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Posted On 22 Mar 2017
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Say what you will about the leftist preferences of the mainstream media, the owners of the nation’s largest newspapers and TV stations are still American capitalists when you get down to the bottom line. Their rabid opposition to Donald Trump certainly has a lot to do with their obvious infatuation with the Democratic Party…but it has just as much to do with the ratings and subscriptions the Trump Saga has brought them at a time when they were scraping to survive in a digital and diversified media landscape.

And while you may not have guessed it during the Obama administration, the mainstream media has at least proven that they are in no way beholden to carry water for the White House. They may be ideologically predictable, but they are, if nothing else, independent from the U.S. government.

The same cannot be said for PBS and NPR, both of which would be defunded under President Trump’s proposed budget. These outlets are even further to the left than the usual mainstream media suspects, and they, too, are “independent” in that they are not blatant mouthpieces for the federal government. They are not the U.S. equivalent of Sputnik News, by any account.

But while we don’t have any serious doubts about the journalistic independence of these publicly-funded news organizations, we have a big problem with their political bias. It’s one thing to accept the liberal bias of the New York Times or CNN, because what else can you do BUT accept it? The First Amendment gives them the right to publish whatever crap they want, within reasonable limits. If people are buying it, they’re buying it. As harmful as the media has been to our politics and culture, nothing an editorial staff can write would be worse for America than infringing on their freedom to write it.

But it would be a much different story if we, the taxpayers, were subsidizing the New York Times and CNN. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says we, the people, must pay the press to publish stuff we disagree with, is there?

Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a wish-list scenario for conservatives for many years, and there’s never been a better time to make it happen. The popular properties – your Sesame Streets and your Masterpiece Theatres and your NOVAs – will survive just fine in the free market. The unpopular ones will not. And that’s fine. Between the internet, streaming services, and cable packages with hundreds if not thousands of options, there is plenty of media out there to serve every household.

And if there isn’t, that’s fine too. Contrary to what Democrats believe, a human child can actually grow into a thriving, capable adult without ever watching a single episode of Bob the Builder. And if they can’t – if the primal need for PBS programming is that strong – then you can bet that some company or billionaire out there will fill it. We’ll wager $400 million on it.


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  • gotabgood
    • jreg9304

      yo dingleberry, Trump is not Obozo, Whom devastated a lot of things, so take your liberal wacko, BS and leave America if you don’t love her!!!!

    • elmcqueen3

      PROMISES: “You can keep your family doctor”…”You can keep your insurance”…”It won’t cost you one dime”…”Premiums will be lowered by $2500.00″…”If you like your current health care plan you can keep it”…”It’s just like shopping at Amazon”…”ACA (Obamacare) will be good for America”…”I take the Constitution very seriously…The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the Executive Branch and not going through Congress at all…And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America”

      • gotabgood
        • elmcqueen3

          Since Obamacare is so great…why change it…if it falls flat on it’s face we can blame Obama and the Democrats for it’s failure…it’s their health care plan…they own it.

          • gotabgood

            ObamaCare has faults, but it needs fixed not done away with.. best bet would be single payer.
            Yes they do own it.. finally… you have any idea YET what Trumpcare would have done??????
            When you get 20 million people on insurance that hadn’t it before.. how can you call that a failure?
            Is that Alternative facts?

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91042697dc04db14ef0cda44bdd32f180d04143a208cd3d8f4d804b72d2e2f00.png

          • floral

            Medicine is NOT gov’s job. Constitution does NOT give any such power to force anyone to pay for medical care they may not want or need.
            I will NOT go to any doctor or hospital voluntarily, nor will I spend 700/month for services I will not access. I can take NO drugs and will not and up to 5 yrs ago, whenever I went to a doctor I got misdiagnosed, given the wrong drug and almost killed. I won’t pay for what I don’t want, can’t use and NOBODY, esp the gov’t has any RIGHT to force me to do so.

          • gotabgood

            Maybe true… but when you turn hospitals into a profit making machine.. prices going up almost monthly… everyone cashes in on it, like insurance companies, pharmaceuticals… someone had to step in… the biggest cause of bankruptcy was medical bills… along came Medicare.. Thank you Lord!!

            When you have money grabbing, greedy people in charge, you need to find another way.

            LISTEN……… WATCH…

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkgUkM0o6Q

          • floral

            Hospitals have ALWAYS been for profit. Medicare INCREASED medical costs. INSURANCE INCREASED medical costs. Any time the feds get involved in anything economic, PRICES and COSTS INCREASE. Medical care or lack of it is NOT the gov’t’s job.

          • gotabgood

            Sorry you are wrong.
            Stop showing your ignorance.. or stupidity
            Check things out..

