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Should Soros-Backed NPR Lose Public Funding?

NPR’s firing of Juan Williams Wednesday has ignited a firestorm, leaving some politicians wondering whether the organization should lose its public funding, and many in the media questioning the real reason behind the news veteran’s axing.

In comments to CNN, former Arkansas governor and fellow Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee said that the hasty dismissal of Williams amounts to censorship, which is unacceptable from a publicly-funded organization.

“NPR has discredited itself as a forum for free speech and a protection of the First Amendment rights of all and has solidified itself as the purveyor of politically correct pabulum and protector of views that lean left,” Huckabee said in a statement provided to CNN.

Should Soros Backed NPR Lose Public Funding?

Former NPR host Juan Williams explains to Bill O'Reilly on Monday why he gets "nervous" when he sees people in "Muslim garb" on planes.

Those comments are in response to Williams‘s remarks to Bill O’Reilly on Monday (regarding political correctness getting in the way of safety) that he gets “worried” and “nervous” on flights when he sees “people who are in Muslim garb.” According to Williams, the firing took place over the phone, and his boss denied him the opportunity to explain his comments in person.

“It is time for the taxpayers to start making cuts to federal spending, and I encourage the new Congress to start with NPR,” Huckabee said. He added that he will refuse all interview requests from NPR as long as it remains publicly funded.

While Huckabee is the first high-profile figure to call for an end to NPR’s public funding since the Williams incident, the charge isn’t anything new. In June, the Daily Caller reports, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) introduced legislation aimed at ending government funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (through which federal funds are funneled to NPR) after 2012. Not surprisingly, the measure stalled in the Democrat-controlled Congress.

“This is an organization that can stand on its own. Why in the world, in the era of trillion dollar deficits, should the taxpayer have to subsidize it? It doesn’t make sense,” Lamborn told the DC. “I would love to defund NPR completely. Not because I don’t like it … but because it can stand on its own.”

Defunding the news outlet, however, has incited a bring-it-on-type response from NPR. In response to Huckabee’s remarks, NPR blogger Mark Memmot posted the following: “For the record, here’s a link to charts that break down where NPR and its member stations get their money.”

Those charts reveal that for fiscal year 2008, 5.8 percent of its revenues came from “federal, state, and local” government. The point seems to be that federal funds are not a big part of the organization’s coffers, an insinuation that supports Rep. Lamborn’s charges.

Should Soros Backed NPR Lose Public Funding?

Liberal financier George Soros recently donated $1 million to the liberal group Media Matters, as well as $1.8 million to NPR.

Yet NPR’s boldness may be for another reason: its reporting style and ideological stances have caught the eye of liberal financier George Soros. Earlier this week, Soros’s Open Society Foundations donated $1.8 million to NPR. That money will fund the hiring of 100 journalists “to bring greater transparency and accountability to the workings of state capitals across the country.”

With funders such as Soros, public funding may be unnecessary.

Yet that funding raises serious questions about the integrity of NPR’s reporting. Soros’s funding is historically linked to liberal organizations throughout the country, including Media Matters, the Tides Foundation, Democracy Alliance, Moveon.org, and the Center for American Progress.

Also, the fact that NPR’s firing of Williams comes during a week when Soros-funded Media Matters and the Tides foundation are calling on advertisers to boycott Fox News and Glenn Beck, has not gone unnoticed.

Questions Regarding Williams’s Firing

In addition to funding inquiries, some are questioning NPR’s reasoning for firing Williams. According to the outlet’s official statement, Williams was fired because “his remarks on The O’Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our [NPR's] editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a News Analyst with NPR.”

But some aren’t convinced.

Reason’s Matt Welch points out that in the O’Reilly interview Williams repudiates bigoted and racist remarks:

WILLIAMS: Wait a second though, wait, hold on, because if you said Timothy McVeigh, the Atlanta bomber, these people who are protesting against homosexuality at military funerals, very obnoxious, you don’t say first and foremost, we got a problem with Christians. That’s crazy.

