(Written 3-10-2002 while viewing an overnight pledge break that featured New York’s Dr. William E. Baker, WNET, and Daschle speakalike, Bill Moyers, reflecting about the late Joseph Campbell.  In between these segments, chunks of the Campbell series, Transformations of Myth Through Time, are being aired.)

As always, we watch with fascination the OPB fund drive.  What constantly amazes us is that Maynard and his Young Socialist Boys and Girls Camp continue to get away with it.  And, people say America is an intolerant nation. 

“My word!  Doesn’t Leonard know that it is wrong to speak harshly of public broadcasting in Oregon?  What a shame that we cannot yet force him to cease saying these things.  And, actually criticizing Maynard Orme in person?  One only attacks evil rightwing fascists like Ronald Reagan in person.  What a shame the First Amendment, which protects the genius, Robert Maplethorpe, and truly honest men like Bill Clinton, also protects Leonard.”

                              The Blatant Eternal Bias

You did not know that Oregon Public Broadcasting stands foursquare against the First Amendment when it comes to the speech of people whose views are in opposition to theirs?  You think the name “public broadcasting” means a broad range of viewpoints are equally presented?  Let's take a look.

There is a Black News Forum on PBS.  Is there a White News Forum?
There is a specific program, titled "In the Life," on PBS which promotes homosexuality.  Does PBS offer a program which specifically promotes heterosexuality?  There is programming specifically for women's issues on PBS.  How many PBS programs have you seen specifically dedicated to men's issues?  

And, how about news and analysis programming?  The PBS show, Washington Week in Review, is a program hosted by a flaming liberal, and whose guests are all liberals.  They discuss the week's news.  It runs on Friday.  There is another PBS program titled "The McGloughlin Group."  It is hosted by a conservative.  The guests are an equal mix of liberals and conservatives.  They also discuss the week's news.  However, this show runs on Sunday evening, after the week's topics have been discussed in liberal venues for three days.  Let's look at the famous daily PBS news program. The Lehrer Hour staff includes one conservative.  Everyone else is a liberal.

Local public TV programming?   OPB's discussion show, Seven Days, sometimes includes a mildly conservative panelist.  Everybody else on the program is a flaming lefty. 

Put simply, the bias is grotesque.  PBS issue-related,  children's and dramatic programming -- every bit of it -- is a stinking bog of multi-culturalist political correctness.  It promotes extreme left environmentalism, anti-capitalism, anti-white male prejudice, anti-Christian bigotry and anti-traditional values.  

                     It's like being a conservative in the CBC

The barrage of constant bias reminds one of the congressional black caucus.  It's a perfect metaphor for public broadcasting.  They let J.C. Watts eat lunch with them, but according to sources we trust he is treated like dirt.  It’s remarkably like Jim Crow.  A bunch of stupid, bigoted, arrogant liberal Democrats treating a straight-arrow intellect and font of Twain-like common sense as if he were a Virginia plantation field hand in 1840.  It's a room full of massas and post-reconstruction rednecks.. Just one honorable man among them.  The guy they treat like dirt.

 It’s an  image Man has seen before.  Christians in the arena.  Middle-ages peasants burning a witch at the stake. African slaves beaten into submission by Democrat southern plantation owners.  Berkeley liberals spitting on returning Vietnam soldiers.  The Democrat lust to get Reagan and protect Bubba (not one Democrat vote against him in the Senate trial on the charge you just last month learned was absolutely true.)  Recent homosexual-community persecution of the Boy Scouts. 

It’s all as ugly as men in white sheets, goose-stepping German soldiers, Catholic pedophiles and the mob of self-righteous, mainstream media hypocrites trying to use them to destroy the hated religion, Christianity.  (I have written before of the anti-Christian bias of public television, and of its obsequious kissup to Moslems and animalists. Another example of the latter is just below.)

                              The myopic liberal mindset

Joseph Campbell, in a segment from the series, is telling Bill Moyers that the Native American hunter believes the animal voluntarily gives up his life to the tribe. 

Liberals who despise the traditional American love of a good steak, wax sublime over the slaughter of thousands of buffalo by Indians who drove them over a cliff to die slowly in a great, bloody pile at the bottom.  It is the buffalo dance performed by the aborigine which causes the animal to gladly leap to a hideous end.  That’s it!  Let us end the use of slaughterhouses!  Let us drive cattle over a cliff to kill them, then do a cattle dance as they die a slow, terrible death of internal hemorrhage and suffocation!  The spirit of the cattle will return to enjoy an endless series of similar deaths. 

(Maybe they'll bring some Indian cigarettes with them.  Tobacco, of course, must be politically correct since it was introduced to the world by Native Americans.)

