NPR Derangement Syndrome

[Elmore Furth]

The NPR Derangement Syndrome will now be included with the Liberal Derangement Syndrome where Liberals are treasonous supporters of Islomafascist evildoers who want to destroy religion and think that adults should be allowed to have sex with children.

NPR Derangement Syndrome is the belief that NPR is a Zionist, globalist, Communist propaganda mill for the mainstream Left. NPR is actually incorporated under the name 'National Propaganda Radio' that has been parrotting al-Jazeera and Radio Moscow for years. Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a right wing beat down.

It's perfectly defensible to have a principled opposition to federal funding for journalism. But this is absurd:

House Republicans announced today that they will force a floor vote to eliminate taxpayer-funded support for NPR in response to the firing of Juan Williams. A proposal to defund NPR was the winner in the GOP’s weekly “YouCut” contest, in which the public votes online for various spending cuts — GOP leaders have pledged to force votes on the winning items (so far nearly every such vote has failed to pass the Democratic-controlled House).

They're making a decision about whether to end federal subsidies to a decades old news organization because of Juan Williams? More to the point, the GOP rank-and-file could force a vote on a federal spending cut, and they picked NPR? I have a sinking feeling that this is what the GOP intends to do for two years: ride populist base fads into trivial nicks in spending, while never facing up to fiscal reality.




NPR Derangement Syndrome

[spanone]

1. so npr should run their personnel department through the republican house

[fascisthunter]

2. it's to pressure NPR to give the right wing liars more media time

[Strelnikov_]

4. Yep. Pressure to push the 'liberal message' farther right

NPR, PBS and the NY Times serve an important purpose in the Reich propaganda network.

[KamaAina]

3. What federal funding?

NPR itself receives none, and its member stations collectively get only a pittance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from direct government funding, 10% of their revenue from federal funding in the form of CPB grants, and 14% of their revenue from universities. NPR receives no direct funding from the federal government.

[Snotcicles]

6. Ha ha ha, what a bunch of idiots. nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. The gop has a million & one distractions from the real issues,

which they have no solutions for.

[dave29]

7. I prefer taxpayer funded programming to Viagra funded programming

but that's just me. Does that make me a nazi?