[Welch writes] Later, in a crosstalk-heavy exchange about Germany’s Muslim integration issues, there was this:

O’REILLY: Juan, who is posing a problem in Germany? Is it the Muslims who have come there or the Germans? [...] Who’s causing the problem?

WILLIAMS: I think — I think — no, no, wait. See, you did it again. It’s extremists. It’s people who refuse to –

O’REILLY: It’s not extremists.

WILLIAMS: It’s a German society. They are the ones causing that problem.

[Welch writes] And then there was this:

WILLIAMS: But, Bill, here’s a caution point. The other day in New York, some guy cuts a Muslim cabby‘s neck and says he’s attacking him or you think about the protest at the mosque near Ground Zero –

[...]

WILLIAMS: I don‘t know what is in that guy’s head. But I’m saying, we don’t want in America, people to have their rights violated to be attacked on the street because they heard a rhetoric from Bill O’Reilly and they act crazy. We’ve got to say to people as Bill was saying tonight, that guy is a nut.

O’REILLY: He is a nut. And I said that about the guy in Florida — who wanted to burn the Koran. I came down on him like crazy.

WILLIAMS: Correct. There you go.

Welch goes on to suggest that there has to be more to the story. And he’s right.

In a separate news story on NPR’s website Thursday morning, writer David Folkenflik reveals what could be the real reason behind Williams’s firing: NPR didn’t like the opinionated Williams appearing on Fox. Writes Folkenflik:

Williams’ presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives.

His status was earlier shifted from staff correspondent to analyst after he took clear-cut positions about public policy on television and in newspaper opinion pieces.

Like Welch, Folkenflik notes that Williams went out of his way to say his comments were not bigoted, even quoting Williams‘s warning to O’Reilly about his recent unpopular remarks that “Muslims killed us on 9/11.”

The suggestion that Williams’s history of Fox News appearances led to his dismissal is not a radical idea. Last year Politico reported NPR brass pleaded with top political correspondent Mara Liasson “to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias”:

According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network’s supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.

At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she’d seen no significant change in Fox’s programming and planned to continue appearing on the network, the source said.

An internal NPR memo obtained by Fox in the Williams case echoes the sentiments expressed to Liasson. In it, NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller portrays Williams as repeatedly overstepping his bounds as an analyst and breaking NPR’s ethics code:

NPR News analysts have a distinctive role and set of responsibilities. This is a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist. News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts, and that’s what’s happened in this situation. As you all well know, we offer views of all kinds on your air every day, but those views are expressed by those we interview — not our reporters and analysts.

Second, this isn’t the first time we have had serious concerns about some of Juan’s public comments. Despite many conversations and warnings over the years, Juan has continued to violate this principal. …

Unfortunately, Juan’s comments on Fox violated our standards as well as our values and offended many in doing so.

Should Soros Backed NPR Lose Public Funding?

Fox's Megan Kelly interviews a representative from CAIR regarding its position on Juan Williams

The last half of the sentence above may contain more truth than even NPR would like to admit . On Wednesday the liberal Council on American-Islamic Relations, which some consider a front for radical Islam, issued a statement pressuring NPR and “calling on American Muslims and other people of conscience to ask National Public Radio (NPR) to address analyst Juan Williams’ statement.”

“NPR should address the fact that one of its news analysts seems to believe that all airline passengers who are perceived to be Muslim can legitimately be viewed as security threats,” added CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.

(Watch Megyn Kelly‘s explosive interview with CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper.)

Those remarks are despite the slew of statements Williams gave repudiating bigotry and racism during the interview.

Yet not all have ignored the full context of Williams’s remarks. Commentators from a variety of networks and backgrounds have said that NPR was wrong for firing Williams, and have called on NPR to reconsider. The outlet’s vocal dissenters even include historically liberal “The View” hosts Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg.

“This is disgraceful, NPR needs to hire Juan Williams back, and I think most rational Americans agree with that,” Said MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Thursday morning.

