Posted on 04/01/2011 5:54:42 AM PDT by rellimpank
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today, in the first of a series of stunning announcements, that its television subsidiary the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) will be replacing the defunct Bill Moyers Journal with a new weekly program, Ann Coulter's Far Out Journey.
The Coulter show is one of several dramatic changes to the public broadcasting network composed of PBS and its corporate sibling National Public Radio (NPR). The changes are the result of major upheavals in the wake of the firing of NPR commentator Juan Williams and covert 60 Minutes-style videos from journalist James O'Keefe showing NPR executives entertaining financial offers from "donors" they believed to be representing the Muslim Brotherhood
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Hope Ann has a golden parachute clause when pbs gets defunded.
NO NO NO...defund it. This is a smoke screen. Too little too late.
April Fools
There’s no way this is real, gotta be an April Fools thing.
I don’t want my tax dollars spent on these folks either!
April Fools
Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t want my tax dollars spent on these folks either.
Double Bingo!!!!
April Fools!......................didn’t get ME!....................
POWNED APRIL FOOLS
And in related news, ESPN will be adding a series “Hitting the Links with Rush”, while NBC’s morning show will now feature Michael Savage offering personal advice as well as commentary on the world scene.
Now that's entertainment!
Said an indignant Bill Moyers: "Public broadcasting is ours. The American taxpayer bought and paid for this as a gift to liberalism. Who do these right-wing ideologues think they are? We had to tolerate Bill Buckley in the beginning and it was a huge mistake. Lyndon warned me the SOB would be taping those damn shows forever and we gave the guy free rein to deconstruct us for another 26 years after Lyndon died! 'The Great Society this, the Great Society that. Ronald Reagan thinks this, Xerxes said that.' My God! Never again! It's outrageous to think conservatives have any say about the operation of public broadcasting. Just pay the bill and shut up!"
While I'm sure Moyers thinks this, he isn't that stupid to say it in public.
The interesting thing is that if this were real, PBS would actually doing some bold,groundbreaking, legitimate and useful journalism, which it has been giving lying lip service to for decades.
The fact that this is April Fools Day wouldn’t have anything to do with this story, would it?
awww.. was I punked?
Its true but BLS will never say.
April fools.
CPB is scared that its funding will be pulled so it’s “discovered” there is another side. Since I seriously doubt that we’ll be able to get it defunded any time soon, this may not be a bad stopgap measure, albeit pathetically transparent.
Is that before or after Humility in Practice with Barack Obama?
yes, but did you have tell that to everybody?
This was fun..
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