House GOP Declares Emergency ... Over NPR Funding

[HarveyDarkey]

House Republicans are holding an emergency meeting of the Rules Committee on Wednesday to take up legislation that would block funding to NPR in the wake of James O'Keefe's hidden camera prank on the news organization.

The meeting will examine HR 1076, introduced by Republican congressman and NPR-nemesis Doug Lamborn of Colorado, which would bar the government from providing any funding to NPR and its affiliate stations. The House already passed an amendment to its Continuing Resolution funding the government through September that would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports both NPR and PBS, but the Senate defeated the bill and the latest CR only cuts $50 million in scheduled increases to NPR's funding that the White House had already cut from its own budget proposal.

According to a spokeswoman for Lamborn, Catherine Mortensen, the new standalone bill would only target NPR. And unlike the CR amendment would have defunded public broadcasting through the 2011 fiscal year, HR 1076 would permanently prohibit all federal funding to NPR and affiliate stations.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/house-gop-declare-emergencyover-npr-funding.php

[RKP5637]

1. They would probably like to fund Fox News if they could. n/t

[Thor_MN]

2. And this is going to create jobs how?

[peacetalksforall]

3. Every day in every way they become more juvenile.

All the news people on NPR are pro-right.

What is their gripe?

I don't think it is what's going on now - it might be the way they want to use it in the future - in the event of martial law.

Republican leaders serve their bosses lock step. Their bosses are rulers by owndership and control.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Will Obama come out and support NPR and PBS?

The folks in those organizations could really use his voice.

Something tells me he won't and both will go the way of ACORN.

[HarveyDarkey]

6. Yeah he will

Just the way he put on those comfortable shoes, and joined the marchers in WI, just like he said he would during the campaign.

[tularetom]

5. NPR jumped backwards through their own assholes to suck up to the republicans

And this is how they get paid back. You'd think the dumbasses would have learned by now.

I haven't listened to NPR in 10 years or more. Guess I won't start now either.

I'm sorry this happened but they should have known better.

[spanone]

7. of course, that was the reason for the video's release. there are no coincidences in politics.

[pscot]

8. Republicans never stop talking to themselves

They are dangerous.