I would agree with this guy, except for the fact that privately owned media aren't required to tell you ther= actual truth when reporting the news. If we had a regulation to require this then NPR would not be necessary.
This is sooooo infuriating that MY taxdollars are going towards a media indoctrinating people towards values I DONT agree with! It is INHERENTLY NOT democratic!
I also dislike your promotion of the "market of ideas".
If we're talking about "the news", then there is a certain truth, a set of pure facts, that must be presented. The mainstream media in the United States doesn't do that- you even acknowledge this Lee, when you found out about the Nashville Flood.
Lee is too steeped in ideology. Publicly funded media is fine; even democratic. A public service of presenting pure facts funded by everyone for everyone. Most of our profit-motivated media relies on ratings and sensationalism, rather than neutral reporting or truth. You think Rupert Murdoch has no agenda? I understand your concern of government bias influencing public media- yet you never acknowledge that these corporate media conglomerates also have agendas.
Well, you want to do this? I say tax churches. By not taxing churches we are in effect funding them with public money. I don't want my children being taught hate, and other right-wing propaganda. Does this argument sound a bit familiar?
@Xtragicfever Because in order to fund certain benefits for society that the private sector wouldn't fund, for instance the military, educational programs for your kids, provide a safety net for your partents when they retire, etc. we need to tax. That is unless we want to be thrown back to the 1800s.
You got a shout out on Beck?!!! I just paused the video. Nothing you could say would likely be factual or relevant. Goodbye. Another mystifying suggestion/recommendation from YouTube...
What the US Gov. essentially does when giving Private Businesses our tax $ is own part, if not all said company (gm,ford,banks).This entitlement policy of, "Welfare for the rich" is terrible for the Country, & it doesn't help save any blue collar jobs.. if any get saved at all. How many GM, or other auto companies stayed open to employee any1 other then mang. Russia was built on,& died on those principles..just as we are, & will.Did I just read in news GM is going to China. money well wasted.
This was not a case of active censorship and characterizing it as one is a bit unfair. Any government organization should be able to fire you if they feel your conduct will damage their reputation(even if the existing reputation is received as overwhelmingly liberal). If NPR would not allow someone being interviewed to express this opinion then you could easily make the case that this was active(as opposed to passive or non-existent) censorship.
Riiigghhhttt NPR is so "anti freedom of speech" that I heard Juan telling his side of is story yet again on one of his old colleagues shows on guess where? NPR! NPR is sooo liberal that's where I found out about how the democrats have gotten 400 million dollars from undisclosed donors in the past 2 years while complaining about Republicans doing it. The channel (ConservativeNewMedia) blocks anyone who isn't a republican while complaining about NPR being against freedom of speech.
NEWS FLASH - the world doesn't begin and end with the profit motive. thankfully it is only a matter of time before this corrupt capitalist system sees the end of days. and juan was fired because he knowingly broke the terms of his contract which stated he cannot represent NPR when he is on Faux news - something that was no doubt pre-meditated since he signed a $2 million contract with Faux news the next day. as a right winger - do something new - get the facts before speaking.
We have the same problem here in Canada. Our 'public' broadcaster, the CBC, is the propaganda arm of the left wing parties. The CBC tries to tell us what 'Canadian culture' is, and anything that goes against their ideology is mocked.
Government money always comes with strings. With those strings they can tell NPR/PBS what they can do and not do. Here is an example of what you were talking about UK news. They want to hurt Rupert Murdoch news. /watch?v=HLgkWuDl1XU.
Normally, I'd agree with HtWW. However, when it comes to the arts, there's something I have to take personally here. Why? Well, if you look into what corporate funded shows offer, they generally have no taste. If you look into corporate art, it is generally bland. I have to receive classical music from public radio, Shakespear and Opera from PBS, and the NEA had funded my partner's artwork till he was able to get into studios where the rich pay $1000+ per piece now.
@LifeinaRaindrop Yeah and you now have the government trying to tell people what is and what is not art. And who are you to say that corporate art is bland? Get off you're high horse. I very much dislike elite snob people like you who think they know what art is and ever one else is dumb about it.
@Epica124 Why such animosity? It isn't beneficial for constructive discussion. None-the-less, wouldn't elite CEOs and heroes of capitalism be considered these snobs, as they are the ones attending wine & cheese galleries for pieces of art worth over $10k+? Also, it isn't the government deciding who gets grants, but the artists themselves who apply for them. Recently, I had a revelation of a deregulated artistic loans or grands funded by for-profit organizations.
@LifeinaRaindrop When I say a elite. You are the elite snob when it comes to art. You act like ever thing that is not Classical is not art. A band I like Nightwish made a song called The Poet and the Pendulum that is 13:54 and has the London Philharmonic Orchestra. They are signed to a major lable which is gasp capitalism and make money from it. It's still art though. If you can't see that and turn you're noise at it well that's what makes you a snob.
@Epica124 There is also philanthropy, and schools started by leaders of industry simply for the fulfillment of art and culture during the "robber baron" (hate the term) era. My problem lies in the current state of art in America. It isn't being fueled by the market today. Besides, I can speak on art because I studied it for years. You wouldn't tell an engineer he's being an elite snob, nor would you toward a business owner with an MBA from Harvard, nor a surgeon doing a triple by-pass.
@LifeinaRaindrop You're snob because you act like you're music is the only thing that can be called art. Go by what you are saying any one who starts a band and signs with music label can't have there music be called art. That's why you are snob. Heaven forbid that some people want to make a livig with there music and to do it they have to at one point sign with a label.
BBC, a government run news organization is regarded as one of the best news agencies in the world. The reason is they don't need to resort to sensationalist stories to draw in viewers and instead focus on actual reporting.
Notice how quickly progressive organizations fire those who break with orthodoxy? Did NPR sit down with Juan Williams, discuss the issue, talk out the situation? No, they wanted to make a statement, and gave him the boot immediately. We've seen this, before, with Shirley Sherrod, whom the White House forced to resign from the Agriculture Department before the facts were even completely known! =0[.]o=
Yes taxes are collected at the barrel of a gun as are all other financial transaction in our society. If you live in a community then you are receiving the benefits of that community and thus are obligated to help pay for that community. Benefits include infrastructure , protection of property rights, access to an educated and skilled workforce, access to science etc etc. If you don't like it you are free to vote or move.
I disagree with your statement. No companies in general (not just media companies) should get public funding, yet it is all over the place. From corn subsidies, ethanol subsidies to oil subsidies, there s public money distorting the market and creating winners and losers based on politics and not economics.
You don't disagree with my statement. You agree with my statement 100%. You also think no subsidies should be given to any company, and I agree with that too.
this guy s is like a jew money whore and when critisied his only response is that your a fool, A liar or joke.... because he got it all figured out and knows how things work hahaha.. There r some people waiting for a real response other then''fool or joke'' from you, They trashed everything you said and debunked your ass pretty hard, Don't try to act all smart Mr. Enterprise if you don't know the facts for shit do something you might be good at, Cleaning the piss and shit from public restrooms
This guy uses the term free market more than Sarah Palin. In his ideology, God created the earth in 6 days, and the Free Market system on the 7th. Please stop with your puppet talk Lee and stop making inane videos. Your eyes are so set on trying to criticize the left wing, I dont think you even bother to pay attention to the party behind you. You try to make light of the fact that less than 2% of the funding Public Broadcasting recieves comes from the government.
You are really pissing me off....I tried to send you money for some camera you wanted...and that was a FAIL
Then I wanted to support one of your charities by sending money to some guy running bare foot. Could I do it? Nah! each time I clicked on a link with his name I got nothjing/ Get your act together.
Christ, there are a bunvh of old farts out here wanting to promote an intelligent and articulate young leader, and youy make it almost impossible!
