Why Are My Tax Dollars Going To Support Pbs

[LeftofLeft]

If the American Public would like the Government to fund a public media outlet, we have to listen to what the American People, want, right across the board on ALL topics. That said, where is the Conservative Right WIng and Tea Party Voices on NPR and PBS. If Liberals have a problem with that, then I would like to see legislation passed to exempt conservative tax payers from funding their share of NPR and PBS. This way, Liberals can use their tax dollars to fund their media.

 

[kaz]

Bill Moyer's Journal, Charlie Rose, and Gwen Iffel, are all rabid left wing nuts. Why are my tax dollars going to support their biased diatribe very single week? Wonder what left would say if Rush Limbaugh got taxpayer subsided air time on PBS?

Why is you christstain churches getting a tax free ride

I guess it's a case of ignorance, bigotry and plain hatred on the left when they would compare Christian tax exempt status to the freaking taxpayer support of left wing propaganda.

Southern Baptist Churches aren't right wing propaganda?

I'm theologically very liberal, my wife is theologically very conservative. We've lived in eight States. I do agree that liberal theology tends to go strongly with liberal politics and conservatives theology tends to go with conservative politics. Generally we go to conservatives churches my wife wants, but we do go to some liberal churches too. I grew up in the Church of the Brethren and I've gone to Mennonite and Quaker churches.

The fact is that in liberal churches liberal politics is discussed openly and constantly. In all the States and churches I've gone to, I have not once heard politics discussed in a conservative service. You have your nice little liberal talking point, but the reality is, the rubber doesn't meet the road. Sorry, Charlie.

 

[Uncensored2008]

You believe that a company that takes >$7 billion in taxpayer subsidies and pays so little that their employees qualify for >$6 billion in taxpayer supported welfare SHOULD BE nickel and dimeing their employees?

Why do you keep telling lies that you have been busted on dozens of times.

Walmart gets not one dime of federal subsidies

No matter how many times you tell this lie, it will remain a lie.

 

[Uncensored2008]

According to a national survey recently commissioned by PBS and undertaken by the bipartisan polling firms of Hart Research and American Viewpoint, 69% of voters oppose congressional elimination of government funding for public broadcasting. Over half of all voters say it would be a massive or significant loss for themselves and their family if Congress, voting to eliminate funding, forced PBS to eliminate some programming and jeopardized some PBS television stations. The survey also shows that six in ten voters believe this would be a massive or significant loss for the country as a whole.

Federal Funding PBS

I trust a study commissioned by PBS about as much as I trust Harry Reid.

If only you had intelligence you could challenge the results of the poll.

{Public television is America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world – all at the cost of about $1 per person per year. The proposed legislation overlooks the critical value that PBS’ nearly 360 member stations provide to major cities and small towns.}

The problem is, not a word of this is true.

In 1970 it was, but in 2014 it is a steaming pile of shit.

The viewership of the Science Channel, History Channel, and the dozen Discovery Channels dwarf PBS - combined they provide a classroom that is thousands of times more watched than PBS. A&E and Paladium offer vastly more cultural fare than does PBS.

IF PBS is the value you leftist claim, then viewers will be happy to pay for it, just as we pay for Science and Discovery channels.

When their were 3 network stations, the argument for PBS was sound. With 3,000+ stations on most systems, it is total bullshit.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Then how is it that Rush Limbaugh is the most listened to talk radio show?

Because he is on the radio.

Radio is the medium of middle class, working people. Conservative ideas and values are consistent with the audience.

Daytime TV is the medium of welfare mothers and hipsters living in mom's basement - so the perfect medium for Jon Stewart and MSCCCP.

 

[BluesLegend]

The NY chapter of PBS/NPR is nothing more than a lying liberal propaganda channel. Now imagine if liberals took control of congress and the White House for decades which is their goal, it would be pretty much the end of America as we know it.

 

[HenryBHough]

Who ever said Palin was a slut? A opportunist, hypocrite, lying, ignorant a-hole, sure. And what's her name never said any such thing. Typical ignorant hater dupe stuff...

OP- You mean your dollar. Dupes probably think a lot goes to them...wrong again and always...