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  • Kisha Majors
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:40pm

    Just reported. Fox News has hired Jaun for 2 million for a 3 year contract. =0)

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  • Hugh Williams
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:38pm

    If you use the numbers of 40% of the country is liberal, 40% of the country is conservative and 20% of the country are independent. Why should 60% of the tax payers fund a network that only represents 40% of the country while silencing the views of the other 60%? I really don’t think the liberals make up 40%, they are much fewer.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:08pm

      actually less than 20% see themselves as “liberal” and out of that 20% 15% should be deemed progressive. liberals arent what liberals used to be

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  • Loyal9
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:35pm

    Why don’t we hear Republican attack adds saying that with the funding of NPR millions are dying of AIDS in Africa????

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  • chazman
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:35pm

    I agree. I think it’s time to put NPR to rest. Not because it is 98% slanted to the left, but because whenever the government gets involved in any kind of business, they screw it up. And NPR is screwed up.

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  • Kisha Majors
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:35pm

    I don’t know why were funding opinions. When the deficit is in the trillions. I think we could seriously do better! It’s not just this funding that needs to end. It is mass spending on ridiculousness that also needs to halt.

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  • rl
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:34pm

    I dont care whoses funding NPR, It should have lost public (goverment} funding years ago. They make enough money to fund themselves…..

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  • Silat
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:33pm

    Hell yes!

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  • plazadogg
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:32pm

    Free Speech on NPR you must be kidding. National Progressive Radio needs to remove itself from the public forum. If they hate Fox news this much why not just say it and do something about it.But to use Juan Williams as a whipping boy is crossing the line.They never said a word when the POTUS uses his position to stir civil unrest.Remember the beer summit,and Shirley Sherrod, the lights are on and the people are watching….God Bless Juan Williams he is a Great American.

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  • dantom
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:31pm

    Eliminate all tax dollars the left can fund this bull—-.

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  • tugdiver
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:31pm

    NPR Should loose all public funding. It is clear that they allow only the liberal point of view and are political supremacists.

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  • grandpa
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:31pm

    Let NPR have its way, no NPR reporters, commentators or annalyists on Fox or any other truth telling TV or radio program, thats what they want, let them have it. However, I recommend that all funding by tax payer money, no matter how small, shall stop, and the American public should stop listening and supporting NPR; and address their feelings to all advertisers, corporations, etc. that support NPR to stop their support. Stop having NPR reporters on TV.

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  • Slevdog1
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:31pm

    Damn straight, yes!

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  • Kisha Majors
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:31pm

    So basically, NPR employs non-speaking people to report and no make comments or opinions.

    But doesn’t this cross the line when another journalist or commentator asks him his opinion? That would be the part where his freedom of speach comes into play. Wouldn’t you think?

    Every man or journalist has their own opinion. When reporting they need to report the facts. However, when speaking as a person or a citizen of this country, you cannot silence them by law.

    It is funny that everyone is rushing to defend Jaun. Considering he is a Democrat. But it appears that even in the Democrat side of things, having your own unique voice is not tolerated. Hrm….

    It’s also funny that those who are professed liberals who are speaking out to let him have a voice. Yet they want to silence Fox and Glenn. What more double standards can they play? I’m sure were going to see much more.

    *** gets out the popcorn***

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  • Independent Tess
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:29pm

    With Soros backing them, I think NPR can get along quite well without our tax dollars.

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  • Strictlybusiness
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:29pm

    This IS in the TOP TEN LIST of budget cutsTHAT WE NEED TO DEMAND THE NEW CONGRESS CUT FIRST !!!! CUT IT 100% NO FEDERAL funding for NPR. NPR is an Obama-nation to conservative and American values……..So let it be written! ! ! ! ! So let it be DONE ! ! ! !

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  • LadyVet
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:28pm

    No “news” entity supported by the government in any way can ever be deemed to be independent! NPR is now and always has been clearly a government “news” radio station, always on the sidelines cheering for the administration if only to preserve their funding. Juan, while I have never been a fan of his, spoke his mind as is his right, NPR fired him for exercising his constitutional right of free speech, maybe it will finally open Juan’s eyes a bit to the truth about government interference in the news business.