              PBS propagandists protect the Politically Correct

You think the Spanish introduced the horse to America?  Sorry, but the Spanish re-introduced the horse to America.  As we have pointed out before, Native Americans ate the original American horses until they were all gone.  They probably had a ceremony of appreciation, a horse dance, as they roasted the last one. Certainly there is archeological evidence that when they ate the last Wooly Mammoth, on an island off the coast of Alaska, they had a great bonfire at that event.

PBS recently described this demise of the native American horse as being due to climate changes and “human” activity.  This proves that European conservatives are the true Native Americans, since what we presently call Native Americans would never have done those terrible things.  No Indian would ever hunt one species to extinction, let alone two!  And, no Indian would ever cause climate change.  Only white conservatives who own evil corporations that make evil profits do that.  PBS says so, all the time.   So the true Native American is me – a white descendant of Irish and Norwegian ancestors.  I hereby demand reparations from Indians, and the return of my ancestral gambling casinos.

We white Native Americans have a story about what happened to the salmon.  For many years after the red man drove us from our land, they hunted all our animal spirit fellow beings to extinction by driving them over cliffs.  This is what they did to the salmon, too.  They justified this butchery via religion.  But, the salmon people saw through the false worship of the red man   After thousands of years of the Salmon Ceremony in which their bones were symbolically returned to the rivers, they finally had enough of that self-serving rationalization and just packed their bags and caught the last train for the coast. 

                            The Ongoing PBS funding lie

Dr. William E. Baker just told Moyers  that public broadcasting is a college without a fee!  Proof that liberals have no idea what they are saying!   Are you one of those people who thinks money from the government comes from some magical bank in the sky?

The typical public broadcasting donor, of course, comes in two varieties.  The first is everyone in America, who, with the threat of the government looming over his head, is required to contribute part of his income to – as Karl Marx so perfectly described it – his own destruction 

And, now the second kind of PBS funding.  The kind that isn’t a direct government grant.  Did you know that a donation to public broadcasting is tax-deductible?  Do you know what “tax deductible” means?  I will tell you.  It means that everyone in America, with the threat of the government looming over his head, is required to contribute part of his income to – as Karl Marx so perfectly described it – his own destruction 

Yes, you’ve seen that sentence somewhere else quite nearby, quite recently. 

So, we have established that public broadcasting  gets its money from two sources – taxpayer-subsidized government funding and taxpayer-subsidized private funding.   Remember that when they tell you that in recent years they have lost much of their government funding.  Taxpayers completely or partially subsidize every dollar they spend.

                                     The con goes on

Now, Campbell is saying that it is a shame that ritual is missing from American culture. “Read the New York Times,” he says.  “Young people are barbarians.”  Moyers says, “Artists are the mythmakers of our day?”  Campbell agrees. 

And, you, the Oregon Magazine reader, subsidize this convoluted thought.  PBS promotes the artists who ridicule the long-standing rituals of American culture, and then tells us that the problem with America is the destruction of our rituals?  Can you spell schizophrenia?

An interesting side note about PBS is that if you folks subsidize a series that becomes extremely popular, you will never see it, again.  It goes into a box and is used as a promotional enticement during pledge breaks (with more interruptions than you get on a commercial station), or as a high ticket item at a PBS company store.  Some schools probably have copies of those productions.  I have heard that some video rental operations offer a few of these productions on a rental basis, too, but have never seen one in a store, myself.  Suffice it to say that if you want to once again experience the glory of the first run of  I Claudius, you had best be able to fork over a stiff purchase price at the OPB store.  If you’re poor, though, you’ll never see I Claudius, again. 

Donate money to OPB?  You mean donate more money, only this time voluntarily, don't you?  For what purpose?  So that a myopic, narrow-minded, leftist agenda can be shoved down the throats of the citizens of Oregon for another year?  There is no need for conservatives to do such a thing.  In fact, it would be shameful for them to do so.  It would be like Jews sending a check to the Nazi Party. 

                                       Will it never end?

OPB, like its parent organization, PBS, subsists entirely on what is called "progressive," but actually is "regressive," myth..  Facts are of no importance to these people, even when it is their own effort which bring them to light..  This is true of most of the players in the mainstream media, American academic circles, Hollywood and the liberal-dominated Democratic Party. 

Just the other day, I heard somebody say that there are signs across America that the Stupid Sixties are finally coming to an end.  If that is true, and I hope it is, then reality is beginning to assert itself in the land. 

If, after more than forty years of intellectual tripe, the fresh breeze of reason based in logic is rising, then my beloved America has yet again triumphed over the forces of stupidity and bigotry.  At sixty, I don't have many years left in this war.  It will be good to stand in an Oregon rain not dirtied by the leftists of Oregon Public Broadcasting before I go.

LL.

© 2002 Oregon Magazine