{"id":50336,"date":"2023-05-09T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50336"},"modified":"2023-05-09T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:02:32","slug":"common-sense-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50336","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about Oklahoma\u2019s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt’s move to defund the state\u2019s Public Broadcasting System (PBS).<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Oklahoma\u2019s GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt is defending his move to defund the state\u2019s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) over its biased, left-wing agenda, and in particular, is wondering why the state should be \u201cusing taxpayer dollars to overly sexualize or indoctrinate children.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stitt made his comments in an appearance<\/a> on Fox Business Network on Monday\u2019s broadcast of Varney & Co.<\/i> to defend his decision to stop allowing state pension funds to invest in businesses that engage in fossil fuels boycotts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Stitt was also asked about his move to defund PBS, spurring him to note that PBS does not \u201cline up with Oklahoma values.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Stitt vetoed a bill that would have renewed funding for Oklahoma\u2019s statewide PBS station because, in his view, PBS indoctrinates kids with radical gay and transgender agendas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, Stitt vetoed funding for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), the state\u2019s public broadcasting service which broadcasts PBS programming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Oklahomans want to use their tax dollars to indoctrinate kids. And some of the stuff that they\u2019re showing, it just overly sexualizes our kids,\u201d he said<\/a> after signing his veto, Fox News reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I disagree with his decision to stop allowing state pension funds to invest in businesses that engage in fossil fuels. However, as long as the Biden administration is in power, that actually may be a wise investment strategy. As for his refusal to fund the PBS station, I don’t think we should be funding public broadcasting to begin with. I truly think Sesame Street can fund itself and many other programs with the sale of items related to the show.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

During the interview, Stitt also said that he has gotten pushback on the veto from the left but feels that most of his voters support him and noted that he would prefer to spend the money on the state\u2019s education system, not some antiquated TV broadcasting system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s educate kids, let\u2019s not indoctrinate them, let\u2019s spend those dollars in education, not propping up some television station,\u201d he explained, citing all the forms of entertainment available today\u2014from the Internet, to broadcast TV, to cable\u2014concluding, \u201cWe don\u2019t need to fund a public television station in 2023.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope more Governors will take the stand that Governor Stitt has taken. The trash that is being thrown at our children and grandchildren should not be permitted mush less government funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Breitbart posted an article about Oklahoma\u2019s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt’s move to defund the state\u2019s Public Broadcasting System (PBS). The article reports: Oklahoma\u2019s GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt is defending his move to defund the state\u2019s Public Broadcasting System … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,16549,1737,1670],"class_list":["post-50336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-governor-kevin-stitt","tag-oklahoma","tag-public-broadcasting-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50337,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50336\/revisions\/50337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}