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  • calebgs83
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:27pm

    Government subsidized media is called PROPAGANDA…yes they should lose their funding as well as every other partisan group (ACORN etc…)

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    • BoilitDown
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:11pm

      CALEBG83: Spot on! News organizations, aka “The Fouth Estate”, should never be funded with taxpayer dollars. The Fourth Estate must be the watch dogs of government, not the lap dog. NPR should never have received so much as the first government dollar. A great cry should go out across the country to defund NPR.
      This goes for all media. Of course, the MSM is in serious violation of this basic tenet of journalism. All news organizations do this but the most egregious offenders are NPR, MSNBC, NBC, CBS & ABC.
      Read The Journalist‘s Creed and The Journalist’s Code of Ethics and you will better understand the need to defund NPR.
      Actually, every “citizen journalist” should read and understand those documents.

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  • TeaPartyPatriot
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:27pm

    The new CONgress MUST STOP ALL federal government subsidies to NPR and PBS. Why should we taxpayers have to foot the bill for these lamestream socialists to spew forth their lies, leftist propaganda and insulting double standards?

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    • neverending
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:33pm

      First we have to make sure we get a new Congress and Senate – help get out the vote

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:42pm

      @Neverending

      We need to make sure the country survives long enough to get the new senate and house within place.

      Think on this for a moment – there are several states with probes into the mail in ballots either not being sent out to our soldiers or being found fraudulent from recent elections.

      What would happen if some Federal Judge suddenly declares that ALL mail in ballots across the country are NULL AND VOID due to the possibility of fraud among them. Anyone thinking this is a crazy possibility should remember we now have two radicals on the supreme court.

      Let me know what you think of this prospect Blaze Bloggers.

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    • Restored One
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:46pm

      Snowleopard- I actually thought about something kind of like that today as I was filling out my ballot. It occurred to me that the size/weight of my ballot this year may need additional postage. I asked my post master about that today and I was told that they would weigh it and charge additional if necessary. So, the post office could return mail in ballots to sender for insufficient postage? Got me thinking. EVERYONE should drop them off personally to the registers office.

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    • IndianaPatriot
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:14pm

      I agree. Defund NPR, PBS, NEA (National Ego-fest for the Arts) and every other “entity” that has nothing to do with the constitution or defending our great nation. If this new congress will only start the process of defunding these insane marxist projects, then there will be plenty of money left over for things like Social Security and Medicare, etc. (post fraud removal). OH, and all that pork like frog bridges and teapot museums too. There‘s plenty of money if it’s managed properly. Then our country can again move forward in a more sane way.

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  • Coralchristie
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:26pm

    The federal government is not given the right to fund radio in the Constitution. NPR is fast becoming the pure arm of propaganda for the federal government.

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    • Bowtie
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:50pm

      So true, but they dont seem to think they have to obey any laws whatsoever. Its disgusting.

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  • neverending
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:24pm

    absolutely along with PBS which is just as worthless or I should say destructive.

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  • dlmcilvain
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:23pm

    The government should not be in the media business. Nor should they be in the Health Care Business or the Student Loan Business or the Car and Truck Business. It is none of their Business!

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:21pm

    Yes!!!

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  • Joseff
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:20pm

    I honestly have never seen the need for a “public” broadcasting service. Why should my tax dollars be used to fund a radio or TV station? Or for that matter, art? If it is worthwhile, it can be done in the private sector. If no one is willing to pay for it, well, that says all you need to know right there.

    Joe

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    • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:42pm

      TOTALLY AGREE! right on the money. PBS or (The Tree Hugging Hippie Crap Channel) as my dad calls it and NPR should be cut off from our tax dollars. along with 100′s of other so called publicly funded programs…(if its PUBLICLY funded shouldn’t the PUBLIC have a direct say in whether OUR money supports them?)