It's no securete that Juan Williams deliperatly got himself fired. He was fired not for what he said about muslims, which was acually pretty harmless, but because he identified himself as working for NPR. Really it was Bill who ID who Williams was wokring for and he could of stopped the interivew right there and say "Bill it's in my contract that i can't identify who my employers are when i'm on Fox News."
On the same grounds we should defund NPR, the national endowment for the arts (NEA) should also be defunded. Let the free market decide what is good art, not a government grant.
Yeah, then they could make more money like the NRA does, send in some lobbyists and inadvertently redirect tax payers money to your "cause." Or, just fund it publicly like the name says and take less of the taxpayers money and be honest about it.
If it's wrong for your pocket change to fund a fraction of Public media, then why should I pay for Operation Iraqi Freedom, faith based initiatives, or any other government program that I don’t agree with?
@WorldAccording2ME or healthcare, cap and trade or any other leftist tax before purpose program. if we did not pay for what we dont agree with the democrats would disappear almost immeadiately. i think you may have found the answer, thank you!!
@papageorgio419 Of course it's a brilliant comment. Juan Williams is a black prostitute because he knows his pimps will pay him what that pussy is worth. He's a good ho for the "Fair and balanced?" fox news channel. That liberal pussy must be some mighty fine coontang. Now, before you send in pc police then remember how much you guys(conservatives) just HATE political correctness. If you can have fun, so can I. Don't lump me in with the others, I'm more like DEXTER than any one else.
@PoliticalGuy "...because on its own..." On its own, the comment would be taken out of context "...it is a 'bigoted' comment," There is no bigotry in it when you hear it in context. "it is an irrational feeling." Caution should be taken here, you never want someone to dictate which feelings are rational or irrational to you. That is a freedon we can not afford to lose.
Just a point about the BBC (or Aunty as it's called here. Don't ask):
The money for it gets extracted from us as a 'stealth-tax' in the form of our TV licence, but the BBC is far from our only media outlet as we have several hundred channels of privately funded drivel via satellite and cable television. Also the BBC being that it is publicly funded is usually far more closely watched and pressured to represent a nonpartisan view than privately funded efforts.
none of these people are Private. SINCE ALL ARE ON AMERICA PUBLIC LAND.
CORPORATIONS, ARE NOT PRIVATE, THAT IS A LIE 4 IGNORANT ONES. This is a lie, a lie, a lie. NPR VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, EVEN IF NOT HAVING 2% OF FEDERAL FUNDING.
The firing on Juan is just another example of liberal sub literacy. If you are unable to discern between "opinion" and " Pavlov's Dog" you are not qualified to run anything.. and you should resign. Juan did not express an "opinion" he was describing his feelings in response to a specific stimuli. How the term bigotry gets applied to an account of involuntary reaction is beyond me.
Amen LEE, NPR can exist, but only with the private money of people like George Soros. Why are taxpayers forced at gunpoint to fund NPR, a liberal house organ?
guess what, I'm muslim and I also do a double take or feel a little anxiety when I see these fanatic muslims at the airport
It's just a reaction, I wish it wasn't that way, but the truth is terrorist muslims (radical muslims) are a threat to us all, including MUSLIMS!! (like myself)
@Yyyyzyyy I wonder about the private property rights of you tube. isnt it illegal to discriminate , like refusing service to colored ppl in a restaraunt. the restaraunt is a private property. if youtube discriminates agaisnt persons on grounds of their race , sex,religion,or age. wouldnt that b illegal? So when they shut you down for voicing a religous point of view, like being a fag is an abomination, isnt it illegal!
@tonykeywest08 there is a difference between opinion and hate speech - perhaps if you learned the difference you wouldn't have to keep opening multiple channels every time they take your teething ring away.
@thegayprovocateur hate speech does not exist in the constitution. the supreme court has determined that speech that is expressed out of hate is protected speech sullivan vs louisiand 1964. you fags have coined the term to mean any speech you dont like. well too bad simpleton. We have a right to speak against the filthy homosexual agenda , God says its an abomination , so stop beins such a BIGOT and respect OUR civil rights . Fags ar ent the onlyu ones with rights
@tonykeywest10 simpleton - LOL. i believe my comment was "there is a difference between opinion and hate speech" - did i say it was unconstitutional in this post? did i say anyone couldn't make an ass out of themselves by crossing the line from opinion to hate? and cupcake i do respect your civil rights - the only goal the "gay agenda" seeks to achieve is the recognition of civil rights for ALL United States citizens. the rights i'm denied today - could be your rights denied tomorrow
@thegayprovocateur you want to call any opinion you dontlike 'HATE' and then censor it. well get off it cause its not gonna happen in america. God says youre an abomination and the only rights that fags have are AIDS death and hell.
I can't understand the liberals. It's not racism tosay that seeing a Muslim on an airplane gets you nervous. Only an insane person would NOT feel that way. Granted, it's not fair, perhaps. Perhaps. Racism would be actually acting against it in a negative way, like refusing to let him board without any proof that he's a terrorist. But feeling nervous? Or saying that you feel nervous? That's not racism, that's SENSIBLE!
I saw juice boxes at Costco yesterday and started yelling, "Oh no, juice boxes will kill us all!" People stared at me, looked confused, and my wife laughed.
Tax dollars should never fund a pirate corporation.
The firing was because Mr. Williams appears on FOX news so often to give the left side of issues. Soros donated 1.8 Mill. they were froced by him to apply pressure 36 hours after the statement.
I will never trust government-funded media for exactly the reasons stated in the video. Privately-funded broadcasting entities are at least subject to viewer demand while the NPR can say and do all kinds of crap and still survive since we have no choice but to pay taxes to support it.
The point I've been making is that no taxpayer money should be used for such media. Other than the fact that the country is in no condition to loosely throw money around, all it is doing is creating broadcasting entities without risk factors. Even if private donations (like the ones from George Soros) end, these media outlets will still exist because the government will just pay for all the costs with other people's money. Not a single taxpayer dime should fall into NPR.
@Infantry9 Again, at least in NPR's case, their public funding is so small that your claim that they'll 'still exist' is simply untrue. And what basis do you have for assuming that the government would automatically make up any losses in private funding?
How about the fact that it is a publicly funded broadcasting entity that the federal government (or at least too many federal politicians) will try to keep it around? As I have stated, not a single taxpayer penny should ever go to the NPR's pocket. I don't care if it's less than 1% of NPR's budget the government is covering, it shouldn't be covering any of it at all.
@Infantry9 Whether or not they should get any federal funding is a different question from whether or not they're beholden to their viewers, which they are, and you're still just assuming the government "will try to keep it around" no matter what.
@Bleuski They get a lot of money through there affiliates through dues, they also get public money. 2) They get a lot of money though CPR about $90 million. that's no small amount.. CPR gets 1/2 billion per year. If you can't support yourself through you listeners like other media than you should be allowed to fail and save tax payers money . Also it's a conflict of interest. why should a conservative pay to fund the left's propaganda? That's crazy. funded our enemy//??
@carlindelco The federal funding that makes up about 2 percent of NPR's budget isn't going to make or break anything.
Also, more than half of NPR's programming isn't related to politics at all, so I really couldn't care less if you don't like a few aspects of their programming.
@Bleuski the 2% is DIRECT fed funding.. CPR gave them 90 million wait did you even bother to read my comment or did you just look a a few words and say " bad, bad, must reply to opposing liberal view!" ? Doesn't matter 1/2 ,I don't want to fund the rhetoric of my political opponent . who spews hate , lies and filth.. Does that make any sense to you? lol this too easy
@carlindelco You're simply incorrect. NPR receives no direct federal funding, and the 90 million in question(~2% of their budget) is from grants by the Corporation of Public Broadcasting(CPB not CPR, get your acronyms straight), a group which also helps sponsor PBS.
Also, you're completely ignoring the fact that NPR does have to adhere to additional federal guidelines as a result, so you can't say you don't have any power as a tax payer when you can express your opinion to the fed.
