NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding

The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
The memo, which the administration plans to send to Congress when it reconvenes from recess on April 28, will open a 45-day window in which the House and Senate can either approve the rescission or allow the money to be restored.
The official, who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the draft.
In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said: "For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" The statement includes examples of what the White House said is "trash that passes as 'news'" and "intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints."
NPR produces the award-winning news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, while PBS is best known for its nightly PBS News Hour and its high-quality children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.

There's a little commercial for NPR tucked right into NPR's article about NPR.

No bias here!

This month, on social media platforms, President Trump blasted the two primary public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: "REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!"
Trump is expected to propose rescinding $1.1 billion -- two years' worth of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that in turn partially funds NPR and PBS.

Gentlemen, here are your talking points: "$1.1 billion is less than one-one-thousandth of our multi-trillion dollar budgets therefore we must never cut billions from the budget."

In making the move, the president appears to be drawing impetus from a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing in late March. The panel called NPR's and PBS' chiefs to testify, alleging the networks' news coverage is biased against conservatives.
In a statement, NPR said: "Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information."
"We serve the public interest. It's not just in our name -- it's our mission. Across the country, locally owned public media stations represent a proud American tradition of public-private partnership for our shared common good," it said.
Paula Kerger, PBS' CEO and president, said the Trump administration's effort to rescind funding for public media would "disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people."
"There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress," she said.

NPR added this: This article was written by people working for NPR, who would therefore lose their jobs if NPR's funding was cut, but they didn't allow the ludicrously biased head of NPR to review the article, therefore, it's free of all bias or self-interest.

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR correspondents David Folkenflik and Scott Neuman. It was edited by deputy business editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editors Gerry Holmes and Vickie Walton-James. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.

The article claims NPR and PBS aren't biased. Another lie.

The Free Beacon reviewed a bunch of PBS "documentaries." The main thesis of these "documentaries? Literally everything is racist.

PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government. In addition to its member stations and on-demand streaming shows, some of the money goes to Independent Lens, the weekly series through which PBS airs documentary films. They often have to do with racism.
The 2022 Independent Lens flick Racist Trees, for example, chronicles a black neighborhood in the overwhelmingly liberal "LGBTQ haven" of Palm Springs, Calif. The neighborhood's residents feel that a "wall of trees" that lines a nearby golf course was "intentionally planted to exclude and segregate" the neighborhood, and want the trees removed.
"They say that these trees are not racially motivated, that they were not racially planted there," one interviewee says in the film. "They can prove that by one simple act. Remove the trees."
Other Independent Lens documentaries similarly center on claims of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. There's Our League, the story of a transgender woman who "comes out to her old-school Ohio bowling league." There's also Ferguson Rises, a documentary in which PBS shadows the father of Michael Brown. And in Breaking the News, PBS documents the "women and LGBTQ+ journalists" who launched nonprofit newsroom The 19th to "buck a broken news media system." One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia."
It's documentaries like those that have motivated the Trump administration to call to scrap taxpayer funds for PBS. The White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the entity that funds NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, to push back.

Video at the link.

Drew Holden
@DrewHolden360
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I’m not sure people realize just how egregious some of NPR's "journalism" has been. Amid the debate about defunding the network, I wanted to walk down memory lane to revisit some of its worst coverage.
There's a lot.

Insofar as @NPR did cover the Hunter Biden scandal, they actively tried to cover it up.

They applauded Facebook & Twitter strangling the story as part of a push against “misinformation and conspiracy theories.”

The story, of course, turned out to be far from invented. pic.twitter.com/ykhfpdFP0S
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025

This wasn’t the only hatchet work from @NPR in defense of Biden.

When questions about Biden’s cognitive functioning started to bubble up in February 2024, NPR leapt Pravda-like to his defense.

The real problem? How such allegations would be “weaponized.” pic.twitter.com/7WUOZMIPIN
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025

Or how about @NPR begging voters to consider how good the economy allegedly was under Biden?

Early effort to insulate him — look at the headline! — from electoral attacks. pic.twitter.com/uqg2ogwDWW
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025

More of NPR's and PBS's taxpayer-funded electioneering efforts here.

And @NPR had more bad Covid lab leak coverage, and coverage of the pandemic more broadly.

Perhaps my favorite is this, where they compared the lab leak theory to (I’m not joking) the “lead-up to [the] Iraq War.” pic.twitter.com/vs8N6FQsuM
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 15, 2025

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:47 PM (rbKZ6)

2 I NOODed...

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (rbKZ6)

3 I done nooded

Posted by: Helpful Miklos at April 18, 2025 04:48 PM (UOzvC)

4 NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding

Cheer up, NPR. I'm getting what I voted for! You're welcome.

Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 04:49 PM (KtPtl)

5 I'm not getting the argument for continuing State Media.

Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

6 If they are going to kill PBS, it is important to archive their valuable content.

Particularly there is a documentary on immigration, and partway in, they report that Paul Ryan had an amnesty deal with Raul Grijalva ready to go, with majority support from the Republican caucus, which was John Boehner's requirement to bring it to the floor.
Ryan was having celebratory drinks with Grijalva, when news came of Eric Cantor losing the primary to Dave Brat, and Ryan's whip count disappeared.
'No one will know how close we came'.

Posted by: MikeN at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (HVZOH)

7
20 Years ago I listened to Diane Rehms tell us troglodytes that NPR didn't need our dirty public funds, that it was overwhelmingly private funded.

I wonder how much of that was USAID money.

Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (j4U/Z)

8 Folkenflik?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (yp8Vj)

9 I'm kinda split on this. I can't stand NPR and would not shed a tear if they were defunded, but PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (rbKZ6)

10 I've been told for years that NPR and PBS got relatively little government funding so what's the big deal?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (viF8m)

11 Dear NPR, if you can identify several hundred billion of wasteful spending, using your super dooper journalism skills, maybe your funding can be maintained.

Your DC neighbors will hate you, but what's a little neighbor hate compared to maintaining your piece of the action.

Chop chop!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (mTR3D)

12 I think it was Luis Gutierrez.

Posted by: MikeN at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (HVZOH)

13 I wonder how much of that was USAID money.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM

We're about to find out.

Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (jc0TO)

14 Blah Blah likes to listen to NPR really, really loud so all the folks passing nearby can know how educated and intelligent we are and they will think how lucky it is to be us as we tap into the font of knowledge, enlightenment and understanding paid for by other people's money and it's free to listen to! Being on a fixed income it's nice to listen to NPR while we vacation at Martha's Vineyard or maybe one of our beach homes in Hawaii without spending our social security each month to pay for it. Hands off our NPR!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (R/m4+)

15 Folkenflik?
Posted by: Ben Had

Dirty iceback Scandi

You betcha

Posted by: Assumpful Miklos at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (UOzvC)

16

They did a recent one on 70s funk music.