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e765c62ebe678a2a4f777fa43b4f2df511d87c9fd2edba0cdde668f5bb9a1f1a.jpg

          • floral

            Stop showing YOUR ignorance and deliberate stupid lies. I KNOW my “insurance” went up 3x and my “coverage” went down 2x. Everyone in my neighborhood suffered and decided to do without the phony NOT healthcare NOT insurance.

          • gotabgood

            You are lying… I doubt your insurance went up by 3X…. and the big lie your coverage went down!!! That is a lie!!!
            And now you are including your neighborhood in your lie.. More and more people are realizing ObamaCare was the best thing they had going and stopped listening to the lies like you are spreading. They are showing up at town hall meetings even in red states.
            Already know your response..
            No evidence that protesters are paid to disrupt Republican town hall meetings
            http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/27/louie-gohmert/protesters-are-paid-disrupt-town-hall-meetings-goh/

          • Kyser Roksen

            Single payer is the socialism the libs want.
            Obamacare is the scheme that has been using the taxpayers money for the handouts to illegals and refugees. Socialism begins with healthcare,. The very first focus of Barry the Marxist scholar when he infiltrated the office of president. And I see that it is the Marxist Dems deepest desire to continue their socialist agenda. It’s in plain view if you study their every move in sync with the MSM propaganda. Mirror image to the tactics of the old Soviet Union and Cuba.
            Of course what do I know…I was educated when all that was going on. And by the way, it failed in those countries if you look below the surface of things. Of course today’s educational system doesn’t permit students to think very far from the socialist style of thought.

          • gotabgood

            Is Canada and the European countries all Socialist countries?

          • Kyser Roksen

            Actions speak louder than words.
            Take a peek.

          • gotabgood

            Do they have corporations? They have unions? If they were Socialist, what would be the need of unions…. THINK!!!

          • gotabgood
          • Kyser Roksen

            It’s currently called Obama’s mess.

          • gotabgood

            Obama’s mess saves lives… trump’s bigger mess kills.

          • Kyser Roksen

            Illegals lives and refugee tax burden lives while veterans are dying in the streets.
            And it’s not Trump’s mess…It’s RINO Ryan’s 7 years trying to replace mess.
            The media has you transfixed on the libs agenda of their play on wording.

          • gotabgood

            There is an answer to the mystery you present….. Ryan could not come up with a better plan..

    • iamtrue

      K so what’s your point none of what you’er saying is true you think you say it enough it’ll be true wrong has’t the last 8 yrs been enough for you or are you that far gone of being brainwashed sad.

      • gotabgood

        Obama and 8 years later… true legacy

        People either have a very short memory, no memory at all, or
        are in denial.

        The day Obama was sworn in, a few memorable things
        happened. First Obama became president!
        Second McConnell called a special meeting of his own and swore to obstruct all
        of Obama’s bills/plans. Third, that
        month we lost 800,000 jobs! What a
        day. First day in office and already a
        conspiracy group set out to destroy him and news of 800,000 jobs just
        disappeared.

        Stock market was 14,000 and fell 50% to 7000 in 2009

        Unemployment was a low at 5% and rose sharply to 10% in 2009

        From come one, come all buy a home to the crash in 2009

        Nearly 4 million manufacturing jobs have
        disappeared

        Medicare Part D added $47.4 billion to the cost
        of Medicare in 2006

        3 Trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan

        Tax cuts are estimated to have totaled $2.8 trillion

        All of the above was unfunded, put on a credit card for the next guy to
        pay.

        Plus 12 billion in cash was lost in Iraq. 2.3 trillion was misplaced by
        Rumsfeld.

        Now Obama. Just because he was sworn in doesn’t stop the out flow of
        jobs and doesn’t stop the flooding of jobs lost.

        He suggested a stimulus and true to his promise McConnell and the rest
        of his gang in the house put up a fight.

        You voted against 8 Vet job bills

        American Jobs Act

        In the history of USA there has been a total 168 nominees
        have been filibustered… Obama received 82 0f them! Not counting the last nominee for the SCOTUS.

        With 3 years left in the presidents second term, Obama has
        had a total of 307 filibusters/clotures.

        EVEN WITH THAT AMOUNT OF OBSTRUCTION

        Stock market at record high of around 19000

        Unemployment 4.8% (Same way of calculation Reagan used)

        18 million private sector jobs

        Housing market back, still has a way to go

        Auto industry back

        Renewable energy is cheaper and more productive

        Wall Street is back to its crooked ways

        20 million people who never had insurance, now have it.

        So, where do you get your information that Obama
        has been so terrible????????????

        • floral

          bo is the worst and most incompetent pres ever.

