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PBS Hires Ann Coulter: Levin and Lohan to Co-Host Series

By Jeffrey Lord on 4.1.11 @ 6:09AM

David Brock revealed as Fox spy at Media Matters; Ailes tapped for NPR in "Tea Party Media Coup."

April 1, 2011
Washington

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today, in the first of a series of stunning announcements, that its television subsidiary the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) will be replacing the defunct Bill Moyers Journal with a new weekly program, Ann Coulter's Far Out Journey.

The Coulter show is one of several dramatic changes to the public broadcasting network composed of PBS and its corporate sibling National Public Radio (NPR). The changes are the result of major upheavals in the wake of the firing of NPR commentator Juan Williams and covert 60 Minutes-style videos from journalist James O'Keefe showing NPR executives entertaining financial offers from "donors" they believed to be representing the Muslim Brotherhood. The shift in approach is also a direct consequence of the Republican and Tea Party victories in the U.S. House and Senate in the 2010 elections.

Liberals throughout Washington and the media were outraged at the news, with MSNBC's Chris Matthews labeling the changes a "Tea Party Media Coup." Said an indignant Bill Moyers: "Public broadcasting is ours. The American taxpayer bought and paid for this as a gift to liberalism. Who do these right-wing ideologues think they are? We had to tolerate Bill Buckley in the beginning and it was a huge mistake. Lyndon warned me the SOB would be taping those damn shows forever and we gave the guy free rein to deconstruct us for another 26 years after Lyndon died! 'The Great Society this, the Great Society that. Ronald Reagan thinks this, Xerxes said that.' My God! Never again! It's outrageous to think conservatives have any say about the operation of public broadcasting. Just pay the bill and shut up!"

New York Times columnist and PBS analyst David Brooks reportedly sniffed: "These Tea Party people don't even have creases in their pants."

The pairing of the conservative Coulter with what some see as the slightly more liberal culture of PBS will begin with Coulter investigating what a CPB spokesperson termed off-the-record as "absolutely bizarre ideas from human history" such as: "Marriage between a man and a woman"; "Islamic radicals were responsible for 9/11 and not George Bush" and "Is a human baby really a baby?" Coulter, in what one insider briskly termed a "rocky start," has startled the PBS bureaucracy by tartly observing these ideas and others are "not only not bizarre, you are bizarre."

An initial bid for Coulter to replace Brooks in his Friday back-and-forths on The PBS NewsHour with liberal former Democratic operative Mark Shields was resisted. Said an agitated PBS spokesman: "First, Mr. Shields is not a liberal and a Democratic operative. He's a PBS analyst. Second, Mr. Brooks creases his pants. Enough said." In return for Brooks keeping his PBS job, Coulter was allowed to do a show discussing the new Steven Spielberg/James O'Keefe film "Schiller's List." The controversial film is the tale of supposedly sophisticated liberal white media urbanites unable to correctly play a Georgetown drinking game of "spot the bigot."

The move to hire Coulter comes as CPB announced a significant revamping of its approach to journalism, with an emphasis on "diversity" or, as one CPB source who declined to be named described it, "getting these bastards out of our stash."

IN A MAJOR CHANGE to the executive suite of NPR, Fox News has announced that its own president, Roger Ailes, has been granted a "public service leave of absence" to replace Vivian Schiller and "any other executive at PBS, NPR and CPB worth noting." Ms. Schiller, who launched the NPR imbroglio with the firing of Williams, was recently forced out after the O'Keefe videos became public. Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch released a statement saying "we at Fox are proud to be able to respond to the call of so many Americans to do something to save America's public broadcasting network." Ms. Schiller was reportedly undergoing therapy with her psychiatrist or publicist and could not be reached for comment.

Murdoch's statement, designed as an olive branch to the liberal bureaucracy at the public broadcasting network, was borrowed extensively from recent remarks by current CPB president Patricia Harrison. Said Murdoch:

Today, Fox News responded positively to an invitation from our elected leaders to significantly expand public broadcasting stations' ability to acquire programming that they feel best serves the needs of their communities.

Every day, these stations serve the informational and educational needs of the public with programming that contributes to the health and well-being of the country in a way that would not be possible without federal support. The American people overwhelmingly agree that public broadcasting is a service worthy of the federal investment, hence the invitation to Fox News to partner in breathing new life into a network that is supported by the tax dollars of millions of Americans of all political persuasions.

