2002 Column Archives
Policing Thought
By John Sammon
Jun 23, 2002, 15:42

PBS, the Petroleum-Sponsored, Thought-Policing, Liberal Broadcast System, is promoting the gay agenda, and I don’t like it. I try to get along with these people and not complain, but Public Broadcast System should be what its name implies-----public. It’s for the public, all the public.

That includes me!

Recently, PBS, in a public service spot, announced that the station supported “Gay Pride.”

As I’ve said in past column "Misplaced Pride", I’m not against you sleeping with whomever you want. But pride is what you have when you achieve something of note. You can’t be proud of just getting your rocks off.

I’m not proud of my heterosexuality. I look upon it as a natural and powerful impulse that on occasion, I’m rather slavishly obliged to fulfill.

What about people whose devout religion teaches that homosexuality is wrong? Even if you don’t like their beliefs, they have a right in a free country to believe what they want to believe, free of persecution or the banishment of not having their viewpoints represented (liberal gay rights activists won’t admit it, but feel they’ve been persecuted in the past, and that revenge is justice. They don’t care about fairness).

The right to equal time even includes bigotry.

You have a Constitutional right to be a bigot.

I have a real problem with an agency that calls itself public, feeds at the public trough, and then airs one viewpoint only without saying, “these views do not reflect the position of the management of PBS.”

They should attempt to be politically neutral, or at least impartially fair on issues of abortion, sexual preference, immigration and others.

PBS also has a cutesy sound bite playing now, promoting diversity, that shows many different ethnic types, and is sung to the tune of something like, “one world together, there is room for all.” This is an attempt to sugar-coat the elimination of borders and sovereignty that will render this country unrecognizable in the next 20 years.

I suppose, in this way, ironically, I’m like those kooks in turtle suits who annually try to disrupt the World Bank conferences in Oregon. They don’t like the One World Order either.

I really love the way PBS, during pledge breaks when they ask you to reach into your wallet, produce a spokesman with the traditional, liberal, intellectual look, usually a scholarly-appearing guy who speaks solemnly in a monotone, sports a beard, holds a pipe, and wears a sweater with leather patches at the elbows.

You never see a redneck as a spokesman.

Almost totally influenced by urban liberal strongholds like Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, PBS is out of touch with half the (legal citizen) population of the country.

Read a similar column:
Misplaced Pride