House Republicans call emergency meeting to defund NPR

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/15/house-republicans-call-emergency-meeting-to-defund-npr/

By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 -- 5:07 pm

The House Rules Committee will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to consider legislation to permanently prohibit federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) after conservative activist James O'Keefe released a video smearing the news organization.

The bill, H.R. 1076, was introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who is leading the effort in the House to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent organization of NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service.

Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) office told Politico that he will bring the bill to the House floor on Thursday.

[Drale]

1. This proves that they don't care about facts

because that video was proved to be edited in a biased way.

[Lifelong Protester]

2. What the hell is with all of these 'emergency this' and 'emergency

that' meetings? Isn't anyone but us here at DU paying attention??

[Kennah]

4. Could it be a response to disaster in Japan?

An example of dog wagging?

[Blue Owl]

7. Just their fucking shock doctrine bullshit

n/t

[Hardrada]

12. Exactly, and that routine is getting old.

[fascisthunter]

3. meanwhile, Republicans give billions to corporations and the wealthy

[dennis4868]

5. where is their emergency meeting...

to create jobs....wasn't that what the elctions were all about?

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. It's jobs alright

Blow jobs.

[dennis4868]

6. It's Obama's fault

[DFab420]

10. lol +1

I feel like if we start saying this as an obligatory remark on all posts, people will begin to realize just how silly it gets on this board sometimes

[Botany]

9. An emergency meeting by the House Republicans now what could it be for?

Aid to Japan ....

Earthquake zones and nuclear power plants .....

The headlong rush to destroy public education in the primary, secondary, and colleges in America ....

Real help to the long term unemployed so they can get working and get real jobs w/ products made in America ....

Hell no ..... They gotta defund NPR ASAP because the jig is up that the James O'Keefe / Breitbart film was one more edited pack of lies.

Hey John Boner where are the jobs?

BTW this is one more useless act of Kabuki theater .... the House will pass it and it will be killed in the senate. Nice use of the public's funds.

[Initech]

15. And people wonder why I hate them so badly.

[EC]

11. Why are they wasting all this time on this shit?

They know that none of these foolish bills they are passing are going anywhere in the Senate...and more to the point - most of their constituents know this too. So why bother? It would seem stupid to down the road say "Well, we passed it in the house...but those nasty Dems stopped it in the Senate." when everyone knows thats exactly what would happen anyway...it's a Dah...thingy.

[somone]

13. So when the slimy little punk O'Keefe says jump, the U.S. Congress says how high?

Pathetic

[yourout]

14. Hopefully someone on our side makes them watch the whole unedited version.

[AndyTiedye]

16. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Reactors about to do a Chernobyl, and they Call NPR an Emerency!?!?!!

What the fuck is wrong with these people?!

:wtf:

[madrchsod]

17. remember there is`t one republican that watches or listens to npr and pbs...

so it`s a no brainer for them.

[Fuzz]

18. Because a fundraiser insulted teabaggers?

wtf?