What We Need to Know about PBS

Tonight the PBS program, Need to Know ran an expose type story on what they consider abuses in campaign contributions. They mentioned contributions to Democrats once. They mentioned that government workers' unions made contributions to organizations that supported Democrats. That statement, took about 10 seconds of the 15 minute piece. The rest was all about donations to Republican organizations. No mention of George Soros and the hundreds or thousands of liberal, progressive, socialist, and communist organizations that accept contributions to support Democrat candidates. They did not discuss the undisclosed sources of President Obama's campaign contributions. (Most people are not even aware that the sources of BHO's presidential campaign funds have been called into questions.) Lastly, there was no mention of the political support of Democrats on the major television news and entertainment programing. Why? Because they categorise the sources of contributions in such a way that the Republican supporters are unfair, unprincipled, and corrupt, while ignoring the categories into which the Democrat contributors fall. Why is that? Simple, because they themselves are Democrat political supporters. Why should public financed television be allowed to support one party over another? You got me there.

It seems obvious that contributions to the our local Public Broadcasting Corporation should be reported under campaign contribution laws. Another source of Democrat political support by organizations and corporations that is not in one of the "suspect" categories is entertainment programing. Why shouldn't the contributions in kind of David Letterman and the other latenight hosts whose names I do not recall, be covered by campaign contribution law? The answer, in my opinion, is that they should. Furthermore, if PBS does not give equal time to exposing the Democrats, they should be taken to court and their favorable tax status along with public funding should be ended.