Palin and Huckabee are angry at NPR.

[Gaspar]

Hi Herionimous, this is reality, have we met?

President Bush never testified before Congress.  Secondly, if we used that standard, there were quite a few intelligence bureaucrats and fellow Congressmen who would go down in flames as well.  He simply relied on the same info his predecessor had.  Don't believe me?  Bubba still thought Saddam had missing WMD the day he left office.  Real simple, Google "Clinton, Larry King, Weapons of Mass Destruction".  Apparently he was just as gullible as President Bush, Hillarity Cliton, John Kerry, and others.  President Bush didn't invent the WMD story, he simply was the person most unfortunate enough to be sitting in the hot seat when it was time to go with the company line.  I wonder if Algore would have been treated quite as harshly by the left?

Algore believes that oil is a weapon of mass destruction, therefore when he marched troops into Iraq, he would have most certainly found WMD!

[heironymouspasparagus]

The WMD NEVER were missing.  They were used up.  We provided him a specific amount of materials and equipment and training.  They had a pretty good idea that most of it had been used up, but you never know exactly what proportions were used and how much residual was left.  (Kind of like the uncertainty of fountain mix - what ratio is the machine set to).  Hence the uncertainty by Billy Bob, and Bush, and the reason the CIA hedged their bets when making statements about WMD in Iraq in 2002 and 2003.

Ah, would that the RWRE would actually MEET Reality sometime!!  What a wonderful world it would be....

[Gaspar]

Looks like they will lose federal funding on Monday.

[Townsend]

Looks like they will lose federal funding on Monday.

How?

[Gaspar]

How?

House Rules committee will hold an emergency meeting today at 3 p.m. on H.R. 1076, the measure "to prohibit funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content."

The bill will go to the floor Tomorrow.  The legislation is a stand-alone measure that would slash funding regardless of pending negotiations between the House and Senate on a continuing resolution.

Probably won't pass the senate or be signed by the president, but funding would end until the measure reaches pass or fail.

[Townsend]

House Rules committee will hold an emergency meeting today at 3 p.m. on H.R. 1076, the measure "to prohibit funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content."

The bill will go to the floor Tomorrow.  The legislation is a stand-alone measure that would slash funding regardless of pending negotiations between the House and Senate on a continuing resolution.

Probably won't pass the senate or be signed by the president, but funding would end until the measure reaches pass or fail.

The links I'm finding don't say that.  Would you link the story you're using please?

[Gaspar]

The links I'm finding don't say that.  Would you link the story you're using please?

Here's the bill: http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.1076:

Here's the Politico story:  http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0311/House_committee_moves_again_to_defund_NPR.html#


It is outside of any continuing resolutions.  The resolution that passed yesterday is only good for the next three weeks, so this takes it out of the "Current Funding" argument and makes it a stand-alone measure.  I'm not sure if this is smart, because it can't stand on it's own under this administration without having some carrots attached.

It will however expand the debate on public funding beyond just a fraction of the total budget discussion and spur more investigation into NPR's policies as they relate to being a political entity as well as a media outlet.

The federal bucks represent a very small % of the money NPR uses to operate.  This separation of media and state will be a good thing for them and the public.  It just may take more discovery or a new administration to become reality.

[Townsend]

Here's the bill: http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.1076:

Here's the Politico story:  http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0311/House_committee_moves_again_to_defund_NPR.html#


It is outside of any continuing resolutions.  The resolution that passed yesterday is only good for the next three weeks, so this takes it out of the "Current Funding" argument and makes it a stand-alone measure.  I'm not sure if this is smart, because it can't stand on it's own under this administration without having some carrots attached.

It will however expand the debate on public funding beyond just a fraction of the total budget discussion and spur more investigation into NPR's policies as they relate to being a political entity as well as a media outlet.

The federal bucks represent a very small % of the money NPR uses to operate.  This separation of media and state will be a good thing for them and the public.  It just may take more discovery or a new administration to become reality.

I saw the Politico but where's the "funding would end until the measure reaches pass or fail" coming from?

[Gaspar]

My misunderstanding.  The person who sent it to me intrepreted "The pending legislation is a stand-alone measure that would slash funding regardless of pending negotiations between the House and Senate on a continuing resolution"  incorrectly and I regurgitated it.

[Townsend]

It passed the House.  You can almost hear the socially conservative republicans, "Day tank differ'nt 'an us."

http://n.pr/eAyLwp

The House of Representatives just voted 228-192 to bar NPR from receiving any more federal funds. It was a partisan vote, with Republicans voting "aye" and Democrats voting "nay."

As NPR's Audie Cornish reported earlier:

"Two percent of NPR's revenue comes through competitive grants from federal agencies — in the commerce and education departments, for example. But [NPR] member station fees make up another 40 percent of revenue. And the House Bill would bar stations from using any federal funds for NPR.

"Republicans on the House Rules Committee said the move to defund the organization this week was sparked by the controversial and edited videos of NPR executives speaking disparagingly of conservatives, and saying NPR did not need federal funding."

As for what happens next, The National Journal says that "Republican efforts to cut off federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR are unlikely to advance past the House, as both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the White House are weighing in with their opposition."


Update at 3:45 p.m. ET. Breaking Down The Vote:

No Democrats voted in favor of cutting the funds — all 228 "aye" votes were from Republicans. Seven Republicans voted against the cut.

[nathanm]

Oh, look, O'Keefe was indeed lying..yet AGAIN: http://wonkette.com/440468/glenn-becks-website-reveals-npr-lunch-video-was-edited-to-ruin-npr#more-440468

When will the news media learn to stop believing this f**ktard?

[Conan71]

Oh, look, O'Keefe was indeed lying..yet AGAIN: http://wonkette.com/440468/glenn-becks-website-reveals-npr-lunch-video-was-edited-to-ruin-npr#more-440468

When will the news media learn to stop believing this f**ktard?

You know it's bad when Glenn Beck's web site busts you.

[carltonplace]

Actually, NPR reported on this on Tuesday after they viewed the full length video. Let's let Beck have the credit though...he needs attention and legitimizing.

[Teatownclown]

A nation of whiners?

[we vs us]

That was good, good stuff. 

Some Weiner trivia:  was Jon Stewart's roommate in college.