Bush's Budget Blunders or Save NPR!

Why does Bush like to pick on public broadcasting so much? Does he have something against Burt and Ernie? Maybe it's because they don't qualify conjecture and gutter-speak as hard news. Or is it because they refuse to fellate the administration around the clock like other news outlets I could name? I think the answer to these questions is a resounding yes.

While his new budget proposal gives assloads of money to the Pentagon it also helps one of our most persecuted minorities - the rich. Those tax cuts Bush wants to make permanent gives the richest one percent thirty-one percent of the cuts and the bottom forty percent (you and I) a measly four percent. But never fear I'm sure those old, white men at the top will surely demonstrate their magnanimity before the beginning of the next war.

And so NPR is facing another attack along with significant cuts to child-care assistance and the Headstart program. PBS has stated that without these funds they might have to jettison "Seasame Street and "Arthur". Bush's thinking is backwards and upside down. Hell, this interview alone should be reason enough to keep NPR strong. Sign this petition and send a message to Congress saying you support upstanding Journalism and stand against fattening the bank accounts of multi- millionaires