“When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it’s time to get the government out of public broadcasting.”
That’s $632,233 in annual compensation for the president of PBS-NPR. We’re in the best of hands. Just ask them, they’ll tell you. Nightly, as they ask for more.
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Well, at least they titled it honestly, in the sense that the title, Bush’s War, is so hamhandedly political that you know from the get-go just what the nabobs of the misnamed Public Broadcasting System are up to. But the ads, whose footnote is "the complete saga," are a bald lie:
"Frontline didn’t manage to find any time at all to mention the name of the most significant Iraq commander of all, Gen. David Petraeus. You could view all four and a half hours of this series and remain innocent of any knowledge of the dramatic turning of the tribes in Anbar that began in late 2006, as the Sunnis woke up to their own interest. Of the hard-fought, highly successful campaigns of 2007 to run al-Qaeda out of Baghdad, Diyala, the southern ‘Triangle of Death,’ not a peep. The fact that Moqtada al-Sadr has been intimidated into maintaining his truce, and that his forces are divided, nothing."
In other words, the take-home thought of the two-part series that concludes tonight will be that we’re losing. Or, rather, that the hated Bush is losing. What Lefty crep. And to think that our tax money went to pay for this one-sided Democrat Party poop. Honest journalism went down the toilet years ago. Thank goodness for the Internet. Better to know before wasting four hours of your life on stale tripe.
You’d be so much better off, and certainly know more, to visit and subscribe to a true Iraq journalist with no axe to grind–and he doesn’t mix metaphors the way I do, and he spellz better.
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"Islam vs Islamists," a taxpayer-funded documentary told novelistically by moderate and radical imams, is being withheld from the public, says Roger L. Simon, one of the few who has seen it:
"PBS is operating here in the manner of similar institutions in the former Soviet Union and in modern day Iran – financing artists and then withholding distribution of their work when it is not deemed ideologically ‘correct’. It’s a form of thought-control…"
Well, they wouldn’t want Bush’s "scare tactics" to look justified, now would they? Read all of Simon’s take, and watch the trailer. Then read more about the doc and sign the petition to make it available. What we really need is a petition to dismantle PBS.
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