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 12:13am

      NPR’s federal funding is only just over 5% of their income. They probably won’t miss it if it is cut.

      In their defense, I’ve seen some great concerts on PBS and there were some great educational TV broadcasts when our son was growing up. (Wishbone, Magic School Bus, Zoom, Liberty’s Kids and others).

      On the other hand, we used to listen to a local NPR station every Sunday morning on the way to church because they would have “Sunday Morning Baroque” on . However, this stopped abruptly when NPR announced that tea party members were “teabaggers”. I wrote to the local station, the D.C. office and the sponsors of Sunday Morning Baroque and explained that I would no longer be a listener and that my radio was now tuned to another classical station. Since then, we either listen to a classical CD or a CD with hymns on the way to church.

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  • SND97
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:15pm

    Should Soros-Backed NPR Lose Public Funding?
    YES

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:22pm

      NPR = National Propaganda Radio

      cheezwhiz  
    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:24pm

      CPB = Communist Propaganda Beeotches

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    • staythecourse
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:31pm

      Since federal and state funding, by their own admission, is such a small part of their entire financial picture… absolutely. NPR AND PBS should both be defunded. I am so tired of the lies they present as truth. I SAY….. DEFUND !

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    • banjo
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:00pm

      cut em to the core

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:06pm

      I have a friend who watches PBS, he comes up with the craziest stuff sometimes. I’m trying to get him to stop as he is easily influenced by idiots. Wonder if they could make a patch for that??
      No public funding for any tv or radio, stand on thier own two feet or go out of business. Oh, and every time the left boycotts something we turn it into a buycott, idiots.

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    • Beatrice
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:06pm

      Absolutely, YES!

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:31pm

      if we dont go after that dirt bag soros and put him and his kids in jail after all it is illegal to attempt to overthrow the american government. and mr soros is ass deep in the conspearacy to destroy america. i got news for you mr soros youll have to destroy us all because america and the dream lives in all of us. the more you try to take the less you shall have. mr soros youd better buy yourself a room on the space station its the only place youll be safe from us.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:47pm

      @Untamable-Kate

      Agreed, and it was not just about three weeks ago there was a NPR fund raiser going on according to a broadcast of their radio channel – I just laughed and moved on to Glen Beck and KTAR.

      Let them stand on their own feet, or be buried with their boots on.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:38pm

      No SNOW, we should get the boots back since we probably paid for them.

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    • GulfPeg
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:44am

      Yes, they should lose their funding! Or, Fox News should also get funding. How about that?

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  • Danglinbags
    Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:08pm

    I hope Seksie Soros donates every last dime to NPR. I love their dulcet tones and they are CLEARLY not left wing at all.

    Snowleotard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • booger71
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:15pm

      What ever Dingleberry

      booger71  
    • XYZ
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:15pm

      you’re funny. :)

      Inuyasha  
    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:24pm

      I will write this based on an assumption the comment about them not being left wing is written in sarcasm.

      NPR should, in my view, be devested of ALL public funding if they are found in violation of any legal or ethical laws of our country. Mr Soros seems to just be turning them into his own privately funded set of witch hunters or propagandists.

      Note I listen to NPR to get a second perspective on overseas events and news – and almost always I wind up just having to stop laughing at the sheer discontinuity and bad immitation of the Monty Python Flying Circus shows.

      Obviously now that I am stating my oppinion about NPR they will try to fire me, even though I do not work for them, or have anything about them. Mr Soros is moving from the shadows into the direct light to reveal the truth about his intentions.

      People, we need to look both to the past and the present to see the course being laid out for us by the Progressives and people like Soros.

      They think in a larger scale of the world and of time than for most of us.

      But we can also do the same to stop them. Bring truth to the light, and warn the people about you to what is going on.

      One person can make a difference – Ghandi and MLK have proven that.

      A standing of people – the founders of our nation – also proved that as people coming togeather in one common cause.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • solaveritas
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:42pm

      NPR – National Progressive Radio should be defunded due their discrimination of ideas. I would suggest FUNDING an counter group, National Patriot Radio, but that would just increase government spending!!

