{"id":1926705,"date":"2023-05-08T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-gov-pulls-plug-on-states-pbs-station-over-drag-queens-indoctrination\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:43:20","slug":"oklahoma-gov-pulls-plug-on-states-pbs-station-over-drag-queens-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-gov-pulls-plug-on-states-pbs-station-over-drag-queens-indoctrination\/","title":{"rendered":"OK Gov shuts down PBS station due to drag queens and &#8220;indoctrination.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foklahoma-gov-pulls-plug-on-states-pbs-station-over-drag-queens-indoctrination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Oklahoma Governor Pulls Funding for PBS Station Over LGBTQ Content<\/h2>\n<p>Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has announced that the state&#8217;s sole PBS television station, OETA-TV, will no longer receive funding due to what he calls &#8220;indoctrination and over-sexualization&#8221; of children through content that promotes drag queens and the LGBTQ agenda. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Stitt stated that taxpayers should not have to fund a station with a far-left bias. He recently moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-amendment-to-infrastructure-bill-would-block-funding-for-cuomos-new-york\/\" title=\"GOP Amendment to Infrastructure Bill Would Block Funding for Cuomo\u2019s New York\">block funding<\/a> for the station through 2026, and unless the state legislature overrides his veto, the network will cease operations this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Problematic Programming<\/h3>\n<p>Stitt&#8217;s office pointed to several examples of programming that he finds problematic, including a segment of &#8220;Let&#8217;s Learn&#8221; featuring a drag queen known as Lil Miss Hot Mess reading a purported children&#8217;s book called &#8220;The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.&#8221; Another show aired by the station, &#8220;Clifford The Big Red Dog,&#8221; features lesbian parents, a show called &#8220;Work It Out Wombat&#8221; features a gay character, and &#8220;Odd Squad&#8221; depicted a same-sex wedding. Stitt also noted OETA recently aired a segment on its &#8220;Newshour&#8221; program that voiced support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-gov-pulls-plug-on-states-pbs-station-over-drag-queens-indoctrination\/\" title=\"OK Gov shuts down PBS station due to drag queens and \"indoctrination.\"\">chemical treatments including puberty blockers<\/a> for children who identify as transgender.<\/p>\n<h3>Outdated System<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOETA, to us, is an outdated system,\u201d Stitt said. \u201cYou know, the big, big question is why are we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposal-to-block-illegal-immigrants-from-receiving-stimulus-blocked-by-senate-democrats\/\" title=\"Proposal to block illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus blocked by Senate Democrats\">spending taxpayer dollars<\/a> to prop up or compete with the private sector and run television stations?\u201d Stitt&#8217;s office believes that if the programming was worthwhile, the private sector would make it available.<\/p>\n<h3>Teach Them to Read and Count<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think about educating kids, let\u2019s teach them to read and their numbers and counting and letters and those kind of things,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, some of the programming that we\u2019re seeing\u2026 it just doesn\u2019t need to be on public television.\u201d Stitt recently signed into law a ban on all chemical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-sophia-bush-not-allowing-kids-sex-changes-tantamount-to-murder\/\" title=\"Actress Sophia Bush: Not Allowing Kids Sex Changes \u2018Tantamount To Murder\u2019\">surgical transgender procedures<\/a> on children, joining 15 states which have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-gop-must-fight-left-wing-cultural-marxism-or-die\/\" title=\"Ron DeSantis: GOP Must Fight Left-Wing \u2018Cultural Marxism\u2019 Or Die\">enacted similar laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt said he is pulling the plug on the state\u2019s sole PBS television station because of \u201cindoctrination and over-sexualization\u201d of children through content that promotes drag queens and the LGBTQ agenda. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the Republican leader said taxpayers should not have to fund OETA-TV, given its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1926706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7069,14545,19567,7071,7864,4817],"class_list":["post-1926705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-drag","tag-indoctrination","tag-pbs","tag-queens","tag-shuts","tag-station"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}