Anyone watch "Buster" cartoon with the lesbians?

[Eric J in MN]

A US House committee voted to reduce funding of the Ready-to-Learn group which produces the show to $0.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA607542.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP

House Busts Buster


By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/9/2005 6:20:00 PM

Buster will have to send his postcards from the poorhouse if some legislators get their way.


The House Labor-HHS Appropriations Committee Thursday voted to zero out funding for Ready to Learn (RTL). That is the PBS educational kids programming initiative that caught flack from the Department of Education for a Postcards From Buster episode--RTL is funded primarily by DOE--featuring a lesbian couple.

That criticism aside, the Bush Administration had still proposed $23.3 million for Ready to Learn, only $100,000 less than public TV had asked for. The committee would have none of it, literally.

The House committee also cut $39.4 million to help with the digital transition, and $39.6 million for interconnection equipment, to go along with another House appropriations committee's earlier cut of a $21 million technology seed fund.

In addition, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's base budget--for funding programming and station operations for FY 2006--was cut by almost a quarter. $400 million had been requested by noncoms, Bush had proposed $390 million, but the House committee approved only $300 million.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. It's so disgusting

I hate these bigoted assholes.

[Eric J in MN]

2. No sense of balance. No sense of decency.

Completely wrong temperment for governing.