In lieu of cutting off funding from the federal government or returning the recent $1.8 million grant to NPR from left-wing billionaire George Soros's Open Society Institute, the new arrangement with Mr. Ailes, negotiated by Minnesota Congresswoman and House Tea Party Caucus chair Michele Bachmann, also provides matching funding from the Koch Family Foundations and their "Even More Open Society Institute." After consulting the Reverend Jesse Jackson on the need for a "rainbow of inclusion" conservative white brothers David and Charles Koch have been added to the NPR board along with economist Thomas Sowell and entrepreneur Herman Cain -- both men reportedly black in spite of repeated liberal assertions to the contrary. Columnist Michelle Malkin, bitterly described as "not really a woman" according to the National Organization for Women, was appointed anyway.

Talks were under way with Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center to serve as the new NPR board chairman, the latter move held up momentarily by a wave of reports of Jonestown-style mass suicides at both NPR and PBS. The reports proved to be false when it was disclosed that Ailes had already removed all Kool-Aid from the premises. The Bozell appointment will be announced later today.

Other programs announced for PBS and NPR will include:

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (95) | Leave a comment

Russell Steadman| 4.1.11 @ 6:31AM

I 'm Swedeish, so you almost had me there, Jeffrey. A little slow this April Fools Day.. :-)

Dee See| 4.1.11 @ 6:47AM

--'Outrageous,outspoken' Coulter, having been
deployed to skilfully distract and cover the tracks
of stealth Globalism, really has earned her spot on
PBS.

Some might vainly hope she'll be using her
new media pulpit to unmask the capstone
'continuity of agenda' and its still very much
at large players within BOTH parties.

The truly awake however, who pitched their
tellys years ago ---WON'T be tuning in.

Franchise slum POST America dwindles on.

Dave| 4.1.11 @ 6:05PM

D-mn! 'Ya got me!

Nice work guys. I gotta start paying attention to the ol' kitchen calender. As far as I was concerned it was still March 31st and I had another day before the phone and light bills were due.

My bad! : - (

(uhh) Did I mention ...'ya got me? : - )

Alan Brooks| 4.3.11 @ 6:48PM

Phone Conversation
Agent: "Anne?"
Anne Coulter: "Oh, hi!"
Agent: "Listen, your last two books were great, Annie-- 'How To Feed A Snot Sandwich To A Progressive' sold 1,800,000 units, and 'How To Spank A Liberal Like Mommy Would' sold 2,950,000".
AC: "Yeah?"
Agent: "But so interest doesn't flag you have to say something in the next interview a little zingy".
AC: "Like what?"
Agent: "Oh, you know, just a little something with pizzazz".
AC: "How about 'the 9-11 widows who want a separate investigation are witches'.
Agent: "Great! Just great. Oh, if only this were October!"
AC: "You mean Halloween lead-up?"
Agent: "Exactly! You amaze me every time. By the by, I did lunch with Ted Kennedy last week and he said you are real cute".
AC: "What else?"
Agent: "Oh, I just called to touch base, it's always great to talk with y..."
AC: "No I meant what else did Ted say?"
Agent: " Oh, he said you are a little on the skinny side, but just great. Hypnotic eyes, high school cheerleader hair...

Larry| 4.1.11 @ 6:58AM

Sheee it!! I read about half of this and then realized what today is.

Don't do that to me!!!! :-)

PoconoJoe| 4.1.11 @ 7:00AM

Rush discusses CNN with his caddy, Rick Sanchez.

I juse about laughed out loud.

Bob K.| 4.1.11 @ 7:26AM

Obama to disclose his college transcripts! Press Conference today from the Rose Garden!

Mitch Angoop| 4.1.11 @ 5:11PM

Thje reason barry the muslim refuses to reveal his birth certificate is because sub-human creatures don't have certificates of 'live' birth; but lists of ingredients and how much of our daily minimum requirement of bovine excreta is gained by partaking of it's 'meat'.

Mike Hawk| 4.1.11 @ 7:28AM

Today is the debut of the new Nationally designated holiday for Liberals and atheists. Happy Liberal Day.

Brian| 4.1.11 @ 7:41AM

Sounds like an April Fools joke.

Ret. Marine| 4.1.11 @ 7:42AM

Mr. Lord, thank you for the great laught this morning, I needed that, as I suspect many others did too.

Donna| 4.1.11 @ 7:44AM

Funny! You had me there until the NPR Board of Directors and then I started laughing. In my heart of hearts though, I wish so much this was true. I think these senarios would be good for a new network FNL (Friday Night Live)-it would sink SNL.

