Update: Obama Administration Stands by Funding Increase for NPR
- Posted on March 9, 2011 at 6:45pm by
Meredith Jessup
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In light of recent controversial comments made by NPR’s (now former) senior vice president, the Obama White House insists its funding should be increased in spite of calls to cut off NPR’s taxpayer funding.
In his latest budget proposal, President Obama calls for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which supports NPR — to receive an additional $31 million in funding, increasing last year’s federal allotment from $420 million in FY 2010 to $451 million for FY 2011.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney defended the increase in NPR funding as “worthwhile” and described it as an “important priority” for the Obama administration.
Just six months ago, NPR fired Juan Williams for voicing his own opinion during a segment on Fox News. Williams appeared on FNC’s Hannity Tuesday evening to discuss the organization’s latest controversy. Additionally, in a video posted by the Huffington Post Wednesday, Williams decried NPR as an “all-white organization“ and described his firing as the ”worst of white condescension”:
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Comments (129)
Contrarian51
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:53pmThe whole gang, and I use that word in its most negative sense, seems to have decided to just go out in a blaze of glory and take as many with them as they can.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:50pmOh no you don’t! You will cease all funding before 2012.
Report Post »American-first
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:42pmWhy is it the Liberal view point needs Tax money from noliberals. If the Liberal view were so good Air America would still be around.
Report Post »BMightyOne
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:40pmWe can’t cut off the propaganda arm of the White House…duh!
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:35pmShowtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:26pm
@AmericanStrega
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:47pm
butterfly53
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:34pm
I forgot to mention, is the guy so out of touch that he doesn’t see how a large portion of America wants this entity defunded? Is he so out of touch that he doesn’t that we need to cut spending and this is a great place to start?
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But Honey, he hears the voices of the Egyptian people! Do you think if we called ourselves “United Egypt of America,” that he would hear us?
I find it odd that all the Progressives hear us, mock us, shout at us, lie about us, and protest against us, but Obama has no clue about what we are saying to him.
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Report Post »Thank you for responding to my post Showtime.
I guess the problem is that we‘re not Obama’s “people” like the Egyptians. Maybe if we stand strong against these boneheads we’ll make it. Maybe.
islandlady
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:34pmWhat about the important contribution for the Citizens of the United States?
Report Post »Its our money and again they decide to spend it on their Socialistic Causes cant someone stop this?
David Zuckerman
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:30pmNever mind what the public thinks. It’s what the Obama administration thinks! It’s all disgusting.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:30pmIf wishes were horses, begger would ride. But…..
Report Post »Wouldn‘t it really get these idiots perked up and listening if a vast majority of Americans just didn’t pay their taxes come April 15th?
I know, I know, it’ll never happen, but if it did………..
graywolf11
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:28pmAND WE ARE BROKE!!! Didn’t he get the memo???? This guy is a moron.
Report Post »graywolf11
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:27pmWhy is everything about what the big O’s administration wants—-and not what the majority of the American people want. O is CLUELESS and OUT OF TOUCH with Americans. He is living in his own little world, being a COWARD, and making us look like a bunch of jack holes to the rest of the world. 2012 can’t get here fast enough.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 12:36amDon’t think Obama is clueless or out of touch…….he just doesn’t give a hoot what we want or think. He thinks that he can organize things in his favor for the next election and we can’t do anything about it. If they think they can’t organize the youth, union and minority vote and get re-elected, then they will just try to get them out in the streets in protests and riots bad enough that they can declare martial law. We are the people who have to remain adults…just to upset their plans.
Report Post »DRINDY
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:25pmNPR stands for National Propaganda Radio
Report Post »silquin11
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:19pmBut of course Obama would want huge increases for ALL LIBERAL MEDIA as well as ALL UNIONS, All government and anyone who will aid to re elect HIM (on our dime)!
Report Post »obama_binpharteen
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:18pmCorrect me if I’m wrong, but can’t the republicans just block any further funding?
Report Post »graywolf11
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:27pmYou are correct sir. Unless they cave.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:32pmIt has to pass the Senate.
Report Post »graywolf11
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:36pmIf it doesn’t pass the senate the whole thing gets axed and it is back to the drawing board. So, by a budget not being passed, there is no cash to give.
Report Post »kissmyazobama
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:15pmNarcissist bastard……..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:14pmPeople think Charlie Sheen has an addiction? What about the Democrats‘ addiction to spending other people’s (our) money?
