Monday, November 29, 2004
Wants to Destroy PBS and Tear Big Bird Apart
What the fuck is it with social conservatives and public television?
A state legislator says he wants to cut South Carolina Educational Television's budget after it aired a documentary on gays in the South.
"I thought it was just social, leftist propaganda that they had no business airing," said state Rep. John Graham Altman, R-Charleston. "They were actively promoting homosexuality as an OK thing to do."
[snip]
"An analogy would be a librarian buying books for the bookshelf. 'We are your Neighbors' was just one 26-minute show out of 8,700 hours of programming. We are just presenting a point of view. This is just one book on a shelf of thousands of books," Bresnahan said.
Emphasis mine. Now, does Part A seem like a logical reaction to Part B?
Oh, wait. Never mind. Logic is out. Shoddy moral outrage is the new black!
A state legislator says he wants to cut South Carolina Educational Television's budget after it aired a documentary on gays in the South.
"I thought it was just social, leftist propaganda that they had no business airing," said state Rep. John Graham Altman, R-Charleston. "They were actively promoting homosexuality as an OK thing to do."
[snip]
"An analogy would be a librarian buying books for the bookshelf. 'We are your Neighbors' was just one 26-minute show out of 8,700 hours of programming. We are just presenting a point of view. This is just one book on a shelf of thousands of books," Bresnahan said.
Emphasis mine. Now, does Part A seem like a logical reaction to Part B?
Oh, wait. Never mind. Logic is out. Shoddy moral outrage is the new black!
