Don’t shed a tear for the (literally) weeping, wailing executives of the now-defunded and soon-to-shut-down U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, writes Beth Brelje in The Federalist. The outfit that shoved the leftist view on every issue down the throats of credulous viewers, writes Brelje, was paying its executives exorbitant amounts – at times upwards of US$500,000 per year – enough to fund entire radio stations. Hmmm, where have we heard that before?
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
