Misty
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Damage control, eh Frances? I overheard some kids at the grocery store crying this morning over Mitt's impending murder of Big Bird.
Oh brother. That's how evil you liberals are. Trying to trick kids into thinking Romney is killing big bird. You guys are really shits.
I am sure Ravi was completely serious.
It's not Romney who is ending funding, it's congress and they've been thinking about it for a long time.
Talk about corporate welfare;
"What do the numbers $369,000, $632,233, and $1.2 million have in common?* According to Senator Jim DeMint, those are the salaries received by top-ranking executives of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, and NPR in 2009.* When publicly-financed media operations can afford to pay those kinds of salaries, DeMint argues, its time for them to pay their own way:
While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are raking in massive salaries, the organizations are participating in an aggressive lobbying effort to prevent Congress from saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year by cutting their subsidies. The so-called commercial free public airwaves have been filled with pleas for taxpayer cash. The Association of Public Television Stations has hired lobbyists to fight the cuts. Hundreds of taxpayer-supported TV, radio and Web outlets have partnered with an advocacy campaign to facilitate emails and phone calls to Capitol Hill for the purpose of telling members of Congress, Public broadcasting funding is too important to eliminate!
DeMint calls for end of public financing for PBS, NPR « Hot Air