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1 posted on 03/14/2011 6:12:07 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
Our local PBS station is supposed to be showing Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King in Session here shortly. I will be watching, but come pledge time the mute button will be employed.

I used to work the pledge drives so it's fun to see who is still doing it. To far to drive now.

2 posted on 03/14/2011 6:16:03 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: La Lydia
Cry me a river of liberal tears pbs! I hope we drive a stake through your marxist heart... metaphorically speaking of course.

LLS

3 posted on 03/14/2011 6:16:03 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: La Lydia

As they should.

they should also buy advertisments and stop living off the gov’t teet.


4 posted on 03/14/2011 6:17:31 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: La Lydia

These guys suck.
The take public funding, They take private funding, they air commercials for profit and then every other week they run a begathon.


7 posted on 03/14/2011 6:20:59 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: La Lydia

I hope PBS goes completley out of business - but, of course they won’t, liberals will see to it that they stay in business broadcasting leftist swill.


8 posted on 03/14/2011 6:21:12 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: La Lydia

Ha, Ha!

NPR/PBS must be the only thing that liberals actually donate their own money to. So let them dig deep.

Perhaps the Republicans can suggest a 50% tax on electric cars, windmills, and college professors to pay for NPR and PBS? Now THAT would be funny.

Actually, I think user taxes for Liberal items would be hilarious.


9 posted on 03/14/2011 6:24:06 PM PDT by SampleMan (If all of the people currently oppressed shared a common geography, bullets would already be flying.)
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To: La Lydia

PBS is run by stooges. How do you think commercial radio would do if they ran all their commercials all day on one day every six weeks? If the elite, well educated, ivy league geniuses that run public broadcasting had the brains G-d gave grapes they would integrate their requests for funding daily into their broadcasts the way the grown ups program commercials on real radio and TV stations.


10 posted on 03/14/2011 6:24:21 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: La Lydia
Financially troubled state governments are rapidly cutting and sometimes eliminating subsidies for public media.

Silly me. I had no idea my state tax dollars, in addition to federal taxes, went to the Commune known as PBS.

12 posted on 03/14/2011 6:25:41 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Constitutions are to governments as laws are to the people.)
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To: La Lydia

I remember castigating my late father, years ago, when he told me he had pledged $25 after watching something about Benny Goodman and other Big Band artists during a PBS drive.

A week later Pop turned on his TV and was “treated” to something called “Tongues Untied”, a documentary about black homosexuals. I never said “I told you so.”. I didn’t need to.

RIP Pop....


13 posted on 03/14/2011 6:26:22 PM PDT by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: La Lydia

I wouldn’t know. It’s been 15 years since I last felt the need to have my intelligence insulted by the pseudo-intellectuals on PBS.


15 posted on 03/14/2011 6:27:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: La Lydia

NPR fund drives = pathetic, crying, nagging beg-a-thons


16 posted on 03/14/2011 6:28:07 PM PDT by Res Nullius (Sometimes you have to kill a chicken to teach the monkey a lesson)
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To: La Lydia
In Tight Times, PBS Leans on Pledge Drives

But at all times, pbs leans to the left

17 posted on 03/14/2011 6:29:03 PM PDT by Vision Thing (He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
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To: La Lydia
Not that pledge drives by PBS have ever managed to extract dime one from my pocket ... I'm usually channel surfing when I inadvertently come across a pledge drive ... however, rest assured there is no way in hell, no matter how enfeebled I may become as my years progress, will they ever see a dime from my estate ... ever.
22 posted on 03/14/2011 6:33:57 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: La Lydia
Poor PBS, I deleted the PBS channels on my TV, so I can't even accidentally surf through ‘em.
23 posted on 03/14/2011 6:37:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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We need a montage of all the times PBS says “they are going to cut our funding”

Then we use that in DC to defund PBS.


26 posted on 03/14/2011 6:53:45 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: La Lydia

Ya, they really screwed up the cooking shows this weekend.


33 posted on 03/14/2011 7:05:04 PM PDT by andyk (Wealth != Income)
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To: La Lydia

PBS pledge drives are the worst. “For your gift of $250, you can receive a CD of the music you’re hearing during this broadcast. For $600, you can get the CD AND a DVD of this concert!”.


34 posted on 03/14/2011 7:05:22 PM PDT by richmwill
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I notice that during these drives the few programs PBS carries worth watching, like “This Old House Hour”, get displaced and canceled, but the Friday lefty news programs show up anyhow, and tonight some show called “DuSable to Obama:Chicago’s Black Metropolis - History of Blacks in Chicago” went on as scheduled in the TV listings - more reasons not to contribute.....


38 posted on 03/14/2011 9:27:11 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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