@Bleuski OMG you have it all backwards.Vivian Schiller herself said they only 1-3 % directly from the fed. And that they get additional funds from the C.P.B. They also get money from their affiliates in the form of dues, who themselves get public money aprx 1/3 of their budget comes from tax payers. You need to do some research in places other than liberal blogs , like huff post, mediamatters and the like. I plan to express my opinion. "de-fund public propaganda" aka affirmative action 4 libs
@carlindelco The 1-3% is for specific projects and has nothing to do with their political news. Otherwise, they get no direct funding from CPB or the fed. Schiller herself said "NPR gets no allocation from CPB. Zero. We are a private 501(c)3." so I honestly don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's wrong.
As for dues from member stations-they're not NPR. In fact, they're buying NPR's content, not donating, so using the word "funding" in this context is misleading at best.
@Bleuski Yes they do... OMG what planet are you on? go they get 900 million PLUS affiliate fees that they get from gov grants.. "The CPB is an independent government agency that oversees the distribution of federal funds to public broadcasting outlets, including NPR and PBS." google it? That's where I get my info anyway if it's so tinsy winsy them they will NOT miss it. de-fund CPB and NPR we CAN"T afford it. that's all..U can give all YOU want ok? I win again thanks this is too easy..
@carlindelco NPR's yearly revenue is about 159 million. I guess you meant the 90 million that CPB gives to individual member stations and not NPR itself? In any case, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.
Also, you're apparently not aware that CPB is a PRIVATE(google it) non-profit corporation that is itself only partially funded by the government for the purpose of promoting public broadcasting.
And again, the 2% in grants that they do receive from CPB are for designated projects.
@Bleuski To summarize, the government partially funds CPB to promote public broadcasting, which it does in part by funding various radio stations across the country, and many of those then pay NPR programming fees to carry their content, commercially.
To suggest that NPR is 'publicly funded' is an incredible stretch.
@Bleuski Ok I see you don't want to acknowledge the facts. who care if they are private..it's a extreme left org.Lets put it this way IF they get so very little they WON'T miss it.. so we need to cut that insy winsy bitty funding out.. as a matter of principle ( google it) The tax payers should not fund ANY rhetoric that opposes their beliefs. It's like funding the enemy.. so there no problem right? they won't be missing it anyway..LOL I win thanks..
@carlindelco "I see you don't want to acknowledge the facts. who care if they are private." This hurts my head.
Feel free to continue babbling about how they won't miss it, which is completely besides the point here, but it's pretty sad that you feel the need to declare yourself the winner when you didn't even address the points I made.
@Bleuski They get money from taxpayers... that is the POINT.. the cutting of the funding that you claim is so tiny seems to have your panties in a bunch. We want to Cut the funding to all public radio and tv. that's all. ok? man you guys are really functionally sub-literate. I used to think that maybe you guys on the left were smart I see now it was all propaganda of delusions of grandeur. I win again!! wow broken record. bye now.. LOL this is too easy!!
@carlindelco Saying that NPR gets taxpayer money to promote their agenda tells me you've ignored this entire enchange...that and you keep using this strawman about funding being "so tiny."
If I'm repeating myself it's because you're still ignoring my points.
@Bleuski Listen you are the only one on here claiming and believing that NPR doesn't get federal taxpayer money.. it's already been discussed and everyone agrees and knows that the do. Why are you even worried? you concern is strawbrained since 1) if they DON'T get money as YOU believe. THEN you do NOT have anything to be upset about 2) If they DO get money as we ALL know they do.. we the taxpayers want it stopped . 1)We can't afford it and 2) it is subversive to America I win! thnx 4 playin
At then end of the day Public funded channels in the UK are responsible for almost all our of our most successful shows, inland and exported - like The Office, Absolutely Fabulous, The Weakest Link, Dancing with the stars and Doctor Who. The BBC works because it is made to work for the people and they are constanly held up to scrutiny.
Bashing the Beeb will piss a lot of Brits off like me, and I have to disagree with the point made around 6:00
The BBC makes a lot of right wing stuff, they are the ONLY mainstream channel that has hours of religious programming every week. Theyve done some Brilliant & positive docudramas on iconic right wingers like Mary Whitehouse and Maggie Thatcher.
If you can't see that despite times of unprofessionalism they the most impartial news service worldwide, then you're the bias one
In Britain we have the BBC which is publically funded and channel 4 which is partially governemtn owned...We then have ITV and C5 (and then all the cable channels)
It is an irrefutable fact that BBC and C4 makes shows for everyone and both make the finest educational shows and documentaries which are world renowned. ITV and C5, are simpleton channels theyve been left to private investment and both perfom badly in the ratings wars.
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” --Thomas Jefferson
NPR protests that taxpayer funding accounts for only 2% of it's budget. If that's the case, get NPR off the public dime and let George Soros make up the difference. It's time to cut the public funding apron strings for this most partisan of organizations maquerading as an entity for the public good.
Its interesting to see how Fox News and conservatives on a whole are going to embrace Juan to prop themselves up, especially since Juan is an unapologetic liberal. Conservatives are really going to score some brownie points on this one.
@PoliticalGuy "one should...spend the time to understand multiple perspectives of that fear before acting upon it." And I agree 100%!!! However, do not compare "acting upon" and "feeling". If Juan would have "acted upon" he might have very well tackled a poor old grampa at the airport. Yet he did not. He simply EXPRESSED his emotions after flying. Now, without an inferential claim, there is no clear connection between the premises and the conclusion. It's applied ethics and we use it everyday.
@PoliticalGuy "Just because you feel it...doesn't make it valid, hence, it is invalid, thus irrational." Why is it that you jump from "doesn't make it valid" to "hence, it is invalid..."? What are the premises that lead you to this inference? It sounds more like gainsay. Please support that assertion with logic and not by a political correctness clause. Immediate cognition is applicable to every human, its a property of logic. I appreciate the respect in this exchange.
@incognito9887 The 2% number is highly misleading. This is the amount that NPR directly receives from the government, but it doesn't include the much greater amount NPR receives from local affiliates (which get most of their direct funding from government) in order to broadcast NPR's programming.
@Christobanistan Actually the 2% figure is not misleading. And youre wrong about NPRs local affiliates as well. NPR does receive its majority, (42%) of its funding from member stations. The rest comes from corporate sponsors, donations grants and others. Those member stations that provide NPR with 42% of its funding, only receive about 5.8 percent of their own funding from the government. They in turn rely mostly on public support. Quite a difference from what you are suggesting.
@Christobanistan NPRs website has a section thats very transparent about the funding they receive. They even have a link that displays the finances from their member stations. If your really that interested they even have legal audit documents from the past few years posted right in the same section. I can send you some links although im sure you can find it on your own. Since your interested though, Im interested to know, where did you get your information before you posted your comment?
Ok, so why do not do the same thing with NPR, PBS, and CPB that they do with wildlife fund and donating to the national political parties. Ask if you want to donate on your tax form. This way it is volunteer and one can stop the next year.
Why are there people subed to this guy still? after all the missinformation and out right lies that liberal veiwer pointed out? Bah nvm Im going to go get stoned.... I hate people.
@HellsGate9999 Well when you're done getting stoned and hating people check out a few of these books: Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, The Creature from Jekyll Island a Second Look at the Federal Reserve, Why an Economy Grows and How it Crashes, Crash Proof, John Locke's 2nd Treatise on Government, the Federalist Papers, the Road to Serfdom, Economics in One Lesson, Empire of Debt, America's Depression by Murray Rothbard, von Mises' Human Action, the Declaration and Constituion. Why not? Try it!
@chuska8383 Ty for the book recommendations i very well may look some of them up. that being said though this guy still lost all credability with me after that whole thing with liberal viewer and thunderfoot.
