7 More Reasons Taxpayer Funding Of PBS Should Be Ended

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Lena Dunham and Sarah Silverman -
Women Who Make America?

PBS really is pathetic. Yes, I know they have some really good musical specials, and kids love Sesame Street (though they too seem to pursue a political agenda these days). No, Im talking about all of the leftist claptrap they try to pass off as news and with shows like "Women Who Make America".

Many of the women profiled during the series are no-brainers: Sally Ride for Women and Space, Carol Burnett for Women and Comedy, and Shirley Chisholm for Women and Politics for instance. But PBS, which is essentially taxpayer-funded arm of the Democrat Party can't help themselves in profiling as many darlings of the left as possible, many of whom you have to wonder who they are , and what they have done to be a "Maker".

I have listed seven glaring examples that stood out to me:

Valerie Plame Wilson - The whitewash continues, as PBS introduces Plame as a woman whose career was sabotaged after she was “outed” as a high-level spy. This has be proven to be totally false. Plame was not "outed", and had not been in a covert status for many years, working as a desk jockey. For proof of her lack of a covert status, one needed to look no further than the programs distributed to those who attended husband Joe Wilson's speaking engagements around the country. Wilson and Plame were part of the DC cocktail party circuit, and everyone knew her and Joe and what they did. If Valierie Plame was covert, it was the worst kept secret in Washington. The whole Plame affair was a political attempt by Democrats to bring down the Bush White House. The entire witch hunt for who "outed" Valerie Plame served only to convict Scooter Libby on a "process crime" which had nothing to do with the outing, while the person who actually uttered Plame's name to a reporter (Richard Armitage) wasn't charged with a crime. Why? Because she wasn't in a covert status, thus there wasn't a crime to charge him with. "Holding up a person who falsely holds themselves up as a "victim" hardly seems like a woman to celebrate as a "maker". Simply pathetic.

Christiane Amanpour - CNN reporter came to fame for her Islamist slant in reporting on the first Gulf War. Since then, her reporting on happening and events in the Middle East have continued to favor islamist viewpoints, while she is less generous toward either the United States or Israel. A "blame America first" reporter fits right in with PBS.

Sarah Silverman - Darling of the left. Famous for her "edgy" comedy, which generally revolves around insulting Christian's, abortion, and attacking conservatives. Hey, if you like her comedy, by all means, watch her. A "maker of America"? Please.

Kathy Griffin - Another "edgy" comic (translation: not funny) - Famous for getting a pap smear on television. "Maker"? Uh, no.

Jane Fonda - "Hanoi Jane".  Enough said.

Lena Dunham - Writer/director/actress of the HBO series "Girls". PBS introduces her as a woman "who mines comedy and drama gold by exploring what it’s really like to be a young woman". While Hollywood loves Lena, the rest of America is apparently less enthused, as her supposed brilliance hasn't translated into large numbers of viewers flocking to her show. Failure has always been a badge of honor with the left, so it's not surprising that she is on the list.

Elizabeth Warren - Famous for her self-proclaimed, but false, Native American status, presumably to gain favor in her status at Harvard at which she was called Harvard Law School's first "woman of color". This is laughable, unless you consider translucent to be a color. However, the blond haired, blue-eyed, and pigment-challenged Warren continues to keep up the charade, as  ‘Fauxcahontas’ released a family cookbook called 'Pow Wow Recipes' as "proof" of her native status. "Making up America" might be a better fit for Warren.

Don't expect to see a Mia Love, Deneen Borelli, Susana Martinez, or some other conservative women profiled, though. PBS has its 'standards'.

TCA: PBS Orders More ‘Women Who Make America’, Interviews Lena Dunham, Sarah Silverman, Shonda Rhimes
By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 21, 2014 @ 8:27am PST
Tags: AOL, Makers: Women Who Make America, PBS, TCA

PBS is partnering with AOL for six new one-hourTCA Deadline documentaries as part of its Makers: Women Who Make America franchise. Scheduled to premiere in June and August 2014, the docus build on the multi-platform initiative founded by filmmaker Dyllan McGee, which launched in 2012. The new series expands on the three-hour PBS documentary  of same name, which premiered in February 2013 and told the story of the American Makers: Women Who Make Americawomen’s movement over the last half-century. Kathy Griffin, former CIA agent Valerie Plame, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and the producers of Makers are scheduled to discuss the project at the press tour tomorrow.

