Why Are We Funding Lies?

Veteran "journalist" Bill Moyers opened his March 29th show on PBS with a monologue about the Pledge of Allegiance, calling it "a lie, a whopper of a lie."  He went on:

We coax it from the mouths of babes for the same reason our politicians wear those flag pins in their lapels – it makes the hypocrisy go down easier, the way aspirin helps a headache go away.

And:

’Justice for all’ is a line item in the budget – sequestered now by the Paul Ryans of Congress and the Fix the Debt gang of plutocratic CEOs who, with a wink-wink from our president, claim, ‘Oh, we can’t afford that!’

Of course it must be remembered that the public dollars partially fund PBS.  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the company created in 1967 by Congress for the purpose to oversee public broadcasting, receives substantial amounts of funding in the federal budget (CPB then distributes the money to PBS, NPR, and other public television stations).   In 2010 alone, the CPB received $510 million.

And this from PBS's own website on how influential it is across America:

Public television is America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world....