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6.22.05 @ 12:01AM

Yesterday evening, George Neumayr, executive editor of The American Spectator, was an invited guest on PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, in a segment entitled "Public Broadcasting Under Fire." Below we include a sampling of the many letters we received after his appearance:

Your whole organization is a sorry pile of manure in the first place but that crap that Neumayr was spreading on tonight's "NewsHour" was an embarrassment even for a sorry bunch like you.

Christ on a Ritz, could that sorry bastard possibly be the best you could offer to state your warped and perverted view of PBS. Bill Moyers this, and Bill Moyers that ... yadda yadda yadda, "Postcards From Buster" blah blah blah. Your whole organization put together isn't fit to lick Bill Moyers ass. It just shows how terrific Mr. Moyers actually is when he can screw your whole outfit around so easily by just broadcasting the truth. As he said, it's the one thing that that makes people like you run for cover like vampires from sunlight.

If there's one thing that I could fault the people at PBS for, it would be giving a forum to ass---es like Neumayr. Of course when he makes an utter fool of himself on public TV like he did tonight, it just showcases what a screaming bunch of lunatics make up outfits like Spectator and Regnery.
-- John Pitt

To my knowledge I have not ever seen your publication. If this fellow from your publication, Neumayr, who was on The Newshour (PBS) tonight, is anyways representative of the quality of your publication, you should be ashamed to be purveyors of such non-factual, non-responsive, non-sense about PBS, NPR and CPB. To protect yourselves, I suggest that you fire Neumayr tonight and make a statement to the American people that he is not representative of your organization. His interview with Geoffrey Brown will undoubtedly be played repeatedly to illustrate how low journalistic/media opinion was on the Right in the 2nd Bush administration.

So sad to see this.
-- Mike Rashotte
Tallahassee, Florida

I just watched your appearance on PBS, during which you lambasted the "liberal bias" of PBS. As countless right-wing Republicans before you, you just hammer away at a nonexistent liberal bias in the media. Do you ever watch CNN? Fox? ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, etc? All of them dominated by Right-Wingers. All of them afraid to have an opinion that differs from the powers that be, namely the fascist administration of George W. Bush.

Enough. ENOUGH! WE ARED NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE! We have had enough lies, deceptions, and derisions from the likes of you, Mr. O'Reilly, Bill Novak and the rest of your unpalatable ilk.

Before I watched you spout your vindictive, I did not really care if PBS survived; it has pandered too much to the conservatives lately; but you just managed to make me an activist to keep CPB viable.
-- Sylvia Arcieri

I just finished listening to you on the Newshour's segment on the CPB with Jeffery Brown.

Sir, you were completely unprepared. Other then mentioning Bill Moyers 5 times -- even though after three times Mr. Reed from KCPT noted that Moyers is retired from PBS, you just went on about the liberal bias. What's up with that?

You did not assert a "liberal" bias on Sesame Street (which my kids grew up on), or Barney, or Nova or Mystery, or Washington Week in Review, or Front Line or any other show.

I occasionally read the Spectator, and I am unable to accept that a journalist and editor of a magazine of that quality can be so unencumbered by the facts. That is not how your magazine works, at least from how I read it.

Moreover, Bill Buckley's show was on at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays. Actually, his show was one I watched religiously when I emigrated from Israel in 1974. The show was not on at Midnight, as you opined. Among Mr. Buckley's great qualities was his erudition, knowledge of the subject matter and ability to tear an argument apart was magical. You might consider re-watching some of his shows. I watched his show from September 1974 through at least 1996, in New York City, Austin, New Orleans and now Philadelphia, PA.

I am a conservative and like you live on the "liberal east coast". But, I have noted throughout my life that when I open my mouth and am not indifferent to facts, I am more effective. Your argument would have more force and validity if you too would follow that creed.
-- Itzchak E. Kornfeld

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