      By the way, Juan Williams did NOT make a comment about Muslims. Juan, after reciting some facts, made a comment about himself, Juan Williams. When we cannot confess our fears we have no free speech.

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    • IRON PYRITE
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:43pm

      Add your comments

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    • heavyduty
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:47pm

      He is definitely sniffing too much of Soros crack.

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    • RehabUncleSam
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:55pm

      In a word “yes” NPR Should Lose Public Funding.

      What ever happened to the days when an organization would just say,
      “The views and opinions expressed by (insert source here) are those of the (insert source here) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of (your organization name here).”

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 5:55pm

      @ Danglinbags

      I hope Seksie Soros donates every last dime to NPR.
      —————————————
      You find Soros seksie ? You really need to get your bags vajazzled

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    • Flashover
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:06pm

      I, too, hope Soros donates all his money to NPR. They’ll mismanage it and then both with be gone.

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    • TheAmerican ✞
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:09pm

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    • Firelight
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:15pm

      CLEARLY the NPR should never have been funded (with tax $) in the first place. Soros is a commie.. It is not the roll of gov.to fund “fair radio”….. Leave all things to the FREE MARKET.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:17pm

      It’s sad.. the government STEALS our money and donates via Grants etc.. things they want to support regardless of what or how THE PEOPLE feel about them.. this is a practice makes me SICK to my stomach and has for awhile.. as the people who pay into this one would think we would have some sort of say in the matter.. and please don‘t say it’s up to our senators.. I have Durbin and Burris..

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    • cruisemates
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:17pm

      Look – even more importantly, Juan did us all a favor.

      I went to the NPR web site today and saw that even a number of self-secribed conservative people used to appreciate NPR and donate frequently, but not anymore. They are up in arms over there and now see the station for its true colors.

      I read some of the employee documents, and I admit they say NPR people should never advocate political sides in their name, which she could argue Juan did.

      The PROBLEM is the obvious bias they have in how they apply that rule. We all know other NPR commentators say hugely egregious things about conservative and Christian values all the time.

      Once again, if the same rules were applied to comments about Christians from the left in this country as they want applied to Islam they would have to be firing themselves.

      Look at Coon‘s questioning O’Donnell whether she believes in evolution in the last debate. So, it is perfectly acceptable to question Christian religion in American politics, but do not dare question anything concerning Islam or risk getting thrown under the bus.

      cruisemates  
    • Misskc1
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:20pm

      You’re joking, right? They may need the money if and when NPR finally loses taxpayer money.

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:22pm

      They should lose every dime of funding and their fcc license to boot!

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    • Miami
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:33pm

      Every last dime he has won’t change my mind, Marxism by any other name is just that and you’ve just proven you can be bought.

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    • AMERCITIZN
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:38pm

      Hey Danglingbass, when are you goiong to stop and listen to the “left” nuts??? All they talk about is being Obama’s lap dogs, wetting themselves everytghime he shows up on the tv. also who is paying for hall his trips?? US, the taxpayer, everytime he boards Air Force 1, it cost the people (US) a minimum of $275,000, and that is before they even take off.

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    • hamrs_62
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:39pm

      stupid

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    • JKN
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:55pm

      NPR, National Progressive Radio, should most definitely lose all public funds; and may this be a warning to all far-left entities in America… The American people will not stand for the trashing of our First Amendment Right/freedom of speech, and it is far past time to throw the whole ridiculous idea of “political correction” out! Political correction is censorship; like tyranny with “manners,” and it has no place in American discourse… Let freedom ring!

