy is a deadly sin, so his hate - get counseling.

'Fool'? So much for 'Civility Friday'...

Guess I should have clarified a little more - yes The President, the VP, every member of congress, and even Cabinet members could all be cut, not just 1 certain group or party.

I want to cut? You are the one who went off about the TEA party. Get that log out of your eye, Wry.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

You make several mistakes, trump is not attacking the press he is fighting back, second our media is not independent, it is the controlling public relations arm of one political party trying to make it both political parties, resisting that is what the opposition is supposed to do...and "provable facts" have now fallen into the category of what a bias media says they are...Chris Matthews showed a picture of Lewindowski [sp] supposedly assaulting a reporter and all you could make out was his face, you couldn't even tell if it was the reporter in question in that picture and absolutely no proof of assult, then said...how much more proof do you need, well a left wing media lap dog would not need anymore I suppose...so yeah, take aim donald, they want a cease fire from you while they continue the hostilities.

 

[Camp]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

No worries Snowflake, you'll still have CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. You'll have an abundance of fake news to salivate over... but I won't have to pay for t.

In addition, there is the foreign press. They are in on the vast media conspiracy. Everyone and all the media throughout the world are reporting fake news when they criticize the leader or publish the provable facts that confirm him and them as prolific and habitual liars.The only reliable sources are trump and his spokespeople.

 

[GHook93]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Nice dishonesty. No, father authority governments take over the media through regulation and out right theft. Trump just removed Gov ties and influence over a media source. He is not about creating regulatory control like the leftist want such as the so called Fairness Doctrine. But that doesn't mean he can't criticize or have to play nice with agenda driven news agencies like CNN.

Get your facts straight.


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[NYcarbineer]

Never, but nor do I believe in stealing from some to fund art for others.

You were complaining about funding bad art.

I was complaining about funding any art. If I wasn't clear in that, let me be now.

Why are you opposed to funding art?

Because of a $20 trillion debt.

Art is very important, and needs to be funded.

Most of you probably pay about a dollar a year in federal taxes towards public broadcasting.

I am willing to sponsor any one of you, at 1 dollar a year, to relieve this hardship, on the condition that the person I sponsor promises to quit crying about that hardship.

Prove that it's only $1.

In the financial year for 2010, the CPB reported receiving $506 million in federal appropriations. According to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, the federal budget for 2010 was $3.456 trillion. Using those numbers, the CPB receives about .00014 percent of the federal budget.

Poll: Americans way off on public broadcasting funding - On Media

Trump's wall costs 0% of the budget. Yet you cry and moan like a bitch about the cost.

Where does the sudden change of stance stem from?

When did I bitch about the wall, other than to say Trump won't build and Mexico won't pay for it?

btw, do most Americans want the wall? Most Americans want public broadcasting funded.

 

[Camp]

Historically, the first order of business for an authoritarian government is to neutralize the media and press. That is what trump is doing by attacking the media. The results will be that no one is able to decipher what is real news and what is not. The government gains complete control of what the public is allowed to know. Even provable facts are questioned and left in doubt.

Nice dishonesty. No, father authority governments take over the media through regulation and out right theft. Trump just removed Gov ties and influence over a media source. He is not about creating regulatory control like the leftist want such as the so called Fairness Doctrine. But that doesn't mean he can't criticize or have to play nice with agenda driven news agencies like CNN.

Get your facts straight.


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My facts are straight. Yours are delusional.

 

[martybegan]

One by one, Trump dismantles and discredits every leftist propaganda station. The stations which, have fed us a bunch of propaganda using our own money taken by taxes. It's finally time to put an end to the parasitism and propaganda. If leftists want to hear how much someone agrees with their shitty opinions, then they better pay for it by themselves.


“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation.

PBS/NPR In Panic: Trump Administration To Defund/Privatize

The new enlightenment has begun! "Win streak" is the term that best describe Trump's presidency so far.

In related news.......

Turkey shuts 15 media outlets and arrests opposition editor
Editor of the Cumhuriyet secularist newspaper arrested in dawn raids with 10,000 more civil servants sacked for alleged terror links

Not related at all. When Trump starts sending thugs to the NYT and MSNBC, or appoints monitors to said organization, then you would have a point.

Lambasting the press is not suppressing the press.

When that happens, the Drumpfsters will wholeheartedly support him.