Every Progressive Democrat should be involuntarily committed to REHAB!
Report Post »starman70
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:13pmLet Sooky Dude George Soros fund it himself. Nobody listens anyway. Why should the taxpayers fund the American Version of Radio Moscow.
Report Post »omni
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:59pmGood grief, another BO playhouse. Lets help him kick this addiction to liberal A$$ kissers by defunding the rotten mess.
Report Post »MJR
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:54pmOne more log on the fire, 2012 burn baby burn!
Report Post »jagr1850
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:53pmi heard today that the odummy will resign on thursday…….GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:12pmI wish, but even that is too much to hope for.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:47pmbutterfly53
Report Post »Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:34pm
I forgot to mention, is the guy so out of touch that he doesn’t see how a large portion of America wants this entity defunded? Is he so out of touch that he doesn’t that we need to cut spending and this is a great place to start?
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It‘s not that he’s out of touch. It‘s that he just doesn’t give a rip what we think. The real tragic thing here is we can’t do anything to stop him and the rest of the idiots until 2012. And even then we may still loose. Congress will not impeach him for fear of riots from his faithful supports, and even if he does lose the election in 2012, I believe he will never leave office. There will be riots when and if he looses the election. When those riots start he’ll just declare marshal law. That will truely be the end of America.
Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:26pm@AmericanStrega
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:47pm
butterfly53
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:34pm
I forgot to mention, is the guy so out of touch that he doesn’t see how a large portion of America wants this entity defunded? Is he so out of touch that he doesn’t that we need to cut spending and this is a great place to start?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
But Honey, he hears the voices of the Egyptian people! Do you think if we called ourselves “United Egypt of America,” that he would hear us?
I find it odd that all the Progressives hear us, mock us, shout at us, lie about us, and protest against us, but Obama has no clue about what we are saying to him.
Report Post »dumbblond
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:57pmI don’t think God will let Obama destroy America. I think God will destroy Obama.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 4:00pmHe does not need to know what us “little people” think because he knows what is best! His philosophy seems to be, ” My minds made up. Don’t confuse me with the facts!”
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:45pmAnd the American people are saying DEFUND NPR.
Ron Schiller even said it would be better if the government did not give them funding.
Hey, OBAMA — THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SAYING NPR FUNDING!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:10pmSay what?
Aw, hay-ul! I just hate it when that happens!
Hey, OBAMA — THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SAYING ***NO*** NPR FUNDING!!!
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:18pmPeople say no more funding of NPR. Oboma says screw the people. He could care less what the people want. This will not end well I am afraid.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:30pmSorry, Obama cannot hear you……you’ll have to speak up from the back of the car. Forget that! Time for us to move into the driver’s seat and steer this country out of the Dem quagmire and back onto safe ground.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:42pmThis would be a clue…
Sit down and figure exactly is giving money to public television…
Get the numbers to their board of directors and call then and explain that until THEY stop funding public television You will not be purchaseing any of their goods…
I meen all of them.. This old house,Victory garden Antiques Roadshow…. ALL OF THEM
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:47pmGood idea!
Report Post »orcainohio
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:35pmObama wants his friends to keep cheering and hiring more Interns. He may need to send them on a strike one day.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:57amJust funding a branch of domorat PARTY with tax dollar. hell, the best of both worlds
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:32pmOf course they do, they are in the admin/georgieporgiesorritos’ pocket…one pocket….satan’s.
Report Post »thevamprn
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:51pmA democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
Report Post »The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
-Alexander Titler (1747-1813)
thepatriotdave
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 12:29am“Update: Obama Administration Stands by Funding Increase for NPR”
I hope nobody is surprised by this news! Obama doesn’t care, and why should he care. We could rock solid proof that the DNC is a bunch of drug snoprting child raping murdering thugs and he would simply tell Eric Holder to bury these allegations like he did the Black Panther voter BS in Philly. After all he can’t be hatin on “his people” can he?
http://www.americasteapartynews.com
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:19pmNo surprises here.. I am sure npr will get increased funding, and that the rinos will cave in and help the dims pass the legislation…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:27pmOf course there is no suprise or shock, they are a propaganda machine of the progressives and for the administration, so they will get funded one way or another…they need to be investigated to see if anyt illicit funds are being given or used for other purposes than intended.
