printThe following is from my new, WND.COM column, “Not a Dime From NPR From This Little Piggy”:
“A classmate of mine, an Israeli Arab, taught me a phrase I will paraphrase here, as it was indelicate in the original: There is nothing wrong with carving a little something for yourself out of the hind end of a pig. Translated: If you hold the person you’re scheming on robbing in contempt — by all means, rob him blind. (My friend was the recipient of a scholarship courtesy of the Israeli taxpayer whom he despised — you can see where our disagreement lay.)
For today’s purposes, the justified robber is the Public Broadcaster in all its offshoots — NPR (National Public Radio), PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), and, in my case, ‘KCTS 9 Connects,’ of Washington State. The hind end belongs to the American taxpayer. The propagandists hate their meal ticket, but feed off its flesh all the same.
To his credit, the recently fired Ron Schiller, President of the NPR Foundation and Senior VP for Development at NPR, has agreed with fiscal conservatives on the need to eliminate federal funding for his organization, which gets $90 million annually off the backs of some “seriously racist, racist” taxpayers.” (Schiller’s words.) Scrap that: doing away with taxpayer subsidies for public broadcasting was a point of agreement between this NPR functionary and a few fictitious Muslim philanthropists.
Members of the so-called Muslim Education Action Center Trust had lured Schiller to lunch. Amir Malik and Ibrahim Kasaam were really associates of gonzo journalist James O’Keefe, who played the pimp in the ACORN undercover operation. The luncheon was a trap. The bait: breaking bread with two blokes who boasted about their ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. … Boy, does O’Keefe know how to whet appetites at NPR!” ….
The complete column is “Not a Dime From NPR From This Little Piggy,” now on WND.COM.
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Of course, my libertarian point of view is to object to the use of coerced taxpayer money – so even if they CPB/NPR/PBS played classical music and featured libertarians all day long, it should not be done with taxpayer money.
As for leftists playing footsie with Islamic fundamentalists, this is some psycho death wish that goes beyond my understanding.
Public broadcasting in all it’s forms has always been a propaganda source for the left. Even when I was much younger watching wkno channel 10 in Memhis it was obvious to any rational person. Finally I just quit sometime during a program praising the Nicaraguan communists and haven’t gone back, even for Austin City Limits. Just knowing that taxpayers money was helping pay for this anti-American tripe was maddening. I hope the timid wussies in the Republican have the nerve to quash all Federal support of the “Arts” and broadcasting.