Big Bird: R.I.P.

According to the Washington Post via Daily Kos diary:

A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," "Arthur" and "Postcards From Buster."

In addition, the subcommittee acted to eliminate within two years all federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- which passes federal funds to public broadcasters -- starting with a 25 percent reduction in CPB's budget for next year, from $400 million to $300 million.

This is all in coordination with the administration's efforts to stack the CPB with republican inquisitors so as to remove PBS's perceived liberal bias.

I like PBS. I don't like pledge drives. Taking the slippery-slope path, it looks like PBS will have to do pledge drives all the time or start putting in more commercials than they already do just to stay on the air.

I don't watch Sesame Street anymore, but I bet alot of kids still do, and this kind of thing is ridiculous. Couldn't we just buy one less stealth bomber?