[Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?

[lfalen]

The point is that is they should not be funded period. It makes no difference whether they are right, left or down the center.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:42:44 -0700
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?

> No Roger, Glenn did not answer the question. Glenn made several fallacious
> points, some of which were pointed out and all of which are ignored below.
> And do you also support slavery, another view that "Glenn" supports?
> 
> Why bother pretending to engage in discussions about these issues if you
> IGNORE criticisms of points made? Here is another refutation of one of your
> points. Please respond.
> 
> You write that NPR is "[s]lightly left of center" [even though you admit to
> listening to it only "occasionally" and do not provide ONE example
> supporting this claim]. If this is a reason to not fund NPR via taxpayer
> money, then the following would also be a good argument: The military is
> slightly right of center, so it should not receive any public funding.
> 
> So which is it: should we end public support for the military or should we
> recognize that your argument is a bad one?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have not been on the computer all week, but I think that Glenn answered
> > your question.
> > In response ro Nick- I do not know it Nader is right or not.I have only
> > listened to NPR occasionally. What I have caught is Fresh Air or All Things
> > Considered. They both at the times I heard them seemed to be lightly left of
> > center. Nader only mentioned Charlie Rose. I am sure there a lot of other
> > hosts besides Rose. I have never heard him. In any event this is all
> > irrelevant. It would not make any difference if they were equally balanced
> > or were 100% to the right. They should not be geting any funding from the
> > taxpayers. In case you don't realize it we are in a money crunch. Let spend
> > only on those thing that are essential and can not be done adequately by the
> > private sector. I want to see our veterans taken care of for just one of
> > many that we should be spending on. Your ideal Nation of Sweden is geting
> > the message and cutting back on services before they wind up like Greece and
> > Ireland. I hope they succeed, that is the ancestral home of the Falen's.
> > They come from Ostergotlund.
> > You may know  where that is.
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> > Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:27:38 -0700
> > To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
> >
> > > State one left wing point of view that NPR broadcasts, Roger. Just one.
> > >
> > > They broadcast news. You are so used to listening to the lies on Fox that
> > > you confuse them for "points of view."
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If  NPR wants to broadcast left wing points of view and supporters are
> > > > willing to fund it, more power to them.
> > > > Roger
> > > > -----Original message-----
> > > > From: "Robert Dickow" dickow at turbonet.com
> > > > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:18:10 -0700
> > > > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > > > Subject: [Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?
> > > >
> > > > > I hear that the conservative congressmen have proposed withdrawing
> > > > > government funding for NPR. Apparently a newscaster or fund drive
> > person
> > > > or
> > > > > somebody made some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party. Fie! Fie!
> > > > Now,
> > > > > denying public broadcasting all those scarce taxpayer dollars sounds
> > like
> > > > a
> > > > > reasonable and just response to such offenses if you're a
> > conservative
> > > > > Republican sympathetic with the Tea Party movement, right? Uh
> > huh.sure.
> > > > How
> > > > > dumb can anybody be?! NPR won't suddenly go belly up and go off the
> > air,
> > > > > slinking off into the shadows with its tail between its legs. Private
> > > > > donors-- those dwindling middle class stalwarts-- will valiantly step
> > up
> > > > to
> > > > > the plate in ever greater numbers. So what will actually happen,
> > then, is
> > > > > that NPR will be unfettered and free to unleash all their rabid
> > commie
> > > > pinko
> > > > > liberal gun-hating womens libber staffers to say all the rabid commie
> > > > pinko
> > > > > tea-barfing they've always wanted to say but didn't because they felt
> > > > > compelled to be balanced in their commie pinko tree-hugging opinions
> > and
> > > > > bleeding-heart liberal union thug biased news reporting. Clearly,
> > this
> > > > > government measure will not serve the common good. And I may be
> > forced to
> > > > > mix even more metaphors in the future.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bob Dickow, troublemaker
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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