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U.S. Leftists on Campus: "IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are so racist" or " All Jews Suck"

Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Yesterday I  posted a video of college students who had gone to public school, and yet were completely ignorant of what, where, why, and when the Holocaust occurred.  Today, I am drawn to this story which exposes that anti-semitism is no longer creeping, but deluging college students with lies, hyperbole and propaganda. Today, I am just a little bit more clear of why we are seeing a pre-WWII Nazi Germany mentality toward Israel and the Jewish people in more and more corners of the globe, including the United States.

It must be emotionally draining to be a leftist.  Common sense, rational thought, and the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time are not required. Just raw emotion masquerading as "caring" is.

This is how sick those on the left have become:

Anti-semitic leftist academics claim that the fact that there are few, if any, rapes of Palestinian women by Israel's IDF is proof that Israeli's are racist.

This is being disseminated on US college campuses as serious thinking!  So, if I am to use their twisted logic, and claim that the fact that Arab Muslims who occupy Israel's West Bank are not averse to raping Israeli women proves they are "enlightened"?

What's even more sick is that this "theory" was not hatched in the bowels of some leftist American think tank, or on the campus of UC Berkeley. It comes from an award-winning paper from Hebrew University in Israel, produced by graduate student Tal Nitzan, under the tutelage of her PhD advisors led by Zali Gurevitch, which sought to focus on "military rapes" of Palestinian women by IDF forces.  Her thesis was driven by a false premise based on Muslim propaganda as part of their worldwide jihad. Unable to find any instances of rape by IDF forces, she twisted her brain into a pretzel to come up with her "new" theory.  The IDF were not committing atrocities by raping Muslim Arab women.  They were committing atrocities by NOT raping them.  See how that works?   Neither do I.  But to the leftist mind, it makes perfect non-sense, and those on the American anti-semitic left have picked up on it and spread it throughout the halls of academe.

This brings me to former IDF officer Hen Mazzig, who on a recent trip to United States college campuses found out first-hand of the anti-Semitism being taught at US universities, using things like the very study noted in the previous paragraph.  Mazzig, who describes himself as "very liberal",  and "a member of the leftist Zionist party, Meretz",  was "shocked" by the reception of "anti-Israel bigotry" and "hostility" at campuses in the Seattle WA,  Oregon, and (of course) Berkeley CA.

Hen Mazzig at University of Washington attending an anti-semitic Film Screening 

Sponsored by SUPER-UW (Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights) 

and Jewish Voice for Peace (Self-hating Jews listed by ADL as anti-semitic)

Such was the hatred directed at Israel, and at Mazzig himself, that it has caused him to not only reflect on and reevaluate his entire way of looking liberalism and leftists, but it actually changed him both personally and politically.  Those whom he had seen as allies in a great ideological struggle hated him and his country.  He discovered that the "new" anti-semitism no longer says it hates Jews, but simply replaces "Jew" with "Israel".

In Seattle, a professor told him and the audience that 'the Jews of Israel have no national rights and should be forced out of the country'.  Mazzig asked her where the Jewish people should go to, and she responded “I don’t care. I don’t care if they don’t have any place else to go. They should not be there.” When told that she is advocating for ethnic cleansing, both she and her brainless supporters denied it.  Also in Seattle, Mazzig was confronted by a leftist who screamed at him, “You are worse than the Nazis. You are just like the Nazi youth!”  Other anti-Israel protestors called him killer and rapist.  Another professor asked him how many rapes the IDF had committed against palestinians, to which Mazzig replied that he knew of none personally.  The professor, who was obviously well acquainted with the ridiculous Hebrew University paper mentioned previously, proudly proclaimed that Mazzig was right, because, she said, “You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are so racist and disgusted by them that you won’t touch them.”

Shai Bernstein and Hen Mazzig speak about their experiences living in Israel and serving as Israeli soldiers.
 Photo: Trevon Johnson - trejohn12@gmail.com

Mazzig was so shocked and dismayed, not only by the treatment he received from the academic imbeciles at our universities, but more so from "how unaware the organized Jewish community is and how little they are actually doing to counter this rising anti-Semitism", that he wrote and posted an op-ed piece in the Times of Israel urging American Jews "Wake Up!"

