[rollei_list] OT: Public Broadcasting. A Rant
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:48:43 -0500
At 10:22 PM 12/21/2010, John Jensen wrote:
It was Nina Totenberg of NPR who said words of the current Zeitgeist:
"And I was at ? forgive the expression ? a
Christmas ps party at the Department of Justice,.........."
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
There is no possible defense for taxpayer funds
being sent to support the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. Period . End game and, pray, shut
the door so I can get back to writing my novel.
Oh, you want to pursue the issue? Think
well. As it is today -- not as how it was
conceived, mind you -- we have a Lefitie-Loonie
radio stream and a quasi-Socialist TV stream,
with a bunch of really stupid feel-good
shows. And the radio stream keeps it glued
together with classical music and opera. The
Upper Middle Class in the US just have to claim
to enjoy this music. I speak from
experience. After all, I was the first white
male to ever take a black date to the Roanoke,
Virginia, symphony -- that one got buried in a
heartbeat, but I still admire the lady. She
honored me. In any event, that performance of
the Roanoke Symphony was paid for with a chunk of CPR funding.
Why are we stealing 29% of the income of Joe The
Truckdriver so Roger the Bank Executive can
listen to Nina Tottenberg rant against all reason
while he drives home? Even worse, why should we
steal his money so that us upscale folks can use
his funds to listen to Classical music instead of
buying it for ourselves? Seriously -- think this
one through. I detest country music (yes, I am a
snob in that regard, though I love my familial
blue-grass roots and my wife's eyes glaze over
when they start flat-footing ? but that is a tale
for a different day) . So why steal money from
some ironworker in Yonkers to pay so Roger can
listen to the Grand Opera or so that my wife can
watch a flat-footing. Trust me: she does not
watch flat-footing on PBS, if they show it. She
wants to see the flat-footing in person, down in Floyd County, Virginia.
To be honest, I am glad that my local PBS station
runs occasional reruns of the epic Red Green Show
and I do appreciate the new LEWIS shows, albeit
you have to steal a British version to get the
mystery solved, as PBS blocks ten minutes of the flow.
I used to be a contributor to NPR -- I met one of
my many wives that way, but, again, that is a
tale for a different day. I quit contributing
once I understood that they were not only far
left wing but that they were block heads who
would acknowledge that other possible approaches existed
I have been in what the Victorians would call a
'decline' for the past several months. My doc at
Fort Lee properly diagnosed my ailment as
allergies and then recommended that I spend a
much time as I could afford to stay in bed for at
least the next three months. That sounds grand
to me: I am writing a novel, nothing to do with
photography, mind you, I do the household
chores. and then take the dogs up to the master
bedroom -- in their minds, of course, it is their
den And I read and I read and then I get drowzy
and, wham!, I wake up when the telephone rings
and it is the Pride of My Life telling me that
she is on the way home. I then curl up and go
back to sleep and dream more about my folks. So,
I apologize if I rail and then seem to
disappear. Trust me, I do read every message on
the Rollei List, even the excruciatingly detailed
notes on the nature of time. I simply have
Sorry to get off message: there is simply no
reason for us to steal money from Joe the
Truckdriver to pay to assuage my lust for
Classical Music. Let me buy the CD's. Be real
about the issue and end all Federal, State, and
local funding for the CPR and its insidious set-charts.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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