PBS

I watched a program about fractals on the Salt Lake City PBS station broken up by pledge drive pitchs. The reinforced my feelings about PBS and NPR. They're successful enough that they could charge for their services and do all right, but, of course, they have to support the myth that relying on "underwriters" and donations instead of advertising is somehow morally purer than selling time to advertisers, and that seeing programs uninterrupted by people selling things is so much better than the alternative that we should gladly contribute.

Whatever.

Of course they were asking for pledges of 120 buck to get a book based on the program. Nothing commercial there. Nosiree bob! The fact is that they do have advertisers and they do run commercials. Last night they had a clip of Leonard Nimoy who cited the suspect claim that Edmund Burke made the statement that "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil if for good men to do nothing."

What?! If we don't support PBS and the local "education" channel eeee-vil will triumph? Of course if we do, Bill Moyers might be given even more air time, and that would be evil, too. He's a bitter and paranoid old man, infected with the Democrat swamp fever, who can't see how the republic can endure without at least one branch in the firm control of his party, which is the semi-official party of PBS. But not the blue-collar working man Democrat party. This is the snooty Academia Democrat party, which these days is the bastion of anti-patriotism in America. PBS aspires to be the US's version of the BBC. They revolted when the Wall Street Journal was allowed to present a program similar to Washington Week in Review, but apparently drove the leftie supporters

I sent PBS and NPR money for years, until I woke up to the fact that neither could exist without the prosperity of this nation which is based on private enterprise. Where do they think the money comes from that they're always dunning us for? Last night the phones were being answered by volunteers from Starbucks. How appropriate. The winetasters of coffeedom, making money hand over fist off one of the three major drugs that drive this country. I wonder if they'd allow volunteers from some tobacco company to take their calls for them. Or the local chapter of the NRA?

Hugh Hewitt is an alumnus from PBS and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last night he was pounding PBS for wasting our money to make documentaries like Breaking the Silence, Children's Storiesabout liberal causes, such as feminism, the life of Alfred Kinsey and so forth.