I would agree.  Too many of my Jewish friends, both conservative and liberal, seem completely oblivious to the rising anti-semitism around them, and in fact embrace some of the "peace" groups and "inter-faith alliances" which disseminate anti-semitism in our own communities. They support the most anti-Israel administration in my memory, ignoring or brushing aside each incident of  Obama or someone in his administration snubbing, insulting, or spitting in the face of Israel and its leaders.  They fail to recognize that Obama views Israel just as he does the United States -  as a country which is,  in their minds, flawed at its very core.  He sees both of us as being illegitimate from our very founding.  To Obama and the leftists, both the U.S. and Israel are built on racism and oppression.  They don't see the freedom, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness.  They see only inequality, racism, and victims.

Every day Obama and these leftists get a little more bold, and reveal just a little bit more of what their intentions are to those who are awake and paying attention.

To those American Jews who are not fully engaged on the game that the new left in the Democrat Party is engaged in, they play a dangerous game of appeasment with those who will be more than happy to slit their throat should the time ever come. It is up to those of us who are engaged to sound the alarm and wake them up.

After reading this I urge you to read his piece and to send this to as many of your Jewish and Israel-loving friends as you can.

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Ehhhh!! 'The Fonz' Jumps the Shark Again! Pushes For Gun Control as DC Shootings Still in Progress!!

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Henry 'The Fonz' Winkler is apparently an acolyte of Rahm Emmanual  and his "never let a crisis go to waste" philosophy, as he tweeted out his pro-gun control thoughts while some of the victims were still bleeding out.

Henry Winkler, whose Happy Day's character 'Fonzie' was arguably the coolest guy in America for a few years until the famous "jump the shark" episode, couldn't wait for the facts to come out before weighing in.  That he weighed in is not a shock. It was only a matter of time before some Hollywood leftist would. What is shocking is that it appears he beat Michael Moore to the punch.  As of this writing, Moore is still hung up on Syria and Larry Summers removing himself from the FED job.

Winkler isn't as prolific in his bashing of pro-Second Amendment folks as the faux conservative David Frum, who took to Twitter with the following:

Hey!  Frum's entitled to his opinion but don't, as The Blaze did, call him a conservative commentator.  Even Frum has had to admit that his views no longer align with conservatism on everything from  healthcare reform, monetary policy, social spending to aid the unemployed, man-made global warming, and as everyone can see, that pesky old Second Amendment.

What's truly sick is that these ghouls don't have the decency to wait until all the facts are in before turning these types of things into political hot potatoes.  You won't find Frum, Winkler or their ilk, of objectively looking at the numerous killings of young blacks in Washington D.C. or Chicago, and the tough gun control laws they have there which prevent law-abiding citizens the ability to protect themselves in those cities.

Nor will the subject of allowing trained and licensed people to used concealed carry weapons on military and government installations.  I guarantee you, if our trained men and women of the military were allowed to carry their own personal firearms legally on base, incidents like today, or the Fort Hood shooting either wouldn't occur, or the carnage would be much less if these sicko's knew that nearly everyone on the base was armed..

That would make too much sense.

Obama's New UN Ambassador Called For "New State of Palestine" and Placing "Mammoth" U.S. Military Force In Israel

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While many are focusing on the fact that President Obama has promoted Susan Rice to head the NSA, what is just as troubling, maybe even more so, is Obama's appointment of Samantha Power to replace Rice as the new U.S.' new UN Ambassador.

Power, the radical leftist wife of Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar, was a key figure, along with Susan Rice, in convincing Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration to commit America's military to using force in Libya.

Oh, yeah.  She's radically anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian. Appointing Power as Ambassador to a UN body which is already anti-Israel should send a chill up the spine of every Israeli, American Jew, and those who support the democratic State of Israel.

In a 2002 interview, Powers stated:

"[W]hat we need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping the situation. Putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import (American Jews); it may more crucially mean sacrificing -- or investing, I think, more than sacrificing -- billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence. Because it seems to me at this stage (and this is true of actual genocides as well, and not just major human rights abuses, which were seen there), you have to go in as if you're serious, you have to put something on the line.”  It's essential that some set of principles becomes the benchmark, rather than a deference to [leaders] who are fundamentally politically destined to destroy the lives of their own people. … I do think in that sense, both political leaders have been dreadfully irresponsible. And, unfortunately, it does require external intervention…Any intervention is going to come under fierce criticism. But we have to think about lesser evils, especially when the human stakes are becoming ever more pronounced.”

