Video: CNN/HLN Showbiz Tonight - When you see Tina Fey win the Mark Twain award on PBS, it still looks like she has all her teeth. But a few got knocked out in the editing room.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds both NPR and PBS was the subject of a vote on Thursday, 11/18, in which the most recent push to cut funding for public broadcasting was blocked, 239 to 171... And bloc is the operative word. The split along party lines saw only three defecting Democrats voting with Republicans.
Although No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia (set to become majority leader in the next Congress) called it "common sense to cut spending and save taxpayer dollars," it was retribution.
Republicans made no secret that NPR's ouster of (now exclusively) Fox commentator Juan Williams was one major reason for their recent efforts, but complaints of political correctness and liberal bias at NPR predate the Williams dispute.
NPR hailed the "good judgment" of lawmakers.
"They are, of course, Nazis," Ailes told the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz. "They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive."The Anti-Defamation League, who can tell a real Nazi from faux Fox Nazis, received and accepted an Ailes apology... NPR didn't get one.
“Jon, I told you so. I mean, I might disagree with you, but I’d never think you were crazy or hateful. But (Bill) Maher is right! One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.”
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