Didn't I Tell You?

I watched some TV footage on the debate in Congress over whether the government should be in the business of funding public broadcasting, and if so whether it is properly addressing concerns about alleged bias in its programming.

As Democrat Senators Daniel Inoue and Dick Durbin (yes, that Dick Durbin) questioned Kenneth Tomlinson, the conservative chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is responsible for administering funding of PBS and National Public Radio, about Tomlinson's efforts to bring balance to PBS, my mind kept drifting back to our May 3, 2005 post here at The LORD My Dad. Just as we thought back then, the more effective Mr. Tomlinson gets, the more fire he will draw from the liberals.

What gets me about the left is their insistence on the idea of democracy but they would rather crowd the other side out of existence. And all the other side is asking is to co-exist in a fair and balanced environment where everyone's views can be heard for the public to decide on.

This attitude, so pervasive among the left, betrays a distrust in their own ideals. They seem to fear that if their views were made to stand side by side with those of others in the public arena, theirs will be judged less plausible.

As the old saying goes, where there's smoke...