I have the misfortune to be in the congress district for Scott Perry, a well known conservative congressman, who was part of the January 6th coup plot, and who is a typical liar and fraud.
He now is making more legislation to feed his ignorant and hateful supporters. Called the “No Propaganda” act, it is to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a quasi government entity that handles the various public tv and radio stations around the country.
It’s of course, hilarious to see poor Scott whine about propaganda when that’s all the conservatives do. He has no evidence of any bias, but oh dear, he must call anyone who dares contradict him “woke”. Curious how he can’t say that CPB is lying about anything at all.
And his bill isn’t even up on his website. Tsk.
Here’s his press release with my commentary:
“Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Scott Perry (PA-10), Thomas Massie (KY-04), Mary Miller (IL-15), and Andy Ogles (TN-05) introduced the No Propaganda Act to defund the biased Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The organization and its subsidiaries are staffed by extreme liberals, including the newly appointed divisive CEO of the National Public Radio (NPR) who has openly campaigned for Joe Biden.”
Yep, many people have campaigned for others and can still be unbiased. Poor Scott can’t figure that out. Unsurprisingly, his fellow conservatives sponsoring this bill are:
Thomas Massie (KY-04) – a nutcase who wants the Dept of Education abolished. He has voted against sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. He has spoken at the John Birch Society, aka KKK-lite. Of cousre, he is a climate change denier, and simply one more idiot in a caucus full of idiots. Surprising, that ol’ Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t on this list of supporters. He is also an anti-vaxxer, and the typical antisemite when claiming that vaccines were as bad as the holocaust. It’s hilarious that his own party members calls him a “dumbass”.
Mary Miller (IL-15) who is basically a female version of Massie, and who voted against giving medals to the police who defended the capitol on January 6. She’s amusingly known for saying the following and the poor excuse by her campaign later, made when Roe v. Wade was cut down:
““I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday,” Miller said, then raised her arms in an animated clap amid cheers from the crowd, which numbered in the thousands on a sweltering day in West Central Illinois.”
She also wants to cancel birthright citizenship, and is again just one more failed Christian nationalist.
and finally, Andy Ogles (TN-05) who is again someone who lies about January 6. He also seems to have the same problem many conservatives have when lying about their resume and education:
“On February 26, Ogles said that he was “mistaken” in claiming to have an MTSU degree in international relations, and claimed that he requested his college transcript the week before, and only learned then that his degree was actually in Liberal Studies.[4][6][10] NewsChannel 5 called Ogles’s statement “apparently preemptive” because Ogles “ignored our requests for comment” after the media outlet obtained his MTSU transcript from an old job application.[4] On February 27, NewsChannel 5 published Ogles’s transcript, which showed that Ogles took only one economics course at a community college, scoring a C pass, while he passed nine (and failed several other) political science courses at MTSU.[4] By February 28, Ogles’s congressional biography was edited to simply state: “Andy obtained his degree from MTSU.””
Ogles has repeatedly made public claims of being an “economist.”[16][17] After NewsChannel 5 questioned how much formal training in economics Ogles had, he said he was an economist because when “you look at the body of someone’s work … I’ve spent the last decade working on economic policy and tax policy. “[3][9] During that time, Ogles had worked for roughly five years as an anti-tax lobbyist with Americans for Prosperity, and then for a year as the executive director of the Laffer Center, an organisation run by economist Arthur Laffer.[9] The executive director position seemed to involve mainly “administrative” work, reported NewsChannel 5, with Ogles not being named as an author of any economic reports uploaded on the Laffer Center’s website.[3][9] Ogles’ congressional website claims that “while working at the Laffer Center, Andy became a nationally recognized expert on tax policy and healthcare, having been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily“.[3] NewsChannel 5 questioned this claim, being unable to find any articles in the publications independently citing him as an expert, only finding three columns written by Ogles in these publications, all of which were written when he was a lobbyist, before he worked for the Laffer Center.[3]
At a political debate, Ogles called himself “a former member of law enforcement, worked in international sex crimes, specifically child trafficking“, while at a separate forum, he said: “I went into law enforcement. I worked in human trafficking.”[3][7] NewsChannel 5 reported that Ogles was a volunteer reserve deputy with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office from 2009 to 2011, with his position revoked for failing to meet minimum standards, failing to progress in field training, and failing to attend required meetings.[3] The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office said that records do not show Ogles trained or worked against international sex trafficking as a reserve deputy.” – wikipedia
Oh, and there’s this too: “Ogles faced criticism when nearly $25,000 in donations received via GoFundMe to finance a child burial garden in his stillborn child’s memory appeared to have gone unspent” – wikipedia
Such perfect allies for Scott.
“The American Taxpayer is footing the bill for a woke media corporation that pretends to be impartial while pushing Chinese propaganda,” said Rep. Perry. “CPB cannot be allowed to keep using your hard-earned tax dollars to push a biased and political agenda that goes against what’s best for Americans.”
Claiming to be unbiased and serving in the best interest of the public, the CPB funds content that incorporates woke and divisive messaging. A whistleblower, and 25-year veteran of NPR, recently called out NPR for allowing its “pro-Democrat political leanings to seep into editorial judgments, including its decision to turn a blind eye to the Hunter Biden laptop story.” In addition to influencing public opinion about U.S. politics, CPB has worked with a Chinese Communist Party-controlled media outlet registered as a foreign agent to air a documentary promoting Chinese propaganda. These efforts are funded in part by CPB grants paid for by American Citizens. “
No evidence for any of this being lies or being illegal. And no evidence for any chinese propaganda. The “whistleblower”, Uri Berliner, has yet to show evidence for his claims, and unsurprisingly, was suspended for not for exposing any corruption, but for breaking his contract. His claims that his nonsense must be supported fail since no one is required to give equal time to baseless nonsense. No bias doesn’t mean too stupid to call out lies.
“Congress must exercise oversight of the CPB and stop corruption in its tracks,” said Rep. Andy Ogles. “Taxpayers fund the CPB and it should be a source that provides a truly neutral and balanced perspective. That can only be achieved through the diversity of political ideology. Recent reports from a whistleblower indicate the CPB is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the Democrat party. I thank Congressman Perry for leading this bill to defund it and I’m proud to cosponsor.”
Unsprisingly, Ongles has no evidence of this bias either.
“Founded in 1967, the CPB is a publicly funded non-profit corporation that promotes and advances public broadcasting. Throughout the years, Congress has appropriated nearly $15 billion to the CPB, which distributes the funds to publicly owned television and radio stations like the Public Broadcasting Service.”
Yep, that’s true and millions of Americans, including me, depended on the educational content and lack of biased information when we were growing up. As usual, conservatives are terrified of education and the truth.
Guess what came from public television? Mr. Rogers the anti-Christian conservative asshole. And yes, I know that he was a christian and a pastor. Those things don’t always make someone a failure. Here’s Mr. Rogers defending public television.
And now some memes for those who enjoy them on my blog:
Club Schadenfreude 
Julia Child was PBS and that’s all I need to say!
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Yes, she was and she’s also why I do love food and cooking.
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