@HellsGate9999 Come on now. political views aside, but liberalviewer's debunking of Lee were absolutely terrible. I enjoy having my views attacked, as well as the views of those I agree with because it either reaffirms my view or changes it. Liberalviewer did nothing except reinforce my belief that the screwed up paradigm liberals view the world through make them incapable of sound judgement.
@FUZZYisBIG the name Liberalviewer is a double entendre. also i almost think you didin't watch the videos i am talking about. this guy here made a bunch of claims and liberalviewer completely destroyed him on all accounts. he also uploaded all the evidence on the web for others too look at and make a decision himself. meh at anyrate i suppose we can just dissagree. have a good one.
There is no such thing as a Muslim or Christian extremist. You may call yourself such but in the moment you live a life contrary to the core principles of the religion, in that moment you surrender the privaledge to call yourself a Muslim or a Christian. There are only good Muslims or good Christians. For what is a bad Christian other than an anti-christ? Make no mistake, there are imperfect Christians but never, EVER a bad one. I choose to call them a "wolf in sheeps clothing", extremists.
@PoliticalGuy "First, it's bigoted because it is irrational" IrrationaI to who? I ask. I must have missed the day in school when they told us which fears were irrational (such as flying, rollercoasters, water, spiders, bears, bulls, etc.). Now if we could just come up with a specific group that dictates our fears...hum. So we are to embrace the ideology that a HUMAN fear ought first to be analized, then ran through the book of political correctness and then rejected if it hurts feelings? ALAS!
The funding of the Corporation for Propagandized Broadcasting is unconstitutional in the first place.
Freedom of the Press was established to completely seperate Press from state so government can't interfere with the press at all and the press can be a private watchdog; the funding of NPR and PBS violates that principle. We need to defund NPR.
@PoliticalGuy How is being scared of Muslims, considering the high amount of terror attacks their religious group has carried out in the West, bigoted and irrational? Tsk tsk.
@PoliticalGuy So does many liberal journalists like him on other religoius-related iusses or race-iussues...but it's okay if it's anything other than muslim related? Double Standards, no?
@THEsquirrel3d No, basically he thought. He chose to be an individual and not a collectivists. A "self" rather than a "collective brain"...he chose to be and they did'nt like it.
@PoliticalGuy Would you agree that there are other liberal radio voices/ news analysts with NPR that currently break #10 of the code, that have no problem voicing they're own liberal/progressive views?
This video made several good points- great job. Congratulations on being pointed out by Mr. Beck- maybe you'll get more views. :)
Also, the new setup is so much better- having the bookcase in the background, the clarity of the image; it really makes a difference. The new camera was well worth it.
The filming of your videos is much better. Great picture, nice back round and dress code. But you gotta work on that opening. I think I saw a fly go into your mouth...
gov. should give them funding only if there is a positive externality associated with what they have to say. I have no idea what that externality might be though.
good at explaining the market. Consumer sovereignty in economy is quite similar to democracy.
I would agree with this guy, except for the fact that privately owned media aren't required to tell you ther= actual truth when reporting the news. If we had a regulation to require this then NPR would not be necessary.
Acclamatar 1 month ago
democracy now is the shit
martinezmarcio1 4 months ago
This is sooooo infuriating that MY taxdollars are going towards a media indoctrinating people towards values I DONT agree with! It is INHERENTLY NOT democratic!
tigerhop 5 months ago
This is sooooo infuriating that MY taxdollars are going towards a media indoctrinating people towards values I DONT agree with!
tigerhop 5 months ago
who is this guy? i like him.
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RomanV101 8 months ago
I also dislike your promotion of the "market of ideas".
If we're talking about "the news", then there is a certain truth, a set of pure facts, that must be presented. The mainstream media in the United States doesn't do that- you even acknowledge this Lee, when you found out about the Nashville Flood.
RomanV101 8 months ago
Lee is too steeped in ideology. Publicly funded media is fine; even democratic. A public service of presenting pure facts funded by everyone for everyone. Most of our profit-motivated media relies on ratings and sensationalism, rather than neutral reporting or truth. You think Rupert Murdoch has no agenda? I understand your concern of government bias influencing public media- yet you never acknowledge that these corporate media conglomerates also have agendas.
Enjoy the Corporatocracy
RomanV101 8 months ago
Kosher-Street Mafia.
NPR is not Right-Wing Likudnik enough with their rhetoric.
It would be like siding with John Kerry instead of John McCain because Kerry is more politically correct by not referring to Vietnamese as "gooks."
AIPAC-A-DITTOS, everyone!
bradchesney11 11 months ago
Well, you want to do this? I say tax churches. By not taxing churches we are in effect funding them with public money. I don't want my children being taught hate, and other right-wing propaganda. Does this argument sound a bit familiar?
Cerulean0987 11 months ago
@Cerulean0987 Why should we tax anyone at all?
Xtragicfever 11 months ago
@Xtragicfever Because in order to fund certain benefits for society that the private sector wouldn't fund, for instance the military, educational programs for your kids, provide a safety net for your partents when they retire, etc. we need to tax. That is unless we want to be thrown back to the 1800s.
Cerulean0987 11 months ago
You got a shout out on Beck?!!! I just paused the video. Nothing you could say would likely be factual or relevant. Goodbye. Another mystifying suggestion/recommendation from YouTube...
amfanmagician 11 months ago
What about all the church and religious bullshit that gets public money in this country? How is that right?
thecosmos003 11 months ago
is he just a parrot of the right wing or does he have his own opinions
MrStupidfag 11 months ago
that william juan guy made a dik move in his speech about his personal feelings of muslims
Watermeba 1 year ago
What the US Gov. essentially does when giving Private Businesses our tax $ is own part, if not all said company (gm,ford,banks).This entitlement policy of, "Welfare for the rich" is terrible for the Country, & it doesn't help save any blue collar jobs.. if any get saved at all. How many GM, or other auto companies stayed open to employee any1 other then mang. Russia was built on,& died on those principles..just as we are, & will.Did I just read in news GM is going to China. money well wasted.
call1 1 year ago
What!? If you don't pay your taxes you go to jail? I heard you just get another job like Secretary of the Treasury.
visualvirtue 1 year ago
This was not a case of active censorship and characterizing it as one is a bit unfair. Any government organization should be able to fire you if they feel your conduct will damage their reputation(even if the existing reputation is received as overwhelmingly liberal). If NPR would not allow someone being interviewed to express this opinion then you could easily make the case that this was active(as opposed to passive or non-existent) censorship.
beenz07 1 year ago
Riiigghhhttt NPR is so "anti freedom of speech" that I heard Juan telling his side of is story yet again on one of his old colleagues shows on guess where? NPR! NPR is sooo liberal that's where I found out about how the democrats have gotten 400 million dollars from undisclosed donors in the past 2 years while complaining about Republicans doing it. The channel (ConservativeNewMedia) blocks anyone who isn't a republican while complaining about NPR being against freedom of speech.
settings99 1 year ago
NEWS FLASH - the world doesn't begin and end with the profit motive. thankfully it is only a matter of time before this corrupt capitalist system sees the end of days. and juan was fired because he knowingly broke the terms of his contract which stated he cannot represent NPR when he is on Faux news - something that was no doubt pre-meditated since he signed a $2 million contract with Faux news the next day. as a right winger - do something new - get the facts before speaking.
thegayprovocateur 1 year ago
i wonder if you are against the FCC mr lee doran?
lolsih101 1 year ago
I have the same problem with the gov't taking my tax dollars and funding abortion.
KidSheIeen 1 year ago
We have the same problem here in Canada. Our 'public' broadcaster, the CBC, is the propaganda arm of the left wing parties. The CBC tries to tell us what 'Canadian culture' is, and anything that goes against their ideology is mocked.
Everincon 1 year ago
Did Geo Soros get the coffee mug or the PBS tote?
asimov13647 1 year ago
Government money always comes with strings. With those strings they can tell NPR/PBS what they can do and not do. Here is an example of what you were talking about UK news. They want to hurt Rupert Murdoch news. /watch?v=HLgkWuDl1XU.
