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Freep a Poll! (Fox news. Time to defund Public broadcasting?)
foxnews.com ^ | 3-9-11 | Fox News

Posted on 03/09/2011 2:11:25 PM PST by dynachrome

Is it time for Congress to defund public broadcasting?

Maybe -- After seeing all those PBS games, toys and books, I wonder if they really need my money.

No -- They offer programming that can't be found anywhere else in America.

Yes -- From Elmo to Ken Burns, public broadcasting is a marketing machine. It doesn't need taxpayer support.

Other (post a comment).

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: foxnews; npr; obozo; oneterm; poll; publicbroadcasting
Nah. They need more $$$ to replace the two marxists that resigned/got fired.
1 posted on 03/09/2011 2:11:28 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; all the best; AmericaUnite; ...
Thanks to GopherBroke for this one!

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2 posted on 03/09/2011 2:12:43 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: dynachrome

Maybe — After seeing all those PBS games, toys and books, I wonder if they really need my money.
1.67% (1,134 votes)

No — They offer programming that can’t be found anywhere else in America.
4.85% (3,291 votes)

Yes — From Elmo to Ken Burns, public broadcasting is a marketing machine. It doesn’t need taxpayer support.
92.97% (63,109 votes)

Other (post a comment).
0.51% (345 votes)

Total Votes: 67,879


3 posted on 03/09/2011 2:16:30 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: dynachrome

Maybe — After seeing all those PBS games, toys and books, I wonder if they really need my money. 1.67% (1,151 votes)

No — They offer programming that can’t be found anywhere else in America. 4.85% (3,349 votes)

Yes — From Elmo to Ken Burns, public broadcasting is a marketing machine. It doesn’t need taxpayer support. 92.97% (64,147 votes)

Other (post a comment). 0.5% (348 votes)

Total Votes: 68,995


4 posted on 03/09/2011 2:26:28 PM PST by ricmc2175
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To: TheOldLady

I can’t live without Elmo! Waaaah.


5 posted on 03/09/2011 2:27:27 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: dynachrome

Toys R Us.

You’ll have to settle for the toy, and if you buy enough of them, Sesame Street may not even get canceled.

There ya go!

— TheOldLady, solving yer problems whether you like it or not since 2000.

;-p


6 posted on 03/09/2011 2:31:16 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: dynachrome
But without Public Broadcasting and NPR who would allow Garison Keilor to ramble on with those side splitting stories about Lake Wobegon? He is really a card. And let's not forget the riveting "All Things Considered".


7 posted on 03/09/2011 2:34:04 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
"And let's not forget the riveting "All Things Considered".

"All Liberal Things Considered". There, fixed it.

8 posted on 03/09/2011 2:46:11 PM PST by Starboard
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To: TheOldLady

I saw “other, post a comment” 0.51, but saw no comments. What’s up with that?


9 posted on 03/09/2011 3:38:48 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
Link to the poll

Go to the bottom of the poll, just under the words, "This is not a scientific poll," and click on the "comments" button. It does not display the comments like most places do.

I hope this helps you.

10 posted on 03/09/2011 3:46:50 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

Thanks- got it.


11 posted on 03/09/2011 3:58:58 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: TheOldLady

Thanks- got it.


12 posted on 03/09/2011 3:59:52 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Anytime.


13 posted on 03/09/2011 4:00:59 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: dynachrome

done


14 posted on 03/09/2011 4:30:51 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: dervish

Mississippi PBS is wonderful. We get the top notch blues and blues divas you couldn’t buy. Writers workshop and Norm Abrams. Keep PBS, let it be run by the states.

There are shows like Barney and Sesame Street that have made millions on their trade names and have not put a dime back into PBS. Dump these freeloaders now.

I have yet to run into anyone who sits through those miserable peckerwoods on the McNeil/Leherer report or any of the PBS Socialist Talking Heads. Dump them.

PBS was made for art, music, and such. Get back to the roots and keep them. PBS origninally was known as “Educational TV”, no where was it ever intended to be yet another left wing kook outlet.

The folks in charge of PBS now are not the elites, they were the drug fiends you knew in college. Remove these turds from the pool.


15 posted on 03/09/2011 5:47:21 PM PST by libertyhoundusnr
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To: dynachrome

Bump.


16 posted on 03/09/2011 5:52:54 PM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: dynachrome

Thank you for voting!
Maybe — After seeing all those PBS games, toys and books, I wonder if they really need my money. 1.62% (1,603 votes)

No — They offer programming that can’t be found anywhere else in America. 4.97% (4,921 votes)

Yes — From Elmo to Ken Burns, public broadcasting is a marketing machine. It doesn’t need taxpayer support. 92.9% (91,963 votes)

Other (post a comment). 0.51% (509 votes)

Total Votes: 98,996


17 posted on 03/10/2011 11:32:15 AM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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