Are you deeply saddened that your shot at deflecting and derailing, like your Messiah, has failed?

BTW, still watching those PBS shows paid for by those "evil" Koch Brothers?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Then how is it that Rush Limbaugh is the most listened to talk radio show?

Because he is on the radio.

Radio is the medium of middle class, working people. Conservative ideas and values are consistent with the audience.

Daytime TV is the medium of welfare mothers and hipsters living in mom's basement - so the perfect medium for Jon Stewart and MSCCCP.

You know that The Daily Show airs at 11:00 PM, right?

 

[boedicca]

According to a national survey recently commissioned by PBS and undertaken by the bipartisan polling firms of Hart Research and American Viewpoint, 69% of voters oppose congressional elimination of government funding for public broadcasting. Over half of all voters say it would be a massive or significant loss for themselves and their family if Congress, voting to eliminate funding, forced PBS to eliminate some programming and jeopardized some PBS television stations. The survey also shows that six in ten voters believe this would be a massive or significant loss for the country as a whole.

Federal Funding PBS

I trust a study commissioned by PBS about as much as I trust Harry Reid.

If only you had intelligence you could challenge the results of the poll.

{Public television is America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world – all at the cost of about $1 per person per year. The proposed legislation overlooks the critical value that PBS’ nearly 360 member stations provide to major cities and small towns.}

The problem is, not a word of this is true.

In 1970 it was, but in 2014 it is a steaming pile of shit.

The viewership of the Science Channel, History Channel, and the dozen Discovery Channels dwarf PBS - combined they provide a classroom that is thousands of times more watched than PBS. A&E and Paladium offer vastly more cultural fare than does PBS.

IF PBS is the value you leftist claim, then viewers will be happy to pay for it, just as we pay for Science and Discovery channels.

When their were 3 network stations, the argument for PBS was sound. With 3,000+ stations on most systems, it is total bullshit.

Indeed. PBS is just another dinosaur of past age that demands an annuity to keep it alive beyond its natural years.

 

[Moonglow]

PBS has done more good for educating preschoolers than any other of the big three that has programs so people can laugh or cry over the human condition..Entertaining,, yet not very educating to a 3 year old...

 

[HenryBHough]

PBS has done more good for educating preschoolers than any other of the big three that has programs so people can laugh or cry over the human condition..Entertaining,, yet not very educating to a 3 year old...

To the liberal mind "educating" and "indoctrinating" are synonyms.

 

[Moonglow]

PBS has done more good for educating preschoolers than any other of the big three that has programs so people can laugh or cry over the human condition..Entertaining,, yet not very educating to a 3 year old...

To the liberal mind "educating" and "indoctrinating" are synonyms.

Yes, I can see where the ABC's can be cause for alarm...Oh shit! Look out!! There's a lobster loose...

 

[Siete]

why are my tax dollars going to pay for congressional pork spending ? PBS is a drop in the bucket compared.

notice the date ....

March 16, 2001
Programs: Budget & Tax
Pork-barrel spending hit a record $18.5 billion last year, according to the latest annual report by the watchdog organization Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW).

Since 1991, CAGW has catalogued over 23,000 pork-barrel projects in its Congressional Pig Book. According to this year's report, the number of individual pork projects has nearly tripled in the last three years, from 2,143 to an incredible 6,333. The number of projects is up 46 percent since last year.

Examples of egregious government waste cited in the report include $550,000 for a Dr. Seuss memorial in Massachusetts, $12 million for research on wood, $400,000 for a parking lot in a town of 300 people in Alaska, $99 million to help pay for Olympics preparation in Utah and $460 million for an assault ship the Navy didn't request.


where was the RAGE then ?

 

[boilermaker55]

War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler 1935
Marine Smedley Darling Butler is one of the most highly decorated military men from the pre-World War II era. He served from 1898 to 1931 and saw action all over the world.


War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

"It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
Now check to see who makes profits from war mongering.
Tax payers money to the corporate war machine.
Next see how little effort is given to help support vets.

Oh, you want a real answer?

Sorry.

