WHEN THE H*LL WILL WE DEFUND NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO?

KPFK | 11-7-04 | dfu

[motherof 3]

Even if it is only 10% of their money that comes from public money does a corporation get a tax deduction when they contribute money to NPR? No one is paying for advertising in the normal way or are they?

[verifythentrust]

probably would cost a few bucks and then you'd be engaged in co-alcoholic behavior : )

[Tamzee]

We need to eliminate taxpayer support of NPR right NOW...

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson, 1779

[nothingnew]

You shouldn't let yourself get so upset about this...you need to remember:

PUBS=Cancer

Dems=Heart Attack

The basic agenda is the same.

I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.

FMCDH(BITS)

[mewzilla]

I've had a thought lately. How about we get some gutsy Congress critter/s to sponsor some legislation making taxpayer funding come from folks who willingly check off an amount to donate on their federal tax returns? Then the folks who actually want this swill can pay for it. And the rest of us can opt the heck out. And if the PBS/NPR types need more money, they can go beg for it and/or be more responsive to their customer base, whick in turn might get them more donations.

[Tamzee]

KPFK is not an NPR station. Its the LA branch of the far-left Pacifica network.

You're right that Pacifica is not NPR, but Pacifica does receive taxpayer funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It's vile that we are required to pay taxes to spread hard-left political speech.

http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/medi_pow.html

[the invisib1e hand]

now.

wow, I just heard some soundbytes from Falujah...wow.

[Brilliant]

NPR receives federal assistance. At a minimum, it receives a benefit in that it does not pay taxes. What else would you expect from liberals?

[penowa]

And PBS and A.C.O.R.N. and all the other crap they waste my tax $ on.

[SuziQ]

One foreign "expert" said that our election would not even pass the test in Africa.

That's not what the UN elections experts said. They said that ours was the best run they'd ever seen and absolutely FAIR!

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Jimmah!! You asked for it, and you got it, it just wasn't what you expected!

[Osage Orange]

Good info...Thanks!!

But by my count they still get $2 million dollars too much from tax payer's.

FWIW--

[boris]

First let us abolish the Legal Services "Corporation", then the NEA (both of them), the Dept. of "Education"...and then we can work on the lesser goblins.

[mhking]

Doug, KPFK is a Pacifica O&O -- they do not get dollars (thankfully) from NPR.

[freekitty]

I have been wanting to know that one for years.

[Starboard]

The ONLY excuse for public radio was that it was educational--that it broadcast stuff that was good for people and that wasn't commercially feasible. Whatever happened to nonpolitical discussions on informative subjects? History, geography, philosophy, art, cooking, almost anything but POLITICS ALL THE TIME.

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A long time ago I used to listen to NPR's All Things Considered until it became apparent that it was really All Liberal Things Considered. NPR is nothing but left wing cultural and political propaganda.

[Rightfootforward]

Our war is racism. Blah blah blah. With Bush in charge, it is like they are on the plantation again. Blah blah blah. It was another stolen election. Blah blah blah.

Okay, so please explain the math. "...it is like they are on the plantation again," aaaaaaand Bush is considering Clarence Thomas for Chief Justice?
Why can't (won't) those people face their disconnects? Libs are shocked when I say, "Let me get this straight, your philosophy is, 'Abort a baby, save a whale?" Whenever I ask that, it's clear they haven't thought about it. Ever. And, in the majority of cases, I've asked college educated people. Doesn't matter. Libs don't think straight. All emotion, no logic. That's scary to me.

[Malleus Dei]

Defund them and ship them to Cuba where they belong.

[Joe_October]

...Plus conservative talk channels.....

I didn't see any when I looked. Who is conservative there?

[bilhosty]

yes, now is the time.

[Dan Middleton]

"'Because I believe in free speech, I don't advocate that we shut them up. But I don't want to pay for it.'

Well said."

Indeed. The First Amendment guarantees the right to express one's views, not the right to have one's views agreed with, endorsed, and sanctioned.