No, we won't, unlike party hacks like yourself, some of us stand to our principles first.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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Fresh Air with Terry have long had a liberal bias, I admit that I have not listened to her in a few years but during the Bush years, she was critical of Bush. She is very low key however, there is a bias. Since it has been a few years I am going off past experience. I don't listen to politics on the radio anymore, I will listen to sports talk and music, that is now it. If NPR and PBS can't make it on their own they need to go.

Most of you probably pay about a dollar a year in federal taxes towards public broadcasting.

I am willing to sponsor any one of you, at 1 dollar a year, to relieve this hardship, on the condition that the person I sponsor promises to quit crying about that hardship.

And that's WAY too much. Once again, if your ideas are so darn good, they need not be mandatory.

Having a military is a good idea, shouldn't we be able to fund it voluntarily?

 

[Dschrute3]

Maybe Soros will pick up the slack.

Yeah, NPR and PBS could survive fine with rich Democrat private funding. They don't need Taxpayer-funding. It's time for it to end.

Do you consider David Koch to be a rich Democrat? Are you that ignorant?

They can survive without Taxpayer-funding. It's time for it to end.

 

[NYcarbineer]

One by one, Trump dismantles and discredits every leftist propaganda station. The stations which, have fed us a bunch of propaganda using our own money taken by taxes. It's finally time to put an end to the parasitism and propaganda. If leftists want to hear how much someone agrees with their shitty opinions, then they better pay for it by themselves.


“The Trump Administration needs to reform and cut spending dramatically, and targeting waste like the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be a good first step in showing that the Trump Administration is serious about radically reforming the federal budget,” said Brian Darling, a former aide to Paul and a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation.

PBS/NPR In Panic: Trump Administration To Defund/Privatize

The new enlightenment has begun! "Win streak" is the term that best describe Trump's presidency so far.

In related news.......

Turkey shuts 15 media outlets and arrests opposition editor
Editor of the Cumhuriyet secularist newspaper arrested in dawn raids with 10,000 more civil servants sacked for alleged terror links

Not related at all. When Trump starts sending thugs to the NYT and MSNBC, or appoints monitors to said organization, then you would have a point.

Lambasting the press is not suppressing the press.

When that happens, the Drumpfsters will wholeheartedly support him.

No, we won't, unlike party hacks like yourself, some of us stand to our principles first.

Your only principle is, how can we jigger government around so that your minority opinions can tyrannize the majority.

 

[easyt65]

We have a government of the People, and the People's representatives fund PBS and NPR.

The problem is NPR doesn't represent the people - it represents Liberals.

And now the people's representatives are about to NOT fund PBS and NPR.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Maybe Soros will pick up the slack.

Yeah, NPR and PBS could survive fine with rich Democrat private funding. They don't need Taxpayer-funding. It's time for it to end.

Do you consider David Koch to be a rich Democrat? Are you that ignorant?

They can survive without Taxpayer-funding. It's time for it to end.

And then parents can survive without massive tax breaks for having had children.

 

[Wry Catcher]

No fool, I described the Congress, not every federal employee in DC. You want to cut wages and benefits for others, rather than better yourself and improve your situation. Envy is a deadly sin, so his hate - get counseling.

'Fool'? So much for 'Civility Friday'...

Guess I should have clarified a little more - yes The President, the VP, every member of congress, and even Cabinet members could all be cut, not just 1 certain group or party.

I want to cut? You are the one who went off about the TEA party. Get that log out of your eye, Wry.

Hey, you must have a handler too. Trump tweets and his handlers say what he really meant.

But I digress, it is The Congress with the power to impact the lives of every American, and yet, The Congress protects its membership from much they do. We have 535 people whose number one priority is to protect their job, and in doing so provide to their benefactors so that they too will be taken care of every two or six years, depending on the chamber in which they work part time.

 

[NYcarbineer]

We have a government of the People, and the People's representatives fund PBS and NPR.

The problem is NPR doesn't represent the people - it represents Liberals.

And now the people's representatives are about to NOT fund PBS and NPR.

Mississippi, the most conservative state in the US, funds public broadcasting. As does every other state if I'm not mistaken, including all the red ones.

 

[easyt65]

Your only principle is, how can we jigger government around so that your minority opinions can tyrannize the majority.

As posted before (with links), the majority of the country consider themselves to be Conservative or Moderate, NOT Liberal. So tax dollars shouldn't be going to support a government-run media that represents only the TRUE minority.


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