          • gotabgood

            Nice one liner… but it is made entirely of BullShit

            14 Facts About Obama’s Presidency Most People Don’t Know

            1. We’ve now had 78 straight months of economic expansion.

            2. We are currently enjoying the longest period of private
            sector job creation in American history.

            3. Unemployment has dropped from 10.1% in October of 2009 to
            4.9% by early 2016

            4. The stock market continues to set new record highs since
            President Obama took office.

            5. The Federal budget deficit is shrinking. It’s been reduced
            by two-thirds since 2009.

            6. Under President Obama, government spending has increased
            only 3.3% annually, the lowest rate since Eisenhower was president.

            7. For 95% of American taxpayers, income taxes are as low or
            lower than they were at almost any point in the last 50 years.

            8. Dependence on foreign oil has shrunk due to record
            domestic oil production and improved fuel efficiency standards.

            9. At least 18 million more Americans now have health
            insurance than before.

            10. The Affordable Care Act has added years to the life of
            Medicare.

            11. Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, we are seeing
            the slowest rate of increase in healthcare costs since 1960.

            12. We currently have fewer soldiers, sailors, and airmen in
            war zones than we did at any time in the last 12 years.

            13. There have been zero successful attacks by al Qaeda on US
            soil since Obama became president.

            14. We now successfully catch and deport more illegal
            immigrants than ever before.

            https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/14-Facts-About-The-Obama-Presidency-That-Most-People-Dont-Know

          • floral

            Nothing to do with bo.

          • gotabgood

            Nothing to do with Obama???
            You are so deep in denial they have to pipe oxygen down to you..

          • floral

            That would be you. Your brain has suffered hypoxia. Surprised you are not in a coma.

        • floral

          The dems filibustered (the longest one on record to date) the Rep Civil Rights Bill in 1954 (or there abouts).
          the 20 million were NOT uninsured-they mostly had better coverage under their jobs or could get low cost med insurance if they wanted it. I had full coverage for $200/month. With bocare, it went to 600/mo and I lost 50% of my coverage and had to pay the first 5k.
          The so called new covered got expanded medicaid or totally subsidized.
          It is NOT insurance nor “coverage” nor health care. mammograms are cheap without “ins” very costly with “ins”. birth control is cheap w/o ins, expensive with ins and many women don’t need or WANT bc. This is bs
          You don’t know that Wall street has been anything or changed at all. Bet you didn’t know that 10 yrs ago or more Sarbanes-Oaxly was passed to “reform” Wall St and really screwed up accounting and left a lot of holes for the corrupt fed regul to crawl through and did not even get fully implemented until recently and after Dodd Frank got their idiocy through which contradicted and undermined the still to be implemented Sarbanes-Oxley so things are worse than ever.
          And, the auto industry is not “back”. A lot of small investors lost everything (I inc) with the GM bankruptcy but the unions gave up nothing. bo violated all fed bankruptcy rules with his actions on GM which is about to crash and burn again. Bet you don’t know what happened to Detroit that is still destroyed…..
          Renewable? what planet are you living on? Solyndra was given half a billion, which went into the pockets of leftist elite CEO and went belly up. Solar is not cheap and just about dead and cannot begin to survive without MASSIVE taxpayer funding.
          You are wrong on ALL counts.

        • iamtrue

          Their is no lose of memory when it comes to someone who made it very clear to dismantle and destroy America as we know it. On the trail in 08 he stated he will do his best to build the largest civil army he can. Very little got past without executive order and as far as dems and rep well their record shows it self so your reply to me and floral is nothing but bullshit and you are the one that needs the memory revamp sorry nice try.

          • gotabgood

            When your memory fades and spent your life in denial… it is hard to get someone to remember truth as it REALLY is/was.
            Like some deny the Holocaust.
            Some think the moon landing was a fake.
            And there is an actual website for the “Flat Earth Society”..
            of those three which do you think you could convert to the truth?

          • iamtrue

            Well sad to say it’s fact the Holocaust happen and landing on the moon i believe it but i can also understand why people wouldn’t with the lose of faith in the gov. just by playing so many stupid mind games with the American people and this website flat earth society well thanks for the laugh good joke it’s a fact the earth is round. But i have followed President Trump all my life and i will say he is a straight and stand up man and will put America back on the right path i’m sorry you choose to be on the opposite side what a shame.

          • gotabgood

            If you think he is a straight up man… then you won’t mind watching this short video.. as with the flat earth site, you may get a good laugh..

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/22/here-are-76-of-donald-trumps-many-campaign-promises/

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQueaSlvjCw

          • iamtrue

            Wow you are a sad case.

          • gotabgood

            not even a smile?
            I don’t blame you, Trump is no laughing matter..
            He will lie to you about crowd sizes, whether it is raining or not… his steaks… even his own brochures… and then turn right around and deny what he just said..

  • gotabgood

    oops

  • gotabgood
    • jgfsmf

      And yet, they are both better presidents than Obama. Amazing, right?

