[Vision2020] No government support for NPR et al?

[Ted Moffett]

I saved a draft of the following post responding to "troublemaker" on
March 20... But I did not send it then... It seemed too, I guess,
imprecise and confrontational.   I am now sending it, with a few
comments added... dedicated to Phil Ochs:

Libertarians (Tea Party?) rarely support the full application of their
ideology as it would exist in the real world, if they consistently
followed their beliefs, on the war on drugs (legalization), sexual
orientation (legal gay marriage), religious freedom (peyote for native
american religious ceremonies, and mosques wherever they could be
supported by economic ability), pornography (imagine strip clubs in
downtown Moscow, libertarians?).

Tea Party libertarianism is a joke, a ruse to legitimize control over
the hoi polloi by the ruling economic elite represented by the Koch
brothers, et. al. as  programs that benefit the common good (what is
that?) apart from defense spending (a sacred cow), are defined as
scary socialist big government boogyman (as if the military industrial
complex is not a boogyman?)..  I excuse US Representative Ron Paul
from this admittedly stereotypical portrait of libertarians, given
that I think Paul in some respects is truly a principled libertarian.

But no one wants wasteful government spending, or government erosion
of individual civil rights, or irrational regulations on business,
regardless of whether they are Republican or Democrat, correct?

Then why the hysterical partisanship?

I could go on, but to what purpose?

I'd need hundreds of millions of dollars to have the power to widely
communicate my message, and even then if my message was too much of a
challenge to the powers that be, well, fill in the blank here...
------------------------------------------
Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

Robert Dickow dickow at turbonet.com
Sat Mar 19 02:18:10 PDT 2011

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.

On 3/19/11, Robert Dickow <dickow at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>