Report Post »butterfly53
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:32pmI guess he feels he has to feed the mouth that stands behind him and tows the obama line.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:32pmThe potus is trying to shore up one of his propaganda net works. CUT ALL FUNDS TO NPR NOW!!!
Report Post »butterfly53
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:34pmI forgot to mention, is the guy so out of touch that he doesn’t see how a large portion of America wants this entity defunded? Is he so out of touch that he doesn’t that we need to cut spending and this is a great place to start?
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:56pmTune in from three to six pm daily for on-air lessons on “Adhering to Koranic Principles When Beating Your Wife, Stoning Adulterers for Dummies and Beheading Made Simple.”
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:19pm……..
Report Post »I would expect nothing less.
When faced with disaster, Obama will always double down.
What would Bill Ayres do?
1911a1
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 10:22pmwhats it gonna take people ? how much in our face can these thugs do before we get a belly full ?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:16pmThis is how Venezuela operates, shut down opposition voices, fund state media. Next he will start arresting and outlawing the opposition. Obama, Americas second Dictator (FDR was first).
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:23pmdelusional!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:55pm“Federal funding for CPB and NPR is finished. It may survive until 2012 thanks to Obama’s veto and the Democrat-controlled Senate, but the GOP will control both houses of Congress after next year. So Planned Parenthood, CPB/NPR, and all the community organizing groups better enjoy this last trip to the government trough.”
Isn’t it amazing how ONE MAN (O’Keefe) with a small budget of $2,000 managed to make such an amazing difference! Only in AMERICA!
I’m not forgetting the two other fellas involved in the actual video (both volunteered you know…neither were paid)!
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 12:02amObamao’s approval ratings among independants is slidin into the ditch. Sounds like he’s lost control of that car.
Report Post »All these things ad up. NPR, ACORN, the UNIONS, Obummercare,embracing Islam… etc…. we have had enough and its catching up to him.
AzDebi
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:02amStanley Kurtz – “Radical-In-Chief”
Take the time to watch the following video…you want to KNOW where Obama is headed and how he might be stopped?
http://www.davidhorowitztv.com/wednesday-morning-club/340-kurtz
(His newest book is “Radical In Chief, Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism”)
And, I want to say this…I think Americans do not understand the term “Socialism”…Socialism = Communism…I wish we’d just use the term Communism (socialism is just too benign a term for what the movement/doctrine actually is)…
Also, take the time to watch the video at the top and the one below…they are:
“Intro By David Horowitz”
“Closing By David Horowitz”…
Your JAW WILL DROP at the insider info that David is going to tell you re: Watergate, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi…He is truly a National Treasure! Wish Glenn would have him on more often!!!!! Amazing!
Report Post »_waTson_
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:09amIf it’s absolutely, 100 percent, the very worst thing you could do in a situation, the wrongest of wrong decisions, of course, OBAMA will support it!!!!!. Duh, Jay, this was the critical info we needed today. IMuch more so than say, the budget, budget cuts, the debt ceiling, or even deep water drilling permits. I‘ll sleep well tonight knowing how Obama’s feels about NPR and their funding
600 and some odd days to go … grant me the serenity.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:17ambutterfly…in so many words…YES!…I don’t think obama cares what the American people think…at least thats what I’ve gotten from him so far…can‘t wait to see how he’ll spin all this come 2012..
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 2:48amDe-fund the white house and plow under that stupid garden
Report Post »avenger
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 6:33amof course….so does hugo chavez,raoul castro and putin……
Report Post »SHTFM.COM Are You Prepared ?
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:30amScrew NPR – listen to our show http://www.shtfmradio.com and get prepared.
Report Post »Hugh Williams
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:15amOf course Lord Obama is supportive of funding increase of NPR. Most Americans want NPR defunded completely, so naturally Lord Obama wants the opposite. Lord Obama and his regime rule against the will of the American people.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:00am@jjoy
Report Post »You are right on. It looks like it’s business as usual with obama. He wants to reward NPR for their dishonesty and hatred for anything good.
CottonMPG
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:04amI agree…there is no surprise there!! I personally believe there should be no funding for any of these unnecessary wasteful spending. No more funding so called art, no more funding so called public broadcasting whether radio or tv! I think it’s unconstitutional misuse of funds and abuse of power. They can replace funding with voluntary check off boxes on tax forms for anyone who wishes to fund things which have nothing to do with running the country.
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