      • gotabgood

        So what makes a good president in your book is someone that can bankrupt America, destroy jobs, start wars, give tax breaks to the rich.. and finally, one who is turning America over to the Russians one day at a time.. giving more tax breaks to the rich and insulting our allies?

        • elmcqueen3

          Are you talking about Hillary Clinton…sorry to inform you she is not our president.

          • gotabgood

            I should have explained.. it is difficult for the righties to comprehend..
            The one who bankrupt America and destroyed jobs, started wars, gave tax cuts…. was little bush.
            The guy that is handing the keys to America to Russia is your president now… Trump.
            Hillary is not our president, if she were we would not have to worry about Russia taking over America without a shot fired.
            This is what the Hulk thinks of traitors…

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/85bec2cfb40a1fb6ca4c6e0299a75333ab3f90d68a7e0f67c76332d1b40e349a.gif

        • jgfsmf

          Let’s see. What makes a good president? Well, someone who cares more about the United States and it people and it’s soldiers and veterans than his LEGACY. Trump didn’t become president to add another notch to his belt. He became president because he wanted to get us back to the great country we were before Obama. He did it for us, not himself.

        • Brenda

          America is already bankrupt, we are constantly borrowing money from other countries. If all the news reports, and I say if, then jobs are beginning to come back as well as the promise of future job growth. So far the only wars being fought are the same ones that have existed from 9/11/2001, unless Russian gets fed up with our stupidity, North Korea decides to launch missiles, Iran stop its harassment and goes all out, China becomes more aggressive, we are fighting the same war started 16 years ago in one form or another. Since the tax issues has not been introduced, I will wait to form an opinion. And the only thing I see as having been turned over to the Russians was done under the obama administration with the 20% of our uranium. And, I suppose it would be insulting to “our allies” to demand they start paying their own way.

          • gotabgood

            Yeah that started in 1980, when Reagan cut taxes for the rich by 42%.. so he had to borrow.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5e1a54ee244e671baea1199affbc4480ee494822bf0d80454bf1e0024574682f.png

          • floral

            False %. When the Bush tax cuts went into effect (2007/2008) the revenue to the feds was up 35% according to the IRS data report. In terms of total $, bo increased the debt by 2x more than the previous 8 presidents combined. Those % are skewed and false. BTW, IF the debt increased it was under a predominately Dem congress, who bloated the Fed budget for socialist programs.

          • gotabgood

            BS!

          • floral

            That is your bs…before the revisionists and lies got told, and the internet and IRS reports scrubbed, I saw and saved the data. There were many reports that are still out there and reported. The revenue went up 35% as a result of the tax cuts. There are only 320k with adj gross income over 1 million. If the gov took it all, it would not make a dent in the budget. The top 2% avg 170k/yr. 50% of the populace pays NO income taxes.

          • iamtrue

            You are so full of beans your eyes are brown.

          • gotabgood

            Did you read the source? Treasury Department.
            Is everyone a liar except for Trump and Putin?

        • floral

          Obama a “good” president? destroyed jobs, his sos hillbilly turned our uranium over to Putin and let with bo’s help, our ambassador and 3 others die and blamed a “video”, bankrupted the middle class with the bogus bocare-trillions lost on that one, along with the importation of syrian “refugees” on welfare and “dream” act-or are you unaware that billions got sent to mexico via SS and child care credits given to illegals?

          • gotabgood

            Name one job he destroyed/
            I will give you a million he saved through the auto industry.
            The budget cut and the ambassadors refusal for more security is the biggest culprit.

            The rest is just plain bullshit not worth the trouble to prove it to you..

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/083a46a1c4f15f70e21bd103b07f5621d2300641b28f74c6d0c5b0ba8b94e359.gif

          • floral

            HE did NOT save the auto industry. He destroyed the savings and income of millions of retired persons invested in GM senior bonds. He “saved” the $100/hr benefits of the AUW.
            You are so full of false facts you are not worth the time to reply

          • gotabgood

            Stop!!!!
            Who saved the auto industry?
            Who broke wall street?

          • floral

            NOT BO

          • floral

            You are “allergic” to any valid criticism…….and fact and apparently cannot read or understand the posts of others.

      • river

        GotabeTarded just popped out of his rectal safe space. The diarrhea mouth has no place in society other than a sewer.

        • jgfsmf

          Right? You made me smile this morning.

      • george briar

        there was never a President Obama. just like everything else about the fraud even his name was fake.

        • elmcqueen3

          I assume you are referring to Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah?

  • thereasonableman

    Without public TV shows such as Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, etc a huge number of children are not going to receive any kind of quality pre-school programming, which is as close to pre-school as many of them will ever see. I don’t see any of the commercial TV networks lining up to replace their lucrative day time shows like Judge Judy, Days of Our Lives, etc with non-commercial children’s educational programs. Without PBS and Corp for Public Broadcasting Big Bird will die and our children will suffer for it. There were no such shows before public broadcasting and there will be none after.

