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Saturday, July 19, 2008 --- 42 days ago http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/07/19/pbs-not-livin-large-o
 That's it. PBS has declared Ohio a disaster area. Things are so bad. PBS gravely warns, that folks in the Buckeye state can't even afford to buy meat for their dinner tables anymore. It's the end of civilization as we know it. Doom and gloom. Oh the humanity. It's the end of the world as we know it... at least for one Ohio family that PBS found to act as stand in for the rest of the state. To PBS all of Ohio is the Nunez family. And what is PBS' solution? Government aid, of course. In a segment of All Things Considered (well, all things but common sense, anyway), PBS gives us Gloria Nunez whose family, we are told, was "built on cars." PBS gives us all sorts of sobbing, rending of clothes, wearing of sackcloth and gnashing of teeth for the Nunez', of course. But even PBS can't hide some of the glaring problems that Gloria and her family have surely brought upon themselves. In fact, her story sounds like the scene in the old Blues Brothers movie where John Belushi is on his knees pleading with Carrie Fischer to forgive him. There was a flood, he whined, locusts came, it was the end of the world, it REALLY wasn't his fault, he swore to God . Similarly we get the tale that Gloria Nunez' car broke down, she can't find a job, she had a car accident that left her "depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job." She is now somehow forced to live on a "$637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps." Naturally, none of it is her ... |
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