Comments on: PBS Ends Run Of LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow

By: Captain Pike

Captain Pike — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:22:22 +0000

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look, it’s in a book…A reading rainbow! Reading…rainbow!

By: Neville A. Ross

Neville A. Ross — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:33:46 +0000

82, 81, & 77: if you three want to be sheep and stay deluded about the harm the Bush Administration’s done to America and the planet, that is your choice. But please don’t call yourselves free thinking people, because you’re not-you’re all repeating someone else’s prattle, and ignoring the truth because it doesn’t fit with what you all know.

The truth is Bush is a dunce who became President because of a stolen election, a compliant, servile media, and connections related to oil wealth and having a father be president previously. These things, as well as his domestic policies, have led to the situation that LeVar Burton is now in. The other truth is that George Bush is an ignorant silly man who messed around for most of his life, and only got away with it due to said above-mentioned wealth and status. Having a high SAT score means nothing if all that is done with it is to be drunk and stoned out of your mind for most of your college days, and that is all George Bush seemed to do before Yale, at Yale, and after Yale. It sure as hell didn’t help him understand or appreciate education or literacy-look at the way he was when asked what book he read. This is a man who would care about trying to keep TV shows like Reading Rainbow on the air? No, this is a man who is proud to be ignorant and doesn’t care.

I think Obama needs to try to restore funding to PBS, so that this show can still help kids to love reading.

By: OR Coast Trekkie

OR Coast Trekkie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:18:17 +0000

Reading Rainbow was such a great show. One of the best theme songs of all time! I wanted to go find those books when I saw them on tv. But, you don’t have to take my word for it (ba-da-DUM)

By: WARPTEK

WARPTEK — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:58:56 +0000

#76 In your case, IDIC stands for I DICK

By: WARPTEK

WARPTEK — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:56:17 +0000

#76 Dear Mr. Neville.
How do you know exactly that I am a racist? How did you arrive at this conclusion? I suppose because I donot agree one wit with most of his policies that automatically qualifies me as racist. I see you are using the Chris Mathews school of logic. Actually, this is a tried and true Democrat tactic from their playbook. Accuse the other side of malfeance when they know they can’t win an argument.

How the hell do you even know what color I am????? Oh, I know why…
I must be white. Because if I were a black man I COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE AGAINST OBAMA. Afterall, ALL BLACK PEOPLE STICK TOGETHER AND THINK ALIKE RIGHT???

By: PORTHOS X

PORTHOS X — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:18:37 +0000

sigh…in a World where the current young generation doesnt even know when World War 2 was, we further abandon the concept of literacy… i see our future coming soon… its called the TOS episodes ‘Miri’ and ‘The Omega Glory’ merged into one…:(

By: rogue_alice

rogue_alice — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:37:33 +0000

#68 – “Seriously, I wonder how many people have fallen asleep behind the wheel and died in car accidents because they were listening to their droning voices. NPR is nothing but a welfare program for radio announcers whose voices aren’t exciting enough to get a job on a REAL radio station…”

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Basically you are wrong. But, I could give you some selected show to listen to that would prove you wrong. And, get you hooked. In the end, to each his own.

By: TJ Trek

TJ Trek — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:29:38 +0000

IS it just me or has shows like seasame street gone down the tubes. I loved that show as a kid, as well as Mr. Rogers, and reading rainbow. Why go south on any show that shows kids that it is fun to read? and does anyone remember that show Square One, that taught that math is fun. That was great. I think PBS is doing the wrong thing here. Oh well….

By: James Heaney - Wowbagger

James Heaney - Wowbagger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:48:04 +0000

@76: Umm… did you *glance* at #67’s sources? One’s from the New York Times — hardly a bastion of the Republican party — and written by no less than Nick Kristoff. I believe you’ve finally given TrekMovie.com proof postive that liberals can be sheeple, too.

…which reminds me: http://xkcd.com/610/

Anyhow, Mr. Ross has now called everyone who didn’t vote for President Obama a racist, cast aspersions on President Bush’s honesty in debates, stands apparently oblivious to his own audacious hypocrisy in demanding respect for the current President while heaping scorn, derision, and hatred on the previous President. In light of all this and the general badness that’s crept into the mourning of RR can we get a warn for Mr. Ross and/or a modlock on this sad little thread?

It would go a long way toward silencing those voices who accuse this site of left-biased moderation.

By: Neville Ross

Neville Ross — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:36:16 +0000

@67:My info comes not from Faux Noise, Corporate News Network or the Repuke historical officer, but Kitty Kelley's book The Family, which is all about the Bushes, especially George, and a ton of other books on George Bush that sheeple like you NEVER bothered to read, because it doesn't jibe with what comes out of the media maw. As for high SAT scores, those only happened because Andover's (which is what the school is called by everybody that goes there) curriculum was and is so tough, college and university was easy, according to old Bush friend and classmate Kim Jessup. That's why Bush was able to get into Yale; although once he got there all he did was party, get drunk, and go 'Toga, Toga, Toga' every other night, coming in dead last on his finals. Please stop listening to Repuke spin doctor bullshit. Also, cutting education funding, pushing a bogus child act, and getting the nation into two wars in the Mideast is not IDIC, nor is your voting for such a person IDIC, either. @69: Bush's foul-ups, bleeps, and blunders are well known to everybody, and it's been suspected that he's had a special backpack complete with earphone that gives him answers since those times-without it, he would have been trounced by Edwards in a New York minute during the 2004 election debates. At least Obama can speak properly; how he uses a TelePrompTer is his business, and not yours. Please put your racism aside and face the fact that he is president.