    • Jerry Mael

      I never liked Sesame Street as a child in the 1960’s. The show Zoom! came along too late me me to take interest. I was too bizzy playing and doing kid things to worry about anything beyond Saturday cartoons.
      Started school a little young. (late Oct Bday). I was always the youngest in my classes we moved often and when a new school was telling Mom I was too young.. they always ended up letting me in and was never held back.
      PBS is just as messed up as any other network as to political agendas.
      Question them all.

      • george briar

        your still a child what are you like 9???

        • Joseph C Moore USN Ret

          you are…………..

    • Mustafa Curtess

      While watching the anti-Trump rioting it crossed my mind that young people didn’t act that way a generation ago. I’m not so sure that pre-school TV (and Big Bird) have been all that good for society.

      • whoselineisitanyway

        YOU ARE 1,000 TIMES CORRECT. I AM 73 and raised my kids without Sesame Street, my great grands all raised with S.S. and it is sad but true. S.S. is the voice of N.W.O. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
        THERE IS NO ROOM IN A FREE SOCIETY FOR P.C. SPEECH.

    • george briar

      the only ones looking for big bird are the dudes dressed like women in the ladies room thanks to the democrats. buy your kids a lap top and some education software it will educate them better and safer. If you want PBS so bad fool send them your money and I’ll keep mine.

    • David C. Lannan

      Many of the programs on PBS are supported by other sources as well as the government funding. They will survive without government funding if people really are interested in keeping them on the air. A lot of PBS programs are underwritten by companies eager to get their name on the air to reach the viewers. And individually we can support PBS and NPR if we so choose. Everybody is crying about the cuts but offer no solutions how to bring about reasonable cuts to the out of control debt (thank you establishment morons). Too many depend on “the government” for funding and don’t realize where that funding really comes from = taxpayers.

    • elmcqueen3

      Ahhh Yes…Our children will have to find new safe places and trade in their crayons and used coloring books for new ones…today’s TV addicted kids are such cute little snowflakes…how can they survive without Sesame Street and all those other children TV shows which are designed to prepare them for the realities of real life once they become fledgling adults.

      • Moki

        Some may help prepare them for life …Others just indoctrinate them into believing leftist, progressive lies.

        • Mustafa Curtess

          Actually WATCH some of the popular kid’s programming and pay ATTENTION to the dialog – and you may be shocked to really understand what liberal garbage IS saturating curious, receptive, malleable little minds.

    • curmudgeon VN Veteran

      There goes a source of subliminal propaganda. Sorry lib.

    • floral

      Bull. I remember a lot of children’s programming in the 50’s, far higher quality than sesame street. The last thing children need is to be parked in front of the TV for ANYTHING.

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  • tCotUS

    No American Government Party can stifle free speech…It’s in our Constitution..But this thing with Fake/Out Right lies/deception/half truths is something entirely different. Those who write these articles must be held responsible for truthful content. If they have these so-called secret sources, they had better make sure their 100% accurate or face the consequences..

    • Jerry Mael

      *they’re 😀

    • Germansmith

      and therefore why do you take the information from web sites like this one?

      The fact is you want the news that reflect your point of view. If any facts that challenge your established point of view you dismiss it as “fake”
      The biggest purveyor of lies is Donald J Trump and you guys know it…and nevertheless you still voted for him.
      You do not want facts, you want your own version of “truth” or as Colbert call it “truthiness”.

      • Moki

        I did not read a fake news story here, just one presented from a conservative point of view, full of the writer’s opinion. That occurs all the time in the leftist, progressive, Democrat voting MSM and certainly on NPR and PBS.

        • tCotUS

          Well Stated Moki..

      • gtm615

        B.S.

      • Ron C

        And then what good are made up facts….that are proven false time & time again…??? The mainstream media just as the democrat party make it up as they go, with no facts to the stories…then when it is proven wrong by hard facts….will the story just goes down their memory hole, with no consequences or accountability…

      • jimahrens

        I will tell you what my take is, Your a blooming idiot!!!

        • Jimmy King

          If you’re going to call someone and idiot, at least you should know the difference between “Your” and “You’re. Moron

          • jimmy midnight

            Dig it.

          • jimmy midnight

            (But, U shoulda hadda close quote after your second, “You’re.”)

          • floral

            typing sometimes results in grammatical errors, though it has little to do with one’s intelligence. “someone and idiot” is not exactly grammatical on your part, moron. You should know the difference between an and “and”

      • tCotUS

        My, how can you sound soooo intelligent but yet be sooo fricking stupid ? .Oh, that’s right, your a Liberal.. Never-mind..

      • Scuttlebutt

        You are so full of it:(

      • What evidence you have that the biggest purveyor of lies is Donald J Trump?

