Bush Nominates National Review Writer To Public Broadcasting Board
Bush Nominates National Review Writer To Public Broadcasting Board
The Corner is reporting that President Bush plans to nominate Warren Bell, television producer and National Review writer, to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The CPB is designed to provide a buffer between independent public broadcast networks and partisan politics.
But instead of being a nonpartisan advocate of public broadcasting, Bell will likely be another advocate of Bush’s agenda. (Under Bush, the CPB has steadily pushed right-wing priorities, trying to put a conservative slant on programming.)
In his writings for the National Review, Bell has been clear about his agenda:
“I could reach across the aisle and hug Nancy Pelosi, and I would, except this is a new shirt, and that sort of thing leaves a stain.” [5/11/05]
“I am thoroughly conservative in ways that strike horror into the hearts of my Hollywood colleagues. I support a woman’s right to choose what movie we should see, but not that other one.” [5/11/05]
“I have met President Bush twice. I have no powerful political connections — both times were the result of sizable checks written by me to support his campaign.” [3/31/05]
Looks like to get to Sesame Street, you have to take a turn to the right.
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I don't see what the fuss is about, this guy is on par with the rest of Bush's nominees, they are all hacks and he loves them for it.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:04 pmThe National Review ? The only thing that would've made me laugh harder was if he was from the National Enquirer .
June 21st, 2006 at 3:05 pmNot even PBS is free now.
Guess PBS will go away, cause this guy is going to dry up donations quickly.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:06 pmThat's great.....now PBS will become foxnew2, and Jim Lehrer will become Brit Hume 2
June 21st, 2006 at 3:07 pmOh, and NPR will now become the new home of RushLimbaugh and Sean Hannity
June 21st, 2006 at 3:09 pmMaybe the new way it should be reffered to is:
PBS - Political Bull Sh*t
And the logo with the "P" that has the eye should be bigger and staring right at you through the TV screen and blinking.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:13 pmIt will take a bit before they catch on on satellite radio , dumb rednecks haven't even caught up to FM yet so they have no market .
June 21st, 2006 at 3:14 pmFirst Hitler burned the books...
June 21st, 2006 at 3:17 pmBoy, last night's "FrontLine" must have REALLY ticked Bush off.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:20 pm"both times were the result of sizable checks written by me to support his campaign.â€
Conservatism=$Cronyism
June 21st, 2006 at 3:27 pmNice fancy car in the background.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:27 pmWhat a dick!
June 21st, 2006 at 3:29 pmMaybe they'll have a 'Republican' gay program starring James West and Andrew Sullivan. Mary Cheney will talk about how much she loves her Dad like she did when she was interviewed on Hannity and Colmes.
It will give a new meaning to 'sexed up.'
Michael Huffington will do a gay business program.
The 'Republicans' deserve all of the bashing they can get. What a bunch of phonies.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:30 pmI thought that they just got rid of the conservative Thompson guy, for this same reason.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:35 pm#9, maybe so...that episode of Frontline last night really put in to perspective how well orchastrated the lead up to war in iraq was, the level these guys went to to coordinately push this war is amazing, and all the more reason to get all of these evil bastards out, beginning this fall
June 21st, 2006 at 3:45 pmIn related news, Frontline was replaced with a talk show about missing rich white girls.
And tune in to PBS for the all new Ann Coulter Hour O' Hate.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:48 pmi would like to see another expose covering the unilateral executive position that the greedy facsists are taking...to take an idea from the nixon era (similar to last night) and to completely exploit it for short sited greed, and to increase abusive powers (lacking any real balls will cause that) really needs to be explored before this guy shuts down the programming
a 90 minute profile on
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Hey, is that the same Bell who tried his luck at becoming a porn star but got fired before his first scene because his weewee was too puny, and in revenge became a right wing conservative attack writer, or another guy? I get them mixed up.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:52 pmnow, i'm not saying i watch the porn, but, yea joe - i think you might be correct! he sure looks like a porn star wannabe, not?
June 21st, 2006 at 4:04 pmwait wait wait, whats wrong with porn (if you're old enough)...and if he didn't have the pre-requisites, i guess that would explain the car he's got his arm wrapped around!
June 21st, 2006 at 4:11 pmHe doesn't have the mustache for a porn star.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:11 pmPutting it all together,
Looks like to get to Sesame Street, you have to take a turn to the right.
However, there will be two new characters introduced this fall: Dick and Bush!
June 21st, 2006 at 4:19 pmWell after all, Tomlinson got away with murder, flouting the law and writing mysterious checks to paid political operatives. When in doubt, give it a double dose. Just what Doctor Rove ordered. Behind that shark's tooth, is another shark's tooth, and another, and another...
