you see no relation,. actually, one of the things we learned in. vivian schiller, the npr she found out that a number of them listened to it. what they concluded what npr concluded that you must support taxpayer funding for npr. if you talk to the republicans trying to defund npr, they say, look, we are not trying to kill npr. we know they get a lot of mon frefoundations, from individuals, they will survive
also, of course, they want to kill npr. the latte-drinking volvo drivers who like npr. or worse, the latte-drinking train riders who listen to npr. the culture war era conspiracy theories about black helicopters and a one world government secretly pursued by america s elites, that stuff is back from the culture war eras, too. the new republican head of the house foreign affairs committee convened the first hearing of that committee this week. what s the topic? get the u.s. out of the u.n. yeah, the chairman of the republican study committee, supposedly the big policy brain trust of the republican party, what does he want to prioritize now that republicans are in control? he wants to prioritize banning gay marriage in washington, d.c. because remember, jobs, jobs, jobs. when first lady michelle obama interested as her guest to the state of the union the heroes of the tucson gun massacre and iraq and afghanistan veterans and inspirational small business owners, who did speaker of the hou
let s start by denying all federal funding for abortion at home and abroad. jobs and spending. yes. i understand. they tell us it s important. but abortion, that s where we have to start. beltway press coverage right now is all about republicans proposing these big aggregate spending cuts for the national budget. whether they re realistic or not, what are the differences between the different republican proposals, what are the specific cuts, though, that they ve actually proposed. rather than the big aggregate, how much can they cut debate, which is getting so much beltway press coverage, what if have they specifically proposed cutting? if you lived through the culture wars the first time around, the details will look familiar. they want to cut the national endowment for the arts, the national endowment for the humanities, the corporation for public broadcasting. bye-bye, big bird. amtrak. they want to kill amtrak. i never quite understood what they had against amtrak. but you know,
ron schiller who is now out of npr, he is no relation to vivian schiller the one we heard so much of when juan williams got the boot. actually one of the things we learned in the longer video that james o keefe released, the raw video, after the juan williams controversy in which npr fired juan for comments that he made about muslims, on fox, the ceo of npr invited a group of conservative republicans to dinner to find out what they really thought about npr. she found out a number said they listened to it. what they concluded from that was what npr concluded. if you listen then you must support taxpayer funding. they miscalculated if you talk to the republicans who are trying to defund npr, they say we are not trying to kill npr. we know that they get a lot of money from corporations, foundations, individuals.
let s start by denying all federal funding for abortion at home and abroad. jobs and spending. yes. i understand. they tell us it s important. but abortion, that s where we have to start. beltway press coverage right now is all about republicans proposing these big aggregate spending cuts for the national budget. whether they re realistic or not, what are the differences between the different republican proposals, what are the specific cuts, though, that they ve actually proposed. rather than the big aggregate, how much can they cut debate, which is getting so much beltway press coverage, what if have they specifically proposed cutting? if you lived through the culture wars the first time around, the details will look familiar. they want to cut the national endowment for the arts, the national endowment for the humanities, the corporation for public broadcasting. bye-bye, big bird. amtrak. they want to kill amtrak. i never quite understood what they had against amtrak. but you know,