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Caption Contest #1: The War Against PBS and NPR Continues
Submitted by grant on June 14, 2005 - 6:36am.
Okay, so I'm on the MoveOn.org email list. However, can I point out that I blogged about this weeks ago before you call me a band-wagon jumper? Thanks.
In honor of the Conservative move to eliminate all federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting within two years let's have our first Caption Contest!
What did Laura Bush tell these kids on her recent apperance on Sesame Street? You fill in the blank:
Want to do something about this? Please sign MoveOn.org's petition today at: httpp://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
More Info after the jump:
The Washington Post reports:
Natasha at Pacific Views also points out more distrubing political interventions by the Bush Administration into the business of the CPB.
Like I said before, I can take a lot of crap from the Neo-Cons, but I can't take this. You so much as touch Jim Lehrer and his dead-shark-like eyes and I'll raise my own unshirted hell. You know what, you mess with Jim or anybody at PBS or NPR (minus Elmo) and I'll raise unpanted hell....
Is that a word?
Past Related Entries:
Bill Moyers Takes On the CPB
The Last Straw - Conservatives Declare War on NPR
Dubya's administration continues attack on public broadcasting.
The Lame List - PBS Edition!
AKA: Yes, I subscribe to the MoveOn.org email list, too
In honor of the Conservative move to eliminate all federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting within two years let's have our first Caption Contest!
What did Laura Bush tell these kids on her recent apperance on Sesame Street? You fill in the blank:
Want to do something about this? Please sign MoveOn.org's petition today at: httpp://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
More Info after the jump:
The Washington Post reports:
A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," "Arthur" and "Postcards From Buster."
In addition, the subcommittee acted to eliminate within two years all federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- which passes federal funds to public broadcasters -- starting with a 25 percent reduction in CPB's budget for next year, from $400 million to $300 million.
.... "Americans overwhelmingly see public broadcasting as an unbiased information source," Rep. David Obey (Wis.), the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, said in a statement. "Perhaps that's what the GOP finds so offensive about it. Republican leaders are trying to bring every facet of the federal government under their control. . . . Now they are trying to put their ideological stamp on public broadcasting."
Natasha at Pacific Views also points out more distrubing political interventions by the Bush Administration into the business of the CPB.
Like I said before, I can take a lot of crap from the Neo-Cons, but I can't take this. You so much as touch Jim Lehrer and his dead-shark-like eyes and I'll raise my own unshirted hell. You know what, you mess with Jim or anybody at PBS or NPR (minus Elmo) and I'll raise unpanted hell....
Is that a word?
Past Related Entries:
Bill Moyers Takes On the CPB
The Last Straw - Conservatives Declare War on NPR
Dubya's administration continues attack on public broadcasting.
The Lame List - PBS Edition!
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