Shrub seems to want to eliminate NPR/PBS! Please do the following.

[napi21]

Dear friends and family:
>
> On NPR's Morning Edition, Nina Tottenberg said that
> if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it will, in
> effect, be the end of the National Public Radio
> (NPR), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the
> Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR and the
> arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite
> of the efforts of each station to reduce spending
> costs and streamline their services, some government
> officials believe that the funding currently going
> to these programs is too large a portion of funding
> for something which is seen as not worthwhile.
>
> This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a
> worthwhile expenditure of $1.12/year of their taxes.
> The only way that our representatives can be aware
> of the base of support for PBS and funding for these
> types of programs is by making our voices heard.
>
> Please add your name to this list and forward it to
> friends who believe in what this stands for. This
> list will be forwarded to the President and the Vice
> President of the United State s. This petition is
> being passed around the Internet. Please add your
> name to it so that funding can be maintained for
> NPR, PBS, & the NEA.
>
> HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: IT'S EASY: Please keep this
> petition rolling. Do not reply to me. Please sign
> and forward to others to sign. If you prefer not to
> sign, please send to the E-mail address indicated
> below.
>
> DON'T WORRY ABOUT DUPLICATES. This is being
> forwarded to several people at once to add their
> names to the petition. It won't matter if many
> people receive the same list as the names are being
> managed. This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a
> worthwhile expenditure of $1.12/year of their taxes.
> A petition follows.
>
> If you sign, please forward on to others. If not,
> please don't kill it.
>
> Send it to the Email address listed here:
>
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All they are looking for is your support. No money, no picketing, just your name, city, state, and zip. I thought this was worth posting here. We can do a lot of support in a very shot time. I can't say that I listen to NPR, but there have been a lot of GREAT programs on PBS that I sure don't want to lose.

Thanks for your help.

[Parche]

1. pbs

There is a reason, he doesnt like Frontline, one of the only
shows that tells the truth

He also doesnt like Barney getting all the attention
taking it away from his brother Ferret face JEB

[musette_sf]

2. Nope

not till they repudiate the Thugs and stop laying down for them. No love here for NPR these days.

Besides, why would they pull the plug now that they have them playing their game?

[serryjw]

3. What petition?

link?

[intheflow]

4. SPAM ALERT! This is an URBAN LEGEND, Folks!

Been circulating around the Internet via email since at least 1995. Tottenberg would have had to report on this every week for a decade now for this to be true.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/nea.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blnpr6.htm

[Carolab]

5. I believe it is, too.

I wrote to my local NPR station and told them I wouldn't contribute if they didn't stop being so lopsided in their coverage and, since I had heard they were going to lose Federal funding, they might want to consider that. They wrote back telling me that it wasn't true that they are going to lose funding.

[DIKB]

7. Way to be on the ball.

I love snopes.com it's great for debunking BS, I think most people should be forced to see the site for an hour at least every week.

[porkrind]

12. Nice catch.

I would donate to NPR if they would stop sugarcoating and enabling every misstep of the pResident. They swallow every lie from the whitehouse and repeat it without question. They style themselves as independent moderates, but to me they are the worst kind of fascists: pseudo-intellectual whores.

[intheflow]

20. Agreed about NPR.

I'm giving my money to the little local station that's started carrying "Democracy NOW!" and I've let my NPR station know that. It's their own fault. I wrote to them for a year asking them to carry DN, but they said it wasn't real news, it would be like carrying Rush. :eyes:

[Piperay]

6. I don't know why chimpy

would want to get rid of PBS, it ain't what it used to be and is more mainstream than not anymore.

[AP]

8. why'd Bush want to get rid of the opiate of the liberal masses?

[BrklynLiberal]

9. They don't have to get rid of it..they are infiltrating it, and annexing

it.

[SmokingJacket]

10. No kidding. This email is so out of date it's almost funny.

They wouldn't play a Firesign Theater skit because it made fun of Bush.

Who needs NPR if you get Fox and CNN for free??

NPR is even sponsored by WalMart, so you get to hear that all the time too --- just as bad as an ad.

[burn the bush]

11. maybe we should just send them "I told u so" notes of support

msm might want to take notice too. Fight now or forever be nothing more than a govt. spokesperson or cancelled.

[Fed Up]

13. I'll cry crocodile tears for NPR

They were against Al Gore and pro White House for so long. Even the other day, I couldn't stand their reporting.

[flyarm]

14. a year ago december ...

when congress went home for xmas break * named new ceo's of both networks..of course it didnt get much press...he did it in congress's
recess...and at that time ..all the polls showed that the only people in this country that knew the truth of the war and the no connection of saddam and 9/11 were people who watched pbs and listened to npr...the writing was on the wall...are we next on the internet?? hmmmm i wonder...colin powell is now employed by aol/time warner! look out!


Bush Declares War On PBS

It's not enough that AM radio, TV and the newspapers are 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week ads for The Party. Now Bush is trying to bring PBS under control. This from Common Cause:
Public Broadcasting Under Siege!

$800,000 buys two seats on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board!

The Bush Administration has awarded two major Republican donors seats on the nine-member board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Bush appointees Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines and their families have given over $800,000 to Republican causes in recent years.

But just as troubling are the agendas that Halpern and Hart Gaines would bring to the CPB. Both have stated views or espoused causes that call into question their qualifications to service on a board whose mission is to promote and fund public television and radio programming.

Halpern, in her confirmation hearings, indicated that she would welcome empowering the CPB board members to intervene in program content when they felt a program was biased. And, Gaines was an ardent supporter of Representative Newt Gingrich (R-GA) who, as House Speaker in 1994, proposed cutting all federal assistance to public television.

Common Cause will not let this issue slip by without public scrutiny. We need your help to bring this to the public's attention.

We must not let partisan insiders wrest control of public broadcasting from balanced board members and threaten the integrity of the CPB from within.

Please send a generous contribution today to help us protect the fairness of public broadcasting!

Click here to find out more: http://www.commoncause.org/news/default.cfm?ArtID=270

Click here to donate to Common Cause: http://www.commoncause.org/support


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[earth mom]

17. Thanks for the post!

I love PBS and would just about lose it if it is repuked all to hell! :cry:

Are donations to common cause at the link above going to go directly to save PBS? TIA!

[TankLV]

15. Boo fucking hoo. Hope the door DOES hit them hard in the ass on the way

out.

They've become a major embarassment of the airwaves.

Repuke shills cleaverly disguised at an ever increasing rate.

Won't miss them at all.

Buh Bye!

[SmartBomb]

16. Hate to say it, but at this point NPR = MSM

Listening tonight on the way back from work I was nauseated by the parade of repukes spinning the Iraqi elections. NPR has succumb.

[Toucano]

21. You're right.

I'm a life-long supporter and defender, but I too realize the nails are already in the coffin.

The shift in the last year alone is incredibly obvious.

[LynnTheDem]

18. Faux Moos viewers; 80% misinformed...NPR/PBS 23% misinformed.

So buh bye NPR/PBS; can't have informed Americans!

http://truthout.org/docs_03/100403F.shtml

[flyarm]

19. those were stats before * put conservs in charge last yr..

he put big time conservs in charge of pbs last yr and of course the conserv take over is showing its nasty head now..same as npr...i stopped sending them money when * did that!
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[auburngrad82]

22. NPR lost my support when they started taking money from conservative

think tanks and supporters of the GOP. Look through their donor list and then google some of the foundations. Many are right-wing foundations. The influence of these donors is obvious. The stories all have a rightward slant now.