Republicans want to roast Big Bird
 

You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it's actually true. (Really. Check the footnotes if you don't believe us.)

A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," and other commercial-free children's shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.

http://www.freepress.net/publicbroadcasting

People should only watch Fox and CNN, anything else is bad for the country. Freedom is slavery.

Roast big bird? spit-roast? saying this on a porn board really gives it a whole more messed up meaning

fuck TV!
I get my news from the internet.
it is all good.



if you read it on the internet it has to be true.

Wow, that sucks.. Sesame Street is International and has RELEVANCE!

The USA is acting really weird :helpme

I was never really for government funding of PBS or NPR.

i grew up on sesame street and it made me ok :)

Sesame street has a "liberal bias"? It's a fucking KIDS SHOW! HELLO!

Republicans would shut down CNN too if they could. Only FOX tells the truth supposedly.

educating our children can only lead to problems for republicans. they rely on the gullability of americans to fufill their agenda.

and liberals would shut down fox news if they could
both sides are idiots, get over it

WTF do you think the PUBLIC in PUBLIC Broadcasting System and National PUBLIC Radio means?

Except FOX is obviously biased. With the expception of CBS I do not see bias in the other news stations. re[ublican think if you say somthing bad about Bush youa re evil liberl biased person. I remember when the Clinotn sex scandal thing was going on. ALL the news stations were ripping him a new one. Where is the bais?

First of all I'm not wasting time reading a link that has the word OPINION in it. That article is probally BIASED itself since OPINIONS as is their nature are baised.

I know damn well what it means. Just wish they advertised that way. They always come off as if they are fully supported by member donations. Then to play on the fucking public word, if they are member supported, how is it public if you need to be a member?

all reporting is biased. reporters determine whats relevant to report and tend to report things that favor their position. thats why its important to get your information from many sources to understand the whole story, not just the parts that fox news or the bbc want you to know about.

I get most of my news off the AP wire. I'm not sure how baised that is.

I have NEVER seen a fundraising drive on PBS where anyone has said that they are 100% member funded. Besides if the government expects corporations to help fund public TV then it shouldn't shock them that the shows might be baised. If I donated millions to PBS and then they did a show that was negative about me then I'd pull all my funding. Now PBS wouldn't want that now would they?