Turning PBS into another propaganda tool

Oh Good Lord, I perceive the renewal of my Mother Land - Abuzz!

(Please will one of the dopplegangers advise me as to how I might change my moniker, and yet not appear to me a new entrant. Bipo, you know who you are. Only so I may cleave the offensive Abuzz from my nome due guerre!)

Blue Vein Throbber = BiPolar Bear

chiczaria = Massagatto

A2K Dicks = Abuzz Dicks

JTT = Some GD Abuzz fragger

The Dark Side calls A2Kers, but resist!

On the fringes there be a-holes, but A2K has for some time offered what Abuzz could not deliver.

Please --- don't ruin it.

Deja Vu all over again.

Blatham, Walter, Nimh, Brandon, McGentrix, (among others) come save us!

Finn d'Abuzz wrote:

Oh Good Lord, I perceive the renewal of my Mother Land - Abuzz!

(Please will one of the dopplegangers advise me as to how I might change my moniker, and yet not appear to me a new entrant. Bipo, you know who you are. Only so I may cleave the offensive Abuzz from my nome due guerre!)

Blue Vein Throbber = BiPolar Bear

chiczaria = Massagatto

A2K Dicks = Abuzz Dicks

JTT = Some GD Abuzz fragger

The Dark Side calls A2Kers, but resist!

On the fringes there be a-holes, but A2K has for some time offered what Abuzz could not deliver.

Please --- don't ruin it.

Deja Vu all over again.

Blatham, Walter, Nimh, Brandon, McGentrix, (among others) come save us!

I;m not sure what your're getting at here bud but leave me out of it please

Good God, BPB. There can't possibly be anyone left here who doesn't know.

I think blatham now dabbles in the multiples.

Seems like people are creating their own agreeing posses. And, doing it poorly.

Well, this is what bipo did. He announced he was leaving. He left. Then he returned and begged the mgmt to delete his membership. They didn't at first, so he threatened to commit some infraction....I don't recall what.

In a matter of days, he was back as some thinly disguised alter. He told everyone after a few posts and then said he was REALLY leaving. (Or he got banned briefly that time....it was a melodramatic time for me...I can't remember exactly...)

Then, he re-returns but is only partially as cheesy about this reincarnation as he was the other.

I really hope you can find a different way...

I'm glad he's here, but that was spastic.

Finn, you can submit a request to change your moniker through the "Contact Us" option at the bottom of the page.

Lash wrote:

Well, this is what bipo did. He announced he was leaving. He left. Then he returned and begged the mgmt to delete his membership. They didn't at first, so he threatened to commit some infraction....I don't recall what.

In a matter of days, he was back as some thinly disguised alter. He told everyone after a few posts and then said he was REALLY leaving. (Or he got banned briefly that time....it was a melodramatic time for me...I can't remember exactly...)

Then, he re-returns but is only partially as cheesy about this reincarnation as he was the other.

I really hope you can find a different way...

I'm glad he's here, but that was spastic.

you have that soooo wrong lash but let's let that sleeping bear lie. And Finn, eeryone knows I'm BPB, I still don't get your point and why you're including me on some sort of rant. I don't want to play.

blueveinedthrobber wrote:

Lash wrote:

Well, this is what bipo did. He announced he was leaving. He left. Then he returned and begged the mgmt to delete his membership. They didn't at first, so he threatened to commit some infraction....I don't recall what.

In a matter of days, he was back as some thinly disguised alter. He told everyone after a few posts and then said he was REALLY leaving. (Or he got banned briefly that time....it was a melodramatic time for me...I can't remember exactly...)

Then, he re-returns but is only partially as cheesy about this reincarnation as he was the other.

I really hope you can find a different way...

I'm glad he's here, but that was spastic.

you have that soooo wrong lash but let's let that sleeping bear lie. And Finn, eeryone knows I'm BPB, I still don't get your point and why you're including me on some sort of rant. I don't want to play.

I didn't know you were BPB. The polar bear image might have given it away, and so the phallic reference, but sad to say that BVT isn't even half the poster that BPB was.

I've never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to the machinations of cyber-forums.

I really couldn't care less why you might leave as BPB and return BVT (other than the latter is pretty crude and unecessarily so), just don't play games predicated upon BVT being a new poster.

