Cory Booker Uses Fictional White House Clip as Proof 'We Must Defend' NPR, PBS Funding From Trump

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Source: MEDIAite

May 4th, 2025, 6:16 pm


New Jersey Democrat Sen. Cory Booker provided as evidence a White House-set TV clip from the fictional drama The West Wing to serve as the central point in arguing “we must defend” government funding of NPR and PBS in a social media post that drew big attention over the weekend.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media” on May 1, which called federal funding for the broadcasters “not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.” It ordered that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and “all executive departments and agencies” must “cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.”

On Saturday, Booker posted a rebuttal to the order in the form of a clip from The West Wing.

“Product licensing for this merchandise brings in over 20 million dollars a year, none of which goes to PBS, all of which goes the show’s producer, the Children’s Television Workshop.” a character says in the full clip. “Now this is a company whose chief executive earns high six figures in salary and benefits per year, yet Sesame Street is subsidized by taxpayer dollars.” “It’s a perfectly reasonable complaint,” responds Toby Ziegler, the character played by Richard Schiff, who then adds, “I don’t care” before launching into a diatribe about the importance of Julia Child to federal taxpayers.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cory-booker-uses-fictional-white-house-clip-as-proof-we-must-defend-npr-pbs-funding-from-trump/

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🚨 BREAKING: @POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as “news.”

Here is the text of the order:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Show more
10:43 PM · May 1, 2025

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Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR give every American access to culture, history, art, and trusted journalism. They’re a cornerstone of civic life.

Defunding them does a disservice to us all, especially in rural communities.

We must defend them.
1:44 PM · May 3, 2025

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1. They think civic life is to "woke". They think the teachings of Jesus are too woke for these people.