# Goddamn it, Sarah (huckleberry) Sanders **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678 "2025-12-13T23:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/1 "2025-12-13T23:38:19Z")
Once again Arkansas is first. First in teen pregnancy. First in boys graduating non-readers from highschool. And, now. First in the nation for: No national PBS. We are now gonna have lovely home made local programming. How many goofy excercise and nature shows is acceptable? Nothing. No Masterpiece, No Frontline. No news hour(I believe). No Secrets of the Dead. No kids programming. On and on the shows I’ve watched since I was in diapers watching Mister Roger’s. I’m sick to my stomach. I sent a nasty email to her “Talk with Governor” thing online. We need less educational television in Arkansa like we need more rednecks. (I realize I can cast it from PBS passport to my bigger screen. I’m not sure most people can that, we’re also first in computer illiteracy in Arkansas) I know her maiden name was Huckabee. I was just being rude 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/2 "2025-12-13T23:52:29Z")
Here’s a little background for the rest of us who don’t live in Arkansas: > **[RIP, Arkansas PBS - Arkansas Times](https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/12/11/rip-arkansas-pbs)** > > The end of federal funding for public media demolishes Arkansas PBS. The station will rebrand as ATV and feature mainly local programming. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/3 "2025-12-14T00:00:42Z")
I bet home made local programming will include lots of well-made highbrow intellectual stuff. Since this isn’t the Pit I’ll stop right there. The OP might report herself and ask for a venue change so we all can respond more appropriately to this “decision”. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/4 "2025-12-14T00:12:14Z")
Meh. She’s giving the voters of Arkansas what they wanted. It’s not like she’s some massively unpopular politician there. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/5 "2025-12-14T00:44:24Z")
We didn’t get a choice. I’ll flag if ya’ll want it. But I have a fear. I tend to get real assy about Sanders, the governors office and her Trump connections. And I have loads of opinions. But here goes… ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/6 "2025-12-14T01:07:33Z")
> **[2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Arkansas_gubernatorial_election)** > > Asa Hutchinson > Republican > Sarah Huckabee Sanders > Republican > **[2024 United States presidential election in Arkansas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Arkansas)** > > Trump > Harris > Tie/No Votes Of course Arkansas voters got a choice. And the policies being enacted are exactly what the voters wanted. It’s not like it was particularly a close result. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/7 "2025-12-14T01:18:26Z")
> [@Zoobi](#): > > Meh. She’s giving the voters of Arkansas what they wanted. It’s not like she’s some massively unpopular politician there. By that logic, people in the US don’t get to complain about Trump or anything he does because a majority voted him in. I didn’t vote for her, and I doubt Beck did either. We can complain about our state governor fucking us over. The idea of killing off PBS would have been insane just a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/8 "2025-12-14T01:22:48Z")
That article says the change saves them the two million dollars that the national PBS programs cost. But the local content they’re replacing it with will cost something, as will the content they’re still going to buy from American Public Television and the National Educational Television Association. I don’t think they’ll save all that much. And my guess is the national programming, like Masterpiece, is popular with Arkansas viewers. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/9 "2025-12-14T01:25:00Z")
I voted Democrat. Always have. We are deep red. I might as well as voted for the Martians. This state skews very old, so Republicans for the most part… no talking to them. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/10 "2025-12-14T01:29:16Z")
I’ll take local PBS programming, at least the type I get, over the endless concerts (which you can purchase on DVD, BTW, if you want to see it again - get my drift?) that the stations periodically air. One does wonder if they’ll take anything, as long as it’s Arkansas-produced and could be considered educational. Some stations might as well go back to public access. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/11 "2025-12-14T01:48:43Z")
Well yeah..I can purchase the series I like too. But I’d much rather see them as aired. It’s a community thing. I feel.part of it somehow. You know at the beginning of the big productions they name all the big donors and at the end they thank “ and Veiwers like you” I always say thank you. My donations were very small in the big picture but I did donate. If I want that sense of community, shouldn’t I have it? I know there’s other ways. I’m also thinking about elderly who watch the shows. The pickings are thin/zero for free TV. It’s just a great big shame this character in LittleRock is so unthinking. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/12 "2025-12-14T04:06:20Z")
Back in my active practice days, I had to make a delivery to a local nursing home on a Saturday evening, and every room that had the TV on was tuned to “Lawrence Welk.” In the late 1990s, that aired (and still does in my area) on PBS. I also remember the Dumpster wondering why coal miners would need PBS. Um, hello, because they watch it too, even if it’s just “Sesame Street” with their kids?" ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/13 "2025-12-14T05:46:22Z")
I don’t want to think about a World without PBS. Unfortunately, it’s coming to that I fear. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/14 "2025-12-14T20:25:38Z")
Does KFFA still broadcast King Biscuit Time? I’ve lost touch since Sonny Payne passed away around 2018. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/15 "2025-12-14T20:27:34Z")
Something I never noticed before - in the link you posted, my first thought in seeing the outline of the state was, “_Why is there a toilet in that image?_” Now that I’ve seen it - I think it likely apt. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/16 "2025-12-14T21:46:35Z")
Well, I find here in Arkansas we are near the nether regions of the USA, but not quite in the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/17 "2025-12-19T13:56:42Z")
“Est. reading time 6 minutes.” If you’re in Arkansas, you get 30 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/18 "2025-12-19T22:45:03Z")
No. You’re wrong. According to statistics (I cannot cite) half the grown men in this state are functionally illiterate. I feel like it’s probably worse than that. See we NEED PBS. In the worst way. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/19 "2025-12-21T04:58:40Z")
No PBS makes me sad. I grew up with Sesame Street, then Monty Python, then Dr. Who. There was a good bit of education there. And 2 channels in New York. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678/20 "2025-12-21T18:13:24Z")
I get a sneaky feeling Trump and his henchmen(Sarah included) found out immigrants learn rudimentary English watching the children’s shows. Just another systemic racism tactic. IMO [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-it-sarah-huckleberry-sanders/1025678.md?page=2)