I'm not talking about PBS's fundraising drives, I'm talking about their funding being cut off.
Colbert got canceled for criticizing Trump making Paramount/CBS kiss butt in order to approve their deal. Trump not only loaded about this, he said Kimmel was next. And he was, until ABC's viewership revolted. Trump's approval is one thing, having no viewership is a whole other beastie,,,
'... if the Left did what the Right did, the Left will be okay with it even though the Left did not do it and it was the Right that did what the Right did when the Right did what the Right did so Left bad.'
The plutonium pot calling the kettle, uranium, doesn't make the plutonium pot any less plutonium than the plutonium pot is even though the kettle is just made out of microwave safe plastic.
Citing someone's hypocrisy does not make them any less culpable than they are.
If a hypothetical is bad, then the real life situation that it is based on is in fact most likely pretty much bad it's so... aaaaaaaaand a little bit worse because it's actually a real circumstance that did occur as opposed to fantasy what-if that exists simply to point fingers away from the guilty who actually did what is being criticized as opposed to those who did not do it at all,,,