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Key lawmaker downplays threat to CPB funding (NPR/PBS)
current ^ | Jan 31, 2017 | Dru sefton

Posted on 01/31/2017 2:46:21 PM PST by Drango

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1 posted on 01/31/2017 2:46:21 PM PST by Drango
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To: Drango
"there is a strong constituency for public broadcasting in both the House and Senate.”

And the public that doesn't want to pay for it be damned I guess. Typical Liberal/RINO B.S.

2 posted on 01/31/2017 2:48:22 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Drango

Big Bird is a bipartisan mascot for all that’s wrong with Washington.


3 posted on 01/31/2017 2:49:23 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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“Cole particularly enjoys listening to NPR’s Morning Edition. ‘With public radio I can wake up without someone shouting at me,’ he noted.”

Brainwashing is usually a quiet, peaceful experience, Sir!


4 posted on 01/31/2017 2:49:30 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Drango

The GOP is the opposition party.


5 posted on 01/31/2017 2:49:42 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Drango

Cut one penny at a time and 100 times you’ve saved a dollar. Public broadcasting has long since outlived it’s need for government funding. Let Big Bird fund it.


6 posted on 01/31/2017 2:51:04 PM PST by CMSMC
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Why the taxpayer have to pay if it has such a strong constituency.Mr. Cole?

Let them pay for it, not us.

We have been paying for the last 80 years for a negative return.

I don’t want my tax money paying for liberal propaganda.


7 posted on 01/31/2017 2:51:35 PM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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CPB’s fiscal 2016 $445 million appropriation, along with $147.9 million for each of the endowments, total less than $741 million.

Oh, is THAT all ...

I'll tell you what. You drop $741 million on the floor and I'll pick it up. Even in San Francisco.

8 posted on 01/31/2017 2:52:02 PM PST by IronJack
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What a bunch of wusses


9 posted on 01/31/2017 2:53:42 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Drango

It seems that there are no assholes like a republican asshole! What a bunch of scumbags! Hey, but keep voting for the ass with the R after his name! There are NO political traitors like an elected republican!


10 posted on 01/31/2017 2:54:26 PM PST by DonPaulJonesII (The only thing than a democrat is a lousy, dishonest, disloyal scumbag republican.)
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“NPR content “is informative and fair,” Cole said. “I know some people disagree but if they’d listen to the content they’d likely come to another opinion.”

If this is what Clown Cole believes, then he is either on drugs and should be tested or a propagandist for the Socialist-Democrat party.


11 posted on 01/31/2017 2:55:14 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Hey Cole, pull your head out. We’ll give you a do-over.

That answer was cr_p.


12 posted on 01/31/2017 2:57:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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“NPR content “is informative and fair,”

Even if this were true- which it isn’t- what difference would that make? I bet this guy cannot name a single benefit that society derives from NPR. It is a total waste of taxpayer dollars at a time when there are a vast number of news outlets available to everyone.

Defund that shithole.


13 posted on 01/31/2017 3:00:26 PM PST by Navin Johnson
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To: IronJack

$741 million = 3/4ths of a BILLION dollars!


14 posted on 01/31/2017 3:01:43 PM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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To: PIF
NPR content “is informative and fair,” Cole said. “I know some people disagree but if they’d listen to the content they’d likely come to another opinion.”

Then they should solicit funds from saps like Cole, and stop "sucking the public teat", or go commercial.

15 posted on 01/31/2017 3:02:15 PM PST by onedoug
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To: exit82
$741 million = 3/4ths of a BILLION dollars!

Yeah, pretty soon you're talking about real money!

16 posted on 01/31/2017 3:05:40 PM PST by IronJack
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To: onedoug

Just remember that a whole lot of liberals will explode because they know that if the watch NPR all day they know everything and the truth and but, if their source is gone, it means nothing happens in the world. They cannot live under such harsh conditions - they will have to form up into soft fuzzy balls and start screaming and protesting.


17 posted on 01/31/2017 3:08:08 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: IronJack
How much of that goes to CPB's public fundraising and DC lobbying to keep their funding ongoing?

Folks, there must be taxpayer funding paying to keep taxpayer funding going on here.

18 posted on 01/31/2017 3:08:53 PM PST by C210N
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To: IronJack

Bless Senator Everett Dirksen—I remember that comment!


19 posted on 01/31/2017 3:10:33 PM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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More about GOPe/RINO Cole;
Cole spent two years working as a paid consultant for the United States Chamber of Commerce, but his primary involvement in politics was as a political consultant for candidates. Along with partners Sharon Hargrave Caldwell and Deby Snodgrass, his firm (Cole, Hargrave, Snodgrass and Associates) played a large part in the reconstruction of Oklahoma’s political landscape, and backed a number of candidates that took office during the Republican Revolution of 1994. Among their clients have been Keating, J.C. Watts, Tom Coburn, Frank Lucas, Mary Fallin, Wes Watkins, Steve Largent, former Mississippi congressman Chip Pickering, and Hawaii governor Linda Lingle.
He graduated from Grinnell College in 1971 with a B.A. in history. His postgraduate degrees include an M.A. from Yale University (1974) and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma (1984), both in British history. Cole’s PhD thesis was entitled Life and labor in the Isle of Dogs : the origins and evolution of an East London working-class community, 1800–1980. Cole did research abroad as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and was a Fulbright Fellow (1977–78) at the University of London. He was a college professor in history and politics before becoming a politician.


20 posted on 01/31/2017 3:11:38 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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