Prester john| 4.1.11 @ 7:56AM

You had me for about 3 seconds.

But watch move on.org and Kos go crazy.

Heh

c. j. acworth| 4.1.11 @ 7:57AM

The really scary thing is that I got half-way through the Bill Moyers rant before I caught on. Even if he didn't say it out loud, wanna bet he thought it?

Kissufim| 4.1.11 @ 8:04AM

I feel a little less crazy after reading this. Please, please let every day be today.

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 4.1.11 @ 8:09AM

Bill Moyers said: "It's outrageous to think conservatives have any say about the operation of public broadcasting. Just pay the bill and shut up!"

Now Bill may not have said that on this particular 1st day of April, but you know the man thinks this, and says it in private every other day of the year. If PBS adopted half of these ideas, they wouldn't need Taxpayer's money anymore, they'd have real ratings, and real paying sponsors.

Where is my reply to this button? I don't like this new "back to the past" format!!

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.1.11 @ 8:11AM

A good spoof, which sadly is the reality. Here's another one which is a mock ad from the GOP:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....ma-2012-ad

jothepro| 4.1.11 @ 8:14AM

ANN COULTER'S FAR OUT JOURNEY

Qwilly| 4.1.11 @ 8:16AM

It was the kool aid that killed me ....thanks

erp| 4.1.11 @ 8:21AM

April Fool?

Will| 4.1.11 @ 8:34AM

I actually read the first few paragraphs...and then remembered the date.

Tenn Slim| 4.1.11 @ 8:36AM

I also read about half, coordinated with Media Matters, Accuracy in Media and then realized, April Fool day.
HOO RAH
Semper fi
end

Dee See| 4.1.11 @ 8:38AM

ALL any NON con-job-serving conservative
needs to know about Coulter, or, for that matter
Pat (Nixon/MAO) Buchanan ----is that never once
in the past decade has she called out unflinchingly,
relentlessly, passionately our deadly 4 decades
of Globalist RED China TREASON.

We'd say, like Rockefeller CNP member Buchanan, her capstone pay slip is showing
------to devastating effect

Cpm| 4.2.11 @ 1:02PM

If you haven't caught on yet, this is April Fools Day. Humor column. Supposed to be funny. haha.

Big Tony| 4.1.11 @ 8:40AM

You got me Jeffery! I read all the way to "spot the bigot" before it dawned on me completely. I have to admit though that I did question the comments that were supposedly made by Bill Moyer. But I kept read thinking this is crazy. Good one!

Louis Jenkins| 4.1.11 @ 8:41AM

Well, I just about bought the whole first page, then got to the second and things kinda went haywire. As funny as the article is, it would almost be heaven to have PBS suddenly realize its errors and try to mend some fences. Nahhh... They'd never do that.

Mark Shepler| 4.1.11 @ 8:43AM

The headline seemed serious enough to take the article seriously until the end of the first paragraph. Mr. Lord, you botched the title of Ann's show. Although the poobahs of PBS might think Ann's on a Far Out Journey, their sense of self-importance and grandiosity would never permit them to admit they had that sort on their roster. Well, at least the sort on a far out journey to the right. No, they'd give her show some pompous title and work assiduously for her public rehabilitation, the first and most important step of course is coming in from the cold to PBS.

As for the Schillers, I think something lighthearted is more in order. Say, the Comedy Duo Schillers starring in a '30s style screwball comedy of manners where a couple of snooty upper crust types, through a series of misunderstandings and unfortunate circumstances, are thrown into the street and on their own pluck to make their way among the hoi polloi. The setup would show them in their element of high-living with endless evenings of oysters, champagne and formal dress casually throwing off their ill-concealed disdain for the "little people" in shallow, ignorant tropes and sterotypes gussied up with a mocking paternalistic "concern" to "do something", love of mankind and all that. Then comes the fall followed by a series of zany adventures as the two nitwits discover what life is truly like outside their sheltered and cosseted little world and the hardships imposed by the upper crust on those who must pay for their former profligacy. And finally, redemption ala My Man Godfrey, as they come to realize the error of their past ways and work harder than ever before to build an equitable, fair and prosperous new media establishment for the banished and cast offs of their trade whose downfall also followed an undeserved pride but who, now humbled, have come to see the light.

Oh wait, that last angle was taken years ago by Fox but no matter, America loves stories of redemption.

