Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: 'Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This'
Source: MEDIAite
Jul 18th, 2025, 8:55 pm
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) praised federal funding cuts to public broadcasting entities like NPR and PBS, saying, “Farmers are not gonna miss this.”
In a Friday appearance on Laura Ingraham‘s The Ingraham Angle, Tuberville claimed that 90% of NPR content was left-leaning.
“There was very little right. Anything positive about the right was never on,” Tuberville said. “We were about 30 years too late. This should have been gone a long time ago. People can get their news and weather. Farmers are not gonna miss this. It’s been a disaster. It is a left-wing propaganda network. It is gone, and thank God.”
His statements come as House Republicans voted late Thursday night to strip more than $9 billion in funding from foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which finances more than 1,500 PBS, NPR, and local radio and television stations across the United States.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tommy-tuberville-praises-funding-cuts-to-npr-farmers-are-not-gonna-miss-this/
Of course, he's not running for reelection.
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Irish_Dem
(72,487 posts)The big corporate farm industry doesn't need any help from NPR.
sop
(15,228 posts)
BumRushDaShow
(156,853 posts)
Stuckinthebush
(11,163 posts)Alabama will overwhelmingly vote for him. Birmingham, Huntsville, and Montgomery don't have enough blue to turn the state around. Decades ago I was part of the Alabama Democratic Party. It is virtually dead now. I remember seeing an old friend who was high up in the Doug Jones campaign for reelection. He was meeting Doug that night and I had a chance to say hi. Later my friend said, "I think we can do this!" I looked at him and smiled and said, "Dude. You know better". He grimaced and replied, "There is always hope I guess".
Alabama. Beautiful state. Dumb politics.
travelingthrulife
(2,889 posts)And it inevitably crashes our economy. Thank goodness for public involvement to produce legislative districts.
sop
(15,228 posts)creon
(1,748 posts)any outlet that he dislikes to be on the air.
Lovie777
(19,369 posts)but republicans don't care, they truly do not.
Fuck off.
PJMcK
(23,937 posts)And that is saying something!
Kid Berwyn
(21,351 posts)More than just gutting Department of Education and PBS/NPR, that includes us Democrats.
Jvp
(38 posts)Maraya1969
(23,306 posts)Anything to do with education they want to kill. Tommy Tuberville is one of the dumbest politicians I have ever had the misfortune of listening to.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,406 posts)Why is it that anything that has common sense and intelligence in it is considered 'left-wing' by these idiots?
I guess being intelligent is 'left-wing' these days. Being concerned about the damage being done to our planet is 'left-wing'.
In other words, bring a decent, sensible human is 'left-wing'.
The rethugs certainly think so.
Zorro
(17,695 posts)Tuberville has never watched PBS or listened to NPR.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,406 posts)
mwb970
(11,881 posts)
MrWowWow
(602 posts)If the cars had Blue state plates. Boobs gotta boob
tanyev
(47,158 posts)Federal funds are a small portion of the NPR budget. It will be interesting to see how much corporations and individuals step up to replace those funds.
They might have to tighten their belts—or maybe they will be set free from government interference.
Paladin
(31,072 posts)He's all yours, Alabama.
heckles65
(626 posts)I have of footballers, in comparison to other athletes....players and coaches both.
mwb970
(11,881 posts)What a dumb clown.
louis-t
(24,421 posts)NPR would have to make something up to find anything positive about the right. Like fox news does.
BurnDoubt
(826 posts)Making Racism Cool Again?
Making Child Food Insecurity Horrible Again?
Making It Cool To Say "Cunt" In The Boardroom Again?
Making "Gestapo" A Job Again?
Making the Beatitudes Subversive Again?
Sir, you're a booger on the face of Humanity.
Enjoy your stay in Hell!
Red Mountain
(2,145 posts)This farmer would miss it. I'm lucky, though. I live in an area where it is economically viable without the government money.
I hope npr takes the hint. They've gotten a little too both-siderish in my opinion. Lay out the facts and let the chips fall where they may.
The repukes don't like facts because the truth has a liberal bias.
Figarosmom
(7,002 posts)My family were dairy farmers who loved the nature shows, garden shows and travel shows.
Republicans don't like Rick Steve's rise of The nazi shows, hits too close to home.
generalbetrayus
(1,091 posts)[PBS CEO Paula] Kerger said in a statement that “these cuts will significantly impact all of our stations, but will be especially devastating to smaller stations and those serving large rural areas.”
She pointed out that the stations “provide access to free unique local programming and emergency alerts.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/pbs-npr-trump-rescission-devastating-public-media
popsdenver
(27 posts)describes him best:
"He's a cheating little squirrelly haired little twat mouth motherfucking face dick nose".
AND that precise description could be used on the predominate number of Republican Politicians........................
LOL LOL LOL LoL
Eliot Rosewater
(33,186 posts)And create the things that they grow, will.
Or the people who make it easier for distribution systems etc. whether it’s legitimate honest media reporting the truth about things or an infrastructure, it’s all gone because of you stupid fucking assholes!
I can’t wait to laugh at you when they take your Social Security and Medicare, it will be hard for me to laugh because they will take mine also.
VMA131Marine
(5,055 posts)Tuberville is the dumbest person ever to serve in the Senate.
WestMichRad
(2,404 posts)the dumbest person in government. And racks up another point.
Your turn next, Ron Johnson!
Karasu
(1,640 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Because mass deportation is totally a policy that benefits farmers, don't you know.
stollen
(913 posts)What a piece of scum.
chouchou
(2,156 posts)Rankings Scorecard 2024 December
Crime & Corrections
#37
Economy
#36
Education
#46
Fiscal Stability
#35
Health Care
#44
Infrastructure
#34
Natural Environment
#33
This is WHAT-YOU-GET, when you vote for republicans.
turbinetree
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Crowman2009
(3,178 posts)Unfortunately thousands of dumb-as-fuck college football fans decided to vote for Tommy Tuboshit solely due to the fact that he coached football and that made him tough or some shit.
Frankly, had the GOPer candidate been Roy Moore, Jeff Sessions or some other racist good-ole-boy, Doug Jones would have won in 2020.
Grins
(8,616 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,430 posts)
eppur_se_muova
(39,454 posts)
Skittles
(166,089 posts)yes INDEED
tonekat
(2,284 posts)You can't get more plain speaking than NPR.
AverageOldGuy
(2,749 posts). . . Tuberville has ever watched or listened to anything on public broadcasting.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(126,117 posts)Farmers are smarter than college football coaches.
eppur_se_muova
(39,454 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Alabama
There are plenty of well-educated people in AL who want to see their kids grow up with access to educational TV, and supporters of APT know that it played an important historic role:
In the following years, Alabama would be a prototype for broadcasters and educators in the U.S. and around the world. APT’s founding director, Raymond Hurlbert, was elected chairman of the board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters for 1962-63, and he was president of the National Association of Educational Television in 1968. His participation in legislative hearings on behalf of the Public Broadcasting Act was recognized as key testimony in passage of the legislation, and he was honored by President Lyndon Johnson for his efforts on behalf of what would become national public broadcasting.
https://aptv.org/apt-news/celebrating-americas-first-2/
maxsolomon
(36,909 posts)In the last 10 years, NPR, and specifically Morning Edition, has bent over backwards to platform Repukes and their incessant lies and distortions. Left Wing? More like Now Promoting Republicans.
Fuck using "farmers" as a shield.
NickB79
(19,985 posts)They even.....gasp....go to the public library in town and read books!
And they're conservatives to boot (though they've bitched mightily in the past about Trump's trade wars with China, so I don't know if they're full-blown MAGA).