Here is the thesis.

“But as the 1960s rolled on, through the Vietnam War, the struggle for civil rights, desegregation and the rise of the Black Power movement, an opening appeared for music that offered a bolder identity for Black people.“

Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (54Efn)

17 Why do rich white people need publicly subsidized radio and print outlets?

Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)

18 NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding

Well...I'll never notice it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (W/lyH)

19 The fact that NPR and PBS still exist is proof of the utter worthlessness of the Republican party.

They’ve been open commie propaganda operations for decades. Newt Gingrich made a big deal of trying to defund them in the 90s.

And yet they remain taxpayer funded to this day.

It’s been 105 days since the GOP took control of Congress. Where’s the bill to defund these assholes?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (l3YAf)

20 I listen to NPR when I'd driving a long distance. It angrys up the blood.

Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (jc0TO)

21

The trees were all made equal
By hatchet, ax and saw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (63Dwl)

22 Good riddens of the government budget

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 04:54 PM (ypFCm)

23 NPR/ PBS are always having funding drives aren't they. Add a bake sale.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 04:55 PM (yp8Vj)

24
There's hardly any government money going to NPR and PBS, so it's a waste of time to go through the motions of cutting funding.

Also, cutting funding will absolutely destroy NPR/PBS!!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:55 PM (y9nCu)

25 But...but...but...I remember back in the 1990s and the 2000s when GOP efforts to defund NPR drew the sneering comments from NPR about how that really wasn't a big deal, since over 90% of their funding came "from listener donors like you."

I'm sure they knew that defunding efforts would be futile, so they decided to sound magnanimous about it all. Nope, no bias here.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (bufu1)

26 Pro tip: It really isn't a plot if Trump is publicly saying he is going to cut all of your federal government funding.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (e5NfL)

27 Dear NPR, if you can identify several hundred billion of wasteful spending, using your super dooper journalism skills, maybe your funding can be maintained.

Your DC neighbors will hate you, but what's a little neighbor hate compared to maintaining your piece of the action.

Chop chop!
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (mTR3D)
***

This is actually a good idea.
Tell NPR that they can keep 10% of all real fraud, waste and abuse of tax dollars that they discover and which result in real cuts.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (W/lyH)

28 Nickle me, Elmo!

Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

29 Time to also make donations to NPR and PBS non-deductible for income tax purposes, on the grounds of political bias.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM (8zz6B)

30 I'm kinda split on this. I can't stand NPR and would not shed a tear if they were defunded, but PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.

Then you should pay for it, like I do for Netflix and Sirius.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM (s8j++)

31 NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding

Oh, no! Not that!

NPR/ PBS are always having funding drives aren't they.
I already got my Jeeves and Wooster dvd's, so, not interested.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 04:59 PM (0Htd1)

32 Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 04:59 PM (QAkQ3)

33
Why do rich white people need publicly subsidized radio and print outlets?
Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK

Same reason they need publicly subsidized high speed rail in California. Because they want to stay rich. What better way than to take money from the unpeople from Jesusland for the things they want.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

34 I like Nova and Frontline on PBS. I haven't watched Frontline in a while but it was nonpartisan. That's where I found out about Obama arming isis.

Posted by: ryukyu at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (r+m2N)

35 Good. And about time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (xcxpd)

36 Defund NPR/PBS, Thursday night, padlock all the doors at 12:01 AM, Friday morning. Adjust the TV systems to broadcast a 404 Error message and radio to broadcast the fed local weather channel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (4fQmp)

37 I listen to the local classical station (WETA) in DC. Whenever the begathon starts, I just turn it off. I'm already forced to support you with my taxes. Stop taking them and we'll talk about my voluntary support.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (s8j++)

38
Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.
Posted by: Romeo13

Wouldn't it cut down on the wind, too?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

39 36 Defund NPR/PBS, Thursday night, padlock all the doors at 12:01 AM, Friday morning. Adjust the TV systems to broadcast a 404 Error message and radio to broadcast the fed local weather channel.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:00 PM (4fQmp)

And... no one will notice.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 05:02 PM (QAkQ3)

40 Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.
Posted by: Romeo13

I never slice!

Posted by: Judge Smails at April 18, 2025 05:02 PM (s8j++)

41
Personally I think every NPR/PBS journalist needs to be strung up by their flaming pubic hair for inventing the Public Broadcasting Whisper Voice.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (y9nCu)

42 "intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints."[/]

And that big faggoty yellow bird too.

Posted by: DaveA at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (FhXTo)

43 NPR: National Commie Radio.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (ZmEVT)

44 Folkenflik?
Posted by: Ben Had

Sounds like German porn.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (0Htd1)

45 Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.
Posted by: Romeo13

Wouldn't it cut down on the wind, too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM

I thought they were so I had a place to piss.

Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (jc0TO)

46

What about all the poor colored chillins learnin their 3rs from Sodomize Me Elmo?

Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (pt3r0)

47 I'll Tempeted Cur, + 1,000.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (yp8Vj)

48 "Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information."

Which community is this that lacks access to all this essential information? Is there a colony on Mars with radio blocking anti-wave devices we don't know about? 'Cause I think it's nigh impossible to not be oversaturated with "news" in this age.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (gLikB)

49 I'm kinda split on this. I can't stand NPR and would not shed a tear if they were defunded, but PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.

Then you should pay for it, like I do for Netflix and Sirius.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM (s8j++)

Or break them up. Have NPR_music, and PBS_entertainment channels, permitted to play only material of a strictly non-political nature. Put a hard-nosed commissar in charge. Should a presenter or producer establish a pattern of pushing this boundary, can their ass. And have NPR_politics and PBS_politics, on different channels and separate subscriptions, paid in full by the listeners/viewers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (8zz6B)

50
Same reason they need publicly subsidized high speed rail in California. Because they want to stay rich. What better way than to take money from the unpeople from Jesusland for the things they want.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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It's more than that. It's cultural reinforcement that they belong, that what they believe is real. It's a focus point of community bonding.
If NPR/PBS didn't put out that elitist crap where would they go?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (4fQmp)

51 Folkenflik?
Posted by: Ben Had

Sounds like German porn.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 05:03 PM (0Htd1)
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That's "bohnenflik."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (6K6Eu)

52 When Ray Kroc died, he left everything to his then-wife Joan.

When she died, she left a lot of his wealth to NPR.

500 milllion.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM (ZmEVT)

53 Absolutely the trees are a buffer. My small street deadends at a golf course. It's not perfect but if anyone tried to cut those trees down I'd chain myself to them. I bet though, if those "racist" trees were cut down the people would start blaming racism for the damages.

Posted by: Lirio100 at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (zS4/f)

54

Through it all, We Want the Funk! presents the music as a primary expression of Black culture that endures — just like Black people have endured.

Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (54Efn)

55 I'm kinda split on this. I can't stand NPR and would not shed a tear if they were defunded, but PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.
Posted by: Moonbeam

I support the good stuff by buying the dvd's. I have Jeeves and Wooster and a lot of their British Whodunnits.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (0Htd1)

56 38
Uh, the reason you plant trees on the border of Golf Courses, is so the course does not continuously get sued when Golf balls break people windows and smash into cars.
Posted by: Romeo13

Wouldn't it cut down on the wind, too?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

Could, depending on prevailing wind patterns...

Knew a case back east where some folks sued because they bought a house on a Golf Course... and their house was getting hit by Golf Balls...

So the course put up some Fence type nets... to protect the homes... but they then bitched that it was unsightly and ruined their view.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (QAkQ3)

57
I can't wait to see these people begging for money in Congressional hearings with Republicans asking about headlines like the ones Drew snapped. It puts the fun in defunding!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (M4PBL)

58 One of the things that always irked me on PBS and NPR was that Ken Burns guy. His baseball documentary accused Ty Cobb of being a racist and of a number of other things. When, in truth, Cobb's great-grandfather preached against slavery. His father was an advocate for the public education of black Americans. And Cobb himself was a vocal supporter of integration in baseball when asked about Jackie Robinson in 1952. The Cobb family got run out of town for their support of blacks.

Burns was just lazy. He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players when in truth Cobb lobbied for just the opposite in the league.

I'm not saying Ty Cobb was an angel. He likely was an asshole of sorts. But, Ken Burns creates documentaries to reflect his won held positions, truth be damned.

Personal gripe, I know, but indicative of PBS and NPR as well.

Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:05 PM (dIske)

59 PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 04:52 PM (rbKZ6)

There is no reason they can't or shouldn't do what every other program producer does, which is line up investors and funding to produce their program and then sell it to a network.

If Antiques Roadshow was picked up by another network, I would watch it just the same. And it would be, because it's popular.

So there would be commercials? So what. There already are commercials in PBS programs. Calling it a message from their sponsor's doesn't change the fact.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (h7ZuX)

60

This is definitely deranged.

“ We Want the Funk! covers a lot of ground, from Sly and the Family Stone to Prince, African artists like Fela Kuti, hip hop pioneers like De la Soul and more. It also explores how bands like Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic fed Black-centered science fiction trends like Afrofuturism — evoking a world where Black people were cavorting with aliens among the stars at a time when mainstream movies, TV and film were still pretty white.”

Posted by: E Buzz at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (54Efn)

61 21The trees were all made equal
By hatchet, ax and saw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Lovely.

My chainsaw would still rather cut Red Pine instead of Hickory or Ironwood.

Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (j4U/Z)

62 Defund and imprison.... of course after a fair trial.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (17s+e)

63
When Ray Kroc died, he left everything to his then-wife Joan.

When she died, she left a lot of his wealth to NPR.

500 milllion.

Posted by: no one of any consequence

================

So they don't need taxpayer money. So good-bye.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2025 05:06 PM (M4PBL)

64 There was one guy at work who started every day with, "I heard on NPR....". It was just the daily NPC update from DNC talking points.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 05:07 PM (dJimA)

65 I suppose it is understandable how hard these people are pushing back as some of their bias, grift, and theft are being disinfected with sunlight (not just NPR, but all the leftist problems that are hitting the news).

When people go on for decades without ever being really called out they hit a stage of entitlement, invincibility, in a secure zone knowing every one of their allies does it. A nice, comfy, leftist sewing circle.

The truth hurts, particularly when you are bombarded with it suddenly. Deal with it, Democrats/Media. Not going away soon.

Posted by: RM at April 18, 2025 05:07 PM (n/1Oj)

66 He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players
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That story was around long before Burns.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:08 PM (6K6Eu)

67 National Pubic Radio has a problem????

No Loss.... Next question ????

Posted by: Grabba Herass at April 18, 2025 05:08 PM (FDlb9)

68 He's not plotting, he's planning to, just like he said.
These people need a thesaureus.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (n4GiU)

69
Oddly enough, a lot of my customers are the public radio/TV stations (I repair equipment that they use). I'm okay with taking the income hit.

Also, it's pretty hilarious to talk to PBS broadcast engineers and listen to them go all MAGA and slag the Donks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (y9nCu)

70 >>>And have NPR_politics and PBS_politics, on different channels and separate subscriptions, paid in full by the listeners/viewers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Excellent idea. Put it up for auction and let them buy it and operate it. No govt involvement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (4fQmp)

71 OT: Comer denied Dims' request for funding to visit their favorite spark of divinity.

https://tinyurl.com/3wkhcufb

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:09 PM (paSBy)

72 I can't wait to see these people begging for money in Congressional hearings with Republicans asking about headlines like the ones Drew snapped. It puts the fun in defunding!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

And then the Funemployment!

Posted by: Cheerful Miklos at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (UOzvC)

73 Back when Trump gave the infamous Charlottesville speech, I was listening to NPR on a laptop while I did some Adobe work on my main computer. Too lazy to switch channels and not really paying attention.

Well, every 30 minutes they reported the "fine people" lie. Over and over all day as if it was the biggest news ever.
When I first heard it I thought "this can't be right," and I did a 20 sec. search to see a video of what he had actually said.

Surely they knew it was a lie, but they repeated it all day (and for the next 8 years probably.) That alone is reason enough to defund them and not just CPB, but the money that goes to states to fund the stations that pay for their programming. (Their main source of income.)

Trump should hold a press conference and play clips from that day and then ban them from the pressroom.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (U/gtr)

74 66 He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players
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That story was around long before Burns.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:08 PM (6K6Eu)
__________________________

Of course it was, as were all the other ones (like jumping into the stands to beat up a guy with no arms). That's why I think Burns was lazy and didn't spend a whole lot of time sorting out the truth.

Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (dIske)

75 I'll Tempeted Cur, + 1,000.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:04 PM

I wonder if he has a newsletter...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2025 05:11 PM (QESVl)

76 Kind of tangential, but I grew up in a small town with no access to PBS. I would watch the Muppet Show when it was being broadcast on one of the networks. I loved watching it with my Dad. Very funny.

Then I finally saw Sesame Street. Imagine my disappointment.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:11 PM (0aYVJ)

77 PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government.
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That's a lot of dough.

Posted by: Cookie Monster at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (CE7wm)

78 That's why I think Burns was lazy and didn't spend a whole lot of time sorting out the truth.
Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:10 PM (dIske)
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Looks that way. I got oppressed by the constant "white people awful" undertone and didn't finish the series.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (6K6Eu)

79 Going down the road I tried to listen to NPR.
Not. One. Minute.
disgusting

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (4fQmp)

80 This guy is my spirit animal

https://tinyurl.com/ypynjx7c

Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)

81 The latest from NRP:
National
Sandtown neighborhood works to heal, and thrive 10 years after Freddie Gray
April 18, 2025
Heard on All Things Considered

🤐

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (NFX2v)

82 "nothing more American than NPR"
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For all Soviet or Chinese definitions of "American"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (p//7s)

83 Dash my lace wigs!: "So there would be commercials? So what. There already are commercials in PBS programs. Calling it a message from their sponsor's doesn't change the fact."