June 21st, 2006 at 4:21 pmi would like to see another expose covering the unilateral executive position that the greedy facsists are taking
look no further than Wolfowitz. Strauss, or Carl Schmitt.
Carl Schmitt has become a common reference in recent writings of the intellectual left as well as the right. This debate concerns not only the interpretation of Schmitt’s own positions, but also matters relevant to contemporary politics: the idea that laws of the state cannot strictly limit actions of its sovereign; the problem of a "state of exception", etc. In recent speeches, for example, President George W. Bush, echoing an argument made by Richard Nixon in the 1970s, has insisted on the legality of exceptional executive power
June 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
Can any liberal here actually justify the government spending money on the public broadcasting corporation? I mean really. Maybe thirty years ago when there were only three networks and a few cable channels. I would like to see PBS go away entirely or use no government funding. Like the liberal cause it likes to promote, its just as dead.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pmnow, i’m not saying i watch the porn, but, yea joe - i think you might be correct.
so the guy was a porno starlet?
June 21st, 2006 at 4:31 pmhardy har har!
would like to see PBS go away entirely or use no government funding. Like the liberal cause it likes to promote, its just as dead.
Comment by milbog — June 21, 2006 @ 4:28 pm
The oil companies get corporate welfare right? Halliburton is certainly getting it's share of 'help', as well as this guy above. Donate money to bush, cheney, senator or lobbyist and profit from it.
That to me seems like 'crony welfare'.
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What were you saying milbog?
June 21st, 2006 at 4:38 pm#29
You are trying to change the subject. You cannot justify PBS. It is one of many government programs that are ineffective and unnecessary. If we made government smaller, then wouldn't we have to collect less in taxes? I know that contradicts liberal thinking but if you can't defend PBS, then it deserves to go away. I am positive Sesame Street will still be on, just a different channel.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:47 pmOver the 2001-03 period, the 275 companies in the survey earned almost $1.1 trillion in pretax profits in the United States. Had all of those profits been reported to the IRS and taxed at the statutory 35 percent corporate tax rate, the 275 companies would have paid $370 billion in income taxes over the three years. But instead, the companies reported only about half of their profits — $557 billion — to the IRS.
milbog thinks that business should lie to the government and get a free ride on the taxpayers backs? Why I would much rather see PBS make something that educates people instead of this Enron style self serving culture of corruption that Bush sleeps with.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:48 pmI bet Bell gets all the chicks.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:48 pmYou cannot justify PBS
Oh really? PBS hires people and pays them a salary?
A non profit business.
I can Justify PBS.
I cannot Justify enron accounting and for profit corporate welfare.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:53 pmHere is my logic, liberals have dominated the subject of education over the last forty years throwing more and more tax dollars at the problem. What kind of return have we received for our money? This morning, USA Today reported that the overall graduation rate for high school is 82%, a rate that I don't think we can be proud of. I think we need to change what we are doing. The NEA has the democratic party in their back pocket which means unless Republicans decide to change things, we are going to have to settle for status quo. I would rather create incentives for teachers that have students who preform better than the tenure situation we are currently burdened with. Again, I restate, PBS is a total waste of taxpayer money. If they can't survive on private donations or from advertising, so be it.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:56 pm#33
That is not justification. If PBS went away tomorrow, those people would find jobs for other networks. They just wouldn't be paid with taxpayer dollars. We need a smaller government. Is that too hard a concept to understand?
June 21st, 2006 at 4:59 pmCan any liberal here actually justify the government spending money on the public broadcasting corporation?
Comment by milbog
Yes, milbag, I can. Perhaps you ought to check out the PBS programs yourself to see the "liberal cause it likes to promote" instead of relying on the Hannity and O'Lielly programs for your information.
Like the NOVA series, or the programs on Arts and Drama that won't be shown on TV due to marketing issues. Or kids programs like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, and educational programs on health and fitness, Math, social studies, literature, science and technology. They also produce sources and lesson plans for progressive thinking teachers in rural areas, for schools and classrooms nationwide, not to mention home schooling.
These are things you won't find on the TV networks. Only a small portion of their programing is "news" and I prefer to call it daily issues and show both sides to a problem. Like Frontline, the BBC, or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
The conservatives seem to have a problem with any program that disagrees with Rush Limbaugh's, Hannity's, or Michael Savage's world view.
Perhaps we ought to tax the Fox News Network a little more instead of giving them huge tax loopholes to squeeze through and make it more fair for your tax dollars that make up for their tax breaks.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:59 pm#36
Ever hear of the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, Noggin, the Disney Channel, Nickelodean, A&E, Bravo, etc. Between the major networks and cable there are more than enough choices to hear news from both sides. I am not for limiting free speech and shutting down PBS would certainly not do that. If PBS were not spewing out the liberal talking points and instead conservative ones, would you be so quick to defend them?
