--- Tom Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And NPR is hardly "leftist propaganda". Most of it > is completely > unobjectionable, and the rest is "leftist" only to > extreme > right-wingers. NPR is actually quite moderate, for > the most part.
Someone who thinks the average American is an idiot is perhaps not best-suited to judging the mainstream, Tom. Given what you've said so many times on this list, I do take right-wing as a compliment, although it is not, of course, accurate in an absolute sense. My parents (to pick an example) are both liberal Democrats, and have both, on various occasions, described NPR as being off the deep end to me. Heck, I remember working in the basement of a Kennedy family member on his campaign for the state legislature and having him, his campaign manager, and me turn to the radio at one point during the day (while NPR was on) with a collective "what the hell?" reaction to how off the deep end it was. At any rate, certainly there are things that the government funds that I disagree with. Very few of those are speech. Taxing me to support leftist propaganda is, in and of itself, in appropriate. Taxing me to support _any_ propaganda is inappropriate, but taxing Americans to support the propaganda of people who believe what _you_ believe is singularly inappropriate. There is a reason that Voice of America is not supposed to be listened to in the United States. Coerced speech is a violation of the most fundamental principles of the United States. It is ironic and revelatory that people who think preventing flag burning is an atrocity are fine with NPR. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