Mackingster 1 year ago
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Mackingster 1 year ago
you're such a creepy man, you're so good
rehanabey 1 year ago
Normally, I'd agree with HtWW. However, when it comes to the arts, there's something I have to take personally here. Why? Well, if you look into what corporate funded shows offer, they generally have no taste. If you look into corporate art, it is generally bland. I have to receive classical music from public radio, Shakespear and Opera from PBS, and the NEA had funded my partner's artwork till he was able to get into studios where the rich pay $1000+ per piece now.
LifeinaRaindrop 1 year ago
@LifeinaRaindrop Yeah and you now have the government trying to tell people what is and what is not art. And who are you to say that corporate art is bland? Get off you're high horse. I very much dislike elite snob people like you who think they know what art is and ever one else is dumb about it.
Epica124 1 year ago
@Epica124 Why such animosity? It isn't beneficial for constructive discussion. None-the-less, wouldn't elite CEOs and heroes of capitalism be considered these snobs, as they are the ones attending wine & cheese galleries for pieces of art worth over $10k+? Also, it isn't the government deciding who gets grants, but the artists themselves who apply for them. Recently, I had a revelation of a deregulated artistic loans or grands funded by for-profit organizations.
LifeinaRaindrop 1 year ago
@LifeinaRaindrop When I say a elite. You are the elite snob when it comes to art. You act like ever thing that is not Classical is not art. A band I like Nightwish made a song called The Poet and the Pendulum that is 13:54 and has the London Philharmonic Orchestra. They are signed to a major lable which is gasp capitalism and make money from it. It's still art though. If you can't see that and turn you're noise at it well that's what makes you a snob.
Epica124 1 year ago
@Epica124 There is also philanthropy, and schools started by leaders of industry simply for the fulfillment of art and culture during the "robber baron" (hate the term) era. My problem lies in the current state of art in America. It isn't being fueled by the market today. Besides, I can speak on art because I studied it for years. You wouldn't tell an engineer he's being an elite snob, nor would you toward a business owner with an MBA from Harvard, nor a surgeon doing a triple by-pass.
LifeinaRaindrop 1 year ago
@Epica124 I look forward to your reply, as this could be a really insightful.
LifeinaRaindrop 1 year ago
@LifeinaRaindrop You're snob because you act like you're music is the only thing that can be called art. Go by what you are saying any one who starts a band and signs with music label can't have there music be called art. That's why you are snob. Heaven forbid that some people want to make a livig with there music and to do it they have to at one point sign with a label.
Epica124 1 year ago
NPR PBS = Waste of taxpayer dollars parroting socialist propoganda.
Denverlibertarion 1 year ago
George Soros... He'd better pray I never meet him...
halomandrummer 1 year ago
Lee for Congress in 2012. I you agree with this statement give it a Big Thumbs up.
taylorbrett44 1 year ago
I completely agree with you Lee. Both NPR and PBS should no longer receive public funding. None of our money should be subsidizing any sort of media.
MSSC73 1 year ago
BBC, a government run news organization is regarded as one of the best news agencies in the world. The reason is they don't need to resort to sensationalist stories to draw in viewers and instead focus on actual reporting.
The1onTV 1 year ago
Notice how quickly progressive organizations fire those who break with orthodoxy? Did NPR sit down with Juan Williams, discuss the issue, talk out the situation? No, they wanted to make a statement, and gave him the boot immediately. We've seen this, before, with Shirley Sherrod, whom the White House forced to resign from the Agriculture Department before the facts were even completely known! =0[.]o=
Raycheetah 1 year ago
NPR worked so hard to be called a leftist broadcasting company.
tubaboy71 1 year ago
Yes taxes are collected at the barrel of a gun as are all other financial transaction in our society. If you live in a community then you are receiving the benefits of that community and thus are obligated to help pay for that community. Benefits include infrastructure , protection of property rights, access to an educated and skilled workforce, access to science etc etc. If you don't like it you are free to vote or move.
cartoeratos 1 year ago
I disagree with your statement. No companies in general (not just media companies) should get public funding, yet it is all over the place. From corn subsidies, ethanol subsidies to oil subsidies, there s public money distorting the market and creating winners and losers based on politics and not economics.
christo930 1 year ago 12
@christo930
You don't disagree with my statement. You agree with my statement 100%. You also think no subsidies should be given to any company, and I agree with that too.
HowTheWorldWorks 1 year ago 19
this guy s is like a jew money whore and when critisied his only response is that your a fool, A liar or joke.... because he got it all figured out and knows how things work hahaha.. There r some people waiting for a real response other then''fool or joke'' from you, They trashed everything you said and debunked your ass pretty hard, Don't try to act all smart Mr. Enterprise if you don't know the facts for shit do something you might be good at, Cleaning the piss and shit from public restrooms
MacawSonny 1 year ago
saying public funding of media limits freedom is absolute rubbish.
this guy lets ideology dictate his opinion too much, he has some good stuff though
prafty 1 year ago
This guy uses the term free market more than Sarah Palin. In his ideology, God created the earth in 6 days, and the Free Market system on the 7th. Please stop with your puppet talk Lee and stop making inane videos. Your eyes are so set on trying to criticize the left wing, I dont think you even bother to pay attention to the party behind you. You try to make light of the fact that less than 2% of the funding Public Broadcasting recieves comes from the government.
allowmetointroducems 1 year ago
You are really pissing me off....I tried to send you money for some camera you wanted...and that was a FAIL
Then I wanted to support one of your charities by sending money to some guy running bare foot. Could I do it? Nah! each time I clicked on a link with his name I got nothjing/ Get your act together.
Christ, there are a bunvh of old farts out here wanting to promote an intelligent and articulate young leader, and youy make it almost impossible!
ImHappynBP 1 year ago
Too bad cancer is a fucking scam motherfuckers!!
Dan4157 1 year ago
It's no securete that Juan Williams deliperatly got himself fired. He was fired not for what he said about muslims, which was acually pretty harmless, but because he identified himself as working for NPR. Really it was Bill who ID who Williams was wokring for and he could of stopped the interivew right there and say "Bill it's in my contract that i can't identify who my employers are when i'm on Fox News."
WorldAccording2ME 1 year ago
On the same grounds we should defund NPR, the national endowment for the arts (NEA) should also be defunded. Let the free market decide what is good art, not a government grant.
esj8341 1 year ago 19
@esj8341
Yeah, then they could make more money like the NRA does, send in some lobbyists and inadvertently redirect tax payers money to your "cause." Or, just fund it publicly like the name says and take less of the taxpayers money and be honest about it.
SpigaloProductions 1 year ago
Hey Thank you for the common sense! Its needed in times like this..
Johnathon541 1 year ago
If it's wrong for your pocket change to fund a fraction of Public media, then why should I pay for Operation Iraqi Freedom, faith based initiatives, or any other government program that I don’t agree with?
WorldAccording2ME 1 year ago
@WorldAccording2ME or healthcare, cap and trade or any other leftist tax before purpose program. if we did not pay for what we dont agree with the democrats would disappear almost immeadiately. i think you may have found the answer, thank you!!
whitemanwaydownsouth 1 year ago
@whitemanwaydownsouth
Hmmm, that means we can totally defund the military industrial complex and transfer all the funds to education.
