Too Bad This Guy Ain't Running

Gov. Chris Christie nails it again.
From Fox News: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie compared the government funding of public broadcasting to the old Soviet Union before announcing a deal that will sell the state's public broadcasting network to New York’s WNET, MyFoxPhilly.com reported...
At a press conference in Trenton, Christie said the government ought to stay out of broadcasting, and the relationship in New Jersey should have ended decades ago.
“In my view, that should have ended with the Soviet Union," he said. "It's ending here in New Jersey a little later than the fall of the wall in Berlin. But we're getting there.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/06/njs-christie-compares-public-broadcasting-to-soviet-union-before-announcing/#ixzz1OYJcleCm
Just the name of NPR (National Public Radio) sounds like something from the Soviet Union. Of course, many other parts of government sound like the old Soviet Union: Czar, National Party chairmen, block captains, homeland and a few more sound like things you would hear from the Soviet government.
But NPR is the voice of the government, the liberal wing of government. If NPR doesn't like this comparison, then they should not take any government money. It really is that simple. If they wanted to, they could advertise. Oh, wait, they do. On the top of each hour, they say: this hour of(name of the show) is brought to you by... They can get their viewers to help pay. Of course they do that. Popular shows get a lot of viewer support, the more boring shows get little. Just like in the real world of radio.
Public financing of public radio and television needs to stop, especially in this day and age. With cable, satellite, over the air and pay shows like Sirius radio, we don't need public TV and radio.
NPR and PBS have many good shows on their stations that advertisers would love to sponsor and there are some duds as well and those shows would be cancelled, as they should be.
So, Gov. Christie is right. I just wish he would run in 2012.