Timothy Birdnow

The Trump Administration is looking to defund something that has long been a thumb in the eye of good Americans. They are looking to defund PBS and NPR, two publicly funded leftist political propaganda arms. May as well call them Democrat Broadcasting.

I had my fifteen minutes of fame when I noticed PBS published a "transcript" that omitted a gaffe by Barack Obama and I wrote about it at American Thinker and the story went viral. For a couple of days it was the talk of the internet, and PBS had to issue a retraction. Their ombudsmen had to do a mea culpa. although they blamed it on publishing the transcript as provided by the White House prior to the speech. But it said "transcript right on it" and they sneakily changed it to "transcript as provided" and a lot of idiot liberals were mocking me over it. Naturally they didn't go to the AT piece because editor Thomas Lifson thoughtfully provided a screen shot.

Anyway this got the web a buzzing and people like Hugh Hewitt and Jonah Goldberg weighed in. (A Google search won't show that now though. I do have a piece from the liberal Meciaite showing up.)

The point is this is just one instance of PBS and NPB twisting facts to suit themselves. They've done it repeatedly and they've done it on our dime. It's time we stop funding them.

PBS does quarterly fundraisers and always brags it doesn't take much government money, so why don't they just eschew it all? They run commercials between their programs anyway; maybe they should stop giving away freebies to leftist groups and start looking for serious, high dollar advertisers? And if they should fall? There are plenty of others who will take Sesame Street or The Electric Company (which I remember watching as a boy and hated because it was full of hippies - even then). Won't CNN pick up Bill Moyer's Journal? (Well, fat lot of good THAT would be.) If their programming is so important and in demand why don't they put it out there on the commercial market? Could it be most of it is just crap nobody cares about? Does ANYBODY watch Independent lens, or Reframing America?

I watch some stuff on PBS; the travel shows, the cooking shows, National Geographic and Nature. But most of it competes with drying paint.

So, to quote Obama a while back, it's time to "bring the hammer down on Big Bird". That oversized chicken would do better Ala King anyway.

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