Ed Morrissey addessing this very statement in a 2008 Hot Air article, wrote:

For those who may not catch the reference, Power means the Joooooos.  And why would that alienate the Jewishcabalthatsecretlyrunseverything? For one thing, Power wants to spend billions on bolstering Palestinian military strength, instead of spending it on helping the Israelis to defend themselves. Bear in mind that this interview takes place about seven months after 9/11, when people supposedly still knew how dangerous radical Islamist groups like Hamas and al-Qaeda were. Power wanted to send them money and stop funding Israeli efforts to fight them.  Even more ridiculously, Power’s ultimate aim is to send a massive American or Western force into Israel to stop what Power apparently sees as an Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. She specifically states that the force has to be “massive”, not like a Srebrenica- or Bosnia-sized force. Why would it need to be so large? In order to neutralize the Israeli Defense Force, and protect the forces of Fatah and Hamas.

Suddenly, the appointment of Samantha Power as UN Ambassador gives a whole new perspective to two recent decisions made by the Obama Administration regarding Israel, where my first reaction was "what the hell are they thinking"?

The incidents I'm referencing are the Obama Administration's publishing of Top Secret details of an Israeli missile defense facility, which included it Top Secret location, the thickness of its walls, and right down to the type of cooling systems it employs.

The second decision which perplexed me was the supplying of F-16 fighters and Patriot missile systems to Jordan.  Ostensibly, these are to be used as short-term insurance against the Syrian conflict spilling into Jordan, but giving high tech military equipment to hostile countries around Israel does not make sense in the long-term, either for Israel or the United States.  Keep in mind that Russia still backs Assad, and sees this as a hostile move by the Obama Administration.

The appointment of Power, along with Obama's demonstrated hostility to Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, should make Israel , the Jews and anyone who supports them feel afraid. Very afraid!

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Obama EPA Pick Gina McCarthy a Leftist in GOP Clothing

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 Obama's pick to head EPA, Gina McCarthy

President Obama's pick of Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson to head the Environmental Protection Agency is, as political strategy, a cunning move.  McCarthy has all of the ideological values on the environment of Obama, along with ties to some of the more prominent names in the GOP. How do I know that she is a left-wing environmental hack? Enviro-wackos absolutely love this pick.

The Wall Street Journal notes that McCarthy has been a "willful regulator" as one of Lisa Jackson's top lieutenants at the EPA, saying "Ms. McCarthy has been integral in abusing laws that were written decades ago in order to achieve climate goals that Congress has rejected, all with little or no political debate. Someone should ask her about her antidemocratic politics at her confirmation hearings."

Her penchant for legislating from her desk at the EPA is perfectly in line with Obama's "if Congress won't act" on Cap and Tax, "I will".  Obama using Executive Orders to bypass Congress, or the EPA issuing new regulations (laws) is a distinction without much difference.  The goal is to ram through as much regulation as possible without any debate.  

San Joaquin Valley, California

The long-term effects and unintended consequences are of no concern to these far-left enviro-wackos.  Just as the protection of the non-native "delta smelt" in California's agricultural San Joaquin Valley has devastated farmers' ability to get enough water to irrigate their crops, creating a man-made dustbowl, the affect that the EPA's edicts will have on the energy industry are of little to no concern to them.

Water protest - San Joaquin Valley, CA

The problem for the GOP is that McCarthy has ties to one of the main movers and shakers in the establishment-side of the Party.  McCarthy was an appointee of then Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.  The Romney that gave the Bay State RomneyCare, which became the blueprint for ObamaCare, also appointed a left-wing environmentalist as his "Green Quarterback" on environmental isssues.

With Rino's currently holding the power in the GOP, it is unlikely that anything other than another rubber stamp approval of Obama's nominee will happen (think of the Elena Kagan SCOTUS confirmation lovefest), putting another far-left ideologue in charge of the EPA to replace the outgoing socialist Jackson.

McCarthy's bona fides include "requiring all new power plants to emit less than half" the amount of so-called greenhouse gasses "of what the average facility currently churns out", effectively eliminating the building of any new coal-fired plants at a time that our nation's aging energy infrastructure requires additional cost-effective energy production.  Under the new laws, even the most efficient coal plant exceeds the new requirements by 80%, while cleaner burning natural gas plants barely meet the 1000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour limit imposed by McCarthy's office.  Nuclear plants can easily meet the requirement, but radical environmentalists place legal roadblocks in the way of every attempt to build a new reactor.

