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...House speaker justifies his crusade on the grounds that taxpayers shouldn't have to "subsidize something that [tells] them how to think." And, of course, don't forget that PBS is the epitome of what Gingrich absolutely-deplores: "the liberal media...
...matter how hard such programs are bashed by conservatives, it doesn't alter the fact that public broadcasting has produced a virtual treasure chest of documentaries dealing with the humanities, politics and the sciences. What Gingrich has forgotten in his unrelenting zeal to wipe out the "liberal media" is that more than a million children in his home state of Georgia actually learn reading and language skills through the programs broadcast by the Children's Television Workshop...
...despite Gingrich's protestations to the contrary, there clearly is a way to lift the financial burden off of Washington and preserve PBS. As independent public television producer Alvin Perlmutter pointed out in a New York Times editorial, simply charging commercial TV and radio broadcasters one percent of their gross annual revenues for the use of their channels would raise $260 million--just $25 million shy of the $285 million granted annually by Washington...
Nevertheless, Gingrich may very well have his way, blustering and babbling until PBS becomes part of network history. Move over, Democrats--Big Bird and Grover are joining you on the unemployment line. That is, if they can qualify for benefits under the new system...
...turned up. Instead, this being Washington, the star was a fiftysomething politician, and as soon as his trademark helmet of white hair breezed through the door at stage right, 400 freshly elected conservative state legislators leaped to their feet and chanted, "Newt! Newt! Newt!" By the time Newt Gingrich had concluded his now familiar excoriation of the liberal welfare state, he had the faithful rushing the dais as if they were at a rock concert, shouldering each other aside just to be near their hero. An agile woman from Oregon exclaimed to her friends, "I touched...