This is NPR: National Private Radio

[WillowTree]

You hear him at the end of nearly every NPR broadcast.

The host wraps up the news. And then on comes the mystery voice, reading the underwriting credits. The voice utters authoritarian decrees, postulating that "Silk is soy" or asserting that "ADM" is "supermarket to the world."

And then there's the payoff line, as the steady elocution of the mystery voice waxes ever so slightly on a solitary word.

"This is NPR. National Public Radio."

If Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) gets his way in the House of Representatives today, the mystery voice may have to alter his patter.

"I want NPR to stand for National Private Radio," says Lamborn. "They can and should stand on their own two feet."






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Prolly because the only radio conservatives listen to is a.m. LOL

 

[Big Fitz]

100.3 KTLK

http://www.ktlkfm.com

POP! goes your theeeeoryyyy.

 

[Dot Com]

100.3 KTLK

http://www.ktlkfm.com

POP! goes your theeeeoryyyy.

Who gives you your marching-orders on that channel? Levin, Weiner (Savage), oxyRu$h (Limbough)?

 

[Big Fitz]

100.3 KTLK

http://www.ktlkfm.com

POP! goes your theeeeoryyyy.

Who gives you your marching-orders on that channel? Levin, Weiner (Savage), oxyRu$h (Limbough)?

Oh look, Kids! Brain damage on display!

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Gotta cut back somewhere, might as well start with dem lefty lib'rals...

House votes to cut off federal funds for NPR
Updated: Mar 17, 2011 WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio. Republican supporters said it made good fiscal sense, and Democratic opponents called it an ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to programs such as "Car Talk" and "All Things Considered."

The bill, passed 228-192 along mainly partisan lines, would bar federal funding of NPR and prohibit local public stations from using federal money to pay NPR dues and buy its programs. The prospects of support in the Democratic-controlled Senate are slim. Seven Republicans broke ranks to vote against the bill. "It is time for American citizens to stop funding an organization that can stand on its own feet," said Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., the sponsor. He said it was not a question of content — which many conservatives say has a liberal bias — but whether taxpayer dollars should go to nonessential services. "As a country we no longer have this luxury."

Other Republicans also denied that the measure was a vendetta against NPR, although the organization left itself open to conservative attacks last week when an executive, talking to conservative activists posing as members of a fake Muslim group, was caught on camera deriding the tea party movement and saying the NPR would be better off without federal funding. Both the executive and the president of NPR resigned after the incident. "Nobody's on a rampage," said Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who also asked "why should we allow taxpayer dollars to be used to advocate one ideology?"

Democrats retorted that the legislation would do nothing to reduce the deficit and would be a blow to local public stations that rely on the national programs that include "Morning Edition" and "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me" to attract listeners. "This bill would pull the plug," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. "It would snuff out stations from coast to coast, many in rural areas where the public radio station is the primary source of news and information." Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., displayed a blow-up photo of the two brothers who host the car advice show "Car Talk" with the caption, referring to their nicknames, reading "Save Click and Clack."

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