        • thereasonableman

          Well, there are a number of sources that you could go to of various political stripes liberal and conservative, but you won’t believe them so I won’t bother. Maybe someone with more time to waste than I have can list them for you.

          • You believe Trump is a liar because you read it in the newspapers and the Internet. Right? Admit that you are brainwashed.

      • ! Most ppl with a open mind , Republican or Demo-Crap , want the NEWS not regurgitated Op Ed ! News means reporting of FACTS not OPINION and then demanding we agree with it ! Please WTF up , YOU are welcome !

      • floral

        That is the province of the lib/dem/progs who scream lies and untruths at any fact that does not support the lib/dem/prog ideology.

      • Well here are some truths. Trump is draining the swamp in Washington. We will be getting true judges and the economy is beginning to thrive. and we can now say Merry Christmas. etc, etc,

        • Vicki M

          It is a beautiful world, again!

      • Vicki M

        And you believed the Democrats and Obama and Hillary and Bill Clinton? Wow! are you gullible! Or maybe just brainwashed.

    • Ron C

      Don’t be to sure , they are currently doing it in Europe. They call it “hate speech laws”. The translate to that nice sounding verbiage is, You can’t say anything the government authorities don’t like, with out being subjected to prison! And that goes double for anyone running for office!

      • tCotUS

        Politicians would like to have those laws here ..BUT..Who else has a Constitution/Bill of Rights..
        I say use it or lose it..

      • elmcqueen3

        Like in Sweden…if a woman if raped by a refugee (Muslim) and she cry’s rape she can be arrested for “hate” speech…George Orwell’s 1984 is finally coming to light…soon it will be here.

      • WhiteFalcon

        We call it “Political Correctness” in this country, and in some other countries as well. like Sweden.

      • Vicki M

        Sounds like Germany in WWII, and North Korea today. Watch the movie “Alone in Berlin” to see what we have to protect ourselves against.

    • Jimmy King

      Did you hear that Judge Napolitano?

      • tCotUS

        No, can you send a link?

  • thebearded1

    Propaganda, collusion to high treason…REALLY? That speech is NOT protected; it is Criminal Behavior! I say this as a veteran broadcaster!

  • Richard Bagenstose

    well oboma passed a law so they are allowed to use propagnda, they said it’s to fight terrorists , but they are using it to lie to us, when the media can’t report fair for all sides then they need to lose their fcc liscents

    • thebearded1

      Stuff complaints in the TV snd Radio public files!

  • george briar

    fake news is a hoot but like the democratic party it too has to go they both have become ridiculous and don’t belong in this country. Anyone that supports either certainly doesn’t belong here either.

  • scott
    • Ron C

      So true.

  • ecbound

    One correction. These companies are NOT publicly funded! Watch the credits after some PBS shows. You’ll see a laundry list of globalist donators like the Rockefellers, and Bill Gates. I rarely watch them any more.

    • floral

      PP gets donations also, but the bulk of their “donated” funding comes from the taxpayer through the government. PP is rich and profitable. Without fed funding, PP is still profitable. NPR IS taxpayer subsidized, with or without donations and fund raisers.

  • eight years of division vs 60 days of progress. what a waste of 8 years. una termino por termita. one term per termite. 8 great years under el Trumpo the job Zorro.

  • Germansmith

    Well…that is Bull S–t
    NPR or PBS are not State Sponsored media , they are Independently run media (not partisan or subject to sponsors point of view) which received some funding from the Federal Government.The funding they received is less that .01% of discretionary budge…most of their money comes from contributions
    The reason Conservatives dislike it is because they can NOT control it.

    Urban stations will be fine, Contributions will keep them going….the people that will lose the public untainted information from PBS will be small market rural people…the people that need them the most.

    • Volarekathy99

      I have listened to NPR before, and they are Always biased towards the left. For PBS, I’ve noticed that it’s sometimes just reporting, and other times slatned towards the left. I’ve never seen them report favorably on a conservative viewpoint.

    • floral

      You don’t remember that NPR fired Juan Williams uber lib/dem/prog for not being in lock step with the “muslims are peaceful” mantra?
      So much for free speech in NPR. Not true that rural people will be hurt by defunding NPR. They don’t care or need or have cable or much in the way of internet. NPR and PBS only sometimes have anything valuable on nor accurate when it comes to the Constitution, history or politics. Now, if I were interested in the sex habits and clubs for indiscriminate homosexual/lesbian/transgender sex, then I would be served by PBS/NPR.