In addition, McCarthy has "mislead" Congress (that's lied in non-politico speech) about the link between fuel efficiency standards and "greenhouse gas" emissions from motor vehicles.  She'll fit in well with the self-proclaimed "most transparent administration in history".

With the exceedingly clueless, big government RINO's controlling the GOP, Gina McCarthy is virtually assured of confirmation. This clears the way for Obama to further his radical agenda, using the EPA as a tool to further weaken the U.S. economy, driving us further down the road to the leftist socialist utopia.

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Leftist Radio Host: "Outlaw Billionaires"

Who's Thom Hartmann and why does he hate my country?

Thom Hartmann

There is some radio host out there named Thom Hartmann who is promoting something called "The No Billionaires Campaign".
His diatribe is full of typical Marxist clap-trap.  His grand "plan" would  confiscate 100% of any wealth over $999,999,999.  As he says, there are just over 400 billionaires in the U.S. today.  Taking his "plan" a step farther, if we confiscated 100% of ALL of their wealth, which averages $4 Billion each, it would run the government for about 3 months at current spending levels.  And, you could only do it once!  The problem isn't that these people have too much wealth, it's that the government spends money like Ted Kennedy at a stripper bar, genius.
Another point made by this economic illiterate, is that billionaires are "sucking up more of the wealth that used to belong to the working class".  This statement comes from a point of view that wealth is static.  That is, that there is a finite amount of wealth, and that if you get too much, then someone else is getting screwed.  This is taken from the leftist illustration that wealth is like a pie, and there are only so many pieces to go around. But wealth is fluid.  Wealth is created.  There is much more wealth today than there was 100 years, or even 50 years ago.

Thom Hartmann "The No Billionaires Campaign"

He then drones on about the income inequality of today compared to right after World War 2.  He states that billionaires were few and far between because wealth was more evenly distributed.  This is crap.  The boom in wealth related to new technologies, and the computer and space age is responsible for greatest advances in history, and resulted in the greatest amount of wealth creation in the world. Yes, some people have become famously wealthy.  But it is not because they took it out of the mouth of some other poor sap.  It is because they were responsible for creating goods or services that BILLIONS of people  have benefitted from.  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are responsible for not only making people's lives better, and business more efficient, their companies provide jobs to thousands of people all over the world, and have made others rich as well.  Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, who this dimwit does the obligatory leftist slam on, has provided a service that makes clothing, electronics, and thousands of other products affordable to millions of people that otherwise would not be able to buy some of these things.

It never occurs ot this leftist that the plight of people in the lower income tiers are poor, not because of these rich people, but because of leftist government entitlement programs which give them a few alms in return for a lifetime of dependency and voting Democrat, all the while keeping them in a life of poverty.  Nor does he address the fact that government, through excessive regulation, codes, taxes, and miles of paperwork, make it extremely difficult for people to start new businesses or create new products.  Many people don't feel it is worth the red tape, or the armies of OSHA, IRS, Board of Equalization, or EPA goons and inspectors who will make your life a living hell, and who feel the need to change laws and codes, which you have to comply with or be fined, on an annual or bi-annual basis.

After watching this, you will fully understand why you may have never heard of this radio host.  In fact, even my rather minuscule readership will probably double the number of people who know of this guy.

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Ed Schultz Sees Dead People, "We are the Founding Fathers of this Country Now"

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The only thing lower than Ed Schultz' ratings are his views of the Founders and the Constitution. The porcine pundit who once referred to Laura Ingraham as a "right-wing talk slut", and claimed that "Republicans want to see you dead", sees our nation's Founders as just a bunch of "dead guys" claiming "we are the founding fathers of the country now".
Does this mental defect know that to be a "founder" you have to be at the founding of something?  It's dubious that this vat of fat with the I.Q. of a wharf rat could make that kind of connection, though. So, probably not.

Founding Fathers Just 'Some Dead People' Spews Ed Schultz in Anti-Second Amendment Rant

Remember how liberals feigned reverence for the Constitution during its alleged wholesale destruction while George W. Bush was president? With a Democrat ensconsed in the White House, they are reverting to old habits when it comes to the blueprint for our republic.

On his radio show Friday, Schultz argued with a caller who said he usually agrees with Schultz, citing "socialized medicine" and higher taxes as examples of common ground they share. But the Second Amendment must be protected, the caller said, lest changes to it erode other freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights (Audio).
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