WorldAccording2ME 1 year ago
Thank God they Got rid of this boring right wing schill. What a brainless whore for fox. Imagine that, fox hires another black prostitute.
taosimplicity 1 year ago
@taosimplicity Juan Williams is a huge Lib. Not really sure how he qualifies as a black prostitute. Brillant comment.
papageorgio419 1 year ago
@papageorgio419 Of course it's a brilliant comment. Juan Williams is a black prostitute because he knows his pimps will pay him what that pussy is worth. He's a good ho for the "Fair and balanced?" fox news channel. That liberal pussy must be some mighty fine coontang. Now, before you send in pc police then remember how much you guys(conservatives) just HATE political correctness. If you can have fun, so can I. Don't lump me in with the others, I'm more like DEXTER than any one else.
taosimplicity 1 year ago
Sesame Street would fit nicely on Nick Jr. or whatever it's called these days
Mostdef 1 year ago
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@PoliticalGuy "...because on its own..." On its own, the comment would be taken out of context "...it is a 'bigoted' comment," There is no bigotry in it when you hear it in context. "it is an irrational feeling." Caution should be taken here, you never want someone to dictate which feelings are rational or irrational to you. That is a freedon we can not afford to lose.
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
Does this mean I wont be able to watch barney? :P
Coldclood 1 year ago
Just a point about the BBC (or Aunty as it's called here. Don't ask):
The money for it gets extracted from us as a 'stealth-tax' in the form of our TV licence, but the BBC is far from our only media outlet as we have several hundred channels of privately funded drivel via satellite and cable television. Also the BBC being that it is publicly funded is usually far more closely watched and pressured to represent a nonpartisan view than privately funded efforts.
triaxiom 1 year ago
Is there a video link to the Glenn beck shout out? What did he say?
Youracoward00 1 year ago 2
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none of these people are Private. SINCE ALL ARE ON AMERICA PUBLIC LAND.
CORPORATIONS, ARE NOT PRIVATE, THAT IS A LIE 4 IGNORANT ONES. This is a lie, a lie, a lie. NPR VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, EVEN IF NOT HAVING 2% OF FEDERAL FUNDING.
sharonanony 1 year ago
36 Libtard jerks hit the Dislike button.
manco82 1 year ago 2
@PoliticalGuy You're an idiot.
manco82 1 year ago
The firing on Juan is just another example of liberal sub literacy. If you are unable to discern between "opinion" and " Pavlov's Dog" you are not qualified to run anything.. and you should resign. Juan did not express an "opinion" he was describing his feelings in response to a specific stimuli. How the term bigotry gets applied to an account of involuntary reaction is beyond me.
carlindelco 1 year ago
Yup, he's got it precisely
KaptinObvious 1 year ago
Just look at the problems with blatant bias here in Canada on the CBC.
Drog007 1 year ago
Amen LEE, NPR can exist, but only with the private money of people like George Soros. Why are taxpayers forced at gunpoint to fund NPR, a liberal house organ?
UTubekookdetector 1 year ago
Awesome quality video! What happened?
Aim for this type of quality, forget the damn webcam!
john5246 1 year ago
guess what, I'm muslim and I also do a double take or feel a little anxiety when I see these fanatic muslims at the airport
It's just a reaction, I wish it wasn't that way, but the truth is terrorist muslims (radical muslims) are a threat to us all, including MUSLIMS!! (like myself)
john5246 1 year ago
I bet all those books behind you are just a green screen.
Yyyyzyyy 1 year ago
@Yyyyzyyy
No, they're real.
HowTheWorldWorks 1 year ago 17
@HowTheWorldWorks It looked a bit too "picture perfect." Cool collection of books though.
Yyyyzyyy 1 year ago
@Yyyyzyyy yeah, he got a new expensive camera. When I first saw the books it looked too good in my mind as well.
agent4844 1 year ago
@Yyyyzyyy I wonder about the private property rights of you tube. isnt it illegal to discriminate , like refusing service to colored ppl in a restaraunt. the restaraunt is a private property. if youtube discriminates agaisnt persons on grounds of their race , sex,religion,or age. wouldnt that b illegal? So when they shut you down for voicing a religous point of view, like being a fag is an abomination, isnt it illegal!
tonykeywest08 1 year ago
@tonykeywest08 there is a difference between opinion and hate speech - perhaps if you learned the difference you wouldn't have to keep opening multiple channels every time they take your teething ring away.
thegayprovocateur 1 year ago
@thegayprovocateur hate speech does not exist in the constitution. the supreme court has determined that speech that is expressed out of hate is protected speech sullivan vs louisiand 1964. you fags have coined the term to mean any speech you dont like. well too bad simpleton. We have a right to speak against the filthy homosexual agenda , God says its an abomination , so stop beins such a BIGOT and respect OUR civil rights . Fags ar ent the onlyu ones with rights
tonykeywest10 1 year ago
@tonykeywest10 simpleton - LOL. i believe my comment was "there is a difference between opinion and hate speech" - did i say it was unconstitutional in this post? did i say anyone couldn't make an ass out of themselves by crossing the line from opinion to hate? and cupcake i do respect your civil rights - the only goal the "gay agenda" seeks to achieve is the recognition of civil rights for ALL United States citizens. the rights i'm denied today - could be your rights denied tomorrow
thegayprovocateur 1 year ago
@thegayprovocateur you want to call any opinion you dontlike 'HATE' and then censor it. well get off it cause its not gonna happen in america. God says youre an abomination and the only rights that fags have are AIDS death and hell.
tonykeywest10 1 year ago
@Yyyyzyyy
lol
GTmodifiedStang 1 year ago
I can't understand the liberals. It's not racism tosay that seeing a Muslim on an airplane gets you nervous. Only an insane person would NOT feel that way. Granted, it's not fair, perhaps. Perhaps. Racism would be actually acting against it in a negative way, like refusing to let him board without any proof that he's a terrorist. But feeling nervous? Or saying that you feel nervous? That's not racism, that's SENSIBLE!
andyandymax 1 year ago
I saw juice boxes at Costco yesterday and started yelling, "Oh no, juice boxes will kill us all!" People stared at me, looked confused, and my wife laughed.
Tax dollars should never fund a pirate corporation.
Rajaat99 1 year ago
The firing was because Mr. Williams appears on FOX news so often to give the left side of issues. Soros donated 1.8 Mill. they were froced by him to apply pressure 36 hours after the statement.
cheesestr4wz 1 year ago
what defines a personal feeling from an opinion,..?
muzalot 1 year ago
I will never trust government-funded media for exactly the reasons stated in the video. Privately-funded broadcasting entities are at least subject to viewer demand while the NPR can say and do all kinds of crap and still survive since we have no choice but to pay taxes to support it.
Infantry9 1 year ago
@Infantry9 It's public funding makes up only about 2% of it's budget, so pretty much nothing you just said holds true.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski
Regardless of percentage, that is still 2% too much.
Infantry9 1 year ago
@Infantry9 That's also a different point you're making now.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski
The point I've been making is that no taxpayer money should be used for such media. Other than the fact that the country is in no condition to loosely throw money around, all it is doing is creating broadcasting entities without risk factors. Even if private donations (like the ones from George Soros) end, these media outlets will still exist because the government will just pay for all the costs with other people's money. Not a single taxpayer dime should fall into NPR.
Infantry9 1 year ago
@Infantry9 Again, at least in NPR's case, their public funding is so small that your claim that they'll 'still exist' is simply untrue. And what basis do you have for assuming that the government would automatically make up any losses in private funding?
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski
How about the fact that it is a publicly funded broadcasting entity that the federal government (or at least too many federal politicians) will try to keep it around? As I have stated, not a single taxpayer penny should ever go to the NPR's pocket. I don't care if it's less than 1% of NPR's budget the government is covering, it shouldn't be covering any of it at all.
Infantry9 1 year ago
@Infantry9 Whether or not they should get any federal funding is a different question from whether or not they're beholden to their viewers, which they are, and you're still just assuming the government "will try to keep it around" no matter what.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski They get a lot of money through there affiliates through dues, they also get public money. 2) They get a lot of money though CPR about $90 million. that's no small amount.. CPR gets 1/2 billion per year. If you can't support yourself through you listeners like other media than you should be allowed to fail and save tax payers money . Also it's a conflict of interest. why should a conservative pay to fund the left's propaganda? That's crazy. funded our enemy//??
carlindelco 1 year ago
@carlindelco The federal funding that makes up about 2 percent of NPR's budget isn't going to make or break anything.