The Armstrong Williams NewsHour
By FRANK RICH
Published: June 26, 2005
HERE'S the difference between this year's battle over public broadcasting and the one that blew up in Newt Gingrich's face a decade ago: this one isn't really about the survival of public broadcasting. So don't be distracted by any premature obituaries for Big Bird. Far from being an endangered species, he's the ornithological equivalent of a red herring.

Rich has the real story here. The funding issue is not the important element.

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The Armstrong Williams NewsHour
By FRANK RICH
Published: June 26, 2005
HERE'S the difference between this year's battle over public broadcasting and the one that blew up in Newt Gingrich's face a decade ago: this one isn't really about the survival of public broadcasting. So don't be distracted by any premature obituaries for Big Bird. Far from being an endangered species, he's the ornithological equivalent of a red herring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/opinion/26rich.html?hp

WASHINGTON, June 23 - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Thursday appointed Patricia S. Harrison, a former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, to be its next president and chief executive.


Patricia S. Harrison, the new president of public broadcasting.
In acting, the corporation board brushed aside concerns from many public television and radio stations and Democratic lawmakers that choosing Ms. Harrison threatened to inject partisanship into an organization that is supposed to shield public broadcasting from political pressures.

Later on Thursday, the Republican-controlled House, by a vote of 284 to 140, approved a measure to restore $100 million that had been cut from the corporation's $400 million budget last week by the House Appropriations Committee.

The selection of Ms. Harrison comes at a time of political strife over the direction of public broadcasting. The corporation's chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, has taken steps to correct what he and conservative critics see as liberal bias. Television and radio executives have responded by accusing Mr. Tomlinson of threatening their editorial independence.

Ms. Harrison's backers said her Republican credentials would help her win new support for public broadcasting. In a statement accompanying the announcement of her selection, Katherine Anderson, one of the Republican members of the board, praised Ms. Harrison, saying she "has demonstrated great strength in coalition building."

"She knows Capitol Hill and is devoted to public broadcasting and the mission," Ms. Anderson said.

Ms. Harrison, an assistant secretary of state, has no significant broadcasting experience, however, and her selection instantly met with new political criticism as broadcast executives and Democratic lawmakers called her too partisan for the post.

Among the Democratic critics were Senators Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both of New York, and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota.

"I think this is a huge mistake," Mr. Dorgan said in an interview. "My sense is that this is going to do real injury to public broadcasting."

Mr. Schumer said the decision "to turn PBS into a political mouthpiece is disgraceful and contrary to its years of distinguished public service."

As president of the corporation, Ms. Harrison will oversee the distribution of federal money to thousands of public radio and television stations and producers of programs. The previous president, Kathleen Cox, stepped down in April.

The selection of Ms. Harrison was not unexpected; Mr. Tomlinson said in an interview in April that she was his top choice. Scores of stations around the nation, as well as some Democratic members of Congress, urged the board to find another candidate, particularly in light of decisions by Mr. Tomlinson that are now under investigation by the inspector general of the corporation.

Investigators are looking at Mr. Tomlinson's decision to retain a consultant to monitor the political leanings on the "Now" show with Bill Moyers, his decision to retain two Republican lobbyists last year and his use of a White House official to set up an corporation office of ombudsman that is supposed to judge the political balance and objectivity of shows on public television and radio.

Beth Courtney, one of the three members of the eight-member board who is not a Republican, said she voted against Ms. Harrison.

"I was asked by hundreds of colleagues in public broadcasting not to select someone who was in a partisan position," said Ms. Courtney, the president and chief executive of Louisiana Public Broadcasting, and a registered independent. "The stations are very upset."

The House vote to restore financing that had been cut at the committee level came after days of public outcry, especially from Democrats. Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the Democrat who sponsored the amendment to restore the money, said it was a bittersweet victory coming on the day that Ms. Harrison was elected - and as part of a larger bill that, in his view, shortchanged other labor, education and health programs.

In the floor debate, some Republicans continued to call for a trimmed-down public broadcasting budget. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite, Republican of Florida, said "Americans should be shocked" by how profitable the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is through its marketing of popular programs.

A sign propped at Ms. Brown-Waite's side said, "Big Bird is a Billionaire."

Hell yes........we intend turning PBS into a Republican Propaganda machine and our next targets are, Liberal academia by forcing equal hiring of conservative professors and then the total destruction of the most dangerous organization in America........the ACLU