'Fire Elon, save Elmo': Democrats mock Republican hysteria over PBS and NPR in DOGE committee hearing

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Source: The Independent

Wednesday 26 March 2025 16:32 EDT


Republicans on a congressional subcommittee supporting Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE efforts dragged NPR and PBS leadership to a public hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to accuse the publicly supported outlets of turning into “radical, left-wing echo chambers” with “anti-American” bias.

Committee chair Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republican members accused the networks of brainwashing viewers and children with a “communist” agenda and argued they should lose taxpayer funding, a long-running GOP demand supported by Donald Trump and Musk in their efforts to gut government spending. “For far too long, federal taxpayers have been forced to fund biased news,” Greene said in her opening remarks. “This needs to come to an end. And it needs to come to an end now.”

NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger defended their organization’s missions, and the committee’s Democrats used beloved characters from PBS programming to skewer Musk and Trump and underscore what they characterized as Republicans’ partisan distraction from their threats to dismantle the government.

“How many millions of dollars a month do taxpayers spend for Daniel Tiger to play golf?” asked Democratic Rep. Greg Casar, with a “Fire Elon, Save Elmo” sign behind him. “Has Miss Piggy ever been caught trying to funnel billions of dollars in government contracts to herself and her companies?” he said. “How about Arthur the Aardvark? Has he ever fired government watchdogs investigating his companies? … Maybe you’re trying to defund NPR because they expose this type of corruption.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/npr-pbs-doge-subcommittee-hearing-b2722217.html

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Authoritarian play book...

Murder free speech by any means necessary.

The committee has “stooped to the lowest levels of partisanship and political theater to hold a hearing to go after the likes of Elmo and Cookie Monster and Arthur the Aardvark,” said Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch, “all for the unforgivable sin of teaching the alphabet to low-income families’ children and providing accessible local news and program.”

Many communities depend on the programming done on PBS during natural disasters & emergencies and sometimes it's the only information they have in those situations.

The attack on public education is also expanded by this effort. The more literate the society is the more dangerous it is to the disinformation spewing authoritarian.

That they are attacking Public Television should leave no doubt about what the regime thinks about the American Public.

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[AllaN01Bear]

2. they are just doing the echo chamber thing because ,,, is calling for it.

[Deminpenn]

3. Relentless and non-stop mocking is the ticket for Dems

nt

[AllaN01Bear]

4. put this on a truck an d any where he apperars in public this needs to be a chant.

[tanyev]

5. Marjorie Taylor Greene is brought to you by the letter L.

[mdbl]

6. Anything that reports the truth is classified as a left wing echo chamber

So can we just quit using the conservative/liberal meme and call it the GOP Lying Party?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Today we're going to talk about the letter K as in ketamine