Angie Craig: “I repeat what is a phenomenally frustrating concern of ours, that the Public Broadcasting Act that created NPR…”

“I repeat what is a phenomenally frustrating concern of ours, that the Public Broadcasting Act that created NPR authorized the use of public money and what appears now at this moment to be an effort to go out and find a worst case scenario to refute arguments being placed on the floor. That is not the role of the public broadcasting program in this country. I am extremely pleased that this article appeared. We became aware of that e-mail traffic yesterday. I am glad some journalists have the right and the willingness to step forward and say: Wait a minute. This appears to be a complicit act of a nonprofit organization established by Congress for the purpose of educating our public but not misinforming our public. That appears by every evidence to be exactly what was underway. What fell out of it was the very basis of the argument I and others have been placing for some time and why my amendment or a version of my amendment in dealing with these critical areas and in dealing with allowing a process to move forward that cannot be just summarily blocked by an appeal but does not yet close the courthouse door is very critical to all of us.”