House to Consider Bill to Defund National Public Radio

Perhaps NPR should use the half-million dollar salary that their CEO, who was just let go, was paid. Just think of how much programming that half-million dollar salary could pay for. Any station that can afford to pay their CEO a half million dollars, should not be receiving funding from the taxpayers.

PBS and NPR are liberial arms of the left. I don't agree with most of what they say and do on the programs. They have a right to say and do what they want just not with my tax money FOX,MSNBC and CNN are privately owned. What makes you think thier the only ones with the truth? I don't like the way my tax dollars go to the unions by way of union dues and then to the socialist-liberial-democrats who's policies of taking hard working peoples money and giving it to some else I don't think is right. I think a able bodied person should take care and be responsible for themselves. Stop waiting for a government handout

No one sees what is happening here? The bought and sold Supreme Court has made it possible for the rich corporate interests to completely dominate the airwaves by removing the cap from contributions. Of the top ten contributors to campaigns only 3 organizations fund Democratic Party Member (All Unions) oddly they are under assault due to bullcrap budget emergencies caused by new tax cuts for the rich. Every watchdog group that protects the public is being gutted including the one that regulates our friends on Wall Street ( the newest secret contributor to right wing causes through PACs live Roves and Dick Armee (freedom don't work). The Republicans are cutting jobs like there are any left to go around. So conditions are nice and hostile come 2012 when they will be in complete control of all information. NPR is just another Acorn ( which by the way was cleared of any wrong doing.... but believe what Fox tells you) anything method of giviing information that is not wholely at the mercy of the GOP is under assault ( even teachers because ignorant kids grow to be ignorant adults, the backbone of the GOP base). They even have Muslims as the new Boogeyman for you to search for under your bed.. If all this control of information, scapegoating and using manufactured crisis to gain power sound familiar it's because it is how every single party state becomes so. Frankly I don't want only one party even if that party is in line with my beliefs. Only a fool would want such a thing.

I am a rural voter that waches the nightly news and the PBS News each an every evening where I can recieve a broad prospectous of the news as a whole, most likely the most honest approach! Please do not de-fund PBS ! we need all the honest news we can get! CNN, Fox, MSNBC are all politically motivated! Fox is owned by a billionaire which hardly ever reports the news, it is most generally projected to the far right. And MSNBC the far left. cNN somewhere in the middle. Only 20% of Americans watch the news is what I hear, so please help the ones that do want to be informed at least hear news that's closest to the truth! Don't allow the GOP to take another step towards dismantling the democratic party.

Is this really even a debate? The the liberals are still trying to defend the comments claiming that they were "taken out of context"? I would like to know in what context the comments would be acceptable? If NPR was balanced (as they claim) then why is it that the liberals are the only one's wanting to continue Federal fundng for NPR?

Why watch PBS when you can settle down with a case of beer and watch Larry the Cableguy?

No "news" organization should ever receive taxpayer funding via the govt. That's how dictatorship nation's disseminate news to their nation's under govt controls. If you want to support NPR, send them a check firectly. Leave the rest of us out of it.

NPR claims to receive little funding from the gov. However, what they do not tell you is that their affiliate outlets receive as much as 45% funding from the gov.

Defund it, get rid of this low hanging fruit. And NPR management has said they don't need the money. So why not cut it?

Why would I and millions of other tax-payers want to fund NPR or Planned Parenthood when we already have free news networks all over the world and the internet for news and we don't support abortion, certainly we don't want monetarily support abortion anyway? Totally logical argument.