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Republicans Attack Sesame Street

Republican power knows no bounds. They have a mandate and they will not allow facts to intefere. From AP:

A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," "Arthur" and "Postcards From Buster."

In addition, the subcommittee acted to eliminate within two years all federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- which passes federal funds to public broadcasters -- starting with a 25 percent reduction in CPB's budget for next year, from $400 million to $300 million.

Expressing alarm, public broadcasters and their supporters in Congress interpreted the move as an escalation of a Republican-led campaign against a perceived liberal bias in their programming. That effort was initiated by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's own chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson.

The unmitigated brazenness in which America is being attacked by the Republican party and the handful of fundamentalist big wigs that have convinced America is under attack by Hollywood and the ACLU is unbelievable. For them to cut the funding so that children can't see Reading Rainbow is unbelievable as they increase the funding for programs that are absolute failures such as the abstinence-only sex education.

The only people that see public braodcasting as having a liberal slant are conservatives; America does not.

posted by niteskolar @ 10:05 AM