President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.
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This Executive Order came 56 years
to the DAY that Fred Rogers plead his case for continued PBS funding to a senate subcommittee containing politicians that contained some empathy, decency, and integrity. They listened as Mr. Rogers made it clear that PBS was important, and also how much he cared about children, their feelings, their lives and their education the world over.
Today's cadre of politicians would not hesitate to interrupt, deride, decry, and ultimately deny him the funding he was pleading for, all while FOX and Newsmax mocked and insulted him on-air (
FOX once called Mr. Rogers "evil", after all). Meanwhile, the POTUS and other politicians and pundits would absolutely torch him on social-media. They'd absolutely call him a far-left wing lunatic and probably a groomer. Unlike the people sitting on that subcommittee 56 years ago, they have no decency, or integrity, or empathy, nor do they have any shame.
Fred Rogers has been dead for 22 years now, and it shames me to say that I'm glad he's not alive to see what this country has become.
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