  • My country

    They may have a right to publish their crap ! But ! They don’t have a right to incite people to criminal behaviors . Their conduct in pushing hate is past reprehensible. Their journalism leaves one to wonder if children aren’t reporting . Their reporting of news to create more destruction of cities and towns and to aid such groups like BLM to harm and kill is called reckless to say the least ! But reporting as truthfull facts eludes their lips on any story and to continue their propaganda is jaw dropping . By all good judgements the off button must be used . Their ability to use the media is their downfall and their ratings are proof of their constant attempts to destroy this country by any means . I guess all of them by now get that warm fuzzy feeling running down their leg when they appear to dupe all of America with their deceitfull rhetoric . Remember the old saying . Oh what tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive .

  • Volarekathy99

    I totally disagree that the lamestream media was ever critical of anything that Obama did when he was in the White House. They had a love-fest with him, and they are out to make up as many lies as possible about Trump and throw them out there. The MSM will do anything to try to obstruct Trump’s presidency, which means the MSM want to cancel out the votes of everyone who voted for Trump. He won fair and square, and they won’t admit it.

  • Volarekathy99

    Fine with me if they de-fund NPR. They are nothing but another arm of the left, supported by our tax dollars.

  • Ron C

    Close but no cigar, the mainstream media in this country is strictly democrat liberal & progressive…that is why they are leading the charge against a free press with professional journalist’s…To the point where they are funding democrat politician’s by 99% to put into law, that they…the democrat liberal, progressive MSM are the only ones that should be able to, as Mika put it, shape the mind’s of the public! Now that is the true story of what’s going on in the news media!

  • Tiger

    NO there is no place but the purity of news left this country long ago and in the 30’s the Rockefeller and the Ford Foundation tried to buy the radio airwaves, understanding that you own what the people hear, you own the people. Do any of you remember when subliminal messaging via movie theaters etc was stopped? Long ago newspaper owners learned to beat the competition have a more interesting story.

    I must say that it has now taken an all time high in America, the likes of which have not been seen in America but surely has been seen throughout history in other countries, run by Communists and Dictators not to mention kings and queens.

    Keeping the public stupid is like keeping your woman barefoot and pregnant.

    • iamtrue

      Yea they do their best to treat us like mushrooms keeping us in the dark and continue to feed us bullshit.

      • Tiger

        LOLOLOL but millions of the mushrooms have morphed into gigantic eaters of liberal BS. Take London for instance after these attacks. All over the world people know and are ready to strike out.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Ia9fWk07Y

  • Tiger

    NO there is no place for state sponsored media but it is what we have become. In the 30’s Rockefeller and the Ford Foundation tried to buy the radio airwaves but they didn’t succeed. Long ago papers learned the one with the most spectacular story, even if padded sold papers. Own the sources of information and you own the people. We have seen this throughout history, Dictators do it today and Communist countries continue to do it, we know how close we came to being one of them so suppose the main media just covering it’s ass.

    Keeping the wife barefoot and pregnant same thing as keeping the public without news and pregnant with lies and FAKE news.

    • Vicki M

      Yes, It is one of the steps promoted by Saul Alinsky to take control of America…. Control the media.

      • Tiger

        Exactly

  • Jo K

    Right on Shawn. Good article. 100% true. No place for globalist communist fake stream media any longer in the USA today. It’s in the last stages of life and will soon be dead.

  • dosgatos

    The internet sites are already censoring “hate speech”.. clearly in violation of our Constitutional first amendment rights. The mainstream media control messaging and are being manipulated by globalists. Where will this end? Our privacy is clearly non existent- anyone at anytime can spy on us–we have reached an Orwellian 1984 scenario now and there seems to be no end to it. Unless the Trump administration can overcome the “deep state” we are doomed as a Constitutional Republic.

  • I disagree that the leftist newspapers and TV
    stations are capitalists in the strictest sense. Even if they are not subsidized by the government, they are indeed subsidized by the international liberal elite, George Soros, and his ilk. This support is now more vigorous than ever since they are scared that Trump success would undermine the “open door” utopia they are promoting.

    • Vicki M

      NWO and Globalism are the goals.

  • Junius Graham

    The News media is guilty of destroying themselves. They have enjoyed lots of Freedom, but they failed to be honest and to report the news as it is. They have used it to promote socialism and progressive ideals, not freedom and truth!

  • kassa1

    The media in this country is no friend of the American people, they were nothing but prostitutes of the one world order big money, and the big money owns those medias. The media is in this country 90% of them or write all of the communist / Tyranical countries play book ! Oh that’s what the Eliets here are trying to do is make this a Third World country where those kinds of media’s floris do is make this a Third World country where those kinds of media’s floutish!

  • Watchdogman

    Europe ( UK) in general are such tyrants standing over their people telling them to “shut up” or go to jail…No free speech there…The next war in europe will have to be fought by the people in europe…not America anymore…People in the UK must be brain dead to have such a government…

  • AKLady

    Public media has a place in America. It permits presentation of education material, as well as other low-budget, independent type of entertainment. It also permits airing of local issues that cannot reach a national market.