PhilTheCapitalistPig| 4.1.11 @ 9:05AM

"the Koch Family Foundations and their "Even More Open Society Institute.""

LMAO! Is this real?

ColonialMarine0431| 4.1.11 @ 9:06AM

LOL....I knew right away this was a joke.

Good one guys!!!!

Jeremiah| 4.1.11 @ 9:06AM

Would that this article had appeared on April 2, rather than April 1.

Bob Grant| 4.1.11 @ 9:08AM

I was two paragraphs in before it dawned on me what day it was.

PhilTheCapitalistPig| 4.1.11 @ 9:08AM

Jeffrey, why are you razzing us today? April fools, I get it. Dammit! He got me...

Michael L. Hauschild| 4.1.11 @ 9:12AM

I am being severely tested by that "false images “clause this morning.

David W| 4.1.11 @ 9:13AM

This is great news!!! I just submitted my PBS/NPR donation - normally I just do $35 a year, but after this change I upped it to $100,000. So what If I have to retire 10 years later than I planned. With this change at PBS maybe President Obama will announce that he didn't write his best selling books, wasn't born in the US, and is the illegitimate child of Dr. Spock (the Vulcan) and Lt. Uhuru.

froglegs| 4.1.11 @ 9:22AM

This is the best April Fool joke that I have ever seen! You had me believing almost to the bottom of the first page and I knew what day it was when I started reading. A classic!!! You have demonstrated that the best way to hide a lie is to put a lot of truth with it.

Who Knows?| 4.1.11 @ 9:30AM

Very witty and funny, Mr. Lord!

Beyond conventional humor, though, is a tragically true reality—

Every day is April Fools Day.

Why?

Obama is President.

That's RAAACIST!| 4.1.11 @ 9:39AM

So, let me get this straight: White woman (Schiller) fires black man (Williams). A DC latte-sucking liberal is born with the benefit of the doubt I guess.

skedaddle| 4.1.11 @ 9:40AM

Now that's an April Fool's Day joke! I'm sending it to a liberal friend to see if her head pops. Thanks for the laugh.

Stan Redmond| 4.1.11 @ 9:43AM

Does hillary crease her pant suit? I avoid looking.

wodiej| 4.1.11 @ 9:46AM

Hilarious!

Petronius| 4.1.11 @ 9:46AM

And we have this from today's Washington Pest
E.P.A. To Fine All Americans For Oxygen Theft
subhead: Government Employees to be Excluded

From the New York Times
Mayor Bloomberg Caught Smoking
Cuban UN Ambassador Sends Him Cohibas

In the Off The Wall Street Journal
Bernanke Resigns
Admits Malfeasance
Dollar Advances

SGTJones| 4.1.11 @ 10:04AM

April Fools.

Petronius| 4.1.11 @ 10:09AM

5:00 AM HDT
This just in from the Honolulu Star
City Council Sacrifices Limbaugh to Volcano
Pele Throws Him Back
Demands Lady Ga Ga

VBMax| 4.1.11 @ 10:12AM

Mark Levin paired with Lindsay Lohan...this article is a real classic!

Red Crow| 4.1.11 @ 10:33AM

"Sounded" like the days of the Belin Wall coming down and the Soviet Union imploding. Much of it will naturally happen. We have a great future ahead of us.

And, I agree. Today is National Illiberals' Day.

Thanx Mr. Lord!

Mike| 4.1.11 @ 10:33AM

April 1st, gotta love it! :-)

CharlieEcho| 4.1.11 @ 10:37AM

Okay; can we move on beyond the BS on April 1. Aren't there enough jokes in Waschintong DC or should we take the day off?

Nunya| 4.1.11 @ 10:50AM

Hilarious! Thanks for the laughs!

jjr153| 4.1.11 @ 11:01AM

I didn't catch on until page 2. But I still think the Levin and Lohan show would be a ratings hit.

ColoradoWest37| 4.1.11 @ 11:01AM

Well...at least I only got about 1/5 through it before it hit me. The Bill Moyers quote was so over-the-top (even for Bill!) that I then knew something was up.

LiveFreeOrDie| 4.1.11 @ 11:25AM

"...the show's World Wrestling Federation format will feature conservative Michael Reagan regularly beating the living crap out of his nutty left-wing brother Ronald Reagan, Jr."

I'd pay good money to watch THAT channel!

Paul from SA| 4.1.11 @ 11:27AM

Often time, the best way to expose the hypocrosies of the liberals is to interpose words.

