End NPR subsidy: Windfall can replace federal funding
JOAN KROC, widow of McDonald’s tycoon Ray Kroc, has just given National Public Radio the power to set the American taxpayer free.I'm not holding my breath.
UPDATE: (via Res Ipsa Loquitur) There are more details on the NPR money laundering budget here. While NPR itself apparently only gets about $1M of taxpayer money annually, the "member stations" get $86M.
But the best part is:
Meanwhile, a hoax news release credited to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) circulated at several news Web sites yesterday, calling for NPR to "turn away this blood money," and for "Americans to boycott NPR programs since they will be bought with the slaughtered carcasses of billions of sentient beings."Bwahahaha!
The satiric release stated, "Because the bequest amounts to about twice NPR's annual budget, public radio stations will cease fund raising during NPR programs and Congress will withdraw all taxpayer funding."
PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said his group did not issue the release.
