(October 23, 2010 at 3:25 pm)A Theist Wrote: The fascists are at NPR. They're the ones shutting down free speech. Bill O'Reilly works for a private enterprise. NPR is feeding at the government trough. Our federal lawmakers need to cut off all funding to NPR.Repeat after me. NPR isn't the government. They cannot "shut down free speech". To claim otherwise is stupid & disingenuous. Grants do not work the way you seem to think they do. There are generally few "strings" attached to them. If a private citizen gets a Pell grant from the government, they can generally do whatever they want with that money as long as they keep passing classes & stay in the same socioeconomic situation.
I seriously doubt NPR would take money from the government if it came with any "strings" that would turn them into a puppet, a government mouthpiece.
The funny thing about your little rant is that a government that actually had the power to boss NPR around would be much closer to the correct definition of fascism than your strange non-governmental example.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
