House Republicans announced Friday they would take action that could force a vote on defunding NPR in the wake of the firing of news analyst Juan Williams.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that he is adding a measure to defund the publicly subsidized radio network to the conference's "YouCut" program, which allows the public to vote online on spending programs they want cut. Williams was axed by NPR on Wednesday for comments he made about Muslims, drawing the ire of Republican leaders.
Cantor said in a statement that NPR’s decision to fire Williams was an example of "over-reaching political correctness.""In light of their rash decision, we will include termination of federal funding for NPR as an option in the YouCut program so that Americans can let it be known whether they want their dollars going to that organization," he said.
Cantor's decision follows a chorus of Republican calls to defund NPR, which they believe leans too far to the left for a news organization that is partially dependent on federal dollars.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Thursday that he is introducing legislation to defund NPR in the upper chamber and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) is renewing a push for his bill that he introduced in June to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees NPR.
Sure they are. Let's turn the budget process into Dancing With The Stars or American Idol while we're at it. Hell, let's have the entire government process decided by an angry mob doing internet push polls. Let's amend the Constitution so we do only what the FOX-driven mob wants to do. That's democracy at its finest!
The Republicans have been trying to get rid of public broadcasting for years. Public broadcasting actually has standards, and well, we can't have that.
Tea-ranny of the Majority mob rule is so much easier, and gets better ratings.
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Let's turn the budget process into Dancing With The Stars or American Idol while we're at it.
Thanks to the Democrats, there's no budget for 2011.
Hell, let's have the entire government process decided by an angry mob doing internet push polls.
You mean like how Clinton ran things?
Let's amend the Constitution so we do only what the FOX-driven mob wants to do.
Right. Let's keep things the way they are where liberal judges and Justices, the kind that Coons would confirm, change the Constitution without that whole democracy thing getting in the way. You know, like adding in the "separation of church and state" clause that doesn't actually exist in the Constitution.
Speaking of liberal Justices, let me answer Allan's point:
Tomorrow, the goverment is going to sell SteveAR's house to the highest bidder.
Thanks to the liberal criminals on the Supreme Court, the government can do that now after the Kelo v. New London travesty.
Public broadcasting actually has standards,...
Maybe some liberal should explain what those are since no liberal, especially the government hacks at NPR, seems to have any.
By the way, where in the Constitution does it say that the government is required to set up a liberals-only propaganda agency at taxpayer expense, hmmm? Is it somewhere near the nonexistent "separation of church and state" clause?
@steveAR
you are the biggest idiot imaginable. if you had the slightest hint as to how ridiculous your intellectually bankrupt, borderline-incoherent posts appear to rational people, you'd immediately stop typing and kill yourself.
have a nice weekend.
I think SteveAR must be the "heavy-set Christian rocker with a pudding-cup beard" who lives, chastely but loudly with Christine O'Donnell. http://wonkette.com/426205/christine-odonnells-former-neighbors-wish-she-didnt-have-sex-so-loudly
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