June 21st, 2006 at 5:05 pmWAY TO GO, JOE!
hey, milbog - when was the last time YOU watched PBS?
June 21st, 2006 at 5:09 pmuh huh... that's what i thougt... and it shows...
I guess in milbog's world everyone has cable or satellite. Your comparision of PBS to A&E illustrates your ignorance of the type of programming on PBS milbog. You won't see Dog the Bounty Hunter, Rollergirls or my favorite - Growing up Gotti, where they profile the daily lives of former mob boss decendants - on PBS.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:23 pm“I could reach across the aisle and hug Nancy Pelosi, and I would, except this is a new shirt, and that sort of thing leaves a stain.â€
Are we talking a "blue dress" stain, here? If so, the man has a real problem.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:29 pmmilbog, you have to think outside of houston, beyond dallas and oklahoma city to the entire country, if the government did not provide this avenue it would close up period...despite your like trying to dumbdown the nation, it is a miracle the grad rate is 82%!!! imagine what the country would look like with an educated and informed, not misinformed, voting block
June 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pmI guess Bush picked Warren Bell, because Joe Goebbels wasn't available.
June 21st, 2006 at 6:04 pmHi-ho, Kermit the Freedom Frog here. Today kids, we'll be learning how to hate liberals. What fun yeeeeeeaaaaaaaah!
June 21st, 2006 at 6:09 pmWarren Bell is a cheeseball sit-com writer. His qualifications for the board of CPF are non-existent but what do you expect from Boy George?
June 21st, 2006 at 6:13 pm#37
June 21st, 2006 at 6:17 pm"Liberal talking points"? David Brooks, Margaret Warner, Gwen Ifill? What planet are you from anyway?
Wow. Dude's a jerk. What a surprise.
June 21st, 2006 at 6:32 pmmilbog - I am so tired of repugnuts blaming teachers for the failure of their children when they cannot be bothered to make sure their kids study. You would not ever guess the time I have spent calling, emailing, and yes, even writing to parents because their kids refuse to do homework and cannot pass a test to save their lives.
You know the answer I get the most? "He/she is 15 and I cannot do anything about it?" What the hell does that mean?
When you say a teachers pay should be tied to student performance then you had better come up with a plan that will make students and their parents responsible for their education. I cannot do it alone!
June 21st, 2006 at 6:45 pmimagine what the country would look like with an educated and informed, not misinformed, voting block
Comment by bushllit — June 21, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
aaahhhhhhhhh... sigh...........
June 21st, 2006 at 6:46 pmHe should fit right in with the rest of the fascists.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:11 pmIt's not just that he's a conservative, he's an utter philistine as well. Maybe when ABC drops According to Jim (the Jim Belushi vehicle that Bell wrote for), PBS will pick it up.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:39 pmDidn't Bush do this before? He put an ultra conservative in charge of PBS and ...as I recall, didn't that guy go to jail for the malfeasance he performed in office to benefit the GOP?
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:29 pmRepublicans whine and scream bias every five seconds when something based on reality is published.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:51 pmFrankly, you people are really pathetic. None of you know Warren Bell, and yet he's called a fascist, porn star, and Philistine. Here's the scoop, losers: He's a good guy who happens to be a conservative who's smart and funny. From all of your lame and viciously mean posts it's clear we don't have any liberals here who meet that description. Everybody's a big talker when they're anonymous through blogs, but he's taking a stand for what he believes in EVEN THOUGH HIS INDUSTRY HATES WHAT HE SAYS. Assuming you cretins have jobs, how many of YOU do that?
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:03 pmWell the assimilation is nearly complete, American Democracy to Fascism. All white, all the time, all RETHUGlican - no dissent, no free speech, no more NASTY PRIVACY for the citizens, but TOTAL AND COMPLETE PRIVACY FOR THE SO CALLED ADMINISTRATION.
No more PBS, now it is GOP-B.S.. Good work nazis.
By the way, it is told on FSTV (for those of you religated to cable that is FREE SPEECH T.V.) that KINDA SLEEZY RICE will be OUTTED for being a Lesbo within the year. Woooooo hooo! An ethiopian in the fuel supply. Gotta be some kind of "come uppance for that uppity blackie". This should be interesting, having a Lesbitarian in the Nazi ranks. How ever will we tell the children? Well, those children that aren't molested by GOP media moguls..... see buzzflash for that one.
June 24th, 2006 at 3:12 amGet a grip lefties. PBS (CPB) has been a haven for socialist dogma for decades now. You dare call Warren Bell a "hack?" The true hacks are the ones, like you, who can't make a statement without a) denigrating someone else, and b) a publicly-funded forum like CPB.
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