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:01pm

      danglingbags, Your comments are neither witty or profound and they don’t even approach esoteric. The fact remains that NPR is NOT National PUBLIC Radio, it IS an arm of the left wing, funded through tax dollars and private contributions. The name is NPR fellatious in itself. Under a new fairness doctrine Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity et.al. would be silenced in the name of equal time, buy a “public” station could continue unchecked. This is fairness? NPR SHOULD loose all tax funding and get out there in the market place and make a go of it on their own merit! Ahh, but yes, you are all about fairness and where‘s the fairness in producing a product people want and support with their own money over a product that is useless and boring and is RAMMED DOWN MY THROAT by government regulation because it’s fair?

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    • VegasGuy
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:22pm

      I would have voted cut funding to public radio and public TV 20 years ago.

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    • moonpeace
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:23pm

      Danglingbags is the ass from which the dingleberries hang. Stinking liberal!

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    • 2
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:26pm

      I don’t want 1 cent of my money goin to this LEFT SIDE DEMOCRAT/PROGRESSIVES that I have not turned on in 15 years because there views SUCK. Let them or Goergie pay for all their bills.

      THIS IS THE BIGGEST BULL CRAP BILL WE HAVE.
      THE RNC SHOULD DEMAND TO DEFUND AT LEAST 1/2 OF THIS DEM/HACK/CRAP.

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    • Fedup
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:02pm

      Not left wing? NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE RADIO IS ABSOLUTELY left wing. Defund them immediately.

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    • sickofitall
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:02pm

      Tax dollars have no good place with any media outlet. Public television is outdated and has also shown it’s political and ideological bias. I have written FOX and congratulated them for extending Juan’s contract and showing the integrity that it appears all others have abandoned. I have also written NPR and PBS declaring I will neither support, view, listen, or regard anything that comes from their outlets.
      Although I disagree with Juan on most things, at least he can articulate and discuss a topic from an intelligent point of view without spinning or ignoring blatant facts. Not so with those Obama lemmings, Alan Colmes and Mark Levine, which only spout the same old mantras. I’ve encouraged FOX to replace those morons with Juan to represent the other spectrum.

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    • FIRED UP FREE MAN !
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:23pm

      Fired Up Free Man is now on facebook people, come on over and lets get things started

      @ Fired Up Free Man or Firedup Freeman, See you soon!

      Mr. SOROS is an international criminal. Any government official taking money from this monster or those he supports should be brought up on treason charges. Anybody who takes money from this monster has sold his soul and our government to HELL ! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE LIGHT OF DAY! For only TRUTH and the light of day is what this country DESERVES. Democrats seemed to have been infected by this DEADLY parasite and his minions. This country will NOT rest until SOROS is in prison orange and handcuffs standing in front of a military tribunal in Guantomino Bay, Cuba

      If you have any complaints about Mr. SOROS here are the names and addresses, maybe you can send them a line.

      Tides Foundation Info:

      National Office
      Physical Address: 1014 Torney Ave. San Francisco, CA 94129-1755
      P.O. Box 29198*

      San Francisco, CA 94129-0198
      415-561-6400
      415-561-6401 Fax
      info(at)tides.org

      New York Office
      Tides New York
      55 Exchange Place, Suite 402

      New York, NY 10005-3304
      212-509-1049
      212-509-1059 Fax
      nyinfo(at)tides.org

      Center for American Progress Information:
      1333 H Street Northwest
      Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20005
      Phone: 202-682-1611
      Fax: 202-682-1867
      Mailing Address

      Democracy Alliance
      P.O. Box 18607
      Washington, DC 20036
      Media Matters Information:
      455 Massachusetts Ave. NW
      Suite 600
      Washington, DC 20001
      (202) 756-4100

      “SOROS IN CHAINS”

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    • FIRED UP FREE MAN !
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:23pm

      Fired Up Free Man is now on facebook people, come on over and lets get things started

      @ Fired Up Free Man or Firedup Freeman, See you soon!

