Amendment would prohibit …taxpayer dollars from being used for advertising on partisan Fox News

[Ian David]

Rep. Jim McGovern: “My amendment would prohibit …taxpayer dollars from being used for advertising on the partisan, political platform of Fox News.”

ClusterFox is getting NPR’d, courtesy of Rep. Jim McGovern. Hey, fair is fair… and balanced.

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We all know what’s going on here. The reason this bill is before us is that a discredited, right-wing activist recently made a selectively-edited, 11 minute video of a two-hour conversation. The target of his little sting was a fundraising executive at NPR who no longer works there.

That executive made what appeared to be disparaging remarks about the Republican Party. Now, if you look at what he actually said, in full context, it’s clear that he was paraphrasing what other Republicans had said about the direction of the party.

More:
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/03/16/rep-jim-mcgovern-my-amendment-would-prohibit-taxpayer-dollars-from-being-used-for-advertising-on-the-partisan-political-platform-of-fox-news/

[cui bono]

1. Where is he from? I like what he's saying:

"If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to strip funding from NPR because they believe – wrongly, in my view – that NPR is biased, then we should be given the same opportunity.

Mr. Chairman, some of my Republican colleagues have talked about the need for this bill because of concerns about the deficit. They don’t believe that the federal taxpayer should subsidize public radio.

But the federal government subsidizes media companies all the time. According to a Rand Study, the Department of Defense alone spent over $600 million in advertising in 2007."