Comments on Advance Indiana™: Richard Mourdock On The Budget Deal

And if churches campaign heavily for certain named...

2011-04-11T13:08:12.370-05:00

And if churches campaign heavily for certain named candidates, by name, and allow them to speak numerous times, they SHOULD lose their tax exempt status.
Churches can stand for philosophies, morals, etc. but NOT specific candidates.
Every black church in Indy would lose their status if this were upheld.

There simply is no reaon for NPR or PBS to be fund...

2011-04-11T10:41:52.196-05:00

There simply is no reaon for NPR or PBS to be funded with tax dollars anymore.

It's worth pointing out that the bill that def...

2011-04-11T10:39:12.646-05:00

It's worth pointing out that the bill that defunds NPR only makes it so the Corporation for Public Broadcasting can no longer give them grants. That money that NPR gets would simply go somewhere else. It doesn't actually cut a single dollar from the budget.

Please Review the unedited tape. He said the impac...

2011-04-11T10:38:01.721-05:00

Please Review the unedited tape. He said the impact on NPR would be negligible - but that some local stations, particularly rural stations, would not survive the cuts.
(which is true). I also agree with him that NPR is used as a political football.

The surreptitious recording and heavy editing is enough to discredit the source beyond any legitimate media standards.

Imagine if some of us used the same tactics with conservative groups. I wonder how many tax-exempt status we could get pulled on churches who endorse candidates.

No, Bob, the NPR executive was quite clear. The va...

2011-04-11T10:02:50.761-05:00

No, Bob, the NPR executive was quite clear. The vast majority of their funding does not come from the federal government so they wouldn't go out of business if the government stopped funding them. If editing was the problem, why was the executive axed?

That's because the majority of "republica...

2011-04-11T09:48:55.642-05:00

That's because the majority of "republicans" are now RINO. At least the ones who have entrenched themselves at the public trough.
The only goal for both r's & d's now is to keep themselves re-elected each term.
They don't give a WHIT about us or the condition of the country.

I didn't expect enough journalistic integrity ...

2011-04-11T09:29:30.502-05:00

I didn't expect enough journalistic integrity that you would issue a retraction for what you had written about the NPR hack-job... but I sure didn't think you would be run out and intentionally step in that pile of dog crap again.

The tape was heavily edited. Things were taken out of context - including the part about the funding.

The truth is that NPR is one of the few excellent news sources still operating.

And while NPR may not suffer-- local stations would (A point that was edited out)

It's fine that we need to cut spending... but don't think that means that the Republicans are going to defund programs they don't like while giving tax breaks to their buddies.

If there isn't some shared sacrifice, Republicans will be tossed out.