Actually, the House already voted to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last month. The significance of today’s video is that it might force Republicans to go to the mat on including that in a budget deal when, not if, Reid demands that it be taken out. Democrats would have been in good position to resist otherwise, insisting that CPB’s money is peanuts in the grand scheme of things and shouldn’t be a stumbling block to a broader budget compromise. After the video, though? I don’t know. Giving up on the CPB defunding would have been hard for Republicans to do under any circumstance with tea partiers watching them. After today, it may be impossible.
Update: He told you so.
This was an act of incredible condescension,” said Williams. “The rank hypocrisy of his remarks was telling for me. They will say things to your face about how there’s no liberal orthodoxy at NPR, how they play it straight, but now you see it for what it is. They prostitute themselves for money.”
Williams said Schiller’s remarks about the Jews dominating the newspaper industry was “outright anti-Semitism,” and labeling Tea Party members “gun-toting” “racists” reveals “their real feelings.” This is how they talk in boardrooms and editorial meetings, explained Williams. “This is how they really feel.”
