I asked if the caller was a volunteer, and she admitted being paid to make the calls. So, I let her have it. I explained in painful detail why I was no longer going to support PBS or NPR or any of the ‘independent’ media that had betrayed their trust and capitulated to the extreme right.

Money talks. Withholding money resounds loudly.
I also suggested she get an honorable job…and gave her the URL of the

TvNewsLIES.org web site.

Strangely, the caller said she’d log on. I surely hope so. A mind is a terrible thing…well, you know..

I think HBO ran the old Crusader Rabbit for a while. I watched a few of the episodes.

One of my favorite cartoons as a child was George of the Jungle, but I think that may be for its theme. When I was in the AF with a bunch of other kids of the 60s and we’d hit a lulll in a conversation, somebody would invariably start singing, “Dom dom dom-dom da dom dom” the rest of us would start singing, then shriek with laughter. It was one of those things that you got it or you didn’t.

And how about those Banana Splits? Who let that bit of counteculture on the air? It was Saturday Morning TV on LSD!

One banana
Two banana
Three banana
Four
Four bananas playing in the bright blue sun.

Tell me that’s not acid talking.

Y’all do know that Tonto means”fool” and Kimosabe is slang for “You know nothing” in Spanish? (Kimo is a really rare entry in Spanish dictionaries; it might have been a fad word for a while.)

If the writers slipped that into the show, way back when, there might be other bits of dialogue to investigate more closely. Maybe not. But maybe.

That mans show helped me through some difficult times… From my first dogs death when I was four and then through my Mothers death when I was 7.

I stopped watching his show shortly after that, but I still remember the Crayon Factory Episode :)

RIP Mr. Rogers.

But as for Rove, Tomlinson, and the Republican Machine fighting against Public Television — I’ve got nothing but contempt for them. They’d rather have kids playing violent army video games than learning how to peaceably resolve their differences.

There is a time and a place for partisan hackery, and Public TV funding is not the place for it. Public TV teaches children that they can be anything — and while that might not always be true, they deserve the opportunity to dream.

I don’t know about WaPo but I googled and found the speech here:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Education and Public Programs/Profile in Courage Award/Award Recipients/Alberto Mora/Acceptance Speech by Alberto Mora.htm

No one has been a bigger fan and supporter of Firedoglake since it exploded on the blog scene. If Jane Hamsher were the head of the Dems, this country might have a chance.