Time To Stop Taxpayer Funding Of NPR

White House Stands By NPR:
"A Worthwhile And Important Priority"
real clear politics - "We believe that -- or rather we do not support calls to eliminate funding for National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

As is evidenced by -- we think they're -- they are worthwhile and important priorities as our budget makes clear," White House press secretary Jay Carney said today.

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NPR executive and NPR CEO fired
NPR executive Ron Schiller was the first to go. NPR chief executive officer Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday in the wake of a sting video that showed fundraiser and NPR executive Ron Schiller (no relation) caught on hidden camera disparaging conservatives, the tea party movement, and former NPR political analyst Juan Williams who was fired in October.

Last week, two Republican senators introduced another bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which also funds NPR.

President Barack Obama had set aside $451 million for public media in his proposed budget.

With congressional Republicans renewing efforts to defund NPR and Public Broadcasting, the timing of this video sting could not be worse for the embattled publicly-funded entity which purports to be a “news organization.”

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Blog author's comments - It is time for the government to stop the help they provide in funding NPR. Many critics, me included, say NPR is liberally biased and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to support them.

Some advocates of cutting off funding say NPR should make up the money from other sources and become more independent.

Obama of course wants to continue funding them as another leftist prop for the Democrats. There should be no government media.

Most conservatives have always known that NPR leans to the left politically. Now many more should also know this if they have seen the video featuring the NPR employee.

NPR Executive Caught On Tape


h/t: washington times

NPR Reporter Attended - Gasp! - A Christmas Party

Nina Totenberg: 'I Was At, Forgive the
Expression, a Christmas Party'
newsbusters - "I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party," NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend’s oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a common event, seemingly embarrassed to invoke any religious terminology for Christmas. She didn’t say what she’d prefer for parties this time of the year to be named. "Winter solstice party"? Just plain old "holiday party"? Or a "seasonal gathering"?

Totenberg’s bashfulness came as she explained how the failure of Congress to pass an annual budget has left federal workers in limbo:Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don't know how much money they've got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this.

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Blog author's comments - So, what did Totenberg actually mean by "forgive the expression"? I believe most of us know what she meant. Here’s a much better idea, how about she apologize for pretending to be an American. I believe the entire lineup at NPR to be a herd of anti-American liberals.

There you have it folks. Just more proof that liberalism is a severe mental disorder. So now to be politically correct using the word "Christmas" should no longer be tolerated. What has happened to this country in just a few years?

Juan Williams - Fired For Doing Nothing Wrong

Political Correctness Costs Juan Williams His Job at NPR
mcr.org - MRC's Bozell Blasts NPR's "Outrageous" Firing of Juan Williams

National Public Radio (NPR) has fired longtime analyst Juan Williams for admitting he gets nervous on a plane when he sees a person dressed in Muslim garb.

Brent Bozell, Media Research Center (MRC) President, reacted:"Juan Williams has done nothing wrong. What he said echoes what the vast majority of Americans believe. It's their tax dollars that fund NPR. But NPR is ignoring them. Instead, they are kowtowing to the agenda of radical anti-Americans like CAIR, and doing the bidding of George Soros, who hates Fox News with a passion.

"We are preparing letters to the appropriate House and Senate oversight committees to request an investigation.

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Blog author's comments - The liberals and their political correctness. Be careful what you say, because someone somewhere might be offended. Do you think political correctness has gone too far? The majority of Americans do.

However, nearly one in four of our countrymen think the country isn't sufficiently politically correct. We need to be even more careful about what we say to each other, lest someone is offended.

So, Juan Williams is wrong and is fired for thinking and saying "when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

I feel the same way so I am also wrong and should not have the same thoughts?

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**Update** - latimes.com - In wake of NPR controversy, Fox News gives Juan Williams an expanded role

The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million. Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network NPR for it's response to Williams' comments about Muslims.