Also, more than half of NPR's programming isn't related to politics at all, so I really couldn't care less if you don't like a few aspects of their programming.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski the 2% is DIRECT fed funding.. CPR gave them 90 million wait did you even bother to read my comment or did you just look a a few words and say " bad, bad, must reply to opposing liberal view!" ? Doesn't matter 1/2 ,I don't want to fund the rhetoric of my political opponent . who spews hate , lies and filth.. Does that make any sense to you? lol this too easy
carlindelco 1 year ago
@carlindelco You're simply incorrect. NPR receives no direct federal funding, and the 90 million in question(~2% of their budget) is from grants by the Corporation of Public Broadcasting(CPB not CPR, get your acronyms straight), a group which also helps sponsor PBS.
Also, you're completely ignoring the fact that NPR does have to adhere to additional federal guidelines as a result, so you can't say you don't have any power as a tax payer when you can express your opinion to the fed.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski OMG you have it all backwards.Vivian Schiller herself said they only 1-3 % directly from the fed. And that they get additional funds from the C.P.B. They also get money from their affiliates in the form of dues, who themselves get public money aprx 1/3 of their budget comes from tax payers. You need to do some research in places other than liberal blogs , like huff post, mediamatters and the like. I plan to express my opinion. "de-fund public propaganda" aka affirmative action 4 libs
carlindelco 1 year ago
@carlindelco The 1-3% is for specific projects and has nothing to do with their political news. Otherwise, they get no direct funding from CPB or the fed. Schiller herself said "NPR gets no allocation from CPB. Zero. We are a private 501(c)3." so I honestly don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's wrong.
As for dues from member stations-they're not NPR. In fact, they're buying NPR's content, not donating, so using the word "funding" in this context is misleading at best.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski Yes they do... OMG what planet are you on? go they get 900 million PLUS affiliate fees that they get from gov grants.. "The CPB is an independent government agency that oversees the distribution of federal funds to public broadcasting outlets, including NPR and PBS." google it? That's where I get my info anyway if it's so tinsy winsy them they will NOT miss it. de-fund CPB and NPR we CAN"T afford it. that's all..U can give all YOU want ok? I win again thanks this is too easy..
carlindelco 1 year ago
@carlindelco NPR's yearly revenue is about 159 million. I guess you meant the 90 million that CPB gives to individual member stations and not NPR itself? In any case, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.
Also, you're apparently not aware that CPB is a PRIVATE(google it) non-profit corporation that is itself only partially funded by the government for the purpose of promoting public broadcasting.
And again, the 2% in grants that they do receive from CPB are for designated projects.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski To summarize, the government partially funds CPB to promote public broadcasting, which it does in part by funding various radio stations across the country, and many of those then pay NPR programming fees to carry their content, commercially.
To suggest that NPR is 'publicly funded' is an incredible stretch.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski Ok I see you don't want to acknowledge the facts. who care if they are private..it's a extreme left org.Lets put it this way IF they get so very little they WON'T miss it.. so we need to cut that insy winsy bitty funding out.. as a matter of principle ( google it) The tax payers should not fund ANY rhetoric that opposes their beliefs. It's like funding the enemy.. so there no problem right? they won't be missing it anyway..LOL I win thanks..
carlindelco 1 year ago
@carlindelco "I see you don't want to acknowledge the facts. who care if they are private." This hurts my head.
Feel free to continue babbling about how they won't miss it, which is completely besides the point here, but it's pretty sad that you feel the need to declare yourself the winner when you didn't even address the points I made.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski They get money from taxpayers... that is the POINT.. the cutting of the funding that you claim is so tiny seems to have your panties in a bunch. We want to Cut the funding to all public radio and tv. that's all. ok? man you guys are really functionally sub-literate. I used to think that maybe you guys on the left were smart I see now it was all propaganda of delusions of grandeur. I win again!! wow broken record. bye now.. LOL this is too easy!!
carlindelco 1 year ago
@carlindelco Saying that NPR gets taxpayer money to promote their agenda tells me you've ignored this entire enchange...that and you keep using this strawman about funding being "so tiny."
If I'm repeating myself it's because you're still ignoring my points.
Bleuski 1 year ago
@Bleuski Listen you are the only one on here claiming and believing that NPR doesn't get federal taxpayer money.. it's already been discussed and everyone agrees and knows that the do. Why are you even worried? you concern is strawbrained since 1) if they DON'T get money as YOU believe. THEN you do NOT have anything to be upset about 2) If they DO get money as we ALL know they do.. we the taxpayers want it stopped . 1)We can't afford it and 2) it is subversive to America I win! thnx 4 playin
carlindelco 1 year ago
@Bleuski would you feel different if they didnt pander to your political and social beliefs?i bet you would
whitemanwaydownsouth 1 year ago
@whitemanwaydownsouth Don't remember the last time I listened to anything political on NPR, just music and cultural programs.
Bleuski 1 year ago
alot more people have been watching your videos since you were on glenn beck. it used to only be about 350 iv watched since the very start
corydelong 1 year ago
At then end of the day Public funded channels in the UK are responsible for almost all our of our most successful shows, inland and exported - like The Office, Absolutely Fabulous, The Weakest Link, Dancing with the stars and Doctor Who. The BBC works because it is made to work for the people and they are constanly held up to scrutiny.
JustB3NJI 1 year ago
Bashing the Beeb will piss a lot of Brits off like me, and I have to disagree with the point made around 6:00
The BBC makes a lot of right wing stuff, they are the ONLY mainstream channel that has hours of religious programming every week. Theyve done some Brilliant & positive docudramas on iconic right wingers like Mary Whitehouse and Maggie Thatcher.
If you can't see that despite times of unprofessionalism they the most impartial news service worldwide, then you're the bias one
JustB3NJI 1 year ago
In Britain we have the BBC which is publically funded and channel 4 which is partially governemtn owned...We then have ITV and C5 (and then all the cable channels)
It is an irrefutable fact that BBC and C4 makes shows for everyone and both make the finest educational shows and documentaries which are world renowned. ITV and C5, are simpleton channels theyve been left to private investment and both perfom badly in the ratings wars.
JustB3NJI 1 year ago
You know that this applies to right wing programming too? This is not a partisan issue, stop portraying it as one.
ThreeCheersForBryan 1 year ago
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” --Thomas Jefferson
NPR protests that taxpayer funding accounts for only 2% of it's budget. If that's the case, get NPR off the public dime and let George Soros make up the difference. It's time to cut the public funding apron strings for this most partisan of organizations maquerading as an entity for the public good.
hookalakah 1 year ago
Thats cool that he's running a marathon. I'm getting ready to run one too. However, why is he running it barefoot?
kyler187 1 year ago
Its interesting to see how Fox News and conservatives on a whole are going to embrace Juan to prop themselves up, especially since Juan is an unapologetic liberal. Conservatives are really going to score some brownie points on this one.
BorgKing001 1 year ago
@PoliticalGuy "one should...spend the time to understand multiple perspectives of that fear before acting upon it." And I agree 100%!!! However, do not compare "acting upon" and "feeling". If Juan would have "acted upon" he might have very well tackled a poor old grampa at the airport. Yet he did not. He simply EXPRESSED his emotions after flying. Now, without an inferential claim, there is no clear connection between the premises and the conclusion. It's applied ethics and we use it everyday.
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
@PoliticalGuy "Just because you feel it...doesn't make it valid, hence, it is invalid, thus irrational." Why is it that you jump from "doesn't make it valid" to "hence, it is invalid..."? What are the premises that lead you to this inference? It sounds more like gainsay. Please support that assertion with logic and not by a political correctness clause. Immediate cognition is applicable to every human, its a property of logic. I appreciate the respect in this exchange.
