Sarah Palin fantasizes that President Obama actually reads her ghostwritten Facebook rants and demands that he cut Federal funding to NPR over firing of Juan Williams.

Let's get one thing out of the way first.

Sarah Palin does not give two shits about Juan Williams.

He has called her out multiple times for being ignorant and nothing more than a Republican centerfold.

To put it bluntly, Sarah Palin would not have pissed on Juan Williams if he had spontaneously combusted right in front of her.

However the Right Wing has had a hard on for NPR for years, and this is their excuse to go after them en masse.  Which is why we hear exactly the same mantra from Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Demint (Who is actually introducing a bill to defund NPR), and of course Sarah Palin.

From the depths of Palin's Facebook page:

NPR says its mission is “to create a more informed public,” but by stifling debate on these issues, NPR is doing exactly the opposite. President Obama should make clear his commitment to free and honest discussion of the jihadist threat in our public debates – and Congress should make clear that unless NPR provides that public service, not one more dime.

Mr. President, what say you?

- Sarah Palin

"Mr. President, what say you?"  I believe this was the President's response.

Listen up you whackjob, the President is a busy man!  He does not have time to visit your Facebook page and see what pretty pictures you colored with your crayon set. He has a country to run!

So obviously the right wing is going to try and do to NPR what they successfully did to  ACORN.  However this time they run into a slight problem.  Number one the White House is much better prepared to deal with this crap this time around, but more importantly NPR does not really rely on federal dollars.

Public broadcasting reported total income of $2.3 billion in FY2003 (the most recent data available). The federal contribution made up about 15% of the system’s total income. The remaining 85% was raised from non-federal sources (individuals, businesses, foundations, state and local governments, and educational institutions). The largest single income source (26% in FY2003) came from membership. Neither PBS nor NPR receives operating funds from the CPB; only the local member stations receive these funds directly.

Hmm well THAT is going to make it a little difficult to shut down a news organization that regularly reports those left leaning facts simply by cutting off Federal funds.  Even if the Republicans throw themselves onto the floor of the Senate kicking and screaming it is unlikely they will be able to achieve their desired effect in this situation.

Might be kind of fun to watch however.