Your tax dollars go to fund PBS and what you see as their liberal agenda, because my tax dollars go to fund the military, and what I see as a conservative and warmongering agenda.

Maybe I should pay for PBS and you should pay for the military.

Of course, you know that's not how it works.

Wow you are comparing liberals trying to push their agenda with military men and women who sometimes give their lives for this country to keep us safe?? Incredible.

 

[boilermaker55]

There is a big difference too by those who are truly in the military and the business of the military for patriotic reasons.
However, when it becomes a profiteering situation there is severe problem.
War Profiteers or Heroes – The Story of Blackwater

Sound like Ward Churchill. Thanks for verifying that post for me.

You're more than welcome.

Difference is, you won't find me starting whining threads about my tax dollars going to a war.

I have to jump in here because you have a serious misunderstanding of reality. The business of government is to defend a nation. This means armies, this means border control, etc. It also means police and courts and laws.

Providing news and pushing ideology is not the business of government ESPECIALLY when the government sets itself up to compete against private media interests. These media companies pay taxes and part of those taxes is being spent on a competitor to weaken them.

Government has no more business in favoring one of two political ideologies in society than it did in favoring same-race marriages over the equally viable between-race marriages.

It's not the role of government to compete in business against private interests nor to play favorites with political ideology.

 

[Siete]

There is a big difference too by those who are truly in the military and the business of the military for patriotic reasons.
However, when it becomes a profiteering situation there is severe problem.
War Profiteers or Heroes – The Story of Blackwater

Sound like Ward Churchill. Thanks for verifying that post for me.

You're more than welcome.

Difference is, you won't find me starting whining threads about my tax dollars going to a war.

I have to jump in here because you have a serious misunderstanding of reality. The business of government is to defend a nation. This means armies, this means border control, etc. It also means police and courts and laws.

Providing news and pushing ideology is not the business of government ESPECIALLY when the government sets itself up to compete against private media interests. These media companies pay taxes and part of those taxes is being spent on a competitor to weaken them.

Government has no more business in favoring one of two political ideologies in society than it did in favoring same-race marriages over the equally viable between-race marriages.

It's not the role of government to compete in business against private interests nor to play favorites with political ideology.

If Iraq hadn't come along Halliburton stock would STILL be as flat as a sidewalk.

 

[boilermaker55]

Damn! Now I wonder who was it that once was a leading director of halliburton? I wonder. Then consider how much stock that family has in halliburton!

There is a big difference too by those who are truly in the military and the business of the military for patriotic reasons.
However, when it becomes a profiteering situation there is severe problem.
War Profiteers or Heroes – The Story of Blackwater

Sound like Ward Churchill. Thanks for verifying that post for me.

You're more than welcome.

Difference is, you won't find me starting whining threads about my tax dollars going to a war.

I have to jump in here because you have a serious misunderstanding of reality. The business of government is to defend a nation. This means armies, this means border control, etc. It also means police and courts and laws.

Providing news and pushing ideology is not the business of government ESPECIALLY when the government sets itself up to compete against private media interests. These media companies pay taxes and part of those taxes is being spent on a competitor to weaken them.

Government has no more business in favoring one of two political ideologies in society than it did in favoring same-race marriages over the equally viable between-race marriages.

It's not the role of government to compete in business against private interests nor to play favorites with political ideology.

If Iraq hadn't come along Halliburton stock would STILL be as flat as a sidewalk.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Last time I checked, the four top most listened to talk radio shows were

1. Rush Limbaugh
2. All Things Considered - PBS
3. Morning Edition - PB

PBS has done more good for educating preschoolers than any other of the big three that has programs so people can laugh or cry over the human condition..Entertaining,, yet not very educating to a 3 year old...

To the liberal mind "educating" and "indoctrinating" are synonyms.

As opposed to what? Christian conservative parents?

 

[BluesLegend]

PBS has done more good for educating preschoolers than any other of the big three that has programs so people can laugh or cry over the human condition..Entertaining,, yet not very educating to a 3 year old...

If only it had not been taken over by lying progressive liberals hell bent on socialism.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

I pledge allegiance, to the flag of the UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA,

and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands...

Was "UNTIED" a Freudian slip or a typo?