Like replacing 'wise Latina female' with 'wise Caucasian male'....

Kurt in S.L.C.| 4.1.11 @ 11:37AM

I only had to read the headline to know where this was going.What a great piece of satire! Wanna bet that the lefties named in this article won't even be able to crack a smile over this?The defining characteristic of liberals isn't illiberality or even stupidity,it's humorlessness

Oldefarte| 4.1.11 @ 12:03PM

Great stuff, Jeffrey, thanks! For about the first paragraph, I thought your scoop was earth shattering. Happy April's Fool Day to everyone!!!!

CopyKatnj| 4.1.11 @ 12:07PM

What a hoot, good Lord!

Strudwick Wickerwire| 4.1.11 @ 12:20PM

Wasn't the character "Goldmember" based on the real life George Soros???

Chalkdust| 4.1.11 @ 12:27PM

"War of the Worlds" all over again.

SCM| 4.1.11 @ 12:39PM

If only.........

Al Adab| 4.1.11 @ 1:22PM

Could we move election day to April 1st? Might serve to point out just what a joke our system has become.

DaPicayune| 4.1.11 @ 1:25PM

“Ms. Schiller was reportedly undergoing therapy with her psychiatrist or publicist and could not be reached for comment.”

Bingo! No April Fooling here, just the delicious truth of Just Deserts.

Juan was reported found this morning unconscious from an overdose of laughter, with a big grin on his face. He is recovering well, although Ms. Schiller is still rumored to be ensconced in a padded therapy room, sans benefit of internet access to TAS! Her recovery progress remains undisclosed, as Media Matters awaits her response to their offer.

There is a God. Thanks Lord,………. And also to you to, Jeffery!

Anthony| 4.1.11 @ 1:27PM

Like all good lies, there has to be a modicum of truth in them to be really effective.
Unfortunately, your little April Fool's joke was so devoid of reality it was a non-starter from the first sentence.
PBS/NPR will remain leftists bastions until the folks with the pitchforks arrive in Washington to clean out the entire town.

Oldefarte| 4.1.11 @ 4:58PM

Not really, Anthony, after all, WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE [pre 11/2/08] that our current president could have ever been elected. That to me is the greatest irony/joke in all of history!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timely Renewed| 4.1.11 @ 1:36PM

All we have to do is apply the "fairness" doctrine to PBS and NPR! Surely the left can't object to that, at least for publicly funded broadcasters? See http://www.redstate.com/timely.....s-and-npr/

Uzabara| 4.1.11 @ 1:47PM

April Fool ???

Tom Miller| 4.1.11 @ 1:54PM

This has to be from The Onion.......

Malcolm| 4.1.11 @ 1:55PM

I'm waiting for Media matters to pick this up..they won't even notice the date.......

CalMark| 4.1.11 @ 2:05PM

Ha! Hilarious! Great April Fool's gag!

Kelly Staples| 4.1.11 @ 2:07PM

I was in hook, line and sinker until Davy Brooks got his panties in a wad over creased pants. It's hard NOT to believe the quotes attributed to the insufferable Billy Moyers and his hero Landslide Lyndon. Thanks for the chuckle!

Wayne | 4.1.11 @ 2:17PM

Hillary Clinton admits she is a man.
Michele Obama says her husband is Muslim.
Bill Gates voluntarily gives 50 Billion to the IRS.
The Federal Reserve admits to being owned by the Bilderbergs.
The United Nations folds.

Velma| 4.1.11 @ 2:43PM

In my3 year old grandniece's words, "You're just being silly."

Bill Diebold| 4.1.11 @ 4:41PM

Dear Mr Lord,
I read your entire work in absolute stunned amazement. It wasn't until I saw what your more intelligent readers had to say that I realized how naive I am...and I'm an old man for goodness sakes. It was a amazing journey and let me thank you for your magnificent tale. I can only pray some of the left wing toadies you spoke of read this tale...at least those that can read and maybe some kind conservative can read it to Ms. Lohan.

Dan Miller| 4.1.11 @ 4:56PM

Ohhhhh Heart Break. Half way through, reading the article out loud to my wife; both of us beaming with conservative joy then BOOM!! the AH HA moment..April Fools!!! Oh well one can still love it/ Great Article.

jstwndring| 4.1.11 @ 4:56PM

A bit too over-the-top for me to fall for, but, still amusing.

