New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday news recap, David Brooks, unleashed an unintentionally hilarious counterargument to Congress’s decision earlier in the week to rescind federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. According to Brooks, not only is PBS not on the left, but it also provides local news to the state of Maine.
Brooks began innocently enough by recalling his previous life at National Review and how conservatives have been trying for decades to strip partisan liberal organizations of their federal funding. However, now, he sought to protect his own, “And so that defund the left, which conservatives have talked about since I was a baby pundit many centuries ago, now they're actually doing it. The problem is that, say — well, we’ll talk about ourselves, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Republicans have been going after that since diapers, since we were all on diapers.”
He then added, “But there were always enough Republicans who understood what Jonathan just said, that, ‘Hey, I'm in Maine here, and I like having some local media.” And so there was always that rump that would stop it. But that rump is gone. And so all the defunding the left that conservatives have been dreaming about for decades, now they're doing it.’”
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. Curtis Houck
. Curtis Houck
. Curtis Houck