And how. How many Begathon seasons do they have? Those are commercials. They advertise themselves almost endlessly some weeks. And they're so sneaky in doing it I cannot even anticipate bathroom breaks like I can with normal TV scheduling.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (gLikB)

84 Remember when PBS was civil war documentaries and Mr. Rogers? Yeah, it ain't that.

Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)

85
PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government

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I believe that PBS gets about 95% of its budget from the federal government. Most of is supplied indirectly through grants to local stations that then buy material from PBS.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (iTNuP)

86 This guy is my spirit animal

https://tinyurl.com/ypynjx7c
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)
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See, these British types just don't understand that the correct nomenclature is "hookers and blow."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:14 PM (6K6Eu)

87 >>> Well, every 30 minutes they reported the "fine people" lie. Over and over all day as if it was the biggest news ever.
When I first heard it I thought "this can't be right," and I did a 20 sec. search to see a video of what he had actually said

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I've been catching a lot of the top of the hour news on the radio this week. Fox News, repeating the "Maryland man" lie.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (6TlG5)

88
NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding

"The Fiendish Plot of President Donald Trump"

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (iJfKG)

89 >>PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.

The local PBS affiliate here is pretty good. They did a piece a few years ago on the building of the Newport Bridge that was fascinating, I learned a ton from it. I don't mind tax dollars going for that kind of thing but politics should be prohibited. All politics not just the stuff I don't like.

Government in the news business never ends well.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (viF8m)

90 This weekend, in honor of the Minutemen, the story of the ultimate 'Get off my lawn!' (and out of my country) old man

https://tinyurl.com/25vh8d32

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (p//7s)

91 20
'I listen to NPR when I'd driving a long distance. It angrys up the blood.'

There should be plenty of alternatives.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:15 PM (3wi/L)

92 I can't say that I have ever listened to NPR. Do they have telethons like PBS?

If not, maybe they should start.

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (f1kZG)

93

All Things Distorted

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (63Dwl)

94 The AM radio station morning show I listen to could be right off this blog.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (yp8Vj)

95 My favorite NPR nonsense is when they do a long form and cover "both sides" of an issue.

They have one person explaining the far far left marxist position with no representation of reality, then they have the "other side" explaining that there might be some tiny downside or some fear that Repulicans have raised but is totally irrational.

Then the host sums it up with exactly why the Right has a different opinion -- because they are hateful and ignorant, of course.

It is such obvious propaganda. Every day, all day. Over and over they spoon feed stuff in such a way that only a child would not question what they are saying. The only way their world can work is if Republicans (and MAGA) are all sub 80 IQ, hatefull, bigoted and evil. They box their own viewers into a cognitive bubble allowing them no chance of compromise.
It is evil. They are a propaganda organ.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (U/gtr)

96 "I'm not saying Ty Cobb was an angel. He likely was an asshole of sorts. But, Ken Burns creates documentaries to reflect his won held positions, truth be damned."

I read Ty Cobb's autobiography from decades ago and another book he wrote about how baseball was played back in the day.

Matter of fact I've read dozens of baseball books, a number of which were written by his contemporary players well before racism became such a hot button issue in or out of baseball.

I heard lots of things that made me think he was obnoxious and difficult but never did catch a trace of racism. He seemed more like the kind of player and person who could care less if you were a nasty alien from outer space if you could help his team win.

Posted by: RM at April 18, 2025 05:16 PM (n/1Oj)

97 76 Kind of tangential, but I grew up in a small town with no access to PBS. I would watch the Muppet Show when it was being broadcast on one of the networks. I loved watching it with my Dad. Very funny.

Then I finally saw Sesame Street. Imagine my disappointment.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:11 PM

I learned more from Schoolhouse Rock than I did from Sesame Street. I think all I learned from Sesame Street was basura and I'm thinking I would have picked that word up eventually just as I learned babas from my friends for free.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (s8M/c)

98 Trump should replace the board and leadership at NPR and PBS the way he did at the Kennedy Center. State-funded public broadcasting is so essential to Our Democracy (TM) that it must be maintained? Hey, you're right. Welcome hard-hitting newsmen like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Jesse Watters to run the show there.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (8iNlE)

99 The latest from NRP:
National
Sandtown neighborhood works to heal, and thrive 10 years after Freddie Gray
April 18, 2025
Heard on All Things Considered

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All Things Considered.... Except for anything remotely conservative

Posted by: Josephistan at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (tsNY/)

100 Looks that way. I got oppressed by the constant "white people awful" undertone and didn't finish the series.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:12 PM (6K6Eu)
__________________________

As you can probably guess, Ty Cobb is a favorite of mine, and it pissed me off that even "Field of Dreams" dumped on him by saying they didn't invite him because no one liked the bastard. BUT, in truth, opposing teams actually created Ty Cobb Days at their own stadiums when his career was winding down.

That was the legacy of Burn's documentary...picked up on by other mediums. Which angers me LOL

Posted by: Orson at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)

101 FBI/DOJ could arrest Michael Byrd for the murder of Ashli Babbitt right now. Is he going to go unpunished?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)

102 I used to listen to NPR for classical, bluegrass, and jazz music. There are so many listening choices now, they're no longer needed for that.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (paSBy)

103 Besides Car Talk, the Gulf War they had daily brief I listened to

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (ypFCm)

104 >> But, Ken Burns creates documentaries to reflect his won held positions, truth be damned.

Burns is a lying piece of shit. Among other bizarre claims, his documentary on Prohibition asserted it was created by racist white conservative Republicans who were afraid of black people voting.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (l3YAf)

105 This guy is my spirit animal

https://tinyurl.com/ypynjx7c
Posted by: toby928 at April 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)
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Franchising is my newest gig!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artist and Entrepreneur at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (p//7s)

106 44
'Folkenflik?
Posted by: Ben Had

Sounds like German porn.'

That would be Folkenfick

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (3wi/L)

107
I've been catching a lot of the top of the hour news on the radio this week. Fox News, repeating the "Maryland man" lie.
Posted by: Turn 2

Fox News Radio is NPR like.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (63Dwl)

108 Is he going to go unpunished?
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Magic 8-ball says "What the fuck you talkin' about, Willis?"

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:19 PM (paSBy)

109 Posted by: CaliGirl at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (s8M/c)

Ha! Schoolhouse Rock was how I mastered the multiplication table when I was a school kid. I still find myself humming along when I have to count out by twos or threes.

