[rollei_list] Re: OT: Public Broadcasting. A Rant
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:04:46 -0500
Marc -
Conservative columnist David Brooks (protege of William F. Buckley) is
on the record stating that in his opinion NPR plays it straight down
the middle...
I do agree that NPR should give up its government funding, but because
they need to free themselves from the lunatic rants of conservative
law-makers. You know, the ones who love to gain political points by
railing against as easy target in their back-water home
towns/states... rather than actually dig in and do the hard work of
governance and compromise.
Eric Goldstein
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Marc James Small
<marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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