Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Shutdown: Cancer Treatments Defunded, Big Bird Receives $445 Million



Shutdown: Cancer Treatments Defunded, Big Bird Receives $445 Million
by John Nolte 8 Oct 2013, 1:36 PM PDT
It seems impossible to make sense of a president who would threaten to veto a compromise funding bill to cover cancer treatments for children sick with cancer, while public television and radio stations receive almost a half-billion dollars in funding. Via Fox News:

Funding for clinical cancer trials and other life-saving research under the National Institutes of Health was cut off in response to the government slimdown, but it looks like the cookie monster will still be knee-deep in chocolate chips (or is it carrots now?)

According to the Daily Treasury Statement and first reported by CNS News, the administration dished out $445 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) on the first day of the slimdown, which means funds for the likes of PBS Newshour, NPR and “Sesame Street” are being spent before cancer research.

“It’s more than irresponsible, it is reprehensible. It’s an ‘in-your-face’ move by the administration, blatantly picking winners and losers in this shutdown,” C. Edmund Wright, a columnist for Breitbart.com and American Thinker, told FOX411. “Public broadcasting is a staple of liberal propaganda.”

PBS and NPR are state-funded (in part) left-wing media outlets.

NPR
Gary E. Knell is the president & CEO for the NPR, and was the president & CEO for the Sesame Workshop.

Note: Sesame Street is a program for the Sesame Workshop, and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Vincent A. Mai is a trustee at the Sesame Workshop, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
George Soros was a benefactor for the NPR, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NPR, the International Rescue Committee, the Human Rights Watch, the Sundance Institute, the Center for American Progress, the Urban Institute (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Patricia E. Mitchell was a director at the Human Rights Watch, the president & CEO for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute.
Geoffrey K. Sands is a trustee at the Sundance Institute, a director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a director at the PBS Foundation.
Laura Nichols was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the SVP for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Donald A. Baer is a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), a director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a director at the PBS Foundation.
PBS NewsHour was a program for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
 Judy Woodruff is a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and a co-host for PBS NewsHour.
Robert H. Malott was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a board member for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
James S. Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
John Edward Porter was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a director at the PBS Foundation.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Chuck Hagel is the chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense, and a director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Newton N. Minow was the chairman for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago.
Bernadine Dohrn was a litigator for Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Weather Underground, and married to William C. Ayers.
Weather Underground
The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was an American radical left organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan.
William C. Ayers is married to Bernadine Dohrn, was a member of the Weather Underground, a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago.
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Annenberg Challenge
Annenberg told Newton Minow, senior counsel of Sidley & Austin, chairman of the Carnegie Corporation (1993–1997), Annenberg Professor of Communications Law and Policy at Northwestern University (1987–2003) and director of its Annenberg Washington Program (1987–1996): "Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. South America, Asia, Europe, all of them. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school. Who would, especially in a big city? Nobody. So we've got to do something. If we don't, our civilization will collapse."
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was the chairman for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

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