I loved that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:19 PM (0aYVJ)

110 Why do rich white people need publicly subsidized radio and print outlets?
Posted by: Elaine at April 18, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK
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We don't stay rich by spending our own money, sweetie.

Posted by: Rich White Folks at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (f1kZG)

111 Among other bizarre claims, his documentary on Prohibition asserted it was created by racist white conservative Republicans who were afraid of black people voting.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:18 PM (l3YAf)
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Can't wait to hear his description of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (p//7s)

112 >>>That was the legacy of Burn's documentary...picked up on by other mediums. Which angers me LOL
Posted by: Orson
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Hopefully people will come to learn that EVERYTHING Burns did or will do is a load of crap. Gell-Mann amnesia effect, anyone?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (4fQmp)

113
In Trump's first term, Don Jr. was subpoenaed to testify before some congressional committee. The left was salivating while imagining Don Jr. would give up his father for some crime.

Peter Sagal on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" joked that Trump said "I always wanted one of my kids to screw me, just not that one".

Our social, moral, and intellectual superiors. You don't have to ask them, they'll tell you.

Posted by: Frankly at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (q5uQJ)

114 FBI/DOJ could arrest Michael Byrd for the murder of Ashli Babbitt right now. Is he going to go unpunished?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)

*snickering*

Posted by: Pam Bondi and Kash Patel at April 18, 2025 05:20 PM (l3YAf)

115 Imagine - Carline Levit. news conference. Clips for any number of PBs and NPR shows, where they told false stories. Just the most outrageous garbage you can imagine, clip after clip.

Heck, kick if off with Katherine Maher's facebook posts.

Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 05:21 PM (gDhA9)

116 66
'He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players
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That story was around long before Burns.'

No kidding. I heard that one from my dad.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:21 PM (3wi/L)

117 Ha! Schoolhouse Rock was how I mastered the multiplication table when I was a school kid. I still find myself humming along when I have to count out by twos or threes.

I loved that.

I have to admit, it's fun hearing Tom Lehrer and Gene Wilder on The Electric Company as an adult, knowing who they are.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 18, 2025 05:19 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2025 05:22 PM (QESVl)

118 Well. That was a good cut/paste fail.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 18, 2025 05:22 PM (QESVl)

119 One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia."

TBH there might be some truth to this. While Philly claims an 80% turn out rate, I'd guess perhaps half of that are single ballots cast by a living US citizen registered to vote in Philly.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 05:22 PM (t0Rmr)

120 In January 2021, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reported that some U.S. Supreme Court justices were not willing to wear a face mask to protect Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was at increased COVID-19 risk due to her health history. The court released a statement challenging Totenberg's reporting, claiming all justices were wearing personal protective equipment in the courtroom.

Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (gDhA9)

121 In CA I used to listen to Juan Williams on their local NPR station whenever I had to drive between the main office and an R&D lab I was setting up (I didn't want to change the station as I listened to NPR in the morning commute.)

Juan had a call in show and it was clear he was intellectually disabled. It was like listening to retard talk hour as all the people who called in were just as bad. Dense as a wet log.

I still chuckle to think he is making 7 figures as an analyst. Yeah, white privilege.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (U/gtr)

122 If PBS loses funding, the tote bag industry might never recover.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (paSBy)

123 We don't stay rich by spending our own money, sweetie.

There are no people more stingy then upper class leftwing socialists.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (t0Rmr)

124 >>>>Fox News Radio is NPR like.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Reading an article at JustTheNews (still trying to find a good outlet) and at the end of the article it says, as reported by the NYTs.
Oh, I'll remember that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:23 PM (4fQmp)

125 93

'All Things Distorted'

Our Things Considered

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:24 PM (3wi/L)

126 120 In January 2021, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg [CONVICTED PLAGIARIST] reported

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:25 PM (4fQmp)

127 Our local PBS outlet used to offer decent contentbut around the time sh!t midas got elected, their corporate masters became more involved until it became a woke-o-rama.
I think I sent them a couple bucks during their beg-a-thon, but later regretted it. I considered all the ppl in my network who enjoyed NPR/PBS, and they all have money. Not to mention the uber wealthy elites of the demorats. So I figured, eff it. They can pay for it.

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (0aihy)

128 Would you hire someone named "Death Mountain?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (6K6Eu)

129 Ace fantastical writing.

On the inside I'm subliminally laughing still.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (vepQc)

130 It's not like NPR had to dig deep to report that... hey, we're being defunded because we're communist assholes.

I may have embellished that. Probably not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

131 123 We don't stay rich by spending our own money, sweetie.

There are no people more stingy then upper class leftwing socialists.
Posted by: 18-1

Especially the gay ones.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (/3Exi)

132 >> The court released a statement challenging Totenberg's reporting, claiming all justices were wearing personal protective equipment in the courtroom.

Cucks.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (l3YAf)

133 Having worked for an NPR station and listened for years...there is simply no way NPR/PBS can claim to be unbiased.

It is simply impossible for them to even ascend to claiming they platform anything but an extremely liberal bias.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (X1wUG)

134 Wind blowing out at Wrigley Field.
Two grand slams, back to back homers, 16 runs in the 8th inning.

And it was 2-1 through six.

13-11 Cubs now, top of the 9th.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (ufFY8)

135 105
'white conservative Republicans who were afraid of black people voting'

Back in those days black people would have been voting for Republicans.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (3wi/L)

136 This news surely will have the old AWFLs in my orbit REEEEing

lol
I must remember to tell myself: REES incoming

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:28 PM (0aihy)

137 NPR and PBS only get a small percentage of their funding from government. They have been insulating themselves from this for many years and can continue without it. Now they can go full anti-fascist!

Posted by: raimondo at April 18, 2025 05:28 PM (20yYc)

138 Cubs up 2-1, then 7-1, then down 11-7, then up 13-11.

One out left to go, Diamondback on first.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (ufFY8)

139 " Would you hire someone named "Death Mountain?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious"

For certain types of work, I would.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (0HaGk)

140 The official, who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the draft.

In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said:

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So tell me again why they needed an anonymous White House staffer to tell them what the White House made officially known.

Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (unUNN)

141 Honestly, they should give out White Robes and Hats instead of Tote Bags.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (X1wUG)

142 Car Talk was the only reason for listening to NPR.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:29 PM (/3Exi)

143 Great new idea for an NPR show: "Raimondo on Dick."

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (paSBy)

144 >>142 Car Talk was the only reason for listening to NPR.

And, my Jazz Show!

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (X1wUG)

145 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2025 05:27 PM (ufFY

This is the fun of beisbol:

Six innings of boring ho-hum, attention wandering…

Then all of a sudden: mayhem!

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (0aihy)

146 They are like Planned Parenthood -- they claim:

1. Very little of their money comes from gov. (or abortion.)
2. Without gov. money they will cease to exist.

They think we are stupid.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (U/gtr)

147

Hey Bitches! Suck my wang and I'll put you on air!

