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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on March 05, 2011, 11:47:37 PM
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If Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) get their way, Big Bird and Elmo may have to compete in the marketplace like every other cartoon character and stuffed puppet.
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In an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal, Senator DeMint wrote:
Public broadcasting can pay its presidents half-million and million dollar salaries. Its children's programs are making hundreds of millions in sales. Liberal financiers are willing to write million-dollar checks to help these organizations. There's no reason taxpayers need to subsidize them anymore.
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He also pointed out:
Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. With earnings like that, Big Bird doesn't need the taxpayers to help him compete against the Nickleodeon cable channel's Dora the Explorer.
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DeMint also notes the funding NPR received from a George Soros - backed group:
Last year, for example, the Open Society Foundation, backed by liberal financier George Soros, gave NPR $1.8 million to help support the latter's plan to hire an additional 100 reporters. When NPR receives million-dollar gifts from Mr. Soros, it is an insult to taxpayers when other organizations, such as MoveOn.org demand that Congress "save NPR and PBS" by guaranteeing "permanent funding and independence from partisan meddling," as the liberal interest group did last month. It was even more insulting when PBS posted a message on Twitter thanking MoveOn.org—the group that once labeled Gen. David Petraeus as "General Betray Us"—for the help.
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http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/gop-senators-introduce-bill-to-defund-pbs-and-npr