Daniel Scheinhaus| 4.1.11 @ 7:51PM

What is PBS to do? It's become the CBS - the Corporate Broadcasting System although there's already a CBS. Still, that should be its worst conundrum. Obviously, its' leadership has decided that it doesn't need ordinary citizens. Corporate support is far more important. Except for some print media which has little influence, corporate control of the mass media is now as complete as Hitler's control of German media during his years in the ascendancy. Well, that control took longer that was envisioned in book 1984.

george wooster| 4.1.11 @ 10:56PM

good one! April 1 is such a day for having practical jokes

Ben| 4.1.11 @ 11:44PM

A bit loud for April 1st (American time). You need to be more subtle.

k| 4.2.11 @ 12:52AM

So from now on we must have 2 fox propaganda.
Thanks obama

Occam's Tool| 4.2.11 @ 1:42AM

You know, I really do like the Levin and Lohan show idea. Mr. Lord, do we know when this will air? ;)

DaPicayune| 4.2.11 @ 2:31AM

In other news: rising from the dead, Air America announced that Ms Schiller will lead their revival effort to continue to bamboozle America with Keith Obverthetop, Butch, Tingles, and Faty Schultz, just as soon as she finalizes & secures private funding for the venture (Soros rumored to still be uncommitted, though likly), as well as her psyche's approved release!

Best of luck, while MG in Libya digs in!

(there's still no truth to the rumor that Cooper's Egypt beat down has dis-assuaged his desire to join this Schiller effort, although his Taquir Square bruises are reported to be healing well, and none will address the issue of Obama starting a war in ME sans Congressional approval, which they claim is archaic, in any case!)

DaPicayune| 4.2.11 @ 2:44AM

This just in: Cooper's alleged New Orleans based significant other refused to comment saying he would not confirm, nor deny any alleged reports, which is a standard response to be expected - more to come from behind sources!

The Bruce| 4.2.11 @ 2:51AM

The joke's on me... damn you, AmSpec.

C. S. P. Schofield| 4.2.11 @ 8:16AM

It occurs to me that actually doing something like this, the next time we have control of Congress, would be the fastest way to get NPR and PBS de-funded. Rather than approach the question directly, and listen to all the Progressives whine, just start to appoint Rush Limbaugh as the Director, and make it clear that from now until it is de-funded the agenda of Public Broadcasting is in play.

The Liberals would be ready to vote to de-fund, raze any and all buildings, and sow the ground with salt.

And we could graciously allow that to happen, in the name of Bi-Partisan Cooperation.

RopeJumper| 4.2.11 @ 9:15AM

I just came home from 3rd shift, and read this. My steel trapped brain has been violated and my blood pressure, I am sure, is off the charts. I have received the perverbial "Ice pick in the forehead," and will have to see a psyc to recover from all of this. I will send you the bill.

RopeJumper| 4.2.11 @ 11:06PM

See; I snapped awake and realized I could not even spell correctly. "Preverbal." I gotta go to work. Sometimes I wish I was still jumping out of perfectly good aircraft. An equalizer to jokes and sensible madness.

Faithful| 4.2.11 @ 11:01AM

I saw the headline, looked at the photo, thought: Lindsay Lohan, Ann Coulter & Mark Levin? Then I thought Ann is really losing her mind. Mark must be doing it to get a good look at Lohan or something, because I can't imagine why else he'd be doing it, and OK Lohan is representing "the other side."

They've all gone nuts. And I didn't even read the article!
LOL.

man| 4.2.11 @ 1:55PM

Very funny...LOL! Actually, it might be a good move for NPR to pick up Glen Beck who is rumored to be leaving Fox.

hbnolikeee| 4.3.11 @ 12:28AM

This is a mistake. Getting people on board with agencies that should be removed from the public dole will gain some "non-partisan" creds. The idea is to defund any such organization, not to change it. Let the market define the product.

Richard Baker| 4.3.11 @ 11:29AM

Moyers' phony quote has one thing correct. NPR/PBS is a gift to liberalism. Why would they fight so hard against de-funding?

mzk1| 4.4.11 @ 9:10AM

"with what some see as the slightly more liberal culture of PBS"

You know, that's exactly what the NYT would write.

Then again, today's edition of Israel's largest newspaper referred to the Washington Post as "conservative".

Christian Louboutin| 6.23.11 @ 4:13AM

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today, in the first of a series of stunning announcements, that its television subsidiary the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) will be replacing the defunct Bill Moyers Journal with a new weekly program, Ann Coulter's Far Out Journey.