some on the left say pbs and npr are national treasures. what is your take? that really sounds like a liberal, national treasures. we had this news conversation they give every time the budget cut comes up and somebody says cut public broad funds. they had the conference in washington you can see one of the pro-pbs people standing with arthur aardvark and the muppets and all the rest of it. let s have adult behavior, can t we? what is really a dangerous economic time. this happens sometime times and it never seems to hurt public broadcasting. however, this time it is dangerous. this time we do have a real financial emergency. this is what the republicans are trying to point out. public broadcasting, which is,