Posted by: Garrison Keillor at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (pt3r0)

148 Then you have nothing to worry about, rainman.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:30 PM (0HaGk)

149 116 66
'He accused Cobb of sharpening his spikes to injury opposing players
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That story was around long before Burns.'

No kidding. I heard that one from my dad.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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No doubt that Cobb was a tough rock, the other players were tough too. Speculating, If Cobb had gone too far against an opposition player an up roaring fight would have ensued. Base men wouldn't put up with getting spiked.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (4fQmp)

150 Oh wow! I won't be able to listen to boring and self-righteous drivel on the radio anymore. This is just horrible.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)

151 Piano Jazz w/ Marianne McPartland was probably the best thing NPR ever did.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (X1wUG)

152 142 Car Talk was the only reason for listening to NPR.
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I'd forgotten about that. It was a good show.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (paSBy)

153 Combination of the leftist capture of the institutions and the endless fount of taxpayer money that attracts idiots.

One of my favorites is always Chris Plante talking about how his nationally syndicated show has three people on staff, and how NPR's All Things Considered has a staff of like 35 people including a chef to make it run.

Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (+94UU)

154 102 I used to listen to NPR for classical, bluegrass, and jazz music. There are so many listening choices now, they're no longer needed for that.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (paSBy)

This is exactly the case with television as well. There are hundreds of channels. If your product has an audience, it will be commercially viable.

Do not get me started on Sesame Street. Toy sales alone can fund all of Sesame Street's production.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (h7ZuX)

155 Oh no! Anyway...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (XMwZJ)

156 FBI/DOJ could arrest Michael Byrd for the murder of Ashli Babbitt right now. Is he going to go unpunished?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
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Biden pardoned him, I believe

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (evOaE)

157 Oh wow! I won't be able to listen to boring and self-righteous drivel on the radio anymore. This is just horrible.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 18, 2025 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)

I’m not going anywhere, bub.

Posted by: Sean Hannity at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (l3YAf)

158 NPR and PBS only get a small percentage of their funding from government. They have been insulating themselves from this for many years and can continue without it. Now they can go full anti-fascist!
Posted by: raimondo at April 18, 2025 05:28 PM (20yYc)

No argument here

In fact, I think that’s OSSUM!!!

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (0aihy)

159 151 Piano Jazz w/ Marianne McPartland was probably the best thing NPR ever did.
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I'd forgotten about that one too. I used to listen all the time.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:32 PM (paSBy)

160 In an age of cell phones there is no need for either NPR or PBS. It's actually far more effective to push emergency notices to all phones in an area than to disseminate them via NPR or PBS.

Radio and TV are dinosaur media for almost all Americans, everyone is listening to podcasts.

Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (unUNN)

161 NPR/PBS - We get hardly any funding from the federal goverment! It's not even worth the bother of cutting it.
Also NPR/PBS - CUTTING ANY OF OUR FEDERAL FUNDING WILL DESTROY US AND KILL BIG BIRD AND ELMO!!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (V362x)

162 I can honestly say I've never listened to NPR.

I know it exists but that's about it.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (0HaGk)

163 >>I'd forgotten about that one too. I used to listen all the time.

I think they released a lot of those shows on CD at one point.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:33 PM (X1wUG)

164
They think we are stupid.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Well, they keep gettin funded.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

165 SNL used to do a recurring skit mocking their silly pretentiousness. That's my entire NPR knowledge.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (0HaGk)

166 Those Children's Television Workshop punks are the kind of creeps that got kids TV shows featuring Three Stooges shorts or Popeye cartoons banned on the grounds of violence, or whatever. I would like to take a pair of pliers to their noses and slowly draw a handsaw across their blockheads.

Posted by: Growed Up Normal at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (G5+As)

167 151 Piano Jazz w/ Marianne McPartland was probably the best thing NPR ever did.

Yes it was a good show

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:35 PM (0aihy)

168 Another old fact I like to bring up

NPR was much better 20 years ago.

Then they got the Ray Kroc money from his widow. I never heard how it happened, but she must have insisted that they go full bull goose lefty. They had a really good interviewer (Bob Edwards) who was host of Morning Edition and right after they got the money they fired him for no reason.

He was among the best interviewers I have heard. He would interact with the person and ask intelligent questions. Every day.

There was something about that Kroc money that made them go far far left.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 18, 2025 05:35 PM (U/gtr)

169
In which Elon Musk Dies and goes to hell:

https://x.com/RealAngelaMc/status/1913336472834396227

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2025 05:35 PM (iJfKG)

170 Big Bird must die.

But leave Elmo alone.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (0HaGk)

171 I have a friend who keeps NPR on at low volume playing though his home entertainment system all fucking day.

That "NPR voice" is like auditory quaaludes for me. I just immediately want to go to sleep.

Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (+94UU)

172 All Marxists Views Considered

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (ypFCm)

173 149
'If Cobb had gone too far against an opposition player an up roaring fight would have ensued. Base men wouldn't put up with getting spiked.'

That was the upshot of my dad's story. Cobb had jammed his spikes into Honus Wagner's leg sliding into 3rd.
Later in the game, Wagner vigorously tagged Cobb out in the jaw with his fist around the ball.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (3wi/L)

174 I thought Sesame Street moved to HBO or some other pay channel? Did they move back to the hood?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (63Dwl)

175 166 Those Children's Television Workshop punks are the kind of creeps that got kids TV shows featuring Three Stooges shorts or Popeye cartoons banned on the grounds of violence, or whatever. I would like to take a pair of pliers to their noses and slowly draw a handsaw across their blockheads.
Posted by: Growed Up Normal at April 18, 2025 05:34 PM (G5+As)

You’re actually thinking of Action for Children’s Television, founded by proto-AWFL Peggy Charren.

Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (gxrPg)

176

Bert and Ernie made me the man I am today!

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (pt3r0)

177 I quit "National Pubic Radio" a very, very long time ago.

Annoying hair.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (Q4IgG)

178 171 I have a friend who keeps NPR on at low volume playing though his home entertainment system all fucking day.

That "NPR voice" is like auditory quaaludes for me. I just immediately want to go to sleep.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (+94UU)

I was perplexed by NPR Voice when I was 3 years old, over 30 years ago. I dunno if it was my Asperger’s but I picked up that something was different from how people sounded compared to all other radio stations.

Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (gxrPg)

179 156 FBI/DOJ could arrest Michael Byrd for the murder of Ashli Babbitt right now. Is he going to go unpunished?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)
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Biden pardoned him, I believe
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Was it Biden or was it AutoPen?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)

180 122 If PBS loses funding, the tote bag industry might never recover.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

Here's a little secret. When JJ Sefton goes food shopping he brings his own Channel 13 Tote Bags. He has dozens of them!

