Flip the Bird

Michele Malkin finds her rationale for supporting PBS subsidy cuts in the familiar realm of the liberal conspiracy:

Under the Obama administration, Elmo has lobbied for the FCC’s national broadband plan and the first lady’s Big Nanny nutrition bill. Investigative journalist James O’Keefe caught former NPR exec Ron Schiller on tape trashing the Tea Party as “racist” and “Islamophobic.” And the official PBS Twitter account sent a special shout-out to radical leftist group Move On last year for leading the government media rescue charge. Moreover, as I’ve previously reported, NPR and PBS have no problem raising money from corporations and left-wing philanthropists, including billionaire George Soros, whose Open Society Institute gave $1.8 million to pay for at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations in all 50 states over the next three years.

She also cites the "roughly 10 Solyndras" the government could save over the next ten years. Those who claim to be supporting this idea under the guise of fiscal responsibility really ought to consider that there are places where cuts should be made first. But that's not going to happen, though. Because this isn't about being fiscally responsible; this is about ideology.