(Dissociated Press) Representative Andy Harris joined his GOP colleagues today (March 17 2011) in voting to completely defund National Public Radio. The bill, which passed the House, forbids any public radio station from purchasing any programming from NPR or or to pay NPR dues with federal funds.
Harris, shouting from his seat on the floor of the House of Representatives, interrupted the proceedings by declaring he has always been opposed to "NPR's pornographic material."
"Why just today," Harris shouted, "my staff tells me that some Japanese music group is playing a song about a G-string. Can you believe that?"
(NOTE: NPR PROGRAMMING FOR MARCH 17, 2011INCLUDED A PERFORMANCE BY NHK ORCHESTRA, WHICH PLAYED J.S. BACH'' "AIR ON A G STRING," ADDED BY CONDUCTOR ANDRE PREVIN, FOR A MARCH 16, 2011 WASHINGTON DC PERFORMANCE, AS AN EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY FOR THE JAPANESE PEOPLE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI AND THE ONGOING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CRISIS. http://www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=AIRE+ON+A+G+STRING )
"And earlier today," Harris called out, "there was some bit about a British playwright, who has something on Broadway - where else? - and they beeped some of the words in that play. Why? Because the words are obscene."
(NOTE: NPR PROGRAMMING FOR MARCH 17, 2011, INCLUDED AN ITEM ABOUT THE BROADWAY PREMIERE OF TOM STOPPARD'S NEW PLAY, ROCK AND ROLL, WHICH OPENS TONIGHT IN NEW YORK.)
"Now, I do not want my children or my wife or your children or your wives hearing little beep, beep beeps and then being tormented in their heads by thinking up all the possible words that are being beeped out!!
"Of course the solution is to defund the whole she-bang!"
"Soon enough we are gonna get to a jobs bill, I guess."
"But in the meantime, lets stop funding G-strings and pornographic beeps."
"Soon enough we are gonna get to a jobs bill, I guess."
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