Posted by: WNET Channel 13 at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (G5+As)

181 KEXP, an NPR affiliate out of the university of Washington had an excellent program on Friday nights. “Shake the Shack.” Rockabilly. It was awesome!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4kfbT)

182 "There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress," she said.

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Ditto, but we kill kids.

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (qDhxp)

183 If NPR ran Our Gang comedies and Tarzan movies I would watch it. They don’t so I don’t.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (ne3+i)

184 >>That "NPR voice" is like auditory quaaludes for me. I just immediately want to go to sleep.

Yeah...they mandate you adopt that tone. It's easier after the 4th Bong Hit.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (X1wUG)

185 Well past time to cut off any funding to these Socialists... On a different note I see Maryland Man has been moved to a "nicer" jail but he told the Sen. that he was traumatized..... Boo Hoo....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (VE6XX)

186 But leave Elmo alone.
Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:36 PM (0HaGk)

Hey, kids, what’s red, hard and fuzzy?

Posted by: Elmo and Kevin Clash at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (l3YAf)

187 Award winning programs. Sounds like it should have no trouble standing on its own!!

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (E0p3T)

188 Then all of a sudden: mayhem!

Posted by: kallisto

What? Whatcha want?
I wasn't playing baseball! I wasn't anywhere near there!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (2J/Lj)

189 Radio and TV are dinosaur media for almost all Americans, everyone is listening to podcasts.

The oldtimers I know get all their news from TV and newspapers. All other content from TV.

Mobile phones are used for facebook and showing offpics of their fam and pets. Although one of them is plugged into MSNBC on her phone 24-7

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (0aihy)

190 Years ago I listened to Diane Rehms tell us troglodytes that NPR didn't need our dirty public funds, that it was overwhelmingly private funded.

I wonder how much of that was USAID money.
Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 04:51 PM (j4U/Z)

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DOGE showed us how little leftie oligarchs* used their own money to support their favorite causes. It always seemed to have come from USAID.

*Let's use the Democrats term for billionaires.

Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (unUNN)

191 Wait. I thought PBS was made possible by Viewers Like Me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:40 PM (qDhxp)

192 Nope. I listen to NPR every morning while i read the morning report from JJ. Just so i know their lies and omissions. Dey be cray cray!!!!!

Posted by: t-dubya-d at April 18, 2025 05:40 PM (ZwScn)

193 183 If NPR ran Our Gang comedies and Tarzan movies I would watch it. They don’t so I don’t.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (ne3+i)

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The Three Stooges. Now THAT is American.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:41 PM (qDhxp)

194 Sesame street was sold to HBO for five years, which is up this year. New episodes appeared on PBS after one year. They didn't renew the deal and it's not clear who will produce new episodes.

Posted by: Lirio100 at April 18, 2025 05:41 PM (zS4/f)

195 Was it Biden or was it AutoPen?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
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If its really a Biden signature the "i" is dotted with a little heart. Trust me.

Posted by: DR. Jill Biden at April 18, 2025 05:42 PM (evOaE)

196 The Three Stooges. Now THAT is American.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:41 PM (qDhxp)

Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls. Slowly I Turned...

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 05:42 PM (VNX3d)

197 >>The Three Stooges. Now THAT is American.

Almost as American as Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (X1wUG)

198 Lidia's Kitchen 💚

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (NFX2v)

199 Car Talk was a great show, always got my hour. Funny thing about CT was that it was very much hated by the NPR staff because they considered it "low-brow" fair and the fact that it was easily their most popular show particularly galled them. Add in that because it was so popular it was very expensive for the affiliates to purchase AND it was usually placed in a super-premium time-slot. There was much rejoicing when it ended.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (V362x)

200 >>>When JJ Sefton goes food shopping he brings his own Channel 13 Tote Bags. He has dozens of them!
Posted by: WNET Channel 13
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Did he ever come back with an answer about Vic?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (4fQmp)

201 If you haven't seen Elmo and the gom Jabbar you haven't seen the funniest thing ever on youtube.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (0HaGk)

202 Captain Kangaroo

Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (yp8Vj)

203 One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia."

WTF kind of delusional nonsense is this?

Even dead black women have no problems voting in Philly,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

204 And, Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito

Posted by: Joe Biden is a dope at April 18, 2025 05:44 PM (NFX2v)

205 Maryland Man has been moved to a "nicer" jail but he told the Sen. that he was traumatized..... Boo Hoo....
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:39 PM (VE6XX)

What a stupid cvnt that prisoner is. What does he think will happen after the showboating gringo leaves???

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:44 PM (0aihy)

206 There was much rejoicing when it ended.
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OK, they'll be hearing from us.

Posted by: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (paSBy)

207 The Three Stooges. Now THAT is American.
Posted by: Cicero

SPREAD OUT

Posted by: Miklos "Moe" Molnar at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (UOzvC)

208 >> The oldtimers I know get all their news from TV and newspapers. All other content from TV.

This is why so many Boomers think Biden was doing a great job and Trump and Elon Musk are going to cut SS and rifle through their medicine cabinet and take all the good pills.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (l3YAf)

209 Because any show that features a guy torquing another guy's nose with a pipe wrench is American no matter where it's made.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (qDhxp)

210 We were reliably informed that only a little of NPR's funding was from the Federal Government... So it shouldn't matter...

Posted by: setnaffa at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (dKSNq)

211 What's this feud with Musk and Besset ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:46 PM (VE6XX)

212 Even dead black women have no problems voting in Philly,

Actually Black Republican women have trouble voting in Philly and that is not even a joke.

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:46 PM (0aihy)

213 >>SPREAD OUT

WHY I OUTTA!

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:46 PM (X1wUG)

214 And have NPR_politics and PBS_politics, on different channels and separate subscriptions, paid in full by the listeners/viewers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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Isn't that what YouTube is for?

Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (unUNN)

215 >>>This is why so many Boomers think Biden was doing a great job and Trump and Elon Musk are going to cut SS and rifle through their medicine cabinet and take all the good pills.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Source of that bs?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (4fQmp)

216 This one time, Curly sawed through the plank he was sitting on.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (0HaGk)

217 Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 18, 2025 05:45 PM (l3YAf)

The stuff that comes out of their mouths is just…this side of psychotic

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (0aihy)

218 If the lefties can send a million bucks via GoFundMe to the kid who stabbed the other kid at a hihh school football game, they can replace the Federal tax money at NPR with their own privately raised money

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (rpqPN)

219 You know some judge is gonna say Trump can't cut funding....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:48 PM (VE6XX)

220 osted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (V362x)

I'm not even a car person-that is, I've had cars and I can change the oil and tires although the latter has gotten much harder as I've gotten older and achier,, but I am not a car fixer upper. I take it to mechanics. However, Car Talk was always interesting and amusing even though I didn't do car repairs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:48 PM (42Vb+)

221 SPREAD OUT
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WHY I OUTTA!
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THIS HOUSE SHO GONE CRAZY!

