The Villification of Big Bird

You ever just have one of those days when you spend way too much time wondering what is wrong with people? Or when your brain threatens to comically explode, mini-nuclear-warhead style, when someone says something so completely out of whack with reality that you just can't process it?

That's how I felt when I heard some congressional Republicans are threatening to cut off all funding for PBS if it doesn't eliminate its 'liberal bias'.

I admit, I don't watch a lot of PBS news programs. The ones I've seen, though, have a definate tendancy towards dry-and-boring. It's hard for me to see an overwhelming bias coming from guys who barely seem to have pulses.

But let's assume, for the sake of argument, that PBS news programs do in fact have a liberal bias. If so, that should be addressed directly, with the programs in question. Threatening to cut off funding for PBS entirely is way out of line.

Show of hands: who here remembers watching Sesame Street? Or the Electric Company? Nova? Wild Kingdom? Who watches Antique Roadshow? Or Masterpiece Theatre? PBS puts on more interesting and educational programs in a week than some other stations do in a year. News is such a small portion of what they do, it barely even shows up on my radar. The idea that anyone could be so shallow as to threaten all the good PBS does because of a perceived bias in a handful of shows sickens me. In fact, I think I'll write my congresspeople and tell them so.

How about you?

Today's recommended song: Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) by Pink Floyd. "We don't need no education"