    • floral

      Once again you are full of your own bs. You never have a clue or fact and you are no lady, not a vietnam surgeon or anything else that you crow about.

      • AKLady

        Thank you.
        Your input is always welcome
        It says so much about you.

        • floral

          Your posts say you are a RAVING lunatic. Always have always will.

          • AKLady

            Sarcasm is right over the top of your head.

          • floral

            Obviously EVERYTHING is over your stunted head. You are not capable of sarcasm, nor anything even that sensible.

  • anthony j. manzo

    There is one radiance. We who where born and raised here will not tolerate this. Remember this country was founded on opposing a government that was oppressive. In the history of our country when the government failed us we took over to protect ourselves. That is why the great men who created this government put in the second amendment. And that is why the Socialists want to destroy it. Next would be the first amendment. Our very freedom is dependent and guaranteed by the second amendment. Take it away and we become slaves.

  • I started my internet journey on aol. I DO NOT PLAN TO CHANGE BUT I HAVE NEVER SAW SO MUCH ANTI TRUMP PROPAGANDA FROM AOL. THEIR NEWS HEADLINES WILL HAVE 3 OUT OF 4 PHOTOS ATTACKING TRUMP. THE PHOTOS ALWAYS SHOW TRUMP IN DEMEANING SHOTS. IF AOL IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF FAIR REPORTING THEN WE ARE LIVING IN RUSSIA AND AOL IS PRAVDA UNDER COMRADE HUFFINGTON.

  • Outlaw Josie Wales

    This is all a circular argument. Tax payer money should never go to state sponsored anything without the taxpayers approval. Do you know how much of your money goes to “Public Broadcasting” including soft-spoken propaganda sites like NPR? A lot!

    Personally I think the public education system should be dismantled and communities made responsible for education. Anyone who looks at the numbers can see Public Education has FAILED. SIMPLY PUT. When the State gains power over anything it seeks to maintain and reinforce the power. Why would anyone with a brain allow a Soviet-style education system where parents no longer have any say in what their own kids are taught? How could propaganda and subversion be any more convenient than for your kids education be under the control of the State.

    Problem #1: Several generations of Americans (about six now) have been brainwashed in Public Schools and have lost the ability to think critically. They were taught that all the wars we fought in since the Civil War were good, and that it was good that America became the world’s policeman and big brother. They were taught that God doesn’t really exist and that normal families aren’t really important. They were Sovietized using open subversion, a Soviet system of de-moralizing a nation and removing any individualism and drive for personal freedom.

    Anyone who has any intellect left should have nothing but contempt for the talking heads, and the organizations behind them who earnestly desire to tell you what to think about anything. History is full of he-said/she-said. Everyone has an opinion about what happened. If we abdicate our right and ability to chew up the meat and spit out the bones, we deserve to lose our freedom.

    People are too damn lazy, depressed, disinterested, distracted or dumb to actually learn for themselves about the world around them…I think.

  • Walter Flatt

    I AM ABOUT TO AGREE THAT WE DO NOT NEED ANY PRESS, IF THEY KEEP ON TWISTING THE TRUTH LIKE THEY DO. ANY NEWS MEDIA CAUGHT LYING SHOULD BE BARRED FROM THE INDUSTRY.

    YOU AND THIS GOVERNMENT HAD BETTER WORRY ABOUT THE MUSLIMS HERE AT HOME.

    PUBLIC LAW 414, PAGE 2, SECTION 212, WAS PASSED IN 1952 THAT BANS ALL PEOPLE TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTY, AND MUSLIMS QUALIF TO BE DEPORTED. READ THE QURAN, THEIR BIBLE.

    COULD IT BE THAT OBAMA HAS SET US UP FOR HIM TO LEAD A MUSLIM INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY? READ THEIR BIBLE, THE QURAN.

    IF NOT,

    WHY ARE THERE 5 MUSLIM CAMPS IN N. VIRGINA, CLOSE TO DC.

    WHY TRY AND BUY UP ALL AMMO AND TAKE OUR GUNS.

    WHY ALLOW IN EXCESS OF 36 MUSLIM CAMPS. (PERHAPS HUNDREDS)

    (BUILD A FEMA CAMP IN EVERY STATE? SOME STATE HAS MORE THAN ONE. BUILT AND SUPPORTED BY YOUR TAX MONEY.

    WHY, WHILE IN OFFICE, DID HE SET HIS CABINET WITH MOSTLY MUSLIMS.

    WHY, WAS HILLIARY’S TOP AIDE A RADICAL MUSLIM,

    LAST WHY, DID OBAMA SEND BILLIONS TO HIS MUSLIM FRIENDS.

  • Warren

    Knowingly Publishing blatant Lies & editing stories to give a completely different meaning is not Free Speech and should be heavily fined also being open to Lawsuits.




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