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 18, 2025 05:48 PM (paSBy)

222 The Joy of Painting was originally broadcast on PBS.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 05:49 PM (2J/Lj)

223 > Maryland Man....

Bet he runs for office.

Here or there. Here, he'll win. There... I don't know.

But if he runs, and is considered eligible here, I hope he unseats Von Hollen. What an amusing that turn that'd be.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (Q4IgG)

224 Was it Biden or was it AutoPen?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
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I'm standing right here Donna

Posted by: President Boasberg at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (rpqPN)

225 I have to admit I do watch Call the Midwife on PBS along with Antiques Roadshow....I pay 5 dollars a month for the privilege...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (VE6XX)

226 Did he ever come back with an answer about Vic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025

I saw Ben Had post that Vic is not on the list because he was racist. My response: is there no forgiveness even in death?
We don’t know what he repented in his last days.

Posted by: kallisto at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (0aihy)

227 One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia

That's because she doesn't have hundreds of ballots to fill out.

Posted by: t-bird at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (YNfms)

228
This article just made Insty.

Posted by: Ped Xing at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (pt3r0)

229 Wasn’t “This Old House” a PBS show? Bob Villa?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2025 05:51 PM (Hx7FG)

230 216 This one time, Curly sawed through the plank he was sitting on.
Posted by: eleven

I do that twice a week.

Posted by: Carpentry On The Cheap at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (G5+As)

231 Was it Biden or was it AutoPen?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:38 PM (4fQmp)
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I'm standing right here Donna
Posted by: President Boasberg at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (rpqPN)

That's President Otto Pen to you, Boasberg!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (VNX3d)

232 Woke Noods upstairs

Posted by: Beartooth at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (dJimA)

233 FBI/DOJ could arrest Michael Byrd for the murder of Ashli Babbitt right now. Is he going to go unpunished?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:17 PM (4fQmp)

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Didn't Biden pardon him?

Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (unUNN)

234 But if he runs, and is considered eligible here, I hope he unseats Von Hollen. What an amusing that turn that'd be.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2025 05:50 PM (Q4IgG)

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Admitting an MS-13 member would probably raise the standards of the World's Most Exclusive Club.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (qDhxp)

235 New Yankee Workshop > This Old House

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (X1wUG)

236 President Donald Trump will replace Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Gary Shapley, who was backed by Elon Musk, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to Trump that Shapley was picked without his permission, according to The New York Times.
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This may be something. If it is it will be interesting.
Read earlier today that there is frustration with Burgum's not shutting down funding of new wind farms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (4fQmp)

237 Bust up NPR and give half the funding and air waves to right side conservative broadcasters. That would make them squeal even louder!!!

Posted by: t-dubya-d at April 18, 2025 05:52 PM (ZwScn)

238 New Yankee Workshop, was always interesting, so was This Old House in the beginning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:53 PM (4fQmp)

239
My 3 year old grand daughter came up to me today and asked, "Are they really going to kill Big Bird again?" and cried, and I laughed out loud and said "Damn right they will!"

Posted by: Auspex at April 18, 2025 05:53 PM (j4U/Z)

240 215 >>>This is why so many Boomers think Biden was doing a great job and Trump and Elon Musk are going to cut SS and rifle through their medicine cabinet and take all the good pills.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Source of that bs?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:47 PM (4fQmp)

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Among other places, NPR.

Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (gxrPg)

241 Yes. This Old House, The New Yankee Workshop, and the Wainwright Shop. plenty of woodworking and there were some sewing/quilting shows too.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (2J/Lj)

242 FenelonSpoke they had such great stories and callers. I still remember the one guy who had a problem with goats jumping on his car when he visited his girlfriend and wanted advice on how to electrify the car to shock the goats. The guys kept coming up with alternatives that he wouldn't entertain. I think it was Ray who noted "You really just want to shock those goats, don't you?"

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (V362x)

243 Through it all, We Want the Funk! presents the music as a primary expression of Black culture that endures — just like Black people have endured.
Posted by: E Buzz

Tear the roof off the suckah!!!!

Posted by: Words to live by at April 18, 2025 05:55 PM (rdVOm)

244 226 Did he ever come back with an answer about Vic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025

I saw Ben Had post that Vic is not on the list because he was racist. My response: is there no forgiveness even in death?
We don’t know what he repented in his last days.
Posted by: kallisto
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On one thread J.J. was asked more than once about Vic and he responded that he would ask the PTB and get back to us.
I may have missed his response, however, it seems everyone did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (4fQmp)

245 osted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 18, 2025 05:54 PM (V362x)

I don't recall that one, but it's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2025 05:57 PM (42Vb+)

246 Almost as American as Bugs Bunny.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2025 05:43 PM (X1wUG)

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I grew up in the age of Looney Tunes so when Sesame Street came along it was blah. Now Muppets were funny and worthy successors to Looney Tunes.

Posted by: Decaf at April 18, 2025 05:58 PM (unUNN)

247 Not another dime.

Posted by: Clump of Cells at April 18, 2025 06:05 PM (9bYWc)

248 Forget bias, why does the Government fund news originations at all? I mean, doesn't that seem super weird to anyone else? It's not like there is some great news shortage out there.

And a LOT of the programming is frivolous crap. Are you saying that only the government can create a radio show like "Wait Wait don't tell me!"

It's...bizarre this is even a real conversation.

Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 06:06 PM (gDhA9)

249 If it was truly American, it wouldn't get a dime form the government. As it is, it seems a lot like the BBC.

Posted by: El Mariachi at April 18, 2025 06:07 PM (gDhA9)

250 30 I'm kinda split on this. I can't stand NPR and would not shed a tear if they were defunded, but PBS has some wonderful programs. I never listen to any of their news or political stuff.

Then you should pay for it, like I do for Netflix and Sirius.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2025 04:58 PM

I do pay separately for the app- $75 per year. It provides additional programming.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (rbKZ6)

251 250 I do pay separately for the app- $75 per year. It provides additional programming.
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 18, 2025 06:28 PM (rbKZ6)

Wow, lefties don’t consider that to be PBS selling out to capitalist greed? If it’s “public” wouldn’t they believe all people, regardless of ability to pay, should have equal access to the same programming?

Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at April 18, 2025 06:33 PM (gxrPg)

252 )) Do you want to find a woman for one night? Go to -- Hot4.eu

Posted by: Cordella at April 18, 2025 07:39 PM (vJYB+)

253 NPR and PBS shoulda been defunded 24 years ago at least.

Posted by: Southern Man at April 18, 2025 09:14 PM (Wj9YC)

254 I’ve never understood one thing: if taxpayer money is such a small part of their budget or revenue then they won’t really miss it, right?

Posted by: Quiller at April 18, 2025 10:42 PM (hvOPb)

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