Video: With House Voting To Defund NPR, Weiner Sardonically Blasts "Car Talk"

Today the House of Representatives voted 228-192 to approve a bill that would "permanently block all federal funding to NPR affiliates and to special content production for NPR." The network—which received a measly $2.4 million from the federal government last year—has been a favorite punching bag of Republicans over the years, but the latest round of Whack-A-Lib comes on the heels of a suspiciously edited hidden camera expose that recorded an NPR fundraising executive calling the "tea party people" not "just Islamophobic, but really xenophobic." The bill will almost certainly die in the Senate, like all things. But today Representatives spent hours mugging for the C-Span cameras, and nobody does it better than Brooklyn's own Anthony Weiner:

“What a relief," Weiner said in his speech. "We’ve got the economy back. We’ve secured out nuclear power plants. I’m so glad Americans are back to work. We’ve finally found out our problem. We discovered a target we can all agree on. It’s these guys. It’s Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers." We're still cross with Weiner for not clarifying his weird anti-bike lane comment (he said on Twitter that he was joking but didn't issue a formal statement), but this is a start. [Via The Empire]