Corp. for Public Broadcasting using taxpayer funds to lobby for more taxpayer funding

I certainly hope congress eliminates all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I didn’t give them permission to use my money to fund them, nor do I want my money funding them.

Wait until you read this blatant hypocrisy. Those people over there have a lot of gall, I’ll give them that.

NPR and PBS stations nationwide are rallying their audiences to contact Congress to fight against Republicans’ proposed spending cuts….

Ahhh! Good old leftist hypocrisy strikes again! Didn’t former (he resigned last week) National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller plainly state, in a video that we had posted here yesterday, that NPR would be better off without public taxpayer funding? Here, let me quote you his exact words:

“Well frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long-run without federal funding.”

Huh! I’ll be darned!

NPR and PBS stations nationwide are rallying their audiences to contact Congress to fight against Republicans’ proposed spending cuts, but some affiliates’ pleas may violate laws preventing nonprofits or government-funded groups from lobbying.

Interrupting popular programs, the stations air warnings that cuts could end beloved children’s television shows such as “Sesame Street.” Some stations urge their audience to call and let Congress know their feelings, while others go further, instructing viewers to “stop the Senate” or “defend federal funding” for public broadcasting.

The ad campaigns are a direct response to House Republicans’ push to eliminate all Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds for the rest of the fiscal year. Democrats have fought the cuts and President Obama asked for $451 million for CPB in his 2012 budget request — a $6 million increase.

But lawmakers and conservative critics argue the stations are breaking two laws, one that prohibits using taxpayer-funded grants to petition Congress for more taxpayer money and the other that bans nonprofits from doing much lobbying of any kind.

Once again, let’s use “the children” as pawns in a political game about the greedy PBS. “Oh! Sesame Street will go off the air!” Well you know what? If it does, it does. Life will still go on. If it’s that important, that good of a program, one of the for-profit commercial networks will pick it up. You let the market decide. That’s how freedom works.

I don’t want to see Sesame Street go off the air for good either, but like I said, if it does, it does. Life goes on. I didn’t want to see “Gunsmoke” end either.

You can read in-depth of the corruption and hypocrisy at CPB at the Washington Times.