you might remember that back in July I talk to you about science fiction author
or are Orson Scott Card author of the book Ender's Game
it's a book that I've read it's a book that I like I think it's a very
interesting book
he was being called a out for
a being boycotted there was a group called geeks out
that was calling for a boycott love the movie the upcoming movie to be based on
the book Ender's Game
because card who is a Mormon has been really outspoken about his views on
homosexuality
is a sec upset objections to same-sex marriage
he's also been a board member of the National Organization for Marriage which
of course Louis is one of the most bigoted
anti-gay groups in the country that was back in July
is back in the news again and it's getting worse and worse now anti-gay
Orson Scott Card
not is in the news because he's been appointed to the Board uva PBS station
PBS station in North Carolina in a statement on Monday UNC TV
announced that I the Republican State Senate President
Pro Tem bill berger has named Orson Scott Card
to the UNC TV bored of Trustees and he said
we are pleased to welcome this is actually chairman Rob here
we're pleased to welcome mister card to the UNC TV Board of Trustees
I'm to get you up to speed not only is Orson Scott Card incredibly anti-gay
he was at one point a board member and one of the worst
bigoted anti LGBT organizations in the country
but he also compared President Obama to Hitler
earlier this year and a column he wrote card speculated that
Obama will put a thin veneer of training and military structure
on urban gangs and turn them into brown shirts
Obama is by character and preference
a dictator he hates the very idea of compromise
he denies is his critics and despises even his own toadies
in the liberal press like Hitler he needs a powerful
domestic army to terrify any opposition that might arise
so I have a couple of problems with the statement I was the number one factually
speaking
President Obama compromised way too much it was George W Bush who actually said
it would be way easier to be president if it were a dictatorship remember when
he said that Lewis
get up he said that exactly and then added as long as I was to dictate as
long as he was the dictator right and and then of course
President Obama compromising way too much and it didn't go anywhere
Republican standing in his way
it I i'm kinda getting off topic because I don't think Orson Scott Card
cares at all about that I so so there it is now he is on the board
a PBS station and I have to tell you PBS stations many of them are already in
crisis they've got
I increasingly that they have an increasingly
older group %uh donors they are not engaging young people because the
programming is not appealing to Dan
and by and large and PBS stations have a big problem
and I don't know that the way to bring in more young people is to have
an anti-gay sci-fi author who thinks Obama's like Hitler on you port
no I can't imagine any good would come of this and I can't imagine that this is
a man who likes most of the programming that he would find on PBS am i right
yeah I I tend to agree with you AAA although
maybe he likes the show the Antique Roadshow or something like that I don't
know
the point is though we we need strong
alternatives to corporate media in PBS
the charlie rose program is fantastic Nova and Nova ScienceNOW fantastic there
is a lot of good programming on PBS
because it's not all good and all appealing
there have been serious funding problems with in PBS and the last thing we need
when thinking of ways to strengthen alternative to corporate media
is having Orson Scott Card on your board absolutely horrible
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