via MaddowBlog:
Mitt Romney announces his evil plans for PBS and anything else that makes the world a better place: "So first there are programs I would eliminate. Obamacare being one of them but also various subsidy programs -- the Amtrak subsidy, the PBS subsidy, the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities."God, how I loved Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood as a kid! God, how I hate what Republicans want to do to this country!
PBS chief Paula Kerger puts that in perspective: "Federal investment in public broadcasting equals about one one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget. Elimination of funding would have almost no impact on the nation’s debt. Yet the loss to the American public would be devastating."
> "Federal investment in public broadcasting equals about one
ReplyDelete> one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget. Elimination
> of funding would have almost no impact on the nation’s debt.
> Yet the loss to the American public would be devastating."
Those damn libruls have been using it as a platform to indoctrinate
our kids for the past 40 years!
Eliminating it (and the National Endowment for the Arts, etc.)
would provide the Rmoneys of the world with a great deal of
symbolic satisfaction, however little the (R)money actually
saved.
Of course, the world has moved on. Teenaged dykes and faggots
are plastering their faces and coming-out stories all over
YouTube. (And dirty old queer grownups can talk to them!
Ick!) Not even the Teletubbies ever did that!
I never actually watched Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers on PBS.
Of course, I was already in high school when PBS came on
the air.
Most of what I've enjoyed on PBS was imported from the UK
(and their TV-tax-funded television). Granted, I never
would have seen any of **that** (_Brideshead_, _The Jewel
in the Crown_, _I, Claudius_, etc., etc. - golly!) if it hadn't been
for the existence of PBS.[*]
But I haven't actually tuned in to a PBS station in
uncounted years. (Though I've bought whole series from
the past -- _Rumpole_, _Upstairs, Downstairs_,
_Are You Being Served?_, etc., etc. on DVD for friends
and watched 'em with them.)
[*] On second thought, I take that back. I never actually
saw more than snippets of any of those long PBS shows
until decades later when they came out on DVD and I could sit
down and watch long uninterrupted stretches of them.
> God, how I hate what Republicans want to do to this country!
ReplyDeletehttp://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/i-think-its-time-to-admit-it.html
-----------------------
"For a while now, I've been referring to the GOP as the Party
of Your Asshole Uncle. 'Pissing off liberals' has been a major
part of their raison d'etre since William F. Buckley's days.
Which is, I suppose, fine...if you're a jerk who likes needling
your city mouse brother and his kids at Thanksgiving. It's
not really when you plan to lead a country of 300 million people."