      What we need is an INVESTIGATION of those who CONTROL the public airwaves. It would appear channels would rather LOOSE money than report the TRUTH. The same goes for the newspaper industry. Has SOROS really infected the American body so thoroughly? We need people who know how, to chase this information out. It needs to be done quickly and thoroughly! Only threw the light of day can America SURVIVE this insidious INVASION into our POLITICS, our SCHOOLS, our NEWSPAPERS, and finally our CHILDREN. We must move quickly or face COLLAPSE!
      WHERE IS THE FBI? They are responsible for PROTECTING our government from FOREIGN and DOMESTIC interference. No one citizen can fight the AMOUNT of money flowing in to these left-wing COMMUNIST insurgence organizations. Only when all of the citizens finally STAND UP and FIGHT back are we going to have a chance at regaining our FREEDOM!
      Please call the FBI and give them any information you may have on this invasion against our constitution, our government, and our schools.

      FBI info:
      • To provide information on select major cases, call our Major Case Contact Center at 1-800-CALLFBI (225-5324); and
      • To report fraud, waste, and abuse involving disaster relief, contact the National Center for Disaster Fraud by calling (866) 720-5721, by e-mailing disaster@leo.gov, or by writing: National Center for Disaster Fraud, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4909.
      “SOROS IN CHAINS”

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    • FIRED UP FREE MAN !
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:24pm

      Fired Up Free Man is now on facebook people, come on over and lets get things started

      @ Fired Up Free Man or Firedup Freeman, See you soon!

      We’ve got to work this snake at both ends! Somebody has got to occupy the head while we chew at its tail. Anyone taking SOROS’ money should be exposed and investigated with the full force of the law. If there was a REAL president SOROS would already be at the steps of the capital dressed in prison orange with a MARINE guard brought to JUSTICE by real Americans not those they BUY off for a few dollars. That is why we have to go at both ends follow the head or the tail it is all the same SNAKE.

      “SOROS IN CHAINS”

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    • cruisemates
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:41pm

      This is GREAT – watch NPRs attack on the Tea Party:

      http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047

      Get ready for your eyes to shoot blood.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:43pm

      Me too, Dangle, ’cause then he won’t have money left to screw with the economy and his Marxist organizations.

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    • southsik
      Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:46pm

      this user has got to be an intentional joke. I cant believe anyone this ignorant would waste his time here when their are so many other fun things to do on the internet. Did you lose your Farm in Farmville?

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    • mudvilles9
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 2:08am

      OMG, de-fund NPR !?! what a brilliant idea. I can’t wait to call my congressman to get that going.

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    • red penny
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:20am

      Dingdong———-you’re one replusive SOB—–your mother should have pinched your head off and in so doing would have done everyone a great favor.

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    • YOOPER69
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:34am

      you’re a leftwing nut and need to go the way of the dodo bird

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    • obamusvobiscum
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 7:29am

      Public funding must be stopped. They could be sold to Al Jazeera! CAIR should start raising the money.

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    • George Washington
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 1:30pm

      What the hell are you smokin?

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    • Jeetman
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 7:10am

      @Danglingsnotbag

      Just noticed your picture, that’s pretty much the way I expected you to look.

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    • klevalt
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:10am

      Well, isn’t this the way the station should be run, strictly with donations? Why do we fund this with our taxes anyway? I could give a rat’s a$$ for what NPR has to say, and as a taxpayer, I don’t benefit at all from it!

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    • Compete or Lose
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:14am

      .
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      NOT ONE RED PENNY TO NPR or CPB ever agian.

      THis has finally highlighted that NPR and the Coprporation for Public Broadcasting is a partisan organizatrion–no more government support.

      No more support by conservative contributors.

      BEWARE–When you give to UNITED WAY some is going to NPR and CPB–give your money directly to charities you support and stop giving to charities you OPPOSE–take charge of your life.

      RGS

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    • Patriot Mommy
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 11:45am

      Oh yay your back. Oh how I missed you dingleberry. How is it your post are always the first in the line of comments. Do you have a real job. Oh I am sorry this is your job. Your a Soros flunky. I to hope Georgie gives all his billions to NPR then he will not have money to funnel to the Tides foundation, who then funnels money to Media Matters, Move On.org, and so on. I wonder if you get paid by one of those outlets. HMMMMMM….

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