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
2 % funded by the taxpayers..
cry much lol
izaccy 1 year ago
@izaccy Hell, if it's only 2% then NPR won't be crying much, right?
Maybe they should just not accept anymore taxpayer money instead of waiting for Congress to take it away.
They'll probably get George Soros to cover that sum and then some.
incognito9887 1 year ago 10
@incognito9887 The 2% number is highly misleading. This is the amount that NPR directly receives from the government, but it doesn't include the much greater amount NPR receives from local affiliates (which get most of their direct funding from government) in order to broadcast NPR's programming.
Christobanistan 1 year ago
@Christobanistan Actually the 2% figure is not misleading. And youre wrong about NPRs local affiliates as well. NPR does receive its majority, (42%) of its funding from member stations. The rest comes from corporate sponsors, donations grants and others. Those member stations that provide NPR with 42% of its funding, only receive about 5.8 percent of their own funding from the government. They in turn rely mostly on public support. Quite a difference from what you are suggesting.
allowmetointroducems 1 year ago
@allowmetointroducems Where do you get your numbers?
Christobanistan 1 year ago
@Christobanistan NPRs website has a section thats very transparent about the funding they receive. They even have a link that displays the finances from their member stations. If your really that interested they even have legal audit documents from the past few years posted right in the same section. I can send you some links although im sure you can find it on your own. Since your interested though, Im interested to know, where did you get your information before you posted your comment?
allowmetointroducems 1 year ago
@izaccy Billions per year.
Cry much lol.
lexaeus88 1 year ago
@izaccy What about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which gets around 35%-40% of its budget from the government?
(look it up on wiki)
TCoop6231 1 year ago
his knees will pay in a short period of time for running that far barefoot on pavement. i pity him.
pinegrove33 1 year ago
1:st amandment is a joke in the US. You can say whatever you want. We will just kill (fire) you if you do...
longbeachboy57 1 year ago
@longbeachboy57
its a joke now, but back in the day where it really mattered and was taken seriously. Woulda been nice to have.
HeliosFire9ll 1 year ago
Ok, so why do not do the same thing with NPR, PBS, and CPB that they do with wildlife fund and donating to the national political parties. Ask if you want to donate on your tax form. This way it is volunteer and one can stop the next year.
mortalangyl 1 year ago
Why are there people subed to this guy still? after all the missinformation and out right lies that liberal veiwer pointed out? Bah nvm Im going to go get stoned.... I hate people.
HellsGate9999 1 year ago
@HellsGate9999 Well when you're done getting stoned and hating people check out a few of these books: Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, The Creature from Jekyll Island a Second Look at the Federal Reserve, Why an Economy Grows and How it Crashes, Crash Proof, John Locke's 2nd Treatise on Government, the Federalist Papers, the Road to Serfdom, Economics in One Lesson, Empire of Debt, America's Depression by Murray Rothbard, von Mises' Human Action, the Declaration and Constituion. Why not? Try it!
chuska8383 1 year ago
@chuska8383 Ty for the book recommendations i very well may look some of them up. that being said though this guy still lost all credability with me after that whole thing with liberal viewer and thunderfoot.
HellsGate9999 1 year ago
@HellsGate9999 Come on now. political views aside, but liberalviewer's debunking of Lee were absolutely terrible. I enjoy having my views attacked, as well as the views of those I agree with because it either reaffirms my view or changes it. Liberalviewer did nothing except reinforce my belief that the screwed up paradigm liberals view the world through make them incapable of sound judgement.
FUZZYisBIG 1 year ago
@FUZZYisBIG the name Liberalviewer is a double entendre. also i almost think you didin't watch the videos i am talking about. this guy here made a bunch of claims and liberalviewer completely destroyed him on all accounts. he also uploaded all the evidence on the web for others too look at and make a decision himself. meh at anyrate i suppose we can just dissagree. have a good one.
HellsGate9999 1 year ago
There is no such thing as a Muslim or Christian extremist. You may call yourself such but in the moment you live a life contrary to the core principles of the religion, in that moment you surrender the privaledge to call yourself a Muslim or a Christian. There are only good Muslims or good Christians. For what is a bad Christian other than an anti-christ? Make no mistake, there are imperfect Christians but never, EVER a bad one. I choose to call them a "wolf in sheeps clothing", extremists.
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
@PoliticalGuy "First, it's bigoted because it is irrational" IrrationaI to who? I ask. I must have missed the day in school when they told us which fears were irrational (such as flying, rollercoasters, water, spiders, bears, bulls, etc.). Now if we could just come up with a specific group that dictates our fears...hum. So we are to embrace the ideology that a HUMAN fear ought first to be analized, then ran through the book of political correctness and then rejected if it hurts feelings? ALAS!
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
@yuriatayde I agree Lee!!! You are beginning to sound like Queef Olberman! Stop it! So was yuriatayde's comment a thumbs up?
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
You rock Lee! Keep up the great work
jamespick3007 1 year ago
okey maybe i wasn't paying enough attention.. But what was the shout out from Glenn Beck about ?
Boehoehuahoei 1 year ago
The funding of the Corporation for Propagandized Broadcasting is unconstitutional in the first place.
Freedom of the Press was established to completely seperate Press from state so government can't interfere with the press at all and the press can be a private watchdog; the funding of NPR and PBS violates that principle. We need to defund NPR.
conservativeco 1 year ago 2
@PoliticalGuy How is being scared of Muslims, considering the high amount of terror attacks their religious group has carried out in the West, bigoted and irrational? Tsk tsk.
HiwaKaoru 1 year ago
Freedom of speech includes the freedom not to speak. NPR is a clear violation of this.
pumkinpi2 1 year ago
Why would you not want dirt on your your politicians?
simonthesinner 1 year ago
@PoliticalGuy So does many liberal journalists like him on other religoius-related iusses or race-iussues...but it's okay if it's anything other than muslim related? Double Standards, no?
THEsquirrel3d 1 year ago
Basicly, he thought outside the box.....and got fired for it. That's the psychonut progressive media.
THEsquirrel3d 1 year ago
@THEsquirrel3d No, basically he thought. He chose to be an individual and not a collectivists. A "self" rather than a "collective brain"...he chose to be and they did'nt like it.
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
@TheReaganRevolution Um, you basicly just reworded what I said entirely.
THEsquirrel3d 1 year ago
@THEsquirrel3d LOL! Sorry, I meant to add that I was contributing to the sarcasm. My bad!
TheReaganRevolution 1 year ago
@PoliticalGuy Would you agree that there are other liberal radio voices/ news analysts with NPR that currently break #10 of the code, that have no problem voicing they're own liberal/progressive views?
kinney2040 1 year ago
NPR?
Seldom listened to it.
Now,
I will never listen to it.
bobbytiger 1 year ago
Juan is a Closet Bigot,now he got caught
maverick47sucks 1 year ago
defund NPR now
haydenman2 1 year ago 26
@haydenman2
You mean the less than 2% of their budget that comes from the government?
jtecrepa 1 year ago
This video made several good points- great job. Congratulations on being pointed out by Mr. Beck- maybe you'll get more views. :)
Also, the new setup is so much better- having the bookcase in the background, the clarity of the image; it really makes a difference. The new camera was well worth it.
ZoozaTheBink 1 year ago
The filming of your videos is much better. Great picture, nice back round and dress code. But you gotta work on that opening. I think I saw a fly go into your mouth...
Rumor77 1 year ago
Defund NPR. I'm sure Mr. Soros will more than cover the loss.
RavingDissension 1 year ago
22 people like cancer
happycan107 1 year ago
gov. should give them funding only if there is a positive externality associated with what they have to say. I have no idea what that externality might be though.
good at explaining the market. Consumer sovereignty in economy is quite similar to democracy.
whimppy 1 year ago