While the blatantly biased reporting by NPR and PBS is reason enough to cut off their taxpayer funding, there’s an even more important reason to do, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says.
“Now look, you don’t have to be a Latin scholar to see that these articles are biased – every single one of them – at the federal level and at the state and local level in Louisiana,” Sen. Kennedy said Tuesday in a Senate speech after displaying a host of headlines from the publicly-funded news organizations.
“They have the right to say this stuff – but, they don’t have the right to say it with your money,” Sen. Kennedy said, calling for NPR, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be defunded in the budget package currently under consideration.
“No fair-minded American can look at these headlines and say those aren’t biased. And some of my colleagues are mad about that,” Kennedy said.
“That’s not what concerns me the most. I’m sorry they’re mad, but that’s not what concerns me the most,” Kennedy said, explaining that the country simply can’t afford to spend a half-billion dollars a year on select media organizations, especially since they don’t need the money:
“My question is this: what in God’s name, what on God’s Green Earth are we doing with…$36 trillion of debt, which is just accumulated deficit, why are we giving certain TV stations and certain radio stations in America – but, not others – $500 million a year?
“Why?
“They don’t need it. And, even if they did need it, they shouldn’t get the money to the exclusion of every other media organization. What happened to treating all people and all entities similarly situated similarly?”
“And so, that’s why I support abolishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” Sen. Kennedy said, calling for the elimination of the Congressionally-created organization that funnels tax dollars to PBS and NPR.